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October 20 – 24, 2011 – Days 80 – 84 of Morgan’s Stalking – Morgan goes on a babysitting trip and I just want to be sure, this is considered felony stalking – Isn’t it?
On October 20 at 10:17 pm Elliott, our neighbor across the street, sends me a text, “walking dogs now.” He told me earlier that he wanted to be sure we did not catch him on camera, and think he was the stalker, and then call it in. Now Steve is surprised by something about the cameras. If he changes where they point, and aims them closer to the house, there is not much difference. But when he aims them far away from the house they seem very capable of capturing decent images far beyond their stated 20 meters of “vision.”
Steve wants me never to mention to anyone what exactly what is seen, or not seen on the video system. He thinks whoever the stalker is, is innocently asking everyone, and good gossip is in high demand right now. I agree, and am very careful to be intentionally vague about what exactly is being seen, and recorded by the cameras.
I do wish the detectives would take this stalking case more seriously. Whenever I call now that we have detectives assigned to the case it seems like if we have a video of the incident that just happened then any kind of follow up can wait. That was not the idea, we thought the cameras might reinforce some intelligence that had been gathered by the Garfield Sheriffs department, not become a replacement for officers on the ground. We had lots of video of strange things happening at night around this “quiet” neighborhood. And there was plenty more to come.
Wylah ready to go with Mr. squeakers
On the 21st Morgan was packing in the morning, we were babysitting her puppy, and after school she picked up her friends, and left to work at a military retreat. Armed forces returning from oversees were availing themselves to rebuilding opportunities while Morgan was a part of the group that helped the process by making sure their children were happily entertained. Morgan was very proud to be doing this. She was gaining a new respect for the pressure put on families of service men, and women and she was quick to shares stories with me, after a weekend like this.
I was also hoping she would leave behind her own problems with her stalker back home, and this weekend could be a good weekend for her.
On the 23rd Detectives Glassmire and Alstatt came over for a meeting. They checked their wildlife cameras, and found nothing – I told them that as usual, when Morgan was away, there was not much activity. We gave Detective Glassmire a thumb drive with the latest videos on it, and Steve set up a drop box on the Internet so he could constantly update video as it happened.
Glassmire was hoping for some way that we could capture a video with a face clear enough for a positive ID (which to me sounded a little crazy as Morgan already believed Keenan as her stalker), while Steve was hopeful, but uncertain that we could manage this feat. The stalker had to go along for this to happen. Give up his caution for a day of two and walk right up to one of the cameras, and we didn’t think that would happen.
We all spent a lot of time going over the video of person in the driveway. When Steve held up a photo of Keenan and his car everyone agreed the car was as close of a match as you get, but this is where we differed…Detective Glassmire was certain it was Keenan in the driveway, as was Morgan and I. But Steve thought maybe it was not, maybe he was someone close, but not Keenan. I think Steve was thinking it was a friend of Keenan’s, driving Keenan’s car, trying to divert the attention away from Keenan. Steve did believe, as did the rest of us, that the car was Keenan’s car. We did the research, and that was the only car with that exact grill and emblem. Detective Glassmire was going to have a specialist in the department look at the video, and see what he could do with it. We were happy with that, and after going over the latest gossip of the neighborhood the detectives left.
Later in the night, on Sunday, Morgan came home from her weekend, tired and happy…
Today is October 13, 2012 – That night, last year, was such a perfect example of why this year is so frustrating for Steve and I. After her weekend with the children, they all wrote a little something to Morgan. Of how happy she had made them, of how they loved coloring with her, or how she was such a good big sister, and of how they hoped to meet her again someday. They were all beautifully misspelled in crayon, on pieces of torn paper, and Morgan could vividly explain to us every little girl who had written the notes. How the writer thought or felt, of some very special quality she had found so amazing. All the little notes are in a zip lock bag now, and they remind Steve, and I of just who Morgan was, how she really was. There are so many reminders she has left. They will never be the same as having Morgan, but they help us never waver from those who would like us to forget this travesty of justice. We want #Justice4Morgan!
