Inside the Search for Hannah Graham with Charlottesville's Police Chief
Posted: Oct 16, 2014 3:22 PM CST Updated: Oct 16, 2014 4:34 PM CST
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va (WVIR) - Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo says they've covered a lot of ground looking for missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham but he wants to do even more. Thursday he took us along on a search in a heavily wooded residential neighborhood in Albemarle County, showing us what trained searchers look for when on the hunt.
Longo says he will not stop searching for Graham, who has been missing since September 13, even if he is criticized for it. He is addressing the critics head-on, telling those who say he is wasting time and resources that he will honor the commitment he made on day one of the investigation.
Family of Morgan Harrington mark five years since death
Posted: Oct 17, 2014 6:42 AM CST Updated: Oct 17, 2014 6:42 AM CST
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - As the search continues for missing UVA student Hannah Graham, the parents of another young woman, killed in Charlottesville are marking five years since her death.
Morgan Harringtons parents open up about being members of Murdered Childs Club
Posted 12:05 pm, October 17, 2014, by CNN Money, Updated at 12:09pm, October 17, 2014
ROANOKE, Virginia On this day five years ago, Dan and Gil Harrington became members of a club they never wanted to join and one they can never quit. The dues are more than steep. They are crushing. And yet, membership in this club grows. The Harringtons belong to the Murdered Childs Club.
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Ironically, and many fear tragically, the disappearance almost five weeks ago of another young woman, University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, has offered the most promising lead yet. On September 24, a patient technician at the University of Virginia Medical Center was charged with abducting Graham with an intent to defile. Police say DNA now links that man, Jesse L. Matthew Jr., 32, to Morgans death. No charges in that case have been filed. In a statement, Matthews lawyer, James L. Camblos III, said he has not been provided with any evidence that links (Matthew) to either the Graham or Harrington cases.
Although the developments may turn out to be the break the Harringtons have longed for, it is not one they are celebrating. Our feeling is not joy, Morgans mother says. There is another missing girl, and we have tried really hard to prevent that.
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He brings up her cell phone account. I hate AT&T but they will always have our business, he laughs. He then tears up after calling her number and listening to the lilting voice on her message.
Hi guys. This is Morgan. I cant talk just now but if you leave me a message, Ill call you as soon as I can.
She always says that shell get back to us but she never does, says her mom, 57, who has her own way of staying connected. Gil has taken to using the hand lotion in Morgans bathroom sparingly. I like to use it because Morgans hands touched it but its almost done. The stuff of Morgan, and the things that ran through her hands, are fewer and fewer in our lives. The ones that are there we like a lot. We find comfort in them.
Continued with much more at the link.
Family of Morgan Harrington urges vigilance in search for Hannah Graham
By Ellen McCarthy October 16 at 8:16 PM
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The ceremony will be different from the ones of the past few years. Theres now a man behind bars who has been linked to the investigation into Morgans death. But there is also another girl Hannah Graham who may have been abducted by that man. And she is still missing.
And the Harringtons know how important it is that she be found.
Gil Harrington is aware that it sounds crazy, but the truth, she says, is that its worse to have your daughter missing than to know that shes dead.
