Morgan Harrington Murder: Picture of Morgans Boot Released
Charlottesville, VA– Morgan Harringtons killers have not been apprehended.
Morgan was brutally slain, presumably, the evening of October 17th, 2009 after she went missing from the John Paul Jones Arena, located on the grounds of The University of Virginia. Her remains were recovered on January 26th, 2010 on the grounds of Anchorage Farm in Charlottesville, VA.
There have been countless witness accounts and reported sightings of Morgan since she vanished from JPJ, most of which, have been prefaced by stating “ or a person matching Morgan’s description”, so we are truly left to sift through what is accurate, and what is a well intentioned bystander.
One of the most conflicting item descriptions, is that of the boots she was wearing that fateful evening.
Below is a picture of the boot Morgan was wearing the evening of October 17, 2009, as confirmed by Morgan’s Mother Gil Harrington, to be “spot on”.
As you can see, it has no laces, and a cuff of approximately 3” that can be worn EITHER at the knee, or above, as reported by the witness who believes she saw Morgan walking away from JPJ with 4 men young men dressed in black, and again in the lot adjacent to Uhall.
Additionally confirmed to blinkoncrime.com, Morgan was wearing “footless” tights or leggings, which would require additional socks.
Morgan was known for the very distinctive socks she wore under these boots.
There is currently a $150,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction for anyone responsible for the death of Morgan Harrington.
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Hi Blinksters-
Re: Morgan Rocks – I’m still designing my rock to take to the bridge. I love Skyler’s and want mine to be as thoughtful as hers. I often drive by the memorial on the bridge and for those of you that have not seen it in person it is amazing. The bridge is well travelled especially this time of year with all of the lacrosse & baseball games & I know that it reminds the community of Morgan’s tragic end.
Re: Morgan’s “friends” – When the truth comes out, I will be interested to see what the friends really did that night and the following weeks. The photos of the “friend” hitchhiking on the day of the search was unbelievably sick as well as the ones from the Halloween party. Seeing the photos has certainly tainted what I think about the content of their character. Has LE kept them from speaking publicly? Were they honest and helpful with LE or will we find out otherwise?
Re: Crazy extremists descending on VT 4/9 – Gil’s words say it all! The Harringtons once again show amazing grace, strength, & courage in the face of unspeakably horrific circumstances.
Question – Does the crime determine which LE agency handles a case? Hasn’t the FBI helped with the investigation of Morgan’s case (didn’t I read that somewhere?)
Blink, I will pray that next week will be THE week & there is an arrest(s). Is your cheese on Cheesy Jumpsuit E? He has been my first choice as the most obvious BG.
Happy Easter to you all!
zeusrocks says:
April 3, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Please don’t be offended, I was joking with you. I’ve been reading your comments for quite awhile and you in no way post like that creep. It just freaked me out when I read your post and had just read his the night before and it was so similar. Sorry
‘Morgan’s Warriors’ Meet On Bridge
Posted: Apr 03, 2010 4:56 PM EDT
Updated: Apr 03, 2010 4:56 PM EDT
A group calling themselves ‘Morgan’s Warriors’ are keeping alive the memory of murdered 20-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington.
About 20 members added painted rocks to the memorial at the Copeley Road Bridge in Charlottesville Saturday afternoon. Harrington disappeared in October following the Metallica concert nearby at the John Paul Jones Arena. Her body was found on an Albemarle County farm in January.
Morgan’s Warriors hope to promote campus safety across the country. Member Jamie Waldrop says, “We’re just trying to create an awareness of safety for girls who are walking alone and people who are out and about – especially after dark.”
more here http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=12252255
Dropping her out of a plane…
Just some thoughts on that:
So, you abduct Morgan from JPJ. Then, later that night (Dead or Alive) Morgan is taken on a plane to be thrown out somewhere. Obviously we’re talking a private aircraft and airstrip – so a smaller prop plane or something similar, located on a large piece of land – there are a few crop strips around the area. So you go through all the trouble and hassle of using a plane to ditch her body somewhere…and end up dumping the body 7.3 miles from where she was abducted???? You used a plane, for that? If a plane was used they could have jumped over to the Atlantic or at the very least fly over a huge lake in another county to dump her body…not 7.3 miles from where she was last seen.
