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February
2012

Parents say murderer broke, shattered Harrington’s bones

Police have not confirmed condition of Harrington’s remains, murderer’s gender

By Virginia Terwilliger, Associate Editor on March 19, 2010
Placards on Copeley Bridge commemorate and also call for Morgan Harrington’s murderer to face justice. Photo by Albin Oh.

Placards on Copeley Bridge commemorate and also call for Morgan Harrington’s murderer to face justice. Photo by Albin Oh.

Dan and Gil Harrington, parents of deceased Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, said yesterday that they believe their daughter’s bones were shattered and broken by her killer, who they are confident is a male still in the local Charlottesville area.

The Harringtons gave a press conference in front of John Paul Jones Arena — the location of the Oct. 17 Metallica concert that Morgan attended — regarding the matter.

“The man who did this — and I am confident that it is a man — is being protected by his environment, by people in his environment, and that needs to stop,” Gil Harrington said.

Virginia State Police officials, however, are not yet commenting about the condition of the remains, nor have they confirmed the assertion that the killer was a man, State Police spokesperson Corinne Geller said.

“No particular person of interest or suspect [has been] identified to date,” she said.

Gil Harrington warned the Charlottesville community, though, that the murderer is a threat as long as he is at large.

“Evil is still afoot in this town,” she said. “There is a monster in Charlottesville, Va. who likes to hurt young girls.”

Dan Harrington also distributed a Virginia map highlighting other disappearances and deaths in the state since last August, which may suggest possible connections between Morgan’s death and other homicide cases.

Still, though, investigators have no evidence linking Morgan’s deaths to any other recent deaths in the area, Geller said.

32 Responses to “Parents say murderer broke, shattered Harrington’s bones”

  1. Laura says:

    I feel so bad for the Harrington family having to go through this horrible ordeal! But could it be possible that Morgan was hit and run over by some type of vehicle, especially if she was stumbling around and fell in front of something moving. Could it be possible that this was a horrible accident and someone is too scared to come forward? Or was this a murder and like Gil said an Evil man lurks around Charlottesville? Was it ever reported if they know that Morgan was sexually assaulted? Just curious.

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  2. Rob Stanfield says:

    Laura I totally agree with your theory. What if she was a victim of a drunk driver (for instance) who ran her down by accident? If she was indeed impaired, could she have stumbled into the path of a car? Could this be why no one has ever come forward? Only one person knows & he is not going to talk? There’s a lot of information LE is holding back for any one of several reasons. Was she sexually assaulted? Has any DNA evidence been obtained? What kind of physical evidence if any was where she was found? Long story short it’s a horrible end to a very short & certainly a beautiful life. We wish the Harrington’s every possible avenue for healing that may present itself.

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  3. Yorke says:

    At least one evil person lurks around here, one that would dump a body where he/she thought nobody would ever find it and keep her loved ones guessing forever. And that includes any and all scenarios where an accident or overdose or some kind or combination might have caused her death.

    Let’s remind ourselves here, folks, that UVA did a very thorough job covering up this missing person’s investigation, and the Cavalier Daily did too. It took a month for details of Morgan’s interactions that night with UVA students to come out in The Hook. That took some guts even a month later with what lengths the UVA administration goes to squelch any negative news about their students from ever appearing in local media.

    Even worse is that another revelation covered in the December Hook article and others since – that a newspaper delivery woman says she saw Morgan with three men emerging from a room on the West range of the lawn at 3:45 am that night – has NEVER been printed in the Cav Daily.

    It somehow took all the way until her body was discovered that the story of the black Pantera T-shirt being found around 15th. and Grady to come out. Hmm.. What demographic lives around 15th. and Grady? This story likewise – somehow – has NEVER found it’s way into the Cavalier Daily. Finally, we have the state police asking UVA students to identify which fraternities have had parties at the farm where her body was found over the past few years – and who attended those parties.

    So here it is folks.. The gal who claims she can ID one of the men with Morgan on the lawn that night is holding to her story, yet there is NO pressure for anyone there to come forward for a lineup or submit some DNA or anything of the sort. If a missing persons and now a murder investigation might give “The University” some negative publicity for even a moment – even if it ultimately clears people from suspicion – it is to be hushed/covered up no matter what.

    UVA students will probably appear in the hundreds today to protest waterboarding in Cuba. But it appears that none of them will step forward and dare even whisper about all the connections their colleagues seem to have regarding a murdered Hokie who vanished on their campus. They seem much more interested in just making this whole thing go away ASAP.

