This is what grandmother Hadsell told msm:
The grandmother of a missing 18-year-old college student said it seems like police in Virginia are "doing nothing" to look for her.
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Hadsell's grandmother Katherine Hadsell said she wishes the police would "give us more insight into what they're actually doing, because to us it seems like they're doing nothing."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/grandmother-missing-virginia-teen-cops-give-us-insight/story?id=30107604
"I'm absolutely convinced there's foul play," Katherine Hadsell, the woman's grandmother, told FoxNews.com Monday. "This is so far out of character for her."
"She is a young lady who is living her life as any 18-year-old would," said Hadsell, who also lives in Norfolk. "She loves her mom and dad so much and is very close with her family. It’s not possible she ran away."
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/04/0...for-missing-college-student-anjelica-hadsell/
There's a disconnect here. First she says LE is doing “nothing” to find AJ, then she says she's convinced there's foul play involved in AJ's disappearance.
So what I'd expect to hear from her next is a plea to LE to do more, or a plea to the public to report anything suspicious or like you said, a personal statement to AJ to let her know her family is doing their best to find her. Whatever. Pretty much what y'all have been saying here.
Instead, she moves on to WH and wastes precious media space defending his criminal behavior. It seems that her motive for granting the interview was to point fingers at LE and to defend WH. Her comments about foul play were made to justify WH's actions and her anger at LE and nothing more.
No updates on what the family is doing, no real information on why she thinks AJ didn't run away other than it's “out of character” and AJ loves her family. Not even a mention of JH's suspicions about the early morning texts or the cousin's comments about creepy texts. Nothing.
And why further alienate the family from LE? She would have gotten a lot more mileage out of acknowledging the hard work LE is investing in finding AJ – which actually is true when you consider the multiple searches - and saying she's confident they'll get to the bottom of AJ's disappearance and get her home. If someone is responsible for AJ's disappearance that would act as a subtle message that LE might be onto them.
I understand that there's no “manual” for the family of a missing person but this family has done nothing to educate themselves on what they can/should be doing despite the many fine organizations out there who do know what can be done and many helpful suggestions from people.
Here's the priority list as I see it:
1. Defend WH.
2. Bash LE
3. Make cryptic statements without any substance.
AJ's not even on their radar at this point. I guess I should be glad she had enough sense to avoid plugging the get rich quick scam.