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I wish we had an idea of the scene that night in M's room. Also the complete autopsy report. All we have is a second opinion ruled undetermined, one image on a cam and a footprint.
I wish we had an idea of the scene that night in M's room. Also the complete autopsy report. All we have is a second opinion ruled undetermined, one image on a cam and a footprint.
If this was some high tech covert operation that escapes a perimeter of surveillance undetected thats goal is to enter a home and murder someone then you are looking at an entirely different perp. Then you would have to believe Morgan held some classified secrets or knew something big that the perp didnt want told.
I agree with NancyA . Sometimes the simplest explanation is probably the right one.
Unless that home had a secret trap door and underground tunnel it was probably someone right under their noses the whole time.
I suspect that is going to be a hard day when mom writes it in the blog.
I know from this blog, it says that first responders were shaken.
http://morganingram.com/death.html
I wonder who stole mom's gnome?
http://morganingram.com/wordpress/?p=367
There is something on the ground there that looks like someone could stand on to get to her window? But again why is there an image of a deer and not a person that night?
I am confused about the pics from the wildlife cam. It's super creepy, and it raises a lot of questions about whether/ how the stalker was able to detect and avoid the motion detectors/ cameras
* Morgan's dad (and the blog post) said that 12 photos were taken, but 8 were of him setting up the camera, which leaves the four posted on the blog.
The first 2 photos are only 1 second apart:
0:43 we see first officer in the shot, truck in the background.
00:44 2 officers in the shot, and the truck is gone. The 1st officer has walked a few steps, and the 2nd is at just about the same spot as the first officer was 1 second ago.
00:45 No shot - Why didn't it capture the officer leaving the frame?
00:46 Stalker appears - blurry and distorted. Is this from movement? No blur on officers walking, so he must be moving fast. Direction: into frame, but away from camera. Hard to tell what direction he is looking.
00:47 No shot. If he caught a glimpse of the camera, while moving quickly, one would assume he would turn around, and have to slow down or pause while locating the camera. how did he find and avoid the camera so quickly?
0:48 Camera records blur of tree, different angle, as it has been knocked slightly up and over. How did the stalker get to the camera (12 ft high) so quickly without him or object being caught on camera again?
Was the camera actually broken or just moved? Did SI notice it was broken or out of place when he went to retrieve the card, or only after he saw the pics?
* TI says in the blog post the photos are date and timestamped. But the time must be wrong, as she says the officers are at the house at 12:45 am. Is the interval correct? (Just wondering, because sometimes timestamps can be added when photos are uploaded onto a computer or website. For example, Flickr assigns 1 second intervals to photos without a date stamp, to keep your photos in their original order) If it is wrong it would be possible that the 'assault' on the camera did not happen 2 seconds after the stalker, and could even be SI moving the camera to retrieve the card.
* What about the other photos the camera didn't take? i.e. between the 8 shots taken while setting up the camera (late afternoon) and 00:45 when we see the officers leaving? For example:
- 11 pm, when TI describes motion detectors going off and then going off again as SI circles all around the house?
- arrival of officers at the house
- SI retrieving camera card
Anyway, I don't exactly know how these wildlife cameras work, and it might help to know the range, as a limited range might help explain some of my questions.
I'm curious to know what happened once they installed a better camera system... They obviously worked very hard to try to protect Morgan![]()
The postmortem redistribution is yet another issue for the toxicologists to argue over.
When I went digging, I found this article:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.welch.jhmi.edu/pubmed/1588667
Amitriptyline and amitriptyline metabolites in blood and cerebrospinal fluid following human overdose.
Bengt-Åke Hultén, Andrew Heath, Kai Knudsen, Gösta Nyberg, Charlotte Svensson, Eric Mårtensson
Clinical Toxicology Jan 1992, Vol. 30, No. 2, Pages 181-201: 181-201.
Sorry, the full text is not available free on the web, but I could email the pdf to Herding if she wants. The patients in this study took overdoses of 1000 to 5000 mg, and the highest plasma ami concentration measured was about half what was in Morgan's system (e.g., 4400 ng/mL). These were severely overdosed patients brought into the hospital alive, so no postmortem redistribution issue here. (Another point is all of these patients survived their overdoses.)
