Morgan Harrington Case: An Appeal To * You Know Who*
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Charlottesville, VA–The disappearance of Morgan Harrington, missing since October 17, 2009 is exhibiting the potential to reach a temperature that is currenlty encompassing the Northeast: VERY COLD.
Through the thousands of posts at blinkoncrime.com and numerous articles covering Morgan, it is clear that frustration in the lack of lead generation and ambiguous statements from the Virginia State Police are causing some to lack conviction Morgan will be found.
In a recent press conference by VSP, LE provided NO NEW information or progress regarding Morgan’s case. In a shift of posture by the Harrington family, Dr. Harrington has begun participating in online chat and sponsored an additional facebook site to help the efforts to find his daughter.
In fact, for the first time in 2.5 months, we know what kind of camera Morgan had with her the evening of the Metallica concert from his research.
In contrast, we have viewed footage and photos of her dear friends that have clearly moved on without the knowledge of their friends plight.
Girls will be girls you say? Before one person comes on here to tell me I am being too critical of these young women you should know that due to a fortunate Facebook update, describing these girls as Morgan’s friends is entirely generous.
Furthermore, if you happen to be one of the parents that has provided booze for underage minors captured on digital for all to see you may wish to take a peek at what is on your daughter’s social sites.
Have you thought about what it would be like to be Gil or Dan while your linin’ it up and throwin’ em back WITH your kids?
Fortunately, this is not the focus today. I do not feel Morgan’s friends did anything to directly cause her fate. They are more “ME” than frienemy, that is evident.
Gil Harrington, posting on the families site findmorgan.com, wrote one of the most eloquent and courageous posts from the Mother of a missing child I have ever read.
The snowfall is beautiful but still disturbing – melancholy. Wonder if Morgan is cold – is snow falling on her face – or is her face covered by leaves in a shallow grave being hidden by the snow. I glance out the window and see the crimson blaze of a cardinal at the bird feeder – my heart leaps for a second at the beauty – then I think its feathers look like blood in the snow. Is that what Morgan’s blood looks like in the snow? See how the pitfalls are everywhere – even at the bird feeder.
In a somewhat angst-ridden moment, a poster on blinkoncrime.com suggested any and all witnesses in this case should be subject to repeated Barry Manilow songs until they confess.
It jogged a memory for me that reminded me that I am proudly my Father’s daughter. Morgan is Dan Harrington’s daughter.
Maybe someone, somewhere, has just not approached that perspective.
In response to the MAN-i-low dis-
Blink prefacing below to say: yes, off topic, and yes, I am on cold meds, but y’all went after the “MAN ilow”. < ?xml:namespace prefix ="" o />
Barry holds a special place in the heart of my family. When I was a kid I used to play dress up with my Mom’s clothes. If a pair of her way-too-big-for-me heels was “done”, she would let me cut off the ankle straps and dance around in them as slides.
One afternoon, when I should have been doing my homework, I was blaring Copa Cabana in my Parents study dressed like a thriftshop showgirl and when ” Who could ask for more…at the Copa” part came on, I kicked like a 12 year old Rockette and launched my “slide/RPG” into the ceiling.
There it stayed.
I threw everything I could find at that shoe to dislodge it. Nothing.
Except for the new marks on the scalloped ceiling.
Later, when unbeknownst to me, my Dad was reading his 12 daily newspapers in the study, I thought I might try another idea.
I jumped as hard as I could at the spot upstairs above where the slutslipper was lodged.
It worked on the 3rd try.
How do I know?
I heard a “S o n o f a …..” , then something that sounded like a combination of my first and middle names with a swear word interjected that was rising in tone and volume, and now coming my way.
As I hit the hallway to head to the other direction or squeeze myself unnaturally under something, there He was
My Dad, evidence in hand, smiling wryly form ear to ear.
“Yours I presume, young lady,” his forearm outstretched gently with the nail to my coffin in his palm.
I responded .. “What makes you say that?
Could be ketchup or mustards..”
(Lame editors note: do NOT ask, my sisters and I had bathing suits that matched when we were little that were red, yellow and white, respectively, it stuck to this day, I was Mayo)
He replied .. ” Because I know, this weekend, when you fish out your overalls and help me fix the ceiling before your Mother notices, you would rather do that than whatever she comes up with so we can be all done here. The End. ( Blink dad making the wipe hands clean gesture)
She has been talking about repainting the Family room for months, I would LOVE some help with that…”
“Yes Sir.” I muttered with a matching grimace.
“Can I have it back?” I asked.
“I would say your dancing days are on hold, dear daughter, for the foreseeable future, as are your TV privliges.”
“Anything else? ” I asked.
“Why yes, there is. If you choose to dance through the house with wreckless abandon, next time, do it when your homework is finished and in your tennis shoes. And can you please try to be more like your Mother and less like me?”
