Virginia Police Officer Says It Was 'God's Plan' To Find Human Remains In Hannah Graham Search
Virginia police halted their search for missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham over the weekend after finding human remains on Old Lynchburg Road, in a rural area near an abandoned home located a short distance from the University of Virginia.
Police have not said whether the remains belong to missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, who went missing from her college town on September 13. However, police reportedly let Graham's parents know of the remains before telling the public, and are now reportedly sifting through leaves and looking for additional evidence near the remains.
"Earlier today, Detective Sergeant James Mooney made a very difficult phone call and reached out to John and Susan Graham to share with them this preliminary discovery," Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo said during a press conference over the weekend.
The remains were reportedly discovered by a search team around noon on Saturday, October 18. The team who found the remains was led by Sgt. Dale Terry of the Chesterfield Sherriff's Department, who says he spotted a skull and bones scattered across a dried-up creek bed behind an abandoned home in the rural area, just 8 miles from where Graham disappeared.
Sgt. Terry said that along with the bones was a pair of black tight pants. The officer said he and his team were about to call of their search when he had a feeling that he should look behind the abandoned home.
"It was not buried, and its location was not far from the road," Terry said. "There was not any crushing of any bones. As far as skull, everything looked to be in tact to me."
"I do believe God wanted us to find what we found," the sergeant continued. "I don't know how else to explain it other than something inside me told me to just continue to look."
