Morgan Harrington Murder: Anchorage Farm Could Yield Even More Clues
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Charlottesville, VA– In a new development in the murder investigation of Morgan Dana Harrington, blinkoncrime.com has learned that Anchorage Farm was very much a frequent party spot for local musicians.
In fact, there was a 7 Mile Sleepover exactly one week after Morgan’s disappearance from the JPJ arena that included an invitation list of over 130 guests.
Jenny Bass, the adult daughter of David and Nancy Bass, is an accomplished pianist, musician, horticulturist and artist in the Charlottesville community.
The Seven Mile Sleepover appears to have been posted prior to Morgan’s disappearance, approximately October 14, 2009.
While it is unconfirmed how many guests actually attended the event, it is clear there could have been over 100 people within a few hundred yards of Morgan’s final resting place a week after she went missing, and presumably, her death.
As Anchorage Farm is a verified crime scene in an active murder investigation, one wonders if anyone found anything they may not have realized of importance at the time.
According to her facebook, Ms. Bass was clearly disturbed by her discovery as well:
Jason Mateos and Elizabeth Morton, contributing editors to this report
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This may be completely far fetched/paranoid. JB states on her facebook she lives in a world where “water tastes like gasoline”. I googled that phrase, because I wasn’t sure whether it was an idiom I didn’t know. Not many pages came up, and one of them was – the hook. It was a three year old article about oil spills in the Charlottesville area. Is this area notorious for that? Were there any incidents around February, when JB posted that? Where does the water for AF come from, and were there any problems with it before? I was wondering because a contaminated local water supply would have required extensive repairs, and workmen on the property.
http://www.readthehook.com/Stories/2007/10/25/NEWS-poisonwater-B.rtf.aspx
“It is far to easy to contaminate a crime scene , and an untrained person could be psychologically unprepared for such an event.”
Well, our VSP couldn’t even FIND the crime scene absent a member of the public leading them to it.
I have no answer as to why the open space areas with limited road access were not the first priority.
Frankly, they are the easiest to exclude.
B
RE: Lovely says:
May 27, 2010 at 10:51 am
Max Pomper is an Anthropology major based on his bio on UVA lacrosse site. There may be others as well.
(posting from work)
Boy, am I glad I shut up! Does anyone need me to round up class lists! Ill be more than happy to start here in Hburg, head over to UVA and trek down to Vtec! Could it be we are onto something?
Time to stop with the niceties and start turning the heat up in the kitchen! I think BOC is doing just that! You go girl!
Lol I lived in Sussex County NJ too Dee and Jen. Small world.
Geeze, no Mercer
B
George you wrote:
“It is far to easy to contaminate a crime scene , and an untrained person could be psychologically unprepared for such an event.”
Well, our VSP couldn’t even FIND the crime scene absent a member of the public leading them to it.
I have no answer as to why the open space areas with limited road access were not the first priority.
Frankly, they are the easiest to exclude.
B
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I realize that in the beginning they weren’t sure if a crime had been committed, but in finding the purse with missing battery, I could never understand why a redfag wasn’t sent up- and they allowed a job fair to take place while the search was going on….
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I can only hope LE can overcome some of the initial actions and Morgan can find her justice.
Hi All, this morning I tried to post a well organized list of sorts of what we do and do not know for a certainty. It basically stated what is known for sure and what we do not know the details of re: the Who, What, Where When and Hows surrounding Morgan’s leaving the JPJ Arena, then the parking lot, the campus and finally the City of Charlottesville. At any rate, when I hit the submit button nothing happened, I hit submit again and got an error message that said it appeared as if I had “already said that” and that the duplicate post was deleted. The original has still not posted. I should have cut & pasted the writing to try to submit it later but when I arrowed back to the previous page it was there for one backpage and gone when I realized that it wasn’t going to post.
It took me forever to put the cohesive list together and I am hoping that B can find it. I submitted it around 11:00 AM this morning. TIA
Katie, it did not post, you had one around 11:17am and that is posted.
If you cannot see it yourself, it never uploaded.
B
Did anyone see that photo over at Findmorgan of AF in the snow, taken in very early Feb ’10/ There were all kinds of tire tracks all over the place, many close to where she was found. It looked like there were alot of places where they crossed the “creek”, so I imagine there must be many people who go 4-wheeling around the farm at their leisure. I don’t understand why there would be so many tracks out there so soon after her body was found. In that photo, as in others of AF, I always wondered about some sort of trail through the woods coming from Red Hill Rd, I think it is. In the snow pic, it looks like there were many vehicles going through those woods to the creek, and turning around, because it seems that the tracks have worn away the snow. Was it just curiosity seekers? If so, it seems like almost anyone (who was familiar with AF) could have easily taken her to that spot without being seen, just turn off of Red Hill, thru the woods, over the creek, and there you are.
