The body of an as yet unidentified blond female has been discovered at a property in souther Albemarle county. The remains are described as “skeletal” and the body is clad in dark clothing. As UNCUS reports, Morgan is the only local missing person to fit the description. Police have taken control of the 540 acre farm, located near Red Hill on 29 South, and a forensic vehicle is on site.
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Dan & Gil Harrington are on their way to the property to identify the body, and the father says that this is most likely his daughter.
The hook’s website appears down. Here’s another link.
Body found on Albemarle Co. farm; no link yet to Morgan Harrington disappearance
Well that’s unfortunate and unsurprising. At least the family can have some sort of closure.
Police are tentatively saying that it’s Harrington.
Police just confirmed that it’s her.
What a terrible tragedy. This murder is a sad way for young women and men to learn to be extremely careful at night, no matter how safe you think you might be.
No matter how careful you are, you’re never safe. The buddy system is great but with psychos like this, if it wasn’t Morgan that night it would have been someone else, maybe some other night. This was a terrible thing and the only “lesson” to _hopefully_ come out of it will be that crime doesn’t pay.
No matter how careful you are, you’re never safe.
With all due respect to the loss of Morgan, it is this creeping sentiment that has lead us to become quite the antisocial society, and I am sad about that. From child predation to oogie boogie terrorists, everyone has convinced themselves that noo ne can be trusted. Whatever happened to playing kick ball at the playground a half mile away until the streetlights came on – with no supervision, no cell phone no nothing?
Rape murder terror ooga booga crime… the rates have stayed fairly constant, and in some cases have gone down. What has changed is our access to information in a wider, more immediate sense, and multiple industries, both governmental and private, that have a vested ($$$) interest in keeping us both addicted to sensationalism and afraid of our neighbors.
Now excuse me, I have to step thru the metal detector at my son’s school cause he was caught with an unauthorized tylenol which will make me late for my ADT home security system upgrade so I can feel safe while I watch the situation room’s update on the latest missing white girl while checking the criminal backgrounds of all my neighbors on the internet, and enjoying my mc meal in solitude.
/fear can stop the love, but love can stop the fear.
paranoia feeds conservatism; hence, conservatives feed paranoia.
/i am always safe.
Actually, I was trying badly to express exactly what you’re saying. The lesson we learn from Morgan’s death isn’t to “be more careful”. Bad things happen, and _could_ happen to you, no matter how many precautions you take (the odds are pretty low either way). Not trying to be a downer, it’s just the way it is. I’d rather the focus be on the killer and how this is 100% his fault, rather than on the “oh if only she’d….” speculation.
I agree about all the paranoia and focus on fear being unhealthy.
Wow. Just wow. Way to politicize this thread and launch into a scintillating intellectual discussion, but in case you didn’t notice, somebody died.
I hope that her discovery and the evidence found will lead to the monster that did this being apprehended, tried in a court of law, and given the maximum sentence. You can’t break the law, you can only break yourself against it.
I also hope that her family, facing this unimaginably tragic loss of their only daughter/sister will be able to move into the next stage of their grieving process as they are able to finally give Morgan a proper burial. Anyone who’s suffered the loss of a loved one, especially unexpectedly, knows that things will never go back to the way they were. The pain of losing her will be with them in one form or another for the rest of their live because of how much they loved her — to quote a great movie, ‘Love doesn’t stop when time passes or you live in different places or somebody’s gone.’ Yet, I hope they are able to find comfort in each other, their friends, their community and their faith, whatever it may be.
With all due respect to the loss of Morgan
Yeah, I noticed. Did you not notice that I noticed?
but in case you didn’t notice, somebody died.
And here are some you may have not noticed though. Most of them are probably unimaginably tragic too. So what’s to do? Where is the line drawn? Honest question.
Im not trying to disrespect your no doubt heart felt sympathies, merely making a point.
