Morgan Harrington Case: Separating Fact From Fiction From Facebook Part II
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Charlottesville, VA– Just passing the month mark, the disappearance of Morgan Harrington from the John Paul Jones Area located on the UVA campus, leaves us with more questions than answers. Part II
The Faces of Her Facebook
Help Find Morgan Harrington was developed by a few concerned individuals interested in spreading the word about Morgan’s disappearance and boasts over 30,000 members. Not all posts are welcome.
In particular, a member by the name of Nelson Kane was recently banned for posting very detailed hypothesis scenarios that sparked a firestorm of interest in the self-appointed athlete scout. His posts were deleted at the request of Law Enforcement who admit tasking two officers with monitoring the web for such activity in Morgan’s case.
Additionally, Mr. Kane reached out to several individuals on facebook as well as the Harrington family’s findmorgan.com site in attempts to speak to the family directly and request an interview. The Harrington’s were made aware of the concern for such requests by sources close to the investigation.
He has recently changed his facebook drastically. 
Mr. Kane, a member of the family owning the longtime furniture store of the same name in Charlottesville is also a UVA alumni and season ticket holder. In addition to UVA, Kane also claims to have attended Virginia Tech on many of his many social networking profiles. He also fancies himself as somewhat of a Rock band critic.
On his site, nkscouting.com which he has maintained 
since 2001, Kane chronicles his trips to scout mostly High School basketball and football athletes. In an effort to make his site more interesting (his words) he details the travel experience, routes, times and in some cases photos of his visits to High Schools mostly within a few hours driving distance.
Very early on in Morgan’s case, blinkoncrime.com explored the idea that perhaps the double murder of VT freshmen David Metzler and Heidi Childs on August 27th should be investigated as a possible link to Morgan’s case simply because they attend the school and Morgan and Heidi bare a remarkable resemblance to one another.
As far as very odd coincidences go, the location of Nelson Kane’s scouting foray the evening of the August 28th could not be more relevant.
Kane scouted the game at Jefferson Forest High School. The very 
School Heidi Childs graduated from a year earlier. Unlike most of Kane’s other journal entries of his athlete accolades, there is no mention of his travel experience to or from Forest High School so it is unclear where he left from, when he got there, or when he returned home.
This is in no way an accusation that Mr. Kane had any involvement whatsoever in such a heinous crime, of course, but given his proclivities for leaving at all hours of the day and night his keen attention to travel detail and familiarity with the area: Perhaps he saw someone or something amiss in his trip that could help investigators.
On Saturday October 17th, Kane scouts a game, listens to the UVA football game on his way home and is home in plenty of time to make the concert.
Blink how do you know he was at the concert you ask? I do not. I do know he knows alot about security at the JPJ Arena, how to navigate the different lots near Uhall, and of course that there are blue portable lavatories next to Lanigan Field. His posts from the Charlottesville Daily Progress below:
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The area is patrolled by the park rangers; they man the gate, as well.
RE: FB: Not MH; no further comment.
Observer Thank you so much for sharing with us, your posts always are so informative to us all, and certainly continue to give us all perspective in this case. Your posts add so much to this board.
Also, your dedication and passion to justice for crime victims as well as for the perps is definitely revealed and felt in your words of your post.
http://wcrnews.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/man-shot-by-police-on-skyline-drive-identified/
Park Rangers are probably quick to call in VSP for nonroutine matters.
You can go to http://www.nps.gov/BLRI/index.htm for information about the Blue Ridge Parkway. If you can get to any photos, you can see how curvy and dangerous this road is…not a road I’d imagine a carload of panicked (or even slightly drunk) people would stick to for long. I sent an earlier email to Blink about (among other things) why I thought they’d go down the parkway instead of North toward Skyline Drive…and George, Dakota, and MsL have all written similar things. South is free, and there is not a ranger station at the entrance. There are overlooks and steep drop-offs almost immediately upon entering the park. As Dakota said, there is no hunting along the roadway, and as MsL said on a much earlier post…this is some romote, rough terrain. If it was gray and drizzly down in Charlottesville that night, it surely would have been foggy up on the mountain, making visibility even worse. I feel that if anyone who is not familiar with this area took any of the exits off of 64 or 250 up here (incl. to Lyndhurst or Waynesboro) they wouldn’t venture too far.
Blink, I agree that the advanced decomp rules out both Morgan and Cassandra. We’ve had some warm days, but not enough to speed up decomp like that, I don’t think. But I’m no expert….
