Man kills serial pedophile
Monday, Sep. 8 2008 @ 9:14PM
According to a message sent to the Facebook group devoted to finding missing NYC middle school teacher Hannah Emily Upp, Hannah may still be alive.
The e-mail was sent to members of the group tonight by Hannah's brother, Dan "Wally" Upp. Dan wrote:
Hannah has been seen, and she is alive! There is still a lot of things we don't know, but here is what we can say so far."There's been a confirmed report that she has recently been seen alive in midtown NYC. We are ready to welcome Hannah back, with no questions asked. If anyone sees her, call 911 immediately."
We're not quite out of the woods yet, but this is obviously an incredible sign of hope. Please continue your vigilance and get this word out!
Hallelujah!
It's a good time to remind anyone reading this that missing persons cases don't always involve a criminal act, but they are of interest to people who follow crime stories, in part because of the mystery.
Dan's e-mail opens up the possibility that Hannah may have, for lack of a better term, "freaked out" about her job and the beginning of the new school year. Perhaps she had no idea as to how she should handle her situation, and emotionally, she imploded.
Whatever the case, if Hannah comes home more or less okay and was missing of her own volition, her disappearance will then be a personal matter for her and her family to deal with.
Dan Upp sent me an e-mail today explaining why Hannah's friends and family are trying to be careful and balance the information they give to the public about the missing 23-year-old. "[We] are trying to be very careful with how much of Hannah's personal information we release to the world, out of concern for her safety," he wrote. Later, in the same e-mail, Dan clarified some of his and his familys' worries: "[To] keep from discouraging other sickos out there, we are being! careful about what we freely disclose to a mass audience [...] I just want to say that there are still going to be questions that I am not going to answer for the sake of Hannah's safety."
I don't know how the new sighting of this missing woman was "verified," but the caution expressed by her brother in his e-mail to me tells me this midtown sighting is cause for hope. That can only be a good thing.
wnbc in New York is saying that she was spotted twice at an Apple store checking her e-mail. What I thought was interesting was that the article said that she had "dropped out of sight" for a short time during the last school year and had been experiencing some issues with her job.
http://www.wnbc.com/news/17423929/detail.html
If true, I hope the poor girl gets the help she needs.
Posted 09/08/2008 at 10:21:15 PMMy initial thought was she left voluntarily. I pray that is the case.
Posted 09/08/2008 at 10:47:24 PMHanna...I don't know you...but I've been following your case. If you are taking the time to go online and check in...PLEASE contact your friends and family. They are worried sick over you.
Posted 09/09/2008 at 02:21:42 AMWhy hasn't the police hacked into her email account to see who has been emailing her, considering it is important enough that she would risk checking it in public?
Posted 09/09/2008 at 09:45:04 AMFrom what I've read, the security cameras collected her visit to the Apple store, and her family reviewed the films and verified that it was indeed her.
Posted 09/09/2008 at 05:42:07 PMUpp may be a Dissociative Fugue victim. Typically they have full or partial amnesia but retain some of their practical knowledge. Remembering email addresses indicates she may recover and seek help. Other victims have done that.
In an altered mental state she left under her own power but not with full mental capacity. Many victims completely recover with no harmful after effects.
Posted 09/10/2008 at 12:53:37 AM"[To] keep from discouraging other sickos out there, we are being careful" makes no sense.
Posted 09/14/2008 at 08:01:02 PM