Morgan Harrington Murder: Coincidences or Clues ?
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North Garden, VA– Morgan Harrington, the 20 year old fair-haired, radiant beauty, was brutally murdered after disappearing from the John Paul Jones arena the evening of October 17, 2009.
Morgans remains were recovered the morning of January 26, 2010 in a hayfield on Anchorage Farm, owned by David and Nancy Bass.
Since Morgan was found by Mr. Bass that blackest of days in January, there has been rampant speculation about her last hours and how she ended up in the creek bed of total strangers.
A sequence of events and incidents in the days and hours preceding and following the January 26, 2010, discovery of Morgan Harrington’s skeletal remains on Anchorage Farm continues to attract attention from pundits and volunteers dedicated to Morgan’s cause.
Although naysayers point to a lack of a viable connection, and police have disavowed a link, others say emergency services runs to a nearby fire and also other responses which are not supported by publicly available documentation has led to calls for more complete disclosure to eliminate any connection or chance of prank calls to misdirect or busy first responders.
The editors of www.blinkoncrime.com present a series of events occurring in Albemarle County, VA that pose the question:
What the Hell is going on and what does it have to do with Morgan Harrington’s murder?
The Monsoons of Albemarle County …. PD
Ok, maybe I meant “The monsoor”. Karl Monsoor that is.
Former Officer Karl Monsoor had been tugging on the shirtail of ACPD for years before he finally left with pocketfuls of sunshine. Almost 500 G’s.
It is not my intention to be glib, it is my intention to say that as one of the youngest police departments in the country, enacted in 1983, this tank needed algeacide before this past March.
Death By Cop.. January 1, 2010
Colby Eppard, described by some as a cross between Gomer Pyle and cool hand luke, had the rawest of deals growing up in Greene County.
According to his foster-mommy-aunt, Tammy Harlow Cox, Colby was hit by a car at a very young age and suffered a brain injury that apparently served to shape his future of home upheavel and juvenile detention facilities.
Ms. Cox, to whom Colby Eppard was entrusted for a time as a foster parent, is no stranger to the judicial system. Tammy was arrested for admittedly having sex with 3 High School seniors athletes on the Varsity Football Team, where her own sons attended. The same school Colby elected to leave without his diploma.
Colby’s family recalls better times, and I don’t think anyone believes this is the last we have heard of this case.
Specifically under VA statute, Greene County Captain Randall Snead was out of his jurisdiction, both when he was called about Colby stealing the patrol car and the fact that he was in North Garden, Albemarle County, looking for it. It would seem the Greene County Roster could accommodate a deputy vs. a captain to respond, no? Keep in mind, EVERY responding officer was put on desk duty pending the investigation, through at least February 9th, 2010.
While the attorney for the Commonwealth, Denise Lunsford has cleared all officers from all participating counties involved, none of the dash cams have been released despite requests through The Freedom of Information Act..
According to Ms. Lunsford, in an incident that spanned almost 70 miles and over 2 and a half hours where traffic was rerouted and stringers were used, Colby Eppard was allegedly wielding the 20 gauge Greene County Issue out the windows, not one LEO attempted to engage or respond to Eppard in an effort to get him to pull over, or negotiate his surrender at any time.
In fact, according to statements from Snead, Albemarle Deputies Fields and Marden, they were all in place on the south junction of 20 “in the event” he went that way, yet, they did not block traffic until after the stinger caused Eppard to crash.
My biggest question regarding this incident is: Did anyone ask Colby Eppard why he would take the truck and 2 rifles on New Years day ending up in Albemarle County?
Was it related to a New Years Eve occurrance of a friend, family member or associate of his? After Sgt. Hutchinson loses Eppard near the Nelson line, the next time he is seen is parked on Green Creek Rd, back in Albemarle.
What route did he take from 29 South to end up there? Was he seeking Red Hill Road where the overdose call came in to EMS the night before?
By all accounts he was a troubled young man with challenges throughout his young 18 years.
Additionally corroborated by those that knew him, he was never violent to anyone. There were over 6 Law Enforcement Officers from 4 different jurisdictions this man encountered before he hit just below Carters Bridge; 14 by the time the stolen vehicle ended up in the ditch.
Not one of them spoke or attempted to speak to Colby Wade Eppard at anytime he was on the police radio for over 2 hours. Was there an order given not to?
How is it that not one officer responded to Eppards threats, which were even being monitored by the media at this point in an effort to have a peaceful result to this situation?
Did Eppard have a cell phone with him and have the records been checked?
Did he call anyone, like Amber Rogers, his off-again girlfriend of 3 years? His brother Courtney or any of his friends?
In the preliminary release by the Virginia State Police, it stated Eppard returned to his crashed 2006 Ford Ranger truck prior to stealing the unmarked Green Cty car. If he were attempting to have a police stand off, why would he not take the two rifles he brought with him? He left his guns behind.
It also states in the report that Eppard is seen on the video from the STOLEN police car retrieving the shotgun from the trunk and loading it, how is that possible considering all the cameras are dash mounted?
Can someone explain to me how the officers have been cleared, but the footage of both Eppards actions and their responses, the very evidence of the incident cannot be released? One of the officers involved, Caleb Marden, was fired for reasons nobody is willing to comment on.
There is only ONE way that is legal; if is part of an ONGOING investigation.
So what investigation is it an active part of?
(Editors note: If Mr. Eppard put ANYONE’s safety at risk through his actions, in the end, I say what happened to him was done to protect others, which I support. That said, as it was not so long ago a Virginia Conservation Officer was indicted for the involuntary manslaughter of a 16 year old kid whose girlfriend he was trying to grab out of his moving car, and later had the charges dismissed, I think it is worthy of conversation.)
Byrd Watching DungSmoke – January 22, 2010
James Byrd Gunn, resident or squatter at 5027 Stoney Point Rd, Barboursville, VA owned by Piedmont Manor Land Trust, was busted for possession of Marijuana with intent to deliver, and possession of a firearm as a felon.
TODAY, Mr. Big Gunn is on the Run-Run. He was indicted on both counts Monday and declared a fugitive this afternoon.
CR10000107-00 GUNN, JAMES BYRD POSSESS MARIJUANA W/INTENT 06/07/2010 Active
CR10000169-00 GUNN, JAMES BYRD FELON W/ A FIREARM 04/08/2010 Fugitive
In a SEPERATE arrest on January 23rd, 2010, Jeremy Manning– Smith 
(JMS) with the cool 144 acre pad in Keswick, also indicted on 4/5/2010 , may turn to the fivefold plan to help him out. JMS keeps a cool $55K recession-proof wad around for emergencies. Mr. Manning-Smith is a long time composter, although he never really states what he is growing.
Lisa Powers, copperworks and the fivefold planners say burn the dung. They are pals, although I doubt she is securing his bond.
Cash Runs OUT.. January 24th, 2010
Jason Todd Cash, with NO CHARGES OR WARRANTS PENDING allegedly tries to kill a cop when he is stopped in Nelson Cty in a vehicle registered to someone in Buckingham County. Remind you of anyone? He ran from the scene, leaving the vehicle and eluded police on foot.
The vehicle was impounded. He apparently is driving on a revoked license, which county has that occurred in? We will get back to J-money.
