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Stalking behaviors, Morgan’s Stalker and his actions.

Public Service Announcement – there are some people that don’t want to look at the facts

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Obviously stalking is a much bigger problem then most people believe.  I point to the circulation of this blog – which deals with stalking.  As of yesterday this blog is now being viewed in over 100 countries, and has had over 60,000 views per day.

It’s important to remember as we search globally for an answer to the not so easy to solve problem of stalking, that those hardest hit by stalking are the VICTIMS of stalking.  Just as obviously there are so many victims both in this country and around the world, our daughter Morgan herself was a VICTIM of stalking, victims rights is becoming a huge issue, and it is well past the time for this to happen!  In fact this year a constitutional amendment will most likely be passed dealing with victims rights on a national level.

Having been a victim of stalking as a parent, and watching my daughter be a stalking victim, and forced to pay the ultimate price, the one thing I can tell you without doubt is how her right to decency and fairness has been repeatedly trashed.  Even after her death, the Forensic Pathologist, after repeated threats to me, changed Morgan’s manner of death from natural to suicide – he did this while completely ignoring that the test he ran in complete secrecy, in hopes of justifying his reclassification of death, found not only amitriptyline, as anyone would logically think would show up if you did another test, since it showed up in the 1st test that was run, but the 2nd test also found 5 other date rape drugs in Morgan’s system – so now it’s called a suicide…am I missing something here?  Is this a common occurrence that a girl would commit suicide with a date rape cocktail?  If so the rapists of the world have little to fear…especially in Garfield County!  And of course this is after she steals all her own jewelry, and gang stalks herself for 4 months, follows herself in her car twice, and I am not sure how she managed to get people to show up in the middle of the night on our video surveillance cameras, or show up in our backyard in the dark while she was putting her puppy out to go potty, or having me witness the stalker on our porch, in our front yard, etc., etc.  The point I am really trying to make here is that we have to find room in our hearts for the VICTIMS of STALKING, my family has lived through it, and it is horrific in every sense of the word.  And there is one simple truth that I wish for all of you to remember – one day we were not victims of stalking and the next day we were –  it happens that fast, that completely, and it may take years to put your life back together, as I have heard from other victims.

Part of the solution for stalking will always be caring, and compassion for the victims.  If you know anyone that is a victim of stalking give them any help you can, because they desperately need it, and always remember that one day it could easily be YOU that is suddenly the victim of a stalker.

Steve and I, in our personal fight against stalking, will hold every government official accountable for what they did, or did not do, to prevent a crime that affects so many.

 

 

 

 

Public Service Announcement – there are some people that don’t want to look at the facts

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Obviously stalking is a much bigger problem then most people believe. I point to the circulation of this blog – which deals with stalking. As of yesterday this blog is now being viewed in over 100 countries, and has had over 60,000 views per day.

It’s important to remember as we search globally for an answer to the not so easy to solve problem of stalking, that those hardest hit by stalking are the VICTIMS of stalking. Just as obviously there are so many victims both in this country and around the world, our daughter Morgan herself was a VICTIM of stalking, victims rights is becoming a huge issue, and it is well past the time for this to happen! In fact this year a constitutional amendment will most likely be passed dealing with victims rights on a national level.

Having been a victim of stalking as a parent, and watching my daughter be a stalking victim, and forced to pay the ultimate price, the one thing I can tell you without doubt is how her right to decency and fairness has been repeatedly trashed. Even after her death, the Forensic Pathologist, after repeated threats to me, changed Morgan’s manner of death from natural to suicide – he did this while completely ignoring that the test he ran in complete secrecy, in hopes of justifying his reclassification of death, found not only amitriptyline, as anyone would logically think would show up if you did another test, since it showed up in the 1st test that was run, but the 2nd test also found 5 other date rape drugs in Morgan’s system – so now it’s called a suicide…am I missing something here? Is this a common occurrence that a girl would commit suicide with a date rape cocktail? If so the rapists of the world have little to fear…especially in Garfield County! And of course this is after she steals all her own jewelry, and gang stalks herself for 4 months, follows herself in her car twice, and I am not sure how she managed to get people to show up in the middle of the night on our video surveillance cameras, or show up in our backyard in the dark while she was putting her puppy out to go potty, or having me witness the stalker on our porch, in our front yard, etc., etc. The point I am really trying to make here is that we have to find room in our hearts for the VICTIMS of STALKING, my family has lived through it, and it is horrific in every sense of the word. And there is one simple truth that I wish for all of you to remember – one day we were not victims of stalking and the next day we were – it happens that fast, that completely, and it may take years to put your life back together, as I have heard from other victims.

Part of the solution for stalking will always be caring, and compassion for the victims. If you know anyone that is a victim of stalking give them any help you can, because they desperately need it, and always remember that one day it could easily be YOU that is suddenly the victim of a stalker.

