Morgan Harrington Murder: A Security Check On Security- Why Did It Fail?
Charlottesville, VA-
On the afternoon of October 17, 2009, Morgan Harrington and three of her friends drove to John Paul Jones Arena, located on the University of Virginia campus, to attend a long-anticipated Metallica concert. Following an apparent fall and chin injury occurring around the time she was visiting the ladies room, Morgan ended up outside the arena and attempted to gain re-entry to the venue.
How and why she got there comes in at a baffling second only compared to what happened to her next.
Nine months ago Dr. Dan and Gil Harrington, Morgan’s parents were notified their daughter was missing which is when their nightmare began.
On November 5, 2009, the day before a search which was organized at the request of the Harrington’s was to commence, a vintage black Pantera t-shirt placed on a bush in front of an apartment complex at the intersection near 15th Street and Grady Ave. was located by a nearby resident.
While this discovery was not released publicly, Charlottesville PD knew immediately it belonged to Morgan Harrington. Sara Snead, one of the friends that accompanied Morgan to the concert, immediately confirmed the distinct vintage design that compelled Morgan to borrow the t-shirt from her a week before the show.
Subsequently, DNA analysis confirmed the t-shirt was indeed the same one Morgan was wearing the night she disappeared.
On January 26, 2010 the remains of Morgan Harrington were discovered by David Bass, owner of Anchorage Farm, located in Albemarle County. Although her cause of death has not been released, her manner of death has been classified as a homicide by the Virginia State Police.
Dan and Gil Harrington marked the nine-month anniversary of Morgan’s disappearance from her memorial on Copeley Bridge 4 days ago.
Gil Harrington’s impassioned statement made it clear that her family’s mission is to prevent what happened to Morgan from happening to another victim and their goal is to educate young women about safety and personal security.
On July 1st, based upon an article posted on blinkoncrime.com inside sources confirmed a forensic link between Morgan’s homicide and a Fairfax County Case. Research on this case indicates it was a violent sexual assault that happened in 2005. The victim assisted in the sketch of a man police wish to interview in connection with both the Fairfax assault as well as the apparent abduction and murder of Morgan Harrington. .
What did it mean to the investigation and to the parents of young women in Charlottesville? We have a serial offender on the loose in multiple jurisdictions and an immediate need to beef up personal security.
As our very vulnerable student body returns to campus next month, blinkoncrime.com provides a glimpse at current conditions.
Unregulated Regulations In Security
The 2004 General Assembly, through House Joint Resolution (HJR122), requested the Virginia State Crime Commission to study safety at Virginia’s institutions of higher education. As a result, DCJS created the Office of Campus Policing and Security (OCPS) to address the law requiring minimum training and employment standards for campus security officers.
Campus Security Regulations for Institutions of Higher Education in the State of Virginia, fall under the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) Private Security Services Advisory Board. Below is an excerpt of the unapproved draft meeting notes of their quarterly meeting held December 8, 2009; the first and only since Morgan’s disappearance from JPJ.
The issue of safety and security on college campuses was addressed in a 2006 Crime Commission Study on Campus Safety. This study resulted in the statutory requirements under Code of Virginia (Code) §9.1-102 (49).
College populations represent a large concentration of students between the ages of 18-25 years with limited supervision and life experience. In terms of homeland security, campuses are identified as “soft targets” and are frequently targeted by domestic and foreign terrorists. Campuses also house volatile materials and research facilities that are also targeted by radical elements in society. Campuses host large stadium events and concerts that are potential targets for terrorism and riots. Most campuses also have facilities that are open to the public and are relatively difficult to secure and lockdown. Campus Security Officers are primary first responders to incidents of crime and violence on campus.
Although UVA campus security officers require a certification provided by DCJS, there are ZERO regulatory standards for certification. It was NOT until Morgan Harrington disappeared from the grounds of the JPJ Arena that emergency regulations were sought from Governor Bob McDonnell.
How does a woman on the campus of a University that provides it’s very own Police Department in addition to event security simply vanish without a trace?
By the time Morgan ends up in a hay field 7 miles away, she has passed through 3 different law enforcement jurisdictions and a slew of private campus and event security agencies and personnel. While private security regulations fall under the umbrella of the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services, they also require a judicial amendment only if and when they are approved via “emergency” status by the Governor.