If it’s someone who was out there with a class from UVa, where exactly did the class go and how did they get there? I hope some professors are being interviewed…..
Justice for Morgan…..her parents and Alex need to know how and why this happened, please bring them some peace.
Planting a shirt – ok. You can just do that, because it is unlikely to be stolen. Just spread it out on a bush, and someone will notice. Everybody knows the relevance of a black Pantera shirt at that point.
Planting a purse before it is known that there is a missing person case – that is risky. It could easily be stolen. Even a very simple minded person would salt it when he knows there are people around who are going to find it, and who are not interested in any possible valuables it might hold.
Doggone it! Well, let me try to say it again…
Questions:
Why did Morgan leave her seat?
How did she end up with an injury to her face?
Why did she go outside?
Who did she text from outside.
Have the VSP or any LE Agency put a compatible battery back in the phone and read the texts and scrolled through the call lists?
We don’t know if she left the parking lot, the Campus, or wherever she went after-wards willingly.
We don’t know if she was a victim of an actual murder (planned or the result of a primary attack) or an initial accident or medical event.
We are not certain that she either willingly or unwillingly ingested any intoxicants.
We don’t know if she initially put down or “lost” her personal items before or after leaving the parking lot. Or, if she left with all her items, if she was mugged or if the items were brought back to the parking lot by the people who covered up her death.
We only know that someone hid her body on AF. We don’t know, for a certainty, if she died by an accident, involuntary manslaughter or murder.
We don’t know what motivated the criminal or criminals to “bury” her on the farm. (The first thing that comes to mind is drugs but it could be any nefarious “business.”)
We hear that she had extensive Post-Mortem injuries but we don’t know if that was intentional or if a piece of machinery used to till the earth or cover her remains actually caused these injuries.
We hear from her parents that she was raped yet that would suggest that her internal organs or tissue showed some proof of this. That would also suggest that she had tissue left on her bones. It is possible that an object of sorts was found in a manner that would suggest (Apologies…Graphic)some kind of penetration.
There is so much that is not known that I am not certain that her death should be referred to as a Murder. It may well have been but I’m not sure that is a certainty.
Just a few more thoughts on what we do & do not know.
We also don’t know who planted the t-shirt or why it was planted near campus. We also do not know if there was semen found on the t-shirt and even if there was that does not necessarily prove that a rape occurred. There are any of a number of “innocent” ways that semen could have ended up on that shirt…if indeed there was semen found.
The computer science classes use GIS databases, which are widely available and tied to various landmarks, water resources, and other locations. I couldn’t find any specific callout for these coordinates, just as part of project databases.
For these types of programming class projects, actual visits to the sites would be irrelevant. Not necessarily true for some other types of classes.
So I think this is a viable line of query, but probably not the right major. FWIW
I’m also thinking that a recreational vehicle could have been driven right over the very spot where Morgan lay buried. And, the result was even more injury to her body. This too could have been an unknowing act committed by folks out four wheeling or even by someone on a tractor before the rains and later the snows came.
It snowed heavily in December, too.
Mrs. Harrington’s thoughts: I guess we will never feel totally safe again anywhere. That’s one of the ways we have been changed by our encounter with evil.
That violation makes us feel more fragile and act more cautiously. I check the doors and windows more often now. I rarely open them to catch the morning breeze and I draw the blinds early against the night’s blackness. I wonder if this will improve after the arrest of Morgan’s killer(s). I hope so; I don’t want to contemplate the rest of our lives colored with fear.
Mrs. Harrington, I just want to say, I understand. I have encountered evil too, and it is THE most frightening thing in the world. The last time it happened, I was fortunate enough not to lose one of my closest friends (she, however, lost a very close friend and the friend’s husband and children) but thankfully the murderers were found within a week. Nevertheless, I became terrified of my surroundings for a while. I was afraid to go outside in the daylight! It prompted me to take a self-defense course. There is no doubt in my mind that evil exists and is expressed through the actions of certain people.
Speaking of which, like some of you, and as I have posted weeks ago, I believe that the murderer is someone who enjoys being in the public eye–and that he probably planted the shirt in order to get more attention. He may have chosen to leave Morgan’s body exposed just to make things a little more “exciting” for himself. Yet I suspect that he has a very inflated sense of his own cleverness amd did not expect her body to be found; he’s worried now.
