Former UVA Cop Charged With Rape: Sean Michael Horn Faces Bond Hearing Today
Charlottesville, VA- Sean Michael Horn, 42, current Albemarle County reserve deputy and former police officer for the University of Virginia as well as the Albemarle Sheriffs Office was arrested last evening for rape. The arrest follows an extensive investigation conducted by the prosecutors office.
While there has been no specifics released, and it is the policy of www.blinkoncrime not to identify alleged victims of sexual crimes, we have learned that a complaint of rape against Horn was received in the Fall of 2011.
The arrest follows what can only be described as a series of chaotic incidents and events affecting Albemarle county law enforcement officers since 2009 at a minimum.
Following the death of 18 year old Greene County resident Colby Eppard on New Years Day 2010 by police gunfire, 7 Albemarle county officers were either suspended and/or demoted. Caleb Marden, a decorated sharp-shooter who served in Iraq was fired. Denise Lunsord, prosecutor for Albemarle county and North Garden resident, cleared all officers of any wrongdoing from the incident.
Eppard allegedly stole a neighboring Greene County patrol car and traveled almost 60 miles to Albemarle county. Although off duty Greene Sgt Randall Snead was out of his jurisdiction, Snead was among the officers in pursuit of Eppard and participated in the ambush to stop the teen. Snead’s former mentor and Sherriff, Willie Morris, committed suicide on January 28th.
Although he was on desk assignment pending the investigation of Eppard’s death, Snead responded to the scene of Morris’s home where he was located and rushed to the hospital. Morris was removed from life sustaining efforts without ever regaining consciousness. A suicide note blamed his tinnitus condition.
In a recent election, Steve Smith won the Sheriff slot running against Snead, and has since met with controversy after releasing nearly all of his staff. An email criticizing Smith was received by several news outlets from a previously fired Albemarle County Lt. Scott Cox, then a Greene county deputy who has since been released. Horn has Sheriff Smith listed as a friend on his facebook profile. Cox was among the Albemarle County Officers who was demoted after 18 years of service in the scandal.
Albemarle county is also the home of The Anchorage Farm, where murdered Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington was recovered after exhaustive searches of the areas surrounding the JPJ arena, UVA campus and private LE searches failed to locate her. Harrington disappeared from a Metallica concert at the John Paul Jones Arena on October 17, 2009 after being refused re-entry by security. DNA evidence has linked the Harrington case to a suspect in an unsolved rape in Fairfax, VA in 2005. Former lead detective now retired, Lt. Rader, has only indicated that forensic link means that Morgan came into contact with that individual prior to leaving Charlottesville.
Efforts to confirm whether Sean Horn was working the event as a UVA officer that evening have not been returned.
Corrine Geller, public information officer for the Virginia State Police, whose agency leads the probe into Morgan’s homicide responded to our inquiry as to whether or not Horn was a target of their continuing investigation this morning:
“The investigation remains ongoing at this time. I’m not able to comment on who our agents have or have not looked into during the course of their investigation.”
Horn lists Virginia Tech among his educational credentials on his facebook account, where Harrington was a junior at the time of her disappearance. It is not known if the two were acquainted.
Horn is being held in the Albemarle Regional jail pending his bond hearing today.
Check back to www.blinkoncrime.com for updates.
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susanm says:
April 8, 2012 at 4:16 pm
susanm,
Very, very interesting link. Thanks for posting!
hi blink. I tried to post a reply to leelee earlier today but don’t see it as in moderation. Could you let me know if it didn’t make it through and I will resubmit it. Thx.
I do not see it anywhere redly, you will need to resubmit please.
B
TG,
Well, I was sitting in the front lot, right in front of the restaurant, waiting for a train to arrive. I sat there for about 15-20 minutes. There were these men who were just milling around, three or four, around the front, walking here and there, not on their way anywhere. The restaurant does a booming business and it’s a bit of a mad house with drinking customers (lots of students) on a Friday night. There was just something about the manner of these men that made me think they were “assigned” to be there, paid to be there. I almost asked a waitress when I went in. I will next time.
