{"id":4700,"date":"2014-08-26T00:42:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T06:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=4700"},"modified":"2014-08-26T00:42:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T06:42:28","slug":"is-there-something-very-wrong-in-garfield-county-or-is-it-just-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=4700","title":{"rendered":"Is there something very wrong in #Garfield County, or is it just me?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"garfieldcounty\"<\/a>Long ago, right after the blog of Morgan’s stalking was just getting going I was contacted by a local author writing a piece about the great disparity between suicides, and homicides in Garfield County. \u00a0What was shared with me was fascinating, and troubling all at the same time. \u00a0But back then we were being told by Garfield County that Morgan’s death was from natural causes, while at the same time Morgan’s doctor believed her death was a homicide, and another forensic pathologist was telling me she did not die from natural causes, it was a suspicious death and should have been listed at the very least as undetermined until a full investigation had been done. \u00a0Along with all of this I was being threatened by the contracted forensic pathologist for Garfield County. \u00a0He said that Morgan’s manner of death could be revisited, and could possibly be changed from natural causes to an accidental overdose or suicide if I didn’t back off…I believe the grief, shock and stress I was feeling at the time was paralyzing me in so many ways, and I heard what I was being told by all these different parties, but at the same time my mind couldn’t properly grasp it all. \u00a0Writing on this blog about the things that happened to Morgan during her stalking helped keep me going, but looking back on it now I only thought I was pushing hard, truth be told I was only a fraction of myself. \u00a0Oh the things you learn as you come out of your grief bubble…<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0I \u00a0honestly do not think Morgan\u2019s case is the only one like this in Garfield County. \u00a0I have talked to other families and friends of missing, and dead loved ones, and I hear the same run-around that we received given to others, along with all the same non answers that we got. \u00a0These other families speak of the same unanswered phone calls, emails and letters. \u00a0They speak of evidence that the Sheriffs department or Coroner’s office had that has now gone “missing” or was “accidentally destroyed”, I even received a call from a mom that had spent her whole retirement account hiring a ballistic expert, private investigator, etc. and had solid evidence that her son did not shoot himself, but was shot with a completely different gun then the gun the police took into evidence (the gun that had been collected from the scene had never been shot and it was a different caliber than the gun that shot the bullet into her son’s body), and they still would not open that case or change his manner of death from suicide. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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In an article written by John Colson for the Post Independent newspaper about Morgan’s manner of death being changed from natural causes to suicide (and yes, this was after I was threatened by the pathologist to back off in trying to facilitate other doctors, and experts into explaining to him how his first conclusion was incorrect, that Morgan did not die from natural causes, and yes again, the Sheriff and Coroner had been notified about the threats, but would never respond) on August 31, 2012 Garfield County Sheriff Lou Vallario is quoted as saying that he would stick by the contracted forensic pathologist Dr. Kurtzman’s conclusion of suicide. \u00a0Sheriff Vallario wrote in an email to the reporter, “The results of the autopsy and pathology reports were that the manner of death was suicide.” \u00a0The sheriffs knew that her death was considered a suspicious death because of her stalking (that is why an autopsy was done, that was why crime scene tape was put up all around our house and we were asked to leave the scene), but they decided on the exact morning her body was found that it had nothing to do with her stalking. \u00a0Then right after the Post Independent article came out, Jeff Todd a reporter for CBS in Denver filmed Sheriff Lou Vallario right in the front of the courthouse in Glenwood Springs, CO stating that he would never open Morgan’s case. \u00a0Never? \u00a0I thought if evidence is brought forward in a capital crime that there is no statue of limitations, and a case can be opened at any time? \u00a0Am I mistaken here, or was Morgan’s case, like so many other suspicious cases in Garfield County closed, shut down, and buried for some sinister reason? \u00a0I really need to know the answer to that question – I feel that I deserve an answer to that question, wouldn’t you? \u00a0Please look at the following report from Garfield County and tell me what you think. \u00a0Is it just me or does something look wrong with these numbers?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Maybe it is just me, but when I look at this stat sheet for Garfield County it suggests to me a story about a county that does not want any murders on its books\u2026natural causes, accidental, or suicide those are all okay, along with run aways, but not foul play, murder, kidnapping, or rape…they don’t want any of those on their stats.\u00a0As you can see on the Garfield County stats that listed results of Colorado Death Dataset Query for suicides, and homicides- I have circled the 5 years ending in 2011 (the year Morgan was murdered) it shows 53 deaths (due to suicide or homicide), 50 were determined to be suicide and the other 3 are not listed under homicide, so they are\u00a0either not accounted for, or undetermined\u2026in my opinion this is why Garfield County has been said to have one of the highest suicide rates in the country, but I don\u2019t believe they are all suicides, I think they have listed other types of deaths like Morgan’s as suicides that were really not suicides. \u00a0Anything to not have a homicide on their stats. \u00a0This type of protocol only causes to re-victimize the already traumatized families. \u00a0Not only re-victimizing families, but allowing a murder to never be investigated would seem to me to be dangerous to others in the community, unless of course Garfield County feels confident that a murderer will never murder again. \u00a0How confident do you feel about that?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Does anyone know when this type of thing started? \u00a0When did Garfield County start to go down this slippery road? \u00a0Is there any turning back? \u00a0I have to hope they can turn this all around, and start to uphold the law, protect their citizens, make the truth their number one priority. \u00a0It may take the citizens of the county to join their voices in protest and show the elected officials what they expect, and in an election year such as this one, it seems like a good time to make your vote count. \u00a0Speak out – write in to the local newspaper (like the Aspen Times, or the Post Independent). \u00a0Take a stand, make your voice heard. \u00a0No one wants this to ever happen to their family, so please make sure it can never happen to another family in Garfield County, or anywhere else. \u00a0Change is needed and change will come – hopefully sooner rather than later. \u00a0Thank you so much – each and every one of you have the power to move mountains!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u2015\u00a0<\/span>Martin Luther King Jr.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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