Yesterday, our neighbor Elliott sent me a text at 12:21 pm about a new roommate on the corner named Eric. He said Eric is not the brother. I asked him if that is the person that owns a black SUV parked in the driveway, with the back window busted out of it? Elliot said, “Don’t know. Just remembered he said his name was Eric and that he’s the new roommate. Also, the older brother moved out. I add Eric to the suspect list even though I have not seen him yet. We just keep adding or subtracting to our list of suspects in order to hone in on one.
On Sept. 2nd Elliott sends me another text, “How’s it going? The kid on the end of block, his plate is _________, Florida.” Elliott was trying to help us figure out who the stalker was, he had some great ideas and we appreciated having his point of view added to the mix.
Steve sends a text to Morgan at 4:26 pm, “Did they get it?” Morgan replies, “Not yet. I left.” Steve says, “K.” At 4:47 pm Steve sends Morgan another text, “We are going to Jazz Aspen. Will you be OK??” He said this because Morgan knows she can not go home until we do, and it will be late when we get home, so he wants to make sure she is somewhere that she can hang out that long. Today I don’t even remember who was playing, my mind was on Morgan the whole time.
At 10:20 pm Steve sends Morgan another text, “Just leaving the concert could not make it all the way to the end. How is everything?” Morgan writes back, “Hahaha aw. I’m just at coops.” Coops was her friend Cooper and he only lived about 10 minutes away from our house.
Morgan slept in my closet again, the master bedroom backyard motion lights kept going on and off again. Steve ran out twice, and both times saw nothing, and then we just lay in bed watching it go off a few times through the upper windows. This guy or girl was definitely getting excited about fooling with us with the motion lights. Must have been fun watching us run out to try to catch them and not be able to see them. Steve says he’s thinking that maybe if he just ignores it, the guy will stop. I think he’s just really tired, but I say let’s give it a try, nothing else is working.
We’ve have now ordered two big time wildlife cameras that can broadcast to our phones or the computer, they have not come yet, and after our success with the first one I can’t wait to get more up.
This same week – a year later. One of my Blog readers asked if anyone had ever combed the berm for evidence with a metal detector, as it had not been done, he offered to go by and do it for Morgan. You never know what might be found. I went by to check it first and to my surprise, it was mowed down to the dirt. The six and a half years we lived in the Aspen Equestrian Estates it was just covered with long wild grass, wildflowers, and trees – it was beautiful and had never been mowed. Today it has been mowed, really short, and all signs of the trails are gone, as well as all the wildflowers. When was this done? Was it done after my blog came out about the berm? Call me crazy, but to me this seems very suspicious…who decided that all the vegetation on that berm should be mowed or cut down? Of course the trees are still there, but all signs of the trails that the stalker created are all gone now. Is this all just a coincidence that after all these years that they did this? We were in that house, and had to evacuate some years back when that fire spread across from the Carbondale Mini storage all the way to Catherine’s store, and jumped the river to Ranch of the Roaring Fork subdivision. Our subdivision had fire damage done to it. The berm was never mowed down as a fire precaution after that – so is that going to be the excuse for mowing it down now…years after the fire? That doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. I would really like to know who decided to have this done.
Ive been reading this everyday and am so sorry for your loss. I pray that Morgan’s stalker will be caught. I will keep sharing your blog to help spread the word.
Thank you so much – I greatly appreciate it.
Toni, I live in Carbondale as well. After seeing your blog posted on Facebook and reading the first few days i instantly became appalled at the fact that i had not heard of this last year. My heart aches for you, i haven’t been able to get you or Morgan out of my head. Only time will heal your wounds there is nothing anyone can say to make this better or to bring Morgan back, but please if there is anything i can do to help you let me know. I will gladly do whatever i can. I have told everyone i come into contact with about Morgan. Sending mountains of love and light your way. I hope you find justice for Morgan soon so this creep can’t hurt anyone else.
Thank you so much – just so you know Steve and I will never give up trying to get justice for Morgan, but even if that never happens we will continue to go through this process in order to leave a road map for others. I also truly believe that in the long run what we are doing now will eventually change the way things are done in our valley, and also across the United States. It is not right to not let the public know what is going on – for their own safety, as well as community intervention in helping to keep crime down…people will always make a huge difference!
I live in south Mississippi. I have a friend that lives in a neighboring town and I found this story on her Facebook. I have been reading this story and I am so heart broken for your family. I have a 4 year old daughter and worry about this stuff for her as well when she grows up. I for some reason feel that this is the keenan guy.. His Facebook profile pic is of a new tattoo on his entire back of a bulls eye inside of deer horns. Just a little weird. Also all of his pictures of weird sayings and pics of guns and stuff. He may not be the one but I am convinced… I pray for you and your family to find peace and justice….
I never judge people by the way they look, but I do believe you need to put all the pieces together in order to see a pattern.
