Parents of slain Tech student say her bones were shattered

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CHARLOTTESVILLE -- When Morgan D. Harrington's bones were found in an Albemarle County pasture, they had been shattered and broken into jagged pieces, her parents said yesterday.

"When you view . . . not just a skeleton but brutal damage to a skeleton, you can imagine what must have gone through," said the victim's father, Dan Harrington.

He and Gil Harrington, Morgan's mother, addressed the media yesterday, marking five months since their daughter disappeared. They came from their home in Roanoke to the University of Virginia for the event.

Morgan Harrington, a 20-year-old Virginia Tech student, was killed after leaving an Oct. 17 Metallica concert at U.Va.'s John Paul Jones Arena. Harrington was last seen hitchhiking on a railroad bridge on Copeley Road. A farmer found her remains about three months later, on his farm near U.S. 29 in southern Albemarle.

Gil Harrington said she believes the person who killed her daughter caused the damage to her bones.

The medical examiner's office has said only that the case is a homicide and has not released a cause of death.

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