On October 17, 2009, Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington attended a Metallica concert at the John Paul Jones Arena. That night, Virginia State Police found, Harrington had been drinking and acting abnormally, was denied reentry to the arena, and was last seen on the Copeley Road bridge. More than three months after Harrington disappeared, her body was found in a remote section of a 750-acre Albemarle County farm. While her death has been ruled a homicide, her killer—who has links to a Fairfax assault—remains at large.
Since January 26, 2010, the Harrington family has kept a steady vigil on their blog and continued to make media appearances as part of their Help Save the Next Girl campaign and their effort to bring Morgan’s killer to justice. (See below.) They’ll also mark two years since the confirmation of their daughter’s death on Thursday, during a stop at the Copeley Road Bridge where she was last seen alive.
"Dan will speak about Morgan and the ‘missing phase’ of the investigation
and Gil will share a poem," writes the family in an e-mail to media. "Thank you for your ongoing interest in, and reporting of, this unsolved homicide."
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