I'm so glad to hear this.....I feel sorry for her family and what she might be going through, but I'm glad she is alive and well enough to check that facebook account.
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ACPosted:
Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:16 pm
Resigned, thanks for keeping us updated on this case.
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resignedPosted:
Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:18 pm
SavannahStar wrote:
Wow!!!!
I know!!
Hopefully everything is okay with the young woman, assuming it is her in the Apple store video........ and I'm curious to find out why she just up and left and hasn't contacted anyone.
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resignedPosted:
Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:51 pm
Did Missing Teacher Voluntarily 'Drop Out'?
Reward Offered for Missing Woman
By ASHLEY PHILLIPS
Sept. 9, 2008
A missing 23-year-old teacher, who has sparked a 10-day search by authorities, friends and family, was seen alive recently in New York, the woman's brother told ABCNews.com.
Dan "Wally" Upp said that his sister Hannah Upp, who went missing Aug. 29, according to police, was recently spotted in midtown New York City. Upp declined to comment on media reports that his sister was spotted checking her e-mail in an Apple store.
"It has been a huge sign of hope and encouragement to her friends and family, and our deepest wish is that she is found as soon as possible," he wrote in an e-mail from Japan, where he is stationed with the Navy. "We still have no idea what brought all this about or what the rest of the story is, and there is no point in speculating right now."
The sighting of Upp in Manhattan raises the possibility that she is not a victim of a crime and has voluntarily dropped out of sight.
"We just want her back safe, and we are waiting to welcome her home with open arms and open hearts with no judgment, no matter what," her brother said.
New York police told ABC News that there were no new updates in the case to report.
Hannah Upp, a second-year Spanish teacher at Thurgood Marshall Academy in Harlem, was last seen Friday afternoon, Aug. 29, in her apartment by a friend, according to police.
A teachers' union and the New York Police Department are offering a reward for help in finding the missing New York teacher whose sudden disappearance has left friends and family baffled.
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paxPosted:
Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:26 pm
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Hannah Upp Spotted!
9/9/08 at 1:30 PM
Remember when we told you about Hannah Upp, the missing Harlem public-school teacher whose friends and loved ones were in a panic? A friend convinced us to publish her missing-person ad (left). "She vanished from her Hamilton Terrace apartment suddenly, leaving behind her purse, wallet, keys, cell phone, passport and credit card," said the pal, Sarah Caldwell. "No one has heard from her since."
Well, Upp has been spotted in Manhattan, checking her e-mail at the midtown Apple Store. A surveillance camera caught her, and after reviewing the tapes, her family confirms that it is indeed the young teacher. Her brother wrote on a Facebook page devoted to the search that they are "ready to welcome Hannah back with love, and with no questions asked."
Hannah hasn't contacted any of her family and friends yet, so they continue to urge people to call 911 if they see her. Then call us afterward, please, because we really want to know what the heck is going on.
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gwenPosted:
Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:17 pm
Good news! Nice to see for a change.
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resignedPosted:
Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:40 pm
Online Message Brings New Hope To Search For Missing Teacher
There may be a break in the case of a missing Bryn Mawr College graduate. Teacher Hanna Upp, who disappeared in New York on Aug. 29, may have been spotted.
The message was posted to nearly 3,000 friends and family on a Facebook.com page titled "We're Not Giving Upp."
It claims that Upp was spotted in the last few days checking her e-mail at a midtown Manhattan Apple store.
Police confirmed they are investigating spottings around that area, but they would not elaborate.
Close friend Amanda Conroy said it was the first promising piece of news she's gotten about the 23-year-old missing woman.
"We still don't know where she is, or why she would have been there, but ... we have some hope now that she is alive and she will be found soon."
Family and friends of Hannah Upp are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Portland, Ore., native who graduated from Bryn Mawr College and majored in Spanish. She still has friends in the area, and her mother, Barbara Bellus, is from Philadelphia.
Upp was last seen at about 2:30 p.m. on Aug. 29 as she left her apartment in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of New York City, police said.
Upp's roommates found the woman's keys, phone, ATM card, subway MetroCard, wallet and passport in her room. Friends said she was carrying about $40 in cash.
She was to teach Spanish for her second year at the Thurgood Marshall Academy
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resignedPosted:
Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:11 pm
Hannah Upp May Have Been Seen in Midtown Manhattan
Posted at 9:14 PM Sep 08, 2008
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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.
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resignedPosted:
Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:41 pm
The Mysterious Case of Hannah Upp
by Tara Murtha
What's the story behind the disappearance of Bryn Mawr College grad Hannah Upp?
For family and friends of Hannah Upp, the 23–year–old New York City schoolteacher who’s been missing nearly two weeks, the question has been a straight javelin to the heart.