Steve and I, in our personal fight against stalking, will hold every government official accountable for what they did, or did not do, to prevent a crime that affects so many.

 

 

 

 

The crime scene was a “mystery” wonder why?

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I guess if you die under suspicious circumstances, you have been stalked for 4 months, and you are a healthy 20-year-old…I guess law enforcement shouldn’t wonder if maybe a murder has been committed and they should gather as much evidence as possible.

Just the thought of an autopsy makes my eyes shut and my shoulders quiver.  But I told myself, they’re right, it has to be done, and I tried to think of other things, pretend it was not happening. Maybe that was the wrong thing to do, maybe I should have grabbed Steve, and insisted on both of us riding with her, being right there every horrific step of the way. If my daughter was taken away in an ambulance to the hospital it would not have been any other way…I would have been with her.  Steve and I would be right there every single step of the way.  But on that cold Friday morning, on December 2nd, they were taking my daughter’s body away, not my daughter.

Only I’ve been told I would not have been allowed to be there for any step of the way, no matter how much I insisted.  First, as hard as it is for me to conceive, I was a suspect – until I am ruled out, it could have been me, and I can’t begin to be ruled out until the autopsy is finished, so I can’t possibly be allowed anywhere near it.

Enter the first theories of law as I understand them:

  • Pronouncement of death
  • Process the scene
  • Approve the removal of the body
  • Arrange to have the body moved to the lab for an autopsy
  • Maintain the chain of custody

And all of those steps happened for Morgan, but remember they were done by Thomas Walton.  What if he is not trained or legally able to do any of them?  What if the Garfield County Coroner’s office never completed the steps that would have established Thomas Walton as a legal Deputy Coroner?  I don’t even want to think about how potentially tainted Morgan’s case could be by the actions of the Coroner. But first things first.

There is another document recently adopted by the State of Colorado in May of 2011, before Morgan’s murder.  To clarify autopsies and it pertains to this case.  It is called the National Association of Medical Examiners Forensic Autopsy Performance Standards (NAME).  It was adopted intact as the minimum for an autopsy in the State of Colorado.

And wouldn’t you know it, right there in the first section, section A, another problem.

Section A: Medicolegal Death Investigation

The purpose of this section is to define responsibility for medicolegal death investigation and to outline the types of cases that are to be investigated by such systems. Investigations can be conducted by inquiry with or without examination. Inquiries are typically conducted via telephone interview, personal interview, or review of records. Examination may include scene investigation, external inspection, and forensic autopsy.

Standard A1 Responsibilities

Medicolegal death investigation officers, be they appointed or elected, are charged by statute to investigate deaths deemed to be in the public interest–serving both the criminal justice, civil justice and public health systems. These officials must investigate cooperatively with, but independent from, law enforcement and prosecutors. The parallel investigation promotes neutral and objective medical assessment of the cause and manner of death.

To promote competent and objective death investigations:

A1.1 Medicolegal death investigation officers should operate without any undue influence from law enforcement agencies and prosecutors.

A1.2 A forensic pathologist or representative shall evaluate the circumstances surrounding all reported deaths

The problem? The investigators and interviewers are to be independent from law enforcement and prosecutors.  Well if your interviewer is a Garfield County Sheriff’s detective, and your investigators are a group of Garfield County Deputies and Detectives, do you see the problem?  None of these people can legally be processing the crime scene.  It’s Colorado Law.  In Morgan’s case a neutral and objective medical assessment of the cause and manner of death never happened.

Was Thomas Walton, not really a legal deputy coroner? And a death scene overrun with Garfield County Sheriffs who are not supposed to be participating, by Colorado Law. Is that what Morgan had?  No Medicolegal officers in charge here,  trained in death scene assessment, practicing good investigative techniques present to take over and restore order?  Are all of the pages of investigation from Morgan’s death scene not potential evidence of a crime?  Are they rather evidence of a crime or evidence of crimes by the deputy coroner by the mere fact of being there, and crimes by the Garfield County Sheriff’s department by interviewing, touching, processing, and handling all of the evidence in an investigation that must be independent from these very law enforcement personnel?  Why on earth would they do that?  And who is responsible for the law enforcement personnel not following the law?

Should Thomas Walton have been in charge of preventing this intrusion into the death scene in violation of Colorado Revised Statutes?  He should have been, but…  Certainly not If his mere presence is in direct violation of Colorado Revised Statutes.  Is this really what happened?  Was Morgan’s death scene destroyed for all intents and purposes by the Sheriff and the Coroner?  And of course if you have been reading this blog of Morgan’s stalking you have to know it does not get any better.  You might be wondering how it could possibly get worse, but trust me, it can, and it does.

Enter Dr. Robert Kurtzman the forensic pathologist. He will be supervising the autopsy.  And the National Association of Medical Examiners Forensic Autopsy Performance Standards adopted by the State of Colorado once again set his minimum standards to work under.

