The FBI, Virginia police agencies and Metallica are partnering in a new multimedia campaign to find the man who killed college student Morgan Harrington in 2009 and raped a Fairfax woman in 2005.
The campaign, launched Wednesday, includes sketches featured on D.C. bus shelters, digital billboards along the East Coast, social media alerts and a public-service announcement from Metallica lead guitarist James Hetfield.
Harrington, a student at Virginia Tech, was last seen while leaving a Metallica concert on Oct. 17, 2009. Her body was found in a field at an Albemarle County farm in January 2010; DNA evidence was later linked to a September 2005 sexual assault in Fairfax City.
“Any information, no matter how small you might think it is, could be that crucial piece investigators need to help solve the case,” Hetfield says in the video.
In the past year-and-a-half, similar media campaigns have led to an arrest in the East Coast Rapist case and helped the FBI track down fugitive gangster James “Whitey” Bulger.
“We’ve seen them work,” FBI spokesman Andrew Ames said.
