Maura Murray (born May 4, 1982) disappeared on the night of February 9, 2004, after a car accident on Route 112 in Woodsville, New Hampshire, a village in Haverhill. Its existence is still unknown. She was a nursing student who finished her first year at the University of Massachusetts Amherst when she disappeared.
On the afternoon of Monday, February 9, before leaving the university campus, he emailed his professor and supervisor, writing that he had a week off due to death in the family; this claim can not be corroborated by his family. At 7:27 pm, a local woman reported a car accident at a sharp corner of Route 112 adjacent to her home. A passing motorist also lives nearby stop at the scene, and asks the woman to drive the car if she needs help; he refused, claiming to have called roadside assistance. After arriving home a few minutes later, the rider reported the accident to emergency services. At 7:46 pm, the law enforcement officer arrived at the scene, but the woman disappeared.
The police tracked the vehicle to Murray, and at first his case was treated as a case of a missing person, as investigators believed he might want to voluntarily disappear. This speculation is caused by the preparation of his journey (which he did not tell friends or family) and there is no clear evidence of a dirty game. In 2009, Murray's case was granted to the cold division division of New Hampshire, and the authorities dealt with it as a case of a "suspicious" missing person.
In the years after Murray's disappearance, his case will receive media attention on <20> and Missing , and also garnered significant speculation on message boards and Internet forums, with theories ranging from kidnapping to involuntary disappearance. By 2017, the case is the subject of a series of documentaries on the Oxygen network, which describes Murray's disappearance as "the first crime mystery of the age of social media", which came days after the launch of Facebook.
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Initial life
Murray was born May 4, 1982, in Hanson, Massachusetts, the fourth child of Frederick "Fred" and Laurie Murray. He has an older brother, Fred, two older sisters, Kathleen and Julie, and a younger brother, Kurt. Murray grew up in an Irish Catholic household. At the age of six, his parents divorced, after which he lived primarily with his mother.
Murray graduated from Whitman-Hanson Regional High School, where he was a star athlete on the school track team. He was accepted at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, where he studied chemical engineering for three semesters. After her first year, she was transferred to the University of Massachusetts Amherst to study nursing.
Before disappear
In November 2003, three months before his departure, Murray admitted using a stolen credit card to order food from several restaurants, including one in Hadley, Massachusetts. The allegations continued in December to be dismissed after three months of good behavior.
On the afternoon of February 5, Murray was on the phone with his sister, Kathleen, while she was on duty at her campus security job. They discussed Kathleen's relationship with her fiancé. Around 10:30, while still in the shift, it was reported that Murray was crying. When his supervisor arrived at his desk, Murray was "completely out-going, no reaction at all. He was unresponsive." The supervisor drove Murray back to his dorm room around 1:20 am. When asked what was wrong, Murray uttered two words: "My sister." The contents of this call remain unknown until 2017, when Kathleen openly explains the conversation: Kathleen, a recovering alcoholic, has left the rehab clinic that night, and on her way home, her fiancé takes her to a liquor store, causing emotional disturbance.
On Saturday, February 7, Murray Fred's father arrived at Amherst. He told investigators that he and Murray had gone to the car shop that afternoon, and then went to dinner with a friend of his daughter. Murray dropped his father in his motel room and, borrowing his Toyota Corolla, returned to college for a boarding party. He arrived at 10:30 pm. At 2:30 am on Sunday, February 8, he left the party. At 3:30 am, on his way to his father's motel, he crashed into a guardrail on Route 9 in Hadley, causing nearly $ 10,000 damage to his father's car. The responding officer wrote the accident report but there was no documentation of the tranquility field test being performed. Murray was taken to his father's motel and stayed in his room the rest of the morning. At 4:49 pm, there was a cell phone call to his girlfriend from Fred's phone. The participants and the contents of the phone call are unknown.
Later on Sunday morning, Fred Murray learned that damage to his vehicle would be covered by his car insurance. He rented a car, drove Murray to the university, and left for Connecticut. At 11.30 that night, Fred called his daughter to remind him to get an accident form from the Motor Vehicle Register. They agreed to talk again Monday night to discuss the form and fill out insurance claims over the phone.