The one thing I don’t really get is, how did the shirt get planted anonymously? The bush it was on is within view of many apartment windows. The student who found it said he did not see it when he passed by the bush on the way to class at 10:00 am. How/why did it get planted in broad daylight? It seems like such a risky thing for someone to do. When I did my own sleuthing to look at the bush (after the C’Ville article came out with the photo) I saw an elderly homeless man digging in the dumpster right across from the bush–which made me wonder if he or someone like him simply found the shirt around there and placed it on the bush–possibly not even knowing its significance??
I was very close to a UVA anthropology grad student (and now professor) who had never done a dig–that’s archaeology–so you’d need to find out who was enrolled in specifically ARCH classes doing local digs. I believe that the arch department is WITHIN the anth department at UVA.
#8 8.anotherB says:
May 27, 2010 at 5:56 pm
“Planting a purse before it is known that there is a missing person case – that is risky. It could easily be stolen. Even a very simple minded person would salt it when he knows there are people around who are going to find it, and who are not interested in any possible valuables it might hold.”
Can it be proven that the purse was found where it was found? I know it was proven a LAX player turned in the purse (or called security), but how do we know where, when or how? It could have been as simple as the BG realizing Morgan’s purse was in his/her car early the next morning. Knowing he/she had a scheduled place to be that morning, and knowing he/she picked Morgan up at the arena, instead of risking being found with or trying to get rid of Morgan’s purse, he/she goes back to the arena and calls security. This makes BG look like the good guy…
B says:
I have no answer as to why the open space areas with limited road access were not the first priority.
Frankly, they are the easiest to exclude.
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Blink, are you beginning to grow under the notion that LE may have “botched” this investigation from its initial stages? I do understand LE has an extremely difficult investigative process, but it would appear that logical, straightforward investigative variables were lacking. I have never really seen you speak “down” about LE, which has me a bit concerned, perhaps just a little frustration? Hang in there if you can.
Thank you for calling me out Cat-
I should have been more specific, and probably diplomatic.
Yes frustration, and yes, it goes back to what I have always said- There needs to be a missing persons SOP in every state.
I apologize if I seemed to speak down of anyone, was not my intent.
B
How the hell (excuse my language) did this happen to Morgan? I mean, how does she end up outside the arena and not able to get back in to begin with? Then, according to her friends, she tells them not to worry about her, meanwhile it is her car that got them there? She somehow suffers a facial injury. She walks across the parking lots and disappears into thin air in the middle of UVA and a Metallica concert with anybody seeing anything. How did this happen?
I cannot get past the thought that Morgan contacted this person for a ride before she talked to her friends and that she also planned to meet back up with them to ride home. I think who she called or texted told her to meet them up on the bridge at a certain time and what was thought to be Morgan hitch-hiking was Morgan waving to her to ride.
I would love to know if the newspaper’s description of the men with whom she believed to see Morgan with is similiar to the description of the MIB Morgan was seen with earlier. This particular possible sighting still raises my eyebrow. That would put Morgan on UVA grounds at 3 AM, hours later.
I would love to know if anyone else’s DNA was found on Morgan’s shirt.
I would love to know what was found in GH’s apartment.
I would love to know more about the other LAX player with the girlfriend and anger issues.
You guys really amaze me, there is so many great minds here = I am constantly reminded how senile I am getting. My brain needs some new batteries, I do believe.
Lovely-
I’m limited on time at the moment, but will try to figure out where those coordinates were/came from. Something about one of the instructor’s bothered me as well, but I can’t recall who/what/why at the moment. I may have connected the name to something/someone else in the case and sent it to Blink? I’m certain that she doesn’t have it anymore, but I will revisit and see if I can recall anything.
I do remember that I started the whole GPS search thing because I wondered if there was a Heliport in the area. Why, I wondered this I haven’t a clue.
I’ll look around and post back later.
Wow, Olivia, you said there is a dumpster right near the bush and at least one homeless man sifts through the contents of the dumpster. That is very interesting in that kids often pay homeless people to buy their alcohol so how much of a stretch would it be for someone to pay a homeless man to display a t-shirt on a bush? Maybe you should call VSP and ask them if they spoke with any homeless people in the area near where Morgan’s shirt was found. You are so right that he may have even noticed something or even noticed someone placing the shirt in the bush.
Interesting comment made by a supposed journalist on story about Yeardly Love:
In-Town Journalist May 18th, 2010 | 3:08 pm
“Trust me… we’re still pushing for any and all information about the Love (and for that matter the Harrington) stories, but are being blocked by police and prosecutors with zero interest in sharing those details and little to no legal leverage for us to do anything about it.”
So, even the journalists are now crying out about lack of info, in both cases.
I wonder, knowing what they know now, would LE have put out a warning after Morgan disappeared, or after her body was found? We now have 2 women, around the same age, both students, dead at the hands of monsters, and still, no warning from LE?