Just mark it private, first line-
Only you and I will see it until I delete it.
B
Yes Susanm very interesting link thanks for that!!
I always tell my daughter if someone s behaving suspiciously around you…
take their photo and email it yourself and to your family.
Blink any reason my last two comments are still in moderatoo? One had the link Susanm posted and the other was an interview with Mr.Bass which had info that seemed to contradict some of the info in previous comments regarding the farm.
Sorry Leelee- had some sort of droid/CPU interface restore thingie.
Everything is up now, thanks.
B
I assume everyone saw that Mr. Horn pled to misdemeanor assault and battery on a family member. The rape charge was dropped. Sentenced to 12 months, all suspended, and no fine. He apparently had sex with an adult family member over Thanksgiving weekend when they were allegedly incapacitated (i.e., drunk).
Leelee — you asked why I thought the reported rape number had doubled in Fairfax county from 2004 to 2005. I lost my post and don’t have time to redo it fully, but I think if you look at the numbers from 1999 though 2009, which are all available on the Fairfax police site, you will see that 2004 was a statistical anomaly. In other words, it was just unusually low. 2005 was consistent with almost all of the other years. Even one is too many, but, given the population size, the number is pretty low statistically even in the normal years.
Thanks for the update on Mr. Horn redly.
It would be interesting to know the full details. I think this is the DA and judge protecting an officer. A rape of another even while drunk should be punished with a sentence of five to ten years.
At the very least, he should loose his LE license.
I agree with you ATG this definitely sounds like a DA and a Judge protecting an officer.
Drunk or not rape is rape and should be punished and lose his LE license.
It was not a judge or a DA protecting an officer. First, the judge would have nothing to do with the plea. He or she would have to accept it, but that would never be in doubt on a case like this. Second, the prosecuting attorney said that the Commonwealth felt it had grounds to proceed with the case and that this plea was offered solely at the request of the complainant. It would have been a hard case to prove though. None of us know if it was rape or not. We know he was charged with it and that the charge was dropped.
He cannot carry a gun any more and will not be able to serve as law enforcement any more. Before the arrest he was a reserve officer, and, apparently about a decade or so ago, had been on UVA police force.
redly- no judge is forced to accept any plea deal. He has the right to set it aside for cause.
The victim in this case (adult family member) requested the plea. This happens frequently in initial rape cases because unfortunately testifying in open court to something so heinous (allegedly) in frequently as traumatic for the victim as the actual incident, in their view.
I presume this was the case here.
B
Right. I perhaps phrased it poorly, but it would be up to the judge to accept it or not. That would be the extent of his or her involvement. But, as you know, they would always accept this plea barring very unusual circumstances. We can presume that the victim wanted the plea to avoid testifying as is very often the case, but we could also assume that the victim had credibility issues or was not being forthright. None of us know. We do know he has pled guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery and should no longer be in the law enforcement field as a result.
No redly, I do not presume there were credibility issues, and I can tell you that the burden is on the prosecutor to indicate what he can and cannot support via a prosecution. He walked into that courtroom and said he was ready, regardless. Loosely translated that means, if you throw this out, I will compel who I need to compel, but it will not be pretty.
I mention this because I am concerned you would bring up a credibility issue, an extensive investigation after the complaint ensued- he was arrested by colleagues. The plea was initiated by the complainant, not seeing any opening for that.
B
Having sex with someone that you do not have the right to have sex with, is down right animal behavior. IMO
Absolute truth. Legally AND Morally.
B
I understand blink. But our system presumes innocence. The prosecutor may have felt ready to meet her burden but may have lost. I know many prosecutors who have tried cases with witnesses who had credibility issues. In fact, most cases have them. I know as little about what actually happened between him and the victim as everyone else here does.