NON Garden Party…. January 25th
At approximately 10PM on the evening of January 25, Albemarle County Fire and rescue services responds to a call at the 37 acre farm of award winning gardening and horticulture experts John Sauer and his wife Cathy Clary. It is listed as a tactical incident rescue and as of March 24, 2010 is still an open incident. What was it? Who or what needed rescuing?
Mr. Sauer is the long-time gardner for Carr’s Hill, the residence of the President of UVA. Carr’s Hill was the former site of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity until 2003 when it was moved by the city to it’s current location on Culbreth. Ms. Clary is a horticulture proffessor at UVA, and most recently taught a home landscaping course which included a field trip the afternoon of Saturday October 17, 2009.
The Sauers are also members of Piedmont Landscaping Association, which is open to anyone in the landscaping field and the Virginia Cooperative Extension.
Interestingly enough, there were several fire alarm activations on the UVA campus on this same day. Faulkner House reported a residential fire around 4:10 am.
Threes Company, Four is Combustible..Jan 26th
Sometime after 10PM, the residential fire at 3323 Sutherland Rd breaks out.
This would be the fire that is still an OPEN INCIDENT.
This fire,as you can see, was no curling-iron-left-on.
It allegedly started after the residents were asleep, although they had all apparently packed their belongings and were on a month to month lease, 2 had already moved out.
In fact, according to Peruvian vacationer and dog owner of Blanca, the pit bull that perished in the blaze, he was not aware of the fire until days after the fact because he was with friends in Peru.
Convenient, if you ask me, as he has a previous weed distribution and subsequent traffic charge in December 2009.
Meet new pup to the left. In fairness to fair-weather k9’s of America, he was only asking for dog-sitting, and not on the lease. Choose your kenneling wisely people.
The residential fire at the 3000 block of Sutherland Rd has some issues. For starters, you have the first press release regarding the possible accidental fire since as far back as 2003 before a cause determination has been made.
Additionally the release itself appears to have missed the fact that approximately 2 hours after the last apparatus departs, there is an additional call back to the property requiring 12 responders within minutes of the discovery of Morgan Harrington’s remains. They may have literally passed each other on Route 29; they definitely would have heard the dispatcher.
The former owner of the Sutherland property is buried on Anchorage Farm. A relative of the current owners has hunted the Anchorage Farm property.
The band in the image on the left is pictured practicing in the Sutherland home.
A firefighter, whose identity blinkoncrime is choosing to withhold, who fought the fire, without sleeping took an impromptu trip to New Jersey with his ..”aunt, uncle, cousin, his cousins uncle and a friend..” at 10:23PM January 27th, driving straight through without stopping and returned to North Garden by 1:45PM January 28th. Through his own facebook postings, he spends the bulk of his time when he is not volunteering for the North Garden Fire Department at his cousins; a Toco Hill address also listed as the home for a recently released registered sex offender.
Retired Greene Sheriff Takes His Own Life.. January 28
There is no evidence to suggest that William “Willie” Linwood Morris’s suicide has anything in common with the Morgan Harrington’s case directly, with the exception that there are obviously folks that knew him as well as other individuals being discussed. I have spoken with a family member, and an individual who has known him for twenty years and by those accounts Willie was in deep discomfort from the tinnicus he suffered from.
He took care of every detail prior to ending his life behind the barn on his farm in Stanardsville, VA, including withdrawing the cash for his own funeral.
Willie Morris was found by Captain Randall Snead, who was allegedly supposed to be on desk duty until the Eppard case investigation was completed. According to Commonwealth Attorney Denise Lunsford, that was not completed until February 9, 2010, almost 2 weeks later.
Cash is Busted on a Tip.. March 19
Not long out of Nelson County jail for a non-violent offense, Jason Todd Cash is being held in Albemarle County jail since his arrest around 1am the morning of Friday March 19.
One has to wonder if the tip about where Jmoney was hanging out on Secretary Sand Rd from his kin in Amherst.
Clint Cash, a registered sex offender was arrested in December on a felony parole violation and is facing some heavy time . His wife Donna, had just pled guilty to a misdemeanor the day before the tip came in regarding JT Cash’s whereabouts and received a suspended sentence.
Jason Cash was apprehended with help from Bink, the new Albemarle County k9 when the house he was staying in on Secretary Sands was raided and he attempted to stay hidden inside.
What are Coincidences… What are clues?
The aforementioned volunteer for NGVFD lives in same stretch of Secretary Sands Rd.
Yet another relative of Jason Cash, a registered Sex Offender, shares an employer with the cousin of “volunteer”, and volunteer; specializing in outdoor landscape lighting.
Colby Eppard was stopped in the area of Green Creek Rd that is a large parcel of land owned by Cash family member.
As far as making allegations in this report, there are none. The investigation of the events contained herein are entirely based on public information and witness accounts.
I have come to the conclusion that while we cannot say specifically which one of the issues discussed directly relate to the murder of Morgan Harrington, a primary or secondary scene integral to the investigation of same, and the hunt for her killer(s), but I do believe the incidents need to explored fully in a public forum.
Jason Mateos and Elizabeth Morton contributing editors to this report.
Blinkoncrime.com posters justice for morgan and juliemooly contributed research credits.
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Blink, bear with me on this. I have been thinking about my dream I posted, but trying not to over think as you suggested. I google mapped some road and place names. I was trying to “symbolically find” things from my dream that might be associated. (short dream version: things seen in dream: two red deer that looked like they were made of burning embers-I felt like they had been hit by cars already or killed somehow, they felt symbolic-they were standing or were just there in the road just before Morgan slid out the back door of van like vehicle, also a rock or cement thing in the road, maybe dividing the road) I popped in some names on maps in the vicinity like Red Deer, Two deer,Red Hill, and also put in JPJ Arena, address of the Sutherland Fire, address of Anchorage Farms, etc. and this is what came up! It’s pretty weird and freaky, but these four (Sutherland fire address, Wild Deer Lane, Anchorage Farm and the Red Hills) made a slightly crooked square, close together, with an area called “Rock Branch Acres” right in the middle of the square! It sort of freaked me out because it felt right, like this might mean something, you know? It was so weird to see the Rock Branch Acres in the middle of this area when I had never noticed it on the map at all as I was adding things. I only noticed it when I entered the final place and the square formed! And here we are now with our Morgan Rocks memorial, it’s just so sad and strange. I do not know what to make of this except that maybe she was killed at Wild Deer Lane and then taken to either the Sutherland house and then to Anchorage Farms, or vice versa, or any combination thereof? Just theories of course, I have no clue why I would have dreamed things that I could actually end up mapping in that direct vicinity. I’m sorry the map link is so extraordinarily long, I put so many places on it, and then could not figure out how to consolidate the map link-I tried, I really did. So below is the humongous link, and now I’m going to look at ideas of just who lives on Wild Deer Lane and vicinity-anybody?