    SShhhhhhhhh… Just don’t talk about it….. It will fade from the headlines..

    It’s clear to me that even IF the killer(s) lurk within the UVA student body, the rest of the student body – with the full backing of Casteen & co. – are AOK with that, as long as the reputation of “The University” is upheld.

    Gil Harrington could hardly have said it better:

    “The man who did this — and I am confident that it is a man — is being protected by his environment, by people in his environment, and that needs to stop.”

    I can only add that there is no environment for a man from Charlottesville to be protected by – unless of course he goes to UVA.. Whether or not the killer(s) end up having anything to do with UVA, it is already a sad fact that the UVA environment bent over backwards to protect their own. And they continue to do so rather successfully.

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  4. Alan says:

    So sad. Wouldn’t have happened with a different JPJ policy.

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  5. Sunflower says:

    Yorke…..whoa! That is something else. Very interesting. If you are right, then the killer will be found. I was ready to go with the folks saying it could of been a hit and run, but I think you’re on to something here. Thanks for sharing.

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  6. Michelle says:

    Laura & Rob, if you read the story you would see she was found in a remote area where its hard for cars to get so I really doubt she was struck by a vehicle and who said she was drunk? or on drugs? Wow now the judging starts….she was murdered and I agree with Yorke 100% the University needs to be brought down and accountable b/c I believe the murderer(s) GO to UVA and that is just sad. UVA students suck and are cowards.

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  7. Michelle says:

    She was not hit by a vehicle people she was found in a remote area and why are you assuming she was drunk or on drugs? where does it say that? This girl was murdered by a UVA student and its disgusting to me that they are covering it up, the students should be ashamed

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  8. Michelle says:

    Ohh I see, I suggest that a student at UVA did it and my comment gets deleted? Hmm there you go….how do you say cover up!!!! So much for freedom of speech, this paper sucks!

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  9. Rob says:

    Yorke makes good points. So dose Michelle. The Cav Daily is not an honest media outlet. It simply acts as a agent of the UVA administration. The Cav Daily very clearly places the interests of the University above the importance of truth. I’ve always wondered why the Cav Daily does not have an investigative reporter, and I think I know the reason: they participate in the cover-ups by trying uphold the reputation of the University. The University’s reputation is more important than the truth, clearly.

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  10. Vermonter says:

    I hate to say it folks, BUT…….
    Even if Morgan’s bones were broken in some sort of hit and run scenario, and the person freaked out and covered it up—–THAT’S STILL MANSLAUGHTER or VEHICULAR HOMICIDE,—-> especially<—-if it were the result of drunk driving!!!! That would not be just a 'tragic accident', it would be a CRIME!
    That being said, I seriously doubt that someone involved in hitting and killing a pedestrian would bother to pick up the injured party, drive 10 miles away to a hard to reach, remote, rural area and dump the body. Why bother? If you are callous enough to disregard the life of the victim, why not just leave them at the scene. Why would you risk having an injured, bleeding victim in your ,now, newly damaged car, to leave behind yet more trace evidence that would link you to the scene of the 'accident'?
    No, Gil Harrington has a more plausible (albeit terrifying) theory. There is a violent sexual predator walking among you.
    The perpetrator picked that location to dump her body methodically, in the hopes that by the time her remains were found, they would be so decomposed that any DNA he had left on her person would be long gone. They may never know for a fact that she was raped, or even how she died, since they only found her skeletal remains. Unless there is trauma evident to her bones such as knife marks, a ruptured hyoid bone in her throat, or damage from a bullet strike, it could be very hard to determine. Gil Harrington is saying the remains she viewed appeared to have 'broken and shattered bones', but that damage could have been caused by the murderer dragging the body to the location it was found in. If she was alive for several hours after an attack resulted in broken bones (a horrifying thought, indeed) and those bones began the healing process, a forensic anthropologist should be able to tell they were from pre-mortem injuries. Bones broken right before or at the time of death, might not be able to be definitively excluded from bones broken after death (from, say, dragging a body 1/4 mile into the woods over rough terrain).

    I hope they find the guilty party and he confesses, or divulges the details to someone who turns him in. Otherwise, I fear justice may never happen for Morgan and her family.

    If they don't catch Morgan's killer soon, he likely will not be taken off the streets until he has murdered someone else's little girl.