Click here to read about the 85th day of Morgan’s stalking https://morgansstalking.com/?p=1758
Morgan in the rear view mirror, looking for a picture
October 19, 2011 – Day 79 of Morgan’s Stalking – Chocolate Pretzels, and Midnight Marauders
In the early afternoon I leave a message for Detective Glassmire that I would like him to see the videos. Morgan is so very upset. It’s worse now because she had just enough time to feel like her life was going back to “normal” and just as soon as she was feeling pretty good about it the stalker managed to rip it out from under her. She is more shaken up today then she was last night.
I am confident she will recover, that she was just caught off guard last night, and now will not make that mistake again.
Elliott calls to see what has happened about the car, and who the detectives think it could be. I tell him instead of waiting for the detective I have called every possible delivery place and none of them had a delivery anywhere in the neighborhood last night. I tell him I am going to ask the detective to canvass the street, because that should really be his job. It’s just not the same if I do it. Elliott tells me not to worry, there are only seven people on the street and he has already asked them all. Not only no deliveries, no one was even expecting someone for anything last night. I tell Elliott we should have waited for the detective, he might have wanted to ask something else, even though I am happy that he has done this. Steve would have probably done it when he got home anyway.
Detective Glassmire calls back and tells me he won’t have time to follow up on the car in the driveway until one of his shifts next week. I am upset, and remind him it was not just a car, which was in the driveway twice, up and down the street, and in our neighbor’s driveway at least once. It was really the person that I wanted him to follow up on right away.
Detective Glassmire explains that there isn’t much he can do right away, and as long as we have it all on video we should not worry. Then I told him that Elliott had asked every person on the street about a delivery person, and there was none, and I have called every delivery place myself, and there were none last night. Detective Glassmire is happy we have followed up on everything for him. I ask him if I should email him the information, and he says no that he will just pick it up from me next time he is down.
At 6:34 pm I forwarded a text to Morgan that I just received from Leesa of Odin eating a chocolate pretzel, “Odin likes chocolate,” I tell her.
Morgan’s little nephew eating chocolate
Morgan answers, “I just screeched like a small child!!” So Cute”. She answers. “That’s what I thought.” I tell her. Morgan wants me to get out the guest bedding for her, which means she thinks Wylah may have had a little accident on her blanket. I already smelled it and washed everything. I tell her that, and that I will get out some guest bedding for her anyway. “You Rock.” Morgan tells me.
She comes home at around 9:30 pm and we all go to sleep early. Last night Steve and I were up very late going over the video, and I’m sure Morgan did not sleep too well either. At least I don’t see how she could have.
During the night Steve work up, and could not go back to sleep, so he reviewed video and now saw this person at 11:19 pm out in the street. This is the camera that catches Morgan’s bathroom windows on down to the corner of the house. This male walks by our house and then can be seen running back by a few minutes later. He could easily be the stalker. Steve goes out and walks the neighborhood after seeing this to check about a half hour after it happened, and reports that the front window light in Brooke’s dad’s house is on. He is pretty certain that is Brooke’s bedroom because he has been in a similar house in the neighborhood.
Here is the person – tell us what you think…https://vimeo.com/51308867
Male walking by house then running back at 11:30 pm from Morgan’s Stalking on Vimeo.
Click here to read about the 80th – the 84th days of Morgan’s stalking https://morgansstalking.com/?p=1743
The Facebook called Morgan’s Stalking – is not there at the moment
Just as I have said more than once this Blog is about Morgan Ingram, and her stalking and murder. It is the truth, because if it were not I would have to answer for that. Her Facebook site called Morgan’s Stalking was taken off line on 10/11 this evening. The purpose for that Facebook site was the same as this blog.
- Justice for Morgan
- Help other victims of stalking
Once measures are put in place to control mass outbursts of anger that are not in keeping with these two goals Morgan’s stalking will be back on. Sorry for the disruption, who could have guessed so many people with a different agenda would go on that site and cause a ruckus Are there that many stalkers out there??? Even I would not have guessed that!!!
October 18, 2011 – Day 78 of Morgan’s Stalking – Who can this be? BTW I grant you all permission to give me your opinion!
Normal was a different word now. Morgan had an appt. with her dentist. Steve was going to drop off a trailer for someone to use after work. My daughter-in-law had a birthday and Steve and I were going to be normal grandparents, babysit while “the kids” went out for a dinner alone. And Morgan would not be home, so it all could work out. it all sounded so, “normal”.