In my heart I would never come out and say it was definitely someone unless I was 100% sure, and I want to just put all the truth of what happened out there for people to see because, I trust in the public being able to come up with the right decision, when given the truth.
Evil can only exist when good people stand by and do nothing about it – I agree with you, when you have precious children, grandchildren, girlfriends, wives, etc. you have a right to the truth in order to keep them safe.
Thank you so much for your prayers.
You came out and said it so does that mean you are 100% sure? If not whats the percentage. Your courage and strength today is from your forever lovely daughter and from what I can tell you are wonderful parents.
I’d like to start off by saying that I am more than sorry for your loss. I have been following your blog for several days now as well as following a chat on diaper swappers. As a horse owner myself I am curious if you have put any thought into the farm hands at the stables behind your old home? Very often farm hands are transients and usually male. Her being at the barn may have given the stalker an opportunity to see her and being fixated. Plus, the footprints through berm would make me think that he’d have to be coming from that direction and exiting that way as well. It seems to me that person who wants to go unnoticed would take the quickest rout back to their home, which may eliminate the people living in your neighborhood.
My second question is this have you contacted the state police or a higher authority to look into the Carbondale PD’s poor detective work?
FYI- Carbondale PD is not the agency involved in this case as this family lives in unincorporated Garfield County with a Carbondale address. The Garfield County Sheriff’s Department is the agency in charge of this case.
This is true – thanks for bringing that up. I have mentioned it is the Garfield County Sheriff’s throughout but since our address said Carbondale this person probably just assumed it was Carbondale Police…but it definitely was not.
Thank you for your insight – the Sheriff’s focused on the ranch in the very beginning, but because of certain evidence that they were seeing they decided that the stalker was most likely in our neighborhood.
After Morgan died, and I was able to start making decisions again, I had our horse moved to a different ranch…I couldn’t even bring myself to go see him while he was still at the ranch, behind where she was killed, and I was worried about him as well. Stalkers do tend to kill pets. He is really happy where he is now.
Your last question is exactly where we are heading next – things just really had to happen in this order to show the deficiencies in the system that need to be corrected. It’s painful to wait but it was necessary to the final outcome.
One thing about the truth – it never changes!
My heart goes out to you and your family. As a former victim of stalking and domestic violence, I realize how lucky I was to escape with my life. I continue to pray for you and your family that justice will eventually be served for beautiful Morgan, who left us far too soon.
Ashley thank you so much and I am so sorry you had to go through this as well. I have received so many emails, and private stories from stalking survivors, and it just tears at my heart, but I do believe it actually makes Steve and I stronger and more determined to do this, to do the right thing, and fight for the truth to come out…not only for Morgan, but for all others. Hugs!
Hello! You are truly amazing! This is such an inspiring blog – I am addicted – I just found out about it 3 days ago and Morgan is all my friends and I can think about – we are constantly thinking of clues we can find to help! Rereading everything, Trying to depict little things in all pictures. I have posted it on my FB and twitter and have had many people following it now as well – word of mouth is the best way to spread information. Just curious, have you ever considered E to be a suspect? You never mention his wife is it just him and his 2 daughters? I get a weird vibe from how he acts – does he have light hair? You said yourself he had the same shirt – although Keenan also sounds creepy – its scary to know monsters can be living right next door. My heart goes out to you and your family and I will continue to help pass around your blog as well as continue to read! Morgan is definitely smiling down on you for what your doing for her! Keep up the amazing work!
I have the same instinct. I would definitely look into him, not that he hasn’t been helpful, but could also have been trying to see how much you had on the suspect or to be able to point you in a wrong direction.
That is very possible – I had that feeling as well, hard to know. I always assume people are telling me the truth – it is a big fault of mine.
Please think about Et. I had a similar problem for a few months. I suspected all the neighbors and was even asked by the police to consider the least likely person. I was shocked when my best friends son climbed into a bedroom through a window. I was in the house in the next room at the time. He was honestly the very last person I suspected.
Trust me I consider everyone that fits the body type of the stalker – I just write down on this blog the truth of what happened every day last year, and other people, after reading it are coming to their own conclusions, even though the four months of stalking isn’t over yet on the blog. We are getting really good intel from people that we had never thought of and the Sheriff’s had not either (unless they just didn’t believe it was credible at the time or they just didn’t see it), I have no idea what goes on in someone else’s mind.
Thanks so much – take care!
I’m very suspicious of E myself. I always had a strange feeling about him when you describe how he was there when police would come to see what was going on – almost as if that’s how he would remain one step ahead of your family. But the comment he made about sending Morgan to his home if she were alone was what caught my attention the most.
I also immediately suspect E. Why was he so aggressive in demanding information and always wanting to be around when the police were there… After reading all of this, this is what my gut is telling me.