I did see that there was a little 5k trail run on Camp Hydaway Rd on Feb 21 of this year, but then again the road is pretty long and winding, and I’m not sure how the run correlated with where the body was found. Was thinking if the course ran past the body, it prolly wasn’t there on Feb 21. here’s a map of the course http://www.ultimatelu.com/media/9936/CandlersMTN5kcourseMap.pdf
Well damn, it’s Cassandra Morton. http://www.wset.com/
It’s breaking news at that link
Campbell County Remains Identified
Campbell County investigators say they have now identified the body of the woman found on Candler’s Mountain Sunday as that of 23-year-old Cassandra Morton. Morton was last seen on Saturday, October 10, 2009 at approximately 10:00 p.m. in the Park Ave. area of downtown Lynchburg. Police say they do suspect foul play. A news conference is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. Stay with ABC 13 for the latest.
RIP, Cassandra. I hope the police find clues to your killer… Prayers to your loved ones.
It was Cassandra. I had a feeling it might be when she was no longer listed on the VSP missing persons site.
http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=11599871
According to WDBJ, the body in Campbell County has been identified as Cassandra Morton
http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=11599871
Sorry, I looked twice to make sure it hadn’t been posted already. Didn’t mean to repeat you.
Thanks for the info on Cassandra. I sort of thought so, but was surprised at the speed of the decomp.
So sad…
Since she was abducted a week before Morgan, I’m hoping that area will be finely searched.
The disconnected skull is not common in such a short time due to the strength of the vertebral column.
Anyone with more knowledge on that?
I dont think anyone can know until more info is available. It sounded more like animal activity to me based on the order in which the remains were found and location and the fact the sheriff could not say how it got that way. If she were, my apologies, if it were a manual act, he would know that immediately on sight.
B
So now we are down to one known missing girl in this region, Morgan.
i escaped a stranger rape attempt,flat tire samaritan,we ended up at least 30 miles away,one end of town to the other ,he attempted, in his car,tinted windows, on a residential street ,wealthy neighborhood,security neighborhood,with their westec security signs stuck into the grass, parked right in front of houses,i screamed out the window twice, layed on the horn once.he still tried right there, he had pretended he was lost,as we exited the neighborhood,two blocks and the freeway,he knew it ,he knew where he was ,as he entered the freeway ramp,i grabbed the steering wheel,he slammed on brakes and i jumped out.i wondered at the time and still if he was going to do the deed and ditch me alive or not,the freeway makes me think the latter,the reason i am sharing this is ,he didnt need a wooded area or an isolated area(til maybe later),balls ,right on a residential street in front of someones house right next door to someone elses house next to someone elses house,parked on the street ,right there,streetlights.albeit, i dont think it was his first time,i do think i made hard for him(so maybe he verred off his normal),i entered his car with every hair standing straight up,gearing for one false move.btw it was before cell phones.
God Bless You, Cassandra, and your family and friends. I am so sorry.
Godspeed, Cassandra. How sad and terrible this all is.
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@radiogirl #779:
http://eyesforlies.blogspot.com/2009/11/morgan-dana-harringtons-friend-speaks.html
Poor girl. Prayers to her family.
Blink and all,
I have made a serious mistake with respect to the Slyline Drive mile markers. There is no MM 120 on the Skyline Drive; the Drive ends at Rockfish Gap (as previously stated), but at MM 105. If anyone referenced MM 120 they must have been thinking of the Blue Ridge Parkway. MM 120 off the Blue Ridge Parkway is the exit for Roanoke. The Parkway descends in that area and almost nudges the city limits of Roanoke and ties into Route 220 at MM 120. Morgan’s parents, of course, live in Roanoke.
Thanks for the correction, G.
B
#753 “For me, that translates to “we have a witness who admitted picking her up stating she was HH who say they dropped her off at X, at her request.”
At first this makes sense, but I’m not so sure. Here’s why: if a person picked her up they are either
1) an innocent person that gave her an innocent ride to location X
or
2) a perpetrator that took advantage of MH.
If it was a perpetrator, he/she would never have come forward as a witness, he would be trying to hide his tracks instead rather than subject his car to search, etc.
If it was an innocent person then the last known location for MH would not be the bridge, but rather Location X. I can’t think of any reason why someone would come forward with a witness account of giving her a ride if they had not.
True, but your assuming they came forward. What if a witness gave LE that information and confronted with same, the individual would be a sitting duck to lie about that.
Also, anyone with forensics knowledge would know to deny someone was in your vehicle when they actually were is not smart.
B
Oops, I mean,
2) a person that was somehow involved in her disappearance.
815 NYMom Thank you for the link.
“True, but your assuming they came forward. What if a witness gave LE that information and confronted with same, the individual would be a sitting duck to lie about that.
Also, anyone with forensics knowledge would know to deny someone was in your vehicle when they actually were is not smart.
