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Nancy Grace

Elin Reportedly Joins Tiger for therapy at Sex Rehab

Aired January 29, 2010 - 20:00   ET

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NANCY GRACE, HOST: Breaking news tonight. Golf superstar Tiger Woods drives out of his multi-million-dollar compound barefoot 2:00 AM and has a head-on collision with a tree and a fire hydrant. As alleged mistresses hit double digits, including a swimsuit model, porn stars and waitresses, Woods gets just a slap on the wrist, even though cops are told he was drinking and prescribed sleeping pills and painkillers.

Bombshell tonight. The divorce is off. Woods in a sex rehab clinic. In the last days, wife Elin Nordegren jets to Mississippi for Woods`s in- house therapy. Tonight, we learn exactly what led to the potential divorce of the century and a fight over an estimated billion-dollar empire, reports that Tiger Woods`s wife tricked the alleged mistress into confessing by text message.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have someone down in front of my house. They hit a pole.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You don`t get up out of your bed at 2:00 AM, drive your car and run it into a tree.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I need you to do me a huge favor.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There were reports that there was a domestic dispute before Tiger Woods left his house.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My wife went through my phone and may be calling you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`ve got reporting that they had a heated argument over this woman and over the affair.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tiger set up a phone call so his alleged mistress could convince his wife that the relationship was platonic. But when Elin found out she was being played the fool, she went off.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Elin confronted him and they had an argument. And what does Tiger do? Takes an Ambien and goes to sleep. She turns into detective, and she opens up the cell phone, she looks through his text messages and she finds one that really hits her, in which he writes to Uchitel and says, You`re the one I really love.

JAIMEE GRUBBS, TIGER`S ALLEGED MISTRESS: I thought it was time for, you know, his wife to know and for me to let it go.

GRACE: In a couple of hours, smashup and wife runs out of the house or comes out in a golf cart armed with a golf club.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Because things are coming to a head on the issue of whether she`s going to get a divorce, I think she`s ready to have a few of her friends present the fact that they think she`s not only the victim here but that she was smart enough to take things into her own hand and find out what happened.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Meanwhile, Elin reportedly arrives back in Orlando Sunday night after allegedly spending last week visiting Woods at sex rehab.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Elin, welcome back to Orlando. How`s everything going?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: His wife, Elin, apparently gave him an ultimatum - - either go into this clinic, or -- you know, or basically, she was going to divorce him.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We`re hearing that she`s, you know, a very tough woman, that she doesn`t, you know, take this kind of thing lying down.

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GRACE: And tonight, a young Virginia Tech co-ed keeps tickets to A Metallica concert on the refrigerator six months. She goes to the concert with friends, but just before the band takes the stage, she goes missing.

Bombshell tonight. State police positively identify a skeletonized body. It is 20-year-old Morgan Harrington, the body found in the midst of a 700-acre farm. Tonight, we learn investigators convinced she was murdered the very night she disappears, before the concert was even over. Why?

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know, this is not what we had hoped would be the end for Morgan. We were hoping we would find Morgan alive.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s clear, as you see us, our sorrow is etched in our faces. Our pain has been carved into our hearts.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: David Bass, owner of the farm, was riding on his tractor about 8:30 Tuesday morning when he made the discovery. Bass is baffled about how the remains ended up in a remote part of his farm.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s an inaccessible place. I couldn`t get my pick-up there. My tractor, four-wheel drive, yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: As a family, the Harringtons kept hope one day they`d find Morgan alive.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: At least we now have some peace and we`re able to have some closure.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This has been an unimaginable, horrific journey.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The next is trying to determine cause of death. Now, you know, the -- it was most likely very skeletonized remains. There were some personal effects there, apparently, that led them to believe it was Morgan. But now again, cause of death?

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GRACE: Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Bombshell tonight. The divorce is off. Tonight, Tiger Woods in addiction rehab, sex addiction. This as reports surface Tiger Woods`s wife, Elin Nordegren, tricks the alleged mistress into confessing to her by text message.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, it`s -- it`s Tiger. I need you to do me a huge favor.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right now, Tiger Woods stands for infidelity, adultery, what happened?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What led up to the crash that we learned that Elin had found Tiger`s phone, and on it she had seen text messages.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you think Tiger loves you?

GRUBBS: There were times where I feel that, you know, he could have.

