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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#1085 NYcity dude, the thought that someone dropped some sort of hallucinogenic in her drink occurred to me also, LSD is still pretty popular, I think, but I’m in my 50′s and a little out of touch in that area.
Something else just occurred to me. My husband has been diagnosed with anxiety/panic disorder, which manifested itself as a severe panic attack when he was 20. He said the first one was unbelievably bad, nausea, heart palpitations, felt like he was going to pass out. Add to that, he had no idea what was happening, so he just kept freaking out. I know certain lighting can bring these attacks on, plus he started getting migraines at the same time. A migraine at a loud concert would be unbearable, I would think, as any kind of noise during a migraine, or bright lights, exacerbate the pain and nausea.
I have also heard that pot can bring these attacks on, so if Morgan took something that night that she was used to, and by some horrible coincidence she had a panic attack/migraine come on during the concert, plus maybe intoxicated on something, she may have felt like she HAD to get out of there. Just a thought…
Hi, all — I’m the one who posted about the dark circles under Morgan’s eyes — I had seen various pix of Morgan on different sites — but if you do a google search and click on images and type in Morgan’s name, you get a lot of different pictures which you can compare side by side. There’s a beautiful, healthy looking Morgan with a fuller face, and then the pictures show how gaunt she looked — part of my professional life was in the observation of people, not just the words they used. Also, look at her hair. It starts to thin out. There’s no question Morgan lost weight. I was speculating as to the cause. It was never my intention then, nor now, to make disparaging remarks about Morgan, but drug use could explain her behavior that night, and her ill-conceived idea to hitchhike, if indeed that is what she was doing, and her wt. loss.
Again, this may be plowing up old ground, but what time did Dee exit the arena ? Was she there the entire time from the 1st band to the end of Metallica ? Because,I recall somewhere reading a post from a female stating a girl matching Morgan’s description stepped out in front of her car, and she was in the company of about 3 or 4 males — that was around 9 PM on Emmett — she was from Richmond and was late to the concert — was Dee inside at that time ?
I’ve asked this before, and I’ll ask again: is there anything we can do to be more proactive in this case other than advancing theories, that no one is either confirming or denying ? Tell me and I’ll do it — have the local bars been canvassed to see if anyone matching Morgan’s description came in that night alone or with someone trying to buy a beer — I ask because: Let me see your ID — oh, I’ve lost my purse — there’s a 7-11 nearby, did they look at their video to see if she was in any of it ?
Without shame, I admit to watching Ghost Hunters — I think of Steve and Tango sitting reviewing hrs’ of video tape — if LE doesn’t have enough people or man hrs. to assign to looking thru video of local businesses — invite the public — I’ll go and spend an afternoon, and I’m sure thousands of people would volunteer to help, as they already have —
Again, I meant no disparity to Morgan or the Harringtons in any previous posts, and I apologize if I’ve offended anyone — but something’s gotta give !
Here’s a link to google so you can compare the different pix and draw your own conclusions —
http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=morgan+harrington&sa=N&start=18&ndsp=18
Skyler- I never thought your observations were ill-intended and I find them sound.
You guys may think I am off my blinker, but I have not moved a muscle off my original thoughts. I think there is a dude, ex Bf involved here, and I think this was planned.
B
sherri, wow, that comment from the AMW guy you heard on Sirius is discouraging. Hopefully LE is just keeping things really close to the vest, but jeez.
“And ballistics results tell LE … nothing?
Deja-vu in some respects.”
Sorry, didn’t word the above right:
And ballistics results lead them – - where?
I think it is standard issue, thus the where it leads them part..
B
FWIW: my passport pix always look like I’m strung out on something (bad,) but I have never touched the stuff. That said, my antennae have been up ever since seeing all the pix of Morgan and friends. She does not appear to be on the same emotional plane.
A meth high (it’s a super stimulant, right?) sounds more in line with Morgan’s described behavior (excited, animated) than does a heroin high. But as others have said, could just be good ol’ booze. Or godnoze what.
I’m back to my original thought (prolly everyone’s original thought) that she was planning on meeting someone at the concert, and that FB messages or email or texts or tweets (which I am sure are long in LE’s hands) are key. The only thing I can’t square with that is Morgan telling her friends she was trying to get back into the venue. Now she could have been lying to them, even while she was on her way to her mysterious rendezvous (“Morgan, where are you? It sounds like you are walking somewhere.” “I’m stuck outside, I am trying all the entrances…”), but do we have confirmation that she was actually trying to get back in?
according to le more than once.
