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 found me after I wrote a blog post about my interview with Toni Ingram, which I published originally 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 that Toni Ingram 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. 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 before putting the spam filter on. 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. She even went so far to say that I was an Iran con crew leader, part of ISIS, and Persians are "third world" in efforts to intimidate me shortly before accusing me of ruining the life of a man named Keenan Vanginkel, the guy that is the suspect. The banter continued for minutes before Mayra 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 all over 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. Also, with the amount of evidence Toni Ingram has provided, there is no doubt Morgan was a victim of foul play.

Days later, I received more threats which came directly from the Websleuths site. This time, the harassment came from other individuals. Not only were they attacking Toni Ingram and myself, but they started to actually attack Morgan Ingram. It was weird and again, I refrained from publishing their comments because they were filled with the typical, unoriginal ad hominem. Supremely banal at its finest, you could also tell the person/people who wrote the comments were angry, uneducated, and more than likely intoxicated.

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 digged into Marcie Wogan and found out that this person was sick, but barely used the internet. That someone was actually using her identity to create hate blogs about people. And apparently, I was not the only victim of the identity thief's rage. Although I don't know whether this is Mayra Martinez, based on the language, the truncation, and the information that was voluntarily sent to me by a concerned reader, it is clear she is behind the blog 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 Oregon had put up a hate site about me in Fall of 2012 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. Mr. Odegard's blog about me was also filled with hateful lies and made absolutely no sense, as he was an old/former friend of my mother's. I never knew him and found his site to be nothing more than rants of an evident psycho. Mayra celebrated his disgusting blog about me like he was the messiah of distraction and 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 disgusting things online about me, only this time on individual hate sites about Toni which she created using a stolen identity.

And as this continued, she manipulated the search engines to say horrible things about not only me, but my boyfriend Joe Valo also. Additionally, 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. This is not true at all. She just makes weird things up to complement her crazy story which is based on her paranoia and opinion. This angry, self loathing woman also tried to say that I am crazy and that Joe and I were internet stalkers or internet trolls and she is the victim, etc. and that she never visits my blog. Which I find quite funny as she is the one who originally initiated contact, coming here to this blog posting threatening messages simply because I interviewed Toni Ingram and didn't approve her overly redundant and hateful remarks regarding Mrs. Ingram. My comments are moderated because of this cyberstalker. She was the one who contacted me first and threatened me simply because I interviewed Mrs. Ingram, believe Morgan Ingram was murdered, and found her threats and intimidating efforts beyond ridiculous. I still have the screenshots from this which are dated back to November 2012, when she first started harassing me.

Fast forward to 2014. It is currently late February of 2014 and this woman just continues to harass me, as she continues to spread lies about me with weird speculations that are simply untrue and bizarre. She has no proof, but screenshots she created from her own fan fiction, as it is clear she is obsessed with me and has been since 2012. Personally, I think she is a one-woman army filled with multiple alter egos. I don't know what kind of personality to expect from her today as they tend to change often. And speaking of often, she comes to this blog quite 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. 

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 a vindictive person in any shape or form. She's just an angry, rapid true crime fanatic obsessed with the Morgan Ingram case and who doesn't believe Mrs. Ingram nor supports the homicide theory. It is not up to me or anyone else to change anyone’s stance on the issue just like it is not up to anyone else to change mine. However, Mayra doesn't have to spread lies or do horrible things to silence others who disagree with her. I will voluntarily give my phone, my tablet, my computer, and any smart device I own to authorities to prove what Mayra is saying is completely false. I don’t think she can say the same. With that said, there are many ways of getting your opinions across without being a vicious and vindictive person. I don't go to any of her hate sites or read any of her hate blogs nor engage in the dialogue (which I’m certain are 90% her) because what she has said is simply not true.

Speaking of viciousness, I am well aware that it's inevitable to avoid backlash when dipping into the realm of true crime; however, what this person is saying about me is completely false and not true at all. 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 and evident victim blaming of Morgan Ingram.