GRACE: Coincidentally, the incident occurred just hours after the story hit the stand with a "National Enquirer" front cover that Tiger Woods was allegedly involved in an affair with a New York party girl.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The day before Thanksgiving, Tiger knew that the "National Enquirer" story was going to run, and he actually convinced his girlfriend, Rachel Uchitel, to call Elin and to tell her, We`re just -- we`ve met only a couple of times. We`re just platonic friends. And Elin brought that. It bought Tiger 24 hours. But the next day, information in the "National Enquirer" was coming out that they had an affair in Australia, that they had met. Elin confronted him and they had an argument. And what does Tiger do? Does he admit the truth, come forward and say (INAUDIBLE) No, takes an Ambien and goes to sleep and leaves his cell phone. He so underestimates his wife, Elin, that he doesn`t think she`s going to do anything.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There`s a lot rumors and speculation floating around that the reason that Tiger Woods is allegedly in this sex rehab is because she gave him an ultimatum -- Either change, get some help, promise you`re not going to cheat anymore, or I`m going to take off.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And when she got off the phone with Rachel, she woke him up, yelling. And what does he do? He makes a major mistake in judgment. He locks himself in the bathroom for a few minutes. When he comes out, she`s able to get the cell phone out of his hand. And what`s the text message? You know, text messages don`t disappear. They`re around. They`re there to verify the people (ph) will (ph) have them is on Tiger`s phone and on Rachel Uchitel`s phone.

He sends Rachel a message that says in essence -- and I`m paraphrasing here because these people didn`t see it, which is, She knows, which means Elin knows. I`m packing. Divorce could be coming. And at that point, she starts pummeling him on his chest and arms with her fists and then grabs a golf club. That`s when he`s out of the house barefoot into the car.

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GRACE: To David Caplan, "people" magazine. What do you know about the theory that Elin Nordegren, no dummy, gets ahold of Tiger Woods`s phone and tricks the mistress into confessing an affair with Woods?

DAVID CAPLAN, "PEOPLE" MAGAZINE: You know, this is really smart on sort of Elin`s part because she was so enraged about it. You know, she takes the phone and she texts Rachel. She sees his number. She`s listed by name, Rachel Uchitel, in Tiger`s phone -- and says, I miss you, when am I going to see you again? Rachel, thinking, of course, it`s Tiger, you know, responds back something along the lines, expressing surprise that Tiger was up.

And this was after 1:00 AM that night, which implied that they had spoken -- that Rachel and Tiger had spoken earlier in the evening and that, you know, he knew that Rachel knew Tiger was going to sleep. Then, obviously, Rachel was, you know, surprised. Elin then calls up Rachel and said something to the effect of, I knew it was you. Rachel was shocked. And then needless to say, the conversation ended.

GRACE: OK. Number one, exhibit number 1, Eleanor Odom, what woman needs to know what time your husband is going to sleep?

ELEANOR ODOM, PROSECUTOR: Well, certainly no woman. And I say Elin did a good job at detective school because she was able to find out the information she needed, especially if she`s going to divorce him.

GRACE: Renee Rockwell, if this does go to court, would those text messages come in?

RENEE ROCKWELL, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Absolutely, Nancy. Why wouldn`t they come in? There`s no privilege. And this was something that he left out and in the open. But I can tell you this. She could be prosecuted for going into his text message, going into his voicemail or going into his e- mail.

GRACE: OK, Renee...

ROCKWELL: That`s actionable.

GRACE: ... how many years have you been practicing law?

ROCKWELL: Thirty.

GRACE: I couldn`t hear you. Repeat?

ROCKWELL: Three-zero.

GRACE: OK. Renee, please just try to tell the truth, OK? You`re not in court. Nobody`s going to jail. You really think there`s going to be a prosecution because somebody picks up a BlackBerry that`s just sitting there and they send an e-mail?

ROCKWELL: No. I`m not saying that she`s going to get prosecuted, but I`m saying in the long lines of things that happened that evening, that could be prosecuted, number one. I think there was probably some domestic violence that went on. That`s not going to get prosecuted.

GRACE: That`s not what you said, Renee! Try to just -- try to just stay in the middle of the road with me.

ROCKWELL: OK. In the long line...

GRACE: You just said she could be prosecuted for getting onto his BlackBerry.

