{"id":821,"date":"2012-08-27T10:28:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=821"},"modified":"2019-08-27T13:58:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T19:58:41","slug":"on-august-27-28-2011-the-26th-and-27th-days-of-morgans-stalking-we-go-to-steamboat-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"August 27 – 28, 2011 – the 26th and 27th days of Morgan\u2019s Stalking, we go to Steamboat Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, August 27<\/strong> – This morning Morgan, Steve and I drove to Steamboat Springs to spend the night. \u00a0All three of us were in desperate need of sleep, and thought if we all got away, even for just one night, it would help.\u00a0 We are extra cautious, and make sure that none of us mention the trip to anyone, just having learned how stalkers will follow you for years, and through multiple moves, anywhere in the country my\u00a0vigilance<\/span>\u00a0only grows. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Morgan\u2019s puppy Wylah, and our Newf, Tessi came with us, and we make a pact to not talk about the stalker during the trip.\u00a0 Steve\u2019s older brother\u2019s family are all there, with all of their dogs \u2013 15 including our two, we were quite a crowd wandering along the river.\u00a0 Morgan was taking pictures constantly, for possible Christmas cards, all the pooches together, and a lot of smiles.\u00a0 Morgan even put everyone out in the shallow river, with the dogs, for just that perfect picture, she got some great shots and funny expressions. It was fun and light-hearted, and a good time for all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Not talking about the stalker didn\u2019t last long as everyone wanted to hear about it.\u00a0 They were all worried about Morgan.\u00a0 Everyone in the family wanted to help with suggestions and their suggestions were all very good, but one in particular seemed to make a lot of sense to Steve…a wildlife camera that we could hang outside.\u00a0 We had no experience with one, but it\u2019s a camera that is meant to be strapped to a tree out in your happy hunting grounds, and then triggered by motion, it will take pictures of any prey that should happen by.\u00a0 Some take pictures day or night, and that sounded perfect.\u00a0 Maybe if we could just get a picture of the stalker the sheriff\u2019s could confront him, even arrest him, maybe just knowing his picture had been taken would cause him to stop. The idea was quite a ray of hope.<\/span><\/p>\n

The cabin we stayed in was 2 floors, but tiny.\u00a0 We all slept upstairs, mattresses on the floor and it was happily quiet and safe.\u00a0 I could not help but wonder out loud if Morgan was on a second floor at home if she would be safer (we lived in a one story home at the time), no one could stand at her window if she was on a second story.\u00a0 Steve thought that with all our detectors outside no one could get near her window.\u00a0 Morgan reminded us we weren\u2019t supposed to be talking about the stalker on this trip.\u00a0 It was hard to leave him behind us. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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One of the 15 dogs our family had with us in Steamboat Springs today<\/p><\/div>\n

Sunday, August 28<\/strong> – The second day we were there Morgan sent a text to her friend at 10:52 am, \u201cPlease God tell me you\u2019re free tonight\/late afternoon.\u201d I don\u2019t think Morgan wants to sleep at home tonight – she was really happy to be away for a night with us in Steamboat, and I think she is hoping if she stays at someone else’s house tonight she might be able to be rested up enough to have energy for her first day back at school on Monday.\u00a0 Morgan gets a text message from her friend Cooper at 12:51 pm, \u201cWe never did Kirstie\u2019s picture thingambob!\u201d\u00a0 Morgan says, \u201cDam\u201d, He asks, \u201cWhen did you say you were coming back?\u201d\u00a0 Morgan answered, \u201cI know! I\u2019ll be back in a few hours.\u00a0 Probs like five or six? You left already right?\u201d\u00a0 Cooper says, \u201cNo I\u2019m leaving tomorrow.\u201d\u00a0 Morgan said, \u201cOh duuuuuude!\u00a0 If I bring my computer and camera into town tonight can we do that?!\u201d\u00a0 At 1:01 pm Cooper said, \u201cYes piz\u201d\u00a0 Morgan answered, \u201cYay!\u00a0 I\u2019ll call you when I\u2019m on my way in. :)\u201d\u00a0 Cooper said back, \u201cMuch love.\u201d\u00a0 Morgan sent a text back to him, \u201c:)\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Morgan was constantly trying to go and be with her friends, taking pictures of her friends, graduation pictures, their pets, going away parties, all the fun stuff.\u00a0 She listened to her friends, giving them a shoulder to cry on at times, and at times like these, crying on their shoulders as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

On our way home, on Sunday the 28th, Steve has a question for us to ponder before answering.\u00a0 Do Morgan and I really want to catch this guy or just stop him?\u00a0 We don\u2019t have to think at all before answering that catching him is the outcome we want.\u00a0 Steve agrees that that is his wish as well, he just thinks it is more dangerous.\u00a0 We are using that word danger more and more these days, before it meant being barefoot and stepping on something sharp \u2013 now it has an entirely new meaning.\u00a0 Morgan and Steve went into Walmart on the chance they had a wildlife camera, and they did, one that took pictures at night.\u00a0 Morgan is very excited and they also get more motion detector lights to better cover the yard.\u00a0 It\u2019s late when we get home and Morgan sends a text to her friend Cooper, \u201cI just got home!\u00a0 I\u2019m gunna take the quickest shower ever and then nab you?\u00a0 Where are you at?\u201d\u00a0 Cooper texts back, \u201cWith Calder over at his house.\u201d\u00a0 Morgan says, \u201cYay! I will be over shortly, with wet hair!\u201d\u00a0 Morgan sleeps at her friend Calder\u2019s house tonight, to keep the peace and quiet going.<\/span><\/p>\n

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At 2:00 am (it is now after midnight so it is August 29th), Steve and I are woken up by 3 loud knocks on the master bedroom window – inches from my head. \u00a0Morgan’s not home – it’s just Steve and I. \u00a0Now our procedure is to grab our flashlights, along with our new pepper spray that dyes the skin on contact, and Steve goes out the front door, with me taking up position to watch out the back.\u00a0 Bright lights go on, then off, and alarms beep in our room as Steve covers the yard.\u00a0 Somehow the stalker did not trip the alarms, and motion lights we don\u2019t know, as we would not have seen them in our sleep.\u00a0 After a search of the neighborhood Steve reports that only the usual lights are on.\u00a0 He\u2019s wondered how the stalker picked his way up to the house without setting off an alarm, he\u2019s going to get more and start moving them to new locations every night.\u00a0 There is also something else he is noticing, before we thought the stalker showed up very shortly after Morgan came home, now he seems to have changed up and is just showing up with or without Morgan\u2019s arrival.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Tonight Steve had Morgan drive his truck, and leave her car at home.\u00a0 Was that enough to have fooled the stalker? \u00a0Because if it had that supported the theory that he was not here for hours, just minutes at a time and\/or he or she was watching for the car that Morgan always drove and that car was in the driveway, as though she was home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Steve had wanted to hang the wildlife cam earlier, until he found out Morgan had all of the memory cards with her when she took the camera bag with her. \u00a0Two months ago if someone had told me they were putting a wildlife cam up in hopes of catching the stalker in their yard – I don’t think I would have known what they were talking about.<\/span><\/p>\n

Click here to read about the 28th day of Morgan\u2019s stalking & the first<\/strong><\/em> PICTURE OF THE STALKER!<\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=845<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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