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  11. Yorke says:

    The story about the state police using the words “UVA student” and “fraternity” in connection with the Anchorage Farm where her body was found DID indeed get printed in the Cavalier Daily. But this was just a few days after the NEW editorial staff took over from the last one. So there is an improvement with regard to this. Somebody asked the gal who wrote that very brief story how it was that the police “did not deny” that UVA fraternity parties had taken place there.. Were they asked, or did they volunteer that all on their own? She has never replied to the question.

    I found the article here:

    http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2010/02/08/harrington-brief/

    As for the west range of the lawn, well, they’re just counting down the days till they can get their asses outta here and graduate. I dunno if Morgan was really partying there the night she vanished. There was only one sighting. But it was a sober woman at work who still says she can ID one of the men she was with. Imagine, just image, if this sighting of Morgan had been on the west range of, say, Hardy Drive or Friendship Cort (the projects). Just imagine how much everybody would have known all about that – and quickly they would have!

    But this is UVA. Students can get arrested for assaulting police officers drunk off their ass at football games – and you aint ever gunna read a word about it in ANY local media. Coverage like that is just for “other people.” Even in a murder investigation, UVA students know full well that Casteen has their back, and that he has unlimited financial resources to make any bad news regarding UVA go away. They are one of the largest advertisers in town – probably the largest – and no media outlet will dare mess with their wishes. And nobody, even on the board of governor’s, dares say one word in protest even when we have a young woman’s body comprised of smashed bones lies in her grave at the age of 20.

    This should be the number one story on the UVA campus at present. If nobody had anything to do with her death – even if they partied with her that night or whatever – then they need only come forward and explain themselves. But that hasn’t happened. The preponderance of evidence to date points directly at the UVA student body. That doesn’t mean that anyone therein is guilty – but the fact remains that the cover up has been widespread and consistent, and MAY just be leaving killer(s) at large to do it again.

    Alas, the national reputation of “The University” is still intact. But here’s hoping the cops and the Harrington’s are keeping some details a secret only because they are closing in fast – regardless of who is guilty, and whether or not they have any environment of protection keeping details about them from being covered in the media.

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  12. Theories and more says:

    Although the theory of a car accident with a freaked out motorist is interesting, it’s unlikely that the woman’s shirt would have been found under a Bush on 15th Street, with her body and other clothes elsewhere on a farm in the middle of nowhere. As far as a student doing this, profilers have looked at this case and based on the brutality of it, they think it’s an older man who has done this before. A younger man may have been brought into it, but usually they don’t start their criminal careers doing the worst crimes first.

    Did you read that her parents thought her case seemed related to the Colonial Parkway murders? Here’s some intersting reading on that case, including some guy who killed a lady from Maryland along Route 29 before — look at the composite sketch, that face sort of looks familiar, but he’d be older now…
    http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:http://labyrinth13.com/mirror/VirginiaMurders/index.htm

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  13. Theories and more says:

    Sorry, I put a cached copy up earlier because the main one was down. Here’s the article on the Colonial Parkway murders:
    http://labyrinth13.com/mirror/VirginiaMurders/index.htm

    Also, Darrell Rice has an alibi for Harrington — he was in prison this time, couldn’t have been Harrington’s killer:
    http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/25/re-released-darrell-rice-readies-for-freedom/

    And of course this guy has an alibi — he’s dead:
    http://crimeshadows.com/nicholaou.htm

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  14. outofstate says:

    Just wanted to mention, I am not so sure the national reputation of “The University” is still intact. People across the nation are taking note of the unnatural silence surrounding Morgan Harrington’s death. It leaves a very negative impression.

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  15. Susan R says:

    Applause for Yorke from http://www.uvavictimsofrape.com! Finally, a person among you who is not afraid to publicly state what everyone knows.

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  16. Bilfar says:

    I think Morgan must have accepted a ride from the same “normal” looking person who gave her a PCP laced cigerette in the JPJ parking lot 30 minutes earlier (speculation only). That this person then began to follow her in his car, keeping a safe distance until she began hitchhiking on the bridge. That perhaps there is still someone out there who witnessed Morgan speaking to this individual back in the JPJ parking lot and could possibly provide a detailed description of him and the car he was driving.

    The same goes for the individual who witnessed something going on that evening in a car parked in the overflow lot where Morgan’s Pocketbook and cell phone were later found. That the FBI arrange for these witnesses to work with one of our countrys top Forensic Hypnotists, in hopes that something so important as a complete license plate number be recalled.