Maps Disappearance of Maura Murray
Monday, February 9, 2004
Preparation and departure
After midnight on Monday, February 9, Murray used his personal computer to search MapQuest for directions to the Berkshires and Burlington, Vermont. The first contact Murray reported to anyone on February 9 was at 1 pm, when he emailed his girlfriend: "I got your message, but honestly, I do not feel like talking to many people, I promise to call today though. " He also made a phone call asking about renting a condominium in the same Bartlett, a New Hampshire condo associate whose family had vacationed in the past. Note the phone shows the call lasts three minutes. The owner did not rent out the condo to Murray. At 13:13, Murray called a nursing student for an unknown reason.
At 1:24 pm, Murray sent an email to the work supervisor from the school nursing faculty that he would be out of town for a week due to death in his family; no one in his family died. He also said he would contact them when he returned. At 2:05 pm, Murray called the number that provided recorded information about hotel reservations in Stowe, Vermont. The call lasts about five minutes. At 2:18 pm, she called her boyfriend and left a voicemail promising her that they would talk later. This call ends after one minute.
In his car, Murray packed clothes, toiletries, textbooks, and birth control pills. When his room was ransacked then, the campus police found most of his belongings packed in boxes and the artwork was removed from the wall. It is unclear whether Murray packed them up that day, but the police at the time confirmed that he had packed between Sunday night and Monday morning. Above the boxes were printed emails for Murray's boyfriend who pointed out the problems in their relationship. At around 3:30 pm, he left the campus in his black Saturn sedan; classes at the university had been canceled that day due to a snow storm.
At 3:40 pm, Murray pulled $ 280 from an ATM. A closed-circuit tape showed him alone. At the nearest liquor store, Murray buys $ 40 alcoholic beverages, including Baileys Irish Cream, KahlÃÆ'ºa, vodka and a box of Franzia wines. Another security tape showed him alone when he made the purchase. At one point in the day, he also took the accident report form from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles.
Murray then left Amherst at about 3:50, probably through the northern Interstate 91. He called to check his voice message at 4:37 pm, his last recorded mobile phone. Until now there is no indication he has told anyone of the destination or evidence he chose.
Disappearance
7:27 pm: Car crash report
Shortly after 7:00 pm, a resident of Woodsville, New Hampshire heard a loud noise outside his home. Through his window, he could see a car on a pile of snow along Route 112, also known as the Ammonoosuc Wild Road. The car leads west on the east side of the road. He called the Grafton County Police Department at 7:27 pm, to report the crash. According to the 9-1-1 record, the woman admitted to seeing a man smoking in a car. However, he later stated that he had not seen a man or person who smoked, but had seen what looked like a glowing red glow from the car, potentially from a cell phone. At about the same time, another neighbor saw the car and also someone walking around the vehicle. He watched a third neighbor stop beside the vehicle.
The neighbor, a school bus driver who returned home, noticed that the young woman was not bleeding or looking hurt, but cold and shivering. He offers the phone for help. She asks him not to call the police (one police report says "plead") and assures him that he's already called AAA (AAA does not have such a call record). Knowing there was no cellular reception in the area, the bus driver kept coming home and called the police. His call was received by the Sheriff's Department at 7:43 pm. He could not see Murray's car when he called, but saw several cars pass by on the street before the police arrived. Another local resident who drove home from work claimed he was passing the scene around 19.37, and saw a police car parked face to face with Murray's car. She paused and did not see anyone inside or outside the car, and decided to go home. This witness's claim contradicts the official police log, which has Haverhill police who arrived nine minutes later.
7:46 pm: Police arrival at the scene
According to official police records, at 7:46 pm, a Haverhill police officer arrived at the scene. No one in or around the car. The car had an impact on the tree on the driver's side of the vehicle, severely damaging the left front lamp and had pushed the car radiator to the fan, making it inoperable. The windshield of the car was cracked on the driver's side and both airbags had been used. The car was locked.
