Gil Harrington: Morgan Harrington Murdered and Dead for Good

Gil Harrington: Morgan Harrington Murdered and Dead for Good
In her hands, Gil Harrington held both the abomination of her
daughter’s
gap-toothed skull, and the mother of her daughter’s killer,
blessing them both.
The phone rang that bright October morning: "Hello, this is the
Charlottesville Police Department calling. We've found your
daughter's purse on the ground..." For exactly 100 nights, Gil
Harrington and her family stumbled, agonized, and learned to
function in the uncharted hell of the Missing. Twenty-year old
beautiful college co-ed Morgan Harrington, chock-a-block full of
potential and promise, had gone to a concert and vanished. This is
the story of a devastated mother crawling out of blind grief to
become America's most skilled huntress. With love, eloquence, and
social media as her only weapons, Gil Harrington pursued her
daughter's murderer for five years until he was unmasked as the
marauding serial murderer, the Back to School Killer who had hidden
in plain sight as a genial, lumbering Charlottesville, Virginia
cabbie.
Morgan's mother was so crucial in the pursuit of the Back-to-School
Rapist and Killer, Jesse Matthew, that Crime Stoppers recognized
Gil and her non-profit foundation, Help Save the Next Girl, in
solving what prosecutors called "the Super Bowl of Crime Cases."
But Gil Harrington, this mother of a murdered precious daughter, is
something very different from an investigator. Hers is one of the
rare, intimate voices needed in our world right now, when fear and
hatred are rampant. Her voice marries the pragmatism of an incisive
oncology nurse and the originality of an authentic, raw prose-poet
to give the world the tool kit we all need to forge hope.
Harrington’s voice is joined by artist, Jane Lillian Vance, who
attended Matthew’s trials. Vance’s essays witness Gil’s grace, and
the stunning alchemy of darkness into freedom.

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