“Doubtfull Deets, doubtful.”
With that carefully measured tween rhetort I skipped down the hall, crisis averted and I am still Dad’s fave.
I can live with the painting. Wonder if I can pick the color??
I chose to share this very personal exchange with my Daddy because it dawned on me that maybe someone that reads this does not understand what Morgan’ s Father (and family, but this reference is strictly male) needs from them.
He was her protector. He is her ceiling fixer.
You have to give him back what you took so he can fix it for her and their family.
He does not care who you are or what you may have done.
You can do this for them now. Have faith that anything can be fixed. Anything.
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Shannon, you know Erin, but you don’t know Morgan. In what capacity do you know Erin?
these other post s are all cool ,but liz ,i was tryin 2 b social,,but if u cant tell from my record ,ill throw hands in about .0008 seconds,,,now im sociable again
And Sarah Snead?
Shannon,
I know that you are a good person, I can tell by your posts. I also can understand why you would want to create distance from your self and Mogan at this time, whatever your tie to her may be, we understand that here, if you didn’t care about Morgan you would not be on this site posting. Anyone who posts here cares about Morgan. That is clear. We all want to find her, or, if she has perished, we want to find her body. We are not interested in the “who” or the “connections”, or even the money…..but it is very important that we locate her, and we need someone anonymously to tell LE/us where she is. She needs her family so much Shannon, even if she has perished. If she lay in the snow bound mountain hill side, or the side of the road in a ravine, we need to find her for her family, Gil, Dan, and Alex.
We have all made mistakes, and no judgement here for you for anything you have done. It is really OK Shannon. if you know Morgan, and or you were friends with her, whether in the picture or not, it is OK. We are so OK with that. No friend shoulld be punished for knowing Morgan, or having their picture taken with her. We know you loved, and now miss your father. Sucks to lose parents. Been there myself. You never stop missing them. Parents are so important, and I know, you will never stop missing your father. This is huge for you, I know.
If you know anything Shannon, get a trace phone, go to a different state, go across state lines, pay phones are still available, go to a public computer…whatever…we are all trying to locate MORGAN. No one is neccessarily after the perp, but first and foremost is finding MORGAN.
Hi – totally random, but want to weigh in on this heroin thing.
I live in a very affluent community on the east coast, and went to a very affluent private liberal arts college. My best friends roomate did heroin and you would NEVER KNOW. In fact, we didnt believe it, and I still have trouble, but my best friend saw it with her own eyes one day. The girl always talked about it, but then one day she got comfortable enough to actually shoot herself up in front of my friend.
Again, YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE KNOWN. She was a normal, somewhat eccentric arty girl, but never in a million years would I have guessed heroin. She seemed healthy, functioning, and coherent whenever I saw her.
Later in life, I became a painkiller addict and dabbled in oxycontin (contains heroin). Although I did experience some withdrawal symptoms, for the most part, I managed to keep my habit a secret from family and friends for close to two years, even going to the bathroom to throw up every hour while at the bars with friends, because I was so sick from the oxycontin, but still coherent and able to “hang out”. They never had a clue anything was wrong or that I even had gone to the bathroom so many times.
I am not saying that Morgan was a heroin addict, but it is 100% and ABSOLUTELY POSSIBLE that a girl as “normal” as Morgan could have been.
I hate to say this, but it does make a lot of sense. Even if the drug was cocaine, it would take a long time for the signs of heavy use to show up – I hate to say this as well, but Ive also dated a cocaine addict, and it took 2-3 years before the signs started to show on him physically. Thankfully, by the time I saw him at that point, I was no longer abusing any drugs and in a better place (and meditating)
I am 30 years old, have a college degree from a top tier school, and run an HR dept at a startup. I carry a designer bag, wear designer jeans, and drive a Subaru. My point is – you would never have guessed that 3 years ago, I was popping 12 pills a day – I was still functioning at a high level.
So this is a lot of information, but thank god this is anonymous! I shared this because this theory really should not be discounted in any way, shape or form.
If drug use is the case, this is easily kept out of the media, and I pray for Morgan and her family. If this is the case, then please, let us all learn from Morgan’s case – drug use is more prevalent than any of us believe, and heroin and drugs DO NOT only happen in low income areas.
I sincerely hope that your experience is helpful to others, I would really like it to extol the virtues of kicking an addiction, but I did not wish to put words in your mouth. I agree that this is a prevalent and relevant epidemic, imo.
