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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Was Morgan known to wear socks over her tights with boots (LIKE I DO ALMOST EVERY DAY?). I had forgotten that the socks were also missing. The incompetence is so discouraging.
I am confounded by the curtsy duo. If I recall, no one knew about them until the walk-though. I wonder when they did come forward and what reasons they had for initially holding back…or did they hold back? Was their status as UVA staff the reason we didn’t hear of them sooner? Curious. Curious indeed.
At the time of the search, Morgan’s body had not been found yet. The police therefor could not know if she was wearing the leggings, or if they were with her body. The police who were responsible for the search could still have gone back and recovered the leggings, and not told anyone this, OR recovered the leggings and hid them again with his other treasures. (they do not have to be in the bottom of a landfill) Another student, (probably girl) could have taken them, and kept them for herself, and not even known anything about Morgan (probably not)BUT a homeless type could/would definetely have taken them, flag or no flag, just to keep warm, and have nice new leggings.
ALSO, someone on the search, having heard about the leggings could have rushed back for them. There could be all kinds of security cameras trained upon the area. LE could have clear pics of the perp recovering the leggings after placing them there to distract from AF, and seeing they were ignored, picked them up for future use. Whoever recovered them, property manager, or other is most likely on tape doing so. The police must have all this tape recovered from the property managers. They probably will not tell us if they do or not.
Perhaps they have a picture of the perp recovering the leggings, and that is why they are not saying they went back for them. They are probably watching the perp, waiting for him to slip up. I wonder if they talked to the homeless peeps in the area re the leggings. I am sure if we can think of all these things, then LE can do them/did do them. Also, the leader of the search J’me was on could have put them in pocket when everyone else was moving on….or someone else in party could have done this. I just do not believe that they are lost forever. No, they are not.
Those leggings are not in the property of the VSP, of that I can assure you.
B
OK, then, were the VSP
present at the search? (are you able to say?)
They attended but were not in the field, they responded to field requests directed by team leaders.
B
If the police do not have them, then they were not recovered with Morgan’s body. This means the leggings did belong to Morgan. Girls in college do not drop laundry and not go back for it. They cannot afford it. (no offense to anyone intended) The perps kept the leggings, socks, t-shirt, yet Mr. Bass said there was dark clothing found with the body which looked like a deer. More than one killer, yes, because I do not think one would bother to take so many clothes.
How old would the killers want to be to want to take clothing, unless it was all planned ahead of time to stage the killing in a different area. How hideous is that?
Regarding the leggings, John said, “Also, the leader of the search J’me was on could have put them in pocket when everyone else was moving on….or someone else in party could have done this. I just do not believe that they are lost forever. No, they are not.”
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The leader of my search team, female, didn’t really want to go back and flag the leggings. She went ahead back to base. We were the very last team to return that day. The 4 of us in my car all agreed that we should go check on them. There they sat. We immediately returned to base and reported that they were there, unflagged. Someone from LRC had to go back and flag them.
I can see where you are coming from regarding a homeless person picking them up, so perhaps they are keeping somebody warm to this very day. Glad they may be of use to someone…..
I missed John’s comment about a searcher grabbing possible evidence on their own.
Respectfully, a comment like that is one of the primary reasons I am VERY selective about ever endorsing volunteer searches. At no time, and under no set of circumstances is that appropriate.
Jme and her team did exactly what was in line, and the item was flagged. I am not saying this because that is a guess on my part, that was information confirmed to me personally.
If there is not a protocol in place for flagging potential items at a team leaders discouragement, I can tell you that SAR team is not going to be working in the field very often.
I was once running debriefings on a search, and a guy walked right up to me and plunked a towel full of bones in my hand. I knew immediately they were animal but an untrained person might not – imagine if that HAD been the search subject what a breach of a crime scene that would have been.
That said, someone dropped the ball here and it was not a search volunteer.
B
Thanks J’me and B. for the info. OK, we know the leggings were flagged and left there on the spot. If they were flagged, most people would know there was a reason for that, even if they did not know what it meant. Wondering what I would think if I saw leggings flagged (befor reading here). I would think someone had been raped, but I would wonder why they were there flagged all by themselves, with no guard to protect the evidence. Someone might just take them
and hide them, thinking they might be of value someday to the prosecution and that they might get paid for them. (Of course, they did not know Morgan was dead at that point, unless they knew the killers) If someone is playing detective, and hiding the evidence, how could they bring it forth without being in big trouble?