Who’s Looking Out For The Kids, Exactly?
As the safety on campus study showed, our college age kids are at their most vulnerable in the University setting. Out from under the watchful eye of Mom and Dad and wading through the rich culture and nightlife of downtown Charlottesville, students face a host of potential safety risks.
In fact, during the very development of this article, I received an alert from UVA security that a UVA student was sexually assaulted in the area of Roosevelt Boulevard. While I commend the swift response and warning from UVA PD chief Michael Gibson, I can’t help but wonder if a similar alert upon learning Morgan disappeared from the UVA/JPJ campus would have made a difference for her.
A simple Google of “Charlottesville security” produces the front page for HH Security Services, Inc, a local private security and bail bonding firm. I am no expert but isn’t it a bit odd to claim to protect one’s security and then bond out someone that may threaten it in the first place?
Who is vetting the security that is responsible for ensuring safety?
While HH Security or it’s employees have no known ties whatsoever to the Harrington case, it is a prime example of the weakness of current security regulations, involving students and private events, 6 years in the making.
At H & H Security Services, Inc. we specialize in Private Investigation, Private Security both armed and unarmed as well as fast efficient Civil Process Service. Our full-time professional agents are well trained, well equipped, well informed, and discreet.? Owner Rod Howard is a native of Charlottesville and central Virginia, where he’s been a well respected business owner for over twenty years. H & H Security Services, Inc. is his vehicle in his effort to help serve and protect the community he grew up in. Over the years he’s assembled a team of certified and experienced personnel who share his commitment to the safety of the community.
HH Security, in a business journal ad, claims to hire members of law enforcement and be very well connected with various police departments and security agencies for nightclubs, special events and home security checks as well in 2007.
HH Security is the security firm of choice for Club 216, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Rivals, which are bars frequently visited by UVA students and athletes.
Roderick M Howard, owner of HH Security and H&H Car detailing maintains active licenses issued through the VA Dept of Criminal Justice Services for private security and as a bailbondsman.
While blinkoncrime editors were researching this piece, a review of Albemarle County Court records show Roderick Howard was arrested for felony rape in 1993, subsequently indicted for same and a year later on the first day of trial, pled guilty to misdemeanor sexual battery whereby he was sentenced to 12 months, 11 of which were suspended and two years unsupervised probation.
Howard was also arrested a few times for felony bad checks; both cases ended nolle prosequi.
How can an accused rapist and convicted sexual batterer hold a dual license in the private security sector as well as two classifications of firearms, all of which is monitored by the VADCJS? It is specifically stated in the regulations regarding moral turpitude AND sexual battery that the VADCJS MAY DENY an applicant on those grounds.
According to Mr. Howard’s own advertisement, he has been in the security industry since 1989. Would that mean he was employed in the security field when he was arrested for rape?
Shockingly, It may be perfectly legal. Although the administrative statute for licensure prohibits granting a license to someone with a misdemeanor sexual battery conviction, if Howard divulged the crime in his application and requested a waiver from the director at the time, it is possible one was granted.
Blinkoncrime.com spoke to Lisa McGee, Regulatory Program Manager for DCJS, private security advisory committee:
“…there is a code in the statute that allows the potential for both an individual convicted of a felony and the outlined misdemeanors exceptions contained therein to obtain a director’s waiver. Two felonies we would never even consider are rape and murder, but dependent upon the criminal offense, the circumstances and the length of time that has transpired with a clean record, the verbiage in the statute would allow an applicant to at least request a waiver for our consideration…” Lisa McGee
Ms. McGee was not able to address Mr. Howard’s file specifically, citing privacy laws, but she was able to verify that Mr. Howard’s registration with the agency is current.
There are however, some discrepancies in the press release written to announce the “restructuring” of both companies, announced October 19th.
For starters, there was only a name change to Mr. Howard’s business, which actually took place prior to the October 19 release date, in May, 2009.
These are not two separate businesses. In fact, the bailbondsman license issued to Mr. Howard’s agent, Anthony Halstead, leads back to Accelerated Bail Bonds, which is not a listed entity in the state of Virginia or listed as a fictitious name for H&H Security Services.
