{"id":765,"date":"2012-08-25T09:54:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T15:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=765"},"modified":"2019-08-27T13:55:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T19:55:51","slug":"last-summer-on-thursday-august-25th-the-24th-day-of-morgans-stalking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, August 25, 2011 – the 24th day of Morgan’s stalking"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nWe slept in little spurts last night, rocks on windows, detectors, alarms, I’m\u00a0wondering how he does it, what keeps this stalker up all night – is it drugs? Surely he has a job and he has to function during the day. I gave up on sleep at around 4:30 am, Steve was already up, reading on his phone at the breakfast table\u00a0in the dark. For some reason I sat on the end of the couch and thought about places we could get away to, even just for a long weekend, to not have to deal with this and finally get some actual uninterrupted sleep.<\/p>\n

All\u00a0our years in Colorado we were blessed with friends visiting us here, never had I wanted to go away like I did now. \u00a0I worried about Morgan. \u00a0My \u00a0intuition is screaming at me, and I feel like someone is out there, I never sit at the end of the couch and drink coffee. It’s as if just maybe if I sit still enough, and open up to all the sounds and movements in the dark then something will come to me, so that is what I do…I sit as still as possible.\u00a0 The front porch light is on, and all three cars are in the driveway.<\/p>\n

All of a sudden there was sudden motion, and I froze, my eyes locked on the front door.\u00a0 Our front door has beveled glass in it (as you can see in the picture above), the porch light completely illuminates the porch, and a person was out there.\u00a0 I focused my eyes and stared. What I saw was 100% clear, there was no doubt it was a person wearing a hoodie that just ran up to our front door. \u00a0They had run up along the garage door, past the laundry room window, and up onto our porch. It looked like he glanced through the beveled glass window and saw me, and in that instant he quickly turned and moved across the porch, never looking back in the window, his side to me now, and running off the porch, through the planter knocking a motion detector out of the aspen tree, setting off the alarm. \u00a0I quietly and urgently called out to Steve, “He\u2019s here, I just saw him!” \u00a0It\u2019s been 24 days of stalking now and we have never actually seen anyone until this moment. \u00a0If it\u00a0were not for the footprints he had left around the house, we would have been seriously questioning our sanity. \u00a0Now I have a visual image that would be locked into my mind forever.<\/p>\n

Steve is standing over me, asking where I saw him. \u00a0I pointed to the front door, telling him he was on the porch wearing a hoodie, and he ran to the left.\u00a0 As Steve was running for the front door he was asking me if I thought the stalker knows that I saw him.\u00a0 I said I wasn\u2019t sure, then quickly corrected myself, and said that I thought he did see me – that\u2019s why he turned so quickly, and ran off through the planter.\u00a0 Steve was out the door and I was following, he tells me to go back though the house, to the back doors, and watch the rear yard as he locks and closes the front door behind me. I can see it all today like it just happened 5 minutes ago.\u00a0 For the longest time I stood at the back sliding glass door, and stared at the backyard, it was still very dark outside and I could just make out the trail over the berm. \u00a0I’m wondering if the tall grass was moving because of a breeze, or because the stalker just ran by, brushing it with his legs. \u00a0Steve passes twice, out on the grass, and stops both times to look at me, holding his hands up as though he is asking, \u201cWell do you see anything?\u201d\u00a0 I shrug and hold my hands out, mouthing the word nothing, and shaking my head no.<\/p>\n

When Steve gave up searching the yards he took off driving around the neighborhood, again recording every little detail about our neighbors, I looked in the front yard, hoping to find something that maybe he had dropped, any clue that would lead us to him. \u00a0Steve drove up and seemed very edgy, he wanted me inside, I thought he had seen something on his rounds. \u00a0He had grabbed a legal pad and when we sat at the table he was asking questions rapid fire. \u00a0Could I tell if it was a male of female? How tall? Skinny or husky? He said, \u201cYou saw the stalker, we are getting closer.\u201d\u00a0 I cannot answer as fast as he wants, and we were quickly reduced to screaming at each other about the need to stay calm. The stress was unbearable. \u00a0Steve holds up one hand and says \u201cStop!\u201d \u00a0He takes a very obvious deep breath and blows it out slowly, his way of restoring order. \u00a0He tells me that everything in the entire neighborhood was normal except there was a\u00a0light on in the front room at Brooke Harris’ house.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t know if it’s an office, bedroom or a dining room, so it could mean something, or it could mean nothing. I then told Steve to just follow me to the couch and sit down where I was sitting and I explained to him exactly where I was looking and exactly what I saw.<\/p>\n

I go through it again, and again, concluding it was definitely a male, about 5 foot 11 inches (slightly shorter then Steve), definitely wearing a hoodie, hard to be sure about body build through the\u00a0hoodie, it could have been loose. Steve stands on the front porch exactly where I saw the stalker, there is a column on the porch that was directly behind the stalker when he was standing up at the front door so that makes it easier to estimate height as I look at Steve standing in the same place as the stalker stood. \u00a0I was so frustrated, I wanted to scream. I had just seen him for the first time, had a\u00a0good look, and it seemed like he had slipped right through our fingers and we were left with nothing.\u00a0 Steve disagrees, he thought all of this was adding up, we just had to be as accurate as we could be about what happened, diligent, and we would get him. He also shares an eerie feeling he has, that this is like an alien movie where the unknown thing is, \u201ctesting the defenses.\u201d The stalker is just standing across the yard tossing pebbles at the windows, and testing our defenses, he thinks that\u2019s what is going on.<\/p>\n