How can anyone know for sure that a member of J’me team did not go back later, much later, find the flagged leggings, and recover them and put them in a safety deposit box. This whole thing does not make much sense, ie leaving flagged leggings on the sidewalk/grass/under a tree, wherever. They must have been a bit hidden or someone would pick them up befor the search, and the killers would be out of luck trying to control the search.
That said, someone dropped the ball here and it was not a search volunteer.
B
Too many balls were dropped. Unbelievable.
(screaming) There must be justice for Morgan Harrington.
so we know the t-shirt was morgan’s, found just about the same time as the leggings, and in the same ballpark area, right?
and almost three months later her remains were recovered nowhere near there, not only does the shirt seem to be a plant, in all likelihood the leggings had a better than average chance of being hers and a plant too.
i have to then wonder if they were trophies. if so, he must of felt the heat, and if he was feeling heat, i would bet it was coming from a mole. just saying. btw, albemarle pd had been involved in the search for a few weeks at this point.
Deetee, The leggings were about a 15 min. walk from where the shirt was (the other side of the University). Unlike the shirt, they weren’t positioned in a “displayed” manner. They seemed somewhat haphazardly there and the woman who alerted us to them said “I noticed them a few days ago” (she didn’t report them at the time and the only reason she told us is because we were knocking on doors with info about the case and Morgan’s description). On the other hand they were easy/obvious to spot, even from a car driving by. They could easily have been put out there on the same day as the shirt. But a distinctive shirt is much more noticable than a generic pair of leggings.
Hmmmmmm……college students nearby, and a nice fashionable pair of leggings which were easy to spot, stayed in easy to spot place for a few days. What????? Unless all the students are very rich around there, I cannot see girls passing by and not at least looking at them, then discarding them. I ALSO cannot see girls passing them and not being alerted to the possibility something was just a little bit strange, and calling LE to check. Are garments normally strewn around the streets in the area? IMO they were not there for a few days. Am I saying the woman was lying? I do not know. BUT, if she was lying, she might have retrieved them herself to avoid being questioned by LE. OR, if she put them there and her BFF found out, he would have retrieved them, and beat her. Any beatings that night?
If the woman put them there to alert Searchers to a POI, and LE did not take them, she might have “chickened out” and rehid them back where she found them…..(she might have thought they would be taken immediately, not left there to be flagged etc. (who whould think that)(she might have been taking a big chance to put them there in the first place, but did not wish to be dead)so search her house (probbly already done)
Who lives nearby? Any RSO that the perps were trying to frame?
IS there any possibility Morgan herself threw them out the window to call for help, and they landed haphazardly, or perps threw them out, or they fell out by accident.
No matter how you look at it, it gets stranger by the minute.
I am researching where the RSO’s live and work in C’ville again. I’m really shocked at who hires these guys. There is one that works at the Ivy Inn, on Old Ivy Rd. Another works for Best Buy and also UPS. I’m not at all understanding how these employers think. This is a college town, and sex offenders are given jobs that are in direct contact with students. What gives in this thinking?
I was thinking back to Morgan s situation and how people would respond to it. Here at a pilgrimage site high up a mountain a woman fell and hurt her head. She seemed unresponsive at first, within seconds both tourists and local guides were helping her on her feet and did not leave ill they knew she was ok this lasted for almost 20 mins. The general support of people (the monks did not help which I thought was strange) was overwhelming. There is a huge difference when you see someone fall on her head or stumbling and falling over protecting herself with her hands (natural response). Everyone knows this subconciously and will call for help.
Now we know Morgan fell and officially it did not ammount to more than a little cut on her chin (?). But there is also a comment from a girl on facebook (?) that it looked like she was ‘ beaten’ in the face. Which I associate with what happened later in the brutal assault. Which is a link to INSIDE JPJ.
Then there is the goodbye kiss, visit to restroom and then… ‘ no obvious signs of impairment’ . Ofcourse all this would be brought out when the suit ever follows but it raises a question:
How badly was Morgan hurt or even drank too much to the point of it being visible?
At a certain point a person can no longer be accountable for their own actions, but was this the case? Or did she know exactely what she was doing and even knowingly go into a dangerous situation? Did she flee from a stalker/known enemy which made things worse?