No plane involved here. JMO
Thanks, everyone, for all your great heart and insightful comments.
Welcome to bmg from Australia. You have such passion and will be a valued member at Blink On Crime (BOC).
My experience tells me that young people, especially those in church youth groups, know that there is a strict re-entry policy everywhere, including the “Lock-Ins.” All of the young people I know have no doubt–since age 12–that they are not allowed to return to the venue. (However, they all know how to circumvent this, even with chaperones sitting on the hotel stairs all night.) This policy is necessary to control behavior that is deemed unacceptable by the group. Whether the policy is effective or actually deters abherant behavior is not necessarily evaluated. Policy means policy means disaster.
All signs of a non-reflective society.
Here’s the quick wikipedia.com definition:
A policy is typically described as a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome(s). The term is not normally used to denote what is actually done, this is normally referred to as either procedure or protocol. Where as a policy will contain the ‘what and the why’ procedures or protocols contain the ‘what’ the ‘how’ the ‘where’ and the ‘when’.
So, if policy does not always dictate protocol, then Morgan Harrington would be alive and never know how mindless her friends were. Or maybe she eventually would.
Would that protocol trumped policy.
Oh Justice, don’t be sorry-I knew you were teasing, but thought I better make it clear in case anyone else thought I was the nut! I really have tried to not even post that dream, but it finally got the best of me. I think what was strangest about it were the two deer that looked like they were made out of glowing embers, maybe symbolic of something burning?
Thinking cap time and as the blinksters say, goblet time (but for me, a little Kahlua, soy creamer and cola does the trick-I’m vegan!)
Rock on Morgan and peace to all!
Hi Suz!
Re: my dream. I believe Morgan saying she “just got stuck” was due to my thinking about her getting “stuck outside the arena” so much. But I can’t help wondering if a knife was involved.
bmg, when I voiced my frustration about going over things again and again, it was not toward you, just the case in general. I’m glad you’ve joined us.
B, in your reply to a comment made on March 26th, you provided the opinion shown below. So, am I correct in assuming new information has surfaced in the last nine days that changed your opinion?
Your reply to March 26th post;
“I have also worked through the possibility of her being placed in the river/creek bed and getting hung up. I have reviewed aerials ( not available to the public) and I am reasonably sure that did not happen, again the banks did not have the capacity to swell to get her to end up where she did”.
No, I should clarify, that response was addressing whether or not I believe Morgan was placed in the Hardware river and could have floated to her ultimate resting place. I do not. I have studied this pretty carefully and have taken the advice of a local, as well as additional recovery scene information to form this opinion.
B
OK, another sleepless night thinking of all the things that don’t add up.
The police stated that Morgan left Charlottesville after the “sighting” on the bridge.
The friends didn’t seem concerned at all about her whereabouts. I don’t remember reading or seeing statements that multiple phone calls were made to her by her friends, or to anyone else (like her parents), even on the next morning. That leads me to believe they knew whom she was with and they really weren’t concerned. I do NOT believe she was HH at all.
I am sort of leaning in the direction of credibility of the sighting on the lawn. However, this contradicts the statement from VSP that she LEFT Charlottesville, and it explains why police have discounted the newspaper lady’s report. How do they know she left Charlottesville? Phone pings?
However, if we discount “she left Charlottesville”, the sighting on the “lawn” sounds more credible.
Why…….the boots for one thing. They fit the description of the newspaper lady. Also, that call for medical help that I keep reading about…that appears “still open” is disturbing. Could it have been Morgan calling for help from someone else’s phone (but that would seem easy to track unless it is a disposable phone.) Anyway, it is plausible that the “party” could have moved to a location at NG and then she met her demise. But wouldn’t there be witnesses….eventually someone would talk…you would think. The first to TALK gets the best deal and they know it!
The “LAWN,” I believe is where TOP scholars at UVA live and it is probably the most honorable location on campus. Could this be why the sighting was discounted and the reason for the misinformation being given about the boots? Just a thought.
Also, I kept thinking Morgan may have been transported by horseback to the location at AF.
I thought I remembered reading that police were looking for evidence such as horse hair. I know I did not imagine this and it makes sense. That also would tie into LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION….it would have to be someone who knew the area and lived or was staying close by. I have also read that horses can see in the dark. Carrying a body wrapped in a tarp ON a HORSE seems like the best choice for getting her there.
