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Subject Fact SummarySources of Pre-Departure Facts (self.MauraMurrayEvidence)

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In progress - also missing multimedia quotes - about 80% done, but substantially well documented, none the less.

Asserted facts regarding Maura's activities prior to her departure from Amherst.

The following posts will list facts about the case and where the fact came from. This will be a work in process, the list made first and sources added as time allows. If a purported fact is not listed, its either of the following reasons:

  1. I didn't think to add it here yet
  2. I can't find a newspaper article, source document to back it up.
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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maura Was Having Car Troubles from February 1, 2004 (or earlier) through to February 8, 2004

https://youtu.be/bTtuowTdeaM?t=1m54s

The Caledonian-Record
February 21, 2004
https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7go0as
Rausch said the Saturn was having mechanical problems, possibly only running on three cylinders, when Murray set out for Burlington. She said, possibly, because the car was running poorly, she decided to leave Interstate 91 and pick up Route 302 and head toward the Lincoln area.

The Caledonian-Record
February 27, 2004
https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r6rfb
Murray may had been having trouble with her black 1996 Saturn. Rausch said she understood the vehicle was not running on all of its cylinders.

The Patriot Ledger
February 28, 2004
https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r7g8t
The Saturday before Murray left school, she and her father, Frederick Murray of Weymouth, were shopping for a new car in Amherst because her Saturn was running on three cylinders.

The Patriot Ledger
March 9, 2004
https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7gix3d
Then she loaded her Saturn sedan, a car that friends said she hadn't started in weeks, and took off. Her dorm mates didn't even notice she was gone. I didn't even know she lived here,'' said Kelli Martinson, a freshman from Hull who lived five doors down from Murray.

The Caledonian-Record
April 30, 2004
https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7goeta
Maura left her Amherst dorm the afternoon of Feb. 9, driving a black 1996 Saturn, which Rausch said was not operating on all of its cylinders.

Northcountry News
Around July 28, 2006
https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6suso8
The car she was driving had had some mechanical problems. We're not sure whether she had not yet decided which area to head to or whether she had car trouble.

Whitman-Hanson Express
July 12, 2007
https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7khx6v
Maura had been getting rides from friends at school due to her car problems, says Sharon Rausch, so it is unlikely the textbooks would have already been in the car.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7khnzt
Fred came to UMass that weekend to help Maura go car shopping. Maura's black 1996 Saturn sedan was in rough shape, running on just three cylinders. Maura drove the Saturn as little as possible. The father and daughter were looking at a three-year-old Geo Prizm. "She would have had a new car by next week," Fred said later.

The New Hampshire Union Leader
October 30, 2007
https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6ub07t
Over the weekend, he had been helping Maura find a used car, because the 1996 Saturn was running so poorly. He was staying at a motel in Hadley, Mass., near the campus.

SOCO Magazine
April 2011
https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d87y4zg
Considering that the car was experiencing mechanical problems, Fred Murray said at the time that it was possible Maura had stuffed the rag into the tailpipe herself if smoke was coming out of it and she wanted to plug it up.

The two went shopping for a used car tor Maura because her vehicle at the time, a 1996 black Saturn, had been experiencing mechanical problems.

Boston Magazine
January 28, 2014
https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2pb2
That weekend, her father came up from his job in Connecticut to help Maura find a new car. Maura’s 1996 Saturn “kind of blew a cylinder” and was “smoking something fierce,” according to Fred Murray. “I said, ‘You can’t drive this car. The cops will pull you over in a heartbeat,’” he recalls. As a temporary fix, Fred says he suggested she put a rag inside the tailpipe to hide the smoke.

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Maura's boyfriend Billy Raush was stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma between February 2, 2004 (or earlier) and February 9, 2004

The Caledonian-Record
February 13, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7gnar0
While he was at the airport waiting to catch a flight out of Oklahoma, Rausch said...

...Thursday night was Bill Rausch, who is a second lieutenant with C Battery, 119th Field Artillery at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla.

The New Hampshire Union Leader
February 13, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6u9mse
Family members, including her brothers and sister, as well as her boyfriend, Bill Rausch, who flew in from Oklahoma when she was reported missing,

Boston Globe
February 15, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r6xlu
The day after the accident, she called her boyfriend, Army Lieutenant Bill Rausch, who is stationed in Oklahoma, in tears.

Rausch, who got a leave of absence from the Army, arrived in New Hampshire on Thursday.

The Patriot Ledger
February 16, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7sc946
...and her boyfriend, Army Lt. William Rausch of Oklahoma...

Journal Opinion
February 18, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7dqed9
...Murray's boyfriend, Bill Rausch, from Oklahoma...

The Caledonian-Record
February 18, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6sq8jj
Maura's father and her fiance, Bill Rausch, who is a second lieutenant with C Battery, 119th Field Artillery at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla....

New Hampshire Union Leader
February 20, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7oplit
Her son must report back for duty in Oklahoma tomorrow, she said...

