By: Greg Botelho
Source: CNN
About a week or two ago, the parents of 18-year-old Hannah Graham
released a video on the news begging the people of Charlottesville, Virginia to
help them look for their missing daughter. Hannah was last seen early the
morning of September 13 near the University of Virginia. After about 5 weeks
(35 days) of nonstop searches, they found human body remains on an abandoned
property eight miles away from the university. The police found a video of her
leaving the Tempo Bar around 2 AM the night she was last seen, alongside a 32
year old man named Jesse Matthew. On September 24, Matthew was found in
Galveston, Texas, on a beach, and was charged with abduction with the intent to
defile.
Jesse Matthew was also linked by forensic evidence to the
case of Morgan Harrington in 2009, who was last seen hitchhiking outside of
Charlottesville in October, then later found dead on a nearby farm the
following January. Matthew was not arrested for the Harrington case, as her
cause of death is still under investigation.
The disappearance of Hannah Graham caused more than 1,200
volunteers to go searching for her. Since they are not yet 100% sure that the
human remains belong to her, they are not jumping to any conclusions yet. But
the missing case is now considered a “death investigation”. Later in the day,
the Facebook page dedicated to her, “Help Find Hannah Graham”, was full of
heart wrenching and broken reactions from family, friends, and strangers alike.
I chose to write about this article because losing a child
is the hardest thing for parents; whether it is a missing child or a dead one.
Although her death might come as closure to the family and end the torture of
not knowing, it is the worst kind of news one can get; even to someone like me
who is getting emotional although I never knew Hannah Graham. This is a pain
that causes such a wound that can never be healed and I would never wish it
upon anybody.
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