Well, that is it….Now I will enjoy this beautiful Easter Day!
>>justiceformorgan says:
April 3, 2010 at 7:01 am
Sky, in support of the Harringtons, and of your kind and thoughtful gesture from which “Morgan’s Rocks” began, I will be sending a small rock to Charlottesville from my home in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
YAY !! Rock on, Morgan, Rock on !!!
Yesterday I finished planting my little Morgan Memorial Garden — it’s all lilies — except the dang unneutered male dog that’s been sniffing around our house went on the porch and got into everything and stole the second bag holding the Casablanca lily bulbs — growl !! But the soil here contains a lot of mica, I think — it looks like little specs or gold — and it SHINES — also, I keep digging up large rocks of clear and smokey quarts — which I am a rock hound wannabe, so that just thrills me to no end — I’ve put them all in her little garden space —
I’m also going to paint another slate to put there —
I just love that the H’s started the “Morgan Rocks” program — thanks again to O for being so kind to set up the post office box so anyone can mail their rocks
Shine on, our Shiny Girl (we’ve all claimed her, so I hope it’s all right call her “ours” )
We will never stop until we have, ultimate and absolute
J4M !
Happy Easter/Blessings day to all —
Love, Sky
Can someone please repost the email addy being used to join the FB page for us. I never got the last one to work that chad posted
Happy Easter Everyone! Let’s all hope & pray that THIS will be the week the BG/s go down…
“Why? Not disclosing that probably helped them eliminate a good percentage of the people who were certain the blond haired, mini-skirt and boot wearing girl they saw was morgan. The description released said knee high black boots, which these are. That should have covered all the legitimate sightings of morgan. I bet you more than one so called witness was adamant they saw someone in lace ups once the false rumor got out, whatever the source of that was.”
I’m sorry, but your comment makes no sense at all to me. Giving an accurate description as possible of a missing person is critically important, else why bother at all?
wood girl, thanks for your welcome. Mary I have not felt at any time you were directing any frustration towards me. In fact Mary I have to be honest I don’t know what you’re referring to. You seem like a nice person to me so Somehow you’ve got the wrong impression.
Wood girl, thanks for clarifying, but policy or protocol – my point being if Morgan was allowed back into the stadium she would be alive today. It’s hard blogging for the first time on a website 5 months after the event when most people have already been over and discussed things I am now only commenting on. As it was only last Saturday (friday your time) that I became aware of the whole Morgan Harrington story I am still feling the sadness of the intial event and am still suffering from the anger of how easily her fate could have been avoided by both common sense and concern from those who should have showed concern.
I did read on another site someone getting stuck into Morgan for making bad decisions which is why I tried to stick up for her here on this site = although I am willing to accept that HH is not the smartest thing to do, but I can only think she felt that was her only option open up to her.
And to all those who jumped on my plane comment – I get it, Morgan was probably not dropped from a plane. so I hope no-one ever feels that I am directing any comment I make towards them – if I am I will say your name first as I have at the beginning of this post.
Such good news that Morgan’s Warriors contributed rocks to the memorial site yesterday. Thank you Suz for posting this info. I knew about this group–I wonder if Blink has spoken with them.
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http://blinkoncrime.com/2010/02/04/morgan-harrington-murder-virginia-state-police-press-conference-today/comment-page-38/
I was restless last night, and I found myself rereading the above posts from Feb. Interesting info about the PR firm (hired by Morgan’s family) and their stmt re: “boots.” Also, Blink makes some very thought-provoking comments about acct and kickee, if anyone wants to take a look. Wonder if answers have been provided about WHY this woman/acct seemed to have been observing the woman, she presumed to be Miss M., so closely.
The whole boot issue has me questioning many things about this case.
1) I have always found it interesting that Morgan’s phone wouldn’t
have a chip in it. Now do we know that to be true??? Good way to
cover history of Morgan’s calls.
2) Bridge sighting, Hmmm good way to place her off campus.
3) Handling of initial search parties. Lets just throw away items that
are turned in and not follow up on leads. Which appears to be what
some of the people that were there have posted.
I am sorry I know that there are several here on BOC that don’t like to read my “cover” theory, but things just do not look good to me.
