Maura Murray

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Lighthouse 101 wrote:

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James follow me here.
-She gets word late in the week she can't stay at the dorms anymore
-Her sister calls her and she flips out because dad has to spend $$ an apartment
-Her father comes to town to help look for an apartment
-Not being able to sleep in dorms she "returns" the car to sleep at hotel
-Since she can't find a place that weekend - she needs to wait for her father to come back and find another aptartment or the apartment isn't available until the following weekend. Rather than deal with the stress of telling people why she has to leave the dorm. She decides to leave for a short week until father returns to continue apartment search or move. Once she find the place she can move into apt and tell friends she wanted to live off campus.
- She looks into places she is familiar with because she needs a place short notice just for a week.
- You tube Disappear episode from FM - "she was going to Bartlett she could get a room there..." About 11 minutes into episode.
- On her way she was drinking and driving and she crashed.
- Panicked she ran
I see nothing to show me she was looking to run away - atleast not until the car crash. There is also a chance she found a place to live, but couldn't move in until later on in the week. Just my opinion.

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Lighthouse 101 wrote:

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James follow me here.
-She gets word late in the week she can't stay at the dorms anymore
-Her sister calls her and she flips out because dad has to spend $$ an apartment
-Her father comes to town to help look for an apartment
-Not being able to sleep in dorms she "returns" the car to sleep at hotel
-Since she can't find a place that weekend - she needs to wait for her father to come back and find another aptartment or the apartment isn't available until the following weekend. Rather than deal with the stress of telling people why she has to leave the dorm. She decides to leave for a short week until father returns to continue apartment search or move. Once she find the place she can move into apt and tell friends she wanted to live off campus.
- She looks into places she is familiar with because she needs a place short notice just for a week.
- You tube Disappear episode from FM - "she was going to Bartlett she could get a room there..." About 11 minutes into episode.
- On her way she was drinking and driving and she crashed.
- Panicked she ran
I see nothing to show me she was looking to run away - atleast not until the car crash. There is also a chance she found a place to live, but couldn't move in until later on in the week. Just my opinion.

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James Renner wrote:

The Seasons Resort is what I meant. There are no singles in the entire complex.

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Maruchan wrote:

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Yes there are.
"The Seasons Condominium Resort consists of 176 one and two bedroom condominium units in a peaceful 45 acre wooded setting just south of Route 302 in Bartlett, New Hampshire."
"All of our units will sleep 2-10 guests and have a fully equipped kitchen, dining area and living room. There is one bedroom plus a large loft area with additional bedding, making it perfect for families with children."
When I have been single in my life, I have rented entire cabins/condos/houses with several bedrooms for just myself. When you are single, that's what you do. When that's all that's available, or when it's the most affordable, that's what you do. In Maura's case, she checked out a place she was familiar with, and if a two-bedroom was the only one advertised, or the cheapest one advertised, or simply the floor plan/location she was familiar with and liked, then it makes sense for her to have looked into it. Making a telephone call to check availability of a two-bedroom condo does not make it any type of fact that she was traveling with anybody other than herself.

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James Renner wrote:

She did it on a Monday to give herself a decent head start on police, the college, and her father.

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Lisac wrote:

why would I person searching for the Berkshires get off the highway and drive in the opposite direction for miles? Did she turn off the highway and drive the wrong way, figure it out, turn around, drive back, and then hit a snow bank? would explain better why she was facing the wrong way right?
She would have had to be too drunk to make it that far to drive that far in the wrong direction. Maybe it was purposeful misdirection.
I am sort of on purpose throwing out what seem like crazy ideas but crazier ideas have been pitched right?

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Maruchan wrote:

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So - the plan is to go to Canada. Maura drives up 91, and her co-conspirator is driving up 93. On the way to Canada, remember. They are looking for a place to meet. So, they decide that they will each head toward each other on an essentially east-west highway that does NOT go to Canada. Nor does this highway have a road that goes north to Canada. Nor does this highway have any real lodging options along it in February. Remember, this is a dark, mostly uninhabited road, which makes everybody wonder why Maura took it in the first place. So, for some reason, they have decided to leave the highways that actually DO head to Canada, and meet somewhere, apparently around the Weathered Barn as that is where you claim they both ended up at the same time. So, instead of meeting either in Lincoln, Franconia or Woodsville, they have chosen to meet a few miles east of Woodsville where there is essentially nothing. INSTEAD OF meeting in the towns that actually have overnight accomadations that are actually ON THE WAY TO CANADA. You say the accident was unplanned, so the rest of this is obviously planned. I doubt that the Weathered Barn or Bradley Hill Road showed up on Maura's New Hampshire map, so ... where did they plan to meet in between 91 and 93 and close to the Weathered Barn on 112, and how would they know when they got to the place that isn't on any map?

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Not Without Peril wrote:

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Maruchan's point, I think, was that her search for directions to the Berkshires suggests that she did not intend Canada to be her final destination.

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Maruchan wrote:

This is my post from 12/29/12 - still wondering if you can explain it.
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Maruchan wrote:

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Questions:
Do you believe that a college would kick a student out of a dorm with no notice?
If Maura can't sleep in the dorm, how is she able to leave her computer in it and surf the web on Sunday and Monday?
Why would Fred create a story about a car instead of simply telling police that Maura had been kicked out of the dorm?

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SnowyB wrote:

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Lighthouse, the public has not been privy to detail; factual info about her private life in MA and on campus that reveals her motive for leaving behind her family social relationships, and academics. running, because she lied about her plan to pack and leave campus, and apparently did not share this plan or destination with anyone...or at least no one has come forward, otherwise.
she ran. she ran away.
you begin:
"-She gets word late in the week she can't stay at the dorms anymore"
your premise, and what follows, is not proven as fact.
there really is no room for speculation and fiction, just facts. there have been no earth shattering clues to "break" this "case" wide open, as so many have attempted and promised...but come up empty-handed. the whole subject needs a dose of reality, generously sprinkled.

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Lisac wrote:

Canada may not have been her final destination on that trip, but it's not so far fetched if you are up there in 2004 to change your plans and cross the border.

Lisac wrote:

I've followed the case a few years, not as long as others of course, but in the time I've followed it, I've learned that if you stick with one theory too long, someone will prove it wrong. It's just how it is in this case.

Lisac wrote:

You have to wonder if Maura, dead or alive, knew when she left how much debate there would be over this stuff.

SpruceGoose wrote:

Universities aren't usually eager to expel Dean's List students. Unless there's some 'major crime' that's somehow been kept a Big Secret all these years, I don't think the credit card crime, that was due to go away in a couple of weeks anyway, as I recall, would have been enough reason for UMass to expel Maura.

SpruceGoose wrote:

Universities aren't usually eager to expel Dean's List students. Unless there's some 'major crime' that's somehow been kept a Big Secret all these years, I don't think the credit card crime, that was due to go away in a couple of weeks anyway, as I recall, would have been enough reason for UMass to expel Maura.