B
“I think it is standard issue, thus the where it leads them part..
B”
Thank you, Blink. Before I posted, sat here thinking blank-issue … blank-issue – - couldn’t think of the word.
lol, I knew you were on my cheese
B
*You guys may think I am off my blinker, but I have not moved a muscle off my original thoughts. I think there is a dude, ex Bf involved here, and I think this was planned.
B*
Are you thinking maybe ex BF stalking kind of thing? The old saying “If I can’t have you , no one will.”
I have read every word on here since the start of this whole mess. All I can say is I hope Morgan is found and her parents find peace.
I am thinking that exactly. I submit maybe it did not start out that way is a possibility, but it was planned to the extent to accomodate this exact ending. I believe the Granny. I think Morgan was lured outside, fought with dude in Parking lot, tried to get back in, and under the guise of “stand in the rain” or come with me, it’s all good, she did, and was not.
B
If she was feeling sick and disoriented from too much stimuli in the arena, wouldn’t she have told a friend rather than just saying “I’m going to the bathroom, be right back?” According to the friends, she didn’t seem to be in that type of distress when she left them.
good evening!
a couple of comments and questions tonight.
to all the previous posts:
concerning Morgan’s weight…i have a friend’s daughter as a freshman at a nearby college. saw her for the first time since school started and was shocked to see a weight gain. not just a few pounds either. with that being said, she was same height and weight as Morgan. just has packed it on. jen, i no longer believe in the freshman 15! body types are so very different. who knows and who can say how many pounds a person has gained especially by a photo. we can just see that Morgan did have an increase in weight at some time.
post 1081 and blink:
any drug whether illegal or pharmacutical from crack to pot to pain medication to sudafed, could have this reaction! it all depends on your body chemistry and what the person already has
“ON BOARD!”
this is why it is so important for phyicians and their patients keep an open line of commuication on possible side effects one has after they have been prescribed a drug. i reference “adderal” a drug with some pretty heafty side effects, irritability, moodiness and weight loss (some see it as a bonus), mix it with alcohol and bam you have a pretty messed up kid. i have seen this first hand!
just a thought, maybe her weight gain and loss was due to performing and concentrating on her studies, possible if on adderal. the only reason to care is if she was indeed on something and that mixed with whatever they drank or injested that afternoon and evening…it impaired Morgan more than anyone knew. plus i am never discounting a fall and hit to head!!! we also do not need to know what her medical history was and that is private to her and her doctor and her parents, if they were included in her care. remember she is an adult and could seek medical care on her own but knowing the parents, i believe it would be hard for them not to know. maybe the bouncing of checks? she paid for care. her father, no matter whether a phyician or not, is not on a need to know basis. HIPPA laws! Morgan is an adult and she too has protected medical privacy.
I believe that Morgan was not the only one to drink, smoke or whatever that day and thus the silence from her friends. they are afraid, ashamed but most of all, seem to want to be absolved of any wrong doing. they too are just kids and do not know (even if the think they do) that it is sometimes a big, bad world out there.
a quick question regarding Metlzer and Childs…could the murderer have rode with them, directly them to this site or maybe asked them where they were heading and asked for a ride. making up a lie about being a hiker or are we sure about a gray minivan???
thank you, again.
Blink wrote: I think there is a dude, ex Bf involved here, and I think this was planned.
“THIS” = ???
Her murder.
B
Blink, let’s say it was planned by an ex BF. How does he get her to get herself locked out of the arena to fall into his little trap? Would we expect to find a text message from him to her from during the concert saying “I’m right outside in the parking lot” or from sometime earlier saying “come out and meet me at 8:30 sharp” or…what’s yer thinking? What do we think he was tempting her with? “come out and I’ll give you ______”?
Well, lol, I can see nobody has read my early comments on this case.
B
B (re: #098)
Huh. Now, if it had been a Boy named Sue…
I jest. It doesn’t change my thoughts on the rumor, if this man *is* indeed named Shannon. It *would* make me disregard it completely if it is someone attempting to appear as a person he is not.
Then again, the rumor doesn’t change my thoughts all too much on the case anyway. Just underscores my instincts on what may have gone down.