ROCKWELL: She -- this is something that -- this is absolutely a violation of his privacy.

GRACE: You know what? I`m sure she`s scared tonight. What about it, Odom?

PETER ODOM, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, if she is -- I don`t think anybody is going to prosecute her at this point. I think it shows some savvy on her part, just the fact that she was a good detective, Nancy.

GRACE: Let me just tell you something, Odom. You`re recently married. That`s a wife`s job, to go through all of her husband`s BlackBerries and e-mails, OK? I tried to read my husband`s once. They were so boring, I nearly passed out.

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GRACE: I haven`t tried that stunt again. Back to David Caplan. Did he reportedly tell the girl, You`re the only one I`ve ever loved?

CAPLAN: Yes, he did, which obviously shocked, and that`s why she was so furious about it.

GRACE: OK. To Alexis Tereszcuk, Radaronline.com. What more can you tell me, Alexis?

ALEXIS TERESZCUK, RADARONLINE.COM: Well, after Elin saw the text message that you just mentioned, that`s she`s the only one that he loved, she was furious. He had gone to bed, taken the Ambien, which makes you sleep very soundly. She woke him by screaming, scared him, woke him up, and that`s when they got in a huge fight.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The day before Thanksgiving, Tiger knew that the "National Enquirer" story was going to run, and he actually convinced his girlfriend, Rachel Uchitel, to call Elin and to tell her, We`re just -- we`ve met only a couple times. We`re just platonic friends. And Elin brought that. It bought Tiger 24 hours. But the next day, information in the "National Enquirer" was coming out that they had an affair in Australia, that they had met. Elin confronted him and they had an argument. And what does Tiger do? Does he admit the truth, come forward and say (INAUDIBLE) No, takes an Ambien and goes to sleep and leaves his cell phone. He so underestimates his wife, Elin, that he doesn`t think she`s going to do anything.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My two officers arrived at the scene and noticed Tiger Woods laying on the ground.

911 OPERATOR: Is he unconscious?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

911 OPERATOR: OK. Are you able to tell if he`s breathing?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, I can`t tell right now.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This story just doesn`t make sense. You don`t get up out of your bed at 2:00 AM, drive your car and run it into a tree.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There were reports that there was a domestic dispute before Tiger Woods left his house in the SUV. There were some reports that what actually happened was that she struck the SUV with a golf club. Her story was that she actually used that to get him out.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tiger Woods makes a public admission and says he regrets his transgressions. He is apologizing for personal failings.

GRUBBS: It`s just kind of, you know, this -- this was a man I cared about. This was a man I spent two-and-a-half years with.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Your husband may have allegedly been with 16 different women.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`re getting it from multiple sources.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s all blowing up as we speak.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s like a bakery, take a number and next, apparently. And I`m sure there are many more. This guy`s a playboy.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She turns into detective. And she opens up the cell phone, she looks through his text messages and she finds one that really hits her in which he writes to Uchitel and says, You`re the one I really loved. And then she decides to text Uchitel and pretend she`s Tiger. She says, I miss you. When am I going to see you again? Uchitel sends back a text that says, essentially, I`m surprised you`re awake, which tells Elin that the two had communicated that night because Uchitel knew that Tiger had gone to...

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GRACE: Out to Dr. Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst, author of "Deal Breakers." Obviously, Elin Nordegren did not believe a word of what the two of them cooked up -- I`m talking about Tiger Woods and alleged mistress Rachel Uchitel -- because the minute he goes to sleep, zonked out on Ambien, she gets into his BlackBerry and not only texts but calls Uchitel.

BETHANY MARSHALL, PSYCHOANALYST: She is a very smart girl. And I would like to offer Elin another investigative tool. If she goes to sex rehab with Tiger, there`s going to be a lot of pressure on her because he`s going to have to take a sexual inventory and talk about all of his past deeds because if he keeps engaging in the compulsion, he won`t be able to engage in treatment. She`s going to have to hear -- hear all of this. She may be pressured or compelled to feel that he has a sexual compulsion, and if she hangs in there long enough, he`ll get better.

Here`s her investigative tool. At some point, a therapist has to ask him, and she needs to know the truth -- as him, Tiger, if you are kept from engaging in this compulsion, if you`re kept from having sex with other women, would you have unbearable stress and tension and anxiety and be mad at the people around you? If he says yes, it`s a true compulsion. If he says no, he`s just a cheating, lying cheater.