There is information missing which might be to protect her reputation or it might be to protect someone involved we don t know about.
As far as the leggings go there is not much we can say about them since they were never recovered. On the CBS site I read some interesting comments one was: AF is not a logical dumping site. This might imply something went ‘ wrong’ and maybe there was a fight in a location closeby, closer than a public forest and they had to quickly decide what to do. So there is at least one other very important location, where?
Questioner says:
January 31, 2012 at 8:10 pm
I am researching where the RSO’s live and work in C’ville again. I’m really shocked at who hires these guys. There is one that works at the Ivy Inn, on Old Ivy Rd. Another works for Best Buy and also UPS. I’m not at all understanding how these employers think. This is a college town, and sex offenders are given jobs that are in direct contact with students. What gives in this thinking?
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I am horrified after just checking the VSP sex offender registry. I just checked it a few months ago and since that time there are so many new RSO and SO many new places they are working in Albemarle County alone. Places I have been taking my children to. A lot of these work places are jobs that bring these monsters into the home of completely unsuspecting families. There should be a law that a RSO cannot be employed by any job that brings them to your home. Maybe Rob Bell can try to do something about it if enough people lobby him. He seems to be tough on sex crimes.
All searches should be performed by experienced searchers.
Mark Klass puts all volunteers through a class and then all searchers are controlled by one leader per search group to take away risk. His group has LE respect and LE gets evidence.
There should be nation wide search classes so that Volunteers can be cirtified as trained.
I know that there are many groups like KlassKids and all of them need professional search members they can trust.
Let me endorse one additional SAR right now that will ONLY work at the request of LE.
1. Monica Caison- Cue Center For The Missing
My first call because I have worked with her privately on a few cases, and I have found her to be “best in class” in knowledge, compassion, integrity, and above all else, an advocate for the victim in the case.
She understands this work better than any person I have ever met, and when I say this woman is a force, she makes me look like Linus, lol.
She was born to do this work, period. I say that even though she does not even like me that much, lol, she thinks I am a “suit”. Oh well , next time I see her I will torture her with my slideshow from blowfly lab. Hmmf.
B
I do not know why but Monica can piss off some people with her way about her. :} But she and others really know what they are doing.
Her group should handle east coast. There are Many SAR search teams and most work directly for the county sheriff and each of them have talents. Tim Miller should handle mid section of the nation. I can see Tim Miller in all parts of the nation when it comes to specialty searches such as water or caves. There is a SAR team of Scouts/Venture crew that specialize in Caves in Barstow California.
I need a person that owns and knows how to work with Ground Penetrating Radar on a cold case I am working on and have been for a few years. I could be wrong and I hate to waste money. It is not easy to come across these machines or people that know how to work them. Some of these professional search teams are looking for reward money as they do need funding and I am not discounting that. I never look for that, I just try to help and most of the time that is out of my own pocket.
B, I love it that you praise one who does not like you that much. Says a lot for your character. I guess ya could always swear a bit more around her. LOL
I will give that a whirl John, I got that going for me, lol
B
LOL!! Well Blink you are a Jersey Girl after all !! I am partial to a bit of swearing myself …part and parcel of rock and roll.
Cheers!!
I have been following this case since the beginning and it truly boggles my mind that she got dressed in front of her mother and attended a concert with her girlfriends, yet it is still UNCLEAR from an LE perspective exactly what she was wearing. OMG!!!
This should be implanted firmly in our brains and it would be if a proper/accurate description were to have ever been given.
Did she have on a tshirt under her Pantera shirt?
Did the shirt say Pantera across it?
Leggings are a staple in my wardrobe and have been for the past six or so years. So are tall boots. I have three pairs.
I dont even think I own a pair of footed tights.
It is common sense to girls in their 20′s that if its cold and you want to wear a skirt and boots- you wear leggings then wear socks under your boots. Albeit, WHITE SOCKS under my BLACK BOOTS WITH MY BLACK LEGGINGS –FOOTLESS.
I cannot believe that they did not tag those as evidence simply because they were footless.
It’s like saying NO! SHE ORDERED A CHEESEBURGER WITH ONION AND NO PICKLE….SO THAT CHEESEBURGER WITH ONIONS AND PICKLES CANNOT BE RELEVANT.
