More updates in the case of the human remains found on a south Albemarle farm this morning, that are likely to be Morgan Harrington, the Virginia Tech student who has been missing since October 17:

David Bass, who owns Anchorage Farm where the body was discovered this morning, told C-VILLE that in the course of checking fences this morning, in a location he arrived at via tractor, “I saw what looked like a dead deer. When I got a little closer, it didn’t look like a deer skull.” Bass further confirmed that clothing was found near the body, but added that Virginia State Police have asked him to not divulge further details.

Bass told C-VILLE that there is “no real history of trespassing” on his property, which county records show he has owned since 1985. He has no idea, he says, how the body got there, as the location where it is found is not accessible by car.

Meanwhile the Newsplex is reporting that in a phone call to a reporter, Morgan Harrington’s mother, Gil Harrington, said the state police informed her that the remains are probably her daughter’s. The State Police have a news conference scheduled for 5 p.m. today.

Gil Harrington tells the channel she believes the remains are her daughter.

“We don’t think it’s been proved definitively yet, but it’s most likely

“So, we want to go and be on hand and see if that determination can be made. Or if we can help in making that determination.”

“I was hoping we would find her alive, but at least we won’t always be wondering for a lifetime.”

“We’re still kind of processing, trying to, although all this time, we’ve been trying to prepare ourselves for this endpoint”.

“But thinking you’re doing it and having done it are different. So we’re trying to figure to how to be a tripod now instead of a four-legged strong table that we have been [as a family]. We haven’t done it. We’ll figure it out, but we haven’t done it yet.”