Morgan came home from her dental appointment and was getting ready to go out for the evening. At least until we came home. She was cleaning up her room, and amassing a pile of laundry in the hall. Sometimes her room looked like the proverbial bomb had just gone off, and sometimes it was quite organized. Today it was moving toward organized. She loaded the washer and left for Carbondale. A little later, just before four she texted me, “What time do you need me?”
I did not see it, and didn’t answer until 5:02 pm when I said, “Don’t worry about it we are taking the truck now to drop off the trailer”. Morgan answers, “Sweet. :)”, she was with her friends in Carbondale, and Steve and I were on our way to Glenwood Springs. It was the first time we got to babysit while our son and his partner went out to dinner and we were very excited about babysitting our grandchildren. We were very engaged with the grandkids, and not thinking of very much else.
Then Morgan made a mistake – a mistake that stalking victims inevitably face during their stalking. She felt it was getting so back to “normal” and she decided that it would be okay to come home alone, for a just a few minutes, to switch her wash and grab something to eat, even though we had asked her to never go home alone. She is home alone, busy going from her room to the laundry room, when she hears our dog Tessi growling, and barking furiously, and throwing herself at the front door. She is frightened, stays inside her room, locking the door, and piling whatever she can if front of it. Morgan tries to call us on the cell phone, but we don’t answer. Cell service is not the best at our son’s house.
She stayed in her room until Tessi stopped barking, and attacking the door. She thought it was about five minutes. She carefully ventured from her room and saw Tessie sitting quietly at the front door, looking out. There was no tail wagging, only intent starring. Morgan looked out the door, and saw nothing. She ran through the house and turned on every outside light she could think of. Stood at the front door for a while, and then with pepper spray ready, and keys in the other hand she ran out to the car, hopped in, and locked it. She drove out of the subdivision and decided to take the highway back to Carbondale instead of the back road, the highway had more lights and people. She wanted to be with other people – she felt safer with others than by herself in her own house…
Morgan called again and this time I answered. I felt sick as she explained that she had gone home to switch the wash, just for a minute, and Tessi was barking like, “none other.” She said we might want to check the cameras when we got home.
Ryan and Leesa got home from a great dinner at 8:10 pm. We had a quick slice of cake with them and said we had to leave. At 8:22 pm I texted Morgan, “On our way home.”
At home everything looked normal, and Steve and I went straight for the cameras to see what had caused our dog to bark like that.
We have six video cameras, and 3 of them will catch different parts of the street in front of our house. First there is the task of seeing what, if anything, was causing poor Tessi to get so upset. We were rolling through hours of video before we found this.
Car pulls in Driveway and leaves from on Vimeo.
Much later after we have the whole sequence of where this car was at what times and the two times that it came into our driveway, I felt it was trying to block Morgan in by pulling up right behind her car. And all of the other places it had stopped around the neighborhood, Steve wanted the latest picture from Keenan’s facebook that we had him leaning against the front of his car so we could compare the front of the car that was in our driveway and it’s grill. He held the picture along side the monitor, and felt it certainly could be Keenan’s car. Plus the detectives had just told us there were very few of that exact model with that grill in our valley and the next valley over, strictly by registration records.
Once we had a time of one event it was then easier to search in ten minute segments from camera to camera and a few minutes later we were watching this.
Suspect in the driveway from Morgan’s Stalking on Vimeo.
The motion detector on the camera detects motion for this entire time however the person is only visible for the 2nd half. I posted the entire time even though most of you will not see anything for the first half. Please note this person appears to be LEFT HANDED. Many people wrote in to me to tell me this after viewing this video…another important clue.
No wonder Tessi was so upset, and no wonder this person was afraid to approach the house. Tessi is for the most part pretty calm, but I can only imagine that if you were up to no good and approaching our front door, which is beveled glass, and a 160 pound dog was smashing against it from inside you, would think twice before getting any closer.
I called the sheriff’s dispatch and told them what happened, but no need to send anyone as it was over, the detectives can take it from here. I wondered aloud to Steve as we replayed the video – what if our 160 lb. dog hadn’t been throwing herself at the front door? Would this person have tried to come in to get Morgan? What was in his hand that was in his pocket and what was small, black object in his other hand? Was it a taser gun, or a real gun, or just a cell phone? Does this show the stalker is left handed?
