Investigator: Harrington case not ‘cold’
State Police still pursuing leads; ‘We have to keep plugging away’
Story by Chris Graham
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The case of missing Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, who hasn’t been seen since she left a Metallica concert at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville the night of Oct. 17, is “not anywhere near” the level of being labeled a cold case, a Virginia State Police investigator said today.
“A cold case is when you’re not actively pursuing a case, you’ve exhausted all your leads, you’re not putting a whole lot of effort into it. This isn’t anywhere near that. We’ve been working on this every day since we started with core investigators as well as other resources. It’s very much active,” State Police Lt. Joe Rader said on the Harrington case, which has gone cold in one respect, as the media attention on Harrington has gone into decline after an initial period of several weeks of intense coverage of the investigation.
New leads and tips have also slowed, Rader said, with the activity in that arena in recent days being from psychics and remote viewers, “not really people who were there who have concrete information,” Rader said. Read more
Timeline, other new details in Harrington case
As the search and investigative efforts continue for missing college student Morgan Harrington, state and local investigators are now able to release additional details concerning the night of her disappearance. Miss Harrington disappeared Oct. 17, 2009, during a Metallica concert at the John Paul Jones Arena on the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville.
During the course of the investigation, police have been able to establish a timeline of Miss Harrington’s movements once she ended up outside of the arena at approximately 8:30 p.m. After talking to her friends on her cell phone, she then walked through the parking lot of University Hall and was also seen in the Lannigan Field athlete parking lot, which is also used for RV parking. At around 9:30 p.m., she was seen walking on the Copeley Road bridge near Ivy Road. Read more
Location for Harrington search party meeting changed
The meeting location for the Morgan Harrington Volunteer Search Party has changed for Friday-Sunday, Nov. 6-8.
Volunteers must now sign-in at the Department of Forestry located at:
900 Natural Resources Drive
Charlottesville, Va. 22903
Searches will begin this weekend at 9 a.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Volunteers must be at least 18 years old, must provide photo identification, and are encouraged to dress in comfortable clothing. Read more
Volunteer community search to begin Friday in Harrington case
Dr. Daniel Harrington and wife Gil, parents of missing Virginia Tech student, Morgan Dana Harrington, announced today the organization of a volunteer community search party to help find their daughter. The 20-year-old woman disappeared Oct. 17 while attending a Metallica concert at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville.
Morgan has long blonde hair, blue eyes, and weighs approximately 120 pounds at 5 foot, 6 inches in height.
The search will begin at 9 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 at the Cavalier Inn in Charlottesville and will reconvene at that hour on Saturday, Nov. 7, and Sunday, Nov. 8. Volunteers must be at least 18 years old, must provide photo identification, and are encouraged to dress in comfortable clothing. Read more
Harrington family announces creation of search fund
The family of a 20-year-old Virginia Tech junior missing since leaving a Metallica concert at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville on Oct. 17 has set up a fund to aid the ongoing search effort.
The Find Morgan Fund was announced Monday by Morgan Dana Harrington’s parents, Dan and Gil Harrington. Read more
UVa. football parking impacted by JPJ event
An event in the John Paul Jones Arena on Saturday (Oct. 31) will impact football fans planning to use the venue’s surface parking lot for the Virginia-Duke football game that day.
A Disney on Ice show is scheduled to begin in the arena at 3:30 p.m. and the football game is scheduled to begin at the same time. Due to the Disney on Ice show, parking in the arena’s surface lot will not be available for fans attending the football game.
Football parking is available for free on a first-come, first-served basis in the University Hall parking lots. Once all of the University Hall lots are full, attendants will direct individuals looking for football game parking to the John Paul Jones Arena’s parking garage. The JPJA parking garage is also available for free on a first-come, first-served basis.
Additional parking is available for $10 at the Emmet-Ivy Garage, the Central Grounds Garage and the Health Systems Garage.
Nothing new in search for missing VT student
Virginia State Police and University of Virginia Police continue to follow up on tips being called in with regard to the Oct. 17 disappearance of Morgan Dana Harrington, 20, a Virginia Tech student who went missing after getting separated from her friends at a Metallica concert at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, but there is nothing new to report with regard to the investigation. Read more
