I dunno. There it is. I'm very torn, the account is very compelling and creepy and I don't doubt for one minute this woman's veracity or sincerity, I truly believe that she believes that her daughter was stalked and terrorised and I also believe that the whole family suffered through a living nightmare for several months. I'm desperately sad for this mother’s loss of her daughter and totally understand her clinging to the belief it was not suicide.
I am struggling with a few things though; her claims that law enforcement did little or nothing to help resolve the situation for one. The cops were called AND responded around 40 times in 4 months, sometimes not just one officer but two or three turned up. They stayed for up to an hour or more each time. They checked the property and the surrounding area each time and questioned people the family were suspicious of, did at least one stake out if I'm reading it right - sorry, I'm finding the format of the blog somewhat disjointed and difficult to follow. All these responses despite the fact the incidents amounted to noises outside, bangs and rattles on windows and doors, tripped security lights etc which could all be explained away by nocturnal wanderings by animals on and around a semi-rural property. I hate to seem insensitive but could this be a case of feverish mass paranoia within the home stemming from a somewhat introspective young woman’s anxieties (it’s interesting that she was treated for porphyria since depression and heightened anxiety are symptomatic of the disease) coupled with projection onto a concerned, highly protective mother and from there to the father….?
We do have one footprint beneath a window, silhouettes glimpsed through blurred glass , a photo of a man leaning against a car, a red light seen moving about in the darkness across the street and damage to the roof but those are fairly easy to explain away too - maybe some nosy hiker passer-by looking in through a window left the print, the man in the photo could be anyone, doesn’t anyone see that his clothes/ haircut look remarkably similar to those worn by the deputies in the previous frames taken only seconds earlier? The red light could be one of those worn by cyclists and walkers for visibility to traffic when out at night, the roof damage could have been caused by years of weathering, falling tree branches, possums, other vermin and so on and so on. We also have an ‘undesirable’ boyfriend of a neighbour with a less than savoury reputation as a possible suspect but I think it more likely he was up to something nefarious with regard to the often empty property next door, than stalking Morgan and unless his gf had some hitherto unspoken grudge against Morgan why would she cover for his ‘obsession’ with another woman?
The thing is I’m seeing that the cops really did have very little to go on here. There was no actual intrusion inside the house, no property damage, no assaults, no phone calls, no texts, no emails, no letters, packages or physical contact of any kind from the stalker, no spoken or written threats. How many times do we read of women who try to report stalkers with ample solid evidence of harassment being told the cops can’t do anything heck won’t even come out unless there’s an actual attack? I’m at a loss as to what exactly they expected the cops to do beyond what they did do which was respond again and again, search the property and surrounding area for an intruder. They couldn’t exactly station an officer at the house 24/7 which is what this family seemed to expect, without wanting to be unkind, that’s not a realistic expectation given limited police resources everywhere. And these things only happened AT the house it seems - I’m reading claims here that Morgan was followed in her car but I must have missed that in the blog and given that she was already anxious and jumpy she might have been inclined to see anyone on foot, in a car anywhere as a potential follower especially with such a predictable routine as she appeared to have which would have made it very easy for a stalker to dog her footsteps on campus, her friends' homes and hang outs.
Morgan’s death. Obviously we’re only part way through the account of events but was there any evidence of a break-in on the day/night of Morgan’s death? Why, if the whole family was so convinced she was in danger, was she left alone at the house that day anyway? Her mother said she wasn’t suicidal but then contradicts herself saying how Morgan had lost weight, had dark circles under her eyes because she wasn’t sleeping, was lethargic, couldn’t get up the enthusiasm for even her ballet classes, not eating - all clear signs to me of depression. The medication, once again, the mother says she hadn’t been prescribed it for over two years but did indicate there were pill bottles with some remaining pills around the home. Maybe Morgan found the remaining pills and, desperate for some sleep, overdosed accidentally? There were no signs of physical trauma on her body indicating someone forced her to swallow the drug or were there and I missed it? And that someone poisoned something only she was likely to drink or eat appears improbable to me, very strong chances are someone else within the home would have eaten or drunk the item in question. Like I say, I dunno.