{"id":3923,"date":"2013-05-28T20:37:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T02:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=3923"},"modified":"2013-05-28T20:37:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T02:37:21","slug":"an-idea-or-two-about-how-to-catch-your-stalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=3923","title":{"rendered":"An idea or two about how to catch your #stalker…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blue<\/a><\/p>\n

Experience, when it comes to stalking I know I have more experience now than I did at one time in the past, and I am not sure how to explain it simply.\u00a0 So I checked Wikipedia for a definition, and it goes like this \u2013 \u201cWe gained knowledge or skill through involvement or exposure to a thing or event.” \u00a0While the range of degrees of experience is quite large, I like this abbreviated definition, it seems to serve the purpose.<\/p>\n

We (Steve and I) have been through a stalking, that ended with the murder of our youngest daughter.\u00a0 We experienced it from beginning to end.<\/p>\n

Throughout this horrifying experience we thought we were being proactive.\u00a0 Many times one of the Sheriff’s Deputies or Detectives would comment on how they thought we were going overboard in what we were doing, in comparison with anything they had seen before. \u00a0In our reality what we were doing was our very best to catch this person. \u00a0The fact that it ended in failure should give us all pause.\u00a0 No parent wants to be in our position, and fail.\u00a0 No parent wants their child to suffer as Morgan did.\u00a0 They need to protect their child, they need help from others, and just how much, and when is completely unknown.<\/p>\n

It is one thing to imagine a peeping tom, who is so transfixed at a young woman’s bathroom window, that the peeping tom does not know that the father of the young woman he is so horribly violating, is coming ever closer, and growing more livid with every step, until it is too late for this peeping tom – he is caught red-handed in the act.<\/p>\n

A very old friend of Steve\u2019s had a picture of a man who was caught, by the father of a victim of a peeping tom that was looking in the window at his daughter, and this peeping tom had obviously received a vigorous beating before he was cuffed, and brought in for his mug shot. \u00a0A little instant justice, never enough until forgiveness can join in, but perhaps enough for the moment.<\/p>\n

It is an entirely different matter when you know it\u2019s happening and you run out an instant too late to find only air.\u00a0 Oh, there may be clues, shoe prints in the soil, freshly watered soil for just this reason, images on wildlife cameras, grainy video of a real live person, a glimpse of a dark figure rounding the neighbor\u2019s house, foot trails worn into berms behind your house that can be seen from outer space on Google maps, showing trails that were never there before.\u00a0 Of course let\u2019s not forget the scratching, knocking, and banging on the windows, or punching in numbers on the front door key code pad.<\/p>\n

In our case a glimpse or physical evidence of Morgan\u2019s stalker was rare, maybe one in every tenth instance, and never even\u00a0coming\u00a0close to her stalker being caught.\u00a0 We were left with just the knowledge that he was just there.\u00a0 Proof that your experience tells you – this was from her stalker.\u00a0 He was right there, not too long ago.\u00a0 And if you call in law enforcement and nothing improves, and it becomes basically the same thing, except instead of the two of us, there were now one, or two deputies alongside of us, standing there, right where he was, not too long ago. \u00a0What are the chances you are going to catch him? \u00a0When this is what happens every time, the chances are very slim.<\/p>\n

There are jewelry\u00a0thieves that can scale a building to a balcony, and gain entrance without a noise. \u00a0They can defeat the elaborate security system, break into the safe, and exit with the goods, leaving only a safe door half-open, and not any other sign that they were there.<\/p>\n

And there are those that will trip, and crash to the ground over paint cans in the garage, causing an intense clatter, knocking themselves unconscious in the process.\u00a0 There are all levels of skills in stalking, and stalkers, and be realistic about yours \u2013 really realistic.\u00a0 There is the stalker’s skill level vs. your skill level.\u00a0 And there also is your law enforcement’s skill level vs. the stalker’s.\u00a0 Not to be insulting or condescending, just take the time to be aware, it matters.<\/p>\n

Sadly over the last year, and a half there have been few methods that I\u2019ve seen succeed very often.\u00a0 Easily the most successful is an array of wildlife cameras, 4 or more, usually six.\u00a0 They can be wi-fi enabled or not.\u00a0 Be aware that the time to first exposure varies with brands and models.\u00a0 Five seconds may be the best you can find, but it is a long amount of time.\u00a0 Our oldest grandson could pretty much cover our lot from back to front in five seconds. \u00a0You can compensate for the slow first image times by using more cameras.\u00a0 We never had more than two cameras up at one time, four if you count the Sheriff’s two.\u00a0 It was not enough.\u00a0 We had two images in three months, and the Sheriffs had none.<\/p>\n

The wildlife camera images will not be the best, not prom night pictures by any stretch of he imagination.\u00a0 The images will have to be circulated to as many people as you can get to see them.\u00a0 It sounds amazing to me, but if you look at instances where an almost blurry picture is circulated openly, someone recognizes who it is in the image.\u00a0 A police department in a large city back east claims they have a 75% success rate with video surveillance images openly circulated to everyone.<\/p>\n