At this point I do not think that the BG/BG’s will ever be found.
Also, I have always questioned the poor judgement of the friends. But really I would have been calling Morgan, and if I couldn’t reach her by phone, and without a battery that phone should have immediately gone to voice mail. I never would have left that town.
And then to lawyer up within a couple days. Come on those kids know something.
I hope I am wrong about my thoughts here today. I truly pray that if the is more than one person involved that at least one of the will smarten up and realize that they can plea bargain turn in the others and maybe not sit in jail for the rest of eternity being some guys boyfriend!
Blink – I am sorry I know it is Easter. Maybe I just lost it today, if you choose not to post this I certainly understand. Wow, got a tear on that one.
This case seems to have some strange twists regarding the behavior of Morgan and her friends. Did her friends know what she was going to do so they played their part in not going to her aid?
What part did the basketball players have in this if any?
I am leaning more and more to the possibility that Morgan made some very dangerous choices about what she did regarding who she was going to meet after leaving the concert.
There may be some merit to the sighting that the newspaper lady made. She at that point may have been held against her will.
I don’t think she died that evening, but was held hostage for several days until the presure became too great for her captors to keep her and they simply took the last step. Broken bones prior to death would indicate that she fought them and was injured in the process.
ATG- I think the evidence and speculation about the perps belies that scenario, imo.
B
bmg, fwiw, my mom also wondered if she was dropped from a plane. Me, I still think they may have rolled right up the driveway…
“No, I should clarify, that response was addressing whether or not I believe Morgan was placed in the Hardware river and could have floated to her ultimate resting place. I do not. I have studied this pretty carefully and have taken the advice of a local, as well as additional recovery scene information to form this opinion.
B”
With all due respect, I think you are wrong on this one. The “Hardware River” at the point where Morgan was found is a very, very small stream that could be jumped over or crossed with one step in the stream at a depth of four or five inches, much less in the autumn. The topography slopes down to where Morgan was found from the west, north, and east. The land slopes very, very gently down from where she was found to Route 29.
Happy Easter Blink, Yesterday I posted a rather long comment. I found where it was 1st discussed that Morgan’s boots having chunky heels. It did not post.Even though I tried several times- I never saw it in moderation.
Should I try to post it again- Or was it lost because you thought it best? If so, I’ll forget about trying.
Thanks Blink-
In reply to RUMOM’s post of 4/4 at 9:45. I don’t think one could
ride a horse in the dark over unfamiliar terrain with a body wrapped
in a tarp. If LE could find such a horse, it would be the one used.
I’ve had over 80 horses here in Fl and even the best riding horse
would not do such a thing–in the daylight, maybe. They see OK in
the dark, but are not a brave animal. Also, the post from justformorgan on 4/3 at 7:01, I, like you, am looking at rocks and
thinking of Morgan. I’m sending a small rock with a fossil. Morgan
has left an imprint (like a fossil) in our lives. Re: boots when they
are found will tell a story–each scuff, each grain of dirt.
I just read A Texas Grandfather’s Post and your response to it Blink. Does this mean that you think it was Morgan at the gas station? Because I have been thinking about that sighting alot, lately. Didn’t the lady state that the blonde she saw, looked at her, pleaded with her eyes for help and that she looked all beat up, with a cut lip I believe? IIRC
Can someone repost this sighting?
Someone needs to show the “newspaper lady” who saw a young woman who looked like Morgan on the Lawn in the early morning hours photos of different pairs of boots. If she picks out the ones above as the ones the person was wearing then a lot more credence should be given to her account. Is there any reason whatsoever the VSP hasn’t done this?
re: 15.sweetpea says: April 4, 2010 at 11:13 am
1) I have always found it interesting that Morgan’s phone wouldn’t
have a chip in it. Now do we know that to be true??? Good way to
cover history of Morgan’s calls.
Cell phones from Verizon and Sprint do not use sim cards. T-Mobile and AT&T both use sim cards in their phones.
@ sweetpea from 11:13 am: Good points… the SIM card. Never been confirmed if the phone didn’t ‘require’ one, or it was missing. And to better understand if it was missing, we’ve never been told what model of phone it is.
