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I’m convinced…. Norma Parson was right all along….and (almost surprisingly)… so was I.

A crucial missing puzzle piece is (or was) located on the UVA campus itself. 

As to why poor Morgan  Harrington’s remains were found on Anchorage Farm… that answer seems to lie not with the farm, but rather with it’s proximity to Blandemar Estates. 

Think Bulldog.  Think.   Solidify the connection between Blandemar Estates, UVA’s west lawn, ‘sketch’, and who Morgan left with…

Provide the answer, long overdue.

Great…another restless night…

Addendum:

Someone in Charlottesville knows something.  BulldogPI has learned to trust his instincts, and they are absolutely screaming that someone connected to UVA  holds the missing key.    Please don’t let this mystery drag on any longer. …  the Harringtons deserve closure. 

  That was their daughter, not just a statistic.  I agree with their message:

  Help save the next girl.

 Talk to me.

-BulldogPI

Author’s note:

My response to a reader’s comment on my offer of reward money in exchange for information on Holly Bobo’s disappearance  covers a lot of ground.  Like a jar of Prego sauce ingredients are ‘ in there’, which  I need to get off my chest.  It also sums up how  families of disappearance victims are making a mistake by not bringing in their own investigator.  Where did Morgan Harrington ultimately wind up being found?   What about Sharon West?   Could these girls have been saved?

Caldwell Fields Murderer:  You cost me another decent nights sleep dirtball.   I’m not done with you yet….

-BulldogPI

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Chuckle. I decided to approve this person’s comments. I dont know Chelsea Hoffman personally, or anything about what may or may not have been posted on topix. I merely found wisdom in what she had written in her article posting, nothing more and nothing less. As for “there is a reward offered for info, if you are as good as your claims we welcome you. The reward money should pay for your time….”

Umm, the BulldogPI has been around. First off, many times rewards offered on behalf of Victims families are the carrot and the stick routine. Several incidents come to mind where the tipster has actually had to sue in order to recieve payment for his (or her) tip.  They also are generally attached to a Law Enforcement (LE) tip line.  People ’in the know’ regarding a disappearance generally speaking, are not squeaky clean.  Do you think they are going to be in a hurry to speak with the police?  Second, I’ve  learned quite a bit regarding publicized missing persons investigations, and just  how chaotic things can get over at  tip line headquarters. 

During the course of the Morgan Harrington investigation, I know for a fact that several strong sightings and other tips were not followed up on in a timely fashion by LE. I know this, because I personally spoke directly to several tipsters who expressed a great deal of frustration for not being taken seriously.   As a result of this I decided to contact them and see what they had to say.  Next, in the defense of LE, they are simply not able to dedicate all their resources and time to focusing on one persons disappearance. It just doesnt work that way.   In the early months of the investigation’s publicity, the tip lines were absolutely swamped with calls. 

People need torealize that what really occurs so often, is that after a while disappearances, murders, etc wind up taking a backseat,  police manpower is refocused on a current, more pressing  crime.  Do they want to solve the crime?  Absolutely.  They also however have plenty of others to address.  Peoples memories then begin to fade, potential witnesses become harder to locate, evidence is damaged by the weather….. stuff happens.  Eventually cases grow cold. 

  Do not put blind faith in the system making your problem their top priority.   This is truly a nieve course of action if there ever was one.  Ask   Hurricane Katrina victims in Lousiana their thoughts regarding the system.  You chastized me a bit for being an outsider and ‘telling you the problem.’  I only blog what I truly believe and now  I get to say my piece.