B, sometimes I think it’s necessary to “speak down” to people. We’re at the 8 mth mark of Morgan disappearing and being murdered, and how much verified real data do we have? Morgan is DEAD, her purse was found, her friends remain silent….
Why is it so important for everybody to keep silent about everything relating to this case? Any other time, there’d be gossip (which usually has a ring of truth to it), or one friend telling another friend something and that friend can’t keep their mouth shut. Usually you can go to the local media blogs and get a touch here and there. Yet here we are, 8 mths later, and we’re still grasping at straws…
I just don’t understand, and I’ve been watching cases like this for a long long time now
All: I am yet again amazed, overwhelmed, in awe and humbled.
Today I went to the p.o. to pick up the two Morgan’s ROCKS packages that were waiting there. The packages I opened up were amazing; simply amazing.
One is from Mag603 in IL. It’s a large, gray pseudo-rock with a large, solar-powered light in the middle. The rock is beautifully painted with the words “Shine On!”, hearts w/ the initials of Dan, Gil, Alex and Morgan, “Morgan 2 4 1″ on the back and, underneath, the words “May Morgan’s love and light shine on and be with you always. Sending love to the Harrington family.”
Enclosed were directions explaining how to activate the light. I’ll let the rock to sit in a window here at home (min. 24 hrs. according to the directions) to first charge it. As soon as I’m certain that I have it working properly I’ll bring it directly to Morgan’s memorial on Copeley.
The second Morgan’s rock was equally remarkable. Carefully wrapped inside the box was a large, very heavy black rock. [It somehow reminded me of a sparkly basalt from my undergrad geology class a lifetime ago.] Painted in blue on it are the words “Rock On Morgan”. Most striking, though, are the numerous, bright, shiny, multi-colored little stones/beads (?) that are placed in the shape of a guitar—with wings….just like the wings you would expect carried Morgan to the heavens. On another side are silver stones in the 2-4-1 design. The rock itself was encased in a beautiful black cloth bag with small, white heart designs, tied with a burgundy velvet ribbon. It made think of Morgan, as it looked just like something I would imagine she would create herself or would certainly have enjoyed.
Enclosed with this lovely rock was the most heartfelt letter from dear Ode to me. The letter was so touching and so special. Ode also enclosed a copy of a book she had read by Lisa See – “Peony In Love”. The letter and the book were so unexpected and so gracious; I am humbled.
I describe all the above in such detail not to take away anything from all the other wonderful Morgan’s rocks that have arrived thus far, including Moonchime’s shiny (just like Morgan!) rock with the tree etched upon it. Instead, I was moved to express again my wonder and amazement at the wonderful people who have reached out from all corners to share their personal testament to Morgan. Each rock is special, each rock is a wonder, and each rock tells Dan, Gil and Alex how very much their shiny girl meant to so many people–even and including people like myself who never had the opportunity to see her face-to-face or talk with her.
As Ode said it so well in her letter to me (I hope she does not mind me quoting her) “I often wonder how in this huge world Morgan has been able to touch so many.”
She has indeed, Ode. And I think that, in the minds of many of us, Morgan’s spirit lives on and continues to shine brightly.
In closing, please allow me to say thank you to Ode for her kind words thoughts, and gestures, and thank you to each person here who has reached out to place a rock in Morgan’s memory. May your contribution be a reminder of the caring of so many, and be a continued source of comfort to Dan, Gil, and Alex.
Rock on, Morgan; rock on!
Allow me to echo your sentiments, Observer. I am very proud of the readers and contributors here, and their creativity and compassion for others is humbling.
I pray it brings a modicum of peace to Dan, Gil and Alex; albeit a brief respite on their journey.
B
Just read Gil’s 5/26 post and watched the video two much forever and once more on findmorgan.com and I couldn’t hold back the tears. This family aches so much. This whole thing is so not right
FISH – yes, class lists please. lets cross reference them with the lacrosse roster at UVA.
im away this weekend meditating…hope to have some awesome posts and answers when i get back!
love to all
class lists for the years 2006 – 2010 for the linked classes from YOSHI’s post above.
PEACE!
AnotherB says:
“Planting a shirt – ok. You can just do that, because it is unlikely to be stolen. Just spread it out on a bush, and someone will notice. Everybody knows the relevance of a black Pantera shirt at that point.”
However, imo, this took HUGE BRASS BALLS. Blaine Eichner says he found it on the way back from class.
“Eichner says the shirt was spread flat and facing up on the bushes about six feet from the 15th Street and within reach of the road’s gravel shoulder. He says he didn’t see it on his way to class that morning, but he doesn’t believe that the shirt could have gone unnoticed for long as he and other students walk past by the bush numerous times each day on their way to and from class. “There’s no way,” he says, expressing his belief that the shirt was placed there deliberately and well after Harrington’s disappearance.