Either way, it`s not good because compulsions wax and wane over the course of a lifetime. They`re a sign of a very serious disorder. And if he was just a cheater and there was no underlying compulsion, it implies a serious, serious corruption of conscience.

GRACE: But Bethany, how does this whole rehab work, where she has to come and be part of the therapy?

MARSHALL: Well, here`s what happens and here`s the underlying theory. The addict -- so-called addict -- first has to take an inventory of all of his sexual behaviors. He has to promise abstinence, that he won`t pleasure himself, have sex with other people because, again, if he`s engaging in his compulsion, how can he think about what`s leading to the compulsion? Because it`s important to know compulsions are when a person engages in an action to neutralize underlying tension or anxiety. Then he has to think about those underlying feelings and then he has to talk to his wife about it.

Now, common wisdom is that the husband and wife have mutual psychopathology and are co-conspirators in some way, and that they both need the counseling and that the wife really deserves to know what`s going on, not only so she can make a decision, but if she`s participating in a dysfunctional way, she gets the treatment, too. That`s conventional wisdom.

However, if she`s a really healthy individual and she`s really strong, she`s going to be able to hold together both the good and the bad side of him. She`s going to see that, in some ways, maybe he`s a great husband, but in others, he`s been terribly cruel and thoughtless and degrading and demeaning to her.

I hope she`s not one of these women where if the guy gives her a bunch of roses and then disappears for two weeks, all she thinks about is the roses and she can`t think about the fact that he`s disappeared. That would be very dysfunctional.

GRACE: Back to David Caplan with "People" magazine. Now, I know -- or at least we`ve been told that he did not want to go to rehab, that this is a condition of her calling off legal proceedings. But is there any talk of her saying, OK, I`ll stay in the marriage, the divorce is off, if you tear up the prenup?

CAPLAN: We haven`t heard anything about that, relating to the prenup. We`ve just heard that she really does want to save the marriage for the kids and then stay together, even if it means living together as friends, not lovers really. But we haven`t heard anything yet about relating to the prenup.

GRACE: What about it, Alexis?

TERESZCUK: Well, actually, Elin has been negotiating the changes in the prenup because she was given not quite as much money as she could get now. So that has been a conversation that we are reporting that she has been having, that she wants more money than she had originally in the prenup. And that seems to be something that is one of the conditions that they are going to work on. She`s, you know, had some requirements that he`s try to fulfill, and one of them is maybe giving her more money.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He`s behaving like a 13-year-old boy! This isn`t serial cheating, this is concurrent cheating. I think he splits off his wife, who`s the mother, and his sexual relationships with other women, and one has nothing to do with the other in his head, and therefore, it`s OK.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And when she got off the phone with Rachel, she woke him up yelling. And what does he do? He makes a major mistake in judgment. He locks himself in the bathroom for a few minutes. When he comes out, she`s able to get the cell phone out of his hand. And what`s the text message? You know, text messages don`t disappear. They`re around. They`re there to verify the people who have them is on Tiger`s phone and on Rachel Uchitel`s phone.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He sends Rachel a message that says, in essence -- and I`m paraphrasing here because these people didn`t see it -- which is, She knows, which means Elin knows. I`m packing. Divorce could be coming. And at that point, she starts pummeling him on his chest and arms with her fists and then grabs a golf club. That`s when he`s out of the house barefoot, into the car. You know, text messages don`t disappear. They`re around. They`re there to verify. The people who have them is on Tiger`s phone and on Rachel Uchitel`s phone.

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GRACE: Straight out to Mark Williams, reporter and anchor there at Halifaxareanewswatch.com. Mark, thank you for being with us. Mark, if she on her own can pull up all this, what can a private eye do? And how can you confirm that all of this is really happening, that he is at the rehab and Elin Nordegren, the wife, is there participating?

MARK WILLIAMS, HALIFAXAREANEWSWATCH.COM: Well, we have reports that she was in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Nancy, where the sex addiction clinic is located, and that she participates or had participated in at least some of his therapy sessions.

