Posted on 01/27/2010 10:10:18 AM PST by Pyro7480
The state medical examiner has confirmed the remains found on an Albemarle County Farm Tuesday are those of Morgan Harrington.
Virginia State Police say the confirmation was made using dental records provided by the family and say the investigation continues into the time and cause of death....
Lt. Joe Rader, the lead investigator in Harrington's disappearance, said the area where the remains were discovered had not been searched previously. He added that the missing person case was now most likely a homicide. He said investigators were combing the area carefully, saying it was "imperative to maintain the sanctity of the crime scene, since the perpetrator, or perpetrators," were still at large.
He would not characterize the state of the remains, nor what evidence may have been found at the scene.
The Harringtons arrived in the Charlottesville area in the early afternoon. They had told CBS 6 they were there to identify skeletal remains that had been found in Albemarle County Tuesday morning. When speaking, Morgan's father Dan was in tears, telling CBS 6 "this is a horrible day" for his family.
An Albemarle County resident found the remains Tuesday morning at a private residence called Anchorage Farm on Anchorage Farm Road in the southern region of Albemarle County. The farm is ten miles from the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville where 20-year-old Morgan Harrington was last seen at a Metallica concert October 17.
CBS 6's Catie Beck spoke to David Bass, who discovered the remains on his property. Bass, a farmer and owner of Anchorage Farm, says after the wind and rain last week there were several downed trees in his yard. He was out looking for possible damage to make repairs in a remote area of his property, when he spotted the body....
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Very. We prayed a lot that she would found for her family’s sake.
So very sad...
I hope they find the **** that did this, and that he suffers for it.
I hope they can find some evidence. We’ve had so much rain and snow since October.
Sounds like they have.
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