Missing METALLICA Fan To Be Featured On The Cover Of People Magazine
November 12, 2009, 14 years ago
Newsplex.com is reporting:
Twenty-year-old missing Virginia Tech student, Morgan Harrington, will be featured on the cover of this week's People Magazine. Harrington was last seen in Charlottesville on the Copeley Road Bridge after leaving the John Paul Jones Arena during a METALLICA concert October 17th. Her purse was found in a grassy RV parking area near JPJ the next day.
The magazine is profiling missing persons' cases where the missing person seems to have vanished without a trace.
Since Jaycee Dugard was miraculously rescued last August after an 18-year disappearance, it has given new hope to anguished families of hundreds of missing children nationwide.
“No girl relinquishes her purse voluntarily,” says Morgan's mom, Gil. She tells People that she and her husband are both determined to find her. “We will not allow our life to be totally fractured.”“It’s the most devastating thing you can imagine,” Maurice Dubois of La Mirada, California tells People, whose 14-year-old daughter Amber was last seen on her way to school in Escondido last February and is believed to be among the roughly 115 youths who are abducted by strangers each year, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
“Not knowing, not having a clue where she is – it keeps you up night after night.”
The NCMEC’s switchboard has been reignited with tips on long-dormant cases since the news of Dugard’s return was reported, with parents of the missing continuing to chase every lead long after law enforcement teams wind down their searches. They post more flyers; they set up Web sites; they rack their brains for overlooked clues. “It creates a kind of suspended animation for these families,” says NCMEC president Ernie Allen. “It hovers over.'
Check out more pictures and articles are courtesy of People Magazine here.
The magazine is on sale Friday, November 13th.
