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The truck that Morgan should have had on scene the morning her body was found, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, not a Hearst.<\/p><\/div>\n

Morgan’s murder wasn\u2019t really thought to be a murder at all, not on that first day, it was explained to us by the Sheriffs detective as clearly a mystery.\u00a0 There were many things accepted as facts that morning as they came rolling out, first we were told there was no connection to her stalking – none at all, this took minutes for the detective to determine this fact, so you would assume there was great evidence to support this conclusion, and we trusted and believed we were being told the truth at that time. \u00a0We were experiencing shock and horror at that very moment and could not wrap our heads around anything. Next we were told there was no sign of forced entry, no sign of sexual assault, no sign of a struggle, and no sign of suicide.\u00a0 I can remember those words whistling through my ears, and the foreign reassurance they brought with them, but I can’t help but wonder how could they have known those things at that time without any investigation? Why did they not collect any forensic evidence that very morning?<\/p>\n

But then, if you had been Morgan\u2019s mother for twenty years, there were things you would know, things deep within your heart, things akin to all the mother\/daughter attachments Morgan and I had always shared over her lifetime.\u00a0 What was being shared with me that morning about Morgan\u2019s death seemed attached to strange external forces, things beyond any of our control, and not by any means logical or intuitive…just strange, for lack of a better word.<\/p>\n

While so much of that day was clouded within the grief of the moment, at the same time I remember some things very vividly as they transpired throughout that day.\u00a0 As in the detective from Garfield County, Robert Glassmire telling me that they had scanned the entire room and they had found no bodily fluids anywhere.\u00a0 I can still see myself responding immediately with disbelief, as I told him that Morgan had not yet washed her sheets this week, so there must have been something detected, she had a puppy, and a cat, and.\u2026he assured me that there was nothing. \u00a0Now I know why her sheets didn’t show anything – her sheets were gone! \u00a0I am no investigator, but I would think that a detective being told that she hadn’t washed her sheets yet, knowing her sheets were missing just might think that something is wrong with this crime scene. \u00a0Where were Morgan’s sheets? \u00a0Who took them? \u00a0They never showed up anywhere…unfortunately we didn’t realize they were gone at the time, because we were only focused on calling 911 and giving her CPR until the emergency responders showed up, we were trying to save her, and then we were told to leave our house. \u00a0I never realized her sheets were gone until we received crime scene photos of her room almost 2 years later.<\/p>\n

I vividly remember that her body seems posed to me.\u00a0 That was the worst feeling, that her body position was all wrong, so wrong.\u00a0 I told Detective Glassmire exactly how I found Morgan and how it looked all wrong, for reasons I can\u2019t fully explain. \u00a0I can tell you exactly where I was standing, and even the position I was facing when I told him. \u00a0I will never question the strange feeling I had at the time, nor will I ever fully understand it.<\/p>\n

There is always that saying you have all heard – having a child die is every parents worst nightmare.\u00a0 In the many days that followed after Morgan’s death, days that all melted together, and then the months that followed that day, Steve and I would meet someone from our little valley that had been at our house that morning. \u00a0They would offer condolences, and they would also wonder, “How are you holding up?” \u00a0Are you okay? \u00a0They were parents too, and were shaken when they arrived on scene and found that Morgan was only 20 years old. \u00a0Today, I would tell them that if I ever experience anything worse, which is not even remotely feasible to me, that I would be sure to tell them.\u00a0 But the ability to understand is something that comes with time, if ever. \u00a0A long time, exactly how much time I am not sure, definitely different for everyone, but for me it did not come within months, and only now can I see that within years I am finally beginning to understand. \u00a0All this time I thought I was being strong, asking questions, digging for answers, but in reality when I look back now I can see that my realization had been slowed by my complete and overwhelming grief. \u00a0If it wasn’t for our amazing grief counselor I don’t know how Steve and I would have made it through the first two years after Morgan’s murder. \u00a0And with the support and love from family, friends, and even strangers I was able to become stronger and stronger, but it still has taken such a long time.<\/p>\n