Allright – obviously you noticed, and that is an interesting question/discussion – however, I think it would show a lot of class and respect to not discuss tangential issues on a Morgan Harrington thread. Just keep in mind that people that actually knew her and are grieving her may visit this thread in the immediate future, or years from now. It’d be nice if it was a memorial to her life, rather than a jumping off point for a debate. Maybe I’m wrong, that’s just my opinion.
I agree…Comments 8 & 9 seem pretty tactless.
Well color me tactless then, but I ask, is this a memorial shrine or a news discussion board? Further, how does stating something like “No matter how careful you are, you’re never safe.” contribute in any way to celebrating her memory or offering condolences to her family? I was responding to that particular comment, and I even took the precaution of offering my respects up front lest any one of the seven people that still frequent this joint think that I had none. I knew I should have kept my mouth shut… but Im weary of the culture of fear.
Not to complicate matters, but this thread has received over 1K views since it went up, and just look @ the Jayne McGowan or Johnny Gilmore thread to see that those close to an individual often times read what is written here.
B Yo is right, the overall specter of fear does surround events such as these, and media does promote the knowledge of such incidents to a fault (I’ve considered this personally having covered two murder related events in a weeks time).
Is it appropriate in this thread?
/staying out of it.
@10, @13 No one intended or expressed any disrespect.
Well then, I guess I will jump into the deep end.
While no person deserves what Morgan has received, you can bet that dressing the way she did, in a state of fairly obvious alternative state of awareness (drunk/stoned?) and hitchhiking (all clearly identified) did nothing to help her state of safety.
I should be able to walk anywhere I want without fear, but you can bet than I will not wander around SE LA without a police escort, and I go 220# and can bench my weight.
It completely sucks that this is a jumping off point for discussion with my college daughter. A girl was raped at knifepoint in the city she attends college, so she is using the treadmill instead of running outside. It is so wrong that she cannot run outside and enjoy the fresh air, but reality strikes, even if it bites.
Perhaps the issue needs to be ensuring the safety and good decision making in the the future for young ladies. Because Morgan did neither.
Assuming the risk of having you jump down my throat again, might I venture to say that this is not a gender specific issue? And might I suggest that women (and men) should be able to wear whatever they want, ingest whatever they want, and behave however they want without tacitly waiving their rights to their physical safety? Is there some behavior that is riskier than others? Sure. But is the solution burkas and curfews? I would hate that.
I grew up in downtown town SF, a scrawny (and couldnt bench my weight) alt looking kid often wearing face makeup, all manner of weird clothes and jewelry and all the clubs and events and such that I wanted to go to were in the seediest of places. Ever hear of the term “chickenhawk”? Check it out. I was a rich target in a predatory environment for most of my youth, and yet here I am, typing away. And it isn’t because of my manly man muscles, my weapons, my RFID passport, my aggressive suspicion and over reaction – because I have never had any of those. Dumb luck? More like statistics.
There are bad people in the world who do unimaginably bad things. There have always been and there will always be. The idea of total security is an illusion. But the fact remains, by far the most people in the world are good, or are at least operating in what they believe to be a good manner. We are all horribly flawed, true, but mostly not very dangerous. Fear is like cancer, and it is metastasizing at an amazing rate for a variety of reasons lately. My answer? Believe in love and the golden rule. Just you – as you are the only one you can control. That is the chemo. These tragedies will forever come up, they will never be gone, but they are, although incredibly sad, still the exception not the rule.
And no, I aint no fuckin hippy so fuck you. Heh. (<—–joke)
Perhaps your mutant ability is the power to not get mugged.
My mutant abilities are far too indiscrete to discuss here.
Believe in love, live the golden rule, and see what happens. So simple.
/almost snow disco time, gotta run.
I just want to clarify that I wasn’t directing my original comment at you, it was to the direction the conversation was taking and even moreso in anticipation of comments like Wahoowas. I think what you are saying here is beautiful and brilliant and absolutely right on. I didn’t know her, but I would guess that Morgan Harrington would hate it if the final effect she had on the world was to make people more terrified than they already are.
@19 And no, I aint no fuckin hippy . . .
Are you sure?
Your job is to shed light and not to master.
Terrapin?
I can’t figure out . . .