Blink, you say you think this was planned but at the same time say she tried multiple times to get back in the venue. I can see it being planned if she never tried to re-enter, but with her trying… how does a ‘planned’ something fall into place? Doesn’t sound like she was in on the planning. If that’s the case and someone was going to meet her, why would she be wandering around in the parking lots, why not just get picked up outside the doors of the arena? Not making sense to me.
* Comment by suz — December 3, 2009 @ 7:54 pm [I’m back to my original thought (prolly everyone’s original thought) that she was planning on meeting someone at the concert, and that FB messages or email or texts or tweets (which I am sure are long in LE’s hands) are key. The only thing I can’t square with that is Morgan telling her friends she was trying to get back into the venue. Now she could have been lying to them, even while she was on her way to her mysterious rendezvous (”Morgan, where are you? It sounds like you are walking somewhere.” “I’m stuck outside, I am trying all the entrances…”), but do we have confirmation that she was actually trying to get back in?]
* Blink’s Reply: [according to le more than once. B]
____________________________________________________________
suz: according to one security guard, DW, Morgan was indeed trying to re-enter the JPJ Arena.
DW’s Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/silverity
DW’s comment on a friend’s Myspace page regarding Morgan, dated Oct. 19th, 2009: http://www.myspace.com/poniesrgr8
Found U
B
Oh my gosh – Morgan and Christine Sheddy have so many things in common as far as being a 10 on the frustr-o-meter I don’t even know where to begin. Two beautiful young women, supposedly with ‘friends’ with the intention of having a special weekend or event. The probability of drugs and/or alcohol being a major factor. Disappearing into thin air – all the while spending time with people they trusted before the event. Not just ONE person – SEVERAL friends, acquaintances coming and going.
Lack of forthcoming information from LE. Lack of information from those involved. One has inexplicably a guy that is being protected or un-named for some reason or another that I completely DO NOT understand. The other’s ex has not been seriously looked at either as far as I know. In both cases – it being a party atmosphere – there SHOULD be pictures on cameras or cell phones that have not been produced. Cars have not been forensically processed. The public has been treated as if they do not deserve information.
Why is the age group of young women between 18 and 25 so vulnerable? They are no longer ‘children’ yet we all know that they are not always mature women that make good decisions. We are missing something in protecting this age group of young people in this country by assuming FIRST that they leave on their own volition. Really, how often does this happen realistically? I know, I know it happens. There is always an exception or two to every rule. But COME ON!
Sorry, yes, Blink, of course I recall the “hey, I can get you in to meet the band” angle. It was so long ago, I didn’t realize they still held, lol. So mystery dude says come out and I will give you access to the band/backstage, but then she goes out at the appointed time and…then she tries to come back in…why? Cuz he wasn’t there? Cuz he didn’t have the goods? And then she leaves the venue…why? to really to try to get home?
Couldn’t find him, she thought he was effing with her. He needed to be sure she would come out alone. There are “foreign” numbers on her phone, or they can’t find the dubious exchange, thus the “Did anyone remember Morgan borrowing their phone?”
I know the backgrounds and relatives of some of these friends. There is no way I buy Morgan od’s and they are willing to scrap the rest of their lives by hiding it and dumping her. No way. They have enough means to make a call.
There is one dude, who they all know, but are forced to believe the party line for now.
I could be wrong, but having been a “girl” at one time in my life with a bad break up, this just smells more like that to me.
B
just thinking. could an old BF=GG..BG, been inside the arena with Morgan and left when he found out she was denied reentry thus he left himself and found her in lot and then the fighting/arguing started because he was mad at her?
wow, a mouthful.
or how about the basic BG following her outside when he realized she’s not coming back and by this time all the sightings have started and he has “found” her on bridge?
just trying anything now.
i believe she and they all knew and know him!
1103 and blink: standard issue? as in law enforcement or military???
Starbucks quote:
It’s possible, with MH’s parents monitoring her social networking accounts and her cell phone bills, that MH had purchased a prepaid cell phone to communicate with certain individuals. Perhaps the two phones even used the same battery.
You bring up a very interesting point with the cell phone. She def. could have had a trace phone, or another phone to contact others that she didn’t want her parents to know about. Perhaps Morgan indeed did have another secret phone, one that she may have called the friends on. That can explain why LE asked the public if there was a girl who asked to use anyones phone. She called the friends, but they did not recognize the phone number???. Very plausible.
