{"id":4339,"date":"2013-07-21T15:56:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T21:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=4339"},"modified":"2013-08-03T20:42:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T02:42:52","slug":"how-come-i-did-not-see-this-sooner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=4339","title":{"rendered":"How Come I Did Not See this Sooner?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Morgan<\/a>

Morgan always like rocks – not one was alike…kind of like Morgan…no one was like her.<\/p><\/div>\n

Since none of you have ever seen my timeline, I want to just share a few things.\u00a0 First it has many personal thoughts in it, open questions to myself, long-held beliefs, even private thoughts about my Nana, and what she would do.\u00a0 It always made it a challenge to send an update to the Detectives, it was hours of reading every word to take out the very personal stuff, and give them the facts I felt they needed.<\/p>\n

Another big thing is question marks, lots and lots of question marks.\u00a0 That was a far easier search and replace operation to remove question marks to myself.\u00a0 Every question mark was information I had to fill in, like a phone number, or a time, or a full name, an address, sometimes even behind the scenes connections.\u00a0 I wanted the Detectives to always be able to reach anyone important in Morgan\u2019s Felony Stalking case.\u00a0 As I remove the last of the remaining question marks now I am constantly reminded of one fact – the Felony Stalking Detectives never knew where Keenan lived.\u00a0 Detective Glassmire admitted that to me long after Morgan\u2019s death.\u00a0 At one point in the case Detective Glassmire told me that he knew where Keenan\u2019s father used to live, his father was not even a suspect, and it was a “used to live” answer.<\/p>\n

But how in the world can that be? \u00a0How can they ask me for every address and phone number and never even know where their prime suspect lived? \u00a0What if an exigent situation presented itself? \u00a0Like Morgan missing, or signs pointing to an escalation that would possibly be quelled by a face to face at his home, \u00a0or what if she turned up dead? After they became certain Keenan was the stalker, and put Brooke behind him one notch on the probable guilt scale it would seem to me that to not even know where he lived at that point is inexcusable.\u00a0 Was it because he was a man?\u00a0 Really, because as I relive for the umpteenth time, with fresh eyes, I see instance after instance that with a man – instantly credible, even if criminal, and Morgan, woman – second class citizen, or worse.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m afraid I am still being way too generous as I reread my last sentence.\u00a0 If Morgan was found dead of suspicious circumstances – three days after her stalking was, \u201cif anything it\u2019s going to escalate,\u201d according to the lead Detective, and her body discovered on the morning after deputies patrolled the neighborhood numerous times, shining their searchlight up on our roof top, in a radical departure from previous patrols.\u00a0 When a shocking array of facts would come to light long after the Sheriff\u2019s investigating her death would complete their, \u201cinvestigation,\u201d of her death scene in a few hours, hop in their cars and ride away, after collecting nothing except her personal electronics, and an old journal.<\/p>\n

Was she even treated as a second class citizen, or wasn\u2019t the obvious, \u201celephant standing in the room,\u201d called possible murder, being ignored completely?\u00a0 Why would that happen?\u00a0 There are really few reasons to ignore what is a possible murder, and because she was a woman has to top that very short list.<\/p>\n

And as I remove those question marks, and replace the spot with facts I am revisiting there was another, all too obvious maneuver, that took place twice during Morgan\u2019s stalking investigation:<\/p>\n

First there was a Deputy that really investigated, showed Morgan, and Steve and I, a photo line up of suspects, this happened exactly once in the investigation.\u00a0 It was as if he came from a different Law Enforcement Department. \u00a0It was before the case became a Felony Stalking case and he was not a Detective. \u00a0He easily came the closest to nabbing the stalker in the act, had flushed him out for all intents, and right after he almost nabbed the criminal, next time it was going to be for all the marbles, and suddenly, he was, \u201creassigned,\u201d and we never saw him again.<\/p>\n

Second, another officer, also above and beyond all others, her eyes spoke of her commitment in volumes \u2013 and in what I now can see as the darkest hours, before she was killed, Morgan told me that this officer was the only one she trusted or had any faith in anymore.\u00a0 She was, \u201creassigned,\u201d too.<\/p>\n

Coincidence that the two officers most committed to Morgan\u2019s case were both sent elsewhere, or was it part and parcel of the GarCo, \u201cno foul play here,\u201d two-step?<\/p>\n

So now as I work on removing every last question mark, I relive the little details and feel like I have such a different perception.\u00a0 My focus is getting much sharper.\u00a0 I was told many times in many ways by so many great people who the first year or two certain things would be very hard to do, to be careful not to push so hard.\u00a0 Steve and I had an almost tag team mentality of pushing until we crashed, then picking each other up to push some more.\u00a0 At times their was not much really happening, but I can\u2019t imagine any other way to deal with what happened to Morgan.<\/p>\n

There is a Constitution for this country and a Constitution for this state.\u00a0 Steve is researching those documents now, and keeps me updated on the transgressions he finds.\u00a0 Which launches another round of research to really answer the question he has just raised, the bottom line is that Morgan\u2019s Constitutional Rights were lost in her stalking and death.\u00a0 They are there for a reason and the next victim will need her full complement of\u00a0Constitutional Rights enforced diligently to have a different outcome. \u00a0I am certain of that.<\/p>\n

The Morgan Ingram Foundation is very close to the beginning of that daunting task.\u00a0 If it is within the capability of Steve and I, and with invaluable help from Morgan\u2019s brother and sister, and the large dedicated band that stands with us in this cause, we will succeed in changing outcomes.\u00a0 There is the clich\u00e9 that if we only save one young woman we are a success, but I aim higher than that.\u00a0 There is a gap that needs closing.\u00a0 A gap between what so desperately<\/b> needs to be available<\/b> to victims of stalking, and what is currently available<\/b> to victims.\u00a0 That will be the focus and we will measure our collective success in the closing of that gap.<\/p>\n

We obviously really wish we could have realized things sooner, but in Morgan\u2019s honor to take our mistakes and turn them into something positive is what is left for us to do now.\u00a0 That is the single best thing that can come from this, closing the gap.\u00a0 And because I mentioned her, I\u2019m going to thank my Nana, for always being there, and thank all\u00a0of you, and I mean all of you for your kind thoughts, and sincere wishes. \u00a0To express how much that has meant to Steve and I is not possible…not even close.<\/p>\n

To think now how the world can be a better place is so exciting for me, when there was a time not too long ago that excitement was a foreign thought, it is such a good feeling\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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