It seemed as though Hannah Truelove had simply vanished from her Gainesville, Georgia neighborhood. After her mother reported her missing, police began a search that ended a day later when the 16-year-old was found dead in the woods behind their apartment building.
Chillingly, Hannah may have foreshadowed her tragic end on Twitter in the days leading up to her death.
The high school student had tweeted several ominous messages recently. On August 12 she wrote,
"I got me an uglyass stalker. This can't be happening..."
A week later she tweeted,
"So scared right now."
Then, the night before she disappeared she shared,
"I need to move out of these dang apartments."
Friends who read the messages didn't suspect anything was genuinely wrong. “I didn't take it seriously,” said Cristina Robles, Hannah's high school classmate. Now, she said, “I think I could have helped and talked to her about it and taken it more seriously.”
Her body was discovered Friday night behind the Lake Lanier Club Apartments by a man walking through the woods en route to visit his grandchildren. Given the nature of the injuries, police have ruled the death a homicide and are now looking into Hannah's claims that she did indeed have a stalker.
Are you surprised friends did not take the teen's tweets seriously?
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It is never wise to simply dismiss "stalker talk" as just talk, any more than it is to blow off any suicidal language. As my mom always said, it's better to be safe than sorry, 'cause you never know!
No I'm not surprised... people use the term "stalker" loosely, not just teenagers.
I wish she would have said something somewhere other than on twitter! It might have saved her.
Wow, I'm disgusted by some of these comments made by these women on here. You are judging a CHILD. You are blaming a CHILD for getting MURDER! Seriously some of y'all are simply disgusting individuals. smh
Cafemom would should be able to "like" comments on The Stir. Just a thought....
We not would*
It really is a statement that so many young people just don't know how to truly communicate unless there is a device in their hands. Further, living in a world that is so virtual, it is no wonder friends don't see the clues. All her tweets are progressively more ominous.
And yes, this is a 16 y/o. I have a 15 y/o and I DO monitor her devices. I would blame myself if something happened because I didn't keep tabs on her accounts when the clues were all there. The good news is: I have a real-world communication with my child where we actually talk, so I'm thinking maybe that'll work...