Morgan Dana Harrington
She was a 20-year-old American Virginia Tech student when disappeared from the John Paul Jones Arena on October 17, 2009.
She was attending a Metallica concert at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville with three of her friends.
During the opening act, she told her friends she was going to the bathroom.
She did not return, so her friends called her cell phone around 8:48 p.m.
She told them that she was locked out of the arena because of its "no re-entry" policy, adding that she would find a way home and they should not worry.
She was last seen at around 9:30 p.m. hitchhiking on a nearby bridge.
Her purse, containing her identification and cell phone, was discovered in the RV lot at UVA's Lannigan Athletic Field.
The batteries in her cellphone were gone.
Her remains were discovered on January 26, 2010, about ten miles from the arena, in rural farmland.
It had been a very violent death.
Her bones were broken and she was raped.
A Pantera T-shirt that Harrington had been wearing on the night she vanished, was found in November 2009 outside of an apartment building about a mile-and-a-half from the arena.
In April 2010, forensic tests confirmed that.
Police also determined a forensic link between Harrington's murder and an abduction and sexual assault in Fairfax in September 2005.
They believed that the killer was familiar with the area where Harrington's body was found.
A forensic connection was later made to Jesse Matthew, the prime suspect in the murder of Hannah Graham.
On September 15, 2015, Jesse Matthew was formally charged with first-degree murder and abduction with intent to defile in the murder of Morgan Harrington.
On March 2, 2016, Matthew pleaded guilty to the abduction and murder of both Graham and Harrington, receiving four consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole.
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