The bias would against the crime being associated with UVA.
The Hook is not associated with UVA. They are a town weekly.
The Lawn sighting was hours after the bridge sighting. She could easily have removed tights.
Why? I'm guessing it was chilly. Why remove tights on the way to the Lawn?
Yes, but the reaction only occurs when MH is placed on UVA property. The kicking incident could also have been false.
Um, no. Nobody doubted seeing her outside of the Arena, or on Copeley Bridge which may as well be on University property.
If a group of young men murdered MH, they just might threaten a witness. She just spoke of danger.
The article said she "fears that her status as a potential witness may have put her in danger as she makes her middle-of-the-night newspaper rounds." Then she goes and does an interview with a few newspapers and brags about how she can still recognize the guys who were allegedly with her.
We would only know later.
That shouldn't stop us from speculating. There must be a reason, right?
The other witness also saw her in high-heeled boots with a group of men.
No, the other witness you quoted saw a woman matching her description with a group of men. They also said she was "wobbly"; I don't believe any of the other witnesses noted that.
Also note that one witness saw her with four guys, the other with three.
VTEch, JMU & UVA students socialize and commonly know each other. Plus her brother had recently graduated UVA.
No offense, but I went to UVA for four years. VT is a few hours away and is the rival state college. JMU is closer, but there isn't that much socializing. The only time I saw students from JMU or VT was (a) during games and (b) if they were friends from back home.
I think if Morgan had friends at UVa, we would have heard about it. Certainly the police would have interviewed them.
I don't see any backtrack. She went from the RV lot, to the bridge, and (let's say, for example) the same group of guys she was with in the RV lot gave her a ride somewhere & hours later they are seen walking on the Lawn.
She's backtracking as far as heading away from where she ultimately wants to go. Heading towards Copeley makes sense because you are heading towards 250 which gets a decent amount of traffic, and eventually 29. Going to the Lawn? Why?
She borrowed some girl's jacket.
A girl who hasn't stepped forward? A girl she didn't know? (Otherwise she would have presumably come forward.)
Didn't say that they were confirmed. Just seems like the idea that she may have been on UVA property triggers a certain reaction.
It has nothing to do with her being on UVA property because we already know she was on UVA property.
This "witness" has made some statements that make no sense. If she is enough of an artist to remember exactly what this girl looked like, she'd remember whether she had long/short hair, or that she couldn't tell. I think she threw in the bit about "being an artist" so that people would believe her; I'm betting none of the confirmed witnesses were artists, and that didn't stop them from remembering seeing her.
The State Police vetted her story and apparently don't think this woman saw Morgan. The reporter didn't seem to believe her either, as you noted. There is a reason for this.
I'm a fan of Occam's Razor (can you tell I was a Toolie?) Having her get a jacket from a girl she doesn't know, getting rid of her hose, appearing with four/three guys on the other side of the campus hours later, with no confirmed witnesses, the police and local paper discarding her story - do you see what I mean? You have to twist the story around a lot.
I'm not defending UVa - please, ask my opinion of how they handled the Pat Collins case.
But I don't think she made it that far from Copeley.