Tragic update in disappearance of teen Samantha Humphrey who vanished after meeting her ex as body found in river
THE body of a teenage girl who went missing in November after meeting up with an ex has reportedly been recovered from a river in her hometown.
Samantha Humphrey, 14, disappeared in Schenectady, New York, on the night after Thanksgiving.
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Stephanie Kegley, a friend of the teen's family, provided an update on the case in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
"Her body was located today," Kegley said.
"The family asked me to make the update," she said. "They need to focus on grieving and holding onto one another."
On Wednesday afternoon, police pulled a body from the Mohawk River near Riverside Park, where Samantha went missing, the Times Union reported.
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The Schenectady Police Department hasn't released any information about the person's identity and did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
Kegley said law enforcement is waiting for the medical examiner to sign off on releasing any more information about the recovered body.
She added that more information would be available in "the next few days."
In the days after Humphrey's disappearance in November, a black and pink puffer jacket similar to the one she was wearing was also found in the river with blood on the hood.
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The U.S. Sun previously reported that Humphrey's mother, Jaclyn Humphrey, has created a GoFundMe campaign to help her hire an attorney and a private investigator.
On the website, Jaclyn reported that Samantha snuck out of her home around 11.30pm on November 25.
The teen was going to meet her ex-boyfriend, who Jaclyn said was the last person to see Samantha alive and the last person she called.
Samantha and her ex reportedly had a tumultuous relationship and got into a physical fight earlier that day, Jaclyn told local NBC affiliate WNYT in December.
Although Jaclyn was unhappy with the speed of the investigation when she started the GoFundMe, Samantha's grandfather John Matarazzo said he supports the police and their efforts.
"She’s not hiding somewhere," he said.
"If Samantha was alive, she would have at least let us know that she was alive. Because she cared about us."
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