I figure they have either recovered so much evidence and Morgan’s personal possessions they don’t need to publicize it. And if she changed her boots, what about the clothes… LE has to know a TON of info from the friends and they are keeping a low profile. But why do I think that’s unlikely considering the boots alone seem to confirm other sightings that previously were dismissed.
Can any of you sleuths point to other solved cases where little info/details and no images were released prior to an arrest? I’m not saying it’s not a productive investigative technique. I have absolutely no right to be aggravated… months now reading such wonderful speculating and coordination of ideas/personal knowledge… over hardly any facts. NO PICTURES of her? WTH? tell us they exist and not being released. Tell us they exist but are not in your possession. Tell us they existed but were lost. Honestly. Really? No pics? Gee, starting to wonder what Morgan may have taken pics of prior to the concert with her little red ‘missing’ camera. Friends hiding much? Hmm.. what if one of them was holding her camera… check some of their pictures and see what type of camera took them. Sorry, really really off-base, but really…. so little makes sense.
sweetpea says:
April 4, 2010 at 11:13 am
The whole boot issue has me questioning many things about this case.
1) I have always found it interesting that Morgan’s phone wouldn’t
have a chip in it. Now do we know that to be true??? Good way to
cover history of Morgan’s calls.
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There’s nothing unusual about her phone not having a SIM card/”chip”. The need for a SIM card is based on the carrier’s network. A phone on AT&T’s GSM network, requires a SIM card. Same model phone on Verizon’s CDMA network, would not have a SIM card.
J4M
This is the video link from Channel 29 on Morgan Warrior’s visit to Copeley Bridge for Morgan Rocks.
http://www.nbc29.com/global/Category.asp?C=175568&clipId=4674817&autostart=true
Regarding Morgan’s remains being moved by animals and weather. Blink is definitely right about this. She did not wash down the creek from the pond or the river and she was not dropped by an airplane. The flooding in january may have played a small part in moving her further into the field but she was not in a body of water for an extended period of time. It’s hard to say this gently without becoming graphic but I will try.
I work with one of the investigator’s who was on the scene at AF on January 26th. I have asked him about the case and of course he cannot divulge a lot of info but he did tell me that the condition and position of her remains showed that animals did indeed move her remains into the open area of the field from the tree line area. The remains were not fully intact but not spread out all over the place either, but that it was obvious that animals had a big part in moving her remains.
I know this is gruesome, I am not at all trying to make it sound graphic but it is hard to get the point across without directly saying it.
I do not know what any of this means in regards to the perp(s) wanting or not wanting her to be found but she was not just left out in an open field and also not left in the fully wooded forest where hunters would have found her either. That particular area of the creek and tree line is a very remote part of this farm. It would not be heavily traveled by hunters or farmers at any time of year. Had she not been moved into the field by nature (animals etc) it is very possible that she never would have been found.
If we had not had torrential rains that weekend making Mr Bass check his farmland, it is very possible that she would have been even more decomposed and scattered by animals and would have simply been bush-hogged or plowed into the ground in the spring and we would never have found her.
Blink, if this is too graphic to post I totally understand. I just figured I would put that info out there since there seems to be so much confusion about what you are trying to say to everyone about this.
Blink, you may delete previous post.
This link should work. News video of Morgans Warriors Meeting on Bridge.
http://www.nbc29.com/global/Category.asp?C=175568&clipId=4674817&autostart=true
Has anyone noticed that on the night Morgan went missing there was a rescue squad call for a “Psychiatric -Trauma” in the early morning hours(around 1:30AM) and it occured in an area one exit east of the exit that would lead south to AF(from interstate 64). It can be found listed at the following website. http://warhammer.mcc.virginia.edu/rids/rids.php
Stopping by to say I hope you all had a wonderful Happy Easter!
Back at Ya friend.
B
Dr. and Mrs. Harrington and Alex, I have not been back to church in a very long time. Today was the day, and to no small degree, because of Morgan. I said a prayer for Morgan and you all…but for her killer(s, try as I might, I have no prayers to give. Only that they are caught…pronto. I don’t know if it will help, but I wanted you to know. And for all the Bkinkers, prayers to keep us uplifted and at the ready, for anything and everything we can do to bring this to justice for Morgan and the Harringtons.
Peace my friends….
