By Steve Huff
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| Donna Haddad |
WHITING, Ind. (Crime Library, Feb 27, 2006) — Donna Haddad, age 24, an education major at Calumet College of St. Joseph, headed out to the school library to use a computer sometime in the afternoon on Wednesday, February 22, 2006. A librarian at Specker Memorial Library on the Calumet campus remembered seeing Haddad later. The striking Haddad was dressed in jeans, a black shirt and jacket, accented by a black purse and book bag. The librarian told Donna's cousin, Joe Haddad, that he remembered Donna that day because she'd brought a bottle of soda in the library. Though this was against the library's policy, the librarian apparently just asked her to keep the soda out of view.
Joe Haddad told the Northwest Indiana Times that no one worried about Donna until late Wednesday, as she had a night class on campus. Donna Haddad lived with her parents in Hammond, IN, and sometime that night, they realized she was too late. This wasn't like Donna Haddad, Joe Haddad informed the Times, "She was in good spirits and had strong family ties," he said.
The article published in the Northwest Indiana Times on February 25, 2006 went on to indicate that Donna's cell phone, bank account and credit cards had not been used since the night of the 22nd. Haddad's family was both mystified and fearful. Had Donna been kidnapped?
Donna Haddad was close to finishing up a major in education and was making her plans to become a teacher. In 2003 she made the Dean's List at Calumet. Photos of Jordanian-American Donna Haddad show a pretty young woman with hazel eyes and light brown hair, her smile charming and shy.
It appears Haddad's computer access might have been through the school library, which must have limited what she did online to some degree. Yet Donna was still under her parents' roof her computer use at the Calumet library would also have afforded her more privacy perhaps. A consistent theme in news stories about her disappearance though was the emphasis that Donna's family ties were strong.
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