Maura Murray

oo00oo wrote:

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I believe that was a female from Oklahoma? The one that had the courtesy to actually read every post before asking questions?

Is that last bit in reference to me asking questions?

oo00oo wrote:

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I believe that was a female from Oklahoma? The one that had the courtesy to actually read every post before asking questions?

Poster was "what if" -- yes, apparently from OK. Don't know if male or female, did that even come up?

Simply Sarcasm wrote:

(From the novel BOLO)
Dedication
Financial
"50% of after-tax net proceeds from sales of this book will be dnoated toward efforts at solving the mustery of Maura's disappearance. That may mean providing assistance to NH's Cold Case Investigative Unit or other efforts her family is involved with - Ill leave it up to her sister Julie and other siblings to decide."
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I wonder if the author has been in touch with the Murray family - Julie, specifically?
Lastly, I wish someone here could come up with a way I could give this book away to an avid Topix board follower. If anyone can think of a generic way I could mail it to your local post office for pickup, or a PO Box, etc., you are welcome to it once I finish reading it.

I'd love to have it when your finished :D .. I'll pm you my addy if you want but it's on google also lol..

Today, on the Maura Murray Community blog, http://goo.gl/wIrOv , we have been discussing a Topix post from "matthew" concerning cloth and duct tape that he found 7.8 miles, by his estimate, from the site of Maura's Haverhill accident. Did anything become of this? Has Matthew ever discussed this further?

LocoLefty wrote:

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Is that last bit in reference to me asking questions?

It was a general statement made in reference to all new posters that join the discussion and do not make an effort to read up on a 9 year old case before asking questions.

Bump!

Maruchan wrote:

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I adore you.
Don't tell your wife.:)
Here I am, procrastinating again, but it is so bloody hot, who can do anything?!?
I want to point out something very interesting about Sam Ledyard's Matthew links. He has used The Wayback Machine for three of them and a regular Google search for the third. Each link goes to the same exact Topix thread (Maura Murray & Holly Bish started by Beagle), with the same exact post from Matthew.
Here is the interesting part. Ledyard posted four links. Two of the links show Matthew's location as Lincoln, NH. One shows his location as North Woodstock, and the last shows him in Portland, ME.
Now who do we know whose posts show up from all those locations?
JWB/Granny/nhrider.
I have no idea why Topix locations would change from one Wayback screenshot to the next on different dates - all of Beagle's posts stay the same. Nor do I feel like looking into it at the moment.
But hey, it's kind of interesting, don't you think?
Back to procrast ... er, getting stuff done.:)

oo00oo wrote:

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It was a general statement made in reference to all new posters that join the discussion and do not make an effort to read up on a 9 year old case before asking questions.

I obviously can't speak for any other new posters, but I know that I myself, have made the effort to read up on the case. There have been a few nights where I have literally fallen asleep at my computer while reading up on the case. I almost stopped doing it because I thought that it was becoming unhealthy for me to be reading and trying to research about it at the expense of other things in my life. I'm also new to Topix so I don't neccessarily know which forums to go to, to see if my specific question has already been answered (there seems to be many different forums about Maura or related on here). I might not know as much as you do about the case but it doesn't mean that I haven't taken the time and effort to read up on it. I think it would be more productive to offer some advice to the newbies on the best/most efficient way to peruse the forums to find answers, instead of making remarks like that. This is not an attack on you personally. I'm just trying to explain where I'm coming from and why I'm asking questions.

*necessarily* typo. My bad.

This is just nuts.....

Det Columbo wrote:

This is just nuts.....

What is?

Ridiculous wrote:

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I've got to head out to a gig, but.....I'm wondering something; Remember that poster a few months ago who was reading every page here? he/she was very courteous and respectful and was deeply involved in researching the case...I wonder if it could have been this author?

it's flattering to be remembered (wink and grin). not sure if it's flattering to be connected to the authorship of this mysterious book that has surfaced on amazon; i suppose it depends on the book. but alas, it is not the product of any study i've done on the circumstances surrounding maura's disappearance.

truth is, shortly after i worked my way through this thread, i had to take a break. partly, it was due to circumstances at work, and in part it was due to the tone of this discussion that seemed to quickly and easily veer into odd and angry tangents. i was finding that i was having a hard time as my feelings of sympathy to maura and her family were becoming almost inextricably enmeshed with my disdain for the at times overly harsh nature of conversations here.