Next is more of an idea, because we never tried it, but it seems logical.\u00a0 Where our video surveillance cameras were all mounted on our house, and aimed to cover an area along the house, Steve believes that it would have been better if we had gotten permission, and mounted every camera on a neighbor\u2019s house, trained on one side, at most, of our house, ground to top of roof, 24\/7.<\/p>\n

Morgan\u2019s stalker was a highly skilled hunter.\u00a0 Absolutely nothing wrong with hunting, but a highly skilled hunter possesses a skill set of concealment, stealth and knowledge that is formidable to counter.\u00a0 There is a famous FBI profiler that is of the opinion that if he had a set of suspects for a serial killing, and one was a trophy hunter, that would be his first suspect.\u00a0 This might also be because the serial killer he brought to justice lived in Alaska and had developed the pattern, or signature, of taking a women into the woods, releasing her, and then hunting her down like an animal.\u00a0 The theme of many horror movies and TV shows about crime – certainly not representative of the hunters in the world, far from it, just one man using a finely tuned skill set, and knowledge for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n

On the day Morgan\u2019s body was found it was declared a mystery by law enforcement.\u00a0 Rule number one of death scene investigation is that you must assume it is a homicide until proven otherwise. \u00a0One and a half years later there are twenty unexplainable facts that point to an intruder in her room that night.\u00a0 Yet the Sheriff’s Department found no sign of forced entry on day one, and were completely satisfied with that. Why?<\/p>\n

On the day Morgan died we did not realize there was much of anything wrong with her room.\u00a0 It was, quite simply, the last thing on our minds.\u00a0 Very obvious unexplainable facts came readily, within days after the crime scene tape was down.\u00a0 Others took an evening, with a really sharp investigator, who was experienced with putting together all the facts of a particular case.\u00a0 Steve and I were never asked a single question about Morgan\u2019s room on day one of her investigation, as it turned out the only day of the investigation, so of course there was not much information assembled about her death.<\/p>\n

And these twenty pieces are just the crime scene evidence.\u00a0 There are also eight pieces of forensic facts relating to Morgan\u2019s case, which are completely backward from what is known by the scientific community, also pointing to an intruder.\u00a0 When they are testified to and cross-examined, I feel very strongly as to what the outcome will be.\u00a0 And it is so hard, because as the wheels of justice turn their slow turn, I am very anxious for that moment to come sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m getting ahead of myself, catching your stalker is the focus here.\u00a0 There is one thing stalkers almost can\u2019t stop themselves from doing, they stalk and they will return to the same place over, and over again.\u00a0 Carrying with them an odd, almost unexplainable certainty they will not be caught.\u00a0 And guess what?\u00a0 Far too many times they are right about that, about not being caught.<\/p>\n

An excellent expert on stalking correctly points out that \u201cyou know the place where the crime will be committed,\u201d \u201cyou know who the crime will be committed against,\u201d \u201cOnce you have a suspect, you must act, quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Depending on whose numbers you take, in one out of five\u00a0stalkings there will be violence against the victim, and in one out of ten there will be injuries.\u00a0 Fatal injuries are next up.\u00a0 But why? \u00a0When there is a suspect, and you know where, and you know who, it does not make sense that anything fatal should happen, except very rarely.\u00a0 But that is not how it works out. \u00a0Extremely sad, but also true.<\/p>\n

It is our reality, and the reality for so many stalking victims that they live an end that should not have had to happen, but they are not given the choice.\u00a0 Can awareness alone improve the odds?\u00a0 Of course, but I have an idea that three things are needed…awareness, plus protocol, plus full employment of the law. \u00a0Stalking needs to be taken seriously – by everyone, especially law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Experience tells me that catching the stalker is so important.\u00a0 Otherwise the end is a wound that may suddenly reopen someday.\u00a0 Be aware of this.\u00a0 Morgan chose not to run, because her stalker could just as easily have followed her, and then she would be forever looking over her shoulder in fear. \u00a0Morgan decided to stay, that was not the problem.\u00a0 A lack of awareness, protocol, and full employment of the law\u00a0was the problem.\u00a0 Both before her death, and after.<\/p>\n

This started out as an idea or two on how to catch your stalker, and I have only given you one or two really good ideas on how to do that – there are many more. \u00a0What I want to also give you is the awareness that your stalker must be caught, and\u00a0preferably\u00a0not by you. \u00a0Stalkers rarely stop stalking. \u00a0In Morgan’s memory I want people to more aware of the true dangers of stalking. \u00a0I want to turn the tables on stalkers with protocols that have proven to be effective against stalkers, and all of the laws enacted to prevent these\u00a0tragedies used to their fullest. \u00a0How else do we expect to catch your stalker?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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