
A year after her first disappearance in New York, she lived with her mother at a Quaker study and retreat center on the outskirts of Philadelphia known as Pendle Hill. She stayed there for 3 years and became a teaching assistant in Montessori schools, one of which was in Maryland.
In September 2013, the school year was about to begin and Barbara got a call from the police to inform her that Hannah’s cell phone, wallet, and purse were found on a wooden walkway in Kensington in Philadelphia.