(CNN) Gone but not forgotten.
Morgan Harrington a 20 year old Virginia Tech student disappeared in October 2009. Her remains were found a few months later.
Her death remains a mystery but it's back in the news this week because of the arrest of Jesse Matthew the only known suspect in the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham.
Virginia State Police have not said how the two cases are connected except to say there is a new forensic link.
Hannah Graham joins growing missing list Police Jesse Matthew linked to 2009 caseThey are pursing that link with the hope of being able to provide finally some sort of closure for the Harrington family whatever that may look like.
There's a suspect and possibility of a link to Morgan's murder and I am so pleased that that has happened but it doesn't change a lot for us in some ways Harrington's mother Gil Harrington told CNN affiliate WSLS on Monday.
You know our bedroom is still empty upstairs. We're still not going to have the grandchildren the wedding those things she said.
Can arrest in Hannah Graham disappearance solve other cases
The disappearance
Harrington disappeared on October 17 2009 after attending a Metallica concert at the University of Virginia's John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville Virginia.
She had been so excited about the concert according to her mother that she posted the tickets on the refrigerator about six months ahead of time. She tried on three outfits before settling on what to wear a crystal necklace and a black T shirt with the word Pantera spelled out in tan letters.
Police say she left her friends to use the restroom during the concert. When she did not return her friends called her cell phone.
Harrington told them she was outside the arena and could not get back in because of its re entry policy but not to worry and that she would find a ride home.
There are restroom inside the arena and to this day it's not clear why she left.
Witnesses later saw someone matching Harrington's description walking along a nearby bridge. No further sightings were reported.
Harrington's purse along with her identification and cell phone was found the following day in an overflow parking lot near the arena.
Her remains were discovered January 2010 on a nearby farm.
Another link
On a website dedicated to Harrington the education major is described as a true original.
Time is moving on so very quickly but we are not. We are stuck in the limbo of not knowing the purgatory of no answers no justice. How can it be possible that 4 years of investigation has not ferreted out your murderer (s ) We are determined to do just that find him. Frantic actually to find him before he kills again it reads.
Besides the connection to the Graham case police have linked Harrington's death with the kidnapping and assault of another woman in Fairfax Virginia in 2005.
That woman who survived the attack was able to provide police with enough of a description to make a sketch.
Authorities have not publicly identified the woman who gave the description but have said her case was connected to Harrington's case through DNA.
If Matthew is linked to Harrington's death and Harrington's death is linked to the kidnapping and rape of the woman in Fairfax then is Matthew linked to the Fairfax case
So many questions. So few answers.
But there's at least one thing Harrington's family knows and for which it is grateful.
I know where Morgan is. However this unfolds I know where my girl is. She's in a box in the living room Harrington's mother told WSLS.
Hannah Graham's family do not know where their daughter is she said. We need to find her. The investigation needs to find her and most of all her family needs to find her.
HLN's Nancy Grace and CNN's Mariano Castillo and Eliott McLaughlin contributed to this report.
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