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Morgan Harrington
The same man who abducted and killed Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington after a rock concert in Charlottesville last year may have sexually assaulted a woman in Fairfax City in 2005, state police said Thursday.
The link between the two cases provides the first significant break in the Harrington case, which made national headlines.
State police said there is a forensic link between the two cases. Sources said the cases are linked by a DNA match. Both are unsolved.
In September 2005, a Fairfax woman was abducted and sexually assaulted as she walked home from a Giant supermarket. City of Fairfax detectives created a composite sketch based on the victim’s description of the suspect. However, the suspect
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Police link Morgan Harrington case to ’05 rape, release composite sketch
Whoever killed Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington and left her body on a remote farm knew the tricky “obstacles” to get to the location, Virginia police said today.
Virginia State Police Lt. Joe Rader asked at a press conference today for people who live in the area to alert investigators to whoever was familiar with the roads and terrain there.
Rader said investigators believe the person or persons responsibile for Harrington’s murder was familiar with the area on Anchorage Farm where the 20-year-old’s body was found.
“People in the Anchorage Farm area, you know what goes on there, you know the history,” said Rader. “You know who comes in and out of the vicinity and you might not realize it but you probably have some information for us that you don’t even think is important.”
