Virginia State Police say a Virginia Tech student who went missing last month was spotted hitchhiking after she left a Metallica concert.

Authorities have been searching for 20-year-old Morgan Dana Harrington since she disappeared following the Charlottesville concert Oct. 17. The student was separated from friends when she left the concert to smoke a cigarette and was denied re-entry. She told them she would try to find a way home in a voice mail message.