Regardless, none of this has anything to do with morgan as far as I can see.
am i the only one that finds it interesting that horn’s defense attorney interned with the commonwealth attorney’s office 4 years ago?
http://www.readthehook.com/102589/county-cop-arrested-rape-charges-media-blocked
could this case be even more incestuous than it initially seemed?
so now i see he must have changed his attorney at some point to j. lloyd snook.
http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/2012/apr/09/ex-officer-pleads-guilty-assault-rape-charge-reduc-ar-1829525/
snook is no doubt an influential leader in the democratic party judging from the bio on his practice’s website. and what party does commonwealth attorney lundsford belong to again?
horn won’t spend a day in jail or pay a fine either, apparently.
@ alexandra April 11 2012 @ 8 38pm
AMEN Alexandra.
He was after all a married man in his own home, having what appears to be illicit sex with a family member that was unwilling, or somehow incapacitated to consciously consent to it.
It appears to be a forced act, opportunistic and predatory.
Oh my God …sorry but how often has this happened over the centuries in the work place, the factory floor, the slave quarters, on the home front….. to servant girls, nannies, governesses, dependent female relatives, daughters, children, WIVES, victimized by angry, controlling, violent and abusive men.
It is STILL going on, and judging by the amount of rape and domestic violence in the world today, the inadequate sentencing and low on the totem pole attention these crimes get, there is a succinct acceptance in the culture that this is the natural order of things and women are merely chattels of the men in their lives.At the mercy of their goodwill or NOT.
Patriarchy at its’ worst, which to me equates imperialism, money , power , control and WAR .
It is tragically evident in this weary old war torn world today, As always it is the innocent that suffer.
On a positive note I admire the Harringtons’ for not taking the abduction, torture, rape , murder of their beautiful, innocent, spirited , intelligent , kind, shiny, daughter Morgan lying down, and tirelessly and courageously fight to change the existing legislature and raise awareness to SAVE THE NEXT GIRL.
More power to you also Blink!!
J4M.
First you have to have the right to have sex with a person, then you have to have a willing partner…otherwise..NO GOOD. A family member is not allowed. We are not animals, unless, we really haven’t come that far as human beings. IDK
I love these words
WE HAVE DNA EVIDENCE. WE ARE ACTIVELY AND AGGRESSIVELY PURSUING YOU, WE WILL NOT REST UNTIL YOU ARE APPREHENDED.
for Morgan
Heather Hodges 5’1 90 pound blond woman missing from Virginia. I am praying she is not one on the Next Girl Missing.
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/307414
Apparently Heather’s live-in boyfriend had charges pending against him before for being abusive. Heather had told her family if she was ever missing to not stop looking for her, since she wouldn’t hurt herself. …Why do women stay in these abusive relationships? I know studies have been done but I still don’t comprehend. At least her baby is safe with her family. http://www.wset.com/story/17421973/family-of-missing-woman-speaks-out
The 4 BIB were the last people seen walking with Morgan. The curtsie duo by the port-a-pottys were the last to see her from afar, all of this in the parking lot. Then she was seen on the bridge by the father/daughter drive by, they said she was HH. They were the last to see her on the bridge. Then she was gone, as far as we know. Some people believe LE has her on video on the bank’s camera or the other stores?
I don’t.
Did all cameras miss Morgan that whole day? and until 9:30 pm? How can it be that not a single image of her? There are security cameras and people with cameras all over the place. I think Mom3.0 found a glimpse of Morgan inside the arena on youtube but it was difficult to be sure it was her.
I wanted so much for this horrible crime to be resolved.
I will keep checking in to see if there has been any progress.
241
How can you have a murder investigation without a cause of death? If the VSP arrested someone would they tell the arrested person the cause of Morgan’s death? But wait – the person being arrested would be just a presumed innocent member of the public until convicted so the VSP couldn’t tell them what they were being arrested for. If they couldn’t tell them what they were being arrested for they couldn’t arrest them! All a bit absurd isn’t it?