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  17. cnm says:

    Miss Harrington makes some bad choices of judgment that contributed to the chain of events that lead to her demise. That does not mean she “deserved” what happened, it has nothing to do with who her gender or how she was dressed.

    She drank alcohol and possibly mixed it with other intoxicants.

    She left or was ejected from the arena at some point during the show.

    She chose to leave the area and perhaps attempted to hitch-hike home instead of waiting for her friends to after the show, even though her own vehicle was there.

    Each of those decisions added an element of risk or danger to herself. If she had made some different decisions at each point in those chain of events, she would likely be alive today. It is still unknown whether she was abducted, left willingly with someone, or was possibly even struck by a vehicle. But for what ever reason, someone placed her in that field, hoping she would not be discovered for a long time. This was a terrible crime in any event.

    Subsequently, the Harringtons have made some poor choices in judgment, such as releasing information about the case that the police had withheld up to that point (perhaps for good reasons), they have inferred that the police have not done an adequate job investigating this case, and they have sought additional publicity by urging their local elected state representative to sponsor a resolution in the state assembly “honoring” her, as though this was a case and a victim that was somehow special or exclusive to so many others, which has resulted in some public backlash, and has hurt Miss Harrington’s cause more than it has helped.

    To argue that this point of view is somehow cruel, cold, sick, or otherwise is not rational.

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  18. AG says:

    Yorke,

    You seem to have some sort of chip on your shoulder with U.Va., eh? I’m not going to sit here and defend the Cav Daily, but you’re comparing a completely student-run newspaper with no investigative journalist to a city newsmagazine that is all investigative journalism and that will run anything that will get a reader’s attention, regardless of how factual that is.

    “Even worse is that another revelation covered in the December Hook article and others since – that a newspaper delivery woman says she saw Morgan with three men emerging from a room on the West range of the lawn at 3:45 am that night – has NEVER been printed in the Cav Daily.”
    I believe the Hook itself threw this one out as completely bogus? Correct me if I’m wrong.

    “This should be the number one story on the UVA campus at present.”
    Actually, it is, and has been all year in the student community. What more do you want? An article from the Cav Daily every day repeating the limited amount of information that the police have released?

    Again, I don’t want to sit here and defend the Cav Daily, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say that they’re “covering up” vital information to this case. I think they’re just “going with what they’ve got” – and believe me, the people at the Hook have way more time on their hands to go exploring this case.

    Oh and Michelle, I can assure you your comments weren’t deleted as part of a “cover up”. They were deleted because they were outlandish and unjustified. Police HAVE released evidence that suggests that Morgan was inebriated in some sort of way. Where have you been for the past 6 months? To boldly state “A UVA student did this and they are covering it up” as certainty without any concessions or backing evidence hardly lends any credibility to your comments and does nothing to advance this discussion.

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  19. Yorke says:

    AG,

    There is no justifiable explanation for how long it took for the story of her interactions with the basketball team to be printed. Nor is there any reasonable explanation that the story of police investigating a black Pantera shirt found at 15th./Rugby area has STILL never been printed in the Cav Daily.

    In a missing person’s investigation, getting the most info out in the media ASAP is of paramount importance in helping to find or save her. The Cav Daily last December and January covered many other details regarding Morgan’s case. But the ones that involved UVA students and/or student areas were either delayed or not reported at all. The sighting on the lawn was reported in the Cav Daily for the first time TODAY – 3/22/10. You can believe that all of these things are just a coincidence if you wish. I do not. I don’t have a chip on my shoulder about anything other than a university getting together to squelch information in a missing person’s turned murder case for the sake of avoiding negative publicity.

    The Hook also sat on things for a while before reporting them. At least they did eventually, unlike C-Ville Weekly which seems to be even more in UVA’s pocket. I don’t know when the police informed the media of the lawn sighting or the shirt on 15th. But the string of events that saw all stories involving UVA students or areas come out later than they should – or not at all – does not lend itself to be a curious collection of coincidences.

    fyi, the last I read in the Hook a few weeks back – the woman who was delivering papers on the lawn that morning stands by her story, and repeats that she can ID one of the men she saw. But we all know that aint gunna happen, don’t we? They’ll all be long gone in a matter of a few weeks. And NONE of those 4 people has ever come forward and explained that it was a case of mistaken identity. I would think that the eye witness would at least come off her story if they had done so – even privately to her and the police. Another coincidence?