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Red+Hill+Rd,+Charlottesville,+VA+22903&daddr=wild+deer+lane,++Charlottesville,+VA+to:john+paul+jones+arena,+++Charlottesville,+VA+to:1864+Anchorage+Farm,++Charlottesville,+VA+to:3323+Sutherland+Rd+,+,++Charlottesville,+VA+to:Deer+Run+Rd,+Charlottesville,+Albemarle,+Virginia+22903+to:red+hills,++Charlottesville,+VA&geocode=FVeERAIdBtVR-ylrmFUb_4aziTH5dI7y2b-FDw%3BFZaKQwIdtnFP-yl9oTBL9XiziTHtJJI07b2lsQ%3BFUiLRAIdcQ1S-yHOww7u2HNzDg%3BFUKoQwId5olQ-ylP9ByIs4OziTFJOkXlOwyyWg%3BFX4cQwIdn1dP-ynB0PmTO3iziTEE0J5qQsOqPg%3BFR97RAIdWW9R-ylXVSqC3IaziTH_hggnKgukQQ%3B&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=37.983175,-78.453369&sspn=0.202412,0.612488&ie=UTF8&ll=38.003738,-78.598251&spn=0.202355,0.612488&z=11
Per my last comment and link: ignore the driving directions, the map was trying to follow the random places I was inputting, so that part means nothing!
Hummingbird : Congrats on finding your wildlife place. I checked the link. I’m impressed. It sounds like you have a sweet hubby too.I have visions of a suit and tie driving around with a snapping turtle in a box.(I’m grinning} Aahh, what we do for love. As for folks not wanting to take responsibility, we see it all the time. I have eight cats and kittens downstairs right now from one older client who feeds them all, but then gripes they cost too much. When I chastised him for not spaying them, he grumbled “They’re not MINE”. I told him “They’re on your property. You’re feeding them. They have nobody else in this world. You are responsible. Quit feeding them and letting them reproduce.” He left mad and I haven’t seen him since. The kittens recently recovered from their spay and neuter surgeries. Does it always have to be so much work to step up and do the right thing? I think for many responsibility = inconvienence.
“$150K and a second chance is at the end of your unfortunate rainbow, run to it.” BOC
Blink, after reading Test’s and your post, I think that I really want to share this. May I???
“Your different baby. I would never hurt you. Your amazing and we are goin’ places. Big places. We have talent. I can take you places you’ll never be able to go to. Your my everything…did I tell you that you really should shut up once in a while. No! Really! Shut the fck up! You’ve got no talent and no looks, your stupid and really beginning to annoy me. So what if you think I stole from you. Prove it, dumbass! Yea! I said it. What you gonna do about it? Nothing that’s right. Pathetic”
“Oh.I’m so sorry.I didn’t mean it.I was drunk.I had a bad day at work.I lost my job.I hate them and took it out on you.I’m so sorry. I’ll start making it right, right now.
Pleeeeaaasssee, take me back.”
(Puts arm behind her as if to ‘console’ her crying and then, BASH! Her head is slammed into the ‘console’ of the dashboard. Her nose is bleeding, her eyes begin to swell, she is really sobbing, her wrists twisted; one broken, the pain too much, she crys for him to stop. He doesn’t. He just keeps the punches coming. She is done with this. She fights back all the while, defending herself. Arms protecting a life. She begins to kick and with all her might. He is stunned if just for a second. A second is all she needs. She opens that door and runs. Runs for her life. Never once looking back. She’s in desperate need of medical care. She is alone and scared and wants her family. She calls the one person she knows that will do anything, anything in the world for her. Her sister. She comes and well, the damage was done but the cycle will never continue. She tells everything to them. They had no idea. How could this be? He was always so polite and kind and said please and thank you. But together they had stopped it, for now.)
Dear Girlfriend:
The above story is about my sister. It is real and true. I wish that the ending was different. It is tragic beyond what I can write in words. Tragic beyond what I can share with you. Tragic that life dealt this. It will not be different for her, or Morgan, or the many others that are taken from their lives too early by any type of violence, and may not be different for you.
He is abusive and I think already has been to you. How could he not be? With that much violence and rage built up to explode in one misty, dark, damp, chilly night. Only one night?
~no, i don’t think so~
He will hug you, then hurt you, then hunt you, then haunt you!
YOU must make that courageous call. You can do it. You can call someone who can help you. It will not be different for you and it is only you that can stop the cycle. You may not believe that he is abusive but time will age him, patience will break him, and he will snap. In his old, drunken, drugged, the world owes me way, he will turn on you. Beautiful you. He is not to be trusted.
You have a soul. You do. Maybe you are just young and lost your way and you think that it is too long of a haul back. It is not. Do not be one that puts up with his shit. Do not ever be the one running from it. It will catch up with you. Always does and in ways that can change lives in a horrible fashion forever.
Maybe during a sunny afternoon when he begins to call again.
“Where are you. Pleeeeaaaasssseee, let me see you. One more time.”
She is scared. She said NO, she is frightened for the family she now has. She leaves her brother’s house, after all he’s wheelchair-bound. What can he do. Her mother begs, pleads with her. Don’t go. We are here for you. We can call. But she is headstrong and knows that he is close. Close only in her head. But that is what he will do. Make you doubt yourself. Make you feel insecure. Even after all this time.
(The sunny day came and went black. Black as two parents could imagine. She was gone in a flip of a switch. It happened so fast. She was running and made a fatal decision. It cost her, her life. They had raised such great, selfless, caring, giving kids and lots of them. But guess what, they lost their baby. Their beautiful, talented, loving baby. And now HE made them doubt themselves. They never recovered. Some don’t. Some get busy dying. They did. He thought he won. He didn’t. I did. I stand strong!)
My loss in inmeasurable.
My pain unfathomable.
My tears uncontrollable.
Pleeeeeaaaaasssseeee, let me by your sister! Let me hold your hand. If you do not want that then I am sure, proof-positive, without a nano-second of a doubt that this woman would step in. Post to her. Post it with DO NOT POST! DO NOT POST! DO NOT POST! at the top and tell her that you need help. Get busy living.
No one is expecting after so much time, for you to do it on your own. How could we??? His hold may be greater than most of us can imagine. You are not the freak that he is. You can be redeemed and go on to live a beautiful life.
You have so much to give and so much to live.
Help Morgan as you would a sister.
Help Morgan’s family.
You can and will do better. Not going to lie to you, it will be hard. It will be the hardest mother-lovin’ thing you will ever do in your life. But you will be brave and will do what is just.
He is an abuser IN life and a theif OF life.
If it makes you feel better, then choose to believe that you are seeking help for him. Choose to believe that he will change, that it will be better for you after he gets clean of his sins. Believe whatever you want.
Live in denial for an hour but during that hour, grab a hand, go to a safe place, and just make that CALL COURAGEOUSLY!
I beg of you.
Save yourself before he steals your self!!!
and, for what it’s worth…
this is why Miss Morgan Dana Harrington Matters to me.
Stop the white noise.
Stop the violence.
Collect the palm prints!
Mr. Slowroller:
Although we spit and spatted, thank you for helping me see a light. A light at an end of a very long tunnel. May your daughters always be safe and sound and in your loving arms.
May there be justice for that shiny girl!
According to the firefighters postings, there were 6 people on the Jersey excursion. Unless they took 2 vehicles, as speculated, it would be a cramped car- barring a van or large SUV. So, if they took two cars, and drove only one back, did they all jam into one vehicle- or were they also minus a passenger?
A passenger or 2, yes. FWIW, it was about 10 days later when FF 4wd was “broke”.