 It is simply foolish for a victims family to sit back passively when their loved one is missing, turns up murdered, whatever. Im not saying that the Bobo’s aren’t out there taking an active  roll, by  posting flyers, and making inquiries.  It’s not the Bobo case which immediately comes to my mind regarding my previous  statement.   I would like to however assure you that if the situation was reversed I would bring a PI in to assist. Someone who answers directly to me.  Someone who levels with me.  Who lets me know  what progress has and has not been made.   I would not just blindly go along with whatever I am or am not told by LE.  Let me stress, as a point of clarification, that for a private investigator to be effective  on criminal cases it is crucial they assist (not hinder)  law enforcement.  Once LE realizes the goal of the investigator is not to make a mess of things… that they might  even prove useful… then things can move in a positive direction.   The goal is establishing a  joint effort.  Dialogue.   Hopefully this approach makes sense to you. 

 My final statement on this matter may truly shock you. I can’t speak for all PI’s but for me, it’s not just about the money. Read my postings about Caldwell Fields. You think I lost sleep over that because I’m not making profit off it?   If that’s what you believe, then you can stick it.   I have a strong suspicion who did that heinous act and by God I want him caught…   but Bulldog Investigations is a business, not a hobby.   If I want bread on my table, and a  roof over my head I have to run it like a business.  

A professional PI needs to always remember that time does indeed equal money.    What is earned as well as paid out  is best measured with a calendar.    Time waits for no one; insurance and  licensing fees are an ongoing  expense.  My state requires bi-annual continuing education coursework, which comes with it’s own pricetag.   There are many expenses behind the scenes the client remains blissfully unaware of.

 Make no mistake, I genuinely want to help in these matters.    At the same time, if I want to keep the doors opened and lights on, I can’t  run this as a charity.

End of Sermon.

Private Investigator Bill Warner’s blog entry is a PERFECT example of how victim’s families often make  a terrible mistake.  When a loved one goes missing you need someone in your corner who thinks outside the box.    When a family doesn’t bring in their own investigator to assist  they place unrealistic expectations on law enforcement.  The police don’t have the luxury to focus solely on one person’s disappearance.    PI’s are known for coming up with new possibilities overlooked by  law enforcement.  Private investigators aren’t  pressured by city hall, the fiscal budget,  or some other force behind the scenes to put your problem on hold and address new crimes.   Cases go cold that way… days, weeks, months tick past and memories fade. 

Don’t sit by the passively by the phone waiting for miracles.  Be proactive. 

-Bulldogpi

One of “Morgan’s Warriors” called me late yesterday afternoon.  Just who called, why, and what we talked about… those details are unimportant.   I want to focus on the end result:   personal reflections and regrets.

Hopefully, my blog readers will see a different part of Bulldog this morning.  It’s not good to always be on the offensive.

This will be my last commentary on the topic of Morgan Harrington.   Other blogs and websites, please  follow suite. 

The time for speculation is over.

Morgan Harrington suffered a tragic ending she did not deserve, regardless of what mistakes she may of made that evening.   If memory serves, she was only twenty years old.   She had dreams yet to live, lives to touch.   I wish with all my heart that somehow I had crossed paths with her, while she was in trouble.

I also hope I would of had courage enough to intervene, even at the risk of my own life.

“Why?  A total stranger?  Do you  have some sort of hero complex?”

No.  It’s not that, but far more selfish reasons.  How could I look at myself in the mirror the following morning if I just walked away?  Worse yet, the week after?  It’s because I know something about losing a child.  It’s because I would give everything to not know.  For there to have been a different outcome.   If only someone could of stepped in.   Anyone.

 I know what total helplessness feels like.  Nothing comes close to that level of despair.   Nothing.   

The findmorgan.com forum went down again yesterday, this time after careful forethought.   From what I surmise, the Harrington family sat down and talked the situation over.  They reflected,cried. and perhaps  prayed.  In the end, the Harringtons as a family decided it was best to pull the plug.    Does that sound like a strange way for me to word things?  “Pull the plug?”   Why not say “move on?” 

Because:  you don’t move on.  It doesn’t work that way.  Instead, you try to go on… to find the strength and the courage to live.  Every day in general it gets a tiny bit easier, you take another step forward.   Some days however are different. 

Some days you stumble backwards.

