Found Deceased VA - Morgan Dana Harrington, 20, Charlottesville, 17 Oct 2009 - #11

[MBLover]

Does anyone else find the "lovely bones" comment odd, or is it just me?

Not me. Knowing how Mrs. Harrington has spoken in previous interviews and in (print) reports, I don't think it's odd. But I can see how someone not fully following this case would think so.

 

[Jenny60123]

I thought it an odd choice of words, but understandable.

The poor woman had just heard the worst news a parent could hear. Maybe it was just a fleeting thought. My experience with grief is that thoughts are very fragmented, especially in the beginning. She probably just wanted to say something nice about her daughter.

 

[nostoneunturned]

Margins are blown..
but still can write..lol
I think it's time the friends, fess up, to what was really going on with Morgan! I know how it is, I had wild child friends, who would ,do anything...say anything to keep from " letting down your friends and parents" but this has gone way past that....
I believe ,someone will break soon..this is just to much and there is a lot of "money" at stake.
I hope some rat crawls out of the hole ,they are hiding in, just long enough to try to collect the money.I can't believe someone could kill ,this beautiful girl and just go about their ever day life..someone, somewhere ,knows something and I pray they come forward soon...I am in fear for my own daughters ,that travel all over this area.
The 29 stacker case has been cold for a while but the murders have not stopped. I hope it is the same person that killed Lisa Showalter, that way LE.would have both murderers solved.
I feel there are secrets being kept, to maybe spare feelings and not to side track the search for her. Now that her remains are found...there are no more reasons, to try to protect her from" getting in trouble, not even getting in trouble but more in a way of not causing her parents to be alarmed or upset at her actions.
1 Do you think, there were secrets?
2 If you do, then, Who would be the keeper of those secrets but "close friends"?
3 Do we have any close friends to ask?
4 Do you see why I keep going back to JMU and before the concert.
5 "The Bone" comment was chilling...and I can't begin to understand her anguish, but I believe she said it for pure shock value ..just to let the killer know and anyone else that might wonder "that nothing could,or would ever make her think of her daughter in any other way,than a beautiful, loving person inside and out.I feel like she was saying..if you did this to defile my daughter, you did not ..because even in death, she is still beautiful, even her bones...
How do they, find the strength to breath??..I pray, I never have the need to be in a position find out.
My heart hurts for them.

 

[jnTexas]

I fixed my photo size on page 6. Not sure why the margins are still blown. sorry guys.

 

[Kat]

Snipped by me.

I'm not sure how plausible this is considering the witness reports, but going by this basis...

This would automatically blow the friends' story to pieces because they report last seeing her INSIDE the arena.

They'd surely be in trouble for misleading LE if they were trying to "cover" for her, and potentially something worse if that's not all they were doing.

I do think she arrived at the concert. MOO.

Hi LLLindsayy I think you might just be right about that.

Didn't they have a video from the arena where the LE was fairly confident that it was her walking?

It seems I remember briefly seeing a clip on one of the TH shows (JVM, or NG something or another) and they highlighted a person with blonde hair and dressed as she was reported to have been dressed inside the arena?

Or am I completely remembering something unconnected? (that happens often)

 

[Kat]

I haven't followed this case but I thought the "lovely bones" comment was not inappropriate given the context and who said it.

I read that book also. I have a friend who lost her daughter and found great comfort in reading that book.

Do you think it was a reference to the book and/or movie?

 

[jnTexas]

Hi LLLindsayy I think you might just be right about that.

Didn't they have a video from the arena where the LE was fairly confident that it was her walking?

It seems I remember briefly seeing a clip on one of the TH shows (JVM, or NG something or another) and they highlighted a person with blonde hair and dressed as she was reported to have been dressed inside the arena?

Or am I completely remembering something unconnected? (that happens often)

Another thing. The tickets her dad bought. they should be able to run the ticket numbers and see if all of them were used. assuming he bought them with a credit card and/or the friends still had their's to get the missing ticket belonging to Morgan.