B
HokieHi says “Acho mentioned the car being on an “autotrader” type website. Is it possible the car was sold and the reason for the trip was to merely drop it off to the new owner?”
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Just want to clarify that I have no idea whether that car has anything to do with anything. Just interesting to me that a red 1988 Mercury Topaz is listed as being for sale by an owner at AT’s home address. The listing appears to date back to August, 2009, so who knows. I think it’s worth the questions, though, and I hope LE has asked.
The other thing I think is worth questioning OVER and OVER and OVER again is whether Jason Cash was found in the basement of that home, given AT and his cousin KT work with an RSO by same last name (Edward Cash, not Jason Cash, who is incarcerated).
I also see that the spouse of one of the employers proclaims the family’s good reputation on FB and I would like to inquire again, does that company perform background checks, and if so, how does it explain having an RSO on staff, as well as having twice hired AT with his record?
I am all for rehabilitation but not when you’re sending people to private family homes, and in regards to RSOs who’ve committed violent crimes, I’m not sure I believe in rehab at all.
There are no business complaints of either operating company, so that is true.
I think it is interesting they are not commenting on the other connections.
I wonder if they have ever done any work on Anchorage Farm, or had any business dealings with David Bass?
B
Sorry, I mean “the spouse of one of the employers proclaims the family BUSINESS’ good reputation” ….
http://www.newsplex.com/mobi/community?storyid=90846589&showPrev=y&page=1
Note the players. Julie, did you spot any familiar faces in the audience?
Also, J2K, I am so with you on the saccharin overkill. Methinks he doth profess too much …
Hi everybody. I’ve been reading for months, but never had much to post. I did check out the myspace for David F. Creepy.
A few things worth noting. He opens professes a love of drugs, has band pictures, although he laments not currently being in one.
Also, check out some of the blog statements. Could be typical “dark” loser posturing, or it could be….
http://activities.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=stream&friendId=391796458&f=7
My favorites:
David Faina Everything here dies alone
Posted at 2:07 PM Apr 9
David Faina the love we made at gunpoint wasn’t love at all
Posted at 1:04 AM Apr 9
David Faina I’m a dangerous man.
Posted at 1:16 PM Feb 1
David Faina I’m so self-destructive with no intent or motive.
Posted at 12:38 PM Jan 20
Also, guess who’s a friend?
Read this link (The Real About Me) and notice the comment from chellybean. Click on through and you will recognize that picture.
Of course, this just shows that a lot of people are friends.
There are so many connections in this case, CLOSE CONNECTIONS, I think it is one of the basis(s) for my reasoning there are at least a handful of people that suspect or know what happened to Morgan.
If I am correct, what would make people stick together to protect someone that is really dangerous?
B
Things like “the love we made at gunpoint wasn’t love at all” are lyrics.
this too
At times so self destructive. With no intent or motive. But behind this emotion, There lies a sensible heart. A sensible heart. See I’m no king …
http://www.lyricsmania.com/sensible_heart_lyrics_city_and_colour.html – Cached
Yes, good catch. That is a common theme in this crew.
B
If I am correct, what would make people stick together to protect someone that is really dangerous?
B
i don’t know… sex, drugs, money or a cult??? all of these people seem too stupid to be that organized and sneaky…
No cult.
Definitely drugs, they are quite open about it. They must not be enjoying the JADE crackdown.
B
acho says:
April 17, 2010 at 8:36 am
http://www.newsplex.com/mobi/community?storyid=90846589&showPrev=y&page=1
Note the players. Julie, did you spot any familiar faces in the audience?
Also, J2K, I am so with you on the saccharin overkill. Methinks he doth profess too much …
Interesting – I see KH’s father plays in that band.
Yes, frequently at Durty Nellys
B
Whew!
I’m finally back from my latest exploration of the deep seas. While I have missed you guys immeasurably, I had a wonderful–and most adventuresome!–time, esp. and including the one incident where we were (literally) lost at sea in a very small boat sans radar navigation somewhere off a remote island from where we‘d departed. This was in the midst of a blinding white-out resulting from a terrible storm with gale-force winds, with a boat pilot who spoke approx. five words of English. [I know--that sounds like the setting for a bad movie; it indeed felt like it, as well, at least for a time. I'm always up for an adventure though...] This was just after our little boat had been completely incapacitated earlier by a rope that had gotten wrapped-around the boat propeller. [Fortunately someone had a knife and was finally able to cut the thing off after repeated dives, as it had become hopelessly entangled.]
Yup, it was an adventure but all turned-out well after a bit of a white-knuckle period. [I had repeated visions of Gilligan’s Island dancing in my head. Then I considered Tom Hanks in Castaway--a most enticing vision, I must say!--thinking that, if push came to shove and Tom could do it, then I could too!] Despite everything, the deep oceans teeming with an abundance of brilliantly-colored life beneath the surface, juxtaposed with the profound quiet that envelopes you as you watch the sea fans sway gently with the motion of the currents…such compelling vistas…can’t wait to develop my underwater photos later today…
[BTW, J2K and my other avid reading cohorts: I remarkably finished only one book the entire time! I generally finish at least five or six during such a vacation. I was much busier during this vacation than I‘d anticipated though.]
But enough of my vain attempts above to wax poetic about my undersea adventures. Wow…so much BOC reading to catch up on…not to mention bags to yet unpack, countless loads of laundry to do, mail to read, bills to pay, errands to run, voice and email to pour through, etc. But here I remain on BOC…
While I’m glad to be home I’m admittedly disheartened not to read news of an arrest of Morgan’s BG, but am still encouraged that the DNA results of the tee-shirt have been released with a positive ID that the shirt was indeed Morgan’s. We might only hope (and I am assuming this to be the case) that the BG’s trace DNA has also been identified…which leads me to:
IF the BG’s DNA is on the shirt and has been identified:
a. the BG is not a convicted SO as a DNA hit would have already been established and an arrest made (think crackers, cheese, and overalls), and:
b. the BG may yet be a convicted felon, as DNA records for felons are woefully incomplete, or:
c. the BG does not have a felony conviction.
If (b) or (c), LE may have to wait to until an arrest is made to be able to establish a DNA connection. [In VA an arrest for a violent felony, e.g., aggravated sexual assault, murder, homicide, etc. would allow for collection of a DNA sample and subsequent comparative analysis.]
Regardless of the availability of DNA evidence, the shirt was removed either ante- or post-mortem. My suggestion is that it was forcibly removed ante-mortem, possibly during the course of a sexual assault, as I remain firm in my belief that a sexual assault occurred prior to Morgan’s murder.
WRT Slowroller’s thoughts about the shirt, re: his/her post:
“…i am sure there is a simple explanation as to how that shirt ended up there…i dont believe we are dealing with a planting of evidence or intentional misdirecting of LE…i believe it was a panic dumping of evidence…maybe planned, maybe not…i dont think the unsub lives near there, but knows the neighborhood, dipped in there, and chucked it…if the perp managed to keep their DNA off of the shirt, there is most likely fibers from a vehicle, not that we will EVER know what kind of vehicle we are looking for, but that shirt should divulge ALOT…”
I agree with you completely, Slowroller, and am compelled to highlight a later comment you made that sums up my own feelings on this:
“…bottom line for me is this, while i can appreciate the mind numbing task of all the research done by all of the wonderful people here, and they have unearthed some undesirables, let me tell you, i am afraid we may be overthinking it a tad…”
Slowroller, while you and I are clearly in the minority here (I believe there are only one or two others who share this sentiment), I’m ok with that…and repeat my earlier mantra: I always reserve the right to be wrong.
