Report: Body Found "Probably Not Missing Virginia Tech Student Morgan Harrington"
December 1, 2009, 14 years ago
Rex Bowman from Roanoke.com is reporting:
A body found Sunday on Candler Mountain in Campbell County probably is a female, but also is probably not missing Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, authorities said Monday.
The body was taken to the state medical examiner's office in Roanoke for an autopsy, the results of which could be known today, said Capt. L.T. Guthrie of the Campbell County Sheriff's Office.
Guthrie said a resident of the area found the badly decomposed body about 4 p.m. Sunday in a wooded area off Camp Hydaway Road. "Some efforts had been made to conceal the body," Guthrie said. The body lay beneath a pile of brush.
The clothes found with the body are those of a female, Guthrie said, though the advanced decomposition makes it difficult to determine the body's gender.
The clothes, Guthrie added, did not match the description of those worn by Harrington when she disappeared from a METALLICA concert in Charlottesville on Oct. 17. Harrington, 20, was last seen wearing a black T-shirt, black miniskirt , black boots and black tights, with a Swarovski crystal necklace made up of large crystal chain links.
Guthrie said investigators have "no reason to believe" the body is Harrington's. Candler Mountain is roughly 65 miles south of Charlottesville.
