Here is a good timeline. There is more to the article but I'll post the gist of it:
http://rockvillemag.com/home3/2009/12/17/metallica-fan-morgan-harrington-still-missing/
On October 17th, 2009, Morgan Harrington vanished from the surrounding area of John Paul Jones arena.
Harrington, the young, beautiful Metallica fan traveled to the Charlottesville arena to enjoy her first Metallica concert. An event the young woman had been anticipating for over six months. Tragically, due to circumstances still unknown, Harrington ended up outside of the venue before Metallica even took stage around 8:30 p.m.
The facts minus the sea of web conjecture are as follows:
• Harrington arrived safely at the arena in her car which was driven by a friend. She was in the company of two girlfriends and a young man who was the boyfriend of mutual friend. It was in fact Harrington’s car, not a friend’s vehicle as earlier reported in the media, which did take all four students to the arena. The keys remained with Harrington’s friend, inside the venue.
• Harrington made it safely inside the JPJ arena. Around 8:15 to 8:20 p.m. Morgan parted from her friends to find a restroom.
• Around this time, Harrington was reportedly seen with a minor facial cut. Virginia State Police believed the cut was the result of a trip or fall, not an assault.
• Harrington ends up outside of the JPJ arena and is not allowed re-admittance as per the standard JPJ arena policy.
• 8:30 p.m. (estimated) Harrington speaks to her friends (on her cellphone) who are still inside. Morgan informs them she was outside of the arena and was not going to be let back in. She speaks of her intent to find another way home or would possibly meet up with them after the show.
• Over the next hour, eye witness reports place Harrington in the surrounding area of the JPJ arena parking, then moving further into the UVA campus.
• Police track Harrington’s movements to the Copeley Road Bridge where eyewitness reports leave investigators to believe Harrington was trying to hitch a ride. Harrington’s trail turns cold at the Copeley Road Bridge between 9:00 and 9:30 p.m.
• Harrington has never been seen nor heard from since.
On October the 18th, passerbys discover a purse in the overflow RV parking on the UVA campus and turn the lost item over to the UVA Police.
Back in Roanoke, Virginia – Morgan’s hometown – her father, Dan Harrington, realizes something has drastically gone wrong. His daughter missed an afternoon visit with her parents. What Dan and Gil Harrington describe as extremely atypical behavior for their daughter. Nor had the Harrington’s heard from Morgan since calling to let them know she arrived safely at the concert.
After a quick call to Morgan’s friends, Dan Harrington learns his daughter was separated from the group and did not return with them after the concert. Morgan Harrington is officially reported missing to the Virginia State Police on Sunday afternoon.
All that remains of Harrington is a purse, a cell phone – missing the battery, and two months worth of questions and mystery.
Despite a massive media push (with the help of a public relations company) and a website devoted to bringing Morgan home ( FindMorgan.com), the disappearance of Morgan Harrington still remains an unsolved case which has lead to more dead ends and disappointment, than discovery.
In the wake of Morgan’s two month disappearance, an online army of housewives, armchair detectives, and website voyeurs have taken over a Facebook page ( Help Find Morgan Harrington ) where no theory is too outlandish. Star Charts and Psychics are welcome. Every new article, and possible lead is debated and re-evaluated. On HFMH, conjecture reigns supreme. Just like the wild west, the LE (law enforcement) are nothing more than a bullish annoyance who refuses to release any, or all information, in the Harrington case. The slew of comments ranging from all over the country, all convey one belief: we the people know better than the investigators and we are going to solve this, not the police.
Sadly, it is this type of assumption fueled theories which make for a convoluted truth, adding to the burden of the Virginia State Police Investigators. On HFMH a dangerous fiction is written daily. The conjecture, twisting it’s way into an odd mythological fact lands Corrine Geller (public spokes woman for the Virgina State Police) in the center of a growing chasm between fact and fiction. She spends much of her day debunking web theories to a hungry media, eagerly craving new leads.
And what of Metallica? The heavy metal band and Morgan Harrington’s fate’s has forever been entwined. In their past lives, Metallica reveled in the persona, Alcoholica. Now, all band members are father’s themselves. Long behind them are the days of infighting, alcoholic rages, and the debaucherous lifestyles perceived by many to be the very reason one joins a band.
