Mayra Martinez (MayraMM) is a cyberbully

As many of you aware, I have been harassed online for years by a woman from Oregon named Mayra Martinez. This woman discovered me after I wrote a blog post about my interview with Toni Ingram, which I published initially to Yahoo! Voices in late November of 2012. In efforts to silence me, she tried an array of intimidation tactics simply because I was going to publish the interview and she didn't want me to. 

She insisted that Morgan Ingram was not stalked and took her own life. She also speculated that Toni Ingram had Münchausen syndrome by Proxy and was unhinged. Unhinged, a term this loose cannon tends to use quite a lot. When I contacted Toni the same day, I asked her about this bizarre individual and if she knew her. I thought the pseudo diagnosis was a bit awkward and immediately thought she was friends with Morgan's stalker Keenan Vanginkel. She told me that this woman was a troll who was part of a group called Websleuths and not to engage. At the time, I did not know who she was so I published her comments before speaking with Toni prior to doing so. After speaking with Mrs. Ingram I deleted Mayra's comments. Additionally, I moderated the comments simply because I was on vacation and didn't want to keep deleting any hate messages about Morgan Ingram, Toni Ingram or myself--Sarah Afshar.

Mayra started to get aggressive with her responses the moment I started to moderate the comments. She started to attack me and accuse me of being Toni Ingram herself simply because I did not put her comments through. The paranoiac postulation started to become more evident when she even went so far to say that Toni Ingram was paying me to interview her. This is 100% false. I have never received any compensation from Mrs. Ingram nor would I ever ask her for money. I'm not anything like Mayra and Tricia. Mayra even went so far to say that I was an Iran con crew leader, a webcam performer, a transgender, a stalker, a criminal, and a part of ISIS, before finally revealing her true colors and saying Persians are "third world" in efforts to intimidate me. Yes I am Iranian, but I'm not any of the other things she's falsely accused me of being. Then, to continue her charade she accused me of ruining the life of a man named Keenan Vanginkel, the guy who is the main perpetrator and primary suspect in the Morgan Ingram case. The vile lies and banter continued for minutes before Mayra finally threatened me and said "prepare to lose your blog" which I still have screenshots of. 

After I published the interview, I received a lot of great feedback from around the world. A lot of people thought it was honorable and admirable that I allowed Toni Ingram to use her voice to find out what happened to her daughter. Many (not just myself) speculated this was a homicide based on the high levels of Amitriptyline in Morgan Ingram's blood stream. Morgan also had a history of integrity, loyalty, fortitude, courage, and honesty. She had no history of criminal behavior and personally identified the man stalking her. Also, with the amount of evidence Toni Ingram has provided, there is no doubt Morgan was a victim of foul play. Because of my public support of this theory and because I have an opinion, I received unwarranted threats.

In fact, only days later I received more threats which came directly from the Websleuths site. This time, the harassment came from other individuals. Perhaps those individuals are just a few people or simply one person. Not only were they attacking Toni Ingram and myself, but they started to attack Morgan Ingram. It was weird and again, I refrained from publishing their utterance because all of it was just your typical, unoriginal ad hominem. Supremely banal at its finest, you could also tell the person/people who wrote the comments was angry, uneducated, conspicuous, and more than likely intoxicated. I'm guessing their IQ is lower than a dying house plant.

About a week after this, this person created a hate blog using a woman named Marcie Wogan’s identity. The blog was one of the worst things I have ever read. Not only was it filled with an array of untruths about myself, but it was literally attacking me and those close to me for no reason, utilizing whatever lie to support their lies. In addition to the hate towards me, they included people who I had no relation to in the actual blog implying I was related to them in some way. The thing that bothered me was the remark about me being a victim of child trafficking. As my blood boiled over the false allegation, I contacted an attorney asking what legal options I had regarding the site and they said they would contact Google to see if they would actually remove it. The blog was so hateful, Google actually took the initiative and removed it directly from Blogger. 