It seems odd to me that the BF of SS didn’t attend the concert, but yet drove them all down to the concert, and apparently drove them back……..without Morgan.
Now, I am speculating here, but what if it was planned that the BF and Morgan were to meet that night? What if they did have a “fling” going behind the friends back? (I know I am reaching here) A secret Pre arranged meeting in the guise of going to the bathroom, and can’t get back in. But really meeting the BF of SN? So sorry friends but I can’t get back in to the concert. ” I’ll just find a ride home”. Meets the BF, and throw the possible drugs/ and or alcohol into the mix.
Where was the BF during the concert, (does anyone know???) and why didn’t he attend the concert with his GF and the rest of the group?
It could be, that he and Morgan planned to say the “non entrance back to the arena” to be together that night?
What happened after that, well, we are all trying to figure that out. Could be far fetched……..Anyone?
in response to my previous comment, yes Waynesboro sounds about right
i was actually driving through the area this past june on my way home from asheville, nc to Philadelphia. there is so much land in those areas that is not developed, its discouraging to think of all the places morgan could be in that area
from what i have read online, waynesboro is a little over a half hour from charlottesville..to me, it’s reasonable that if there is a poi right now that happens to be the male that drove MH’s car to and from the jpj arena, he could have disposed of her body is waynesboro or in that general area.
Blink wrote: Well, lol, I can see nobody has read my early comments on this case.
Well, I just didn’t get that you were thinking that an ex-bf or ex-dude-friend PLANNED her MURDER. Reread your early posts and comments, and still miss it.
I got that you thought she knew them, and that the meet-up was planned, but not that the actual murder was premeditated by someone she knew. Wow, I have to rearrange the mental pieces for a while to see if I can get that one to fit.
Sorry Lizzy, or anyone else if that sounded flip, was not meant to. I believe it was planned as a possibility, maybe even an anticipation, there is a story nobody is telling, I really do not buy that there is some steaming drug secret.
This girl has parents in Healthcare, I have 15 years under my belt in that industry in various capacities.
I mean no disrepect whatsoever, but it almost a “given” in those circles. They just have a clinical approach to such issues where a “layparent” might not.
jmho
B
Well B, everything you answered to my post (#1107), to me, makes more sense then anything else I can think of. I too believe the Granny.
I have a friend whose sister opened her front door one morning and was blown away by the “ex” boyfriend. He knew her routine, hid in the field across the street from her house and just waited. He had told her several times “If I can’t have you, no one will.” Wonder if that was ever said to Morgan?
Hi Blink – I replied to suz, yet I don’t see my post up there. A glitch, maybe?
don’t see it, will look.
B
As I’m rearranging those mental puzzle pieces, I seem to need a “corner” piece. Such as a motive. Or . . . . something.
She moved on.
B
B you don’t have to post this if you don’t want to its just a thought, could he have been in the concert too, maybe the reason she fell, and he followed her out the door of the arena, maybe she knew he was there, maybe not….if he was and she was like ready to fight, she might have led him out the doors to get him out of there, then tried to get back in……
Ok, I’ve done my homework but could not find any indication of this – are we assuming Morgan is heterosexual? I have seen nothing about past or current boyfriends for such a pretty girl.
Also, Georgie, panic attack sounds spot on. A common place for panic attacks is in a loud crowd.
This post was on the family site written by Gil. Does anyone find this odd. I know she said this on TV also a little differently but it just seems strange to me. Maybe my brain has become pickeled over this but I found it odd.
To the one who has Morgan:
Evil shoots popes and presidents and snatches young girls. And those criminals are remembered with scorn… but there are heroes and courage: Be this. I know you want to do the right thing. Things have gotten out of hand. Be remembered as the one who saved Morgan Harrington. Let her go- TODAY.
Family holidays are coming we need her here. Please, please let her go.
B, you didn’t sound flip, it just wasn’t ever even on my list of possibilities that I considered.
I definitely agree that there is some story that nobody is telling–and that “6 months ago” is probably somewhere in that story. Hopefully, it has been fully told to LE.
“She moved on.
B”
Resulting in the ex’s obsession to escalate. Typical behavior.
Blink, the Harrington’s fully understand the mentality of this individual, don’t they.