Upp, a Bryn Mawr College grad, class of ’07, was last seen in her apartment in the Hamilton Terrance area of East Harlem around 2:30pm on Aug. 29, before vanishing without a trace. It was as if the cracks in the city’s busy streets swallowed her whole.
Family and friends mobilized quickly. The tight–knit Bryn Mawr alum, who were g–chatting about Upp’s disappearance by Monday, set up blogs and drilled through social networks like MySpace and Facebook, scattering Upp’s picture and information across the country within hours.
Initial postings yielded few details: Upp, who had plans to visit and stay with her mother for the weekend, had been expected to return to work on Tuesday, Sept. 2 to begin her second year teaching Spanish at Thurgood Marshall Academy for Social Change, a public charter middle school based in Harlem. (Upp was a fellow in Teach for America, a program that places recent graduates in underserved schools.)
But Upp never made it to her mother’s house.
When she hadn’t returned to her apartment by Sunday evening, her roommates called her cell phone but it went straight to voicemail. Monday evening, frantic, they went into her bedroom and discovered all her keys, phone, purse, wallet, subway card and her passport, her only ID.
The slow–curdling, anxiety hit boiling point. What had happened to Hannah Emily Upp?
By all accounts, Upp is an optimistic soul, fun, spunky, and prone to throw spontaneous dance parties. ”People love to make saints of people when tragedies strike, but there is no exaggeration here,” says Kaitlin Menza, who shared a dorm hall with Upp at Bryn Mawr. ”She is one of those classic Bryn Mawr girls—absolutely convinced that she is going to change the world. She’s one of the good ones, and it is stuff like this that makes people lose their faith in the world.”
Though TV news coverage by the big three networks was minimal (only NBC ran the story on Sept. 5), by the weekend most people who go online daily, thanks to grassroots online campaigns, had seen the photo of a pretty, apple–cheeked smiling girl with a white rose tucked behind her ear.
Information on Upp was posted to websites of magazines, newspapers and high–traffic blogs, like New York magazine and the Gawker media network.
Some questioned why the mainstream news media wasn’t giving the story play. On the surface, Upp’s disappearance had all the race and class dynamics—and drama—that drives a story to the top of a news cycle: a bright (white) young attractive altruistic professional, the daughter of conservative religious clergy, disappears while teaching at an underserved school in Harlem.
But though the story didn’t catch fire with the national media, news and pleas for information sprawled across the Internet at startling speed. By Tuesday morning, the Facebook group ”We’re not giving Upp (on Hannah)” had swelled to almost 3,000 members, and by this morning there were almost 18.000 Google hits for ”Hannah Upp.”
Though the search continues to grow, the big question—What happened to Hannah Upp?—has begun to crack and splinter as evidence mounts that she may not have been abducted after all.
On Sunday Sept. 7, the New York Post confirmed that Upp had gone ”AWOL” for three days last year and had received a ”slap on the wrist” from the principal of the school for not showing up. On Monday, Sept. 8, Upp was sighted in the Apple store on Fifth Ave. near Central Park. Her family reviewed the videotape and confirmed it was her.
New statements issued from the family—primarily by her brother Dan ”Wally” Upp, who is stationed in Japan with the U.S. Navy—offer pleas to Hannah instead of pleas to the public: ”We just want Hannah to come back home safe, We’re waiting with open arms and open hearts,” he told The New York Post yesterday.
Colleen Hughes, a friend and fellow ’07 Bryn Mawr College grad, says she’s hopeful Upp is okay and will soon come home.
”She had a very hard job and she has a personality that she’d never really let you know how hard something was for her,” she says. ”So I think that it must have been a breaking point, if that’s what happened.”
Hughes says Upp often slipped ”under the radar” for a few days when she had a lot on her plate. But this time was different, Hughes says.
”She was (..??...)would never want you to worry,” she says. ”That’s the anomaly here, because everyone is so worried.”
New York City police have stated from the beginning that they do not suspect foul play.
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resignedPosted:
Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:49 am
Tuesday:
AS A RESULT OF AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION, HANNAH EMILY UPP WAS POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED IN THE VICINITY OF 59 STREET AND 5 AVENUE AT APPROXIMATELY 9:15 THIS MORNING. THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT IS STILL SEEKING THE PUBLIC’S ASSITANCE IN LOCATING MS. UPP, ANYONE WITH ANY INFORMATION ARE ASKED TO CALL CRIME STOPPERS AT 1-800-577-TIPS. THE PUBLIC CAN ALSO TEXT THEIR TIPS TO 274637 (CRIMES) THEN ENTER TIP577. ALL INFORMATION SHALL BE KEPT STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
59 Street and 5th Ave is the location of the Apple Store.
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paxPosted:
Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:41 am
gwen wrote:
Good news! Nice to see for a change.