I am not placing blame on anyone. What is done is done. I just hope (in addition to bringing these creeps – yes I believe more than one perp) to justice) and giving THe Harringtons answers
that investigators can learn from the mistakes made here. Lord knows there were a ton. PLEASE LE PAY ATTENTION!!!
JUST BECAUSE SHE WAS SUPPOSEDLY WEARING FOOTED BLACK TIGHTS DOES NOT MEAN THAT ITS BEYOND THE RELM OF POSSIBILITY THAT A A PAIR OF BLACK FOOTLESS LEGGINGS FOUND DURING A SEARCH COULD NOT BE OF ANY SIGNIFICANCE!!!
Wow. this has got to be a rule of thumb for many search parties across the country. No telling how many things have been overlooked.
J4M
Not that we havent discussed and clarified this over and over on here– but honestly I cant remember and it infuriates me.
leggings
sorry that got jumbled up out of order. Meant to say that last part earlier-
not to say that we havent clarified her attire for the evening on here, but we’ve thought so many things and I honestly cant say exactly what she was wearing and that infuriates me because I feel like I know just about every single piece of info publically released by heart and this is something I should have down pat.
sorry for rambling and ranting. I am just so irritated.
Edward, Blink has 3 View Search Service listed at the top of her category search on the left. I wonder if they use GPR?
3View does not own any GPR equipment and to my knowledge are still not a certified SAR, but I do have some contacts that do.
B
Officially checking in; I am still like so many of us following this case and praying for a definitive, fair and just resolution to Morgan’s case. I know that Blink and her team are doing their best to shine a light in the darkness that is overshadowing what happened to Morgan that night.
It is two long years later yet it seems like we are no closer to the truth than the first day that Morgan was reported missing. Perhaps the lawsuit with various people forced to give testimony under oath will be the break that the case needs.
I have always felt that it could be something as horrifyingly simple as a prank being played by her “friends” that led Morgan to be left on her own and a target that fateful night. Would they ever confess that they owned even that much culpability?
Not likely. They seemed to immediately circle the wagons for their own protection and have not moved from that position.
The main problem is that there is no information that is incontrovertible except that Morgan went missing that fateful night of October 17th, 2009 and her body was found on January
26, 2010. So much misinformation was released it is mindboggling. She drove her car, she didn’t drive her car, her car was not at JPJ, it was at JPJ, she was helpless outside the venue, she was walking, kicking her leg at cars, she was hitchiking on the bridge, she
was holding herself up on cars because it was hard for her to walk, she had on tights, she didn’t have on tights, her hair was up, it was down, it was her shirt, it wasn’t her shirt, she had on flat boots, she had on high heeled boots, her “friends” were waiting for her after
the concert, which begs the question why when we were told by them she told them not to wait she would find a ride home and they were fine with that. Fine enough not to offer her any help outside
the venue as in get up out of your seat and go to the door and give your “friend” the keys to her car. Then fine enough to get in her car and drive away.
The most horrid part to me is that as the “friends” took her keys and started her car and drove away Morgan could have, might have still been saveable. Because if Mrs. Parsons sighting is correct, Morgan was walking on the lawn around 3:00 a.m.
There should be a required course at all high schools and colleges. A course entitled “Saving the Next Girl” should be mandatory for each student, male and female alike. Morgan’s story, of course,
would be a textbook case of what not to do from a “friend” standpoint. If today’s young men and women don’t know what to do to protect themselves and their friends from the evil that resides in
our society or even recognize it when faced with it then we need to educate them in order to protect them.
Thank you, Blink, for providing a place that we can be heard and thanks again for all that you do.
Butterfly Girl
Sorry Blink #15 was just me thinking and should be deleted. I should have put private at the top as it has nothing to do with Morgan.
OMG, the only thing that I can say is OMG. Will LE EVER learn from other PD’s mistakes? It’s like freakin pulling teeth. Why is it so difficult for LE to synchronize themselves? Seriously, change needs to come.
Had to share …. from my FB …….. Virginia Tech …http://www.savethenextgirl.com/
It was never clear in the early stages what exactely Morgan was wearing, the searchteam cannot be faulted for not salvaging items they thought were irrelevant because they were looking for tights, not leggings and or colourful socks n boots ? Still the leggings were flagged? which could have prompted further investigation.