    Hopefully, we’ll have the answers with some arrests real soon. But, tragically, that’s beginning to seem unlikely now. But there is no rewriting history, or changing dates or content of articles in the Cav Daily. Was this the doing of Cav Daily EIC Thomas Madrecki – or was he pressured by the UVA administration? That’s a good question that I will ask both he and the ombudsman in that thread right now.. Let’s see if either have the guts to answer that question, shall we?

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  20. Jennifer Phelps says:

    My name if Jennifer Phelps, I am the sister-in-law to AnnaMaria Phelps, one of the Colonial Parkway victims. Our thoughts, prayers and support go out to the Harrington Family. My hope is that we can all work together to find this killer.

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  21. former cav daily writer says:

    The cav daily newspaper is an independent newspaper from the University. They receive no money from uva and rent their office space. The police thoroughly investigated the interaction with basketball players and found nothing.. And the police nor uva bball were willing to speak. To print the truth you need sources.
    Not one person has had anything to say to corroborate the newspaper delivery person’s story. Should the cav daily have run a story based on speculation? Maybe, but probably not.

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  22. Gene says:

    Yorke – and judging by your copy-pasted blind hatred for UVA, I’m pretty sure you’re just good old Sean Cannan acting more cowardly than usual – let me ask you a question. If this delivery woman is so sure she can ID the man she saw leaving that room on the lawn with a woman who might have been Morgan, and the names of those residents are public information, and the police and press are all thoroughly interested in solving this case – with all this in place, why hasn’t he been identified yet? I’m sure the police and local press have all spoken with her and shown her photographs of those men – why haven’t we found him after all this time? Eyewitness testimony is notoriously inaccurate. Could it be that she’s just plain wrong?

    How are you so sure this is a UVA student when the only evidence you have is a popular shirt from a popular band found a month after Morgan’s disappearance on the other side of Grounds from all the other sightings of her?

    There’s no coverup because there’s nothing to hide. There’s no evidence to support what you’re saying, just a fanatical hatred for UVA and its students. Give it a rest.

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  23. cmd says:

    Yorke and Gene – I’d have to go with Gene on this one; I do not understand why it is necessary to bring into this horrible and saddening incident such statements as “UVA students suck and are cowards”; I think it wise not to take advantage of others’ misfortune to broadcast personal vendettas. Thanks.

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  24. Yorke says:

    Gene,

    You can try to put words in my mouth or at my fingertips, and indeed call me whomever and whatever you want. The delays and the omissions in the Harrington story coverage are there for all to see, and I for one don’t think that is was a coincidence that all the delayed or ignored angles involved UVA students and student areas. I never said I was sure that anyone did anything, much as you would like to think I did. Just that there was big difference between this coverage and that of, say a black man in a wheelchair saying a few silly things to a few girls in Alderman Library. Remember the front page headlines and the details of EVERY sighting the Cav Daily bent over backwards to report then? Morgan Harrington’s details were given far less coverage. In some cases, none at all. This has nothing to do with hating anyone, or me being an armchair detective. Just that the Cav Daily behaved very differently when it might have been one of the elite members of “the university” that MIGHT have been involved. This is a tradition around Charlottesville, Gene. It’s not just the Cav Daily.

    cmd, the only one on this website that has posted such a silly comment as that is YOU.

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  25. Earnan says:

    It must have been a well organized team of UVa students. First the basketball players, than some grad students on the range, and some frat kids on 15st street. I wouldn’t be surprised if every single UVa student was in on it. Casteen probably had something to do with it too

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  26. kathy flynn says:

    I do not live the the state of VA,but I have followed this story since Oct 2009.Then, to my complete surprise, I actually received a long-distance call from someone close to this case(in Feb)because i posted something online that did not “sound right” to them,and I had also sent in a possible tip,based on a theory I had..they wanted to know “how did you know that?” about something morgan wore or did not wear on that night in Oct.2009..what I posted was actually just a guess,just like most of all of our postings..I beg of all of you who live in VA..please support the Harrington family, and help them in their demand for more answers,do not let this case get any colder..alot of people know what happened to that girl ,and are still more worried about themselves than helping the police to solve this case….i have nothing at all to do with this case,yet people involved in solving it are calling ME!! Does that mean that the people in VA who are investigating this have no other leads? After all of these months?How is that possible?? I also believe that the shirt being found right after the remains were found, was no coincidence..i also believe that the perpetrator still has her necklace(the swarovski),or pawned it right after she was dead..remember: the news did not even mention her necklace for the first few weeks.that person would have had plenty of time to pawn it between Oct 2009 and when the first story mentioned it(Nov or Dec,not sure)..they found her bracelet with the remains,but the necklace she wore that night was not found with the remains in Jan 2010(this has already been reported in the news).also, everyone keeps saying”there is no video,etc with Morgan on it”/what about any of her with her friends that night? why don’t they look for video of all those friends,to see who in that group actually was at the concert?I also agree(with other posters) that she may never have BEEN at the concert..the friends lied for her,as she had other plans..they just said she left her seat,then a few mins later called them(they made up the bathroom story to coincide with the time of her last cellphone call,which they knew the police would be able to check).those friends(or should they even be referred to as friends?) are the key to this whole thing..too bad they all lawyered up since this started(Oct 2009).Sign ME “they are calling people out of state who know nothing”..Justice for Morgan..KF