I completely believe that yes, to the extent what that means for Morgan is their worst nightmare, and I assume what they feared for a long time. My heart hurts when I look at old video of them. Brutal.
B
Hi all. I’m an (addicted) lurker, but first time poster here. I am incredibly inspired by all of you great people, in a seemingly scary world.
Can anyone link me to a reference where DH talks about Morgan being in a treatment facility of some kind? I must’ve missed that.
Thank you!
You did not.
B
Blink, Was this ex-bf of Morgan the invisible guy who drove to Charlottesville with the girls and is the current bf of SS?
Thanks Blink.
Adding to my comment above…
DW, a security guard, posted about his interaction with Morgan on the HFMDH Facebook page back in October.
* David Winston: i work at the arena, i spoke with morgan on sunday night. she said she was trying to find her friends. i’ve already spoken to the police about it. i’m so sorry i didn’t do more to help. i will pray for her and her family. October 19 at 11:23pm
Sharon Nelson Pederson: So you saw her the night after the concert and she was still at the arena? October 19 at 11:34pm
* David Winston: i spoke with her during the concert, around 10pm or so. she had exited the arena, i assume to look for her companions, and she was trying to get back in. but the arena has a no-reentry policy, so we had to turn her away. October 20 at 12:26am
Wayne Townsend: David, you did all you could do. No one knew this was going to happen prior to it happening. October 20 at 12:26am
* David Winston: just to clarify, i didn’t see her exit; only when she tried to reenter. October 20 at 12:30am
Wayne Townsend: When you say she tried to re-enter, did is appear she had any trouble getting back in? October 20 at 12:46am
* David Winston: i don’t know what you mean. when an event ticket is scanned at entry, its bar code is then voided in the computer system. so we cannot allow someone who has exited the venue to reenter with a used ticket. October 20 at 12:57am
Wayne Townsend: That’s what I was asking. It just baffles us to why she would go outside knowing she couldn’t get back in. October 20 at 1:02am
Sharon Nelson Pederson: Hopefully the cameras at the arena can show which way she headed after she was denied re-entry. October 20 at 1:29am
Wayne Townsend: That’s what we can hope for Sharon. October 20 at 1:39am
Jean Jadhon: David: Only natural to feel bad but you were just doing your job. I am news anchor at WDBJ-TV in Roanoke. We reach 25 counties and are trying to keep the word out about Morgan. Would love to talk to you– just really about what you’ve said here.. nothing more. Can you call me at 540-985-3610? October 20 at 11:21am
Links for above post:
DW’s Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000151424550&ref=mf
DW’s Conversation/HFMDH Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=feed&story_fbid=162642961575&gid=162224546575
i wonder if morgan has an ex boyfriend, or someone she was seeing that is from the waynesboro area?
B, you likely know more than the rest of us to a degree, but even still, that seems… sort of implausible. I’m with you on the “no way she OD’d” part, especially if you have a little more background on her group than most. Here’s where you lose me:
There would have to be a Serious amount of plotting, assumptions, luck and stealth on this XBFBG’s part to pull this off so flawlessly (thus far). The dude (Shannon???….kidding) aims for the Metallica concert she’s attending with a tight crew of friends – to pounce and murder her? If that was his intent, why wouldn’t he just head down to VT and catch her alone on a random night or whenever? Why select a Saturday night at a high-profile, well-lit, crowded event in the middle of a security-laden campus? But okay, say he did – all part of a Master Plan. He had to assume that No. 1, she’d not only agree to see him in the lot right before Metallica comes on, but No. 2, he’d have to hope she doesn’t say anything about him to her friends – ie, “Can you believe a–hole XBFBG wants to talk with me right now?” Or, if he was luring her out by telling her he’s holding something she may want, he’d have to expect her to go past security, who would have told her she can’t re-enter upon her exit. So, say she does that. She flits past security, then “crap!” she can’t find him and tries to get back in repeatedly. Her friends don’t ask why in the hell she went outside in the first place, and she doesn’t tell them. She just accepts that she got “tricked” and decides to wander off alone in the night. Or, she texts him (now he’s identified) and is not pissed she’s missing the show because of him – no, she’s willing to walk toward the general direction he says he’s in?