I would be willing to wager that the police departments that allow off duty security employment with this firm would appreciate some clarification on both the personnel and licensing issues.
There has been no arrest in the homicide of Morgan Harrington. In a statement released by Corrine Geller, PR manager for the Virginia State Police, VSP has received approximately 100 significant leads from the release of the sketch of the alleged perpetrator of the 2005 Fairfax County sex assault.
Dan and Gil Harrington will be meeting with new University of Virginia President, Teresa Sullivan, next month to address safety and security issues on campus.
“..People think it cannot happen to them, IT CAN– Dan Harrington.”
Editors Note: I am not a resident of Virginia. However, I think the interest of the safety of our children is a National one. Any person that is placed in a position of public trust, most especially those that come into contact with our vulnerable students, should be REQUIRED to disclose past convictions that would negate them that position without some sort of subjective “pass”. How can we know-TRULY KNOW the level of presumed safety if we really aren’t aware of the backgrounds of those in charge of it?
Blinkoncrime.com editors Jason Mateos, Elizabeth Morton and Madeline Tanner contributed to this report
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I didn’t se the Piedmont connection (very nice E), but I did see that Artisan, an H and H client, has done work at Martha Jefferson; however, I don’t know when:
http://www.artisaninc.com/industrial.php
Eloise, one question.
Wonder if Mr. Howard and company was shown the sketch by LE or their connections in LE, meaning formally or informally?
After all, they have been the eyes and ears around many local spots in town. Maybe they recognized Sketch and let LE know.
I think VSP said they had leads after the it was released.
Fish-
I am not sure I understand the question completely. But, I think sketch looks like RH dont you? I would hope they went about it a little differently.
lol lol
That was Fish’s attempt at subtle E. We Jerseyites are not known for such demeanor, Oh well.
Do I think RH resembles the sketch? A B S O L U T E L Y, yes.
However, if he is 5’9″ I would be surprised, so does he fit the physical description assuming it is correct at 6′-
A B S O L U T E L Y not. Sketches, when it is really all you have, are mighty shaky at best.
B
Oh gosh, Blink. Yes, yes…hanggliding on a Dorito. Although at times, I feel more like I need a ‘scoop’ being airlifted on little ropes.
Great research Eloise and everyone. It’s really strange how everything seems to come full circle. The answers have got to be somewhere in the circle. What are we missing?
Texas Grandfather and Minnie Penney, you are my kind of people. I love reading your posts. It causes me to reminisce back in the day. I’ll always call them the good ole days. Would that we could see them again.
Thanks Judi for your post above and I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Gil’s posts have touched my heart so much the last few days. It frightens me to realize there’s such cruelty among people. I’m glad that these people are few in number. They seem to not be able to get attention any other way, so they degrade themselves by posting such negativism and for lack of a better word, bulls@@t. Living in their own little cloud, while darkness and evil lurks outside their doors. I pray they aren’t parents. It’s scarey to think of the example they are setting, if they are. What kind of morals would children have growing up among those influences. Whatever happened to cause such judgemental, compassion-less thoughts. Is this how they would react should this happen to one of their own. I think not. It’s people like them that give the area a bad name. I can say first hand that it’s not the majority opinion of locals nor UVA. Unfortunately, every community has these thorns. Instead of casting stones at the Harrington family, they should hope and pray that others would follow their example. Keeping these victim’s stories out there and alive is a big step in making our world a safer place. LE can do so much, but families and friends need to keep pushing and pushing until these maniacs are found and arrested and paying for the evil and destruction they’ve forced upon us.
Dan, Gil and Alex, I know every hour of every day is so, so very hard for all of you. Please know that there are so many more that support you, than those that hurt you. We love your family and would do anything to make your pain ease a little. We’re so sorry that you’ve had to suffer what no one should ever have to suffer. Morgan was your beautiful little girl and this is not going away. We’re all standing in this together, to help you carry the load. We’ll stick it out together and justice will come. I believe that. 241
Ode, loved your post above to fishy Fish, Fish. I think I wish the same.