B
wacko does not need a gun thats for sure !!! can anybody confirm where that pic is taken at? as in who’s house or apt was it? does anyone know this?
as for morgan ,i for one ,think she hooked up with some dude ,,hav no idea who ,and either they left town together ,orshe o.deed,and dude drove off,and even thought im tough ,cant even type wut might have hapened after that,now ,i can drive from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. ,for work ,but that is all,so i realy am stuck here,sorry ,i wish i could say where she is ,,and sorry ,rock and rollers ,i respect you ,but you would nevr catch me ,even in the viscinity of a metalica concert.
mr. shannon: please for once in your life, please realize that there are people yes, even people in the cyberworld that want to help others. you can be that one that helps Morgan. listen to Chad and find a way to tell what you know or what you think you know. even if it is something you consider so small and i am serious, so i will ask my question again…
where would you go look for Morgan and are you still offering a ride?
th game shannonh (re: #670)
Hi, Shannon.
Everyone was taken aback that you didn’t just *clearly* state that it was not you in the picture, and refer anyone who chose not to take you at your word to Erin. Instead, you were doing the Funky Chicken Dance all over this thread and making ridiculous threats against a group of people that has no motivation here except to keep a spotlight on Morgan’s case, and explore every angle that could potentially solve the mystery of her disappearance so she can be brought home to her devastated family.
As far as the picture in question, the dude took the shot at an odd angle, so it was hard to even tell what he would look like face to face. But it wasn’t just the picture, Shannon. You are FB friends with a number of girls who attended or currently attend Lord Bourt… High, including several from the year MH graduated from there (’07, I believe). With that in mind, it was hard to believe you did not know her or at least know of her/see her around.
That said, I do not think you are pictured in that shot, and I hope you won’t mind filling in the gap of information over which we leapt to a (reasonable) conclusion: that you did indeed know Morgan and were lying about it for a reason that smacked us as suspicious.
(You could make up for a lot of your crap behavior by providing a little insight – if you’re able to – regarding what Mrgan’s scene was/is/may be like, i.e. partying, reps, etc.
Thanks for sticking around, btw; we can be a tough crowd.
thank you shannon, i am finally beginning to understand you. i appreciate that you are now trying with all of us. sorry i was so hard on you. sometimes, as i know, it can take a thud to the head for it all it sink in. i used to write in a capital letters when i first started on blink’s site!
do you have any idea which direction to start in and i take it that you cannot drive so there is no offer to carpool? thank you again.
Hi Blink,
I have posted some comments that have not shown up. Can you check and see if they were moved to spam? Thanks.
Found them and thank you, posted..
B
As for Questioner on FindMorgan site, she is not Claudette, but she works with her, she is moderator and creator of most of her sites, She also has numerous other sites out there, I can’t remember how many I found linked to her…Either as Loving helper, LH, or Questioner, Or Annie at this site: http://anniemyth.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=cellcps&action=display&thread=2726
You can see she has been around a good while if you check that sight. She has followed mor missing person cases than I knew existed. And has an opinion on them all. She also does tarot readings on another site, and psychic readings on another, and so on and so on…She has taken control of the findmorgan.com site, and a lot of people believe she thinks up all the stuff she posts. They also believe she is working so hard for Morgan, maybe she is, maybe she isn’t…money is a huge motivator, I don’t care a snit about the money, just as the rest of you don’t.. I want Morgan home, just as the rest of you do.
Shannon, you appear to have more intelligence than many think. By your language I am sure you are legit to a point. I have a nephew who lives in GA, and often writes the same way. I understand it, but it is irritating, but I accept to each their own. If this is not you in the photo of Morgan, why did you post what a good looking guy that was? And something else to the effect of Loni Anderson? Or did you not post that? It looks like you, maybe a few years ago…I certainly am not accusing you of harming Morgan, and I don’t really think anyone else is either, they have wondered about all the people in her pictures. But if you knew something, or even suspected something, surely you would let LE or someone know, right? And as Chad said, you must care about her. And if you do know her, does it really matter that you may have ‘hung wit her’ at some point? Maybe chilled sometime with her. I don’t think it matters, and i don’t think it should bother you if you are her friend. I would be proud if I were you. She is a beautiful, intelligent girl anyone would be proud to call friend.
And I hope you decide not to make any more threats, you could really get in trouble doing that, as it is public and witnessed by so many. Use your intelligence and wow someone!
Hit a little nerve, huh, Shannon? I can tell by your eloquent use of the english language and proficient spelling ability that you did not attend school at all. Do they have a special school for “hood” wanna-bees? Do I have to remind you again you now live in ELLISTON? Maybe you should consider moving, because I am sure your attitude does not sit well with the locals. Oh, by the way, I do have a degree from a local University. Now run along and play “Grand Theft Auto” and pretend your in the hood with all the gangstas. And, I am sorry, but I do not want “some”. But if you keep throwing threats around and showing pictures of yourself with a gun, I am sure the Sheriff may want to have a little talk with you. Also, if you are going to insult someone, please use spell check and proper english, so the intended person can understand….it makes more of an “impact” that way.