Inside and outside the car, he found a red stain that looked like red wine. In the car, the clerk found an empty beer bottle and Franzia's wine box broken in the back seat. In addition, he found an AAA card issued to Murray, a blank accident report form, gloves, compact disc, makeup, diamond jewelry, two directions driving directions to Vermont, Murray's favorite stuffed animal, and Not Without Peril , a book about mountain climbing in the White Mountains. What's missing is Debit's credit cards, credit cards, and cell phones, nothing has been found or used since she disappeared. Police later reported that some liquor bottles purchased were also missing.
Journalist Joe McGee, writing for Quincy, Massachusetts Patriot Ledger, sums up the incident: "In a hairpin turn, he goes off the road.He car crashes into a tree.At that point, somebody comes and goes, is driving a bus It was neighbors, he asked if he needed help.He turned in. About 10 minutes later, the police showed up at the scene and Maura Murray left. "
8: 00-9: 30: Suspected Vision
Between 8:00 and 8:30 pm, a contractor who came home from Franconia saw a young man moving quickly on foot eastward on Route 112 about 4 to 5 miles (6 to 8 km) to the east where Murray's vehicle was found. He noted that the young man was wearing jeans, dark coat, and brightly colored hoods. He did not report it to the police immediately because of his confusion about the date, only found three months later (when reviewing his work record) that he had seen the young man on the same night Murray disappeared.
The clerk responded and the bus driver drove the area looking for Murray. Just before 8 pm, an EMS and a fire truck arrived to clear the scene. At 8:49 pm, the car has been pulled into the local garage. Around 9:30 pm, the officer who responds goes. The fabric believed to be part of the emergency equipment on the Murray highway was found inserted into the Saturn's exhaust pipe. The authorities would only refer to Murray as "missing" at 12 noon the next day, almost twenty-four hours after he was confirmed last as seen.
Search effort
Initial investigation (2004-05)
February-June 2004
At 12:36 pm the following day, February 10, the report "Be On the Lookout" for Murray was issued. He is reportedly wearing a black suit, jeans, and a black backpack. A voicemail was left on Fred Murray's home answering machine at 3:20 pm stating that his car had been found abandoned. He works outside the country and does not accept this call. At 5:00 pm, Murray's sister called her father to tell her the situation. He then contacted the Haverhill Police Department and was told that, if Murray was not reported safe the next morning, the Fish and Game Department of New Hampshire would begin the search. At 17:17, Murray was first referred to as "lost" by Haverhill police.
On February 11, Murray's father arrived before dawn in Haverhill. At eight o'clock, New Hampshire Fish and Game, the Murrays, and the others began searching. A police dog tracks the smell of one of Murray's gloves, 100 meters to the east of where the vehicle was found, but lost its smell. It was suggested to the police he left the area in another car. At 5 pm, Murray's boyfriend and his parents arrived at Haverhill. He was interrogated personally, and then joined his parents for interrogation. At 7am, police said they believed Murray had come to the area to escape or commit suicide; His family believes this is impossible.
Murray's boyfriend had turned off his cell phone during a flight to Haverhill. At some point, he received a voicemail he believed was the sound of Murray's sob. The call was traced to a calling card issued to the American Red Cross.
On February 12, Murray's father and his girlfriend held a night press conference in Bethlehem, New Hampshire and the next day the first press coverage was published. At 3:05 pm, police reported that Murray might be heading to the Kancamagus Highway area and he was "listed as threatened and may want to commit suicide". The police report also stated Murray was drunk at the crash site, although the bus driver said he did not seem bothered. Police chief Haverhill said that, "Our concern is that he is upset or wants to commit suicide."
A week after Murray's disappearance, his father and girlfriend were interviewed by CNN's American Morning. The Murray family expanded their search to Vermont, disappointed that authorities there have not been informed of his departure.
