Just to clarify: My comments relate only to the AF scroll and not any other images of Kali.
AF scroll:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=735702175&aid=157216&s=0&hash=89e8240f3b8560bd6da228d6f6cb9afb
Image #14. JMO: Morgan as Kali.
Image #12. JMO: Buddha leaving his beloved wife as she sleeps.
The AF photos were uploaded in late October and November 2009. They are related to an event called the "7-mile" Sleepover which took place at Anchorage Farm on Saturday, October 24, 2009: Morgan disappeared on Saturday, October 17, 2009.
walker, honestly from what i've read and heard from my wife about this case, i doubt that morgan wanted to "disappear" for awhile. she could have easily done that at anytime and she had nothing packed with her.
In the story (depicted in the AF scroll), Buddha leaves his happy home, and takes almost nothing with him. He departs in the middle of the night, while his wife and newborn son are sleeping. That he takes almost nothing with him is an important part of the story. In some traditions, he then sends even those very few belongings back home to his wife on his white horse.
Also, Morgan did take some jewelry with her which was both very expensive & of great sentimental value. Who knows what she had in her pack?
According to Morgan's father, AM kissed Morgan as she left her and their other two companions in the arena. Maybe AM intuited that she would not be seeing her friend soon again.
her car was left with her friends who had her keys. one of the friends was designated driver. who would "take off" for awhile without their car or packing anything? it just doesn't fit imo
The group of acquaintances may have talked her into hiding out in the country. College kids can be suggestible. And, maybe it all seemed harmless, like a game. Maybe they invited her to a Kali-Puja "sleepover" event, but she didn't really want to go. For some unknown reason, she seems to have felt obligated to go. Maybe one of the group had manipulated her with pity?
Note: Morgan had three major interactions after leaving her companions at the concert: 1. She apparently tried to persuade an older man to take her somewhere, and was rejected. He says that she then kicked him; 2. She asked members of bb team to give her a ride to a location which has not been disclosed by LE; 3. she tried to "hitch" a ride from another college girl and her dad. Therefore, we see a pattern of avoidance: she clearly was trying to get away from the area, but yet witnesses say that she expressed no great distress.
Other people too might have helped her; for example, the "curtsy" witnesses in the RV lot, but she never requested any type of emergency assistance.
JMO: She was only ducking the group for social reasons (i.e. they were bores) rather than fleeing what she perceived at that point as a violent threat.
that she was a cult ritual victim for sacrifice to the kali goddess by hindus is kind of well... absurd.
The group were not real Hindus, except for maybe one.
Just a guess: one Nepali/West Bengali ("Sketch") who works at VTech as an H1B/graduate student, his American gf (who is VTech student/employee), and two other American "New Age" types.
JMO: The starting place in any murder investigation should be the victim's immediate social milieu. An education major at VTech, Morgan supported the "Free Tibet" cause, and studied South Asian culture. Her dorm room & room at home were decorated with Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags, and she was planning a trip to Nepal.
Sometimes college students can be naive. Human sacrifice is practiced in remote parts of countries like Nepal. These third-world countries can be dangerous.
And VTech has a history of accepting troubled foreign students.
1. 2009 Beheading incident:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,482025,00.html
2. 2007 Shooting massacre:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seung-Hui_Cho
What was the motive?
If Morgan were killed by an ex-bf, LE would have a suspect by now. Likely there would have been a history of threats.
If Morgan were killed by a drug dealer, then likely the murder would be an execution-style bullet to the back of the head. Instead her body was apparently hacked up and her bones shattered. No drug dealer would bother with placing the pack back in the RV lot or placing the tee shirt in a busy C'ville neighborhood later on.
If Morgan were killed for money, the killers would have taken her money and her jewelry, esp. a large gold ring she was wearing.
Interestingly, the abduction may have been perpetrated by a group which included one female. Therefore, the crime is less likely to have been motivated by merely the need to cover up a rape.
http://www2.wsls.com/news/2011/jan/25/state-police-retrace-steps-morgan-harrington-case-ar-798604/
VSP Special Agent Dino Cappuzzo’s statement:
she got into a vehicle in Charlotteville on Copeley Road, and within a short period of time she was brought here. I feel confident that somebody out there knows that that person who allowed her to get into her vehicle or put her in their vehicle has not come forward.
how can you say that morgan's jewelry is even remotely close to that of images of kali? the images googled all show kali wearing huge beaded type necklace(s). it's too large a leap for me to come to those conclusions. a lot of images of kali show her wearing various different necklaces anyway.
In the AF scroll, the image of Kali is depicted as wearing a large cuff bracelet and a necklace. They are not identical to Morgan's jewelry, but this combination of jewelry seems an odd coincidence.
the victim in fairfax was likely "convenient" at the time for the suspect who raped her.
Possible, but expats are most often preyed upon by people who are from their same part of the world. Could she have been his ex? Was the incident bias related? Did she convert to Islam? Was she becoming "too Western"?
it's a jump to go from rape and then to murder. one would think he's had more victims in the meantime if he is the killer in morgan's case.
Possibly.
If the Fairfax crime were a crime of passion against a former gf, maybe not.
not to mention the man in the sketch hasn't been found. as someone mentioned, the sketch must be very off.
The victim was a foreigner in a strange country. She may have been afraid of implicating someone from her same group. Or she may have feared retaliation. The police didn't seem very confident in the sketch. Did she try to make it sound like a random street crime?
did vsp ever mention for the suspect sketch is intimately familiar with the anchorage farm area?
The perps did not need to be intimately familiar with the area. What if they were experienced in navigating rugged terrain? Military trained, maybe foreign ex-military or maybe a highly experienced backpacker? Likely, at least one perp had been to AF before, and knew the lay of the land, but they don't all have be from NG.
One possibility is that one of the perps was actually living camp-style on the farm at some point in time. He could have hitched the train up to C'ville to sell psilocybin mushrooms to UVA students in the RV lot. Might have been able to survive there undetected for a long time.
Note the "Old Campsite": ***
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there were rumors he was a drug dealer however they came off a bad source site, so anything is possible i guess. coupled with the parties at the farm i suppose he could have been there dealing drugs in the past.
Psilocybin mushrooms grew on the farm, probably other farms in the area, too. Could they have been trading in hallucinogens?
HOWEVER, the preceding opinion is only a theory, and other explanations of the crime are possible.
