Not So
Hingham, MA
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WTH-the-original wrote: <quoted text> I don't remember hearing that anyone used cadaver dogs except when searching the ponds. Bill Found this Footprints in the snow By Brian McGrory, Globe Columnist, 2/27/2004 Authorities sent a heat-seeking helicopter along the treetops as recently as yesterday. They used dogs to try to trace her steps away from the accident scene. They dispatched cadaver-sniffing canin http://www.projectjason.org/forums/index.php... into the forest, all to no avail
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Tom
Chesterfield, MO
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WTH-the-original wrote: <quoted text> Well I was hoping to not be overly graphic but you are clearly clueless. I have documented with pictures the destruction of a deer about human size on property I had access to. It would be no different with a human. The body is ripped up and pulled a good distance the first night. The internal organs are generally eaten first. The body is pulled ever farther then next night because it is much lighter. The second night most of the flesh is consumed and generally speaking only the spine and attached head is left being that the appendages are torn off and pulled in different directions. The third night the head and spine are dragged a pretty fair distance 100 yards or so from their last location. From there the rest of the skeleton is disassembled and scattered. There is little to no smell in this case, especially if the temperatures are low. I also came across a frozen half eaten carcass of a very large deer in the Adirondack right next to the trail and near a camp. Never would have known it was there if I hadn't come across it by accident. Search dogs search for what they are trained for. If they weren't cadaver dogs they wouldn't have probably found her because that wasn't what they were looking for. Most dogs are trained to exclude other scents. I don't remember hearing that anyone used cadaver dogs except when searching the ponds. Bill How am I clueless? You just state the body is ripped up. Like what do the animals do rip it up into easy to carry pieces? There would be evidence of a body being ripped up. Someone just stated that they used dogs to smell for dead bodies. If an animal can smell her dead body then so should a trained dog. Where as this theory of "animals breaking her up into easy to carry pieces without leaving a trace" is plausable I think it is doubtful. I thought we were focusing on more likely scenarios.
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Rod
Denver, CO
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WTH-the-original wrote: <quoted text> Well I was hoping to not be overly graphic but you are clearly clueless. I have documented with pictures the destruction of a deer about human size on property I had access to. It would be no different with a human. The body is ripped up and pulled a good distance the first night. The internal organs are generally eaten first. The body is pulled ever farther then next night because it is much lighter. The second night most of the flesh is consumed and generally speaking only the spine and attached head is left being that the appendages are torn off and pulled in different directions. The third night the head and spine are dragged a pretty fair distance 100 yards or so from their last location. From there the rest of the skeleton is disassembled and scattered. There is little to no smell in this case, especially if the temperatures are low. I also came across a frozen half eaten carcass of a very large deer in the Adirondack right next to the trail and near a camp. Never would have known it was there if I hadn't come across it by accident. Search dogs search for what they are trained for. If they weren't cadaver dogs they wouldn't have probably found her because that wasn't what they were looking for. Most dogs are trained to exclude other scents. I don't remember hearing that anyone used cadaver dogs except when searching the ponds. Bill If it always happens as you say it does then no person who goes missing in the wilderness would ever be found. Yet, people are found months, years later.
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Bumping for Maura
Norrköping, Sweden
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Snowy wrote: <quoted text> no, no, no. we're talking Amherst. if Haverhill, hypothermia. if Amherst, her death may have occurred there, and her body may have been disposed of in MA, or elsewhere, but not necessarily in NH. ...and her car may have been separately transported to Haverhill to divert from what occurred in Amherst or surrounds. Snowy, You and I are sometimes at loggerheads here, but I absolutely second your post here. As Beagle often rightly points out, the last absolutely reliable ID of Maura is the accident report by LE after her crash with her father´s Toyota Corolla in Hadley, MA. This really is the last publicly known sure ID of Maura, a fact which is easy to forget. You are of course absolutely correct that Maura might have been somehow attacked in Amherst/Hadley, MA,and her car later transported to NH. I´m not saying this scenario is more or less likely than anything else, but in the absence of other known facts it cannot be ruled out by any means.
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Bumping for Maura
Norrköping, Sweden
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OK, Here´s a question for you all: Who can seriously dispute the fact that the last publicly known, reliable ID of Maura is that of Officer Mark Ruddock, of the Hadley,MA, PD after Maura crashed her father´s car in the middle of the night? Thanks.