i work professionally in the world of online communications, so i understand the tendency for discussion boards like this to run the course that this forum has. but idealistically, i always hope to stumble into an online community that might be immune to the normal tendencies of most discussion forums.

i do check in every few weeks to see if there is anything new being discussed. not much yet, though, it seems. and i'm looking forward to renewing a project that i had hoped to begin sooner. i still owe a follow up to some posters.

i know mr. renner and mr. green have their theories, and i'm still looking forward to reading renner's book when it's released. but as i watch other shows about unsolved crimes, i'm struck by the stories that include odd characters that seem or act suspicious only to later be cleared. it seems in maura's case, her's is a story that is waiting for that piece of evidence to surface or confession to be made that will finish the story and absolve the suspicious characters who are caught up in the circumstances of her disappearance.

Emmett Dove wrote:

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I'd love to have it when your finished :D .. I'll pm you my addy if you want but it's on google also lol..

It's yours!

:-)

So far, pretty decent, inasmuch as a fiction novel based upon a true story can be decent.

I respect Bill's point of view, and he has previously opined that it seems 'low rent'- and he is right, the very idea is gauche. But I still am interested in a novel about Maura Murray. The initial portion is a background of the case - in fact, it's a good one.
Reads almost like a coherent forum thread...

i should also clarify that the discussions here haven't always been odd or angry, and some have been very good. i feel my comment above was painting too broad of a stroke, so i wanted to clarify. there have been, at times, some illuminating, constructive and helpful conversations that i've read and/or participated in. for those, i'm grateful.

Simply Sarcasm wrote:

(From the novel BOLO)
Dedication
Financial
"50% of after-tax net proceeds from sales of this book will be dnoated toward efforts at solving the mustery of Maura's disappearance. That may mean providing assistance to NH's Cold Case Investigative Unit or other efforts her family is involved with - Ill leave it up to her sister Julie and other siblings to decide."
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I wonder if the author has been in touch with the Murray family - Julie, specifically?
Lastly, I wish someone here could come up with a way I could give this book away to an avid Topix board follower. If anyone can think of a generic way I could mail it to your local post office for pickup, or a PO Box, etc., you are welcome to it once I finish reading it.

reminds me of when i tried to give away "In Cold Blood" after purchasing and reading it. no one wanted it. and i could have easily mailed it to certain individuals. i think mr. renner has expressed some interest? ;)

Simply Sarcasm wrote:

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It's yours!
:-)
So far, pretty decent, inasmuch as a fiction novel based upon a true story can be decent.
I respect Bill's point of view, and he has previously opined that it seems 'low rent'- and he is right, the very idea is gauche. But I still am interested in a novel about Maura Murray. The initial portion is a background of the case - in fact, it's a good one.
Reads almost like a coherent forum thread...

i'm 6 minutes late. lol

Det Columbo wrote:

This is just nuts.....

nuttier than usual. bleepin' nuts.
i think i've only agreed with you once.
make this twice.

SnowyB wrote:

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nuttier than usual. bleepin' nuts.
i think i've only agreed with you once.
make this twice.

It's all good.....

I think we need to know anything relevant in Maura's life when she disappeared to better understand what is likely to have happened to her. I believe their is a decent chance she is alive but I think it is also very relevant that Maura's family do not think she ran away as they are privy to a lot more information than we are. I think most likely Fred was only trying to help Maura and has no idea what has happened to her. He possibly does know a lot more about what was going on in Maura's life than he let on though. The £4,000 cash he had with him was likely either to buy a car as he stated or it was to help Maura in some other way.

Det Columbo wrote:

This is just nuts.....

Sure is.

Maruchan wrote:

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I adore you.
Don't tell your wife.:)
Here I am, procrastinating again, but it is so bloody hot, who can do anything?!?
I want to point out something very interesting about Sam Ledyard's Matthew links. He has used The Wayback Machine for three of them and a regular Google search for the third. Each link goes to the same exact Topix thread (Maura Murray & Holly Bish started by Beagle), with the same exact post from Matthew.
Here is the interesting part. Ledyard posted four links. Two of the links show Matthew's location as Lincoln, NH. One shows his location as North Woodstock, and the last shows him in Portland, ME.
Now who do we know whose posts show up from all those locations?
JWB/Granny/nhrider.
I have no idea why Topix locations would change from one Wayback screenshot to the next on different dates - all of Beagle's posts stay the same. Nor do I feel like looking into it at the moment.
But hey, it's kind of interesting, don't you think?
Back to procrast ... er, getting stuff done.:)

I think it's quite interesting.