I appreciate that Slowroller’s sentiments and mine may be unpopular. Even if so, they’re not intended to denigrate the exceptional and fine work done by many here–not to mention, the countless hours (no, days/weeks) spent searching and researching. There are indeed some amazing minds on this site. Still, being the admittedly hyper-logical observer that I am, I remain unconvinced that the dots connect in the majority of the highlighted events. Try as I might, I fail to discern the nexus between most of these incidents and Morgan’s horrific murder. Despite my own failings here, I remain comforted in the knowledge that all truths are revealed in time. Or, as someone else said “What’s done in the dark will always be brought to the light.”
TO Dr. Harrington:
I was once again moved to read your profound words shared at the TBTN rally in Cville. I’m sorry I was unable to be there to hear them and meet you personally. Thank you also for sharing Gil’s powerful and deep-felt words describing her current experience in Zambia. What a remarkable woman and model she continues to be, on so many levels; she’s a remains living tribute to you, Alex, and Morgan.
TO “Morgan’s ROCKS” contributors:
I’ll head over to the post office later today to see if any rocks have arrived. If they have, I’ll place them directly thereafter at Morgan’s memorial and will post about it here.
RE: The ACPD: I intentionally did not weigh in on this earlier, i.e., immediately following these events and before my departure, but will do so now: the recent disciplinary actions taken against certain current and now-former officers of the ACPD, to include a resignation-in-lieu-of-termination, an unpaid suspension, and a demotion, were actions taken as a result of serious mis-conduct wholly unrelated to the Morgan Harrington case.
Welcome Back Friend, you have been missed.
I would like to point out however, that ACPD confirmed that Caleb Marden was fired, he did not resign, unless there is an error in reporting.
B
BOC:
First and foremost, I would like to thank you for posting my sister’s story. As we can only keep trying here and pray that someone reads this site and has that moment of clarity! So I will continue on in Morgan’s name.
Have you and your team been able to cache anything from these people’s sites closer to October 17th? Or were they always flying under the so-called radar????
no offense to lt. rader.
As you can see a primary can be a vehicle.
I wonder about why all of those NJ riders had the time available to go. Do any of them have jobs to pay for their drugs?
Do any of them have a W2?
Here’s a place for them to go…
http://www.irs.gov/
Or do we have a prostitution ring going on here?
Hence, this is why they would stick together and keep mouths zipped.
Yes, it is sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
HokieHi says:
I’ve studied the circle from Waynesboro. What I don’t get is how they might be involved? If the house fire on Sutherland is part of the Morgan investigation then I see how it ties in but the wild card to me is EMH. Granted, I’m sure he can’t have a high volume of internet activities as a RSO but I’m not seeing any mention of him. I don’t see photos in that group or anything else. I admit that I can’t see all of the FB and MS posts for everyone (not sure how some of the people here are doing that) but what I can see seems to show no evidence of him at all. So if he is still our lead POI here at BOC, how does he tie in other than being related? The lack of reference by the group would almost lead me in the opposite direction and make me think they were estranged, in which case I wouldn’t expect any interaction. So what do TWBC, MW, Grindhouse, KH, etc have to do with Morgan? Could EMH be pissed at them and trying to frame his family and their friends?
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HH that is a good question. They are of interest to me because they, through MW, definitely have ties or at least are aware of EMH and where he lives. They also are tied now to the Sutherland location.
If they are involved and possibly the BIB I have two theories:
1. A combination of this group + EMH were involved. And like B mentioned, there are many instances were RSO just have no internet tracks even though they do interact frequently with people who do have a big internet presence.
2. The BIB and perp(s) are this group from Waynesboro minus EMH. The connection to EMH is that he is MW’s stepbrother. But it could be that MW and his friends are “estranged” from EMH like you mentioned. But with their familiarity with the location and then knowing that a RSO lives right around the corner they purposely picked that area to frame EMH by putting her practically in his backyard. Not saying they had an elaborate plan, but when it all happened they were familiar with the area and knew about EMH living around the corner.
Of course, it may turn out that none of the above were involved. But for right now, to me, they are POI’s.
One of EMH was for failure to register, that would mean he had been living elsewhere and was caught somehow. This extended family has interests in 3 different counties.
B
Observer (and slowroller)
I have to disagree about a “panic dumping” of evidence in regards to the shirt.
Nobody would fling (or place) a primary piece of evidence on top of a bush in a busy area that was panicked and didn’t want it to be found.
You would burn it / shred it / dump it in a landfill 50 miles away or out in a forest or bottom of a deep pond with a rock…or… far away from AF.
Someone put that shirt there as a warning. Obviously, the risk of what that shirt might reveal was not as large as another perceived threat. Someone had to be close to talking.
I would say the lead BG put it there so it would be found, probably because it does have DNA on it. I think it’s a warning or intimidation tactic to the secondary players to keep their mouths shut. In other words, LE has the shirt. The shirt has the DNA. You turn me in, and it won’t just be my word against yours. It’ll be the shirt against you, too. Right now we’re all ok, since our DNA isn’t on file and they can’t tie any of us to this any other way.
Now whether the someone or someones being warned lived in that building or not is debatable. If the warnee lived in the building, they might find it and dispose of it themselves. Obviously, someone involved knows some of the rules surrounding LE.
Of course, another possible scenario was that it was a coordinated effort to “find” the shirt there to misdirect LE and someone in the building was helping and knew their DNA wouldn’t be on it.
IMHO, it’s either a warning or false flag. If it’s a false flag, someone in the building had to be on it. If it’s a warning, I’d lean towards the person NOT being in the building, since it was left in such a prominent place.
suz, about the lyrics, good find! Now I know I’m officially old. Haha! Seriously, though, just because those words are someone else’s doesn’t mitigate the fact that David F chose to highlight them and post them. Clearly, those snippets either impress him or resonate with him, even if he isn’t the author. That’s enough to me to not wanna carpool, if you know what I mean.
Thehomelessone, I’m old, too, lol, but they SOUNDED like lyrics so I googled ‘em. Can’t claim familiarity, I’m happy to tell you.
And yeah, I getcha’
welcome home observer! safely, sounds like by the hair of your chinny, chin, chin! i agree with slowroller and you about the overthinking part… especially if this “group” is involved…. it appears they have have just been very lucky thus far, because as i far as i can tell there are no brains in the operation, although thehomelessone makes a valid point, which would point back to an authority figure…
Virginia has had in place for several years now a prescription monitoring program http://www.dhp.virginia.gov/dhp_programs/pmp/pmp_desc.asp
which was temporarily taken off line by a hacker last year around this time…. I think April 30, 2009 IRR
anyway…. prescription drugs are major players in the drug traffic in Virginia. and thank goodness each one is monitored
with the name of the person to whom it is prescribed, the pharmacy where it was filled and the prescribing physician……
you may not be surprised at how many young men have chronic pain syndromes requiring narcotic rxs even though current medical thinking supports that non narcotic alternatives are more appropriate therapies for chronic pain.
any of our BGs having some work comp or chronic pain issues?