Learning that it is, in fact, Harrington’s shirt— which he discovered on November 11, a full three weeks after her disappearance— is “scary,” he says, “the closeness of it.”
http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2010/4/15/pantera-find-shirt-on-15th-street-was-morgan-harringtons
Someone planted this shirt in broad daylight knowing they were planting evidence that would draw attention and they did it in a way that could easily land them smack dab in the middle of a murder investigation. Why?
“I do understand LE has an extremely difficult investigative process,”
Then they should really stop shooting themselves in the foot. Take one small example. Among the few things that LE has said was that Morgan was on the bridge and that she was hitch-hiking. How do they know it was Morgan? I could see them saying that someone who fit the description of Morgan was seen on the bridge. As for hitch-hiking, what if the young woman on the bridge had been slipped a drug; the girl may have been so impaired she did not know what she was doing. It is a real stretch to say it WAS Morgan and that she WAS hitch-hiking. As some cynics have observed, the LE statement places Morgan off UVa property and seemingly behaving under self-control; UVa liability is lessened considerably. It just goes downhill from there.
Blink-
The server doesn’t like me again. Will you check for my post from a few hours ago? Maybe I’ll use a different browser from now on.
Additionally, from last night you didn’t answer me regarding the textee. Do you know who he is? Has the “he isn’t a suspect at this time” statement changed or wavered? Why all the mystery surrounding him? Can you say anything about him at all? Do I sound desperate? (please don’t answer that one!)
Yoshi, we always like you, lol.
This is the only one I have, checked all the cupboards-
I do know who the textee is, and have been asked not to reveal his identity publicly, as it is not relevant to the investigation.
B
I’m wondering about Morgan’s t-shirt. Has anyone ever wondered why she would wear a Pantera shirt to a Metallica concert? It would seem that most people wear their coolest t-shirt that represents the band they are going to see. Now, I know that both bands have crossed paths through the years but why wear this t-shirt. Did Morgan have a new interest in Glam Metal? Who introduced her to this type of music and when? It just seems that most of the girls, associated with Morgan, list other types of music as their favs on FB. On the four or five friends’ FB pages that I looked at none of them listed Metallica. Not even Morgan herself.
Did they go as a joke to see this band or because they knew someone who wanted to see this band? (I saw Metallica one time, in 1990, and the only reason I went was because the guy I was dating at the time LOVED that band. It was torture and Tommy Lee’s claim to fame of playing drums upside down didn’t even happen. He came out on a metal track and played drums over the crowd but sitting upright. I’ve also been to a Penderecki performance because another guy wanted to see it. I did know that one famous piece, which was performed, but to be honest I am not much of a fan of classical music:~)
Anyone had similar thoughts on her going to this particular show and wearing that t-shirt?
Oops, I saw Motley Crue not Metallica…see how much i care about metal bands….
I found this to be an interesting article….
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=5154201
I think there has been some mention of him already….but what caught my eye was that he & business partner took their cart and traveled around to festivals throughout the state. hmmmm…
About the hitchhiking – this is just a guess – as soon as info and photos were made public perhaps some people who were driving over the bridge that night contacted the police and reported seeing Morgan – or a girl who looked just like her. Some may have stopped and talked to her. I think there are many, many things that LE knows but are not going to tell us at this time. Didn’t she tell her friends not to worry she would get a ride – I think I recall reading that somewhere. I am not sure about UVA’s liability being lessened. If her family wants to file a suit then I guess we will find out. If a suit is filed perhaps we will all get answers to a lot of our questions – litigation can bring some sunshine to dark crevices.
TO: AnotherB and Justice: thank you so much for the earlier primer regarding how to establish an anonymous (throw-away) email account. I’ll follow your guidance so that I can send via an email attachment my contribution for the Morgan quilt. [It may have to wait until after this weekend as I have several commitments over the next few days.] Thanks again for your patience in explaining how to do this to this aging, clueless techno-neophyte.
RE: Morgan’s alleged hitchhiking: I was coincidentally thinking about this last evening and was given pause to re-visit some of our earliest discussions about this issue.
Morgan’s scent was last picked up by trained tracking dogs on the Copeley Rd. bridge in the area immediately adjacent to the area where her memorial now stands.
The above is a statement of fact. It is not conjecture by LE or any other individual. It is one of precious, few facts that are available in this investigation.
WRT to hitchhiking: Someone “appearing to be Morgan” (italics intentional) was allegedly seen HH on/near Copeley Bridge.
