UPDATE: Parents plead for Tech student’s return
Published: October 19, 2009
Updated: October 19, 2009
CHARLOTTESVILLE -- The parents of a missing Virginia Tech student urged their daughter to come home.
“If Morgan is out there and can hear this, please come home,” Dan Harrington, father of missing 20-year-old Morgan Dana Harrington of Roanoke County, pleaded at a news conference today.
Harrington was last seen at around 8:40 p.m. Saturday during the Metallica concert at the University of Virginia’s John Paul Jones Arena.
During the concert, Harrington was separated from her friends and has not been seen since. Her parents reported her missing the following afternoon.
It is unusual that Harrington - a junior education major at Virginia Tech - would disappear in such a fashion, her mother said.
“This is not her typical behavior,” Gil Harrington said. “This is a girl who calls home almost every day and asks things like, ‘How do you make macaroni and cheese.’ And I tell her to read the box.”
At today's news conference, held in front of the U.Va. Police Department’s headquarters, Virginia State Police Lt. Joe Rader said investigators are treating the situation as a missing person case.
“We have no evidence that a crime has been committed,” Rader said.
According to police, Harrington and a friend traveled from Virginia Tech to meet a friend at James Madison University to meet a third friend. They then drove to Charlottesville to see the Metallica show at JPJ.
Harrington was last seen wearing a black T-shirt with “Pantera” written on the front in tan letters. She also was wearing a black mini skirt with black tights and black knee-high boots. She is 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 120 pounds and has blonde hair and blue eyes.
Police said that Harrington does not have her identification card or cell phone with her, though they declined to elaborate.
Rader also said that investigators are not searching for Harrington’s car because she rode in a friend’s car when they went to the concert.
Anyone with information regarding Harrington is asked to call Virginia State Police at 434-352-3435 or by e-mail at . U.Va. police can be reached at 434-924-7166.
Reader Reactions
USBorn,
I read in another report that they found her purse in the parking lot, wether that statement has been retracted I dont know but supposedly that is why they knew she does not have her Id or Cell Phone. I worked that concert and its dissappointing to hear that despite the number of security staff someone has not reported seeing her leave as we had security staff at all the doors.
Picture is online here (http://www.virginia.edu/uvapolice/missing.html)
Yeah- a photo should be posted immediately- the police always says time is very important. Without a cell phone and I.D.- everyone needs both! This sounds NOT RIGHT. If she rode with friends- they should have kept up with her and not left until they reported it to someone.
Body piercings, funny color hair, spend a lot of time of the internent??? ????? How do they know she has no id and what teenage girl travels anywhere without her cell phone???? Somebody is holding back some information!
I hope that they post a photo of her soon so that people from all over can keep an eye out. Hopefully she just got caught up in a good time and will return soon.
I hope she returns safely, but the circumstances sound sort of fishy. I wonder if her friends are holding anything back from authorities/her parents? Did she start talking to some guy while they were there and walked off with him?
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