The family of Hannah Elizabeth Graham, the 18-year-old University of Virginia student who went missing over the weekend, said Tuesday she is a conscientious young woman who would not just vanish out of the blue. 'Those of us who know and love Hannah know that she would not disappear without contacting family or friends. She is highly responsible and organized,' Graham's family said in a statement.
Graham, a native of England, may have gotten lost after leaving a party early Saturday, just before she went missing, police said. She sent a message to a friend saying she didn't know where she was around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, and friends said they last saw her in person at an off-campus apartment complex just before midnight Friday. Authorities in Charlottesville, Virginia, used a bloodhound to search the area Sunday night, but came up empty.
'Hannah is not the kind of kid that would just go on a road trip and disappear,' Stephen Rice, the band director at her alma mater, West Potomac High School in Virginia, told NBC Washington. 'She was always very diligent with everything she did, and always did everything exactly by the book.' Graham is described as 5-foot-11, with blues eyes, light brown hair and reckless. She was seen on a surveillance camera before her disappearance wearing a black crop top with mesh cutouts and black pants. Graham's family on Tuesday thanked law enforcement, the University and the missing student's friends for their help during 'this difficult time.'
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First published September 16 2014, 6:13 AM
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