Here is my theory on Morgan's Pantera shirt. I've always believed that the assault began in a vehicle and that Morgan realized she was in trouble and ran to the spot she was found and was most most likely killed. It isn't too far a stretch in my mind that her killer removed her shirt in the car before she escaped and was hunted down. Morgan was abducted on Oct 17 and three weeks later the shirt was found. (Nov. 9 IIRC). By this time Morgan's disappearance and description of what she was wearing at the Metallica concert was all over the news. If one is a cab driver, a shirt matching the description of a missing young woman inside your cab (or home for that matter) must be disposed of and I think JM put the shirt there purposely after the newspaper delivery woman thought she saw Morgan with guys at that frat house to throw LE off the trail. Area cab drivers were being questioned from what I understand. Not sure when questioning began but cabbies would be as good a place to start as anywhere since she was allegedly last seen hitch hiking in the Copeley Bridge area. LE kept silent on the Pantera shirt being found until Apr. 2010, which is ironically or maybe not, the same month that JLM's atty called the road rage victim and asked that the charges be dropped if JM paid the guys medical bills. We know JLM worked at Martha Jefferson House which is close proximity to the frat house and his wages at MJH were garnished for 'unpaid medical bills'. Were these medical bills for the assault victim? When did he begin working at MJH?(I am still searching for links to all this info to see if the dates line up)
http://www.readthehook.com/68346/shattered-bones-harringtons-say-morgans-killer-violent-sadistic
[I"I try not to think of how scared you were, the terror you felt. I try not to think of how much pain you were in as you were slaughtered," she writes.
"Were you still alive when they brought you to Anchorage Farm? To be hunted like a deer running frantically over the hay stubble in the field desperate to escape, trying to survive, crying, screaming, I see it. I hear it. Or, were you brought there already dead, like a slab of meat, carrion to be discarded and dumped in the field to rot- just another carcass in the hunting preserve."][/I]
At :25 in following link shows the remains site at AF. The terrain doesn't appear to be hospitable to anything except a FWD, ATV or tractor which is why I think she ran for her life, IMO.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/30/graham-harrington-students-deaths/16474263/
Just my rambling opinion this morning.
This makes a lot of sense to me, Waltzing Matilda, ( love your name BTW). I really, really hope that the truth will emerge in Morgan's case, but it's a complicated one, no doubt. I keep thinking about the shirt. Everyone here has interesting and logical theories...
At the moment, (and my opinion might evolve as time goes on and we get more info), I think:
The shirt was put there by JM.
I don't think it came to be there by someone "connected" or "with knowledge," or by family or friends. I still think someone may be out there who either participated in some way or has direct knowledge, (even after the fact), but why would they place the shirt there? Obviously a "cohort," by seeking to implicate JM, also risks implicating himself. If they were only extraneously involved and felt guilt enough to want to get the truth out there, why not place the shirt near JM's residence or somewhere more connected with him? Same thing for friends and family....if they could not bring themselves to go to LE, but felt they had to anonymously leave a clue for them, why place the shirt there of all places? I also don't think JM would ever allow someone else to SEE the shirt, even in the off-chance that he broke down and told a family member or friend about the incident, (which I really don't think he did.). I think he compartmentalized his bad deeds and no one was privy to them, with the possible exception of another bad guy who may have been somehow involved. (Dang--that letter and subsequent interview by Lt. Rader just sticks in my head so much...)
At the time the shirt was actually found, (not when that info was released to the public later), the case was pretty much wide open. There was no body, no linkage to Fairfax, even the sketch was not available prominently in the Charlottesville area until after the body was found and the link was made months later. The main item in the news was the UVA basketball players' encounter with MH. So it makes sense to me, that JM knowing this, and probably knowing of cab driver interviews, (possibly already having been interviewed himself by CPD), was thinking in his limited way..."Gotta get rid of the shirt....gonna put it near the UVA frat house." I believe he thought more about implicating other people than about the presence of DNA on the shirt. We know MH's DNA and also now JM's DNA were on that shirt, but I think JM, in more of a panic mode, maybe balled that shirt up and tossed it into the bushes late at night. I doubt he would have taken time to spread it out, for fear of being noticed. Another poster, (maybe Spicer 2000?--sorry, can't recall for sure), said that the laundry facilities in that complex were not very good, and it wasn't uncommon to see people's clothing hanging on the balconies to dry. I think JM got rid of that shirt by tossing it quickly, and then someone in the complex found it, thought "Uh-oh! Somebody's shirt fell down off the balcony!" and spread it neatly out on the bush so it could be id'd by the owner, not noticing its significance.
I don't think, like some others have said, that he was necessarily a "taunter." I don't think that matches his profile, IMO. Anyway, sorry for the long post:blushing: .guess I'm thinking out loud.