Hoping everyone is having a beautiful Easter Sunday!
The newspaper lady saw Morgan being held against her will – wow – I missed that – who was holding her?
Those boots wern’t made for walking . Harder still when drinking and maybe some pot or whatever . No wonder she fell inside and injured herself . They wern’t made for kicking either while under the influence .Kicking is more diffiult than walking . She would have to balance on one foot ,swing the other foot back then kick . Correct herself afterwads and try to get back on her unstable two feet . It is a wonder she didn’t fall again if she actually did try to kick the middle aged man . The lady that says she say MH wobbly crossing the street seems very plausable .With those boots and in her condition sadly she was probably very wobbly . She was going to the Lannigan field area where her purse was found . Lannigan field area is grassy and there was some rain that evening making the ground soft . Women wearing high healed shoes and in a fun crazy party mood that try to walk in grassy muddy areas just can’t do it . They get laughing at how terrable they are doing at trying to walk as they are staggering to start with , the heels dig right in and they are quickly walking in bare or sock feet carrying their shoes . Usually still laughing though.MH’s boot heels would have dug into Lannigan field and in her otherwise wobbly condition she would have soon been on her butt .In a very vulnerable situation ,given she was inebriated perhaps and very scantly dressed .Harder to pull out of those boots than mere high heeled shoes , she would have been dependant others to help her onto her feet and to get moving . The purse just may have been lost right there during whatever scene that transpired . Someone transported her from there it seems and the bridge idea is only a convienent story to get her into another jurisdiction . Good idea though it is .
Hi everybody! I just got home from work. I’ve worked 20 hours in overtime since Tuesday. We’re having some “issues” at work haha! I’m just glad I know how to do what I do; there’s no way anybody would pay me to stay somewhere 20 hours and sing.
Regarding the boot thing: on the facebook page there used to be a “mockup” of how Morgan would have looked that night and I THINK those boots were laceup. I don’t really want to join the facebook page to go back and look at it, and I can’t find it when I google Morgan Harrington images. Anyway, someone else may have it handy. I do remember that way, way back, Sue posted a link to a market in Charlottesvile where one or both of the boots may have been found (I thought at the time it was a way to keep interest up.) And some guy (I want to say Ryan or somebody, who doesn’t post often) was kind of rude to Sue about it. Then we didn’t hear from Sue for a long time, until just recently. FWIW, I checked out the link, Sue. (Sorry, I know you’re Sue, and I know why you put the k on, just would rather call you the old Sue, which was perfectly fine). Right around that same time, DG Davis (memba him?) said he had half a mind to go up to the RV lot and have a look see and we haven’t heard from him since then either. DG, you out there buddy?
I’ve been following this case since the beginning. I can remember the very first time I heard about it and how my heart hurt when I heard about a college girl who got “stuck outside of a concert” she had been looking forward to attending. I believe that Morgan was deliberately walking to the RV lot. Was that where her car was parked? Have we ever had confirmation as to WHERE her car was parked? I know most people say UHall. If her car was not parked at the RV Lot, then I believe she had been offered a ride by either the basketball players (who I believe she came into contact with directly outside JPJ arena (rather than later in her walk, in front of Uhall), OR, the BIB. According to the bookkeeper, the RV lot was pretty empty. We know the basketball players were parked there. Who else would have attended the second practice of the season? If I’m not mistaken, it wasn’t a big Midnight Madness event as some colleges have, but was the public able to attend? Would there have been security or emergency personnel at THAT event?
Addendum: Who else would have attended the second practice of the season AND been parked in the RV lot?
Second addendum: Thank you total amateur for the input on white UVa BB players. I agree it’s time for a name change for you.
It’s an Easter miracle! I was able to find it on findmorgan.com!! It might not work if you’re not a member, if not: they are lace-up in the mockup.
http://www.findmorgan.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=65&d=1267298325
I always thought that page was started by some of the friends, and they would definitely know what she was wearing, right? I swear, my last post tonight. Gotta be at work at 6 am! Love ya’ll!
If Justin Bloxom’s case hasn’t been referenced yet:
http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=7505.0
Perhaps the people protecting or afraid of Morgan’s killer(s) should take the lead from the family of Justin’s murder. They brought the suspect in to police “immediately after finding out that Brian was the prime suspect in this heinous crime. Brian will not find any support from us because we do not condone a murderer.”