Morgan\u2019s room was still taped off as a crime scene when the Sheriffs all left, Steve and I would not be allowed back in there for days.\u00a0 Days later we were able to see her room again. Then it was years upon years later before we would know any of the answers to the many questions we had asked on the morning of her death. \u00a0While there is so much I did not know that morning on December 2, 2011, there is so much I have very painfully learned over the months and years since. \u00a0And there is one thing I knew that morning for sure – that my very dear and very beloved daughter was now gone from this earth, in a way that continues to become only more horrific to us as time passes, and we learn more details about how she died. \u00a0This is the beginning of the story of Morgan\u2019s murder\u2026<\/p>\n

So many have commented on what they perceive to be amazing strength to be doing what I am for my daughter, and I want to address that perception. \u00a0I appreciate people telling me that, it is so very kind and I am grateful, but in reality I don’t perceive myself as being strong, I am hurting inside just like any other mother would be, and doing only what I think any other mother would do in my situation, because they love their child so much, and want truth, and justice to prevail. \u00a0Morgan deserved so much better, and as lie after lie is exposed – what mother\u2019s blood would not begin to boil?\u00a0 I am just a mother who still wants the truth to be told, and only the truth to be told about what has happened to Morgan, not the lies and misdirection that have played out since her death.\u00a0 It will happen one day, of that I am quite sure, and I will not rest until it does.<\/p>\n

If you followed my blog about Morgan\u2019s stalking you already know the Garfield County Sheriff\u2019s department took over the investigation of her death, and pretty much have done whatever they pleased with the facts.\u00a0 Beyond that it is safe to assume that murder, and Morgan Ingram will never coexist for Sheriff Lou Vallario who stands between Morgan and justice.\u00a0 For Steve and I it has been quite a different path that has led us to today.\u00a0 We have questioned what happened, and asked for answers from those most qualified to give them.<\/p>\n

As the truth never changes, there are some truths about that day in 2011 that did not become known to us until much, much later.\u00a0 Keenan Vanginkel, only days before Morgan’s murder was determined by Sheriff Detective Glassmire to be 100% guilty of Morgan’s stalking. \u00a0His work hours show that he clocked in at his job at 2:00 am the morning Morgan was killed, even more interesting is the fact that he clocked out for a break at 6:37am that same morning, this time may be significant as it was minutes after the ambulance carrying the first responders entered our driveway in a futile attempt to save Morgan.\u00a0 This time clock also uses some biometric feature to insure that the represented person is the person who clocked in.\u00a0 I have been assured of this by the security person that works for his employer.\u00a0 So hypothetically, \u00a0if Brooke were to see the myriad of flashing lights three houses down the street from her house (she lived only 3 houses down from us) and called Keenan, he might clock out and go outside, well that much is not fact, but conjecture on my part. \u00a0I do know Brooke’s dad James called and left a message for his client that he could not make their meeting that morning because the sheriffs had put crime scene tape around his neighbors house, a house that had a girl that had been stalked, a stalker that the police thought was him at first but now they know it is his daughter’s ex-boyfriend and he has to stay home and monitor the situation and protect his daughter…I thought this was powerful when I heard about it, I told Detective Glassmire to speak with this client, the woman is the wife of a Pitkin County Sheriff, but Detective Glassmire could never seem to find the time to interview this witness.<\/p>\n

Since that morning, in a constant way, my life has become a series of conjectures about what may have happened, and then a crusade to gather evidence that would support or dispel those theories.\u00a0 I\u2019m told this is called an investigation.\u00a0 Something Morgan never had, for those of you who do not already know, Sheriff Lou Vallario went on TV to announce there would never be an investigation into Morgan\u2019s death.\u00a0 That was on the day her death was reclassified from natural causes, to a suicide, eight months after she was originally said to have died of natural causes.\u00a0 You can bet that this assertion of natural causes and then suicide has been dug into deeply, and the facts I have to share are quite voluminous for just one blog, so I will only say this one thing below for now.<\/p>\n

The Coroner decided, years after Morgan\u2019s death, to release pictures to our family that were taken of the death scene the morning her body was discovered.\u00a0 Not being experts in any way, we decided that only a very select group of expert individuals should review these pictures.\u00a0 The first fact to come out was that Morgan\u2019s body was moved after she had died. \u00a0Moved postmortem! \u00a0Please, someone\u00a0 explain to me how a person\u2019s death goes from natural causes to suicide when their body was moved after they were already dead?<\/p>\n