Release the autopsy report, the toxicology report, and the cause of death. Otherwise we are just going in circles.
Your assuming they don’t have a COD. If and when an arrest is made, the commonwealth will apply the rules of due process as they would any homicide case.
It should be noted however, that the manner of death is sufficient classification for a homicide charge, there are hundreds of no body cases that have been successfully prosecuted in the US where a COD is never known factually.
B
“Your assuming they don’t have a COD.”
No, I am assuming to date it is a total farce. The public found the t-shirt, the leggings, and the victim. The agency responsible for finding the killer has a long history of bumbling ineptitude and unsolved cases. And fig-leaf minimal cooperation with the public.
Well, I really cannot argue with your general comments about the investigation. It’s true.
Lol at fig-leaf minimal cooperation.
B
does anyone have any word on the progress of the civil case?
i caught the repeat airing of america’s most wanted,vienna,va. lizz plott rapist. the article made it seem as if the asian man was with the rapist at the hotelbar,but the actual show doesnt allude to a twosome.hmmm. it is so much like the vanishing blonde case.a television show must generate lots of leads,i hope there are follow ups and they catch him. did anyone else catch the airing? is that a jumpsuit he’s wearing?was dna collected?toxology to see if she was drugged(seems obvious),ketamine?no one at the bar had seen him there before? was the asian man located to see if could shed some light?i think i see light colored eyes,its not impossible to stretch it to sketch ,or maybe miami- paula sladewski,that too ,was a hotel bar.sketches clothes dont neccesarily suggest someone who hangs out in the bushes,on dirt trails.
LeeLee, That AMW video of the attack at the hotel in Fairfax is weighing on my mind. The victim looked so much like Morgan and also he drugged her…. I just wonder…
good question, deetee.
good point, George.
Still no indication from the online docket that it was even served on RMC or that RMC has answered it. It seems possibly to be a placeholder case, filed to avoid the statute of limitations in case something is discovered in the future that could give rise to a claim, not a serious case at the moment.
susanm says:
April 17, 2012 at 1:20 pm
i caught the repeat airing of america’s most wanted,vienna,va. lizz plott rapist. the article made it seem as if the asian man was with the rapist at the hotelbar,but the actual show doesnt allude to a twosome.hmmm. it is so much like the vanishing blonde case.a television show must generate lots of leads,i hope there are follow ups and they catch him. did anyone else catch the airing? is that a jumpsuit he’s wearing?was dna collected?toxology to see if she was drugged(seems obvious),ketamine?no one at the bar had seen him there before? was the asian man located to see if could shed some light?i think i see light colored eyes,its not impossible to stretch it to sketch ,or maybe miami- paula sladewski,that too ,was a hotel bar.sketches clothes dont neccesarily suggest someone who hangs out in the bushes,on dirt trails.
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Check out the picture of this guy on the AMW site: http://media.amw.com/multimedia/fileRepository/db/472/246/lizz-plott-rapist-photo.jpg
Liz Plott said the glasses weren’t his. She had, earlier in the evening, allowed him to try hers on and she took a picture of him. This guy looks amazingly like an infamous security company owner who has been discussed here before.
Among other candidates who were on staff at some capacity at UVA/JPJ.
He has my interest.
B
Hey J’me
Yeah, looked at that befor, but decided not, but many thanks for better picture. IMO it is not him because the face measurements do not ad up. Even accounting for face angle, I think the nose on lizz-plot rapist pic is wider. Even thought the smiling pic of RH that I am going by would widen the nose slightly in the pic. Measurements from corner nose to corner eye etc are different, even accounting for angle. MOO.
Also, from a different perspective, I do not think Sketch would allow a pic to be taken of him without confiscating/killing. I also do not think RH would be allowing photos of him. The hand, with the fat pad would be a huge clue, if we could get a good look at RH hands.