Oh Fishy fish, I think you’ve earned everyone’s love and respect here. You’re amazing! I wonder if you look like my mental pic of you. You know, the big hairdo and lip gloss? I wonder if your gloss is bright pink or tangerine? Or is it strawberry flavored?
Speaking of subtle fish, lol!, might you mean the location of the Comfort Inn at Pantops? NYer’s are straight to the point. hahaha
37.Sdandy says:
August 27, 2010 at 7:43 pm
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Thank you.
42.A Texas Grandfather says:
August 27, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Eloise ~snip~
These buildings often have large pieces of equipment that need cranes and other lifting devices to put equipment on roofs or raise them for insertion on upper floors. Heavy equipment is expensive and so are the operators and addendants. Contractors will often sub-out this work for the period of time they are needed. So, this could happen at any time of the year
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I know you are excellent with maps, I stink. I once guided us 5 hours out of the way to our own home. lol! Thank the Lord for GPS.
I am working on a little map, I know you are cringing, but I thought in the meantime, you might be interested to look at the cranes along Thomas Jefferson Hwy, SE Charlottesville area. I believe it is pretty current via 2010 google earth, is that right?
I have been reading through some old post’s, and found the following interesting ( if it is correct):
(all times are approximate , of course)
>8:20- Morgan is placed outside JPJ arena.
>8:48- Speaks to her friends
>9:00- Kickee hears commotion at entrance, shouting-presumably MH
>9:05- ? approximately moments later, Morgan says “let’s go”, kickee
declines, and she proceeds to kick him. (who is “him”)
>9:10- ?immediately calls girlfriend, and relates incident. She tells
him to call police?–( why would he have to call girlfriend,
and why would she overreact and tell him to call police. It
was not that hard a kick, by his own admission)
This supposedly happens the same time
>9:00 Women witness sees MH cross Massie road with 4 “white men”
dressed in black. Finds it curious since they are walking
“away” from arena towards parking lot.
>9:15- Same witness sees same group of 5 in Lannigan Field RV lot.
This is “officially” last place MH was seen, and the place
where her phone and purse were found.
>9:20- Seen (by who?)- MH in RV lot on Copeland across
from U Hall lot and adjacent to UVA track.
>9:30- UVA basketball Team last to SEE MH in the grassy, tree shaded
parking area, before she was seen on bridge with thumb out.
If this info is correct
>How can Morgan be in two places at (9:00)?
>Why would the Kickee make such a ‘Big deal” about his interaction
with MH…..and his girlfriend want to call the police?
>Who said the Basketball players “spoke” to MH
>From this information (if correct) it would seem that the 4 young
white men are the last to interact with MH.
Perhaps the basketball players only saw MH–and it is the 4 white males that left with Morgan. She may have been seen Jokingly putting her thumb out, because she was being picked up by them on the bridge??
These young men would probably be locals, know the area very well for placement of her body at the farm, and perhaps are very well connected (by their families). This could explain why everything is being kept so quite.
Let’s face it–what are the chances she could pass through the Kickee,and two groups of men (nothing happens with them) only to meet up with “a” psycho minutes later.
It would seem these are the people to look at, in particular the 4 ywm–my money is on them.
Sandy, thank you for re-directing me to this.
Yes, please post the details for my private review.
B
I sent an email to Teresa Sullivan expressing my concern over safety on UVA Grounds and surrounding community…in part, this is what I received and wanted to share with you all:
“…We will be looking to our fourth-year students this year for leadership as we try to address the aftermath of last spring’s student deaths. The students themselves have developed a program of bystander training so that peers do not silently witness abuse without speaking out. We are also planning a university-wide Day of Dialogue on September 24 to address the issues of relationship violence, violence prevention, and maintaining our community of trust. …”
So in essence, this is what they are doing/planning to implement at the grass-roots/student level….and she clearly stated non-tolerance of alcohol abuse.
Just wanted to share.
My father was in the US Army Corps of Engineers (VT Class of ’34) I used to play with his “castle” pins he wore on his uniforms – I have a whole collection of them in my keepsake box. I visited Tech a looong time ago – is there a building there that sort of looks like a castle – something with turrets – I seem to recall seeing something like that. Maybe the Engineering School ??? Texas Grandfather you sound like you could protect us all….Whiskey for your Men and Beer for Your Horses….and hang the badmen high. I’m listening to that song while I’m typing this.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/24535151/detail.html
I started looking up the keywords “construction worker(s) arrested.”