The pic they showed on those shows has been reported to be someone other than Morgan. If I remember correctly

 

[Kat]

Another thing. The tickets her dad bought. they should be able to run the ticket numbers and see if all of them were used. assuming he bought them with a credit card and/or the friends still had their's to get the missing ticket belonging to Morgan.

The pic they showed on those shows has been reported to be someone other than Morgan. If I remember correctly

Thank you Jn I haven't followed Morgan's case.

 

[darlin gal]

I thought it an odd choice of words, but understandable.

The poor woman had just heard the worst news a parent could hear. Maybe it was just a fleeting thought. My experience with grief is that thoughts are very fragmented, especially in the beginning. She probably just wanted to say something nice about her daughter.

It was a veiled reference in comparing Morgan to Susie, the fictional character in the movie "The Lovely Bones"

The novel's title stems from a line toward the end of the novel, in which Susie ponders her friends' and family's newfound strength after her death: “ These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections — sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent — that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events my death brought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous lifeless body had been my life.

 

[MBLover]

Hi LLLindsayy I think you might just be right about that.

Didn't they have a video from the arena where the LE was fairly confident that it was her walking?

It seems I remember briefly seeing a clip on one of the TH shows (JVM, or NG something or another) and they highlighted a person with blonde hair and dressed as she was reported to have been dressed inside the arena?

Or am I completely remembering something unconnected? (that happens often)

That person in the video was proven to be someone else who looked very similar to Morgan. Her initials were DS and this DS just happened to be an acquaintance of one of MH's friends.

 

[Jenny60123]

I read that one. What a wonderful book it was. Somehow it made you feel hopeful, even with such a sad storyline. Sorry to be OT.

 

[Jenny60123]

Whoops, posted twice. Sorry!

 

[nursebeeme]

((((hi Kat!!!!))))

I agree about the 'lovely bones' comment.

I think that the words she spoke at the presser were for sure planned in advance and not off the cuff. I think she may have identified with the book as well. I know I did (I had a friend and classmate of mine abducted, raped, and murdred when we were in 6th grade and it will never leave me)

 

[darlin gal]

I haven't followed this case but I thought the "lovely bones" comment was not inappropriate given the context and who said it.

I read that book also. I have a friend who lost her daughter and found great comfort in reading that book.

Do you think it was a reference to the book and/or movie?

Yes Kat, it was.

 

[21merc7]

Wow! I just found this article about it.

It's so sad. I feel really awful for her parents.

I hope they catch the soon. It does seem weird that the farmer immediately thought of Morgan when he saw the skull. I guess there's probably an innocent explanation for it, but to find it in an area 11/2 miles from the road makes we wonder if he suspected someone he knows. Someone that has been there many times before.

I'm probably way over thinking this.

Steely,

The farmer thought of it because there are not many murders in that area. In fact, the area is top of the list for most wanted to live in for the U.S. Charlottesville/Albemarle.

 

[Kat]

OT (((nursebeeme))) glad to see you, we are just waiting on orders. I got back from SC last saturday---our boy graduated basic and is now in VA for AIT.

On topic:
Yes, that book is beautiful and I can imagine that it brought Morgan's Mother a sort of comfort. JMHO.

 

[Kat]

Morgan was such a beautiful young lady. My deepest sympathies to her parents and friends.

I have to run an errand for one of my children. Thank you so much to all those that are working to keep this thread up to date and factual for Morgan. I appreciate it very much! It helps those of us that lurk a lot

 

[Beatrice]

I would think LE is interviewing farm hands first......

 

[Shadow205]

APPOMATTOX COUNTY, VA (WWBT)--Investigators will return to the Albemarle farm this morning for day three in their search for clues in the death of Morgan Harrington.

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Police say they've received several leads since Tuesday's announcement about the grim discovery.

http://www.nbc12.com/Global/story.asp?S=11893741

 

[JustJax]

Not me. Knowing how Mrs. Harrington has spoken in previous interviews and in (print) reports, I don't think it's odd. But I can see how someone not fully following this case would think so.

Tho I have not been posting I have been folloing since she went missing and have heard and read various interviews with the family...so that has no bearing on why that statement strkes me oddly. I just can't feature admiring my daugter's bones having just been found murdered.