{"id":9936,"date":"2018-07-14T13:02:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T19:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=9936"},"modified":"2018-07-14T13:02:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T19:02:35","slug":"where-murders-go-unsolved-does-this-sketch-look-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=9936","title":{"rendered":"Where Murders Go Unsolved&#8230;does this sketch look familiar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9978\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?attachment_id=9978\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-12-at-4.15.49-PM.png?fit=480%2C401&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,401\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2018-07-12 at 4.15.49 PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-12-at-4.15.49-PM.png?fit=480%2C401&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9978\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-12-at-4.15.49-PM.png?resize=480%2C401&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-12-at-4.15.49-PM.png?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-12-at-4.15.49-PM.png?resize=300%2C251&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-12-at-4.15.49-PM.png?resize=359%2C300&amp;ssl=1 359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Does this sketch remind you of anyone?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0the national &#8220;clearance rate&#8221; for homicide in 2015 was 64.1 percent. Fifty years ago, it was more than 90 percent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/03\/30\/395069137\/open-cases-why-one-third-of-murders-in-america-go-unresolved\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/03\/30\/395069137\/open-cases-why-one-third-of-murders-in-america-go-unresolved<\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Maryland criminologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccjs.umd.edu\/facultyprofile\/Wellford\/Charles\">Charles Wellford<\/a> says, &#8220;Americans should also understand that while the national rate is in the 60&#8217;s, the local rates vary widely. But because the FBI doesn&#8217;t publish local agencies&#8217; numbers, these differences are often invisible to the public.&#8221; So local law enforcement&#8217;s reporting of their homicide stats is not always correct\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicsource.org\/why-is-the-fbis-count-of-local-homicides-wrong-some-police-departments-arent-properly-reporting\/\">https:\/\/www.publicsource.org\/why-is-the-fbis-count-of-local-homicides-wrong-some-police-departments-arent-properly-reporting\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And even with those homicide stats being under reported there are many more homicides, like Morgan&#8217;s murder in Garfield County, Colorado, that never get listed, because they are never investigated as a murder &#8211; because of staged crime scenes, among other reasons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If our country is going to get ahead of the murder crisis in this country and get murderers off our streets, there needs to be a governing agency overseeing local law enforcement &#8211; one that can look into suspicious deaths that local law enforcement, in some cases, refuse to investigate. \u00a0There needs to be an over-site committee, one that citizens can contact with evidence that a suspicious death could be a possible homicide. Then that committe can make a qualified decision as to why a suspicious death hasn&#8217;t been investigated and if an investigation is needed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does this sketch remind you of anyone? The\u00a0the national &#8220;clearance rate&#8221; for homicide in 2015 was 64.1 percent. Fifty years ago, it was more than 90 percent. https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/03\/30\/395069137\/open-cases-why-one-third-of-murders-in-america-go-unresolved University of Maryland criminologist Charles Wellford says, &#8220;Americans should also understand that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=9936\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[490,39],"tags":[1427,1653,1332,1146,1550,1650,1654,1651,1652,1655,34,33],"class_list":["post-9936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morgans-investigation","category-tonis-reflections","tag-garfieldcountysheriff","tag-homicidestats","tag-justice4morgan","tag-justiceformorgan","tag-letthejurydecide","tag-murdersgounsolved","tag-sketchofunsub","tag-stagedcrimescenes","tag-stalkedandmurderedingarfieldcolorado","tag-wheremurdersgounsolved","tag-murdered","tag-stalked"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2wvjS-2Ag","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7279,"url":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=7279","url_meta":{"origin":9936,"position":0},"title":"Unacceptable&#8230;","author":"Toni Ingram","date":"August 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Families need to know someone cares. \u00a0They need to know that law enforcement is trying to solve the murder. \u00a0Families want to see the murderer off the streets so they can no longer hurt others. \u00a0Their children's murderers live among us, free to kill again if they are not brought\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Morgan's Investigation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Morgan's Investigation","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?cat=490"},"img":{"alt_text":"unsolved murder","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/unsolved-murder.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7910,"url":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=7910","url_meta":{"origin":9936,"position":1},"title":"Familial DNA helped solve a gruesome cold case&#8230;just like in the recent Golden State killer\/night stalker case","author":"Toni Ingram","date":"May 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"We have all seen crime shows on TV - the ones that use DNA to solve some of the most difficult murder cases. \u00a0It's pretty amazing. \u00a0Investigators that use their gut instincts and won't give up, using great investigative skills, in combination with DNA, this all adds up to be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Morgan's Investigation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Morgan's Investigation","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?cat=490"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Understanding-Familial-DNA-Searching-as-a-Tool-to-Solve-Cold-Cases.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Understanding-Familial-DNA-Searching-as-a-Tool-to-Solve-Cold-Cases.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Understanding-Familial-DNA-Searching-as-a-Tool-to-Solve-Cold-Cases.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10820,"url":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=10820","url_meta":{"origin":9936,"position":2},"title":"Another Staged Crime Scene?","author":"Toni Ingram","date":"August 28, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.amisun.com\/2019\/08\/19\/new-evidence-in-morris-case-may-point-to-murder\/ This was not a case of stalking, but just like in Morgan\u2019s case - it appears to be another staged crime scene. 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