Found Deceased VA - Morgan Dana Harrington, 20, Charlottesville, 17 Oct 2009 - #10

[Patty G]

News Conference

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I6_g4RhfYE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNTTwbV8NjU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWs7Nnz4jRc

All three videos now completed.

 

[carbuff]

When I went to visit my gf in TN she started getting ready for night time because it got so dark there. She had asked me to go into the barn to get something and her 9yo daughter came with me. We had flash lights but it was so dark. This murderer had to have brought her there during early morning I would think. Cannot do that in the dark, right?

No, not easily, though maybe that's why she was just dumped instead of being hidden. ATV or motorbike would have headlights, which would help some.

 

[CanManEh]

I know this sounds bad but finding her body is whats gonna solve this case...I say that because the farm was too remote from the highway let alone the farm property itself...the person's that took her in there did so because they thought no one would ever find her body the farm is also so big that it took more then one person to get her there but this place being so remote is why they dumped the body there and only someone that is familliar with the area would know how to get in there and thats why they are gonna be able to find the people that did it..

 

[KivaSupporter]

The months-long search for Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, who went missing outside an Oct. 17 rock concert in Charlottesville, appeared to have ended Tuesday when skeletal remains were discovered on a farm several miles southwest of where she was last seen alive.

Police said they think the skeletal remains are Harrington's, the Associated Press reported late Tuesday. Col. W. Steven Flaherty, Virginia State Police superintendent, said an autopsy would be conducted to confirm that the remains are Harrington's.


More here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012603035.html

 

[beachlvr0810]

I think this was someone who knew the area well. We had a murder in our area some years ago and the location where the body was dumped made me think it had to be someone who knew the area...my gut was telling me it was somebody local, because someone just coming off the main highway wouldn't know where that road went. Sure enough, they arrested two young guys who lived about a mile up behind us. As soon as they found the body I couldn't sleep at night because my intuition was telling me it was somebody close by, and when they arrested them I could finally sleep. I think the LE know more than they are letting out in Morgan's case. They don't want to jeopardize the arrest. My prayers are with the family.

 

[trigger]

No, not easily, though maybe that's why she was just dumped instead of being hidden. ATV or motorbike would have headlights, which would help some.

But don't you think it would be a big risk and that he would be spotted on someones property (with headlights). So Im thinking if he was spotted on the property, he is a neighbor. Just thinking here..lol..thanx

 

[Salem]

Prayers for Morgan and her family. I haven't followed this case, but I'm very sad for them today and so sorry this is the outcome.

Salem

 

[trigger]

I know this sounds bad but finding her body is whats gonna solve this case...I say that because the farm was too remote from the highway let alone the farm property itself...the person's that took her in there did so because they thought no one would ever find her body the farm is also so big that it took more then one person to get her there but this place being so remote is why they dumped the body there and only someone that is familliar with the area would know how to get in there and thats why they are gonna be able to find the people that did it..

ITA.. Yes its very remote. Someone either works on that farm or lives in the general area. ANd if he was spotted on the property it would be no big deal...

 

[Curious Me]

It is so sad.

RIP dear Morgan. You brought your parents such love while you were here on Earth. You will be missed. but never forgotten.

 

[Shutterfly]

I would think someone with intimate knowledge of the property, such as a neighbor, would know this field is harvested in August. The tractor and other equipment necessary to do so is really hard to miss. Usually, so is the dirt cloud. I lived next to a hay field for years. No one who knew the area well would dump anything in a field like that and expect it to stay hidden, IF they knew it was harvested. I can remember thinking when I first moved into the house I owned, that I was moving next to an overgrown field full of weeds. Boy was I shocked when the John Deere and the blades showed up.

Casual knowledge perhaps, friends of the neighbors children?

 

[carbuff]

But don't you think it would be a big risk and that he would be spotted on someones property (with headlights). So Im thinking if he was spotted on the property, he is a neighbor. Just thinking here..lol..thanx

A risk, certainly, but not a big risk -- it does not sound like the field where she was found is visible from the farmhouse. The landowner mentioned problems with hunters trespassing, so even if he noticed something he might not have thought much of it.