One of the questions to ask the parents tonight is if any of the toxicologists or pathologists involved estimated the ami dose Morgan received. My guess is its at least as high if not more than what this series of patients took.
There is something on the ground there that looks like someone could stand on to get to her window? But again why is there an image of a deer and not a person that night?
BBM
First, I'll apologize because I am not anywhere near being caught up. BUT I do think there is a big back story here. One that possibly only Morgan and one other person knew about.
She was an avid photographer, 4000 pics I think her mom said. I think those should be looked at very carefully, not only for what is there, but for what is not there.
I have another theory as well, just going off of Morgan's visceral reactions to someone. I'll hold that for the time being. But I would like to know if a rape kit was ever done. If not, I think that was probably the single biggest mistake in this case.
MOO
So if we go by these numbers, she had to have between 2000 and 10,000 mg to get the levels her tox screen showed. The largest dose I saw available were 50-mg tablets (with the liquid generally being 10 to 20 mg a dose and not sure how many doses per bottle), so that would mean 50 to 200 of the largest dose pills ingested. That's an awful lot to crush and force someone to swallow. We know it was not a slow poisoning over time, so what could that amount of pills been mixed with to make it not noticeable?
Yogurt wouldn't work, the graininess would come out, as would the bitter taste. Any drink would have had to have been a large drink of something very strong to hide the taste.
Does anyone remember if Morgan's Dad mentioned what form the Ami was found in her stomach? Did he say pill fragments or just that it was found in the stomach contents.
It would almost certainly had to have been liquid, and lots of it.
Can someon clarify something for me? My understanding is that there were no pill fragments found in her belly.
But I have read subsequent posts that there were some pill fragments.
If anyone can answer that definitively and link it up that would be great.
Otherwise I would like to get this answered by Toni tonight.
TIA
It was on this phone call that I was threatened by this Pathologist that if I continued fighting the natural causes he would have to look into suicide or accidental overdose, but he couldnt because he did not find any pills or remnants in her stomach at the time of autopsy
Can someon clarify something for me? My understanding is that there were no pill fragments found in her belly.
But I have read subsequent posts that there were some pill fragments.
If anyone can answer that definitively and link it up that would be great.
Otherwise I would like to get this answered by Toni tonight.
TIA
The second opinion pathologist mentions Flexeril pill fragments in her stomach. That's on the faxed letter.
Mogran's Dad mentioned last night that there was also amitriptyline found in her stomach, but I can't recall if he mentioned pill fragments or if not. It could be that the stomach contents just showed the presence of ami. Either way, that would mean ingestion. He also said there were 2 other date rape drugs found in the stomach contents.
I think this needs to be clarified tonight. I also hope someone asks about the CO poisoning event and who got sick, whether there was any sequelae.
I have to work, or I'd be listening and calling in myself.
So if we go by these numbers, she had to have between 2000 and 10,000 mg to get the levels her tox screen showed. The largest dose I saw available were 50-mg tablets (with the liquid generally being 10 to 20 mg a dose and not sure how many doses per bottle), so that would mean 50 to 200 of the largest dose pills ingested. That's an awful lot to crush and force someone to swallow. We know it was not a slow poisoning over time, so what could that amount of pills been mixed with to make it not noticeable?
Yogurt wouldn't work, the graininess would come out, as would the bitter taste. Any drink would have had to have been a large drink of something very strong to hide the taste.
Does anyone remember if Morgan's Dad mentioned what form the Ami was found in her stomach? Did he say pill fragments or just that it was found in the stomach contents.
It would almost certainly had to have been liquid, and lots of it.
or it may be that there is no crime here, just a few random events that were just regular every day events or noises that grew larger than life when fuled by fear. Fear is an amazing thing, not only can it grow on it's own, but it is also contageous and can morph nothing into something and change shape as time goes by. I believe Morgan's fear was real but I am not sure it was fueled by something real and may have caused innocent noises and events to seem more frightening than they were and may have caused her to act in ways that no one predicted she would. it may be that nothing was found because there may have been nothing to find.