Yes! And what a strange case. I wonder what's Upp with Hannah.
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IsanahPosted:
Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:16 pm
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Tuesday:
AS A RESULT OF AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION, HANNAH EMILY UPP WAS POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED IN THE VICINITY OF 59 STREET AND 5 AVENUE AT APPROXIMATELY 9:15 THIS MORNING. THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT IS STILL SEEKING THE PUBLIC’S ASSITANCE IN LOCATING MS. UPP, ANYONE WITH ANY INFORMATION ARE ASKED TO CALL CRIME STOPPERS AT 1-800-577-TIPS. THE PUBLIC CAN ALSO TEXT THEIR TIPS TO 274637 (CRIMES) THEN ENTER TIP577. ALL INFORMATION SHALL BE KEPT STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
59 Street and 5th Ave is the location of the Apple Store.
Wow, how odd. Perhaps she has some kind of mental illness that has gone undetected. Bipolar perhaps.
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resignedPosted:
Mon Sep 15, 2008 7:38 pm
From the Facebook group page:
Beth Julian (Salem, OR) wrote
at 12:50pm (9/15/ 08 )
To all ho love Hannah deeply, I know this is very difficult. Time has passed. We have seen hope without knowledge of its meaning and nothing seems to be coming to fruition. I want to reafirm my love for Hannah, Barbara, and the family of friends of those two very special women. My deepest pain is that I cannot be there with you to show my support and love. Please know that here at the Sunnyview Sorority and Sanctuary, the vigil continues. We/I am with you in spirit and keep you in my thoughts and prayers constantly. I will keep a candle burning for Hannah and you as long as it takes. "He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart: he gently leads the mother sheep."
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SavannahStarPosted:
Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:46 pm
Missing teacher from Portland found after leap off NYC pier
12:05 PM PDT on Tuesday, September 16, 2008
By kgw.com Staff
NEW YORK -- A Portland woman who was teaching in New York City and disappeared days before classes were to start was rescued from the chilly waters off Staten Island.
According to the New York Daily News, ferry workers pulled 23-year-old Hannah Upp to safety Tuesday after she jumped off of a pier in a failed suicide attempt.
Police said she was taken to a hospital where she was listed in stable condition.
Family and friends offered a $10,000 reward in the search for Upp, who was last seen August 29 as she left her apartment in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood.
Upp was spotted in early September checking her email at a Manhattan computer store.
She was about to start her second year there teaching Spanish at the Thurgood Marshall Academy.
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IsanahPosted:
Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:51 pm
I just read this in the news Savannah, thank you for posting it. Can you believe this shit! It is a miracle that the Ferry Captain saw her, and initiated an immediate rescue. Especially for her family and friends that may have known what had happened to her. What a unusual way to carry out as suicide by being missing for so long. I wonder if it was her way for it not to be known by her family that she planned this. I hope she gets the mental help she obviously needs.
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gwenPosted:
Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:00 pm
Thanks, SS. How horrible for her familyand friends, and as Isanah said, I hope she gets the help she so desperately needs.
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Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:42 pm
Click your heels together...
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Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:45 pm
Hannah Upp ‘07 Has Been Found Alive
By Andrea Milne
Bryn Mawr Graduate Hannah Upp ‘07, who dissapeared from her Harlem apartment on the 29th of August, has been positively identified, ending a nearly three week long search effort that both galvanized and greatly challenged the Bryn Mawr community, both within and beyond the confines of campus.
Detectives confirmed that Upp was pulled out of the waters of New York City’s Upper Bay by the crew of a Staten Island ferry just before noon today. According to a New York Times report, Upp was transported to the Richmond University Medical Center, on Staten Island, where officials are telling the media that she is in stable condition.
In a statement to members of the Facebook group dedicated to finding Upp, brother Daniel "Wally" Upp told supporters that some media outlets "have immediately taken the most sensationalist route possible, but please don’t put much credit in what they are saying/guessing/making up. The accurate details will all come out in time."
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IsanahPosted:
Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:49 pm
resigned wrote:
LOL! That one guy didn't let the other one get a word in edgewise!
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resignedPosted:
Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:43 pm
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Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:48 pm
Missing Teacher Is Found, Alive, Floating in New York Bay
By AL BAKER
Published: September 16, 2008
Almost three weeks after she was reported missing, a young teacher was spotted floating in New York’s Upper Bay on Tuesday and was rescued by deckhands from a Staten Island ferry.
