Dan and Gil Harrington, parents of deceased Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, said yesterday that they believe their daughter's bones were shattered and broken by her killer, who they are confident is a male still in the local Charlottesville area.
The Harringtons gave a press conference in front of John Paul Jones Arena - the location of the Oct. 17 Metallica concert that Morgan attended - regarding the matter.
"The man who did this - and I am confident that it is a man - is being protected by his environment, by people in his environment, and that needs to stop," Gil Harrington said.
Virginia State Police officials, however, are not yet commenting about the condition of the remains, nor have they confirmed the assertion that the killer was a man, State Police spokesperson Corinne Geller said.
"No particular person of interest or suspect [has been] identified to date," she said.
Gil Harrington warned the Charlottesville community, though, that the murderer is a threat as long as he is at large.
"Evil is still afoot in this town," she said. "There is a monster in Charlottesville, Va. who likes to hurt young girls."
Dan Harrington also distributed a Virginia map highlighting other disappearances and deaths in the state since last August, which may suggest possible connections between Morgan's death and other homicide cases.
Still, though, investigators have no evidence linking Morgan's deaths to any other recent deaths in the area, Geller said.
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