Figuring that wherever Sketch may be, he is probably lacking a driver’s license, and probably has some warrant outstanding for something.
Bravo for Cobb Co. Georgia, for checking criminal records of construction workers.
They have found four recently who need to be adjucated.
I wonder what would happen if other construction sites started the background checks?
Ole Sketch might be located.
Are there any laws/rules on background checks for construction workers or subs on or around Va college campuses?
Because it seems to me this might be the most important thing Pres. Sullivan does next. Change the rules.
I would like to know about this relationship as noted on the H&H site.
http://web3.userinstinct.com/44928177-hallberg-management-co.htm#review
Is it defunct? It has not webpage/phone etc.
Re: Pantops…didn’t RH have a house for rent in June and July and didn’t one of the many listings specifically reference being in or near the Pantops?
IIRC, that means that not only does he seriously resemble Sketch, have a sex offender history, have a business near 15th & Grady, a house near the construction site of new Martha Jefferson Hospital, and he works in security while driving a car that looks very much like a state trooper vehicle, wears a uniform and a badge, is authorized by a state agency to detain “criminals”and do to his BB biz we can only expect him to know a few felons or accused criminals.
oops, “do to his BB biz” should have been due to his BB biz… Doggone phonics!
here is the post I referenced of his house for rent with the reference to Pantops:
http://www.charlottesvillesuperads.com/ShowAdDetail.aspx?CurrentCategoryID=569&Ad_id=720150&pageNo=1&Gallery=&AdListType=adList
Hey Josie, thanks for the kind words.
Off Topic
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/28/nebraska.funeral.protest/index.html?hpt=T2
Is the shortest man, fifth from the left, the owner of H/H Security?
Mr. RH, I believe?
http://tinyurl.com/2b29ukc
Yes, there are many closeups in that photobucket.
SH far left.
Lee
Good for you. You had the insight to send an E-mail to the new president of UVA. The reply can be taken as hopeful. Unless people realy get serious about taking the right steps, nothing substantial will be done.
Can you get some other locals to go with you to her office and find out the substance of the programs. Talk is cheap,action is what is needed.
UVA administration needs to hire a compentent security expert to evaluate all their proceedures and what they set up in their code of conduct guidelines for faculty and students.
This is exactly what Dr. Harrington was refering to in his post about the way primative cultures took care of their people. Everyone got involved.
Minnie Penney
If it were in my power, I would put my arms around all women for the purpose of protection. The bad guys would be told “do not touch” if you do, you will pay a steep penalty. This is the time where our society must change to that point of view.
Susan
Cobb county is the Atlanta area to the Northwest. Good for them. Slowly we are beginning to take the steps necessary to get these types of people out of our society. Sketch probably does have a drivers license. Is it his real name? Maybe, maybe not. Criminals have ways of developing a new idenity when needed.
Eloise
Five hours out of the way eh! Someone needs to show you how to use the sun and the moon to help you keep your compass in the right direction.
I am one of those lucky people who seem to have a built-in compass. I seldom get lost. Some people cannot tell you where the entrance is in a building after leaving the ground floor. It all comes down to the fact that one constantly must be aware of everything around them.
A funny story. We were visiting friends in Teaneck, NJ. and decided to go to New York City for some sightseeing. Our guide for the day was the woman. After a full day of riding subways and walking we decided to take a break and get coffee and tea at a resturant. It was nearly dark when we entered the resturant and was fully dark when we exited. Our guide who lived in the area all her life turned in the wrong direction to take us back to where we were meeting her husband. I stopped her and we had a discussion. “Well Mr. Texan” she said “how would you know? You have never been here before.” That didn’t convince me and after further discussion she spotted a street vendor selling balloons and other things. “Would you agree that the vendor knows the right way” she finally said. I agreed that he probably did know, so we asked him. Much to her suprise, he told her that she was turned around and was headed away from the designated meeting place. We all laugh about that one till this day.
Lee
Further thoughts on the program being put in place to address violence at UVA.