Although the case of missing persons is usually handled by local and state police, the FBI joins the investigation ten days after he disappears. The FBI interviewed the family from Massachusetts, and the Haverhill police chief announced that the search is now nationwide. Ten days after his departure, the Fish and Games of New Hampshire conducted a land and air search, using helicopters with thermal imaging cameras, tracking down dogs and corpses. Murray's sister found a pair of white lingerie in a snow on a remote track near French Pond Road on February 26, but a DNA test found that the underwear was not Murray's.
At the end of February, the police returned the items found in Murray's car to his family. On March 2, the family came out of their motel, exhausted from search. Fred Murray returns almost every weekend to keep looking. In April, Haverhill Police informed him about a unauthorized admission complaint on private property. Brianna Maitland's disappearance in March 2004 in Montgomery, Vermont, 66 miles (110 km) from Murray's recent observations in Woodsville, drew a comparison of media and law enforcement because of the similarities in disappearance. However, state police said there was no connection between the two cases.
In April and again in June, New Hampshire and Vermont policemen dismissed the relationship between Murray's case and the Maitland case. In a press release, they stated that they believed, "Maura headed for an unknown destination and may have received a lift to proceed to the location," adding that they found no evidence that the crime had been committed. They dismissed the possibility of a serial killer involved.
July 2004-December 2005
On July 1, police took items found in Murray's vehicle from his family for forensic analysis. On July 13, a one-mile radius search was conducted by nearly 100 searchers, including state troops, rescue personnel, and volunteers. It was the fourth quest around the crash area and the first search was done without snow on the ground. Authorities are most interested in finding Murray's backpack in his car but not found in his car. Police said the search found "nothing conclusive".
At the end of 2004, a man allegedly gave Murray a rusty, stained-bladed Murray's father who had a criminal past and lived less than a mile from where the car was found. Her brother and her brother's boyfriend were said to be acting strangely after disappearing, and the brother claimed to believe the knife had been used to kill Murray. A few days after the blade was given to Murray's father, the brother allegedly thwarted his Volvo. The male family member who submitted the knife claimed that he had fabricated the story to get the prize money in the investigation, and that he had a history of drug use.
In 2005, Fred Murray appealed to New Hampshire Governor Craig Benson to assist in the search, and appeared on The Montel Williams Show in November 2004 to publicize the case. On February 9, 2005, the one year anniversary of the disappearance of Murray, a service was held where the car was found, and his father met briefly with New Hampshire Governor John Lynch.
At the end of 2005, Fred filed a lawsuit against several law enforcement agencies, with the intention of looking at the files on the case. On November 1, 2005, a user named "Tom Davies" broke into a message board called "Not Without Peril," dedicated to discussions about Murray's disappearance, and claimed to have seen a black backpack behind the toilet in Pemigewasset Overlook, at about 30 mile (48 km) from Woodsville. Murray has had a black backpack. Senior Attorney Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin stated that law enforcers "are aware of the backpack," but do not reveal whether it has been taken for forensic testing.
Next search (2006-2010)
The New Hampshire League of Investigators, ten retired policemen and detectives, and the Molly Bish Foundation began handling the case in 2006. Tom Shamshak, former police chief and member of the Massachusetts Licensed Private Detective Association, said, "It appears... that this is something that is not just a case of missing people.Any unpleasant thing could happen here. "The Arkansas group, Let's Bring Them Home, offered a $ 75,000 reward in 2007 for information that could solve his departure.
In October 2006, volunteers led a two-day search within a few miles where Murray's car was found. In the A-frame home wardrobe about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the crash site, the kada dogs allegedly went "crazy," possibly identifying the presence of human remains. The house was once a man's residence implied by his brother, who had given Fred Murray a rusted knife in 2004. A carpet sample from home was sent to the New Hampshire State Police, but the results were never released to the public. In July 2008, the volunteers led a two-day search through the wooded areas of Haverhill. This group consists of dog teams and private investigators who are licensed.
