Maura Murray

Bumping for Maura wrote:

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hannah b,
I was specifically referring to posts # 671 and 673 earlier today on WS.6323

Why Jaffrey? And why speculate on possible perps without any evidence foul play was even involved?

The old Chinese woman next to me is slowly dying. She remembers Chiang Kai-shek. At noon she comes to my back door with a tray from Meals-on-Wheels and pleads with me to eat the food she can no longer swallow. She is concerned with my health, my persistent cough. She wears flip-flops and has placed an American flag among her fake snapdragons. The Buddists from the Leverett temple come to care for her. The men drive a Chevy minivan, wear long orange robes and penny loafers without socks.

hannah_b wrote:

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Why Jaffrey? And why speculate on possible perps without any evidence foul play was even involved?

It's where matches are made.

Beagle, I don´t believe life insurance (if there was any) could have been paid out without her having been officially declared dead.

hannah_b wrote:

Beagle, I don´t believe life insurance (if there was any) could have been paid out without her having been officially declared dead.

Yes, that's what I was wondering. Thanks.

Det. Columbo -

Every cop in the PV believes I am a very evil person. They would be only too happy to extract a confession. How can one be arranged?

You told me you were my old friend. Please be my friend in this my hour of need. Amen.

It's the holidays. They will pass. The days are already starting to lengthen.

Det. Columbo -

You smell funny, sort of waxy.

Remember the Antonioni film, "Blow Up?"

Did Maura XC ski?

Maybe the cops suspect a Brit.

Here's a very recent story about a woman arrested in Northampton (near Amherst) for armed home invasion. If a house, why not a car?

Sorry, forgot the link.

http://northamptonmedia.com/blog/12/26/2011/a...

Maybe Maura was kidnapped by a lesbian with a British type accent on her way in a tow truck to a GLBT friendly resort in Bethlehem?

Holly Murray killed at Hampshire Mall.

http://www.hollysmurray.com/home/abuse8.htm

The killer was on a list of possible suspects questioned early on by the police. I think he was a volunteer firefighter, but not totally sure. Police crossed him off the list because his wife corroborated his story that he was home at the time the murder was committed. It was several years later, after an argument, that the wife called the police. The killer was found at a hotel in a nearby town where he had rented a room and killed himself.

The victim was a 20 year old psyc major at UMass with whom the killer was basically obsessed, angry that she wouldn't go out with him.

What's weird is that the murder was actually watched by a woman sitting in a nearby car while her husband was getting cash from the ATM in the parking lot. The husband got back in the car and asked his wife what was wrong. She said, "Oh, nothing," and that was it. Hysterical amnesia. Event totally erased from her conscious memory. The ATM video showed the couple and car at the ATM, but when asked by the police if she saw anything, she said, truthfully but not accurately, that she had seen nothing. But the cops had a funny feeling about it, so eventually, the woman underwent hypnosis and remembered only a little bit, nothing truly useful.

Wait a minute. I don't get this. Click on the article's links at the top of the page. They refer to an apparently living woman by the same name, an artist. Confusing. Gallery?

Twilight zone?

Nevermind. I get it. It was Galligan who was killed, not Murray. (Get a grip, Beagle.) Too fast reading. My bad. Murray is alive and Galligan, sadly, is not.

hannah_b wrote:

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I read a post on this forum recently they used an air scent dog. No wonder it lost track, if true. Why would an air scent dog be used at that time? Doesn´t make sense.

Exactly what I felt also, the other problem was the scent sample was a glove that Maura got for Christmas and Fred wasn't even sure she even used it. Despite all that Dogs are not infallible, there are many factors that can create tracking issues.
As I sated earlier the air rises in the morning hours and pools in the afternoon, also was there a strong wind that day. Then you get all the traffic both auto and human searching in the days before.

Det. Columbo, what's your take on the windshield being spider webbed? Is it possible Maura wasn't wearing a seat belt and got torpedoed over the airbag? It can happen, it happened just recently in a double fatality just down the road from my house. No seat belts used and despite airbags deployed, massive head trama.

I know its a long shot but, I think its worth consideration. Slight concussion that worsened in the hours following, slow brain bleed anything is possible. Something cracked the windshield, and had the windshield been cracked previously someone would have known and I doubt she would have driven all those miles without it spreading side to side.