Morally her outfit was imo very conservative I really do not get the online snipers (predators) with comments that go in the direction of that she baiting a killer. Translated: as if she was asking to be slaughtered. Those people are potential enablers of future monsterous freak speed slaying killers imo. On the other hand its typical cowardous so they probably afraid of jail or the wrath of someone who would teach these scum an eternal lesson.
off topic and personal experience alert totally irrelaven alert:
A few days back I almost got caught in dangerous tide in de Indian Ocean and waved at a friend to get help… she waved back ‘ hello’ and in fact was talking to a beach guard.
Later they said ‘ oh I would have come and help you were out too far in the ocean tho’ but we did not REALIZE grr
There is a big line between seeing someone in need and realizing that and actin on it and honestly its much more common to watch then it is to act. Definately many people watched that night of the metallica concert and more than we know of atm.
all imo ofcourse and disclaimers where need be
I am disgusted by some of the comments on other sites, the only positive side is that we can learn from it that some people truly thrive on not only the misery of others but creating new ones
strength and blessings to everyone
I went back to the bridge to see if there was any probable routes for someone to attack Morgan from the “four corners” of the bridge; i.e. where the vehicle guard rails meet the short, curved brick walls that are just before the bridge proper. The short answer is not very likely.
On the “Lannigan Field” corner, the only route is a path just over the vehicle guardrail and parallel to it down to the cart-path opening to the main road. No point in trying to do that, might as well drag Morgan back along Copely Road itself.
On the opposite side of the bridge, the “University Hall” side, the slope drops down at a 35 to 40 degree grade. There is a slight path down the hill but just enough to bend down the grass. No way anyone could climb this hill in the rain without cleats on their shoes.
Going across the tracks to the south side, the “7-11″ side, the slope is even more pronounced, it seems to be about a 45 degree slope. Again no way to go up the hill in the rain.
On the other side, the “Food of All nations” side, the drop-off to the train tracks is severe and choked with vegetation and trees. No practical way up (or down) at all from this location.
The vehicle guardrails are shorter in length on the “Lannigan Field” side and across the bridge on the “Food of all Nations” side, than on the other side. One guardrail ends at the golf-cart path on the “Lannigan Field” side and the other end at the turn-in to the Sun Trust Bank on the “Food of All nations” side.
There was a lot of debris, (bottles, cans, cups, ect.) in the woods underneath the bridge. Even though I don’t think it is likely Morgan was assaulted by someone hiding along the bridge, in my opinion everything should have been removed and placed on the grassy areas and inventoried, and then a sweep made with metal detectors under the bridge. Apparently next to nothing was done.
Is this right?
Missing items are:
Her necklace, her high-heeled boots and unique socks, her camera, her cell phone battery and her leggings. Her Metallica ticket.
That is being released, yes
B
We know her mom got her silver bracelet back. earrings?
If there really was indeed a wealth of forensic information recovered with Morgan, what was it? How can the LE investigation be so quiet about everything? and why?
Earrings have not been returned.
B
48. j.me says:
January 30, 2012 at 11:23 am
Basically YES….LRC did their job, but someone dropped the ball after LRC…MONTHS passed, and no, the wind did not blow them into the woods. But by the time a “higher up” in VSP was alerted to the idea that the leggings existed and could have been what they thought were supposed to be tights, months had passed and they were gone. IMO, a property manager, rightly, finally trashed them. And so the long ignored, flagged leggings were somewhere in the bottom of the landfill, covered in the whole world’s dna. Incompetence.
-Months passed? Why did it take so long for VSP to be alerted to them? They were flagged by the search team. J.me, you said incompetence. Could it be something nefarious? Someone heard they were found and flagged and kept the information from VSP? Local security or city police? IDK. The leggings are very disturbing.
You know, I’m beginning to wonder about those who were on the search teams. I don’t know the answer to this question and maybe someone else does. Can a search member request a certain search area? If a search member sees an area where he/she would lets say, possibly know something could be found in that certain area, could they choose to search there with other members and a team leader? I do know that most all of the volunteers had to sign in, but I was told that there were some there that didn’t because they got there late for the sign up. Now, if that could happen, what else could happen?
LRC keeps good records, and all searchers needed to provide ID at the command center. I would be surprised if anyone joined enroute so to speak. Do I think it possible that someone connected to a suspect volunteered?
A B S O L U T E L Y.