We do not know for certain (and may never know) if the person seen was:
a. Morgan; and/or
b. actually (read: actively) HH.
There has been much conjecture about whether or not it was Morgan, whether or not anyone would even have been able to definitively identify the young woman, whether the young woman seen was HH, or if the young woman seen was behaving in a manner that mistakenly led a casual observer to mistakenly believe she was HH.
What we can say, however, is that Morgan’s scent was last identified on that bridge; ergo, Morgan’s last known location (prior to recovery of her remains) was on the Copeley Rd. bridge. We can also safely say–not assume–that one of two things happened on that bridge that evening:
a. Morgan entered a vehicle willingly (whether under the influence of alcohol and/or any psychotropic medication or not); or
b. Morgan entered a vehicle against her will; that is, she was forcibly abducted.
I do not believe (b) above. If there is one BG, he would had to have stopped his vehicle on the roadway, stepped-out, walked to the far side of the vehicle, and forcibly struggled to get Morgan into his vehicle. Even if Morgan were under the influence at that moment, she would still struggle, ergo, a forcible abduction.
I do not believe the BG would take a not-insignificant chance of being seen in the midst of a forcible abduction of a beautiful, striking (read: eye-catching) blond young woman. [It is far easier to effect a forcible abduction very quickly and unobtrusively on a much younger victim; the parent of any abducted child who quickly disappears can tell you this is true.]
There could have been two BGs in the vehicle that stopped that evening on Copeley; however, the same thing would have to be true: if this were a forcible abduction, the second BG would have to have struggled to get even an impaired Morgan into his waiting vehicle.
It could have indeed happened that way; however, I am of the mind that it did not.
I do not know and cannot surmise whether or not Morgan was actually the woman purportedly seen HH that evening. To my mind, the question of whether or not Morgan was actually (read: actively) HH or not is not material only inasmuch as the fact remains that her scent was last identified on the bridge, and at some point and in some manner, she entered a vehicle on that bridge and departed the area, either immediately or at some point thereafter.
The above is offered not as an attempt to deflect attention from UVA or somehow “place” Morgan away from UVA property. Tracking dogs do not have allegiance to institutions. They sniff. They track. They hit.
For whatever it may be worth, I believe (as I stated in one of my very first posts in November) that Morgan willingly entered the vehicle on Copeley. Whether she did that as a result of active HH or not is unknown–but entered a vehicle she did. I further believe that her impairment, however minor, served to suppress her better judgement–even mildly–to the degree that she would do something she might not otherwise do: not necessarily HH, but enter the vehicle of an unknown person. [Note: I do not now nor have I believed that Morgan knew her assailant.]
Important note: I do not believe that Morgan’s possible impairment in any way, shape, or form made her somehow responsible for her own demise. No one–I repeat, no one–deserves to be a victim. Period. Full stop.
I also believe–as stated very early on–that Morgan’s BG was the quintessential, consummate charmer. True BGs, whether during their first foray into criminal behavior or not (and I don’t think Morgan was this BG’s first, nor will she be his last if he is not apprehended), are nothing if not charming; rather, they are notoriously charming.
More importantly, they are (emotionally, then later, literally) disarming. They know how to talk a victim–even a victim at first reluctant–into their vehicle.
I am not a BG. I am a woman “of a certain age”. [That's code for "old" for all the young puppies out there.] I have seen, witnessed, spoken to, read, and researched about enough BGs to know that I too could very, very easily talk someone into my vehicle–even if I was not an older female and did not sport this bright-white hair on my head. Not unlike a seasoned BG, I can be very charming (yes, when I try and when the occasion warrants it:))), seemingly credible, and absolutely disarming.
A true BG, seasoned or not, can do the exact same thing. It is one of their hallmarks. I fear that this is precisely what happened to Morgan.
Out of concern for the ongoing investigative process, I will not comment further on my additional thoughts about Morgan’s BG.
Gil Harrington’s Blog from May 28th, 2010
PERSONAL AD –
MORGAN DANA
HARRINGTON
Beautiful, smart, funny
20 year old female, single
college student.
Metallica fan, murder victim
I.S.O. JUSTICE/ARREST/
CONVICTION
Call VSP with information
On Morgan’s case @
434-352-3467
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@ Katie May 27, 2010 at 9:05 pm
This is standard operating procedure where I come from. Police always talk to the homeless, and I guess they do that in the US as well. The homeless know everything about their area.
Good point, Observer – I totally forgot the dogs…that seals it for me. She was on the bridge. Now, did the scent end at the bridge…I have read a lot on bloodhounds and they can actually follow a scent of someone in a car but they have to get there quickly – and that did not happen.