B”
Hello Blink,
Am definitely leaning heavily towards the individual waiting for LE to come to them at which point offering a pre-planned “innocent” explanation (but not likely all that credible, not that smart, does not have knowledge of ALL the pieces – - although probably knows what happened to the battery from the “ping-less” cell phone.
Blink, I take it you are still leaning to LE/similiar background/knowledge for this individual close to Morgan.
Hello wpg-
You know, I have not seen reason 1 yet to move my cheese in any other direction. I could be way off, but the lockdown status of the whole thing echos that to me.
B
Decomp speed continues to mystify me. I remember what a shock it was to think that Caylee’s remains could be skeletonized in as little as 2 weeks thanks to Florida heat, but man, skeletonized in just a month or two in Autumn weather here in VA? That just boggles the mind. Of course we did have alot of rain, but who knew? Yipes.
The limo driver….did he state that he saw Morgan HH?
Like Blink, I assume that since the body was covered by rocks and other debris, animals accessed one end and moved the skull across the path. At least I hope it was animal animals and not a human animal. Eeesh.
B/mosaic (re: #818) I’m pickin’ up what you’re puttin’ down, B.
But… if no vehicles have been processed yet, does it mean this hypothetical witness is not credible? or has yet to assert her/his account? Not to menion the fact that every day the proverbial hunters let the proverbial duck sit is another 24 hours in which any forensic evidence that exists could be compromised, tainted or removed.
Shoot. The. Duck.
Pronto.
B
Blink…
Was the limo driver the only identified witness to M’s HH?
To my knowledge he only saw Morgan walking and talking with basketball players
B
You have briefly touched on this on multiple occasions, after watching so many episodes of solved, and 48 hours: hard evidence, could it be possible LE has a POI, and some sort of case (probably circumstantial at best right now), and they are just piecing together everything they have before making a move? These type of cases often play out slowly, until the POI(s) make a mistake, or there is a major break…hopefully any or all of the above occur soon!
Blink
Thinking of the bb players as witnesses, plus the location of where Morgan’s battery-less purse was found the next norning, in your opinion, did this individual visibly know at the time they were witnessed or did Morgan relay to this individual her actions prior that may have included telling “witnesses” about her anticipated interaction with this individual.
I feel I need to know where the battery cover was located, and if the strap truly was ripped on the bag. Lastly, confirmation on where HER car was parked at JPJ and if it has been checked if it cleared the parking garage more than once.
B
Golly, my heart aches for the family of Cassandra Morton — if this had been Morgan, all of us would have sent cards probably or some other gesture — maybe we can do the same for Cassandra’s family —
but — I don’t know how rapidly bodies decompose — and we have had temps in the 80′s since 10-10 — but Morgan is only 7 days post Cassandra — do 7 days make a difference ? I don’t know, not trying to be unkind — also — what about animal predation — that’s what worries me most about Morgan if she is in a final resting place — I just moved to a very rural area on Oct 1st, and found out last weekend there was a 400 lb black bear roaming around the little subdivision and some guy just shot it last weekend — my cat went missing a week after we moved, and I absolutely fear animal predation — but also because of the warm weather, this is gross — avert your eyes — but bugs — fly larvae, etc. — would are hatching in the warm weather, and mealy worms can strip flesh from bones in about three or four days — poor Cassandra : (
Localgirl — you are absolutely right, I grew up near Hampden-Sydney college (where men are men and women are guests !) — went to frat parties there when I was just 15, 16 and 17 and then when I was in college and then outta college in my early 20′s in Richmond — when I was in college, I had friends at JMU, even though I was in MD, and drove down to Hburg for parties and dances — and that night, as I drove thru the campus around 9:20-ish, there were kids out — because I got caught in a downpour around 9:05 walking back to my car and was wet and freezing with the heat at full blast and I remember thinking: those kids are crazy to be out in this weather with no coats — and one girl was alone jogging in shorts !
I am haunted to this day, if 9:30 is a true timeline for Morgan, I missed her by minutes. When I drove not once, but twice across that bridge — I turned the wrong way the first time — I absolutely did NOT see anyone HH’g and certainly not a girl. I would have stopped and picked that child up and let her sit in my car or taken her to the panda palace and bought her something warm to drink until she could meet back up with her friends after the concert, and probably lectured her about HH’g. But I missed her. And to the best of my recollection, I did not see anyone on the bridge the two times I drove over it in the vicinity of 9:30.