Out comes the suspect list again, we go over it at least once a day, this time Steve wants to do something different, and circle all the names it could have been and hopefully that will considerably shorten it.<\/p>\n

I call the sheriff’s dispatch and meet with them later. The deputy also draws a few\u00a0conclusions from the experience.<\/p>\n

Later that day we are all trying to feel normal, and not under attack. \u00a0Steve was in Glenwood Springs and wanted to do something for Morgan, he knew she liked to baby herself with a good skin scrub so at 4:12 pm Steve sends Morgan a text, \u201cGoing to Walmart do you need an exfoliant that they might have??\u201d\u00a0 Morgan texts back, \u201cYeah!\u00a0 If they have St. Ives Apricot that\u2019d be preferable, but if not any exfoliant would work.\u00a0 And if they have dog toothpaste?\u201d\u00a0 Steve answers her, \u201cK.\u201d\u00a0 Morgan answers again, \u201cThank you!!\u201d\u00a0 At 6:46 pm Steve sends Morgan another text, \u201cMorgan, got your stuff, sheriff’s deputy wants to show you a line up of possible suspects.\u201d\u00a0 Morgan texts back, \u201cwell I\u2019ve never seen him…\u201d\u00a0 Steve sends her another text, \u201cMom thinks she saw him this morning, and he wants to talk to you too.\u00a0 They did not have toothpaste so I got dental chew bones.\u201d (For her puppy). \u00a0Morgan texted back, \u201cOoo thanks!!\u00a0 Tomorrow they want to talk to us or?\u201d\u00a0 At 6:54 pm Steve texted her back and said, \u201cTonight if he can.\u00a0 He said you might see someone you recognize for some other reason??\u201d\u00a0 Morgan wrote back, \u201cGah.\u00a0 When does he want?\u201d\u00a0 Steve wrote back, \u201cHe is going to call when he is on his way here & we will call you & you can be here in 10 minutes, so that seems like it should work..\u201d\u00a0 Morgan answered, \u201cSweet.\u201d\u00a0 At 8:54 pm Steve sent another text to Morgan, \u201cHe is not coming over to talk till 7:00 pm tomorrow evening, but they will patrol this eve.\u201d\u00a0 Morgan answered, \u201cAlrighty.\u00a0 Thank you!\u201d\u00a0 Steve answered, \u201cK.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then later on I sent Morgan a text, \u201cAre you heading home yet?\u00a0 Just really tired…\u201d\u00a0 Morgan said, \u201cI\u2019m waiting for someone and then I am.\u00a0 I am so tired.\u201d\u00a0 I texted her back, \u201cPoor baby – well just text me when you leave OK?\u201d\u00a0 Morgan said, \u201cI will :)\u201d\u00a0 I texted back, \u201cThanks\u201d\u00a0 Then at 9:13 pm I sent Morgan a text, \u201cDad\u2019s asleep & I am fading fast, coming home???\u201d\u00a0 Morgan said, \u201cYes, I\u2019m so sorry.\u00a0 I\u2019m getting close to leaving.\u201d\u00a0 Then I sent her a text that said, \u201cOK I\u2019m hoping – my eyes are blurry.\u00a0 How\u2019s Wylah?\u201d\u00a0 Morgan said, \u201cAsleep\u201d\u00a0 Then I texted her, \u201cOh she (Wylah is her puppy) needs your bed. \u00a0Can\u2019t stay awake much longer – PLEASE come home\u201d\u00a0 Morgan said, \u201cI am\u201d\u00a0 I said, \u201cNow?\u201d\u00a0 Morgan said, \u201cYeah\u201d\u00a0 I said, \u201cOK, I\u2019ll be looking for you.\u201d \u00a0I was so extremely tired, but I needed to meet her in the driveway, holding pepper spray – we can\u2019t be too safe.<\/p>\n

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Now looking back on last summer it is so amazing to me that Morgan was so good about coming home early, instead of staying out late like most 20 year olds.\u00a0 She knew none of us were getting very much sleep because of the stalker, and she was trying her best to have a life, but didn\u2019t want to make it any harder on us.\u00a0 Morgan knew my mother lion instincts were functioning at full tilt and she didn\u2019t want it to get any worse.\u00a0 Unfortunately since Morgan was coming home pretty much by a certain time every night, that only made her more predictable for the stalker – and that was not good.<\/p>\n

Click here to read about the 25th day of Morgan\u2019s stalking<\/strong><\/em> https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=784<\/a><\/p>\n

(Years later we see that on this day the sheriffs had put our case # on Keenan Vanginkel’s Global Subject Activity Report (report of crimes), and as you can see the sheriffs wrote ‘Criminal Trespass’ – which, in my opinion, is much too minimal a crime for what has been happening to our family for the last 24 + days!)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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