B
Steam Tunnels & Tech Workers
http://www.wric.com/story/16671235/caller-claims-va-tech-menagerie-belongs-to-her
My only point for posting this is exploring other ways perp may be connected to the Tech area…
http://www.angelfire.com/vt/vtsteamtunnels/vtsteam.html
My only point for posting this is exploring other ways perp may be connected to the UVA area…
http://wuvaonline.com/steam-tunneling/
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2004/09/29/tunnel-vision7924/
Perhaps this has been pointed out, but the leggings at JPJ and Observatory were a stone’s throw from the exit to 29 south. If I understand correctly where they were. And that is quite a distance by foot from where the t-shirt was found (25-30 minutes) but maybe 10 minutes away by car. I guess I’m wondering if they (killers) might have ! swooped through town from the AF area.
The sighting on the lawn by the lady who said she saw a young girl that she believed was Morgan was bare legged. I have never dismissed that that could have been Morgan sans her earlier leggings.
I have Ode, but my information comes from an insider that used a scented dog- no trace of Morgan on the Lawn.
IF and it is a very big IF, the canines used did in fact pick up Morgan’s scent 10 days later ( this is possible but since we know the dogs credentials highly improbable as it has been reported) what they had was a generalized alert “we smell her kinda here, kinda there”- no definitive track.
Ms. Parson may have seen a young blonde woman at a room that had been vacant for the previous 5 months, I don’t know-
B
Making a difference …. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.380034418678645.121669.379532792062141&type=3
If you read back in this and other fora far enough you can see that based on the temperature alone (a big discussion point back then) it was obvious the search should have focussed on leggings not clothes that dont protect from cold, anything that could serve to keep warm would be significant (coats etc). This was maybe even before searches took place, just common sense. I am no expert but from what I could find out at the time (airport temperatures) and regarding the timeline also Morgan could not have stayed out much longer without getting into serious health problems from the weather alone.
Keeping this in mind, the casual nature of the interactions never sounded true to me unless we are talking about someone severely impaired to the point of insanity. Only after statement #4 did LE mention that Morgan was getting more and more in desperation. Ofcourse it could be that signals were mis interpreted by not so observant interactees.
The one thing that seperates this case from so many other missing persons cases is, that he truth is obvious to someone who was there, just too many witnesses and a wealth of evidence.
all this ofcourse with the usual disclaimers etc
Thanks for the information about the bridge George. This confirms what I was able to see with the new version 6.1 and now 6.2 of Google Earth.
The only way in mind that Morgan could have been abducted is from the overflow parking area where her purse was found adjacent to Lanigan field. The University is doing everything they can to move the site for the abduction off property.
Good morning fellow BOC’ers
Has anyone been wondering why it appears he has been laying so dormant since 2009? I highly doubt it is due to self restraint as it is obvious he has none.
Morgan’s case is unique in so many way as I think we would all agree.
I keep going over and over it again in my head, all the oddities….
I just FEEL like there is SOOOO much more LE could be doing, I just FEEL this case could have been solved a long time ago had things been handled so much differently early on.
I FEEL like not only was there an incredible injustice done in Morgan’s killing, I feel that there is still an incredible injustice in the fact that it is 2012 and there has been no realy progession in this case since Morgan was found.
It is so very sad. With each passing day that he avoids having to face the music for what he has done (used that phrase on purpose in honor of Morgan’s love of music), it gets more disheartening.
Also, I know that they never have and probably won’t release the COD, but I have always wondered if her injuries could be the results of a billy club or similiar police or security weapon (referrimg to the broken bones herez)
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I have often wondered how many hours the investigators VSP, FBI, Fairfax County Police, or Fairfax City Police (?) work on this case per week? Here, so many of you have put in many hours of research, you are all amazing, and yet the ones we pay to work on this, won’t give the public correct information. LE should be hounding all of the witnesses and asking many questions repeatedly. It appears LE stood back, taking months to react to a lead found during an active search..IDK, I am so upset with the investigation.
thank you Rose7 and for all the people at VT putting in their hours to “Save the Next Girl”
Crimewriter – I went the steam tunnel route when Morgan first went missing and posted a map and other info on tunneling and how it seemed to be a tradition at UVA, however I didn’t really see anything tunnel wise close to the Copeley Bridge. In case you want to check it out, here is the url, the map can be seen here as well.
http://www.tbatr.tk/
Regarding Texas Gfather’s statement about Laniganfield being the place Morgan was abducted from…VSP said Morgan was last seen hitchhiking on the bridge but Dino Capuzzo also said that “Morgan got into a vehicle and wound up at this spot (AF) shortly after”….SO,in order to say that as a fact, they must have a witness who saw Morgan getting into a vehicle (on the bridge?) …and if the witness saw that, then what kind of vehicle was it? Wouldn’t it help the investigation to release that info?