So, let’s assume she does that (inexplicably). Thus, Grans sees the scuffle. She reports the scuffle. LE has an idea from the Friends and the texts who this guys may be – after all, why would the Friends protect an ex who may have hurt their MH?
Grans is not shown a lineup? All she offers is “blond…black clothing…gold earrings”? And we only know this sighting through an article in The HooK (no offense HooK, but c’mon). And if this guy was dangerous or threatening and they tussled in the lot, why wouldn’t MH go back to security at the doors – surely they’d help her or even let her back in (at least to a security station or to stand in the lobby) if she says some creep she used to know was effing with her. Also, how is Grans the only one who sees them struggle? I know my ears would prick up if I heard people fighting in a parking lot – even if it was just yelling. LE has said there were people in the lot the entire time she was walking through – no one else noticed a thing amiss?
So let’s say no one did. Just the granny. Or, others did, but LE’s keeping that secret. Wouldn’t they pursue the only lead they had – that MH engaged with a dude in a confrontational way in the parking lot? I think they didn’t follow it up or show anyone a lineup because they had no reason to believe someone began targeting her the minute she emerged from the arena. And, the only reason they wouldn’t pursue that idea is if they had an idea where she was heading or to whom, but they can’t ascertain whether a crime was committed. A shady, possibly violent ex would certainly raise some flags, and if anyone knew that was even a *possibility* it’d be her friends – even if it wasn’t the Friends she was with. I’ve been in bad relationships, too. And my good girlfriends knew it. Hooours may have been spent detailing said ex’s douchebaggery in a single night. How did this XBFBG stay off the grid of this investigation Completely?
The reason the something-went-wrong-while-she-was-partying angle makes sense is because she headed off into the night, ostensibly to meet with someone/something/someplace, and she totally vanishes. No crime scene, no inkling from anyone she knows where she would have gone or who she could have met (which makes sense if they’re protecting their own interests rather than a perp), and NO witnesses? Not one? Dead crack dealers have had more anonymous helpful tips come in than she’s had.
I don’t expect you to categorically answer my litany of skeptical questions – and you may be right on target – but it’s just a lot to swallow.
Who was her ex, that Mr. Smith dude from the Matrix? (Seems a little old for her…)
Wow. I thought the Granny’s sighting had been determined to be of a not-Morgan lookalike, but I’m searching and can’t find anything to back that up. Interestingly, that story seems to have gotten buried. Very little reference to it in the media reports after the initial report.
B -
P.S. I’ve now seen some of your other posts which offer your scenario a little more subtext – I was just responding to 1107 and 1116.
Hope *I* didn’t sound flip.
“I am thinking that exactly. I submit maybe it did not start out that way is a possibility, but it was planned to the extent to accomodate this exact ending. I believe the Granny. I think Morgan was lured outside, fought with dude in Parking lot, tried to get back in, and under the guise of “stand in the rain” or come with me, it’s all good, she did, and was not.
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I tend to agree with you, Blink.
This individual stalked her, knew she would be at the JPJ Arena that night, and was “waiting” for this night with Morgan to arrive.
Now, in what capacity was he there is a good question.
Was he a patron watching the concert, someone working the concert in some aspect (inside or outside), someone just waiting outside the venue for her to come out as planned.
Using a “credible” ruse of going backstage would indicate definite connections or having the perceived ability to do so.
If this is an obsessive ex-b, it is no wonder Morgan’s father kept her close living at home all summer, working at the Carilion Medical Centre in Roanoke with him (and in a secured environment), spending most evenings in with her family.
As her father said, (paraphrasing) his daughter didn’t quite understand the danger that was around her.
Thinking this may be the case, my heart is overflowing for him.
You hit it, that statement, in addition to one where he mentions a bf, and follows up with “which she didn’t have” cemented it for me. I agree. Heartwrenching.
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Ok I can see your point Blink about the old BF. Do you think Gil has similar thoughts. It is as though she is talking directly to someone she knows such as “this has gotten out of hand.” There is never any mention of any boyfriends by anyone. Gil said at one point that Morgan really did not have many boyfriends. That struck me as odd to begin with since she was so pretty and so full of life it seemed. I do not think she was shy. Wouldn’t it be easy to find out about an old BF? Do you have any idea who it could be or have you heard at all about any old BF. I know you cannot name anyone. Just wondered.