In response to your question “who decides to have the berm mowed down?”…
Was it very recently mowed? I think that if I were the new owner of your house and just stumbled across your blog, I’d probably be pretty freaked out that someone used to walk through that berm on his/her way to that house for some serious stalking. Mowing all that tall grass might be one of the first things I do (if not move).
I agree, but it wasn’t a berm right behind our old house that belonged to the house, it was a berm that went behind all the houses between the horse ranch and behind at least 10 houses, on our side of the subdivision, and was was owned and maintained by the Homeowner’s Association not by personal people – it was considered common ground.
I feel like while you intentions are positive, you need to watch what you share on the blog. The more I read, the more this feeling becomes stronger. You could be damaging things that would help you with a real case down the road. Starting with the berm, next the gutter, next people deleting things from social media, etc. etc.
I just came across your blog tonight and haven’t been able to put it down. I am so, so heartbroken for you and your family. I cannot imagine what you have gone through and continue to go through. I pray that you will find justice for your sweet daughter. However, I have to agree, that when I came to the part about E marching up to the police and demanding answers, and then offering to have Morgan come stay at his house…I got the creeps all over. Tears literally started flowing (I have strong instincts, and this is just what happens when I have a gut feeling about something/someone) when I read this part. Maybe you know that he could not possibly be a suspect, but this is just my gut reaction as an outside reader from across the country. Again, I wish you peace and strength, and justice for your daughter.
I totally agree with this statement. I think this is proof that the supect has been reading this and cleaning up evidence.
Reading this 4 years on I am hooked.. I am a Level 2 Criminologist and I believe this stalker is a repeat offender, from what I have read so far they come across as a thrill seeker. I do not believe you’re daughters regretful death was planned, I believe it was a opportunistic killing, they saw their moment and took it. I agree with the statement you made about them playing with you, regarding the sensors and camera’s. I feel it may have been someone closer to you rather than a neighbor, someone your daughter would have known, hence why they knew mainly when she was home and when she wasn’t, these people can be your best-est friends in the real world, but hiding that darkest secret behind every smile.
I would be interested to hear some updates about how thing may have changed regarding your daughters death..
P.S I am sorry for your loss, from the way you speak of her and the photos you have shared, she was a beautiful, intelligent, brave, young girl.
Jessica, thank you for your kind words about Morgan. And I really do appreciate your insight on the case.
Your instincts and knowledge are both correct. It took us a really long time to see some things that we did not want to see in the beginning. The main male perpetrator was not someone our daughter knew, but the female perpetrator, as well as her father, were known to her, and they lived only 3 houses down from us. There was an extreme jealousy on the part of the female perpetrator that I did not know about (Morgan did not share “drama” type things with me as she avoided them as much as possible) until after Morgan’s death. And the other thing I did not know, but did question while Morgan was still alive, was that there had to be someone that was “tipping” off the female perpetrator that Morgan was on her way home every time…and there was. Sadly it was a person that Morgan thought was a good friend, a person that was always calling her and asking her to come over right away because he was always having some kind of “crisis” and needed her, a person that was close friends with the female perpetrator and was easily manipulated to help destroy Morgan. The same person that showed up immediately the morning we found her body and hung around to speak with the sheriffs. The same person that spread lies afterwards about Morgan and then when we started to ask him questions he started sweating so badly his whole shirt was soaked and he ran out the front door. Afterwards totally avoiding us, then when I finally sent him a message he answered with, “Morgan is dead and _____ is still alive and I have to be faithful to her.” So my dense skull started to realize the Morgan had been betrayed by someone she really thought was a friend. He was also the very last person, other than Steve and I, to speak with her in person before she was killed. Doing our due diligence and interviewing so many people over the years really helped “fill in” so many of the missing pieces in this puzzle. The sad thing is that even though some people are sociopaths and never feel bad about things, I know there are also some good people that knew and loved Morgan, but also knew her “friend” and they have information, but for many different reasons they feel they can’t “snitch.” What they don’t realize is it is not “snitching” to share their knowledge of what they know, it is doing the right thing, it is being a good human being, it is helping and honoring Morgan. Morgan who never hurt a fly, never stole anything in her whole life, would always drop anything for a friend…this is the person they should be helping, not a sociopath that never did anything for anyone else in their whole life. And yet we are all given choices in this lifetime and some of us do not choose the “good” path. They don’t realize that non action is an action. Pretending something didn’t happen is choosing the side of the criminal. I have learned a lot in the past 4 1/2 years and many of the things I have learned I wish at times I didn’t know, because it hurts my heart to see the darkness in so many young people.
i want you to know Morgan will never be forgotten. Mat God bring you peace as well as justice. If there is anything I can do please let me know
Oh Kathy, your words just melted my heart…thank you for saying that. I promise I will let you know when there will be something for Team Morgan (which you are now a part of) to do. You are already doing something by commenting and spreading awareness of the real dangers of stalkers. And for that I am grateful as well my friend.