I am only going to question one facet, as most of us did not witness what happened.  This is more of a prima fascia case based on timing.

First the standards complete with examples:

These standards underscore the need for assessment of all available information prior to the forensic autopsy to (1) direct the performance of the forensic autopsy, (2) answer specific questions unique to the circumstances of the case, (3) document evidence, the initial external appearance of the body, and its clothing and property items, and (4) correlate alterations in these items with injury patterns on the body. Just as a surgeon does not operate without first preparing a history and physical examination, so must the forensic pathologist ascertain enough history and circumstances and may need to inspect the body to decide whether a forensic autopsy is indicated and to direct the forensic autopsy toward relevant case questions.

Steve was asked by the detective to prepare an email with anything they should look for at autopsy, no matter how minor or far fetched, absolutely anything that may help to guide the autopsy.  They told him he didn’t have to do it right away. This was Friday early noon and they said Monday would be just fine.  So it has always bothered me deeply that a forensic pathologist is supposed to assemble all of the facts, history and circumstances, Prior to the autopsy, not during, not after – Prior.  And that simply was not done for Morgan.  And what is the purpose of asking Steve for that email of things, “to look for at autopsy” when the autopsy is going to be wrapped up Friday evening, in time for dinner, before Steve ever sends the email of what to look for. Has anyone ever given you a list of things to pick up at the store, after you leave the store?  Is this what happens when the Deputy Coroner lacks training and certifications, and when in place of Medicolegal officers they utilize the one officer that is specifically to be excluded from the investigation, the law enforcement officer.  And then it all ends up in a nice pile for the Forensic Pathologist, and he knows without question the investigators were not Medicolegal officers, that they were Garfield Sheriff’s.  He knew or should have known this is in direct conflict with the Forensic Autopsy Performance Standards that he is charged with upholding.

And it is not a simple gaffe, not a simple misunderstanding, it is in direct violation of Colorado Revised Statutes.  It is going 85 MPH when the posted limit is 25 MPH.  It is breaking the law.  A rose by any other name and all that.  I have been told there are “official” documents of Morgan released and circulating.  I should look at them.  But I have not.  I really don’t want to see them because to me they are anything but official documents.  They are prima fascia evidence of the miscarriage of justice that took place and continues to take place in the investigation of Morgan’s death.

Would you believe me if I told you that – to date nobody has ever asked Steve or I, her only parents, who her doctor was, what medications, if any, she was currently taking, and for what reason?  Where would be the best place to get the most current medical records for Morgan, and on and on.  I already know the answer, but really, is it too late to just start over?  It could not be any worse.

On the way to Grand Junction

October 6, 2011 – Day 66 of Morgan’s Stalking – Dancing Through the Storm

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icy leaves

At 9:00 am Morgan was home and received a text from her dance partner, “China said she can’t come on Saturday.”  Morgan answered, “I think we should reschedule. There’s a huge storm warning all weekend. 🙁 .”  Her friend answered, “Okay. I might not be able to go any other time.  I have to go pick up Ian, regardless, so that kinda drains my money for pointe shoes.”  Morgan felt bad, “Shit. 🙁 .”  And her friend told her, “Yeah. I mean, if you don’t feel comfortable with driving, I totally understand. This is not an attempted guilt trip, pinky promise.”

The weather is bad, a storm arriving as scheduled.  Morgan leaves for her classes, and gets a text message from her dance teacher, “I am running late from Aspen.  Weather, and roads.  Can u plz let everyone know!  Thank u!  XoXo  can you have everyone start warming up…ask Emily Bennet to see if Abbie will let you in the room.”

I see my therapist for the first time today, and she is great.  We talk and work on a plan to de-stress.  I explain about the stalker, tell her that I feel he is hiding in the bushes in front of the house by the garage, under the window (I had seen shoe prints behind the bush under the window), hiding in the shadows where the cameras can’t see him.  I explain how after all the cameras went in we sat back and looked at the front of the garage, which has no coverage, and the rear yard, which has a few blind spots.  We had put the wildlife camera out front, but it stopped working completely and was now retired.

Together we work on a plan to take away the front of the garage as a possible hiding spot.  It was a simple plan that only required moving half of the stuff in the garage so I could look out the garage window to observe, and although I thought he would be really grumpy at best Steve did not complain at all and after a major reshuffle of the contents the garage was ready for plan “B”.  I was excited. I would wear dark clothes, turn off all of the lights and stand near the back window.  From there I could see most of the front yard, and all along the front side yard to Rhonda’s house.  Camera’s had the side yard covered, and I had a big mag light to shine out the window in case I saw anything.  It was kind of warm, and safe and I could come and go as I pleased, undetected from outside.