Sorry Blink, I just had to respond. LOL
shannon: you may have just put on some big boy pants and took the first step in accountablity and by that i mean, losing the profanity riddled gangsta talk. i would love to be able to understand what the young adult scene is out there, too. i believe that J2K, has asked you that. most of us here have children that are either coming into this age or are there now. the teenage years. i am not judging your past record but realize that you have a good deal to offer as far as your life experiences go. they are vastly different than mine. please let me in and tell me what the scene is out there…thanks, fish
Shannon, do you think she hooked up with some guy she just met that night? Or do you think she may have had earlier plans to meet someone she already knew? I can’t shake the feeling that she had connections that maybe even her friends didn’t know about, and certainly not her parents. I just want to hear what people closer to her age think…you, OYE, whoever. BTW, I’ve been laughing all day about hoolahooping in a cheerio. I know you’re mostly pissed, but some of that stuff is hilarious.
Lovely, I hear your post and I can understand completely where you’re coming from. The drug issue was brought up a while back…not sure which thread, but earlier on Blink. And its’ still rattling around in my mind. It was also discussed how prevelant heroin is in the Roanoke area…teens and twenties across the board. I just feel like there may have been an unknown aspect to Morgan’s life that caught up with her that night. It could have been any of us, and she could have been any of our daughters. I would never judge Morgan for anything, and we don’t need to uncover things that would hurt the Harringtons, but I hope LE has the freedom to look in to some of the darker possiblities.
comment 712,,i was saying th small pic of me at th bottom ,which is me,was handsome,,tats an old profile pic of me ,FROM 4 YEARS AGO
So, that is an admission?
B
Shannon,
Please forgive my fellow posters….sometimes enthusium can get in the way of being respectful. All of these posters are wanting to find MORGAN like yesterday…..
Again, I understand your defensivness in even knowing Morgan, let alone being subject to her being in a picture with her. So sorry. I know that this may have been hard on you, being so universal and public. I hope that you can exhale, and know that you are not being persecuted, at least by us, by viture of showing your person in a picture with friends and having fun.
Your record, which was published on this website and thread, means nothing to me.I judge you not friend. No one is perfect. I will ask though, that in the future, when you do post, (this is Blinks house) that you are respectful with your words, people, and also that your post be only to advance the case of MORGAN, please do not be little, and or ridicule other posters here. I do apologize for my teamates, and posters that have made you feel uncomfortable and unwilling to post. . We need your input Shannon.
I really believe in you Shannon, and I know you care about Morgan. Let’s get beyond the defensiveness and concentrate on MORGAN.If you have anything , ANYTHING, that can bring MORGAN home to reunite with her family, I encourage you to do so. TRACE phone, public computer, ……..clues here. Concentrating on personal attacks is not constructive. Focus on Mogan.
SORRY ,TAKEN FOR YEARS AGO ,,STILL USE IT,CAUSE UP CLOSE IT CATCHES THBABY BLUES
Me again, Blink no need to apologize,really.Thanks for finding and rescuing my post, much appreciated.
Acho,
Thanks for your thoughts. Did you get a chance to look at the links in my post #680?
I agree with Chad,and Fletch, I think OYE was trying to tell us something and we just didn’t have our eyes open.
Here are my thoughts:
Oye is a friend of Morgan’s or a friend of a friend.
She started posting only after the conversation turned to where Morgan may have been placed and where and when she might of partied
.
OYEstarted posting under the name Open Your Eyes after my post with same lyrics of Misty Mt Hop,while you were posting with local about Misty Mountain campground.
Oye made references to Morgan not being a good girl all the time and that something bad “May have just happened”
Oye made references to possible drug use or other,at least issues that Morgan was dealing with…
OYE stated that if she oded or died at a party and the young party goers could have freaked and covered it up
Oye asked Local where the party spots were, she stated in her area, she parties at a campsite
Blink said Oye was in the pic of Morgan in the coat,at unknown location, I think this location was the Misty mountain camp grounds
check out the pics in previous post
You have stated that a festival was going to happen later near there.
and that there is long term camping spots
I think OYE may have been pointing us to what she had heard or knew from the inner circle,this spot, not sure if she knew anything,or if she trying to bring it to our attention because she wasn’t sure.
My question, Does anyone know if LE checked out the Misty Mountain Campground and the surrounding area?
I think Questioner is a card reader from New York (and prolific blogger and site moderator, anjeleyz?). She mentioned checking her cards somewhere on this site, and got fixated on an area called Midway, which is really now just a road out towards Batesville from Crozet. She “mapped” it, and liked that it was half-way between JPJ and Afton or Waynesboro. Acho (and I) were both curious about this and wanted to hear more, but she left for findmorgan.com before we got an answer. I thought she was just an interested and frustrated old lady, and had no idea she was all over the internet working on all kinds of cases.