The teacher, Hannah Upp, 23, was plucked from the swells, taken ashore and transported to Richmond University Medical Center on Staten Island, where officials said she was in stable condition.
The disappearance of Ms. Upp, a New York City teaching fellow set to begin her second year as a Spanish instructor at Thurgood Marshall Middle School in Harlem, baffled her relatives and friends and touched off a citywide search. The teachers’ union offered a $10,000 reward for information.
After she vanished — on Aug. 29, just before the start of the school year — investigators found her keys, credit cards, wallet, cellphone and passport among her other belongings in her apartment in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. She is believed to have last withdrawn money from her bank account on Aug. 28.
Ms. Upp was seen in early September checking her e-mail in the Apple store at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street in Manhattan, the police said. When a classmate from Pace University approached her, she evaded him and disappeared again, the police said.
The police determined that Ms. Upp had been in the store twice within four days, and that she had taken showers at branches of the New York Sports Clubs, of which she was a member, said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman.
On Tuesday morning, she was seen at a Dunkin’ Donuts near the ferry terminal on Staten Island. But by the time officers arrived, she had apparently jumped into the water.
Shortly before noon, as the ferry John J. Marchi approached the Staten Island terminal, a pilot saw a woman in the water, officials said. The pilot had some deckhands launch a small rescue craft and steer it toward her, said Scott Gastel, a spokesman for the Department of Transportation, which runs the ferry.
Michael J. Sabatino, 28, who was operating the rescue boat — a 12-foot skiff with an outboard motor — saw Ms. Upp, slowed the boat and grabbed her by the ankle as his partner took hold of her shoulders and back.
“She was floating face down in the water, just like lifeless,” Mr. Sabatino said. “She gasped desperately for air and she laid down and started crying when we got her in the boat.”
Ms. Upp was dressed in the same clothes she was said to be wearing when she disappeared: a red tank top and black shorts.
Mr. Browne, the police spokesman, said he could not speculate on why Ms. Upp had jumped into the water. She declined to speak to detectives.
Hannah Wood, a friend of Ms. Upp’s, said on Tuesday that she believed Ms. Upp’s mother would go to her daughter’s side, but she declined to comment further.
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ACPosted:
Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:04 am
WOW....I'm glad she has been found and taken to the hospital. I feel so sorry for this family and Upps. Hope she gets better soon.
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resignedPosted:
Fri Sep 19, 2008 3:03 am
Holes in teacher's tale
Cops skeptical of claim that she doesn't recall how she wound up in water
Thursday, September 18, 2008
By MAURA YATES and JOHN ANNESE
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Investigators aren't buying school teacher Hannah Upp's assertions that she doesn't have any memory of how she ended up in the waters off Staten Island yesterday afternoon, police sources tell the Advance.
Ms. Upp, who went missing on Aug. 29, then popped up several times at her gym chain and at a Manhattan Apple Store, was pulled from the water yesterday afternoon near Robbins Reef, about a mile from shore.
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The captain of the ferryboat John J. Marchi spied Ms. Upp and altered course in time for the boat's deckhands to rescue her.
The 23-year-old Upp spent the night in Richmond University Medical Center, West Brighton, possibly with her mother, a Pennsylvania minister. Hospital officials will not comment on her status.
Police sources allege she still isn't giving a full account of her disappearance, and they're skeptical about her claims that she has no memory of going into the water.
"There's certain things she does remember. There's certain things she doesn't remember," one source said.
Otherwise, investigators are washing their hands of the incident -- the Police Department is treating her as an "EDP," shorthand for an "emotionally disturbed person," and has no plans to take action against her, sources said.
Ms. Upp's disappearance prompted an exhaustive search by her family and friends, as well as a reward for information leading to her whereabouts from the United Federation of Teachers, the union that represents city school teachers.
UFT spokesman Ron Davis said yesterday the union hasn't yet decided how or whether to apply the reward.
Since Ms. Upp's rescue, dozens of supportive comments have flooded a facebook.com page devoted to the search.
"No one gave up on you Hannah, and we are so glad you're back!" wrote Dinu Ahmed, identified on Facebook as one of her classmates at Bryn Mawr College. "Every day can be a new start, and I have faith that your life is gonna be something amazing, really truly, I do."
Ms. Upp left her credit cards and other belongings behind in her apartment when she vanished days before classes started at the Thurgood Marshall Academy in Harlem, where she teaches Spanish. More than a week later, she was twice spotted checking her e-mail at an Apple store in Midtown Manhattan.
She also showered eight times at several New York Sports Club branches, where she had a gym membership.
Police yesterday refuted reports that Ms. Upp had been seen in a St. George Dunkin' Donuts shop near the Staten Island Ferry Terminal before she entered the water and was rescued.
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