New Evidence Found in Morgan Harrington Case

Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington was found murdered after becoming separated from friends while attending an Oct. 17 Metallica concert in Virginia. Finally, there has been a new development in the still unsolved case. Reports are surfacing that new forensic evidence collected in the ongoing investigation into Harrington's death matches evidence from another unsolved event, the abduction and sexual assault of a woman in Northern Virginia in 2005.

Investigators have been trying to ascertain how Harrington was murdered since her remains were discovered, admitting only that the person who killed her likely knew the area where her body was found, due to its remote location and property obstacles; her parents have gone on record to say that her bones were shattered in the attack and that an abundance of physical evidence was left behind.

A spokeswoman for the state police refused to provide details on what kind of forensic evidence was discovered to link the two cases. Police released a composite sketch of a suspect from the 2005 case, which was culled from the victim's recollection of the attacker. Cops did say that the suspect may have altered his appearance in the interim. In the 2005 case, a young woman was grabbed from behind by an unknown assailant while walking home from a store in Fairfax. He sexually assaulted her in the pool area of a housing complex.

Harrington's distraught mother Gil posted the following statement on the family website on Wednesday: "That corpse will not rest. Morgan wants justice. A day of reckoning is coming!"