TRUTHFULLY ABOUT TH FRIENDS ,A FRIEND OF MINE LAUGHED AT ME ,because i only had 76 friends ,,actually laughed ,looked at her friend and sed ,hes only got 76 friends ,this was in july ,th next day i followed a trail of pretty girls from friend selection to friend selection,if she was pretty ,i requested,dont know anybody on the friends personally except th girls from hollinsthat was th first 76,th rest ,i hav no freakin idea who they are,
Here’s Gil’s latest blog post from findmorgan.com. Apollys in advance if this has already been posted today.
January 11, 2010
December 30, 2009
“You never know when you will get blindsided by the intense memory of Morgan and it will almost knock you over. She is everywhere for us. Dan, tearful tonight, while we were making tacos for dinner, because he knew Morgan would have liked this meal. I was hit by the memories while gathering the plates and found myself reflexively picking up 4 plates, rather than 3.
“Morgan is not here and we feel the lack acutely, her likes and dislikes, her personality, her aspirations, her quickness, all integral part of the very fabric of our lives. Without Morgan there are huge gaps, holes in our existence. We are trying not to be swallowed into the void, the emptiness of those holes. Attempting to keep hope alive, we pray we will someday be reunited with our precious daughter, Morgan 2 4 1.”
_____________________
I love and admire this woman.
o.k. respond to post,,,do not know erin,iwish i knew erin,but yall scared her away from wanting to know me..sarah snead recieved th same message from me that erin did ,,,quote ,,,will you friend me long enuf to look at a picture in my posts ,,some goodbuddies haha but realy, some crazy mofos are saying that it is me,and i do not know who it is,do you know his name?she friended me too ,but must not hav gotten th corresponding emails that erin got ,i myself saw that erin had deleted me from her friends,she replied ,i dont know you ,i dont want to be harrassed anymore for friending you .
Shannon-I’m truly sorry for the loss of your father. You’re so young to have lost him. I held my mom’s hand when she died and then my dad’s hand two years later. I was in my twenties and it was very, very painful and it took me a long time to get over it. You seem to be a sensitive person under all the threats. The fact that everyone thought that was you in the photo with Morgan when you were saying you didnt know her is what set alarm bells off. I’d really like to hear your thoughts about Morgan and the local party scene in general, if you could be a little nicer about it and a little clearer. Thanks.
Fletch you wrote:
-I expect that she is sick of the other girls getting pilloried for the same behavior that Morgan engaged in …..-
I agree with you. I too believe Oye and most of the friends we have seen feel this same way. I think OYE was right when she said we did not understand where they were coming from….
I think we all did go about this in the wrong way, but with the best intentions.
If OYE was right, I think maybe she was, based on some of the observations you made in your post and also Blink’s source telling her that Morgan was tripping on hallucinogenics and was combative before the concert, during the ride, and continuing after she left the arena.
IMO If I was a young adult, possibly on illegal hallucinogenics, I would freak out if someone died in front of me, if I were tripping, I would definitely not be thinking clearly and I would possibly have made a series of very bad choices that I later regretted.
th game shannonh ,
Hello, and welcome to BOC. I would just like you to know that I think your sticking around to talk after everything, is really cool.
I thought your searching for Morgan was a good thing to do. I am sorry if anyone was too hard on you. I hope you will accept their apologies.
Maybe it’s more common than I am aware, but I am having a devil of a time finding cases where someone accidentally ODs and the rest of the druggies conspire to successfully hide the body. I’ve found cases where a roommate ODs, and the other one wants to keep living in the house or collecting the other person’s social security checks, so he or she doesn’t report it to the family. But not just some random girl who dies at a party with fringe friends.
I don’t think hiding the body—especially with a whole party full of people being involved—is an M.O. that makes any sense. Esp if people are all drugged up. That just doesn’t sound like they could pull it off, or even think it through. I dunno, the accidental OD with one person, I maybe. But with a crowd? Not feelin’ it. but obviously i have no idea, so i guess anything is still possible.
Giving myself a blink biscuit with cheese for post 445 (confirmed by the dude hisself in 720)! (gawd, i’m pathetic, lol)
Double biscuits!!
Sorry guys, I am jamming on 4 different cases please bear with me and hand out the biscuits and thinking goblets as necessary.
B
hey, shannon, sorry for poking fun at you. nothing personal, and i did enjoy your dj nastynice youtube vid, and i do admire your car. Sweeeeet.
You seem like you’d be looped into interesting circles. What are you hearing on the street about Morgan’s disappearance? What does the smart money say happened to her? Any rumblings?
smarterthanallyallcombined (#677 @ 6:54 p.m.) re:
“Hey J2K,
In responce to you,can you date that photo? for all you know that photo might have been takin’ 10 plus years ago. Therefore probable cause difficult.”