The part that still has me perplexed, though — I don’t know who they were employed by — either JPJ or an outside contractor — but the parking lot adjacent to the arena was jammed packed with people working there. Immediately adjacent to the arena was “priority” parking — that’s not the term, but when I purchased the tickets, I could have purchased parking in that lot for $15 — there were signs up that day indicating that was the priority parking lot — and when I just did a u-turn into one of the streets to drop off the kids around 4:30, two hours prior to when they started letting people inside, at least five people came walking toward the car to let me know that was restricted parking — somebody working there had to have seen her — especially since by that time Metallica had taken the stage — and if she were there to see Metallica and was excited about that — why didn’t she hang around at least to hear the opening songs — you absolutely could hear it from outside — I kept thinking the whole night my kid was going to be crushed because the building was going to collapse the music was so loud and the vibration was intense –
She had to have had an agenda once she realized she couldn’t get back in — either to go to a frat party, catch up with people she knew in town or on campus or something — and that “something” we may never know : (
Another thing that sticks in the back of my mind — at first blush, the police issued a statement saying they did not believe foul play was involved — what caused them to believe that or make that statement ?
And good catch, Blink, about if a crime was committed on federal property, then she was moved — who has jurisdiction ? — and they can figure that out — if there are soil, plant particulate — they can trace that back to area of origin –
and to address one other statement in a past post — about do “lawyers’ have all the power — no, they don’t —
It’s the Constitution that has the power — I am not a lawyer, but worked directly in the legal field for over 20 years in both civil and criminal matters. People often criticized criminal defense lawyers, but at the first sign of trouble for themselves or their loved one, to the criminal defense lawyers they would go —
And there’s nothing wrong with that — it’s what divides our country from others — we have the right to defend ourselves against self-incrimination — so if the friends — and/or BB players — have “lawyered up,” as I suspect they have — they absolutely have that right — but I personally feel they have a moral obligation to tell, at least the Harringtons, what they truly know about what happened that night — even if it’s: we left her.
Anybody have any suggestions about what we can do to be proactive, other than just leave our thoughts and observations ?
sorry about the 2nd post — I just thought about this — I don’t know the answer — is there any public posting, or any way to glean this information — like FOIA or something — after 9:30 PM were any cars stopped for speeding either on any of the charlottesville streets or on 64 in either direction — if it’s 64, it would more than likely be VSP — they have onboard cameras — don’t know if the film is still available — does it get erased ? I don’t know the answers to these questions — but if I took somebody I’d be getting the heck outta Dodge — fast ! Plus, the area was blanketed with police vehicles — don’t know if it was city or college — but I was impressed with the amt. of coverage they had and how quickly they got all those cars out of the parking areas — and at one point there was an ambulance that drove by — are the 9-1-1 calls recorded that night public — can a FOIA request be issued to retrieve those ?
Just a thought —
I still wish the Harringtons would hire an independent PI firm — use Metallica’s money — there are no strings attached to it — use it any way to help find her is what they’ve said — who controls that money, anyway ? spend it — find this girl !
“I feel I need to know where the battery cover was located, and if the strap truly was ripped on the bag. Lastly, confirmation on where HER car was parked at JPJ and if it has been checked if it cleared the parking garage more than once.
B”
Amen.
okay — this is scary — I just googled cassandra Morton — this goes back to that Kane guy/orange hightops guy — Cassandra Morton is African American — where was he on the 10th of October ? sorry to be off topic, but ….
Already checked, and we need to be careful, Mr. Kane is not a suspect in this case or any other. Odd Nelson, definitely.
B
Here’s a link so we have a face — she is the same as Morgan, 5-6, 125 lbs —
a coincidence ?
http://networkedblogs.com/p17607397
What, within this individual, allows them to keep functioning day to day.
Fear of the alternative.
B
Not to dwell on the morbid, but I remember seeing a show on tv where they left a whole deer carcass in the woods to see how long it would take for it to be totally skeletonized. They watched the decomp by way of a timed camera and were AMAZED at how little time it took. I believe it was just around 5 days. I do not remember what time of year it was though. I live in Va and I do know that we have had temps in the 70′s since C vanished.
Quote from comment #31
A couple of OHT’s comments on FB:
Orange HightopsThere’s a shortage of black women on here. LOL. I don’t get sexual gratification from typing in little white boxes. LOL.
November 15 at 7:49pm · Report
Orange HightopsNo, meeting the right woman makes it the best group. Just typing in these little white boxes doesn’t make it the best group.
November 15 at 7:49pm · Report
Freakin hellooooooo……..There’s a shortage of one black woman found murdered. Blink, did you note the coordinates of where Cassandra was found? Delete my question if necessary. I firmly believe this is serial.
I have, but in your perception how does that make something serial?
