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Police Say Missing METALLICA Fan Sighting Was A 'False Alarm'

October 24, 2009

WHSV.com reports that police in Charlottesville, Virginia say a sighting of a METALLICA fan who has been missing for a week was a "false alarm."

Acting on a tip, police shut down access to the Comfort Inn motel at I-64 and Route 250 in Charlottesville Saturday morning and confirmed they were looking for Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington.

However, after fingerprinting a blue truck in the motel parking lot and having bloodhounds search the surrounding areas, police say the sighting was a "false alarm."

In other news, The Roanoke Times reports that investigators trying to find Harrington said their scrutiny of surveillance video from the area around the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville — where the 20-year-old disappeared — has ended in frustration.

The footage has not yielded any clues to the Roanoke County woman's disappearance, said Corinne Geller, spokeswoman for the Virginia State Police.

"We've looked at all the surveillance video — gas stations, convenience stores, ATMs — any camera in that immediate area has been looked at," Geller said. "Nothing in the videos is relevant to the case."

Harrington vanished on October 17 while attending a METALLICA concert with friends. Her friends told investigators she left them sometime that night to go to a restroom and wound up outside the arena, which has a no-readmittance policy. Harrington called her friends to say she would either meet them after the concert or find another way home.

State police have set up a tip line at (434) 352-3467 and offered a reward that Harrington's father said now stands at $100,000.

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