It’s hard for me to suppress my instinct to mock your name, smarterTAYC, but as others have done an ample job already, I will try and keep it to several clean glove-slaps.
Police officers obtain search warrants by convincing a judge/magistrate that they have “probable cause” to believe that criminal activity is occurring at the place to be searched. No specific timeliness needs to be proven. Usually, LE provide the judge/magistrate with information in the form of written statements under oath (affidavits), which report either their own observations, those of private citizens or those of undercover informants. If the judge believes that the affidavit establishes probable cause to conduct a search, he or she will issue a warrant.
Um, what part of probationed criminal posting a picture of himself pointing a “gun” (sorry: “Classic” gun) at the viewer while simultaneously making terroristic threats and referencing said guns and past offenses does not constitute the likelihood that criminal activity is taking place at the postee’s home?
Of course, the suspect who got searched/popped can later challenge the validity of the warrant before the charges are brought to trial, but, hmmm. Think there might be a case in this instance. (Unless, as B pointed out, he’s just a lighter affecionado.)
Oh, and if in the course of their search LE comes across contraband or evidence of a crime *not* listed in the warrant, they can lawfully seize those items, too. (So hide the weed.)
You go on to discredit your screen-namesake, by noting:
“He didn’t threaten to shoot you or anyone else, especially through his computer screen.”
Well! Color me relieved that of *all* the ways he could have shot us, the *least likely* way would have been through his monitor.
(I’m right on the other end! Oh noes!)
Also, you add:
“I have never commented here and have done much research regarding certain folks. I wasn’t stupid enough to put it out here for the world to possibly tip off a suspect so he could further cover his tracks.”
Shannon has opened up a more respectable dialogue here, so there is no need to further malign his perceived character. But if SGM *was* a suspect/POI in this case – one that, according to LE, has neither a suspect nor a POI at this point – I think any attempt to “cover his tracks” would be the tip off *LE* has needed to move in. If you know something about MH’s disappearance, ya shoulda/should inform VSP – you know, the investigatory agency (supported by a number of others) that is actually handling this crime?
Sorry, but you go on:
“You all have jumped out the window with this being broadcast and thrown mud into a very serious investigation. as a matter of fact I am sure you have.”
Oh, so you have it on *fact* that a group of intelligent (ahem) concerned citizens – as well as *non* [fist-bumps Liam and dude from Portugal] – whose majority, at this point, does not even believe SGM was involved in Morgan’s disappearance, does not (No. 1) take this investigation seriously (smarter – are you illiterate? There are about 5,000 posts on BOC regarding MH that beg to differ with you); and (No. 2) actually remains a step ahead of the players (LE) holding *all* the cards available, and thus has the capacity to “muddy” the nearly 3-month-old investigatory process? Please.
But wait! There’s more!
“Anyway now we will have an even more difficult time locating Morgan. I think its pretty sad. You should never underestimate anyone especially with provacation.”
(Huh… Looks like I could have saved myself $5 on “The Gift of Fear” and simply remembered to “never underestimate anyone” – but most especially anyone carrying provacation! (Is that FDA approved?)
But, smarterTAYC, I do appreciate your final warm wish:
“I hope you all feel good about your decisions.”
Thank you, stranger; I can’t speak for everyone, but you can rest assured I do.
th game shannonh,
I, too, want to welcome you to BOC. If some of the comments were hurtful, then, I would like to apologize for them. I believe everyone deserves to be shown respect and, of course, to return the respect to others.
You are not being accused of any wrong doing toward Morgan. I commend you for wanting to help find her and for going on the first search. We are all here for the same reason and that is to pool our ideas and any knowledge we might have, so, that we might come up with some possible ways of finding her and reuniting her with her very, very sad mother and father.
Shannon, thank you for sharing with us and for wanting to help. You have a big heart, that, I think you tend to keep hidden. You know, Shannon, most of us like big hearted people!
yea, i was feeling like i wish there could be more organized searches,i realize there’s lots of mountainous land ,now i’m feeling like i wish the friends would start sharing their feelings not necessarily their theories,maybe they will.
Just wanted to say that I believe that the person in the group picture is not Shannon. If you look closely at his left ear, you can see that it bends forward, almost a little malformed, whereas the pictures of Shannon do not show ears like that, but rather ears that lie flat to his head. Maybe we need to at least consider that he is telling the truth here.
th game shannonh re: “TRUTHFULLY ABOUT TH FRIENDS”
“A FRIEND OF MINE LAUGHED AT ME ,because i only had 76 friends ,,actually laughed ,looked at her friend and sed ,hes only got 76 friends ,this was in july ,th next day i followed a trail of pretty girls from friend selection to friend selection,if she was pretty ,i requested,dont know anybody on the friends personally except th girls from hollinsthat was th first 76,th rest ,i hav no freakin idea who they are,”
We appreciate your honesty, Shannon. And, it’s causing me to soften a bit toward you. So, with your best interest in mine, I feel compelled to point out that … hmmmm… How do I say this? Here goes:
Your strategic move adding “a trail of pretty girls” to your page because some bizzle made fun of your FB friend-count makes you *appear* to be a closeted sex offender. I mean, sh*t, Shannon – more than *half* of your “friends” are underage! Forget the thin blue line; your profile image could have been a red flag, dude.