Regarding the search and the question of whether people could choose their area…we were only given 2 options, rough terrain or even terrain. People were assigned to groups as they waited in the line…and they were given vests to wear. No one knew much in advance where their group was going until getting into cars to meet there.
J.me – That statement by Capuzzo has bothered me for a long time now. I said at that time, if someone actually saw her getting into a vehicle, then whoever saw it gave some type of discription, so, why hasn’t that discription been made public? It makes no sense to me.
I was looking back in earlier news stories,and there are so many different stories about Morgan’s case.That is scary..Other than a f**ked up sketch,(which I think is bs anyway)missing boots,necklace,earings,camera,cell battery,and leggings this case is almost solved,eh?I hate to say this,but we may never know.I check this blog and whatever else I can almost daily to no evail.I love the state of VA(I lived in NOVA for about 10 months from summer of 09 till may 2010),but the people around C’ville have a monster among them..Surely all those murders in the last 20-30yrs that have gone unsolved someone in LE has to be working..I don’t get it.
In some recent stories that I have read a few things have come to my attention.Although,I’m not sure how accurate they are.Feel free to chime in and let me know if this is bunk info or not..I read from a story printed around FEB 2010 that Morgan body was found roughly 100ft from the entrance to Anchorage Farms off of Waldemare DR.If that is true why not be looking for indiv who are extremely close to that neighborhood?How many people in that area party on that farm?700+ acres I guarantee there is a party every weekend somewhere on that farm.Look at UVA students who grew up close to that neighborhood.
I’m not one who is all about psychic’s,but another article that caught my attention was from Oct of 09..A psychic stated that she was getting a strong sense that somebody with the initials AP was involved.I wish I had the link,I’m sure if you google around you can find the article.Those letters are very interesting,but like i said it’s a psychic,so your guess is as good as mine.
j.me says:
January 30, 2012 at 10:01 pm
The leader of my search team, female, didn’t really want to go back and flag the leggings. She went ahead back to base. We were the very last team to return that day. The 4 of us in my car all agreed that we should go check on them. There they sat. We immediately returned to base and reported that they were there, unflagged. Someone from LRC had to go back and flag them.
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I wonder why the team leader didn’t want to go back and flag the leggings. You had to return to base, twice, and only then someone followed you to the spot to flag them. Then what happened? After they were flagged, nobody went back to them from the search team?
Off Topic …. George Huguely pleads … not guilty …… So scary, so sad …………….. http://gma.yahoo.com/uva-lacrosse-murder-trial-george-huguely-pleads-not-155211488–abc-news.html
Alexandra, No one followed us back to the leggings. With no team leader to flag them, we gave the base people the location and apparently they went back and flagged. I assume, as Blink said, someone in LE deemed them unworthy of gathering since they weren’t “tights”. It wasn’t until we found out that indeed Morgan was wearing leggings that Lt Rader was alerted and became interested in these leggings that some underling had earlier deemed inconsequential to the case. It seems we keep coming back to the leggings, but alas, they are gone and, short of learning from the mistake, nothing can be done. I’d like to see people go back a couple of years and review other things posted early on that we might see in a different light now. We’ve all saved different things and remember different things. It might prove interesting…
If someone really did flag the leggings, then there they sat on the street flagged. Very, very unusal thing to happen, IMO. I cannot think of anyone putting a “flagged” pair of leggings in the garbage. No, that just did not happen. Someone has them and is keeping it quiet in order to blackmail, OR get reward money, OR to PROTECT someone, OR as a keepsake. I know you want us to get off the leggings J’me, but you keep rewarding us with bits of information as we keep bugging thee.
http://www2.newsadvance.com/news/2012/feb/07/campbell-county-girl-attacked-while-getting-ready–ar-1671058/
This address is actually on Rte. 29 south of Lynchburg. I don’t know if this fits the m.o. (child/disguise/daylight) of the guy that we are tracking, but, again, I don’t discount anything at this point.