Yoshi…I guess if we are not able to be privy to the identity of the textee to Morgan on that night, maybe in time we will learn the content of the texts. Here’s to hoping.R
Sorry, I know you understand I have to respect a confidence.
I will say that the last text she sent was around 7:20.
B
Maybe this has already been suggested — but suppose Morgan started to walk across the bridge, then for whatever reason turned around and headed back in the direction of the JPJ. Wouldn’t her scent stop at the point where she turned around? I wonder, maybe she didn’t get into a car on the bridge at all.
is this possible?
Without knowing exactly what type of k9 asset that was used, I cannot say for sure, but yes, possible.
B
Observer, Please read this article written by a UVA alum and please share with us, the viewpoints of UVA officials if you might.
TIA
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/liz-seccuro/a-history-of-violence-not_b_592208.html
A History of Violence: Not Huguely, But the University of Virginia
There was no investigation, no paper trail and no prosecution, although I went to the hospital, Student Health, the Dean of Students, and the University Police and made dozens of reports.
Rape and murder are also not considered violations of the University’s Honor Code, established 15 years after Thomas Jefferson founded the school in 1825. The Honor Code’s single sanction of expulsion is reserved for “lying, cheating and stealing.” I would posit that rape or murder most certainly falls under stealing — of a life, of one’s dignity, of the promise of a life well-lived. Most of the time, issues of violence between students are adjudicated by student-run boards and not via law enforcement.
Because of the work I have done on behalf of campus survivors of crime, I know that Mr. Jefferson’s Academical Village has a bigger problem than most campuses. Of course, violence is present at all colleges, but the University of Virginia administration’s steadfast refusal to require the students to do anything that is mandatory beyond paying their fees and returning their library books before they graduate now looks like a deadly stance in the name of being a fully student-run University. While there are adult administrators, there is no sense of protection for young students.
OK, so at about 9:30 in the evening we have a young woman who resembles Morgan on the Copley Bridge making gestures as if she was trying to get a ride and we have scent dogs later tracking Morgan’s scent to the Copley Bridge.
If a car had picked up Morgan going away from the arena the car would have been picked up by the traffic cameras at Copley and Massie before it stopped for Morgan. If the car was going in the opposite direction it would have been picked up by the traffic cameras at Copley and Massie after it picked up Morgan. The traffic cameras show…..?
RE: #27, Hokiehi: I also read that article previously but it didn’t occur to me until you presented it as particularly ballsy, that the shirt planter really had to have had a non-conspicuous reason for being involved with that bush at the time s/he planted the shirt. I am thinking groundskeeper, maintenance person, newspaper delivery person, or group of two or more students (one to be a lookout and one to plant the shirt). It would have to be someone who is either oblivious to the thought of surveylance systems or someone who knew for a fact there were no surveylance systems at that location. And it would likely be someone who wanted to place a bit of a stigma on one or all of the residents of that particular area, probably out of general resentment of their social status or specific resentment of a particular person who lives in the area.
But then again, if the planter was an intelligent person, s/he thought long and hard about these very speculations regarding the placement and it is possible that the placement has absolutely no logical connection to the perp but it merely a ruse to confuse us more.
If so, it worked. I have no fricken idea who did this.
Any idea if scent dogs were used within the AF properties or would even be able to pick up a scent of Morgan if she was inside AF properties?
Hi Katie,
Tommy Lee plays for Motley Crew but I know little else of heavy metal.Although my brother in law sued Nikki Six for damage done to the tour bus that drove around Motley Crew.And yes they were a motley crew indeed (these were their Pamela Anderson years when she first dated Tommy Lee).OH the stories my BIL could tell.
Alan Jackson was the nicest.Sorry off topic,but your observance that Metallica wasn’t listed is interesting.
anotherB says:
May 27, 2010 at 4:11 pm
This may be completely far fetched/paranoid. JB states on her facebook she lives in a world where “water tastes like gasoline”… Is this area notorious for that? Were there any incidents around February, when JB posted that? Where does the water for AF come from, and were there any problems with it before? I was wondering because a contaminated local water supply would have required extensive repairs, and workmen on the property.
There is a gas station on U.S. 29 just south of AF in the vicinity of Taylor’s Gap Road. I am told that at one time the gas station had a leaking underground storage tank that contaminated the local water supply. Lots of wells in the area were affected. The problem had been corrected well before February 2010. JB was probably referring to that bit of local history in her post. I’m not sure how a water supply gets cleaned of contaminants, especially underground contaminants.
There is a serious problem with both Water supply in North Garden, and contaminated water due to fuel leakage around Red Hill, your referring to the Trading Post.