I cannot remember how much oxycodone is selling per mg on the street but I do know Virginia has some issues with this…..
I have not posted for some time but I am always following. I also am
amazed by all the talent here. I am so intimidated by you all. I am wondering if Blink is leading us to think there may have been a car in a pond? Could Morgan have been in that car and then moved to AF after the car was removed from the pond and perhaps towed to NJ? Just an idea. It is better than my idea yesterday that Morgan may have been hidden in a tree (or stand) and when the storms that knocked trees down in January occured she fell to the ground. Would animal activity be limited if the body was off of the ground? My rock is done I am just deciding if I should mail it or bring it.
Fish, thank you for telling the story of your dear sister’s end. I hope it will help another person in the same situation and touch the conscience of someone courageous.
Your feelings come through your writing. Thank you Fish!
Fish, very sad. Was there ever an arrest and successful prosecution?
Perhaps the JADE crackdown is the proverbial “shaking of the trees” to see what falls out? Does the ATF assist the JADE taskforce?
Man, that would be a big ol’ coverup if Morgan was dead in a car in a pond, which was extracted from said pond by officials, who then let the perps move the body and hide it in a bizarrely open place without even trying (one supposes, without further intel) to bury it.
Did not happen. I would be more inclined to believe that was the fate of a vehicle used in a crime.
We have our share of car fires as well, sigh.
B
awa, I like to argue with myself, so here’s another idea.
BG or one of the BG’s is a thrill-seeker and/or crazy like a fox. He knows enough about the problems with local LE either not to fear them or have a prior grudge.
Perhaps the thrill of the kill was starting to wear off and planting the shirt, which was carefully kept and not destroyed or hidden, was a fun taunt. An “FU” to the “pigs” and a way to get a secondary charge off of the crime. Imagine the BG enjoying feeling untouchable.
My previous scenario implies someone organized and rational enough to “play the game” and keep people in line.
This one indicates a deeper seated emotional need overriding common sense…
Which profile better fits what happened to Morgan?
THO
Another thought… Since the fire precedes Morgan’s official discovery, someone else had to know that her body being discovered was imminent.
How or why would they know this?
It’s possible, that the original shallow grave or placement was checked after the snow melt/rain, but again, that would indicate a reasonably intelligent, organized BG trying to keep from being discovered.
I still wonder if Bass wasn’t tipped off indirectly or even subconsciously to go check out that part of the property. Did his daughter see activity on that part of the property? The close, close timing of the fire and discovery is too coincidental.
Blink, do those hunting cameras have anything to tell us about who or if anyone might have been around the day before Morgan was found?
Can’t discuss the hunting cams, but I am with you on the Bass subconciously tipped off.
I think something rang his bell, but I do not believe he “knew” he would find Morgan there.
B
I think oxycodone is still about $1/mg.
Blink, you say you cant find an e-print on a “PERSON MATCHING THE DESCRIPTION” of EMH for a “VERY DISTINCT REASON”… so are you telling us that EMH has an internet alias as a “JDR”? Is Dawson part of an alias? Or is this something completely different?
I think Blink is saying a person with a JDR (Juvie record) keeps a low internet presence.
SisterSue says:
January 27, 2010 at 11:27 pm
(partial quote)
Case# CR08020318-00
CHARLOTTESVILLE CIRCUIT 18.2-67.4 SEXUAL BATTERY Jun 02, 2008 VA
ALBEMARLE JDR CT 18.2-61 RAPE Jul 05, 2006 VA
ALBEMARLE JDR CT 18.2-61 RAPE Jul 05, 2006 VA
and
Enquirer says:
January 27, 2010 at 9:16 pm
“He also has a conviction in 2008 for sexual battery.”
Dear Fish you are such a beautiful soul, you blow me away with your honesty and passion. I am so sorry about your beloved sister and the heartbreak of your parents, who never got over it. But you are right HE did not win. YOU won dear Fish being such a good role model for your children and such an honest and tireless advocate for victims. We are so lucky to have you here. Your last post and Tarheelvr inspired me to open up about some things. You are both so brave and it gave me courage to speak.
I grew up in a beautiful big two storied house in a good part of town. But there was domestic violence and alcoholism in that house, and it was very violent and not very pretty. I have spoken here on BOC about my father who I loved and who loved me. I have mentioned how warm his hands are and how I loved to hold them and trace his veins with my fingers. Sadly his hands were not always gentle.
He regularly hit my mother in front of us and kicked her on the floor. There were seven of us girls, but by the time I was 5 only three at home. We could never relax, as every night mum and dad would fight and we were afraid they would kill each other. We would sit in shifts outside the kitchen door, listening to them fight, and run in and stop them if it got too bad. Life was a battle ground. Where to begin… Dad violently hit the other girls as well, especially my big sister who looked like him. He left me alone pretty much because I looked like mum and even though he hurt her, he did love her. He had anger management problems, was a jealous man. Mum was beautiful ,intelligent , opinionated, and he felt he could not control her. I could run very fast. I usually only got hit by dad trying to push him off my big sister. It was mum who hit me. She retreated into alcohol and I looked like her and talked back.
My big sister had a temper and she hit me also, even though I would protect her from dad.
Violence manifests in a circle and is passed down to each family member. There were no homes for abused women and children those days ( in some countries it is still legal for a husband to hit his wife)
No counsellors etc and my mother felt trapped. What would happen if she left my father? She said he said he would kill her if she left. Where would we go, where would we live, how would she feed us? Everything looked so good in our big house on the hill. Sometimes we would go to school hiding welts from the strap beneath grey woolen knee socks. Mum would wear dark glasses. Oh God where to begin. I loved that big house I found many places to hide and music became my escape. My sisters were all beautiful, we were spirited. My parents entertained a lot. There were books , art. The garden was huge. We were not rich but dad had a good job and we were a “respected” family.
No brother/son, in the house to kick dad into shape. We think dads father was violent and he learned it at home as a child.The shame was unbearable so we all hid what was happening. Mum rebelled and finally had affair that lasted 30 years! On purpose she got pregnant to her lover and had me and my little sister. My older sisters knew. I had no idea, but found out listening to them arguing when I was ten, and the bottom dropped out of my world. I left home at 16 and only went back for visits. I went as far away as I could, travelled and followed music, got into yoga, did years of therapy. I was alone thousands of miles from home, at risk many times, in a world of music, single , young , pretty, wild, rebellious but kind, and it just kills me what happened to Morgan who I also relate to so much. Her fate could have been my own but for the grace of God.
What is so confusing about violence, is my father is the same man whose hand I loved to hold, and who I believe loved me. He never found out until I was ten, that I was not his daughter and it was too late, he already loved me like his own. In the end this fact brought us even closer, that he and I loved each other so much in spite of it all. Dad was also a victim of his circumstances, this is the man that bred golden monarch butterflies. I know where he is now that he regrets what he did. He is in a beautiful garden and comes back sometimes as a butterfly ……well I do see butterflies at difficult times.
I have refused to be a victim like you have refused to be one Fish. Three of my sisters married abusive men and later divorced. One sister died of alcoholism at 50 years old. Two sisters are alcoholics, one is a year sober, my little sister who suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome.
