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\"One<\/a>

One of the last series of pictures that Morgan took of herself was this picture. This is Morgan holding some ribbon on which she wrote, \u201cFate, the illusion that you get the things you want without working for them\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Morgan truly believed that a person needed to work hard for things that really mattered in their lives – she didn’t think you could just sit back and believe that you deserved them so fate would give them to you some day. \u00a0Morgan always worked very hard for everything in her life, and now Steve and I are doing the same thing in our quest to find justice for Morgan. \u00a0We can not just sit back and believe that someday it will happen – it has taken a lot of hard work – gut wrenching tears, and tons of support from others all around the world, but we can now see light at the end of this horrible dark tunnel, and we know that our perseverance in the end will also help others that have given up all hope in their situation. \u00a0We know Morgan wouldn’t have given up…ever…so we never will either.<\/p>\n

And now my question of the day is, “Why would you ever want to help a stalker?” \u00a0Doesn\u2019t it seem that if you knew someone close to you was stalking someone, and terrorizing them there would be a moment of \u201cinstant distance,\u201d at the very least between you and that person, and you would want to say something to them, or try to put a stop to it?\u00a0 Or is it just me?\u00a0 To just ignore, or pretend it\u2019s not happening I could not understand at all.\u00a0 But that is exactly what happened.<\/p>\n

Given enough time to expose themselves, it became painfully obvious that our neighbors helped the stalker.\u00a0 To what extent, everyone tended to minimize.\u00a0 Other than the fact that Keenan lived 3 houses up the street, and shared a house with them, not much else was known.\u00a0 And at first it was the farthest thing from our minds, the Deputies too, and then when Morgan’s case became “felony stalking” and the Detectives came on board, they thought the same.\u00a0 It seemed to all that it was too big a stretch that two adults, with children of their own, would have the slightest clue, and actually be trying to help the stalker – it was just too strange to believe for any of us at the time.<\/p>\n

That was a period of time when we were all confident that when the neighbors reached the conclusion that Keenan, was not only “possibly” the stalker, but most likely was the stalker, all others would take it seriously, and aid in the swift end of this nightmare.<\/p>\n

This continued right up until the incident when a group of Deputies descended on the house James Harris was leasing, and tried to question Keenan about the stalking.\u00a0 There were obvious signs he was there, and Brooke admitted he was, she just would not wake him up. \u00a0The Deputy noted there was a freshly crushed beer can in the driveway. \u00a0And the Deputy at the door heard a, \u201ccommotion,\u201d inside the house as he talked with Brooke.\u00a0 Since the only living thing inside the house at that time was supposed to be Keenan, the Deputy made a comment about the noise, but was once again denied entry to talk with Keenan.<\/p>\n

Further damaging the belief Brooke would have a willingness to help, the next morning Elliott (the neighbor across the street) said he had heard from Christine, Brooke\u2019s mother that the Deputies were at her house the night before because they were supposedly told Morgan had gone missing, and the Deputies had come to ask her about it.\u00a0 Once I had told Elliott what really happened, and that Morgan had not gone missing, in fact she wasn’t even home while this was going on, that I was the one that got the rock thrown at the window I was standing in front of, that was actually enough for him, he leaped right to the conclusion that they all knew what Keenan was doing, Brooke, and both her parents, and he later told me he called Brooke’s mom back after speaking with me to tell her she better wake up, and do the right thing.<\/p>\n

We should have all listened to Elliott, sharing any information with them only served to put Morgan in greater danger. \u00a0But I\u2019m getting ahead of myself.<\/p>\n

Once Elliott made up his mind there was no turning him back, except he was still a suspect to the Detectives, so it was complicated.<\/p>\n

After the refusal to cooperate at her door, and the lies quickly circulating Corral Drive, Brooke was a suspect too, the Detectives would wonder aloud, off and on, about Brooke\u2019s true involvement in it all, but her parents, being adults with children were off the list.<\/p>\n

Except Christine had this behavior of coming up with stories about the stalking at well placed intervals.\u00a0 All of them explaining away how Keenan was not the stalker. After enough of these stories originating with Christine the Detectives went and talked to her, to clear it all up, and it only got far more convoluted.\u00a0 That was the incident when Detective Glassmire talked to Christine, the mother, who claimed to get all her information from Brooke, her daughter.\u00a0 Brooke told the same story in reverse, and Detective Glassmire chuckled and thought they could at least get their lies straight. \u00a0Morgan is now dead, and I don’t think looking back he would chuckle any longer. \u00a0Now if he had to do it over again he would probably keep interviewing Brooke and her mother to get to the “bottom” of who was actually creating the lies to cover for Keenan and why.<\/p>\n

In reality we were all under-reacting to the true threat to Morgan, but at the time we thought we were moving toward an arrest.<\/p>\n

The absolute worst part of all this was that days before Morgan was murdered Detective Glassmire was talking with James Harris about the case.\u00a0 This conversation was only because James wanted to be present as his daughter Brooke was being questioned.<\/p>\n

James wanted Detective Glassmire to know that he had \u201cheard\u201d that Morgan\u2019s parents were basically overreacting.\u00a0 James was then told, \u201cDetective Alstatt is going to formally interview Morgan on Tuesday December 6, 2011.\u201d<\/p>\n

My understanding of this interview was that it was very important in order for an arrest to be made. The Detective had to talked to Morgan, Steve and myself usually once a week during this case, but a formal interview was now in order. \u00a0Morgan was going to be able to tell, in her own words about the Thunder River eyewitness incidents, other eyewitness incidents, and give her statement about the fear, and deep impact this was all having on her.<\/p>\n

Morgan didn\u2019t live long enough to have this interview, and tell on video about every time she had seen Keenan in a stalking situation, and everything else that had been going on to terrorize, and turn her life upside down.<\/p>\n

The interview with Brooke, with James Harris present, was on November 27th, four days before Morgan\u2019s murder began, and five days before her body was found.\u00a0 But we did not know the full impact of all this for months, because I was waiting for Detective Glassmire to question a witness that James Harris had left a telephone message for on the morning we had crime scene tape wrapped around our house – the morning we found Morgan’s body. \u00a0A voice message that was recorded on a client’s message machine, in which he said the police knew Keenan was the stalker.\u00a0 Not the suspect, not allegedly the stalker, not believed he could be \u2013 James said the police knew Keenan was the stalker.\u00a0 So of course James also knew that fact very well.<\/p>\n

And another pertinent fact came up many months later. \u00a0I found out that James explained his actions to his client the following week as only wishing to protect his daughter.\u00a0 After all this is added up I come to the conclusion that Elliott was right when he said the Harris\u2019 all knew about the stalking.<\/p>\n

And once again the totality of events spanning a week, from three days before Morgan\u2019s death to four days after infuriate me, just some of the highlights:<\/p>\n