Our neighbor Elliott called and he wanted to know what’s happening. I texted him back and said, “The guy drove up our driveway and then turned left and came back up our driveway and looked in our front door window at 7:42 pm tonight when after Morgan came home alone – we weren’t here and Tessi (our dog) went crazy at the front door when she saw him coming up through the beveled glass window, and scared the guy off.” Elliott wrote back, “So he knew she was home, but not you?” I wrote Elliott back, Yes, he drove up within 15 minutes of her getting home, pulled out and then drove back left again toward Equestrian Way and then came back on foot right up our driveway one hand in his pocket and one hand with a cigarette or something black, looking all around, as if to make sure no one was watching. Elliott wrote back, “What kind of car?” I said, “not 100% sure yet, but it was smaller than my LR3.” (Later on I told Elliott that we can see the exact shape of the front of the car as well as the grill, which is very unique – it is the same year, same model as Keenan’s car)
Elliott wrote back, “Please have her call us and we can look for him, or his car, or come over to help! Whatever we can do!” Then at 10:06 pm he texted, “Did the police come?”
I answered, “No, I asked them not to send a patrol officer. I am just waiting to talk to the detectives that are assigned to her case. The yellow lab down the street was sniffing under Morgan’s window (caught on the camera) after the guy left so I don’t think the dogs can scent him.” Elliott wrote back, “Just thought of something. I might have been a foreclosure looky loo.” I wrote back, “Not this guy, he was young and squirrely. Maybe a delivery guy, but I still think that’s a little iffy.”
Morgan came home and was absolutely sick watching the video. She said she was in the laundry room a lot, bent over sorting and folding and switching machines so from where he was he was just waiting for her to see him. I thought how crazy the best part about this is Morgan had no idea what was going on at that time. Steve told her that if anything at all happens like this to go into our room lock the door and watch on the cameras. You can see what is happening all around the house.
There was a knock at the door and it was a deputy. He had spoken with someone and they wanted him to come by anyway. At that point all of us were pretty convinced it was Keenan’s car, but Steve did not think it was Keenan, Morgan and I did. Steve said that the most innocent explanation here is a delivery person, but I don’t think so. He felt in any event that it would be easy enough to check out tomorrow. The deputy really thought he was a delivery person, even pointed out where he was checking for an address. Steve told him it would be easy enough for the detectives to check with the 6 or so neighbors and see if anyone was expecting a delivery and then check with the few places that actually deliver out here. That would not be many phone calls to confirm yes or no for sure instead of always guessing.
The deputy left and Steve thought it would be good if Morgan slept in our room and he slept on the couch. I didn’t think Morgan would agree and she did not. She went to her room and at 11:14 pm texted that, “I just heard noises outside my window.” By the time I texted her back, “Got it” Steve had been out the door for a long time, with no pepper spray, but wielding a baseball bat instead.
When he finally came back in we argued for a long time about the person being Keenan or not. I had watched it over and over while he was gone. Light was on in that front room and then it went off Steve had told me. And no green car in their driveway.
Click here to read about the 79th day of Morgan’s stalking https://morgansstalking.com/?p=1728
Today is October 11, 2012 – In the many months since this video I have come to agree with Steve, that this is, in all probability, Keenan’s car, but Steve thinks it is not Keenan – he thinks it’s someone Keenan knows trying to set up an alibi, the detective, Morgan and I believe it’s Keenan. He had a thought late the evening this happened. What if “they are all freaking out” we still never found out who they are, but what if to diffuse attention he was smart enough to have someone else drive his car into the driveway. What if that would be all it would take to throw the sheriffs department completely off the trail on a night he was gone. We were pretty sure the car was Keenan’s as the unique grill and shape of the car was an exact match and the person up the driveway looked just like Keenan, and he was wearing the exact shirt Keenan was wearing in one of his online social media posts, what do you think?
In September 2017 Crime Watch Daily did a 4-part series about Morgan’s stalking and murder, and on Part 4, on their Facebook, you can watch and hear Detective Glassmire interrogating Keenan Vanginkle about this exact incident of stalking, 5 months AFTER her murder, making it VERY CLEAR that he believes it IS KEENAN, and he IS STILL A SUSPECT https://www.facebook.com/crimewatchdaily/videos/1758045480886903/
For all 4 parts of the Crime Watch Daily series…you click here. https://crimewatchdaily.com/2017/10/24/suicide-or-murder-what-happened-to-morgan-ingram/