Police Say Missing Virginia Tech Student Morgan Harrington Was Drinking
December 30, 2009, 14 years ago
Whsv.com is reporting:
Virginia State Police say Morgan Harrington was drinking alcohol on the night she disappeared and was not acting normally.
The 20-year-old Virginia Tech student disappeared October 17 while attending a METALLICA concert at John Paul Jones Arena at the University of Virginia.
VSP Lt. Joe Rader released the new information Wednesday afternoon.
In his briefing, he said:
- Harrington was drinking and "she wasn't acting rationally that night. Normally she would have acted differently."- Harrington may have been drugged or injured in a fall, but she hadn't willingly consumed drugs.
- Her friends were not involved in her disappearance.
- Police have searched all along Interstate 64 from Charlottesville to Augusta County as well as stretches toward Richmond. They've also searched parts of the Blue Ridge Parkway and conducted searches at other Metallica concerts.
- Police are looking for a red digital camera Harrington had that night. It may have been a Kodak.
- Harrington was either abducted or willingly got into a car on the Copeley Road bridge where she had been spotted hitchhiking.
- Police say people should call if they see a "change in behavior" among anyone who attended the Metallica concert in Charlottesville.
"This is not a cold case," says Rader.