The case of Murray is one of many cited by supporters of cold case units throughout the state of New Hampshire in 2009. The case was then added to the newly formed cold case unit that year. In 2010, Fred Murray publicly criticized police investigations for treating missing persons cases as missing people and not a criminal matter, and called on the FBI to join in the investigation. Jeffery Strelzin said in February 2009 that the investigation was still active: "We do not know if Maura is a victim, but the state treats her as a potential killing, it may be a case of missing people, but handled as a criminal investigation."
Further developments (2011-present)
In early 2012, observers of Murray's case began to notice a YouTube user named "Mr112dirtbag", who posted a series of annoying online videos that were believed to contain secret hints of Murray's disappearance. Both Murray's family and professional criminologists dismissed the video as "cruel and scary" for attention.
In 2014, on the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of Murray, Strelzin stated that "We have not had a credible sighting of Maura since the night she disappeared." In an article published on the New York Daily News, on the tenth anniversary of his daughter's disappearance, it was reported that Fred Murray believed he was dead, and had been kidnapped the night he disappeared.
On February 9, 2017, the thirteenth anniversary of the disappearance of Murray, Strelzin wrote in an email to The Boston Globe : "It is still an open case with periods of activity and at that time running off. new updates to share right now. "
Significance
Murray's disappearance has been referred to as the "first crime mystery of the age of social media," and generates speculation from the media and the public, especially on the Internet, on online forums and message boards. Writing for Boston magazine 2014, Bill Jensen notes: "Now, at least online, there often seems to be no cold case, but when Maura Murray disappears, the social Web is in the baby No YouTube and no Twitter.On the day Maura disappears, Facebook is five days old.So you can read the history of his case as a parable about the evolution of online sleuthing. "In November 2004, Murray's second cousin created the mauramurray .com . In 2005, an active discussion of Murray's disappearance was documented on websleuths.com, and in 2007, the Facebook and Myspace pages were tailor-made to help find it.
On the Internet, Maura's disappearance is a perfect obsession, a riddle of hints that offer a tantalizing illusion - if the right-hand detector connects the right dots, perhaps the unsolvable ones can be solved. And every day, the case attracted new recruits, analyzed and dissected and reconstructed the details of its story in the spirit of Warren Commission.
Media depictions
An episode of 20/20 comparing Murray's case with Brooke Wilberger's case, which was lost in Oregon a few months after his departure and was later found murdered. Murray is referenced in two episodes on Lost , in both Season 1 (episode 6) and Season 4 (episode 7).
The loss of Maura is the subject of the nonfiction thriller True Crime Addict: How I Lose Myself in the Mysterious Mysterious Eradication of Maura Murray by author and journalist James Renner, where he proposed the theory that Murray went to New Hampshire with a tandem driver and may have disappeared voluntarily and start a new life elsewhere or be killed by someone he knows. Murray's father, Fred, and his close family have disputed this theory. Fred Murray stated that he believes his daughter was kidnapped and died.
See also
- List of people who mysteriously disappear
- Lost Brianna Maitland, a Vermont teenager missing two months after Maura is just 90 miles away in similar circumstances. Brianna's car was found crashing into an abandoned farmhouse on a deserted street and no trace of Brianna Maitland ever found. Both cases are currently not believed to be related, even though both have similar situations.
- The disappearance of Patricia Meehan, a Montana woman who also disappeared after a car accident that she experienced after a long journey from her residence for no apparent reason, in 1989.
- Jonathan Luna, federal prosecutor found the death of a disputed cause after mysteriously driving a car from his home in the Baltimore area to the Pennsylvania countryside one night in 2003.
- Disappear Asha Kreimer, a young Australian expatriate who disappears in broad daylight en route to the Emerald Triangle toilet.
- Missing White Ladies' Syndrome, a phenomenon noted by social scientists and media commentators on extensive media coverage, especially on television, about missing persons involving middle-class women or women.
References
Bibliography
Rename, James (2016). True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in Mysterious Disappearance Maura Murray . New York: Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN: 978-1-250-08901-4.External links
- Maura Murray at NamUs
- Maura Murray, Cold Case Unit, New Hampshire Department of Justice
- The official police record of records relating to Murray's disappearance.
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