B
http://www.newsplex.com/news/headlines/2766486.html wasnt the area the limo driver said he saw them at different than the rv lot? i cant find his story, but iirc he said he was parked at u-hall?or cage?
How is this related Susan? Its from 2006
B
Camp Tukaway and Camp Hydeaway? Is this coincidental?
Could be, yes.
You have 2 separate crimes, 2 completely different MO’s and a missing 20 year old. There are hundreds of camps in that area.
B
its not, just perps come in all professions,and can be anywhere.
If the Mile Marker 120 means anything it has to be the marker off the Blue Ridge Parkway near Roanoke as discussed earlier as there is no Mile Marker 120 on the Skyline Drive. If they are looking for Morgan off the Blue Ridge Parkway near Roanoke that does suggest she got a ride from a friend in Charlottesville who was taking he back to Roanoke/Blacksburg. Maybe it was after a night of partying, Morgan went to sleep and never woke up? Her “friend” realized she had passed away, panicked, and hid the body off the Parkway. Later he went back and dropped the purse off at the UVa lot? A reach, perhaps, but in the absence of anything else…..
Blink, long time follower, first time poster. Any word if authorities have looked into whether the limo driver was working on October 10th, say about 9:30 pm? that would be my first immediate research. Thanks for the great site!
God bless Morgan.
TY, but I am not seeing that relevance.
B
Looking at patterns makes me believe this.
Wonder if the boyfriend of SS is still her “boyfriend”? It would be interesting to know if he still has the same status with “the friends”.
Debbie, what happened at Camp Tukaway?
Liz, thanks, I should look into it more as decomp rates definitely still surprise me. I know we’ve had warm (and cold) days over the last month or so, but our smattering of 70′s sure ain’t June-in-FL temps. I thought Gil was just being morbid when she asked, “Morgan, are you a skeleton now, too?”. Just mortifying to consider.
Hi again,
RIp Cassandra. I assumed it was Morgan, because I do feel Morgan is not with us anymore.
Susanm – I am sorry for your experience, and thank you for being brave enough to share it with us.
It’s all quite possible Morgan OD’ed and someone freaked, right? Im referring to Blinks comment from the very beginning of all of this, in which she stated that in her opinion, no college kid should go to have a concert to have some fun and end up paying with their life for it.
It makes me think this was all a horrible accident, and illegal drugs were involved, so the person is freaked. I still think some of my points in my posted scenario (#735) are correct, although not with the same outcome.
Blink – do you think the unidentified male who rode with them to the concert is the POI? Or another male? We are confirmed here that we all agree it was a male?
May all beings have peace.
Definately male.
B
I realize I am about to place foot in mouth; BUT, it really irritates me that the male ‘friend’ has been so protected and been able to maintain a cloak of secrecy. In addition, I fully understand that everyone has ‘rights’; BUT, when certain folks ‘lawyer-up’ and remain mum, then what about the rights of Morgan and her family? Does this not just create barriers that prevent this family from being reunited with their daughter and obtaining justice. Sorry, if I’ve offended any defense attorneys that might be on here; BUT, this is how I strongly perceive it and feel!!
Counselor, we agree, especially given Ms. Geller’s comments of today.
B
Wonder exactly what date this guy was picked up? Made the rounds of area colleges! Worked for as a contractor. Wasn’t there some work being done around JPJ at the time Morgan vanished?
http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=11416733
Note the October charge for the August VT accident? Hello?
B
blink: in regards to my post #794…thank you. that explained it all!
i find myself hoping that she is found on NPS land. i also am sick to my stomach, that i am hoping the crime was committed on that very land and that the FBI becomes involved. not that i do not believe that vsp cannot do a fine job but maybe we all need to help out each other including these fine departments. plus, a month later now we are to believe that Morgan was HH? maybe she stuck out her thumb to the person’s vehicle she knew that was coming for her. trying to be funny. i do believe that Morgan knew who he/she was and i believe that her friends know also. maybe not well but they know. i pray that she is not lay decomposing somewhere but if she is doesn’t anybody notice something peculiar about their friend, brother, sister, husband or wife??? somebody has acted different since October 17th.
i think that it may be too late to look at video along this skyline route. there is LeeHi travel plaza (i don’t know if this is the right way?)maybe george knows and many restrooms. this could place Morgan and her driver along this route. then, of course, maybe they already know who he/she is and are watching and waiting…for what…maybe we…including vsp, should be concerned about going out there and finding Morgan’s body and stop waiting for someone to waltz in and confess. (i know that is being a bit nasty, i apologize)
i for one…would volunteer to walk that route! God forbid, it was my child…i would want some help, especially as time dragged and dragged on as it must be for the Harringtons’!