B
“Any idea if scent dogs were used within the AF properties”
I think you mean inside the houses? A really, really excellent idea.
Taken from uvavictimsofrape.com
A man is walking down the street, slightly intoxicated, just having left a party. He is heading towards his home. He sees an old friend; they stop and make small talk. Suddenly the old friend says, “Hand me your wallet”. The man is shocked because he knows this person and is confused why he would suddenly behave in such a demanding manner. He says “No”, but the old friend is taller and heavier and appears to mean business. The old friend does not have a gun or knife, yet the man is frightened. He protests but does not fight or scream because he is so frightened. He is unable to escape the situation. The old friend takes his wallet and runs off. A crime has just been committed. The police have no problem arresting the old friend for stealing. After all, he did not have the man’s consent to take the wallet. No one questions if the crime is due to the man’s slight intoxication. No one questions if the man should have fought and screamed. No one questions if a crime has been committed.
Then, later that night,
A woman is walking down the street, slightly intoxicated, just having left the same party. She is heading towards her home. She sees an old male friend; they stop and make small talk. Suddenly the man says, “I want to have sex with you.” The woman is shocked because she knows this person and is confused why he would suddenly behave in such a demanding manner. She says “No”, but the man is taller and heavier and appears to mean business. The man does not have a gun or knife, yet the woman is frightened. She protests but does not fight or scream because she is so frightened. She is unable to escape the situation. The man sexually assaults her and runs off. A crime has just been committed. The police do nothing even though the man did not have the woman’s consent to take liberties with her body. Everyone asserts that the crime is due to the woman’s slight intoxication. Everyone questions why the woman did not fight and scream. Everyone questions if a crime has been committed. Why?
We do not talk openly about rape because the very idea of a man forcing himself onto a woman is revolting. The only rapes that seem to be prosecuted are the ones where a stranger breaks into a house or a woman is found dead and raped in a field. When “acquaintance rapes” occur, people assume that the woman must have done something to cause it to happen. These people are confusing rape with sex; that false assumption is the way they ease their conscience when they choose not to hold the man accountable and responsible for his actions. No other crime is handled this way. No other crime victims are treated this way.
http://www.uvavictimsofrape.com/
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It seems to me that from the begining, UVA PD and Local LE blamed Morgan. Shame on them for blaming Morgan for how she was dressed, for her state of mind. Where were her protectors?
:~)Sort of O/T :~)
@ radiogirl says:
May 28, 2010 at 10:08 am
Hi Katie,
Tommy Lee plays for Motley Crew but I know little else of heavy metal.Although my brother in law sued Nikki Six for damage done to the tour bus that drove around Motley Crew.
I ‘m just LMBFAO:~)at this exchange because not only did I realize the errs in my knowledge of METAL R&R History (Katie says:May 28, 2010 at 12:30 am Oops, I saw Motley Crue not Metallica…see how much I care about metal bands….)
But one of us spelled Motley Crue wrong and I as well am too lazy to go find that oolong that goes over the “u” or the “e”…I don’t know which…
Point is: it appears neither of us could give a rats arse about any GLAM METAL band…although I do love AC/DC, GNR and grunge!
But on a serious note:
Why Meticalla and why wear the Pantera shirt…that band broke up years ago and the heroin addicted lead singer was shot on stage at a gig…it’s just odd to me.
Two other things have me scratching my head and maybe someone has already addressed this but last night I went to Morgan’s FB page and I noticed that she has/had 666 FB friends. Is the page closed. Did she accept that particular number before her death or does someone maintain the page in her honor and that is just the number of FB fans that were accepted as of last night?
Secondy, @ B who said “Sorry, I know you understand I have to respect a confidence. I will say that the last text she sent was around 7:20.”
Yes, but did someone respond…and if not did she try to call him or anyone else from inside or outside JPJA before or after entrance to the show?
@ Joey and Blink May 28, 2010 at 10:30 am
This would explain why someone would have been familiar with the area – repairs, consultancies etc. Do the authorities test the water quality regularly? I mean both the wells and the Hardware river.
couple of thoughts and questions…
RE: shirt
how do we know that the shirt was “placed/planted”, “in broad daylight”…? is it because Eichner says it wasnt there on his first pass by, but was on his way back??
if it was “placed/planted” in broad daylight, i think the easy answer is it was placed, as suggested a few weeks back, by a good samaritan who found the shirt in a not so “displayed” fashion, ie in the gutter, under the bush, etc….and was simply displaying the shirt for a potential owner to find…there is/was simply too much risk involved for someone “involved” somehow to take this action imho…
RE: Copely memorial site for Morgan
is there any surveillance on this area, as we all know that perps sometimes frequent these venues for whatever macabre reason…??