Report: Missing College Student's Last Text: 'I'm Lost, Come Find Me'

Police in Charlottesville, Va. have widened their search for missing University of Virginia student Hannah Elizabeth Graham, 18, a 2013 graduate of West Potomac High School in Northern Virginia who participated in band and softball in high school.

The latest report Tuesday from NBC-29 notes that a security camera shows the teenager outside of a popular Irish bar, McGrady’s Pub, in Charlottesville at 12:45 a.m. Saturday.

Police report that her last text at 1:20 a.m. Saturday to a friend was “I’m lost, come find me,” according to The Roanoke Times. She reportedly lived off-campus.

Charlottesville Police Capt. Gary Pleasants tells ABC News that officials are doing all they can to find the teen, including using a bloodhound, which was used to search a heavily wooded area.

“We are checking her cellphone records, computer, bank accounts, everything we can possibly do,” Pleasants told ABC News.

Meanwhile a Facebook page has been set up called “Help Find Hannah Graham“ and the Nancy Grace TV program will air information about the case Tuesday night.

Graham is the fourth young woman in the area to go missing in the Charlottesville area in the past five years, TV station WJLA notes; other missing women in the area are:

• In 2012, 19-year-old DaShad Laquinn Smith, disappeared in Charlottesville and remains missing.
• Samantha Ann Clarke, 19, vanished in September 2010 after leaving her Orange County townhouse.
• In October 2009, Morgan Harrington, a 20-year-old Virginia Tech student, disappeared from the University of Virginia’s John Paul Jones Arena while attending a rock concert. Her remains were found three months later in a rural area. No arrests have been made.

Inside NOVA reports that Harrington’s body was found on a remote area of a farm about 10 miles away from the arena in January 2010. DNA evidence later linked Harrington’s death to a 2005 sexual assault in Northern Virginia’s Fairfax County. No arrest has been made in the Harrington case.

Graham was last seen Friday night/Saturday morning between midnight and 1 a.m. On Sunday, her friends and family realized that none of them had seen or had contact with her since Friday night and a call was placed to the Emergency Communications Center by her friends, reporting her missing.

The Charlottesville Police Department in turn notified the University of Virginia Police Department of the report. Charlottesville Police detectives responded immediately and have been working to find Hannah since learning of her disappearance. A search using a bloodhound was conducted Sunday evening, but that search did not turn up anything useful.

If anyone has any information or has seen Hannah anytime from Friday night to the present, please call the Charlottesville Police Department at (434) 970-3280.

PHOTO of Hannah Elizabeth Graham courtesy of police.