However, when your points are too extreme, it makes it hard for people to take you too seriously.

I’ve been going to Alderman Library for almost 40 years. Is it dangerous? No. If someone was going to attack a female student, they wouldn’t do it inside a library.

The only unusual thing I can recall was back in the 1980′s, when someone was sneaking up behind female students, cutting off clumps of their hair, and running away! I don’t remember if the person was caught or not. That was sad, and it was never determined if it was a student, employee, or townsperson.

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..got a good laugh today when some anonymous clown in The Hook still trying to defend Casteen linked to this. This article is a hilarious read nowadays. Even more than when it was written.

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Hi back. For your edification, this is not the only comment of yours that I have read. I see you on these boards quite a bit and I’m starting to get a feel for you viewpoint.

So that you don’t think I’m deflecting, I’m going to address your points about a lack of transparency in the investigative process. Don’t you think there could be a reason for holding back information that’s not sinister? I believe that the point of policework is to find the culprit of a crime; passing on every bit of information to the community is a secondary priority. I understand that this is a personal issue for you but sometimes muckracking does more harm than good.

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If you had actually read, or perhaps comprehended, any of my comments above – you would see numerous passages where I state quite clearly that obviously none of us have any idea who is responsible for anything, and that I hope everyone on the basketball team is innocent of anything and everything and can be back on the court helping the team ASAP. Even IF they were among the last to see her doesn’t mean they were at all involved in her disappearance any more than the other witnesses quoted in the article.

My only reason for repeating info already printed in The Hook (not the Cav Daily) was/is to ask how it is that it took some info a almost a month to appear while other details did not. I’m not the only one doing so by a long shot, so you may just have to start hating on a whole lot of people soon.

I have no need to respond by calling you a bunch of silly names or any such thing. But I can say that given inaccurate post just hating on me for whatever reason – I am as happy to be sickening to you as I am to attach my name to phrases like “play nice with others, nobody is better than anyone else, don’t cover up or withhold reporting important information in a missing persons investigation on behalf of anyone, never apply group guilt, and always care for your fellow humans.”

But this isn’t about me, or you, or Ben, or whomever. Pretend I’m an elderly woman posting under an assumed name from Fiji if it makes you feel better. And please try and read a bit more carefully.

Thanks.

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It sickens me how you attempt to twist every op/ed or letter to the editor into some bitter argument that only serves your selfish and hostile opinions. You do so by insulting bona fide comments and then hiding behind rhetorical smoke and mirrors. If anyone speaks against you, you imply that there is a cover up or someone is trying to silence your right to free speech. You also make borderline libelous comments, e.g. the suggestion that the basketball team has something to do with Morgan’s disappearance.

I believe that you are hypocritically using a pseudonym yourself. If not, you are tremendously stupid. You do know that these comments will show up in any google search run by a potential employer.

Please find a new hobby that does not involve you defecating your inane and ignorant effluvia on the CD comment boards.

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Did you even read what I wrote? I said a U-Va. student could have possibly picked her up but the odds seem to be that a townie did. In no way did I “presume that nobody affiliated with UVA could possibly be doing anything wrong.”

You are grasping at straws about me.

And U-Va. folks were not “involved in all the new stuff.” Unless U-Va. owns Sheetz in Orange County, the last place she was spotted by a single witness? The various police forces working on this don’t include single witness accounts in their timeline for very good reason. Experience has proven it unreliable in most cases. But know that they say they are checking out every lead as much as possible.. I for one believe them.

My heart goes out to the Harringtons too… I helped post her missing posters throughout Charlottesville including U-Va. and the Downtown Mall. I know you have the best intentions here, but the police doesn’t appear to be “covering up” anything, they simply can’t include single-witness stories as fact when so many of them end up being remembered incorrectly by the witnesses.

Let’s all hope police do not give up their search, and Morgan is found safe!

Ben
Townie,
CLAS 1999

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Neither you nor me know who is and who is not under suspicion here. But you seem to be really leaning towards presuming that nobody affiliated with UVA could possibly be doing anything wrong – and that includes hushing up some details. I’m making no such presumptions about anyone.

Truth be told, I got really angry when I casually read the hook article on Thursday, as there was all this new information that took a month to come out – and it “just so happened” that UVA folks were involved in all the new stuff. I think that’s a fair criticism of anyone who kept things hushed up because it might cast a shadow of a few students. That’s all. You have to admit that if indeed it was random, that’s quite a coincidence.

When I was a kid, one of my father best friends’ daughter vanished. A gal I sorta grew up with on summer holidays (they lived far away). She was about Morgan’s age, blond, and was hitchhiking. Her mother (my mom’s dear friend) had already died of cancer when I was about 10. I remember the late night phone calls to our house with her hysterical father saying he needed to come to nyc and search every strip club and brothel for her if that’s what it took. Years later, a hunter found what was left of her in the woods near where she vanished. Her father never really recovered in the classical sense. He died last year pretty much incapacitated mentally.

Forgive me if this whole thing really hits home for me and has dredged up some very bad, old memories. I got really angry about the possibility of a cover up in information to protect certain people. I’ll say it nicer this time, but the witnesses and the Cav Daily need to stand up and fess up to everything asap. It may just provide one tiny little clue that could bring a better end to this story than the one I just told you.

My heart really goes out to the Harringtons.

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And your idiotic suggestion about the basketball team somehow being related to Morgan’s disappearance is shameful. They ARE part of the case, because they are a few out of dozens of eye witnesses.

Are you really that obtuse? C’mon, man. You’ve got to be smarter than that.

Ben
CLAS 1999

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Indeed, a university spokesWOMAN has said regarding the two basketball players’ suspensions that “these actions are in no way connected to Morgan’s disappearance.” Note the word “disappearnace” instead of the word “case.” A syntax error? maybe. A very careful, legal, and PR choice of words? Maybe. Howsabout Bennett, Wood, Sene, Tucker, and Littlepage simply come out and publicly say that none of it has anything to do with the CASE. Simple, no? But here we are about a month later, and no dice. Indeed, it took way to long for these details to emerge in the first place. Details that have STILL not been printed in the Cav Daily. All we can do is see how it pans out. I have no idea who is guilty of anything, naturally. I actually hope the players are totally innocent and are back playing again soon. But there are some things here that just don’t make sense.

One of the students on the lawn spoke publicly to the Hook. Props to him. But others are not responding and clearly telling the media not to even write their names. And none of the 4 people spotted at 3:45 am have come forward to simply explain who they are and who they were with. Hmm.. It doesn’t add up, now does it..? Why doesn’t the student in the room where those 4 were seen leaving simply explain who they were, or indeed deny that anyone was there at all? Why all this secrecy? And WHY did it take nearly a MONTH for all this to appear in a newspaper?

And btw, Ben, stop advertising your silly gossip website here. It’s not the time nor place for it.

Ombud, grow a pair and post using your name. I daresay the real Ombudsman may just have trouble avoiding my questions one way or the other. Alas, they are not really MY questions, but the questions I think most everyone should be asking now. See the Hook comment thread on the story. IF the CD or anyone else lifted a finger to suppress one iota of information or delay it coming out, they need to come forward and admit it, apologize, and explain why they did it. The only acceptable excuse I can think of for doing so would be if the police asked them to. This isn’t about a witch hunt or trying to protect anyone still safe and sound. This is about getting ALL the information out ASAP so that something, anything can help.

Tragically, it appears that this has not happened over the past few weeks. And quite frankly, we should all be outraged that it’s taken this long.

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