College Student Disappears After Metallica Concert
JILL HARRINGTON, MORGAN`S MOTHER: As you can tell we`re pretty distraught with her absence. And want her back home as soon as we can. We`ll be fine, because we miss our little baby. She is our precious daughter. And we hope that this attention can help bring her back to our home.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: That was the heartbroken mother of Morgan Harrington. Her daughter vanished Saturday during a crowded Metallica concert on the University of Virginia campus. The Virginia Tech student, we don`t know, but it`s quite possible that she could be the latest victim on the war on women, as the battleground appears to shift to college campuses. Just last month Annie Le, a Yale grad student, was found murder and stuffed inside the walls of a university laboratory. This innocent woman was inside a secure Ivy League building, and now she is dead. We certainly hope that this young woman that we`re talking about tonight comes back safe and sound. Curtis Sliwa, you`ve been hearing all of this. You`re an expert in fighting crime. What are your thoughts in terms of what cops need to do to find out what happened to Morgan?</s>CURTIS SLIWA, FOUNDER, GUARDIAN ANGELS: Well, two things. As you mentioned, Jane, you go to a concert, you go outside, you`re not getting back in, because the people at the gate already know that ruse. You normally leave the concert area because you want to do something inside the concert that might be illegal and you can`t, so you go outside and you do you it. Maybe with friends, maybe with people you just hooked up with. Second, you notice they find the purse and the cell phone without the battery. I can`t tell you how many times guys and gals have had fights, and the guy immediately says, "I`m taking your battery until you calm down." There`s all of a sudden some kind of momma drama out there, and it`s the battery that they take out of the cell phone. So I`m assuming something went wrong out at parking lot or in the immediate area of the arena. And these are heavy metal-heads, remember. This is not an Usher concert, where everyone is cool, calm and collected. These are headbangers. The headbangers` ball. They`re freaky and deaky to begin with.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: You`re right, Metallica concert. I love Metallica. But I know what you`re saying. It attracts a certain kind of tough crowd, in a sense. Although, it kind of attracts middle-age people too, because they`re that old at this point. But joining me on the phone is Wayne Townsend. He believes he saw Morgan at the Metallica concert Saturday night. Now, this is a Facebook page Wayne created to help spread the word about Morgan`s disappearance. Wayne, tell us what you saw Saturday night. Did anything stand out to you at all?</s>WAYNE TOWNSEND, WITNESS (via phone): Well, when I pulled up the news Monday morning after hearing about Morgan`s case, after seeing her picture and the description of what she was wearing, it just kind of stuck a bell in the back of my head. And I said, you know, I do remember seeing a girl that matched that description. However, the only thing that...</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Wait.</s>TOWNSEND: The only place that I can actually describe the location in the arena, cause it was, you know, very crowded throughout the whole area.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Inside or outside? Was she outside?</s>TOWNSEND: She was inside on the -- as you call it, the upper corridor, where all the vendors are and where they serve all the beers and the I.D. check.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Was she alone?</s>TOWNSEND: I couldn`t tell if she was alone, because there was so many people, and it was kind of like a passing by kind of thing.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: But she says she went out to go to the bathroom and couldn`t get back in. Was this she after she went into the bathroom or would this be something inside the stadium?</s>TOWNSEND: This was going to be inside the stadium is where I can remember seeing -- seeing her.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Whew, wow, but she didn`t seem in any kind of anxiety?</s>TOWNSEND: You know, I mean, we were all kind of, sort of pushed through and kind of like to get where we were going. I mean, everyone kind of -- had a bit of anxiety to them, you know, trying to push through. And kind of get to whatever part of the arena that they were trying to get to.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Brian Russell, psychologist. What do you make of the fact that this was a Metallica concert, and it would attract a certain kind of customer?</s>BRIAN RUSSELL, PSYCHOLOGIST: Well, I don`t know that I`d make, really, that much of that. I`d be interested in hearing from the caller who was at concert. Is this is the kind of a venue where somebody could end up outside the ticket gates, trying to get to the restroom? Or must there have been some other reason for going outside of the ticket area?</s>HONOWITZ: That`s what I -- that`s what I was saying. Yes.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Wayne, are you still there?</s>TOWNSEND: I`m here.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: All right. Karen Desoto, I know you`ve been cheated a little bit tonight. Just tell us your thoughts in ten seconds.</s>KAREN DESOTO, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: My thoughts in ten seconds are three things. This is a young girl. We knew from her dad that she`s very trusting. She was separated from the pack. Those are three elements that predators will definitely look for. And even more so...</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: And we`re going to leave it right there. We`re going to hold on one second. We`ll be right back. Just a moment.