For what it’s worth, I want resolution for the Harrington Family.  They deserve answers.  They deserve peace.

To the murderous bastard that took Morgan’s life:  

 I have a message  for you.  You don’t want to cross paths with me.  Don’t let me  stumble upon your secret.  When a bulldog sees red, his fate becomes secondary to the objective.  Steer clear

To the animal responsible for the Caldwell Fields murders: 

  There is a warning for you as well.  The Bulldog is hunting you.  Run.

To Morgan Harrington: 

 Morgan, I apologize for judging you harshly.  I certainly have my own flaws.   Please be at rest.

That’s all I have to say about that.

-Bulldog

I thought my blog audience might find the following interesting:

Yes, there was a public relations firm involved with the findmorgan.com website. 

Yes, it’s quite likely that unflattering speculations regarding Morgan’s activites the evening of her disappearance were removed from findmorgan.com. (As a side note, former forum members have cited censorship of their postings as a primary reason for their departure.)

Yes,  its quite plausible that bits of information which risked tainting Morgan’s image were held back from the public.

(This apparently also alienated a fairly large audience’s initial interest in the case.  Time and time again, I read postings complaining on the lack of truly useful information regarding the circumstances of Morgan’s disappearance.  No pictures whatsoever of Morgan and friends have been made available from the night of the concert.  As another poster had stated, “so are we supposed to actually believe that a group of young women attending a rock concert weren’t taking dozens of pictures?”  It was over four months before the Virginia State Police made their offical announcement: “Morgan Harrington had been drinking.”) 

How can I make the statements above with such conviction?  Well, take a look:

So when you add Valerie Elston’s Twitter posting, to her July 2nd blog posting, what do you come up with?

My conclusions are:

1.  That Levick Strategic was heavily involved with the Harrington case

2. Their goal was to help develop an image of Morgan that would best sway public sympathy

3. That Valerie Elston was heavily involved with the project, and is no longer with Levick Strategic for whatever reason.

4. That the cupcakes were mediocre at best.   She should of splurged and gone to Bubblecake. 

Now I have no problem in Levick Strategic making an effort to get the word out regarding Morgan’s disappearance, I did some of that myself.  When it comes to swaying the public’s sympathies, through misleading or incomplete information… that rubs me the wrong way.  I dont like being manipulated.  Bulldog prefers dealing in truth and facts. 

As I’ve stated previously, it was when the postings on findmorgan.com had sappy and unrealistic I started to question what was really going on.  The Bulldog was not alone in his skepticism either.   A number of forum members became irritated at the apparent censorship and lack of realism.  Many visitors dropped off findmorgan.com when things headed in this direction.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/225980

“Levick helped streamline findmorgan.com and turn it into a polished, comprehensive site that offers original content while linking to news sources and social networking arenas.”

Uhh…. according to whom?

I’m sorry, but I don’t share that hypothesis.  Levick Strategic may of turned it (findmorgan.com) into something, but it didn’t really strike me as a “polished, comprehensive site.”  If the goal was to get the word out regarding Morgan’s disappearance, yes that was successfully done.   If the objective of findmorgan.com was encouragement of meaningful discussion… a unified effort helpful in solving the mystery… it ultimately resulted in failure. 

Although the forum is back up now, for over a week it’s future was in question.  A hastily written message by Dr. Harrington informed visitors that the forum “was taking a break.” Some of the online conversations between members had deteriorated into heated arguments and (according to Dr. Harrington’s message) even threats. 

Ultimately, none of the billboards, tv appearances, or other forms of publicizing Morgan’s disappearance had anything to do with Mr. Bass coming upon her remains.  It was sheer luck, the changing seasons, and the need of a farmer to check his fields that lead to the grisly discovery.  It seems to me that interviewing people from the concert that evening, along with following up on leads pointing towards the UVA campus had a much better chance of being productive.

Anyway, these are my opinions.  Perhaps some of my readers have their own thoughts to contribute on the matter.

-Bulldog