My attorney at the time dug into Marcie Wogan and found out that this person wasn't just physically ill, but barely used the internet. That someone was using her identity to create hate blogs about numerous people. Apparently, I was not the only victim of this identity thief's rage as the person/people involved had a strong history of negative campaigning. They proceeded to inform me that Wogan was a retired attorney from Maryland and explained that Marcie's family was contacted about the situation. Her son John immediately contacted me after one of my friends, who is a content producer for a major media company independently contacted him. 

John said he thought Websleuths played a major role in his mother's impersonation and he strongly believed Tricia was behind everything. I knew nothing about the forum nor the administrator until Mrs. Ingram told me about them. When I mentioned MayraMM, he mentioned her connection to Websleuths almost immediately. In the beginning I did not know Martinez was a member of the infamous true crime forum nor part of the mudslinging cabal until it was brought to my attention. When searching myself I discovered that I was not the only target of this slanderous bludgeon. It was evidently clear to me after learning this key fact that Ms. Martinez was behind this based on the language, the truncation, the information, and the spamdexing that was voluntarily sent to me. That's when I realized it was clear she was behind the hate blogs in someway. 

Weird right?

Anyways, I noticed that this woman, Mayra Martinez, then, joined forces with a man who has been harassing me for years over my mother. An internet stalker named Michael Odegard from Portland, Oregon put up a hate blog about me in Fall of 2012. The website was titled "Sarah Afshar Bimbo" shortly before I interviewed Toni Ingram or ever talked about Mrs. Ingram here on my blog. At the time, I was a part-time writer for Yahoo! Voices and worked a job as a business development manager for an oil company. Mr. Odegard's blog about me was filled with hateful lies and made absolutely no sense, as he was an old friend of my mother's. A former friend she never met in person, but rather conversed with in the MSN movie chat before she blocked him. Puzzling as to why I was a target of this individual's rage, I reached out to my mother immediately after I read his hate blog and I asked her about him. My mother said she spoke to him because he had an interest in Star Wars, a popular science-fiction series of films and that was how they both initiated contact. 

The MSN chatroom was a movie chatroom where people discussed film, television, music, politics, and pop culture. My mother proceeded to tell me that she felt bad for him because she knew he was ill, but also emphasized that he was a storyteller and a very paranoid and angry person. She also informed me that he had a strong distain for his family, but never went into too much detail other than that. Truth be told, I never knew him and found his site to be nothing more than rants of an evident psycho. Mayra celebrated his egregious platform about me like he was the messiah of distraction and that she was happy someone hated me more than her. In efforts to discredit me because I published Toni Ingram's interview (which she incessantly wanted me to remove), she continued to publish more abhorrent filth online about me, only this time on individual hate sites she created about Toni. It was later discovered Martinez created these numerous websites and blogs using a stolen identity.

As this all continued, she manipulated the search engines to say abhorrent and fictitious things about not only myself, but my boyfriend Joe Valo. Furthermore, this woman from Oregon tried to say that I was impersonating a bunch of people including some Persian guy I have never met named Hooman Shababi. I want to go on record and say this is not true at all. She's created notoriety among armchair investigators who are foolish enough to believe her ill conceived and inconsistent anecdote. The same sofa sleuths who epitomize and represent the classic archetype who garner enjoyment bashing those who make them feel inferior. Martinez relentlessly makes up weird concoctions to compliment her stories which are based on her gonzo detritus. She even went so far to say that I am going to get arrested for supporting Toni Ingram. Yes folks, those were her exact words. Moreover, this very angry, self-loathing antagonist also tried to say that I am unhinged and that Joe and I are internet stalkers or internet trolls and she is the victim, etc. and that she never visits this website. 

Which I find absolutely funny as she is the one who originally initiated contact, coming here to this blog posting threatening messages because I interviewed Toni Ingram and didn't approve any of her superfluously hateful remarks regarding Mrs. Ingram and her daughter Morgan, who I believe is a victim of foul play. MayraMM's comments are overly redundant, not to mention ludicrous and preposterous. Currently, because of this internet stalker my comments are moderated. MayraMM was the one who threatened me simply because I interviewed Mrs. Ingram, believe Morgan Ingram was murdered, and didn't approve any of her unconvincingly oscillating, threatening utterance. I still have the screenshots from this which are dated back to November 2012, when she first started harassing me over the Morgan Ingram case. 