But it is a daily battle. Sadly I carry a very deep grief. I have tried to access that grief, feel it let it go . Look at it, but it can still creep up on me and paralyze me sometimes there is this a hole inside, such an empty feeling.
Sorry to say it is still affecting my family dynamics. A lot of my half sisters are still upset at mum for rebelling as she did and giving birth to me , even my full sister who looked like her father and dad picked on, is still mad. Pain does not go away unless it is processed and worked through. My birth and my presence brings up uncomfortable feelings and mixed emotions in my sisters, and with them not wanting to honestly confront my mother it has frequently leaked in my direction.I am eternally grateful that I am close to my older sister who used to hit me, and to my mother. I have also reached out to my half sisters from my biological father and become close to one of them.
Like you Fish I want to “look” at everything and walk through life with eyes wide open. I cannot bear injustice and hypocrisy.
After much therapy and soul searching I choose to forgive my mother and my two fathers.
I am working on forgiving my sisters.
Have just been with my 93 year mother and it brings a lot of this to the surface.
Our first house the big house on the hill, has a wonderful family living it it. They have renovated it and I have become close friends of mine.
I bought my parents house last year when mum went into a home, made peace with all the ghosts, fixed it up and have rented it out until I can spend more time there. I do feel at peace there now.
I did not marry or give birth until late in life and am happy to say the cycle of violence will go no further. My daughter lives a peaceful secure life. My second husband has been very involved and effective in the past in the field of domestic violence and abused children.
Forgive me Blink for this long post, I felt if I did not get it out I never would here on BOC, which besides being a place to help victims and solve crimes, is also a safe place for people who have been victims and learned to live with it and rise above it one day at a time.
Is there a possibility of porn being produced in this area? Has anyone come across porn convictions (for production) when looking at criminal records?
This comes to mind by associating of criminal organizations with drugs, prostitution, porn.
Dear Elf thank you for all you do for animals and for helping
encourage me to do the right thing for “Tenacious T” the infamous turtle who is now
in good hands and will hopefully recover.
Welcome back Observer we missed you.
I also tend to think Morgans’ shirt was removed from her ante mortem,
from the reports I have read the shirt was in fairly good shape.
If Morgan was wearing the shirt and her murder took place outside on
the farm where she was found the shirt would be messed up, which makes
me think prior sexual assault in a car or in a residence unless she had
a jacket on covering and protecting the shirt. But even with the jacket
on, with the amount of injuries and broken bones Morgan had, the shirt
would likely show some evidence of that if it was still on her body
when she was killed.
It is upsetting to hear Observer that that DNA is not effectively taken
or documented from convicted and presently incarcerated felons. Another
gap in the system. I was sad to hear from talking to prosecutors here
in LA, that in fact since DNA has come into play as a incriminating
evidence for sexual violence that the perps now tend to kill their
victims and hide or dispose of the bodies, for fear of being identified
by their DNA. It appears that in the past there were plenty rapists
and pedophiles who attacked their victims but were more likely to leave
them alive, not fearing being traced by their DNA.
Justice for Morgan . Peace for the Harringtons.
Roxie – “I cannot remember how much oxycodone is selling per mg on the street but I do know Virginia has some issues with this…..” I will confirm suz’s $1/mg. In a post several days ago I mentioned that I attended a drug awareness program at the local high school and they quoted the $1/mg too. In addition, they indicated that Oxycontin was usually a gateway to heroin which has 4 times the analgesic effect of morphine and cost $10-20 dollars for a small plastic bag. A neighboring school district (the largest in our county) has had 10 expulsions just this year for Oxycontin. Very troubling news when you have school age children.
“rvrb says:
January 26, 2010 at 3:54 pm
But Henry Graff’s report on NBC29 has departing landscapers reporting that the body is in the woods behind the house.”
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I agree with George that if the Sutherland fire is related, it is because someone was concerned that Morgan’s had been exposed due to the high water, weather, etc.
Who were the landscapers mentioned here? Were they there just on the 27th or also on the 26th? or 25th? Do we think they are just hired hands that work for Mr. Bass or are they from a landscaping firm? Blink mentioned downed trees. Could they be from one of the big tree trimming firms?
Remember there was so much water that the county schools were closed on that Monday or Tuesday if I am not mistaken. I have never known school to be closed here because of flooding – so that was major flooding.
“Did not happen. I would be more inclined to believe that was the fate of a vehicle used in a crime.
We have our share of car fires as well, sigh.”
B
there seems to be an explosion of some crazy s$#% going on in that neck of virginia…. like mayberry on steroids… that said, THO, nothing is beyond speculation… seems like when you can’t imagine any other coincidences and bizarre happenings, there are cars burning and drowning and more people dying and all while listening to revolting music lyrics along the way…
and, fish… there are no words….i am very sorry for your horrific loss… you are busy living your life now and making your sister proud… she left you with a powerful gift and you are now sharing with all of us. thank you
Hey Everybody – Long time no comment, but been with you shoulder to shoulder all along. Just wanted to give my thoughts on the NJ trip. Back in the day, about 20 years ago, my boyfriend at the time dealt meth, and sometimes coke, and well sometimes other stuff too. He was from Philly and there were many meth factories in his part of town, he was a distributor, always trying to expand his territory. If he was supposed to show up for a “sales call” all parties were expected to show up. Or else. He would often have to go on road trips for his “business”. Could the NJ trip be part of a drug transaction that the FF could NOT miss? Also, much communication was done face to face, not over the phone, or the internet, which didnt even exist then….., which also involved road trips. Could FF have been heading to Camden, NJ? Am I even making sense? Back to lurking….
This may be a stretch – but is there any chance that Dominion Power needed assistance from, say, the NGVFD in clearing trees from power lines on Jan.24,25,26, and since it’s not an emergency it wouldn’t show up on ff logs? I don’t know how the whole FF log thing works.
yikes- I just back spaced my comments!- here goes second time:
anyway- why did UVA go on the news right after the hacking incident “we do not participate in the prescription monitoring program”- I almost choked on my dinner, hearing that one night on NBC 29….
every doctor and pharmacy in Virginia “participates”
IT IS THE LAW- and a very good tracking system too
no other health care system went on the news to deny “participation”
what was hacked was the personal identification and DEA number of every prescriber and patient in that database…..
to my knowledge this has not been solved.
lets remember that there are some unscrupulous people out there getting their narcotics at next to nothing and making lots of money one streets…… O/T- maybe this is one thing wrong with our health care system ?
and – cold water is a good preservative…… lets hope for Morgan’s sake and any foreign DNA on her body and clothes.
come on DNA results.
I wonder what was going on January 6th 2010 just a stones throw away East from Anchorage Farms on a no name road that is a tributary to Monacan Trail Rd. {29} Case #201000199-2 {listed as an Assault-Intimidation) as seen on http://spotcrime.com/va/albemarle+county
(To view this, you will probably have to register for free)
((((((((((((((FISH)))))))))))))))
Fish, your story is one I’ve heard so many times. My momma used to be a victim’s services volunteer for the RCMP (something I strive to become someday). Domestic violence is far more common than we think and it’s everyday looking people. It runs in my family too but thank God my father stopped the cycle when he married my momma and became a a family man. My uncles were verbally abusive, sometimes physically and capable of stalking when my aunts attempted to leave them (only to return). My cousins, too, were pushed around. You know what’s sad? It almost becomes ‘normal’. I witnessed some of these beatings and I too was becoming desensitized. It never happened in my home but I spent enough time with my cousins to see it everyday. If I felt threatened, I’d leave but never tell.