Fa serious.
Listen: Do yourself a solid* and erase from your “Friends” every girl that who has not actually graduated high school yet. It’s the classic: “It-Takes-Money-to-Make-Money” adage, only it’s the: “Lose-the-Girls-to-Gain-the-Women” (and avoid arousing unwarranted suspicion) rule.
Word?
(*Thanks for that, Enquirer.)
momof3, I don’t know much about Misty Mountain, but I wouldn’t have thought of it as a good party spot for twenty-somethings. It’s pretty quiet, really, and right on Rt. 250 across from a beautiful old home. It’s not really like it’s out in the woods and hidden from view, but maybe they had reservations here that night just thinking that it was “campground”. In terms of location for them, it would have been a great spot…not far from the Crozet exit, and on the way to and from JPJ. About two miles west of Brownsville Market. It used to be one of those cheesy Yogi Bear campgrounds with a bunch of RVs, but it may go back much farther into the woods than I had realized.
Shannon, I in no way said that it was an omission of guilt because you are in the picture of Morgan and her friends. When I first viewed the picture there was a link under it for comments, and you had commented on that picture. My curiosity was up about that, and the fact the picture of you doesn’t quite ‘fit’ with the rest of the picture. You getting my drift? Just curious, and thank you for responding as you have. I am trying to give you more credit than other people have, and do. I notice when you are asked something with respect, you answer with respect, that is a sign you were raised with respect. And again, I feel as if you care about Morgan, and would like to see her found as well, otherwise I don’t think you would have helped search for her, right?
Correction to my post above: (it is early, still having my first cup of coffee,kids getting out the door, lol) I in no way meant it was an admission of guilt, that you are in a picture.
And BTW, several friends have said it looked photo shopped to them. I have zoomed it over and over, the pixels look different, but is hard to tell.
http://www.mistymountaincampresort.com/
I don’t know, I still think it’s one of those cheesy RV “resorts”, but maybe it’s the kind of place Morgan and her friends all like to hang out. Maybe it’s a great place to party…half of it is being creative about finding a place where you can get away with it. Damn, wish I’d thought of it.
OYE, where are you?
Guys, I think we are getting close. I don’t know why but I just feel like something is about to break. Boy, do I hope this is just not wishfull thinking. Oh, please, Lord, let today be the day.
FYI-
New Search for Morgan this Saturday:
“Charlottesville, VA – The parents of missing Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington will once again organize a volunteer, community search for their daughter. You may remember, the 20-year-old disappeared in October while attending a Metallica concert at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville.
The search is this Saturday. Volunteers will meet between 9:00 and 10:00AM at the U-Hall next to John Paul Jones Arena. The searches will continue until approximately 3:00 PM. Volunteers must be at least 18 years old and are encouraged to wear warm, comfortable clothing, as well as orange or yellow vests for safety.
The Jefferson Area Crime Stoppers (web) has established a $100,000 reward for information leading to the location and recovery of Morgan. The band Metallica also has added an additional $50,000 reward.”
http://www.wset.com/news/stories/0110/695072.html
good morning blink and all: it has been a rough night with a sick child. i have thought non-stop about all our posting last night and here is what i would like to say…
first, to shannon, thank you for your insight. i hope that we can hear more from you. i know that facebook becomes a contest about you has the most “friends”. sorry this was your experience. since, you seem to have a finger on the pulse of today’s youth, could you give us a few of the area’s party spots? from roanoke, cville and hburg? if Open Your Eyes, (a fellow poster) is right about Morgan partying, maybe you know of one of the spots to look to! this in no way means i think that you have anything to do with anything!! i just have to believe that you know more than i on this subject. i read a previous post of yours…
Shannon Guy McDaniel
“ges im just saying that at some point someone shudve stepped up ,sorry if it seems im playing th blame game,young woman ,bleeding from th face ,visibly shaken ,ya know,come on”
…this sounds to me like you would have done the right thing and got help for Morgan! somebody needs to step up NOW! so many people just turn their heads and never want to help out a fellow human being. this is cold. do you know anyone that “shudve stepped up” or that was throwing a party on October 17th? maybe jmu, uva or any campground USA? OYE, stated that she thought Morgan was at or going to a party.
this seems to be floating through the air and the partying as not stopped since.