 

[CanManEh]

ITA.. Yes its very remote. Someone either works on that farm or lives in the general area. ANd if he was spotted on the property it would be no big deal...

Ya i agree.and if she was allready deceased it took too people to take her out there ..I think they picked this spot because they think its SO REMOTE that it would never be found and after the snow was gone and the hay needed to be cut again the bones would be cut in to a ton of peices spreaded everywhere i mean it isn't like your gonna hear anything when your in a tractor .But because of all this I think thats why they will catch who did this because they gotta be connected either to the farm or the road around it somehow....

 

[CanManEh]

I would think someone with intimate knowledge of the property, such as a neighbor, would know this field is harvested in August. The tractor and other equipment necessary to do so is really hard to miss. Usually, so is the dirt cloud. I lived next to a hay field for years. No one who knew the area well would dump anything in a field like that and expect it to stay hidden, IF they knew it was harvested. I can remember thinking when I first moved into the house I owned, that I was moving next to an overgrown field full of weeds. Boy was I shocked when the John Deere and the blades showed up.

Casual knowledge perhaps, friends of the neighbors children?

But thats the point.it was cut in august she was gone in october then u have winter u dont hay in the winter so u have like august untill like may for the body to decompose and animals and then the farmer starts haying in may and i have drove a tractor u would not know if u went over a skelliton with the combine it would be like tiny sticks and twigs someone new all that..

 

[beachlvr0810]

A risk, certainly, but not a big risk -- it does not sound like the field where she was found is visible from the farmhouse. The landowner mentioned problems with hunters trespassing, so even if he noticed something he might not have thought much of it.

Ok, I'm confused now...I just read that the landowner said he never had problems with trespassers...

http://www.wtvr.com/news/wtvr-body-found-albemarle-100126,0,5332581.story

 

[CanManEh]

No the wife said over the years there has been the odd person that makes it back there and they kick them off.

 

[Willow57]

OH, my GOD! Ths is so so terribly sad! This is one of the cases I come to this site for updates everyday. I have read everything I could about this case since Morgan went missing, all the theories about what could have happened and please GOD-WHERE was she?!

Well-now-we all know WHERE she was. Now its WHO! Who would do such a incomprehensible thing?!

I burst into tears when I heard the PC. I can only imagine what her family and friends are going through! I didn't even know Morgan-but I am so hurt today!

Now the Harringtons know where their child is! I send my deepest condolences!

RIP Morgan! You were such a beautiful-young woman-from what I have heard- inside and out!

~~PEACE & COMFORT~~ to the family and STRENGTH! May GOD hold you in his loving arms.

 

[beachlvr0810]

No the wife said over the years there has been the odd person that makes it back there and they kick them off.

Was that on TV or was it posted somewhere? There is so many posts on the internet now about this. One post has the landowner's name as Dass and the other one has it as Bass...looks likes some reporters are getting their information wrong.

 

[beachlvr0810]

One report said the farm was 70 acres and another said 700...geez get the information right, people. 70 seems more reasonable than 700!!!

 

[CanManEh]

Im watching HLN NEWS and don't know the reporter but its a girl that mike from hln was talking too she said she had just talked to the owners wife ..also that it was her husband that found the body...

 

[raeann]

Ok, I'm confused now...I just read that the landowner said he never had problems with trespassers...

http://www.wtvr.com/news/wtvr-body-found-albemarle-100126,0,5332581.story

Probably a matter of interpretation.....maybe they did HAVE trespassers, but never had any kind of PROBLEM when telling them to leave and that they were on private property. Also could be that while Mr. B doesn't think it is a problem, his wife is bothered more by thinking of strangers occasionally coming on to the property. OR for that matter, just a mess up by a reporter, cause after all......he got their last name wrong!

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