Missing Tech student’s family offers $100,000 reward
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Local and state police have been searching for Va. Tech student Morgan Dana Harrington, 20, of Roanoke County, Va., since she was reported missing by her parents Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009.
Published: October 23, 2009
CHARLOTTESVILLE -- The father of a missing Virginia Tech student said yesterday that he thinks she has been abducted, and announced that the reward for information leading to her return will be at least $100,000.
"I think Morgan was taken. I don't think she ran away," Dan Harrington said.
Staff at Carilion Clinic, where Harrington is vice president for academic affairs, raised the money, which will be administered by Crime Stoppers, he said.
State Police are asking people with information to call (434) 352-3467 or e-mail
Morgan Dana Harrington, 20, was last seen shortly after she left a Metallica concert at the University of Virginia's John Paul Jones Arena on Saturday night.
Her purse and her cell phone, minus its battery, were found in the area Sunday.
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I believe that one of the first people that should be questioned is whoever turned her away and would not let her back inside. This could have been planned beforehand - the first pretty girl who forgets her ticket is left outside alone - and the person who refused her entry has friends waiting in the background. It is too horrific to imagine, but it has to be followed up on.
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that was my first thought as well, when I read that she drove but then called her friends because she couldn’t get back in & told them she would catch another ride but they didn’t have her keys? Didn’t any of them wonder how they were going to get home? I immediatly thought that was her cry for help.
My heart goes out to her family, As a mother I can’t imagine what her parents are going thru.
If I have read the reports correctly, the missing girl’s car was how they got to the concert. He purse, her batteryless cell phone AND her car were left in the parking lot. When she called her friends to let them know she could not get back inside, and that she would “hang out and wait for them or catch another ride” , it seems that this was a masked attempt to alert her friends that she was IN TROUBLE (could not say anything obvious) and she was probably praying that they would respond appropriately.
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