And that`s what the clinic wants to do. They want to get the man and the wife together. And this -- after all the emotional part is over with, Nancy, some of this divorce talk that we heard about over the past month or so has been a lot of saber rattling. She talked to a California attorney who has represented high-profile figures in the past, but nothing really has come about with any sort of a divorce.

I think that`s out of the question right now. He wants to get back on her good side. That`s why he`s at the clinic, Nancy.

GRACE: Out to the lines. Kathy, Indiana. Hi, Kathy.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Nancy. How are you?

GRACE: I`m good, dear. What`s your question?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, I`m so excited to talk to you! I love you, and your twins are great!

GRACE: Well, Kathy, thank you for calling in and for watching and for caring about the twins. Thank you very much. I can`t believe they`re already 2 years old.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I can`t, either!

GRACE: John David`s almost up to my waist.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my goodness!

GRACE: It`s getting harder and harder to carry both of them at the same time, but now they just hang there. Their little feet just hang down below my knees. Go ahead, dear. What`s your question?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was calling just to get an update about Elin and see what happened, and if she did actually attend the rehab with him and what was the status. So I`ve been listening and I`m hearing more. But I wondered if there was any true confirmation or is it just reports that the divorce is off?

GRACE: What about it, David Caplan with "People?"

CAPLAN: We have -- the divorce really does want it -- she doesn`t want to proceed with the divorce right now. She does want to keep the family together. She herself is product of divorce, and she doesn`t want the same thing for her own children.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Infidelity in a marriage is one thing. And if you`re dealing with one infidelity, that can be a symptom of a marriage that is in distress. But a serial infidelity, a cheater, which appears to be what Tiger has done, is a symptom in the character of the person who is cheating.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I saw what I thought was a dead deer. I got a little closer, and it didn`t look like a deer skull.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Virginia State Police say skeletal remains have been found on Anchorage Farm on route 29 in southern Albemarle County.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Based on the evidence that was there that we recovered, we`re fairly confident at this time that the remains are those of Morgan Dana Harrington, the 20-year-old Virginia Tech student.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Police confirm that a body found at a Virginia farm is that of missing college student Morgan Harrington. The 20-year-old Virginia Tech student disappeared after attending a concert October 17th in Charlottesville.

DR. DAN HARRINGTON, MORGAN`S FATHER: This is not a random place that someone came upon accidentally. This is known to someone here. It`s a local person. And as I`ve said all along, Morgan would be found within five miles of this bridge.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I guarantee you that they`ll be going over that area, that whole farm, with a fine-toothed comb. And the other -- and the other thing is, how did that body get there?

DAN HARRINGTON: Morgan has been found, and she has been murdered. You know, we now need to find the person who did this, and we will not stop until that person is brought to justice.

This is not what we had hoped would be the end for Morgan. We were hoping we would find Morgan alive. But at least we now have some peace and we`re able to have some closure today. We wanted to come here today because this is the last place that Morgan was seen before someone took her and murdered her.

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GRACE: You are hearing Morgan`s family speaking, and they are with us tonight. First I want to go to Courteney Stuart, senior editor "The Hook." Courteney, how did they ID the remains?

COURTENEY STUART, "THE HOOK" (via telephone): My understanding, Nancy, is that they had Morgan`s dental records from earlier on in the search, and so that they were able to use those to identify. That`s my understanding.

GRACE: Joining us tonight in a primetime exclusive, the parents of Morgan Harrington speaking out. To Dr. Dan Harrington and Gil Harrington, to the two of you, thank you so much for being with us. I know that this has been a nightmare, a nightmare that you just don`t wake up from.

GIL HARRINGTON, MORGAN`S MOTHER: No.

DAN HARRINGTON: This has been -- this has been a horrific three-month period. And there is some closure now, and because of that, we do have, I think, some peace. But we now have a different agenda. We need to find out who did this.

GRACE: I can`t imagine, having been a crime victim myself, going through that period of time or any period of time not knowing what happened to the person I loved. At least I knew immediately what had become of him. But not so in your case. What was the worst part of these three months?

GIL HARRINGTON: For me, it was getting harder to hold back the thoughts and the fill-in-the-blanks of what might be happening to Morgan. At any point in the day, you`d be thinking, It`s cold outside, is she chained in a shed out somewhere in the cold? Does she have food? What is he doing to her?