On top of that, do not even bring up the fact that I was threatened by the contracted forensic pathologist that if I kept asking questions, and having Morgan’s doctors contact him with medical facts different than what he believed to be true that he could revisit her manner of death, and could possibly arrive at accidental overdose or suicide. \u00a0Which is exactly what he did months later after I did not “back off.” \u00a0This is the contracted forensic pathologist that works closely with the Garfield County Sheriffs department, the same Sheriffs office that were told verbally and in writing about those threats, and yes the same Sheriffs department that would never open an investigation into Morgan’s death in case you are wondering. \u00a0The same Sheriffs department who concluded within minutes, on the morning we found her body, that Morgan\u2019s death had no connection to her stalking.\u00a0 These facts are completely separate and I wanted to bring them all out into the light of day so that others who might be in a similar situation can learn from our families experiences. \u00a0I believe people in positions of trust should not be allowed to do these things. \u00a0I am sure in most cases families are in such immense pain, and suffering that they can not even bring themselves to ask questions of the authorities, even though they can feel that there is something wrong with what they are being told. \u00a0Revictimizing families is cruel and unjust and should not be allowed.<\/p>\n

People say these things are only the shrill cry of a mother who can\u2019t accept the truth – really? \u00a0When a mother finds foul play in the fact that her daughter\u2019s body has been moved after she died, and a Sheriff that says he will never open an investigation into what is possibly a homicide, is that perfectly normal in any death amid a stalking under suspicious circumstances? \u00a0No wonder there is rarely ever a murder in Garfield County – for the previous six or seven years prior to Morgan’s death there were no murders, they want us to \u00a0just ignore the pesky fact that bodies kept showing up.\u00a0 Just ignore it like Morgan\u2019s stalking, ignore it all. \u00a0Accidental deaths and suicide are the accepted manner of deaths, but can we believe what we are being told? \u00a0I no longer do.<\/p>\n

I guess Garfield County doesn’t want us to pay attention to a United States Congressman who states that every victim of stalking that he has heard about was murdered by their stalker. \u00a0I guess Garfield County thinks it is acceptable for everyone to believe without question that Morgan\u2019s death had absolutely no connection to her actual felony stalking at the time her body was discovered.\u00a0 The stalking that was feared to escalate days before her death.\u00a0 The stalking that had patrols of our house and our neighborhood increased in the days before her death.\u00a0 The stalking where she had positively identified her stalker and was scheduled to have a videotaped interview with the detectives in a few days, an interview that never took place, because she was killed. Specifically the stalking that supposedly had no connection to her murder. \u00a0Morgan was scheduled to leave that same morning on a pre-planned babysitting assignment for the returning military heroes defending our country.\u00a0 These heroes that were going to a family retreat and recovering from their own ordeals…Morgan was stopped from going by her murderer.<\/p>\n

And while it all seems and sounds to be so horribly wrong and completely dire, I would quickly like to say that while it has been all that and more for us and still is, there is something more to the story of Morgan\u2019s murder, and that can\u2019t be lost here.\u00a0 Steve and I have come to learn something that is very important.\u00a0 We have learned with so many that have come forward to help in the fight for justice for Morgan, that they are amazingly in this for the long haul.\u00a0 It portents solutions, and even healing for other victims as well, for the victims of stalking, as well as the victims of every other crime, including the families of the victims of capital crimes after their loved ones have been robbed of their most basic liberty – their life.\u00a0 With the support of these caring supporters victims can, and do recover. \u00a0These victims need to be believed. \u00a0They need someone to help them. \u00a0Morgan would never have cared about herself over another.\u00a0 It has been without doubt the hardest lesson that Steve and I have been forced to learn since her tragic death.\u00a0 That she was far more understanding of the world than we were.\u00a0 That our daughter had lessons to teach us even after she died.<\/p>\n

I will now leave you with this…as Morgan died, she managed to communicate more than I could even begin to understand.\u00a0 This story that I will now be writing about will be about death and murder, and all of the unpleasantries that go hand in hand.\u00a0 It will share most all, but never all the facts that I have come to know since her death.\u00a0 There will always be the facts that only Morgan\u2019s murderer would have known.\u00a0 Hopefully that part can keep secreted away until it is needed.\u00a0 Until then, we all miss you Morgan\u2026and I will never stop expecting that in the end you will have justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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