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Updated 09/05/2008 09:57 PM

Cops Continue Search For Missing Harlem Teacher

By: NY1 News

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The mysterious disappearance of a young teacher has friends and family fearing for her life.

Hannah Upp, 23, has been missing since last Friday.

Investigators say she was last seen around 2:30 p.m. leaving her Hamilton Terrace apartment.

Here parents say she used her debit card that day to go to a movie in Times Square.

"We have no idea where she might be, but wherever she is, just keep an eye out," said Upp's mother Reverend Barbara Bellus. "We're just appreciative of anyone looking anywhere, keeping eyes and ears and hearts open to whatever they might see."

Upp's bank records show her ATM card was used last Friday at a Times Square movie theater, but after she disappeared from sight the card was found in her bedroom along with her wallet, cell phone, keys and passport.

"If one of us did this, she would be distraught and so the fact that she would have gone like this, it's just not like her, without any kind of communication for this long," said Upp's friend Hannah Wood.

"She was just the kindest, nicest person in the world and our biggest fear is that someone with an ulterior motive asked her for help," continued Wood. "Because without any thought, she would have dropped anything to help."

Police visited Upp's apartment several times to investigate and Upp's fellow teachers searched Harlem on Friday to try to find her.

"Sixteen of us got together and scoured St. Nicholas Park all the way from 127th to 141st Street, just looking for any signs and it's tearing us apart," said Upp's friend Angela Hernandez.

The Portland, Oregon native is a Spanish teacher at Thurgood Marshall Academy in Harlem, and moved from Pennsylvania last year to earn a master's degree in education. She is 5-feet-5-inches tall and weighs 130 pounds.

Anyone with any information on Upp's whereabouts is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS or text: CRIMES (274637) and enter: TIP577.


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