Morgan Dana Harrington was a 20-year-old student at Virginia Tech University who went missing after a Metallica concert on the afternoon of October 18, 2009. On January 26, 2010, police in Virginia confirmed that a body of a woman believed to be Harrington was found in a remote section of a farm in Charlottesville. The identity was confirmed to have been Harrington on January 28, 2010. Her cause of death had not been determined but police believe Harrington was murdered.http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20339923,00.html
The owner of the farm said he found the partially skeletized body in an area of his property that he had not visited since August of 2009. The farm where the body was found is located six-miles from the University of Virginia, off of Route 29.http://www.collegiatetimes.com/stories/14895/updated-body-found-in-charlottesville-was-nowhere-near-a-highway http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583961,00.html?test=latestnewshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012603035.html
Harrington was last seen on the evening of October 17, 2009, when she visited Charlottesville, Virginia, with friends to attend a Metallica concert. Her purse and cell phone were found in the parking lot of the stadium, but she had not been seen since.
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20 (October 2009)
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Student at Virginia Tech University
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Last seen on the evening of October 17, 2009
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Visited Charlottesville, Virginia, with friends to attend a Metallica concert
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Reproted missing the following day after she failed to return to her patent's home
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Had planned to study for an upcoming test with her physician father
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Purse containing her ID and cell phone found in the parking lot of the venue
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Last seen wearing a Pantera short with black miniskirt, black tights and black boots