Yes, it is that easy. And your load will be so much lighter. And it can be done.
Another girl missing from the Lexington area. Lexington is about an hour away from Charlottesville. 18 years old, blonde, 130 lbs. Missing since Friday night.
http://www.roanoke.com/news/breaking/wb/242264
Aren’t we all a little spoiled by watching TV crime shows like CSI and Criminal Minds … where LE actually talk to the media with useful and accurate information along with warnings to the public, DNA is analyzed quickly, tips from the public are pursued and reported, arrests are made, and justice is served?
THANK YOU M A R Y
Ok, I have hesitated on whether to post this, but what the heck. I was perusing TD Bones pics, and I think I noticed something out of place in # 67. If you look at that picture centered, you will see a triangular patch of snow between the trees. Then enlarge it with a double click, and find that patch again. I don’t want to say what I think I see, will wait to see how crazy I am. By the way, I had looked at an ariel on line, and was bothered that I could not satisfy myself as to where poor Morgan was found, so I was going back & forth btwn the ariel & TD’s pics. In addition to my ‘apperition’, do you all think this pic represents the basic location? I had been way right in the map, but that doesnt seem to line of with the tree lines and fieldy area. Anyway here are the links, and let me have it.
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h102/TDBone/Case%20Photos/67.jpg
http://www2.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/crime/article/harringtons_deliver_emotional_message/51496/ (This is the ariel I was using)
OMG my spelling is awful, sorry.
Blink, hope you had a good Easter with your family.
Question time:
Any chance the kid killed by LE after the high speed chase on Jan 1st was involved in the December 26th assualt/destruction of property incident on Red Hill RD?
As there were charges filed in that incident, and none appear on his docket, I would say no.
Thanks, I hope everyone enjoyed the Holiday as well.
B
I admittedly haven’t been following up much lately… Was the exact cause of death or anything related to that ever made public?
No. It is an active case.
B
RE: Danielle says:
April 4, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Another girl missing from the Lexington area.
Missing Rockbridge County teen found safe: http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=12254839
“She did not wash down the creek from the pond”
I still maintain she was buried in a shallow grave in the wooded and brushy areas alongside the stream that flows south from the “green barn” area or the small stream that southwest from the pond. Both streams meet very near where Morgan was found and continue to drain southward toward Route 29. Since the heavy rains washed out secondary roads and bridges in the area and caused school closings I don’t see why she could not have been washed out of a shallow grave by the heavy rains.
I’m sorry but “VSP says…” just doesn’t cut it for me anymore.
Duke, I don’t think the TV crime shows spoil us, rather they give us an unrealistic expectation of crime solving. Their team of writers have the beginning, the investigation and the solution all wrapped up in a one hour drama. I occasionally watch Forensic Files on TruTV. I think these shows present a much more realistic picture of what law enforcement faces. The sifting through of evidence, and then the break that yields a piece of forensic information that solves the case. Some of the cases portrayed on Forensic Files cover a span of 20 years or more before the break comes that leads to an arrest. As has been discussed here, the family and friends of Alicia Showalter Reynolds have been waiting for close to 20 years for her murderer to be found. Alicia, Morgan, and so many others, both male and female, die in real life at the hands of violent people. Some cases are solved quickly when there is an abundance of evidence, but others drag on for years and sadly, some are never solved. The conclusion of the deaths of Morgan Harrington, Cassandra Morton, Alicia Reynolds and others will not be written by a team of TV writers who are able to draw on their own imagination or take their stories from crimes that have already been solved. If, and I would rather say, when these cases are solved, a piece of evidence will be found that starts to finish the puzzle. Maybe DNA will provide the evidence for Morgan. Apparently it didn’t for Alicia Reynolds. There’s so little news and publicity about Cassandra Morton, that I have no idea what is happening in her case
Duke says:
April 4, 2010 at 11:52 pm
Aren’t we all a little spoiled by watching TV crime shows like CSI and Criminal Minds … where LE actually talk to the media with useful and accurate information along with warnings to the public, DNA is analyzed quickly, tips from the public are pursued and reported, arrests are made, and justice is served?
It does not work that way, I can assure you.
Absolutely does not, I agree.
B