It is good that the fourth year students are being proactive in addressing this issue. The problem is they have little experience in life and how to effectively put a stop to it. There needs to be a group of parents included in this program. After all, it is the parents who pay for the education.
They need to have experienced people come in and discuss this with groups of students where the men and women are seperated and then later combined. Until these young people come to fully understand that they must ALWAYS look out for each other and protect each other, there will be holes in the program.
Hey, Minnie Pinney, you are an original.
and yes, we do need Texas Grand Dad here on site.
I found this for both of you.
Texas Grand looks like he nails the bad’uns.
The link is big because it is a music video…….
Our theme song for “find the miscreant?”
oh dear the link did not work., it did not even convey when I pressed sibmit. Let me see…..
Hi, Blink, I was trying to submit a music video: Willie Nelson, Toby Keith, Hang the bad guys high….. but it did not transmit, is it somewhere in the system…because the embed code was so long?
Eloise, in case I never said it before, thank you very much for all your research and for having a good brain for it. Between you, Blink and all the many determined ones to help, there’s bound to be Justice for Morgan. May the lady get here soon.
There are some things LE can’t say and many things they can’t do, but citizens are a different story. Something like our BOCer and the dinner date (that was a good one), and warriors out there doing the village work. Wishing I were local.
@Minnie Penney
The name of the venue where both men and women play basketball at VA Tech is Cassell Coliseum with a very unique design that I would describe more as buttresses than resembling turrets.
Good find katie on the house. I spent quite a bit of time trying to find property owned by him on GIS. Maybe it’s in a relatives name, or I missed it. RMH? So I wonder if he is flipping houses, with who’s help? As an aside, do we remember melon is in construction, I cant help but wonder who he has crossed paths with.
Thanks, Susan for your kind words. Now, I know I’m one of the old geezers here, but I know a number of us are from Virginia – this is sort of off topic, but I’ll just take a little. It was Good Friday 1957. The day was gorgeous – and no school – back in those days we got off on Good Friday and Easter Monday. It was a gorgeous sunny day and warm. Mama bought me two little baby ducks and we went to the feed and seed on RT 29 to buy feed and vitamins for them. She also bought some flowers. We were in the checkout line and suddenly it began getting dark – I mean DARK. We thought a storm was coming and hurried home. All the street lights had come on and on Arlington Blvd. all the cars had their lights on. No birds were chirping – guess they had all gone to sleep. No wind, no rain, no thunder – just “night”….At 4pm the sun came out and all was normal. But I was reading a book by Jim Bishop, The Day Christ Died, and it described total darkness for about four hours until He died. And around 4pm the sun came back out and all was normal again. I didn’t think about it again, until Sept. 1959. I was in the 7th grade and we got a brand new teacher, Mr. Lesko from PA. He had just gotten out of the army and had served with ELVIS in Germany – he had the photos to prove it. Then he asked if any of us were here in 1957 – most of the kids in my area were military and moved every year, so I was the only one whose hand went up. He asked me if I experienced the Dark Good Friday and I said yes, and then it all came back to me. Over the years I asked people here and there and only found two people who said they remembered – someone who worked at SSA and my neighbor from Roanoke who was at Smith Mountain Lake – he and his family went home because they thought a storm was coming, but no storm. Just a few minutes ago I found a website… It’s sort of a weird website…but it does talk about the Good Friday of 1957. The author states, “On that portentous Good Friday of 1957, the faithful got a clear idea at last about the acute Passion of their Saviour, Jesus Christ…Suddenly the sky was now black. Jesus was near death.”
Well just looking briefly at people/locations.
Here’s a Marsh residence-
MARSH, CLEVELAND H OR SHARON M
Address 1659 THOMAS JEFFERSON PKWY
CHARLOTTESVILLE VA, 22902
Owner as of Jan 1st MARSH, CLEVELAND H OR SHARON M
And Shirley Marsh is on fb, plenty of familiar faces there. Looking to see what the relationship is. ? realtor or something? Still looking.
sometimes when I am looking up the Security owner’s property, the Albemarle Co GIS shows no results under his name, and then other times it shows :a location on Everettsville Lane. Odd.
@ Jeez: one more thing: Granny saw Morgan @ 9:30 pm, wrestling with the one dude, at the same time others (??) (who??) saw her on the bridge.