Fast forward to 2014. It is currently late February of 2014 and this woman just continues to harass me, as she continues to spread untrue, untenable, and fallacious lies about me which are an amalgam of foolishness and absurdity. She has no proof, but screenshots she created with her fake accounts and fan fiction. It is clear she is obsessed with me and has been since 2012. 

Today, I provide evidence of this fact something incompatible with her alleged findings and verity. Personally, I think Martinez is a one-woman army, a dissenter filled with multiple alter egos. I don't know what kind of personality and temperament to expect from her today as they tend to change often every time she visits this website. Perhaps she is on the world wide web impersonating me and using my identity to attack others so they will believe her preposterous story thus I will never know. Speaking of which, she comes to this blog often to post the most hateful things to me simply because I believe Morgan Ingram was murdered by Keenan Vanginkel. It's really creepy. Almost like cyberstalking. In fact, I think her harassment does constitute as cyberstalking. If you examine the definition of stalking that delineates the classic exemplar and archetype. 

I can easily share screenshots regarding Ms. Martinez and her menacing on the world wide web which will ruin her credibility and possibly her life, but I am not an acrimonious person in any shape or form. I have been lenient when it comes to this individual and her menacing and have no desire to threaten her nor anyone for that matter because my energy is way too valuable to be wasted. Especially on a hate blogger who does a disservice to the true crime genre. I do not want to engage because she's just an angry, rapid true crime fanatic obsessed with the Morgan Ingram case. To be perfectly honest, I find her reflections of the Ingram case to be nothing more than inconsequential verbose. I don't ever see my views collectively converging with Martinez's because she is an unlettered contrarian with the inaptitude to accept logical standpoints. 

It is clear Martinez doesn't believe Mrs. Ingram nor supports the homicide theory. It is not up to me nor anyone else to change her stance on the bone of contention, just like it is not up to anyone else to change mine. However, Mayra doesn't have to spread lies nor does she have to do horrible things to silence others who disagree with her. She doesn't have to meticulously bully them, as well as, encourage the public to physically harm them just because she does not see eye-to-eye with my theory on a crime case. I have never encouraged anyone to harass Ms. Martinez at all and if you read my blog, you will see this. Nevertheless, I will voluntarily give my iPhone, my MacBook, and any smart device I own to authorities to prove what Mayra is saying is 100% false. I don’t think she can say the same. 

Moreover, there are many ways of sharing an opinion about a crime case without being a vicious and vindictive person. I don't go to any of her rancorous websites nor do I read any of her hate blogs. I never engage in the dialogue (which I’m 99% certain are her) because what she has said about me is not true. I am asking my readers to avoid visiting any of her execrable, chimerical websites and blogs. I do not encourage anyone to threaten her and I am asking you not to, as I don't condone bullying nor stooping to someone's level. If Mayra (or any armchair sleuth for that matter) is engaging in caricature with the intent to amass believers and garner sympathy, that my friends is not only illegal, but really sad and I hope for her sake she ends this vicious witch-hunt. At the end of the day, it is only creating unjustifiable distress for herself. 

Speaking of viciousness, I am well aware that it's inevitable to avoid backlash when dipping into the realm of true crime especially in a case where a woman was stalked for months, reported the stalking, and is now dead; however, what this person is saying about me is completely false and not true at all. You can choose what you want to believe, but in all honesty my only crime was allowing a grieving mother to use her voice to find answers. A mother who has been dragged through independent media by reclining researchers who cannot accept one's opinion that differs from their own. A mother who, in short, questions the discrepancies of her daughter's suspicious death. 

I am guilty of interviewing Toni Ingram--who is the force, the face, and the voice of her daughter Morgan Ingram. Toni is one of the nicest people I've ever met and she continues to fight one of the biggest fights she's ever fought, finding the truth about what happened to her daughter because it is evidently clear by the vast majority of status quo society Morgan's death was mysterious. And truth be told, this Mayra Martinez (or MayraMM) is a malicious cyberbully with an agenda so ego-driven, she fails to refute her own research which is nothing more than venomous propaganda against myself and victim blaming of Morgan Ingram.