Besides, how could it possibly be him, if he is sketxch they would certainly have his DNA and know this. (if they do not have RH DNA, heaven help everyone in Va, that is all I have to say.
B- do you know if LE has obtained anyone’s dna for testing — that has not been a match?
or
would like to obtain a sample from someone –but havent been able to because
a. they dont have a warrant
has anyone refused to give a sample?
anyone carefully “not” leaving behind anything that could have their dna
that LE could grab and test?
Not disclosed.
B
also
if LE wants to pick up a persons cup out of the trash to have it tested….
is a warrant required to test it?
do they have to provide probable cause to a judge to get it tested?
Once discarded, it is discarded so no, the property no longer has an “owner”.
How it gets tested is a very broad question- it depends on several factors that may or may not be in play and varies by jurisdiction and protocol to the agency ( PD vs. FBI) so while on the surface it seems like an easy question, it is really not.
In a general sense, LE can test discarded samples against a known profile, but they cannot test a possible suspect against an overall database without a warrant to do so without risking it’s possible suppression.
As an example ( I linked the background of collection and testings previously) LE can test the DNA of a discarded sample in this case against Sketch, but they cannot just say.. hmmm, I wonder if this person would match any crime, anywhere. That is Big Brotheresque.
B
Sorry I found this and could not fwd the link for some reason but worth checking out if you want to look at this man who looks not unlike Sketch.
Dewaine Thornton Arrested in 1992 Unsolved Rape
DNA testing unavailable 20 years ago helped West Deptford police crack the cold case….
By Bryan Littel
I thought you might be interested in this article from the West Deptford Patch.
RH has shiny, fun looking eyes, (as oposed to the dead, cruel looking eyes of Horn) I have a hard time seeing him as a murderer, yet understand he was convicted of a rape-like offense. Could he have done something so horrible, and still have sparkling eyes? If you look at eyes, (the window to the soul) of all the convicted killers etc, they all look dull and lifeless/or cruel….so does the mouth….and I just do not see that in RH photo. What am I missing. (OK, I know he has not actually been accused, but some have their suspicions about him) BTW, Dr. Pepper, there is a scarry looking dude on the staff of RH with crazy looking eyes, but he is white)
from J.Me above :
Check out the picture of this guy on the AMW site: http://media.amw.com/multimedia/fileRepository/db/472/246/lizz-plott-rapist-photo.jpg
Liz Plott said the glasses weren’t his. She had, earlier in the evening, allowed him to try hers on and she took a picture of him. This guy looks amazingly like an infamous security company owner who has been discussed here before.
Yes , I too ventured over to AMW . I could not believe the uncanny resemblance . And before , I thought her attacker had been described as “Asian” . I could not & still cannot believe how much this fellow looks like the owner of the Security Company. the angle of this picture makes the overall appearance not appear to look alike . But what you have to do is look at the main features 1 by one & they do add up .
One comment from a post posted by John above my last post …
who stated “RH has shiny, fun looking eyes” and “Could he have done something so horrible, and still have sparkling eyes”
To those comments I will respond with some people have 2 distinct different personalities , like a tru Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde.
Yes a person can have sparkling eyes and when the other part of their personality that they keep buried & hidden away from the general public at large emerges in a fit of anger or rage , the eyes change. The eyes change in a split second , the entire face turns into a grimacing evil looking one , and the voice changes. If you’re ever alone with a person & this transformation should take place , there is no amount of reasoning , no amount of pleading ,no amount of arguing or fighting , no amount of bargaining , because they are displaced from the reality of the “here & now”. They are in their own sick little world of their reality & that one is the polar opposite one of the nice guy with the sparkling eyes.
If you are ever met with this in a relationship , the best thing you can do until you can safely get away is to just tell them “you are right ” even if they are 100% wrong . Just stay calm , and leave as soon as it is safe.
It amazes me how quickly nice shining eyes can transform into being as dark & cold as the eyes of a shark.