Eloise says:
August 29, 2010 at 11:12 am
RE: You referred to melon, is that the same as JC?
Minnie Penney: Would you post the link to that website? I too was in C’ville in 1957 (though too little to have noticed that!) and would love to read about it! Thanks.
” Just a few minutes ago I found a website… It’s sort of a weird website…but it does talk about the Good Friday of 1957. The author states, “On that portentous Good Friday of 1957, the faithful got a clear idea at last about the acute Passion of their Saviour, Jesus Christ…Suddenly the sky was now black. Jesus was near death.”’
susan, OMG, we are connected. I was just sitting here thinking about the timeline. The kickee, the 4 white Boys in Black walking away from the arena with person fitting Morgan’s description, and the arm lock granny saw.
Alexandra,
Will you spell out what you mean, the connection between you and Susan, please? I think it will be helpful for the rest of us. Gracias. Although, others are probably clued in already.
E.–RH is listed on GIS web–under Roderick. I have been trying, AGAIN, to find Marsh info. Lots of connections to many familiar VA family names & Ben Around Tattoo.
Yep.
B
http://saga-of-fray-paco.blogspot.com/search/label/Good%20Friday I have searched the web for years. My neighbor from Roanoke was at Smith Mountain Lake and he went home cause he thought a big storm was coming. No storm. Just dark as night from noon til four pm It was also the same in Pennsylvania – my 7th grade teacher experienced the same thing – I guess the entire East Coast – it was so quiet – all the birds went to their nests and to bed, I guess…..
Yes, cw. I dont know why I cant get him off my mind, even when I am looking at other completely different angles.
One person that is linked to our families, whom I can’t get alot of info on is DW, BIL of SH. Seems he lives in VAbch most of the time. Just had a baby. May be an instructor at one of the bases. But, I have also seen a possible construction thing, the lack of info intrigues me.
Thanks Texas Grandfather for your response. I think what you state makes enormous sense and i will pass those thoughts along, although I know nothing about the program. I hope every parent at UVA is asking the same questions…they should be if they are not.
Minnie Penney…umm you have another old geezer hangin’ here with you…I was born in 1950 ….’nuff said…hahaha!
@Minnie Penney: that good Friday, April 19, 1957, I was 6 months old.
Both of my boys were born on April 19, one in 1988, and one in 1993.
5 years apart, to the day, and no it was not planned.
Thank you for the special remembrance of a special day, Good Friday.
Susan-
Your a skilled researcher, but there is no way I can post things like that without a source link.
In other words, you have to be able to VERIFY such a statement, not “I think”, when your dealing with people’s names.
B
Hello everyone- You all have been working hard -great comments everyone. Wow, Eloise and Susan great research.
IRT Eloise’s earlier post and your comment Blink:
August 28, 2010 at 1:24 am
Brad Eppard – General Superintendent
Brad has worked for Piedmont Virginia Companies, formerly with R. E. Lee & Son, for most of his adult life. He started working summers as a laborer with his father, Charles Eppard, who is a superintendent for R. E. Lee & Son. After graduating from William Monroe High School in 1989, he worked for a year as a carpenter’s helper and then left to pursue other interests. In 1990, Brad returned to R. E. Lee & Son and in 1996, completed a four-year carpenter’s apprentice program. In 1998, Brad went on to become a Superintendent for the newly formed Piedmont Concrete Contractors. Brad’s contributions to the company and leadership resulted in a promotion to General Superintendent, where he currently manages the entire field workforce on a day-to-day basis.
R E Lee contractors
Fascinating- my very skilled researcher Eloise.
Now where have I heard that name before? Wait, I remember now- didn’t he have a weird aunt with recent surgery convicted of schtupping teens?
Maybe I dreamedit it. Not sure.
Good Work
B
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You remember the name,as if you didn’t know, because you did a piece entitled, “Death By Cop”- within your Coincidence or clue article, Blink.
http://blinkoncrime.com/2010/04/11/morgan-harrington-murder-coincidences-or-clues/
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So in light of Eloise’s research, We must ask again, the question that seems to define much of Morgan’s case- COINCIDENCE OR CLUE?