For 101 days, you`re constantly thinking these thoughts. It was getting harder to hold them back. That takes a tremendous amount of psychic energy to not wallow in those thoughts and to try and search for your daughter. Now we know where she is. We know she died early on, probably the day she was taken. She had 20 wonderful years. She had one terrible day. I can handle that.

GRACE: She did have those wonderful years because, by all accounts, everyone that knew her universally says how close she was to her mother and father. Do you recall, Gil, the very last words you had with her before she left for the concert?

GIL HARRINGTON: Yes. Last thing Morgan said to me was our family lingo, a little shortness of, I love you -- two, four, one. I love you too much, forever, and once more than forever. And she said as she was walking out the door, Two, four, one, Mama. Those were her last words to me.

GRACE: To Dr. Harrington. I know, as you`ve just told us, this is not the way you wanted the search for your daughter to end. What has been the hardest thing that you have gone through for over 100 days now?

DAN HARRINGTON: I think the hardest thing that I`ve gone through is knowing that Morgan had such potential. We had just an incredible summer, I called it the miracle summer, with Morgan. And things -- she was really at the top of her game. And I think with her going missing that night in Charlottesville and for the last three months, I replay kind of what happened over the last summer and how wonderful it was. And it brings tears to my eyes and probably will tonight, too.

GRACE: Dr. Harrington, what was that miracle summer? What were the miraculous things that happened?

DAN HARRINGTON: You know, it was just -- it was the kind of summer when you have an adult relationship with your child. We had great vacations. And Morgan actually worked with me -- we were starting a new medical school here, and she worked with me at the medical school. It was kind of nice to be in meetings with her and see her in a professional world and for her actually to kind of see the work that I did.

And we actually spent every night here in the family room with her. You know, she could have gone out with friends, and she actually did spend every night with us and watched TV. And she was satisfied to be part of a family. It truly was -- it was a blessing. And somehow, maybe that was given to us by the Lord, knowing that something else was coming down the path here.

GRACE: You know, Dr. Harrington and Gil, it`s amazing to a lot of people that you still have such a strong faith in the Lord because a lot of people would be angry and turn their backs on God right now, but you`re not doing that.

DAN HARRINGTON: Well, there`s always a reason for something, and I think as Gil reminds me -- and she does have to remind me frequently -- that we`re not given more than we can -- than we can carry on our shoulders.

GRACE: I want to help you as best as that I can pursue your new goal, and that is seeking justice. Tell me, Dr. Harrington, it`s my understanding that you believe that the person that killed Morgan is from the Charlottesville area. Why do you think that?

DAN HARRINGTON: Well, I think that they`re in the Charlottesville area because when these things happen, they`re really probably not random. You know, it`s someone who is familiar with the area. And where Morgan was found, there`s absolutely no way that someone just randomly went there. They knew that part of the county. They knew that farm.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`ve certainly moved into a new stage of this investigation, and now we begin to work to determine how she came to be in this particular remote location, what the time of death was. We`ll be able to, hopefully, identify who was responsible for her being where she was found.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: New details just coming in on 20-year-old Morgan Harrington, the girl last seen outside of a Metallica concert in Virginia, the case now a homicide investigation.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Virginia State Police say skeletal remains have been found on Anchorage Farm on route 29 in southern Albemarle County.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police confirm the body found on a Virginia farm is that of missing college student Morgan Harrington.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: David Bass, owner of the farm, was riding on his tractor about 8:30 Tuesday morning when he made the discovery. Bass is baffled about how the remains ended up in a remote part of his farm.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s an inaccessible place. I couldn`t get my pick-up there.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Her father says the location of the remains suggests someone local may have been involved in her death.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`re, again, trying to find a killer.

GIL HARRINGTON: For the first time in 101 days, I am not thinking every minute, What is he doing to my daughter now? What is he doing to her? What is she having to endure? She was a long time in that field. I am happy that she was not alive long, enduring unspeakable things.

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GRACE: Out to Sheryl McCollum, crime analyst, director of the cold case squad, Pine Lake PD. It has been now put out there that many people believe that Morgan was killed before the concert was even over. How can they tell that?

SHERYL MCCOLLUM, CRIME ANALYST: Well, Nancy, probably because she was so intact -- her clothing, her, you know, belongings or whatnot. But here`s what they`re going to be doing, Nancy. They`re going to look at where she was taken from and where she was located and they`re going to going to try to figure out, where does this guy live? Where does he work?