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  27. Bilfar says:

    Greetings Kathy Flynn. Sounds like you would make an excellant Detective. I’m suprised I haven’t received a call yet considering some of the really wild but completely conceivable scenarios I’ve come up with (by the way my sincere apologies to the Harrington’s for possibly having read any of them). Maybe having to place some expensive, long distance phone calls to me here in Germany has something to do with it.

    But seriously I think that’s the beauty of these type blogs, giving ordinary folk like us a chance to (maybe) assist Law Enforcement (LE) with these seemingly unsolvable crimes. That the only bad scenario is the one that’s never been offered up for consideration.

    That the neatly spreading out of Morgan’s shirt over that bush was a very risky, brash “taunt” on someone’s part, someone who perhaps remains a solid citizen within the Community and who has gotten away with murder before.

    That LE is “cautiously optimistic” is encouraging. Still we should continue asking for God’s help in giving that one very special person the strength to come forward with what he or she knows.

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  28. cajunqueen says:

    Yorke, are you still here? I find your comments intriguing. I’m not a local, but have wondered about some of the very things you mention.

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  29. cajunqueen says:

    Yorke, what are your thoughts on the Yeardley Love murder? Any concerns there’s a tie-in to Morgan? I know Yeardley’s case seems more open and shut, but reading the accounts, I find some interesting similarities. I also note there were many times people in authority could have nipped Huguely’s behavior in the proverbial bud.

    The proximity of Morgan’s shirt to Yeardley’s apartment is one element that’s curious. I only have google to visualize the area, but they do seem close. And the fact that Huguely apparently took some of Yeardley’s belongings seems consistent with Morgan’s missing things.

    I realize the two cases also are very different in many ways, but just cogitating aloud….

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  30. reedbabe says:

    This reminds me of a case I saw on TV. This young lady was riding her bicycle and two men in a car hit her intentionally. She flew off the bike and they picked her up and put her in their car. They took her somewhere and raped her (they had hit her with the intention of raping her). Perhaps something similar happened to Morgan. Or possibly after they (and I feel it was more than one) raped her, they chased her in the field with their truck and ran her over to kill her, thus shattering her bones. I feel it is not necessarily an older man; if it were a group of young men, they might have done something in a group that they never would have done on their own. I agree that logically it is most likely UVA students that are involved and other students are helping to cover it up.

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  31. VAB says:

    It hurts me that some of you guys are trying to turn this all around on UVA students. Yes, there are some bad seeds(just like any where else you go in this corrupt world), but we’re not all in on it. Most of us are as lost as the rest of you guys when it comes to solving this case. I’m not saying that it is completely out of the question to believe that one of the university’s students committed the crime either. What I am confident of is that if any of UVA’s officials had a tip that one of the students was guilty, then they would have relayed that information properly. It would be horrible to find out that a part of UVA’s student body did take part in the killing, but justice is justice. The honor code is taken very seriously at that school. Yorke-since you have such riveting information about this case, why don’t you call up Charlottesville Police and fill them in. Making claims and disrespecting the university in a student-run website comment box isn’t helping us get closer to a solution. Thanks for your Sherlock insights.

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  32. VAB says:

    Yorke: “It somehow took all the way until her body was discovered that the story of the black Pantera T-shirt being found around 15th. and Grady to come out.”

    Sean: “Ms. Harrington’s description on the lawn at 3:45 am the night she vanished – as well as the black Pantera T-Shirt found near 15th. and Rugby – have NEVER been reported in this publication.”

    I deciding to look over one of the articles you posted, Yorke, and this part just caught my eye. So which line are we going to go with? Grady or Rugby?

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