Walker, if a crime happened in Morgan's car don't you think that they would have sent forensics in to check out the car not to mention that would imply her friends had something to do with it.
They were all cleared by LE. You seem to have no faith in LE whatsoever.
The friends had her car & keys, the 3 friends are cleared by LE most likely since the beginning. Where the car was parked is irrelevant IMO.
I've been continuing to try to put what we know or think we know together. Not sure it will help, but it is something I keep thinking about. Being local, Morgan's disappearance has grabbed me, and this is the only forum I follow, on her case or any others. I'm just so puzzled, so I hope it's okay I keep sharing.
I tend to agree that MH's car probably wasn't the scene of a crime (though any forensic evidence gathered wouldn't have happened in Charlottesville, given the car's reported travels and when the investigation began), but do think the car location remains maybe important as follows (all of this moo):
If MH's car were parked in Lannigan Field parking, UHall parking, or the Emmet/Ivy garage (or she were heading toward a "known" car somewhere, even if not hers), then her wandering route makes more sense to me. However, from what I read of the one eyewitness report of their arriving (to Walker's point, who we "know" arrived), it sounds like the more open parking area nearer JPJ (like the main parking lot).
But let's say the car MH arrived in was parked in the UHall lot (also an open area, and easily within eyesight of JPJ). MH gets shut out of the arena (in whatever way...fwiw, her excitement about Metallica and her attempts to get back in convince me it was a mistake, not a failed meet-up).
Assuming she didn't have her keys, she may still have headed toward her car (if she had a second set of keys, it makes even more sense). This would explain her walking with the four guys reported by a late-arriving witness in a car (via the Hook) into the UHall lot. When she gets to her car, she can't get in (which would argue against the second set of keys), so has a brief interaction with the bb players as they walk to Lannigan Field lot (where they are parked). As the bb players are leaving in their cars, she takes off for Copeley Bridge, heading toward the Copeley/Ivy intersection, but most likely having dropped her purse inadvertently beforehand.
Her route makes less sense if her car was in Lannigan, which is reserved for athlete parking on event nights (unless MH was just cutting through UHall lot before turning right to Lannigan parking, or was walking with the four guys for security reasons) or in the Emmet/Ivy garage (why go to Lannigan, which is out of the way, and why then hitchhike before you get there?).
Regardless of where her car was parked, there's another thing. After Lannigan, she is reportedly seen on both sides of Copeley Bridge (LE report...11/4?), which I take to mean both the side closest to JPJ/Lannigan and the side across the train tracks, closer to Ivy road and the shops there (the end of the bridge is literally less than 15 yards to the corner of Copeley/Ivy). I suppose it could mean both the side with the sidewalk (the UHall/JPJ east side) and the side without (the Lannigan/wooded area west side), but it makes more sense that she was on the sidewalk. Then again, a lot doesn't make rational sense in this case...
Since she started from Lannigan, if she was then seen on both sides of the bridge she was either walking toward Ivy (essentially south, away from JPJ), or was seen on both sides
after she had already been over the bridge and was coming back. Though the time line doesn't allow too much time for that (9:20 - 9:30), it's probably enough time to have made a quick trip to the 7-11 or a bank. If so, then she probably still had her purse with her, and was heading back toward Lannigan, UHall parking, and JPJ while apparently trying to get a ride. Or she got across, realized she didn't have her purse, and headed back for it. But then why hitchhike before you get your purse?
The part that continues to vex me is if she was really and truly hitchhiking, from her spot on the far side of the bridge from Lannigan field, any ride coming along Copeley would have taken her back from whence she came, at least initially. Same if she had made it across (say, to 7-11) and was walking back.
I think it's at least as likely she made it unnoticed to the actual Copeley/Ivy intersection (or beyond) before she succeeded in getting a ride, if she indeed got into someone's car, and I think by this point she had lost her purse (unless she got in a car nearer Lannigan).
Questions I'd like answered:
1) did MH still have her purse when hitchhiking? when having the brief interaction in Lannigan field parking? it is reported she had it while walking in the UHall lot.
2) where exactly was she reported hitchhiking? on both sides of the bridge (doubtful, as she'd be walking toward traffic, which isn't how you hitch, right?) or just after she got closer to Ivy road (assuming that was how she was moving)?
3) which direction did she seem to be moving on the bridge (i.e., what do the reports of her on both sides of the bridge suggest about where she was going)?