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Not So wrote: <quoted text> Found this Footprints in the snow By Brian McGrory, Globe Columnist, 2/27/2004 Authorities sent a heat-seeking helicopter along the treetops as recently as yesterday. They used dogs to try to trace her steps away from the accident scene. They dispatched cadaver-sniffing canin http://www.projectjason.org/forums/index.php... into the forest, all to no avail I have never known and very few people do know where they searched and what assets they deployed and how. I don't suspect that Maura was anywhere near the car close enough that cadaver dogs would have found her. If we believe CW then she was miles from the car. It took three years to find a Lear jet that was with and extensive search. It was eventually found by accident. Humans do and have disappeared in the Whites, some for years, some for many decades. Bill
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Rod wrote: <quoted text> If it always happens as you say it does then no person who goes missing in the wilderness would ever be found. Yet, people are found months, years later. When did I say never? It is not unusual for people to disappear for years and even decades. When they are found, often it is not from any concerted search effort, it is by a hunter or fisherman stumbling across them. Bill
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Jwb
Lincoln, NH
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The video of Maura buying alcohol and or at the atm was the last known sighting.
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Tom wrote: <quoted text> How am I clueless? You just state the body is ripped up. Like what do the animals do rip it up into easy to carry pieces? There would be evidence of a body being ripped up. Someone just stated that they used dogs to smell for dead bodies. If an animal can smell her dead body then so should a trained dog. Where as this theory of "animals breaking her up into easy to carry pieces without leaving a trace" is plausable I think it is doubtful. I thought we were focusing on more likely scenarios. There is a blood patch. Sometimes there is a blood trail. There is fur or in a humans case there may be a hair mass. Both disappear very quickly with wind and rain. You keep using the terms "without leaving a trace". When did I say there was no trace. I am telling you that what is left after a very short period of time is scattered and instead or looking for a 110 pound person, you are looking for bones that are scattered far and wide. Unless you are near the area, and the dog is positioned correctly, and it is the correct type of detection dog, you will find nothing. Searchers looking can pass over an area like that and if they don't know what they are looking at, can easily miss what they are searching for or it may not even exist anymore. Bill
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Maura was seen by the school bus driver at the accident scene. Bill
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Jwb
Lincoln, NH
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I believe it was Maura but some here have said that it can't be proved with 100% certainty. I agree with you Bill
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whitenoise
Winthrop, MA
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whitenoise wrote: <quoted text> Anne mistaken??? You've got to be kidding. Has anyone ever figured out what Anner the Scanner, the diaper-wearing, trailer-dwelling scanner lady was saying? Several of us have read her many posts over and over telling us what she heard on her little toy scanner. And we can't make heads or tails out of it. And furthermore because of the mountains her police scanner in VT probably did not even reach the relevant part of NH. Scanners are line-of-sight. I should have also mentioned that it was three (3) months after she allegedly heard this on her scanner before she suddenly popped into MMM to drop her bombshell. At least some people like Shack took it to be a bombshell, others of us heard it as goobledygook.
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Captain Jack
East Weymouth, MA
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Snowy wrote: <quoted text> another young woman. This seems very plausible to me.
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Beagle
Worcester, MA
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Bumping for Maura wrote: OK, Here´s a question for you all: Who can seriously dispute the fact that the last publicly known, reliable ID of Maura is that of Officer Mark Ruddock, of the Hadley,MA, PD after Maura crashed her father´s car in the middle of the night? Thanks. One small caveat. If the officer responding to the Corolla crash positively identified her, and then he, so to speak, handed her off to the tow truck driver, and, especially if she used AAA for the tranport to the motel, then I guess the tow truck driver would be the last one, but that's not truly as solid as the ID by a police officer. Having said that, it's very possible that Maura was not driving the Corolla when it crashed. Because... If she was familiar with the route, then she would probably not have run the stop sign and crashed into the guardrail opposite the end of N. Hadley Rd. Unless her driving was impaired, which can happen from too much alcohol - among other things. If she had never driven the N. Hadley Rd. route, then she probably would have taken University Dr to Russell St to the motel. That's the normal route you would take from SW to the motel. I drive these roads every day, so I'm very familiar with local habits. So... If Maura was not driving the Corolla, who was? And, to throw out another really tiny caveat, it's possible - very unlikely, but possible - that someone who merely looked like Maura and who had borrowed her license was at the scene. But that seems very, very unlikely. Therefore, I think it probable that Maura was either quite impaired or was not driving the Corolla when it crashed. Which brings up two questions: Who was driving the Corolla? And/or why was Maura not arrest for operating under?