He knows that area. I agree with Dr. Harrington. He`s very familiar. This was not a spot he just picked randomly. He knows it. He was comfortable there. He knew if she was running from him or screaming, that no one was going to see her, no one was going to hear her. He had plenty of time to do the crime and get, you know, out of there without being seen, and he knew it. So the police, again, they`re going to do their mapping to figure out -- he`s probably within a 25-mile radius of where she was found. He either lives or works or goes to school.

GRACE: Are you assuming that where they found her body was where she was killed?

MCCOLLUM: I`m assuming that`s going to be your primary crime scene. It`s not going to be secondary. Nancy, you`re talking about a 10-minute drive from when she left the concert. It`s 10 miles away. That`s a very short drive in a car. So yes, I don`t think he killed her somewhere else and then drove her another five miles. Not at all.

GRACE: Then how in the world could someone talk this young lady, extremely intelligent, extremely headstrong, into going out in a pasture, a 700-acre pasture?

MCCOLLUM: I done know that he talked her into it. Once she got into the car, for whatever reason she got in the car -- maybe it was at gunpoint. Maybe he hit her. Maybe she was unconscious. Again, what if she got out of the car and ran a mile and then he caught her? We don`t know that yet.

But what I`m hoping is that she did fight him. I`m hoping that with the snow, some of, you know, maybe his tissue was under her nails and intact. Maybe we can get some DNA. Maybe his hair is on her. I`m prayerful that she did put up some type of struggle and his evidence is there. And with the snow, that could be intact and preserved beautifully. And again, you`ve got skeletal remains. I mean, obviously, we would love a fresh body, but if you have any bones at all, you`ve got valued evidence there.

GRACE: Out to the lines. Susie, Oregon. Hi, Susie.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Nancy.

GRACE: What`s your question, dear?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just don`t understand why any person or friend would leave their friend out there alone. Has anyone talked to any of her friends or anything like that?

GRACE: To Stacey Newman, our producer on the story. What do you know, Stacey?

STACEY NEWMAN, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Well, actually, Nancy, these friends were questioned extensively by police. And remember that when she called the friends and told them she was trapped outside, she told them to go ahead and stay at the concert, that she would find a ride home. And we also heard that after the concert, the friends waited by the car for at least maybe an hour. No sign of Morgan, so they went ahead and left.

GRACE: To Dr. Marty Makary, physician of public health at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Marty, is there any way to determine how long she had been lying in that field?

DR. MARTY MAKARY, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: Absolutely, Nancy. Within a matter of the first few weeks that a body has expired -- you can usually tell within a matter of days based on the blood clotting and other signs of decomposition. When you get out a few months, you know, 100-some days, then you can tell within a few weeks. Your sensitivity goes down. But hopefully, there will be some kind of DNA evidence that will be rich, rich with clues as to who could have possibly been linked or matched or in contact with her.

GRACE: I want to go back to Morgan`s family, her father and mother, Dr. Dan Harrington and Gil Harrington. Gil, why do authorities believe that she was killed the night of the concert, possibly even during the concert?

GIL HARRINGTON: I think because her body was so deteriorated, it is evident that she has been there for some time. I don`t know that they`re sure of exact time. That has to be determined by the medical examiner. But she`s been in that field a long time, you know?

It`s a chilling image for a mom to review images of your child from her ultrasound when she was in utero to toddler pictures to my last memory of her is gazing into her empty eye sockets and her cranium. You know, that is an abomination.

We need to find the person who did this. I`m not concerned with punishment. He will be punished. He will get what is coming to him. But I am concerned for the safety of the community. This guy -- this is not an entry crime.

GRACE: No. You are so right.

Everyone, there`s a $150,000 reward, including $50,000 from the band Metallica. Go to Findmorgan.com. Tip line, 434-352-3467. And to the Harringtons, our prayers are with you.

As we go to break, on a happy note, happy birthday to (INAUDIBLE) friend, Shawn Baker (ph), the proud mother of son Mason (ph). She loves walks on the beach and taking him with her. Happy birthday, Shawn.

And tonight, happy birthday to our number one fan, Linda in Menlo. She loves the outdoors. She loves reading. She loves gardening. She loves the sound of the wind in the trees. She loves animals. And her favorite thing is her adopted cat, Ben. Happy birthday, Linda from Menlo.

