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Update: 1/29 at 5 p.m.The parents of Morgan Harrington say the discovery of her remains has resulted in a number of credible tips to investigators seeking answers to the Virginia Tech student's disappearance and death.
Gil and Dan Harrington also said Friday "a wealth of physical evidence" has been collected in the remote hayfield 10 miles southwest of Charlottesville where their daughter's skeletal remains were found Tuesday.
A spokeswoman for the Virginia State Police confirmed investigators have "received numerous tips" since the remains were discovered. Corinne Geller said she could not comment on evidence.
Twenty-year-old Morgan Harrington had been the focus of an intense search since she became separated from friends Oct. 17 while attending a Metallica concert at an arena at the University of Virginia.
A coroner has not determined the cause of her death.
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State Police have finished their search of an Albemarle Farm where the body of Morgan Harrington was found earlier this week.
Investigators were in a race against time, combing the area for evidence, before the winter storm expected to hit Virginia arrives this weekend.
The state medical examiner positively identified Harrington's remains Wednesday, but hasn't said how or when she died.
Today, one of the most respected criminal profilers in the country talks to CBS 6 about what the crime scene can reveal about a suspect.
Gregg McCrary says, "We look at all the behavior than an offender does. He has to make many many choices and body disposal is one of those important choices."
Harrington's skeletal remains were found by a farmer Tuesday on a remote area of his 700 acre property, almost a mile and a half from any roadway. Harrington's father says he's always contended the killer lives in Charlottesville and knew the area.
McCrary says Dan Harrington could be right. He says, "Under that sort of pressure people tend to go to places they are comfortable with and familiar with."
McCrary highlights another detail. He says Morgan Harrington was more likely abducted rather than a theory that she willingly accepted a ride from a stranger on the University of Virginia Campus. He says her abandoned cell phone and purse tell investigators that there was likely a struggle.
He says, "Maybe she decided, 'Oh, I don't really want to do this, this is not really where I want to go. I don't want to get in this car,' and they decided , 'no, you're going.'"
Police will be looking at these same clues to narrow their suspect scope to who is most likely to have done this.
McCrary says, "All of those things tell us a little bit about who this person or the areas they are comfortable or familiar with."