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Tom
Chesterfield, MO
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Captain Jack wrote: <quoted text> This seems very plausible to me. Driving her car, and drinking the wine she had just purchased. Not that likely.
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Tom
Chesterfield, MO
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Beagle wrote: <quoted text>One small caveat. If the officer responding to the Corolla crash positively identified her, and then he, so to speak, handed her off to the tow truck driver, and, especially if she used AAA for the tranport to the motel, then I guess the tow truck driver would be the last one, but that's not truly as solid as the ID by a police officer. Having said that, it's very possible that Maura was not driving the Corolla when it crashed. Because... If she was familiar with the route, then she would probably not have run the stop sign and crashed into the guardrail opposite the end of N. Hadley Rd. Unless her driving was impaired, which can happen from too much alcohol - among other things. If she had never driven the N. Hadley Rd. route, then she probably would have taken University Dr to Russell St to the motel. That's the normal route you would take from SW to the motel. I drive these roads every day, so I'm very familiar with local habits. So... If Maura was not driving the Corolla, who was? And, to throw out another really tiny caveat, it's possible - very unlikely, but possible - that someone who merely looked like Maura and who had borrowed her license was at the scene. But that seems very, very unlikely. Therefore, I think it probable that Maura was either quite impaired or was not driving the Corolla when it crashed. Which brings up two questions: Who was driving the Corolla? And/or why was Maura not arrest for operating under? We are drifting into the highly unlikely phase of our search. Her father said she was in an accident and she had to pick up the accident paperwork if someone was pretending to be her, why would they pick it up. If we can't accept the fact that Maura was in her car with the alchol she was seen purchasing and driving to the destination that she loved then we can discount any and every piece of evidence and never find her.
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Beagle
Worcester, MA
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WTH-the-original wrote: Maura was seen by the school bus driver at the accident scene. Bill If you are willing to totally - totally - rely on SBD's identification of Maura at the WB curve accident scene, then it's important to be consistent and apply the same standards to any other conclusions. SBD's identification is not reliable. He saw a young woman who resembled Maura and may certainly have been Maura, but SBD had never seen Maura before, never even seen a picture of her before. On what truly reliable basis could SBD have ID'd Maura at the WB curve? In the dark. Looking like a million other college-age females? Why is it so impossible that Maura was separated from her car? It happens. The logic of applying an accumulative history of people leaving their cars to evade arrest by police of operating under is leaving out, in this case, a key element of the package. Almost all drivers who evade police in order to sober up are either found by police or show up on their own. This is not a case of a car abandonded by a driver who later is found. This is a case of a car abandoned forever in NH by a young woman who usually drove this car. There's a difference. You have to look at the total package here. You can't apply a history of people temporarily abandoning their cars with a case of someone who leaves it behind permantently and disappears for eight years.
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Not So
Hingham, MA
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WTH-the-original wrote: <quoted text> I have never known and very few people do know where they searched and what assets they deployed and how. I don't suspect that Maura was anywhere near the car close enough that cadaver dogs would have found her. If we believe CW then she was miles from the car. It took three years to find a Lear jet that was with and extensive search. It was eventually found by accident. Humans do and have disappeared in the Whites, some for years, some for many decades. Bill I wasn't disputing you and you or others have mentioned the lear jet. Not arguing just offering info.
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Beagle
Worcester, MA
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Jwb wrote: The video of Maura buying alcohol and or at the atm was the last known sighting. Undocumented report, newspaper report, not a fact truly known by the general public.
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Beagle
Worcester, MA
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Captain Jack wrote: <quoted text> This seems very plausible to me. It is realistically plausible. That does not mean that it's probable, but after eight years, why not consider other possibilities, especially plausible ones?
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