I spent two long stints in the garage patiently watching the yard, scanning from side to side.  I thought about the sheriffs and their stakeouts here.  It was not so bad at first, but it would get cold, and boring out there in the elements.  The wind was bursting outside and snow started and stopped, enough to keep a good cover on the ground.  The stalker would certainly avoid conditions like this, he would leave tracks, and be easy to follow.

The snow became heavier and I decided to stop for tonight.  The set up was a good idea and was working well, I did not expect to catch him the first time.  In fact I had to coordinate a plan with Steve for how I should alert him when I did see something on a future stakeout, and how he should react.  Based on our stalker so far we should not expect more than one chance, so we had to make it a good one.  I thought about the detectives too, they hadn’t had a chance to do one of their stake outs yet, things kept coming up.  I feared they had better hurry because winter was coming, and before long it would be very unpleasant out there.  But then that might mean the stalker would be closing up for the winter, wouldn’t that be nice!!!

Click here to read about the 67th & 68th days of Morgan’s stalking https://morgansstalking.com/?p=1609

October 5, 2011 – Day 65 of Morgan’s Stalking – Faces in the Sky

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Faces in the Clouds

Cool rock formations from Hawaii and More

Morgan took this picture in Hawaii and I said, “What a cool rock formation,” and Morgan said, “Mom! – Look at all the faces in the clouds!!!”

In the wee hours of the morning, at 22 past midnight Morgan texts me “You aren’t still up, are you?” I was, and I feel like she caught me, I answer “Yes, why?” Morgan says, “Nevermind.” Now she’s really caught me and I ask her “Why are you still up?” Which is a silly question of course, 20-year-old girls stay up late. Before she had a stalker she would be up working on some project or watching movies or talking on her phone till way late all the time. Now she was tired and interested in a good nights sleep, as much as we were. Morgan does not answer, and I let it go at that.

At 1:12 am the motion light outside the back of our room goes on. I reach over for Steve, but he is already awake and grabs my arm before I can tap him. That startles me deeply, everything seems to startle me now. There is a crash noise right outside and Steve doesn’t bother with lights or clothes and just hops up and runs out our back door. I get up and lift the blinds. I don’t see anything, not even Steve. Which is a concern, but then I see him coming over the berm. He sees me and shakes his head.

When he’s back inside he tells me that he thought he saw something, maybe a man, hard to be sure. He went as far as over the berm and then he saw nothing, he just stood there and froze and waited for something to move, but the cold eventually convinced him to come back in. There is always a next time and we go to sleep.

Morgan calls me in the morning and wants to go see her doctor. She is in pain, her back has been hurting more and more. I think it was sleeping on the closet floor all that time, and Morgan thinks it is just stress. I told her, of course go see the doctor – she doesn’t miss class very often, so once is not going to be that big of a deal.

Morgan sends her teacher a text message, “I am going to run to the doctor this morning so I’m going to miss class. I’ll see you tomorrow!!” Her teacher texted back, “OK.”

She goes to see her doctor and he helps by realigning her back, tells her she has strained her hip and needs to be careful on it for a week or so until it really feels better. Dr. Jensen is a great holistic doctor and Morgan really trusts him.  She is so much happier when she gets home. I tell her that her deal with her dad to not wake me is off and I promise I won’t talk or call, but just to send me a blank text whenever there is a noise against her window that wakes her.  She is a tough sell, but finally agrees.

That night as we are going to bed I tell Steve the new plan with Morgan and he says I will never be able to do it. I tell him something like, just watch me. Then at 1 minute before 11:00 pm she sends me one bubble on my phone. I didn’t realize how hard it would be. I lie there having to know if it was a little noise or a big noise, or if she was sleeping soundly or lightly.  I want to know something, but a deal’s a deal, and I let her sleep. And then I lay there wide awake.

Today is October 3, 2012 – I miss Morgan a lot today, I move throughout my day for my job, but otherwise I feel like I am not doing enough for Morgan. I asked her friends to write something about Morgan when they get a chance, and her best friend wrote the most beautiful thing. I read it to Steve and he said, “True friends, so hard to find, and even harder to have taken away.” We know it’s hard for her friends to sit down and write something – they are still dealing with the loss, just like us. This past Saturday night we met with two of her friends and one of them said to us that it was the first time he could face us to talk about Morgan, because it hurt so much. We both miss her a little more right now.  I’m not sure why. The pain never goes away.  So many people are working hard to help her, and us – to get the truth out.  And I really want to tell them all thank you again, Morgan and Steve and I appreciate what you are doing so very much. We could not do what we are doing without all of your help, it means the world to us while we still continue to fight an uphill battle to try to get justice for Morgan.  It seems like there are also people out there that don’t care about the truth, they only want to be right, and for them I feel sorry, because the truth is there, and won’t change.

Click here to read about the 66th day of Morgan’s stalking https://morgansstalking.com/?p=1576