In Canada, an abused woman returns an average of 7 times before she leaves for good (surviving women). I don’t know the stats in the US. That’s a lot of violence and threats and broken promises to endure. It’s not an epidemic, it’s become a pandemic!!!!!
Your sister is the epitome of a warrior, imo. She had to draw courage from the depths of every corner of her being to run for the hills!
Thank you for sharing spanx girl. xo
There seems to be a cocaine problem in the area as well.
http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/90828174.html
Blink and friends: All’s good. I’m in BOC therapy. It works!
But…
“One of EMH was for failure to register, that would mean he had been living elsewhere and was caught somehow. This extended family has interests in 3 different counties. B”
*plus lots of p.o. boxes. makes me wonder if he was kicked out and went to stay with family/friends.
Observer! Welcome back safe and sound. Daughter and I sent one from our vacation. She was bittersweet about it but happy that you would be the one to put it on the bridge.
***To anyone: What are some of the professions of the parents concerning the individuals of which we speak? I wonder because is this their money train??? Who is paying their rent, water, electric, etc…
alexandra and suz: TY for your kind words. Thought maybe someone would need to read it. Not that I am dislusional by any means.
Hummingbird, I too, am one of seven girls and one boy. We all had it rough. Dad raised us with love but also with “Spare the rod, spoil the child”. Think that is why she picked him. She could have done so much better but she picked what she knew. Don’t know how some of us escape this but I did and didn’t choose it either.
suz: I ask only because I don’t know. Wouldn’t VSP One have spotted the vehicle leaking oil if submerged in a body of water?
***To anyone: When again was the Long Haul video taken on AF?
Blink: So how far up the Garden State did they make it?
And since I am going there soon, do I need to pick anyone up? I’ll offer up my services and before I leave I’d like to take Eric in for his palm print. Seems almost all of his commrades have them on file and since 50% of crimes leave behind only a palm print. Doesn’t somebody consider this important? He already failed to register. This is one that we can do something about. Think about all the ones that are not accounted for.
J2K, I have learned nothing from you, still willing to drive the cheesyjumpsuit.
FYI: As I am one step away from being a total hack amateur, (no offense buddy, pal, ole friend), some of the sites you link to will send malware. It’s a bitch to rid your computer of it. Remember I replaced my hard drive because of all sorts of issues. Seems I relied on mcafee and should have had another one running as backup. They are vicious and violent, sadistic sites bordering on what one would call murderous. To think that we are being served by some of them that do hold down part-time work at Chili’s! I wonder if they are doing some type of gore films? A seedy underground?
c’villemom says:
April 17, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Who were the landscapers mentioned here? Were they there just on the 27th or also on the 26th? or 25th? Do we think they are just hired hands that work for Mr. Bass or are they from a landscaping firm? Blink mentioned downed trees. Could they be from one of the big tree trimming firms?
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I think this is key. Maybe the tree people or just yard maintenance crew knew they were scheduled for the Bass’s that day, also noting him to say, “yeah well gotta get out & check the property with all this weather lately”, and that’s all it took. Whether it be the workers, the intake folks on the phone or whatever, we need to know who Bass employs. LE has to know this already. Also, it looks from what I have been reading, alot of landscaping companies work on lighting, irrigation & other stuff besides just flowers & shrubs.
If you have a contract w/ the company, you probably have scheduled visits throughout the year.Might not even be the guys that were there, but who they know. Mentioning where they go tomorrow over a beer. Bass was just property owner.
I also think it Ms. Clary had her fieldtrip there on the 17th (which I don’t have proof of), the farm may have been on the minds of the people. She may routinely drag her classes there. I dont know what’s on the property that could be a learning tool?
Hummingbird and Fish,
I can’t read further without saying, I don’t know what to say, but thank you for your stories, sensing that you both said things you’ve been wanting/needing to say for a while, to people you only know through the internet. The fallout from domestic violence is so far-reaching. My thoughts on it will have to wait for another day. But, you are survivors, with such tenacity, and winners, for making the cycle stop with you. If we could only find a way to teach other young people the urgency of making it stop with them. Bless you both.
Mel
PS> Can’t keep up with all the great research being done here, but am in awe of it.
One last thought about the shirt. I remember a case with a young woman whose perp made her remove her clothing to prevent her from running. Though I believe Morgan’s shirt was dropped after her death, I have wondered if the heinous perps made her shed shirt and boots, to prevent her from fleeing from the vehicle. It’s a sick thought, and it is painful to even express. Back to the chores…
Hello, I wanted to comment on a few of the recent posts. I keep missing them & getting sidetracked, so much good stuff to look over.
To you J2K:
1. J2K says:
April 16, 2010 at 5:04 pm
..”Somehow, AT finds time to do work on an as-yet-to-be-identified farm as well.”
YES! I thought I would loose my mind, I knew I read that and I couldn’t find it again. Very interesting…do you recall J2K what date he made this tidbit available?
1. (*And this has been the latest edition of “Minutia by the Minute”! Join us next time, folks, when we examine what exits in NJ that AT and his cuz, 2 uncles, an aunt, and “a friend” made it up to before heading back to good ol’ VA. What a spontaneous group these peeps are!)
If this wasn’t so serious it could be hilarious. I don’t suppose anyone has read any other comments regarding NJ? No family ties? Etc? Could this be a drug connection as well? So that fat yellow truck is permanently off road after being ‘broke’? Assumed to be in junkyard heaven? Or is it ‘waiting to be fixed?”
Someone correct me here, but he seemed to think additional classes were going to assist him in the FD? He mentioned it being due to poor driving skills as well has his questionable personal business. Was he ever more than a volunteer FF? Hmmm, or was it due to January’s background check initiative?
And lastly, I am beginning to think cheesy may not be the sole target here. Could he be guilty (to us anyway) by association only, in this circumstance? There are a lot of runner’s up in my opinion. A whole household full.
To AT: who asked-Does the ATF assist the JADE taskforce? —Yes.
http://www.charlottesville.org/index.aspx?page=189
Almost lastly, Is there water on the Sauer/Clary property?
Bass might bother to have a landscaper work on his front lawn, but not on the back 40 (or 740) acres.
SNIP
Area Women Learn Defense Techniques
Some Charlottesville women are devoting their weekends to learning how to defend themselves in emergency situations. The Charlottesville Sheriff’s Office is hosting a two-day program that teaches women important self-defense techniques, techniques they hope they’ll never have to use.
Sydney Carpenter spent her Saturday afternoon indoors learning important tips on how to protect herself from attackers should she ever have to. Carpenter says, “My mom knew Morgan Harrington and knew her family, and she wanted me to be prepared if anything like that would ever happen to me.”
The training is part of a program called RAD, the Rape Aggression Defense system. It’s a women-only course that focuses on awareness, safety planning, and hands-on defense training.
more here http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=12329439