Alabamamom, the experts would know for sure if it was him, as they would do a computer analysis, and place one pic over the other. One clue that it is not him, is that they have not arresrted him.
Take a look at this story and tell me how many similarities you see to Morgan’s case. http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8578838.
This happened just blocks away from where I live, which is a decent up-and-coming neighborhood in Chicago that still has some rough spots. (For movie buffs, it is the very same neighborhood that is the setting for the movie “Stir of Echoes” which, coincidentally, is about an abduction/murder). This is another cautionary tale for concert-goers, especially females, but what else can it tell us about opportunistic predators? These guys were bold (like Sketch) but not as calculating. Still, I have to think that Sketch has done something in addition to the Fairfax rape and the Morgan murder that could lead to his identification. In the Chicago case, it appears that the perps were caught due to witness cooperation (based on the attached and other articles I’ve read). I’m still hopeful that someone will come forward and do the right thing in Morgan’s case. In the meantime, I have to think that somebody else out there (and likely several people) has had a run-in (or much worse) with Sketch that could be the key to solving this case.
Let me throw out another thought while I’m at it. I have a friend-of-a-friend who works security for various events in the Chicago area. When he’s working an event that interests us, we’ve been known to give him a call and get into the event (hey, it’s the Chicago way). Sometimes that means we are hanging around outside with other security guys for a while until he’s free. I’m sure others have made similar observations but I’d think along similar lines when it comes to figuring out why Sketch was there in the first place. I’m sure it wasn’t because he’s the world’s biggest Metallica fan but precisely because of the opportunity that he ended up finding. Sketch’s buddy “Letch” is a security guy or vendor or bartender or someone with a connection to that concert. Letch may not have been at all pleased with Sketch’s actions but maybe he’s in on the cover-up for any number of reasons (family, scared of Sketch, drug connection, afraid to lose his job, etc.). Find Letch and you find Sketch. Easier said than done even if I’m correct.
In re-reading some of the newspaper articles written a few days after Morgan was found mention that the medical examiner had ruled that it was a homicide but that they [the office of the medical examiner] were still trying to determine the cause of death.
The first time I read it I thought it was just a missstatement but it appears in several different articles. How on earth can the medical examiner say it is a homicide if they have not determined the cause of death?
Now, presumably, they have determined the cause of death; they are just going to keep it a double-dark secret?
George says:
April 20, 2012 at 9:36 am
In re-reading some of the newspaper articles written a few days after Morgan was found mention that the medical examiner had ruled that it was a homicide but that they [the office of the medical examiner] were still trying to determine the cause of death.
The first time I read it I thought it was just a missstatement but it appears in several different articles. How on earth can the medical examiner say it is a homicide if they have not determined the cause of death?
Now, presumably, they have determined the cause of death; they are just going to keep it a double-dark secret?
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It is easy. They may have found evidence that showed she was intentionally injured. Perhaps knife or bullet wounds on the bones or breaks that showed intentional, criminal actions designed to kill. Given the remains though, they may not know the actual cause of death (or may not have then). A person can be shot and then stabbed or strangled or hit over the head with a baseball bat, or vice versa. With mostly just bones left, they may never know the final act that killed her. It is not particularly relevant to the investigation of the case, despite your desire to know details. As blink mentioned, there are numerous examples of actionable murder cases where the body is never even found. Keeping it silent may also help them prove the case when and if they find sketch (depending on if their are injuries no one else would know about. Disclosing it does nothing but satisfy the interests of a few folks.
So, you can have a homicide without first determining the cause of death of the person found deceased? And characteristics of the killer, such as his height and wheither or not he is left or right-handed, which might be gleaned from marks on the victims remains, are of no use to the general public trying to aid the investigation? We all know killers can change their height and right or left-handedness at will so can’t let that info out, can we? And the method used to kill the victim are of no possible use to the members of the public trying to protect and warn their kids?
I am beginning to think Rader quit because he didn’t want to be a part of this farce anymore.
