‘Somebody Knows’

Time has an article from NBC News by Tim Stelloh, a freelance writer based in New York City; in addition to NBC News, his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The New Republic and elsewhere, about a missing girl:

One of the last times Hannah Graham was seen, it was early Saturday, 13 September 2014, and a camera outside a gas station in Charlottesville, Virginia, briefly filmed her walking, then running. A few minutes before, Graham, a second-year student at the University of Virginia, was seen talking to a man outside McGrady’s Pub, a bar not far from campus; shortly after 1 a.m., she sent a text message to a friend: she was lost. Then, the eighteen-year-old vanished.
In the days after, Graham's disappearance has rattled the small Virginia community, leaving residents, friends and family to wonder: what happened to Hannah? Here’s what we know so far:

Who is Hannah Graham?
Graham went to high school in Northern Virginia, at West Potomac. Relatives and people who knew Graham described her as a resilient and responsible young woman— a thoughtful student who liked to ski, loved Starburst candy, and played the alto saxophone. Graham “was very diligent with everything she did, and always did everything exactly by the book”. That's how Stephen Rice, a band director at West Potomac, put it in an interview with NBC Washington. “Hannah is not the kind of kid that would just go on a road trip and disappear.”
Graham is 5-foot-11 and has blue eyes, light brown hair and freckles, and on Saturday night, she was wearing black pants and a crop top. Before disappearing, she had attended an off-campus party. 

Who is the person of interest?At a news conference on Sunday, Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo said that he believed Jesse Matthew, 32, was the last person Graham “was seen with before she vanished off the face of the earth.” Matthew is believed to appear in surveillance video walking with Graham; police searched his car and apartment and are awaiting forensic results. Matthew has not been charged in Graham’s disappearance, and he arrived at Charlottesville police headquarters, asked for a lawyer, and then left without speaking to police. A warrant was later issued for his arrest on charges of reckless driving.
At the news conference, Longo pleaded for Matthew’s cooperation. “I hope and pray that we might have an opportunity to talk to Jesse Matthew again,” Longo said. “We want to talk to him about his interaction with a sweet young girl that we can’t find.” 

How has the community responded?
Graham is one of five girls to go missing in the Charlottesville area in the last five years, and for some, her disappearance has been a "debilitating" process, as Gil Harrington, whose daughter, Morgan, was among them, put it. Morgan was later found dead. Amanda St. Clair created a Facebook page this week for Graham. "There's a problem here," St. Clair told NBC News. "They just disappeared into thin air."
An estimated two thousand people gathered at a candlelight vigil at the university. Some brought mementos, a pair of skis, an alto saxophone, while others wished for her safe return.
University president Teresa A. Sullivan released a statement saying the school is helping authorities in the search for Graham. "We are cooperating fully with law enforcement authorities as they continue their investigation. If you have any information that might be helpful, no matter how inconsequential it might seem to you, please call the dedicated tip line at 434-295-3851." 

What’s next?"This investigation has been aggressive and will continue to be aggressive," police chief Tim Longo said at a recent press conference, and, over the weekend, more than a thousand people turned out to search for Graham (photo); so many volunteers arrived at John Paul Jones Arena that they needed to be arranged in groups and assigned different start times. Though it covered 85 percent of the city, Graham was not found. Still, the search coordinator, Mark Eggeman, said that the effort “generated more leads”, and that, in the days ahead ,it would become more narrowly focused.
At a news conference, Graham’s father, John Graham, thanked the volunteers for their “marvelous support,” but he pleaded for more help. “Who saw Hannah?” he said. “Somebody knows what happened to Hannah.”

Rico says if it was his daughter, he and a stun gun would be asking Matthew what he knew...