The Caledonian-Record
February 20, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7gnia1
Sharon Rausch, the mother of Bill Rausch, who is Murray's fiance-to-be and a second lieutenant with C Battery, 119th Field Artillery at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla., was present at the press conference.

The Patriot Ledger
February 21, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7sbhms
Leave is up for Maura Murray's boyfriend, Army Lt. Bill Rausch of Oklahoma, who is heading back to his military post.

Boston Globe
February 27, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7ajrdi

On Feb. 9, she left her boyfriend of three years, an army lieutenant in Oklahoma, an e-mail and voice mail in which she indicated nothing wrong, packed her car, and headed north.

The Caledonian-Record
February 27, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r6rfb
...calling card call to Bill Rausch's cell phone as he was waiting to fly out of Oklahoma Feb. 11 to come search for his girlfriend.

Boston Globe
March 2, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r7ige
One investigator characterized her ongoing e-mail exchange with her boyfriend, an Army lieutenant in Oklahoma, as "sappy."

The Patriot Ledger
March 9, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7gix3d
She held two jobs so she could fly to Oklahoma, where Rausch is stationed at Fort Sill. She planned to move there after graduation.

The Patriot Ledger
May 3, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7sk80k
...at military bases in Oklahoma...

The Caledonian-Record
May 4, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7goco6
...Circles of Hope ceremonies for Maura in Oklahoma...

The Caldedonian-Record
May 6, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r8bkr
...expensive diamond jewelry from her boyfriend, Billy Rausch of Fort Sill, Okla., and computer-generated directions for locations in Vermont.

The Patriot Ledger
May 6, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7slnii
Murray's boyfriend, Army Lt. Bill Rausch of Oklahoma...

VERMONT STATE POLICE - NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE POLICE
June 8, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7lzrh4
...these events to include a difficult long distance relationship with her boyfriend in Oklahoma.

The Caldedonian-Record
June 9, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r8fyy
...having had a difficult long-distance relationship with her boyfriend, Billy Rausch, who is stationed at Fort Sill in Oklahoma.

The Caledonian Record
July 3, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7glmp1
...Sharon Rausch, mother of Maura Murray's boyfriend, Billy Rausch of Fort Sill, Okla.

Massachusetts Daily Collegian
September 9, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r97c7
Murray has described her daughter's relationship with her boyfriend, Army Lt. Bill Rauch of Oklahoma as "a very, very good relationship."

The Patriot Ledger
February 9, 2005

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7snaiw
...Murray's boyfriend, Army Lt. Bill Rausch of Oklahoma.

Steve Huff's Crime Blog
July 21, 2005

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m3lfc
On Feb. 9, she left her boyfriend of three years, an army lieutenant in Oklahoma

The Caledonian-Record
February 9, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6uac5y
Maura's boyfriend and unofficial fiance, Billy Rausch of Fort Sill, Okla., was promoted to captain and sent to Iraq.

Whitman-Hanson Express
July 12, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7khnzt
Billy was an army lieutenant who was stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Just a few weeks earlier Maura had arranged for a summer job at a hospital in Oklahoma to be closer to Billy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7kiiea
That same Wednesday morning 1,800 miles away, Maura's boyfriend, Army 2nd Lt. Billy Rausch, headed to the Dallas Fort-Worth Airport to catch a flight north. Once he heard that Maura was missing Billy requested a leave of absence from his unit at Fort Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma, to join the search in New Hampshire.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7kipgb
Billy had to get back to Fort Sill in Oklahoma, and about two weeks later,

New Hampshire Sunday News / New Hampshire Union Leader October 28, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6ste89
After finally getting emergency leave to head north to search for Maura, Billy Rausch -- at the time an Army lieutenant stationed at Fort Sill, Okla.

New Hampshire Union Leader / New Hampshire Sunday News
October 28, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6uak2q
Billy was an Army lieutenant stationed at Fort Sill, Okla., when Maura disappeared.

The New Hampshire Union Leader
October 30, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6ub07t
Murray enjoyed spending time with Billy Rausch... He was stationed in Oklahoma when Maura disappeared.

ABC News - 20/20
August 14, 2008

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6yh2n0
..she had attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where she met a young man, Bill Rausch, and fell in love. After Rausch graduated West Point, he was stationed in Oklahoma as Maura finished school in Massachusetts.

CNN
November 26, 2008

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6yhspo
Maura Murray had just gotten engaged to Rausch, her college sweetheart and an Army lieutenant stationed in Oklahoma.

ABC News 20/20
September 21, 2009

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7lxenf After Rausch graduated West Point, he was stationed in Oklahoma...

SOCO Magazine
April 2011

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d87y4zg While traveling from Oklahoma to New Hampshire to assist with the search for his missing girlfriend, Billy Raush...

Concord Monitor
March 31, 2013

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m39kf
.. including a long-distance relationship with her boyfriend in Oklahoma.

