As the community search for missing Tech junior Morgan Harrington continues with a reward of $150,000 for her return, the family of Heidi Childs has issued a new statement to generate leads in the case.
The Harrington family and Jefferson Area Crime Stoppers have set a reward of $100,000 to anyone who returns Morgan Harrington or has information regarding the people responsible for her disappearance.
Metallica has also added an additional $50,000 to the reward value, making the total reward $150,000.
In a separate statement, Don Childs, father of Heidi Childs, who was slain along with sophomore David Metzler two months ago in Jefferson National Forest, urged the community to come forward with tips.
“I ask each of you who live in the area of the murders to think back and try to remember anything you can about that night,” the statement read. “Any small amount of information may be the key to locating who committed this act, which has forever changed our lives.”
He said the pain is still tangible in his family and in the family of David Metzler.
“The past two months have been very difficult for my family, as well as the Metzler family,” the statement read. “My wife and I have had to take painstaking steps to attain some form of resolution to Heidi’s life. We have had to do things that no parent should ever have to do. We have had to clean out her apartment, a very emotional undertaking; close her Virginia Tech accounts; as well as cancel her cell phone service, a very emotional event, losing forever the sound of her voice on the recording, which we have called just for some form of comfort.”
Childs and Metzler were found dead in the Caldwell Fields area of Jefferson National Forest on Aug. 26.
Anyone with information related to the Childs and Metzler case is asked to call the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office at 540-382-6900 or Virginia State Police at 800-542-5959.
The statement said a reward of $68,000 is offered in the case.
In the Harrington case, police are asking anybody who has information to immediately contact Jefferson Area Crime Stoppers, Virginia State Police, or the UVa Police Department.
The Jefferson Area Crime Stoppers is a non-profit organization designed to assist police with solving crimes. The group assists departments including UVa Police Department, Charlottesville Police Department, Virginia State Police and Charlottesville Sheriff’s Department.