But now, "CNN Heroes."

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: More than one million people have been left homeless. That`s one in nine Haitians. Hundreds of thousands now live in makeshift camps, in tents built with whatever they can find. Many don`t even have that. That`s what motivates 2008 "CNN Hero" Tom Henderson and his Shelter Box team. Since 2001, they`ve helped thousands of disaster victims around the globe by thinking inside the box.

TOM HENDERSON, SHELTER BOX: It really describes itself. It`s shelter in a box, pre-packaged aid delivered in a box, blankets, cooking pots and pans, a 10-person tent.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Twelve minutes after the Haiti earthquake, the Shelter Box crew sprang into action.

HENDERSON: The plan is to move as many boxes into Haiti as we can. The logistical challenges of getting the boxes from here into Haiti have been an absolute nightmare. Infrastructure`s virtually nonexistent.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When boxes finally arrived last week, the impact was immediate. For Henderson, that`s the whole idea.

HENDERSON: People lost everything they have in Haiti. It`s all about shelter, warmth, comfort and dignity. That`s what Shelter Box is.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: By the end of January, more than 7,000 boxes will be in Haiti, housing up to 70,000 people. But those at Shelter Box know there`s much more to be done.

HENDERSON: There are thousands of people dying every day, and that`s what drives us forward. You know, this is not a job for us, it`s a passion.

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GRACE: What a week in America`s courtrooms. Take a look at the stories, and more important, the people who touched our lives.

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GRACE: Jailhouse tapes, we`ve got them!

RONALD CUMMINGS, HALEIGH`S FATHER: Their main focus is not on putting me in jail but finding Haleigh.

GRACE: Ronald Cummings, Haleigh`s father, along with Misty Cummings - - let me tell you, people, they`re some of the hardest-working people in America. They`re out selling dope at every gas station, convenience store, you name it.

MISTY CROSLIN, HALEIGH`S BABY-SITTER: Some black guy just jumped in my car and stole my whole purse!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Misty gets her purse stolen, she sounds devastated. She gets a kid stolen, she sounds sedated.

CUMMINGS: I don`t care if they get me with injustifiable homicide. If I find out what happened to my young`un, it doesn`t matter to me. It`ll be -- it`ll be worth life without parole or the death penalty.

GRACE: (INAUDIBLE) about Ronald Cummings and what he`s saying from behind bars still breaks my heart. He`s still talking about Haleigh.

Breaking news. Amber Alert in America`s heartland. Seven-year-old Aja vanishes into thin air after Mommy`s found murdered.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE) father of Aja Johnson, I`m here to make a plea of everybody who`s listening and every parent (INAUDIBLE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Breaking news. Amber Alert. Police on the lookout for 7-year-old Aja Johnson. The Oklahoma girl vanishes with her mother`s estranged husband, Lester Hobbes.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Please, Lester, if you`re listening, anyone out there who knows where she is, please return her!

GRACE: This guy has a rap sheet as long as the interstate!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) this could be your daughter, so we need your help to find these (ph) people.

GRACE: Take a look. This is the suspect in this case. There is a chance to save this little girl.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Breaking news in southern Albemarle County. Reports indicate that the body of a female with long blond hair, dark clothing has been found on the property.

GRACE: Is this the skeleton of a beautiful 20-year-old co-ed, Morgan Harrington?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police confirm the body found on a Virginia farm is that of missing college student Morgan Harrington.

DAN HARRINGTON: This is not what we had hoped would be the end for Morgan. We were hoping we would find Morgan alive.

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GRACE: Let`s stop and remember Army Private First Class Jeremy Drexler, killed, Iraq, awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, National Defense Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal. Loved monkeys, superheroes, collecting Marilyn Manson CDs, had a big heart, would give you the shirt off his back. Leaves behind parents Debbie (ph) and Carl (ph), a Coast Guard vet, brothers Timothy (ph) and Kenneth (ph), serving the Navy and Marines. Jeremy Drexler, American hero.

Thanks to our guests but especially you (ph) for being with us. And a special good night from the New York control room. Good night, Liz, Brett (ph), Rosie. Everyone, I`ll see you tomorrow night, 8:00 o`clock sharp Eastern. Until then, good night, friend.

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