I can tell you unilaterally if you ask the bf question to Morgan’s step cousin twice removed’s dog catcher, the answer will be “no comment”. Not being glib, just trying to illustrate what I am finding. Again I say there is a dude involved. That’s as far as I can go.
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Thanks, clementine, but i can’t find where he says that she tried to get back into the venue. I see where he says (on an Oct 19 post, which looks creepy, like everyone and everything looks creepy in the strange light cast by this case), that she went missing at the metallica concert, and that he had “spoken with her that night,” and that he should have “done more to help. i feel quite distraught about it.”
Does he say more somewhere that you could point me to? I totally could be missing it.
chad, the only problem with the ‘pretending to get locked out in order to cheat’ theory is that she really did try to get back in. That’s such a strange part of it to me.
Please tell me morgan never dated DW.
Not that I am aware of, and for the record, his last name does not start with a W.
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Blink,
I’ve been lurking since this story broke, never posted until now.
I love your site. I especially appreciate your tireless efforts to bring justice for Morgan. My son just graduated from college and I know the trials & frustrations of parenting at this age. A 20 year old is just independent enough to be dangerous. My heart breaks for her parents and I continue hoping somehow we can have a happy ending.
I agree with your theory about an old BF – kind of the fatal attraction type. But I couldn’t figure out why she would leave the building. If the relationship was finished & she’s moved on, but he’s still hanging around, would she trust if he told her he could get her backstage somehow? She seems trusting & maybe naïve, but that’s a big question mark in my mind. But what about this – what if while she’s in her seat waiting on Metallica to take the stage he texts. “You won’t believe this! Metallica is outside RIGHT NOW signing autographs! Hurry outside, but don’t tell anyone, if a mob shows up they’ll leave.” That would explain the sudden “trip to the bathroom” by herself, maybe even the kiss on the cheek. Then, when she gets outside and finds out he lied, she’s like WTH? Fight ensues, which the granny witnessed. Just a guess.
One more thing, not long after her disappearance her picture was on a big electronic billboard on Rt. 220 heading south out of Roanoke. I read several posts that other areas had similar billboards with her missing poster and that Lamar (?) was the billboard company and had donated the space to get the word out. Today on my way home, I passed the one on Rt. 220 and I don’t think the picture is on there anymore. It’s in an area around a Wal-mart, Starbucks, etc and rush hour traffic can bottle neck there. I was stuck at stoplights for several minutes and observed the ads for several minutes from both sides and never saw her picture. I’m so sad that her story seems to be fading from the public view.
Thank you and your fellow posters for the thoughtful observations and discussions. I pray that she can come back to her loving family.
Blink, does the ex attend JMU or UVA?
Thanks!
Does he play a sport at his university? And I don’t mean basketball.
(Blink folding arms across chest and whistling)
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B, sue (re: DW)
Plus, his GF is All Over him. (In a sweet way.) I just glanced at his page, but it appears she posts lengthy platitudes Every. Single Day. A woman like that knows all about her man. Every detail. Considering MH is 20, he’d have to have dated her in the last 3 years or so … I think she would know what his exGF looked like. But, then again, can you really know that much about someone and their significant other through their MySpace page? (Maybe Facebook, but not myspace. Too much html not enough substance.)
SHE IS NOT HIS GF, THAT FREAK YOU OUT AT ALL?
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Ok, glad you brought that up, Blink—-that part about Morgan borrowing a phone is another thing that puzzles me. One article puts it thusly: “State police also suggested Friday that the public try to remember if a woman matching Harrington’s description approached them asking to borrow a cell phone, but Geller said the request isn’t based on any specific evidence.”
Is it just because we know she was separated from her phone at some point?
Did friends or family get a mysterious call from someone who sounded like Morgan, but from an unknown number? Perhaps someone in distress, or with a scuffle going on?
Was she seen borrowing a phone?
Nice Lady
Perhaps boyfriend had broken up with Morgan and she was still ga ga for him. That could also explain the fluctuation in weight – emotional rollercoaster. We’ve all been young and crazy.
chad, #1119….I am with you on that one…I also have wondered about the secret fling and possibly a trac phone separate from her parent’s account. maybe it’s reaching, who knows, but it’s plausible, i suppose.
B -
Yikes! I just got the chills and now I’m scared to go back and even read what this nonGF is actually posting.
So, in a word: yes.
Well I can tell you it will start with “Love…”
eew.
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