Or as succinctly said by Ms. Jenny Bass (PP)Everyone knows everyone or is related…. or COULD be related if you go by names alone….
Here is 18 year-old Colby Eppard’s obituary. Another tragic death that seems to be surrounded by many questions and so few answers.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailyprogress/obituary.aspx?n=colby-w-eppard&pid=138174359
Lol you fox in mom’s clothing you-
The aunt/guardian, curiously enough, does not appear in young Colby’s obituary.
She does however, make an appearance in the myspace of one HH Security Employee, John Ray.
Coincidence or clue?
B
regarding spelling out what I meant when I said susan and I were connected. I was sitting here thinking about the timeline and what granny saw and what another person saw regarding the 4 BIB’s and as I refreshed my screen, there susan said something about the events around the same time. sorry for the confusion.
Susan
Looking for Willie music. We keep a cd of Willie’s in our vehicle. My wife has been to two of his picnics.
Jeez
You have put together a time line based on what we have been able to glean from various sources. The problem is that we cannot verify those times. I am sure LE is working off a time line based on real interview results.
We don’t have any positive identification of the “Boys in Black” that has been released by VSP. Many of us like you believe that Morgan was abducted either by those guys or others that were parked in the field. I personally do not believe that she ever made it onto the bridge at Copely road.
Some of us think that she was taken to the location where the fire occured. She could have been kept alive for several days in a basement, if one exists, because the normal tennants were away for fall break at school.
At some point she was beaten severerly which resulted in her death. Her mother released information from the autopsy report that the broken bones were pre-mortem meaning they occured prior to death.
There was DNA evidence found on the body as well as DNA found on her shirt that was placed on some bushes outside an apartment in town. The DNA evidence on the shirt connected this case to an earlier abduction and rape in Fairfax in 2005. Thus, we have the sketch in Blink’s article.
Some like me, think the boys or men in black are local and have a connection to the North Garden area South of Charlottesville. The person in the sketch is believed to have some connection to the case which means he had to have been in the area prior to the time the shirt was found. We have speculated that he possibily is a construction worker that has work projects in communities along route 29.
Because the body was placed on Anchorage Farm in an area that was remote from the residence, this indicates to many that someone or more than one had knowlege of the area.
Each of us that post are trying in our own way to find the perps that took the life of a beautiful young woman. We all are our brothers keeper and must look out for each others safety.
This is a case where the inexperience of young people in looking after each other allowed one of their group to get in a dangerous situation that resulted in her demise. We also know that there was a huge breakdown in security at and around JPJA.
If proper security proceedures were in place at the arena, this would not have happened. Maybe it is like so much of things that get corrected in our society. Something bad has to happen in order to trigger action.
Colleges and universities all across our country are faced with problems like found at UVA. UVA needs to do some real investigation to address the poor behavior of some of their students and faculty as well as tighten up and clean up security problems.
Hello Blink & Blinkers. Who would profit if the Black Men is not be the killer? ( i hope you understand what i mean sorry for the english)
If this is too sensitive, don’t post it.
Is it a fact that young Colby Eppard died during a police chase and for some reason Sara Snead’s brother Randy Snead showed up at the scene outside of his juristiction as a police officer? I remembered you wanted to know why officer Snead was there. I wonder if he suspected anything because of the location?
There is no confirmation that Randall Snead is even related to Sara. To my knowledge, he is not
My curiosity about him being there was because he was way out of his official jurisdiction, and he was also dispatched to Willie Morris suicide.
B
What I can’t figure out from the day Morgan was found – is why would the perp leave her clothing there? All kinds of evidence could be recovered – hair, fiber, dna – seems to me to be a really dumbass move. Unless he planted someone else’s dna on the clothing. Years ago there was a famous murder that was solved by a single dog hair in the perp’s car trunk. Several of the victims were dog owners and bingo!!!!! The dog dna of one of the victims matched the hair in the perp’s car. It was a big murder case – I want to say the Atlanta child murders but not sure if that’s correct.
That is what I mean, there are 2 EH, iirc, you have to include dob, past/prior addy’s etc to flesh it out.
I cannot tell you the sometimes unnatural acts we preform before we can go on record linking things or people.
B