Release the autopsy, the toxicology, the cause of death.
Respectfully George, asked and answered at length.
B
George says:
April 20, 2012 at 3:08 pm
Release the autopsy, the toxicology, the cause of death.
Respectfully George, asked and answered at length.
B
I find I ask the same questions over again when I didn’t get a clear answer. Is it that Virginia is not required to release the results of an autopy report while there is an active investigation going on? Is there an investigation going on?
Morgan’s mother has told us alot. Morgan was brutally beaten with broken bones. That’s how she died.
Good morning everyone. I came across this and thought it might be relevant. I don’t know why Morgan was not included there – at 5’6″ she was not a “petite”, but still…
http://pibillwarner.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/nine-petite-blonde-look-alike-females-have-gone-missing-and-nobody-has-a-clue-where-are-the-fbi-profilers/
Just some random thoughts by Q:
Why are women so disposible?
Too much testosterone.
Uneducated.
No light behind the eyes.
Sweet talk, cunning, darkness.
Beautiful eyes, lips, hair, but only dead thoughts.
Beaten or abused as children?
Left to fend for yourself?
No love or just needing more?
Do you just need a Mother figure or just one who looks like her?
Or at a glance acts like her.
Did she look like a lost cause?
You look the same as anyone else, WTF?
Hidden demons.
You needed to find someone naive, trusting.
Now she lays cold and dead.
Now what?
Disposible item.
Toss her.
And there she lays, with all her expectations of people.
All those trusting ways gone.
Just bones and empty eyes.
Her soul still lingers.
And YOU need to beware, because she WILL have her day.
when you guys were talking about the tractor at morgan’s recovery spot , i wanted to remention ,that it appears to me, to be a fenced in corner,again a “corner”.i am not sure why , but there seems to me to be a significance that it was a “corner” ,that met certain requrirements for being a good dump shot,it was easy access from a paved street to a wooded trail,it was a back corner of property ,that the residents would not likely wander into,or hunters.it was over the fence so random utilty workers would not see it ,if acessing the trail,same as campers , sporters , or neighborhood kids.thats why once they got into the thick of the land ,from wherever their entrance point was ,they chose that spot ,because it was a “fenced in corner” ,that no one needed to access for any pertinent reason, or would access for any random reason,except to check the fences, which is exactly what happened,leading to the discovery of morgan. so i say who built or repaired the fence?
susanm….don’t forget the gardening truck which was leaving as the police were arriving……the morning Morgan was found…no one ever mentions it. I have asked about it lots of times on other sights.
B- it is a long shot buy I just got finished watching Body of Evidence with Gail Himan. The rapist’s print/DNA wasn’t on file…bc he was a juvenile.
Question- if a person is charged & convicted as a juvenile…they’re records are sealed. Does this include DNA? Is their DNA logged into the same CODIS database?
Do juveniles have a separate database for their DNA?
If so, I wonder if that’s been run for a match to Sketch OR to a familial DNA match.
To my knowledge the only people whose DNA isn’t in CODIS are
Those waiting in backlog
Haven’t gotten caught
Juvenile offender (?)
Thoughts??
John says:
April 21, 2012 at 9:43 pm
susanm….don’t forget the gardening truck which was leaving as the police were arriving……the morning Morgan was found…no one ever mentions it. I have asked about it lots of times on other sights.
This is what I remember,
The morning Morgan’s body was discovered someone from the newspaper was there before the police arrived (?) and spoke to a black man driving a black jeep leaving Anchorage Farm, out of the front entrance. He asked him who he is and the man replied he was the owner’s brother.
I don’t know what to think of this encounter. Very strange incident, if I am remembering it correctly.
Alexandra….stories mixed together. They are separate occurences.
1…a carpenter working at AF encountered the Jeep guy in the summer before Morgan went missing….
2…A landscape truck was seen leaving on camera the day Morgan was found.
Correct J.me, thanks for posting.
B