shannon, i totally 100% agree with you, someone should have stepped up! i wish they would now. please let us in. something you know or have heard may make the difference. my hope is that you read this and start to help us. my thought on this whole case is that i do not care about “who did it”, that is for LE to deal with. i only care that a young girl is found and given back to her mother and father. no different than what your mom and dad would want and no different what my mom and dad would want. i too, lost my mother in september. she would not, ever, never want one of her kids out there just by herself! that is sheer torment for a parent. it would be unbearable for me. skyler and i said to OYE in our posts, someday all of you will be a parent and what would you want done? something changes in you. hopefully, you too, will experience this but in the meantime get your act together and do what you can to help.
shannon, i know it is tough but stay strong and remember no matter how bad your past is you always can look forward to change and the future. i believe now is your time!!! good luck and thanks for listening.
(here’s something to make u laugh) sincerely, a warm fish!
Thought I had posted this already but guess not.
Anyway….I feel like we are closing in. I think the guilty person(s) knows this because I think they lurk. I hope this is not just wishfull thinking but I just have a feeling a break in the case is about to happen. I pray this is just not me wishing it to be so. Please, Lord, let today be the day.
oh, to my 8:45 am comment…meant I wish I’d thought of Misty Mountain as a place for us to party when we were younger…not as the one who thought of MM as the place where Morgan and them went. I think Acho was actually the first to mention this place…it’s such a blah place that I never would have thought of it.
Maybe they should extend this weekend’s search to this area.
Comment by localcvillegirl — January 12, 2010 @ 12:22 am
I think Questioner is a card reader from New York (and prolific blogger and site moderator, anjeleyz?).
Comment by anjeleyz — January 12, 2010 @ 8:35 am
Correction to my post above: (it is early, still having my first cup of coffee,kids getting out the door, lol) I in no way meant it was an admission of guilt, that you are in a picture.
And BTW, several friends have said it looked photo shopped to them. I have zoomed it over and over, the pixels look different, but is hard to tell.
Hi Anjeleyz.
Have you posted here before? Welcome to BOC. I just have a quick question: Why do you think the friends think it i photo shopped? Which friends are you referring too?
Why haven’t they gotten Tim Miller and his horse search involved? If any area warrants it, it would be Albemarle County.
Lovely — thank you for your very open and straightforward message. Very powerful. The heroin thing would never have crossed my mind had I not seen it mentioned here. And yet, I certainly am aware that it is a problem. In Centreville, Virginia (the northern part of the state), police recently busted up a ring that resulted in a number of deaths of young people, including a teenager who had overdosed several times. The boyfriend — who was convicted in federal court of drug dealing — did not call 911 during the times that he was there and she had overdosed… so that does happen. I have no idea if this is a factor in Morgan Harrington’s disappearance, but I would be naive not to consider it to be potentially relevant.
I remain doubtful that her closer friends or those attending the concert with her had anything directly to do with this, but if this type of drug is involved, Morgan would certainly have a wider circle of acquaintances that would be sketchy to say the least.
And none of this makes Morgan a bad person, if true. Just a vulnerable one. This could happen in any family.
PhillyHokie, the search for Sat. has been postponed, they are in the process of notifying the news agencies now.
Chad, good question about the photo shop job, if it was altered it was done before Morgan put it on her FB page. I think she has enough friends that she wouldn’t really need to do that.
Momof3,fletch,Local,
Thanks for reposting OYE’s highlights of her posts. I agree that she has been trying to tell us to “OPEN OUR EYES”.
If we revisit OYE suggested theory, the possible scenario of drug use, or od, the additional point by Fletch or Momof3 speculating that if they all (whoever she met up with) were using/ partying that night with Morgan, and something tragic happened to Morgan, if they were impaired, or panicked, they probably didn’t make sound choices in caring for Morgan.
(snippet)
If OYE was right, I think maybe she was, based on some of the observations you made in your post and also Blink’s source telling her that Morgan was tripping on hallucinogenics and was combative before the concert, during the ride, and continuing after she left the arena.
IMO If I was a young adult, possibly on illegal hallucinogenics, I would freak out if someone died in front of me, if I were tripping, I would definitely not be thinking clearly and I would possibly have made a series of very bad choices that I later regretted.
I hope that LE does search the Misty Mountain camp. It certainly cannot hurt. OYE, where are you? I hope something breaks in this case!
If in fact the photo was taken 4 years ago. Erin would be able to confirm.
This post may not be significant, however back in the day I was quite the pot smoker. The first thing I notice about the picture was that the guy to the right of Shannon is holding something.
Kinda of small to see exactly what it is, but that is the way everyone held a pipe (in between use). Looks like one to me.
Now days drug users are smokin all kinds of things with pipes, no telling what was happening that day.?
Just speculation
The search has been canceled. The Harringtons will be meeting with CUE to schedule one for a later date.