Boston Magazine January 28, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2pb2
...and a necklace from her boyfriend, whom she’d met at West Point and was now stationed in Oklahoma.

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien interviewed ... her boyfriend, Bill Rausch, who flew in from Oklahoma.

The Patriot Ledger / The Enterprise
February 8, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6sw703
Maura's boyfriend, an Army lieutenant... flew in from Oklahoma to help.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Between February 2, 2004 (or earlier) and February 9, 2004, Maura had her personal items packed in boxes and took her artwork off the wall. She also left a note on top of the boxes.
Part 1

Massachusetts Daily Collegian
February 17, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r7nx8
Lindsay Pemberton, a junior nursing major, has the same class schedule as Murray and was present for the meeting on Friday. Pemberton told The Massachusetts Daily Collegian that staff in the nursing department spoke to Murray’s family, and were told that there were no recent family deaths.

“Also, her dorm room was all packed up, like she was planning on moving out,” said Pemberton.

“She was really quiet and didn’t hang out with any of us,” said Pemberton. “She was a sweet person, but she didn’t get personal with anyone.”

Boston Globe
February 21, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7giqmv
Murray's father said he also discovered a note card that mentioned Burlington among many personal belongings she had packed in her car.

The Brockton Enterprise
February 20, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r6j2b
Many of her belongings had been packed and left behind in her dorm room at the school, Scarinza said after talking to campus police.

The school newspaper, The Daily Collegian, also quoted a classmate who said Murray's room was packed like she was planning to move out.

Lowell Sun / The New Hampshire Union Leader / Foster's Sunday Citizen / Nashua Telegraph
February 22, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6psz81
She lied to professors about a death in the family, and said she would be gone from class for the week and then packed her belongings as if she was moving out.

The Caledonian-Record
February 27, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r6rfb
Packed Up Her Dorm Room - UMass Police Department Detective Brian Davies said Murray had packed up all her belongings in her dorm room and appeared to be moving out and not returning.

Boston Globe
March 2, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r7ige
The more details are revealed, the more baffling the case becomes, police acknowledge. Yesterday, Thrasher said that Maura had fastidiously packed all her belongings into boxes before she left school, even removing the art from her dorm room walls. Least likely is that she committed suicide. She left no note.

Boston Herald
March 2, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7gjlb6
Her sister, a 21-year-old former West Point cadet who transferred to UMass-Amherst, packed her room and e-mailed university staff Feb. 9 that she would be out for a week. As an excuse, she said there had been a death in her family.

The New Hampshire Union Leader / Boston Globe
March 2, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7glint
She lied to professors about a death in the family, said she would be gone from class for the week, then packed her belongings as if she were moving out.

Sun Journal
March 2, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7knyth
She lied to professors about a death In the family. said she would be gone from class for the week, then packed her belongings as if she was moving out.

The Patriot Ledger
March 3, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r8xn1
According to her family, Murray called her sister, Kathleen Murray of Hanover, at about 10 p.m. Feb. 5, four days before she packed her belongings and headed north to New Hampshire.

The Patriot Ledger
Tuesday, March 9, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7gix3d
She is struggling these days to figure out why Murray packed up her dormitory room a month ago today and took off for New Hampshire.

She packed up her belongings in her room on the fourth floor of the John F. Kennedy residence hall, including wall decorations.

Pittsfield Berkshire Eagle / Portsmouth Herald / Boston Globe / The New Hampshire Union Leader
April 4, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6pv6k5
She lied to professors about a death in the family, and said she would be gone from class for the week. Then she packed her belongings as if she was moving out. Police said Murray may have wanted to get away for a while.

Boston Globe
April 11, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6u6fgy
The psychic said she also was not sure why Murray, a nursing student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and former college track star, abruptly packed her belongings the day she disappeared and drove to New Hampshire without telling any friends or family members of her plans.

The Providence Journal
April 22, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6u6auj
State police searched the area in a helicopter Monday for any sign of Maura Murray, 21, of Hanson, Mass., a University of Massachusetts student, who had packed up all her belongings at school before she disappeared.

Seventeen Magazine
About May 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d87vfwb
Then she packed her stuff, left her dorm, took $280 out of an ATM, bought a can of Skyy Blue and a bottle of red wine at a liquor store, got in her car-and started driving.

The Patriot Ledger
May 3, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7sk80k
Maura Murray packed up her belongings in her dorm room on Feb. 9, loaded up her car and abruptly left UMass. She wrecked her car later that night but refused help from a passing motorist. Ten minutes later, police arrived, but Murray was gone.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Between February 2, 2004 (or earlier) and February 9, 2004, Maura had her personal items packed in boxes and took her artwork off the wall. She also left a note on top of the boxes.
Part 2

The Patriot Ledger
May 6, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7slnii
The clue offers at least some hope for Murray's family and friends. What happened after the car accident is only part of the mystery. Questions about why she was in New Hampshire are also unanswered. The last time friends saw her was the afternoon of Feb. 9, when Murray packed her belongings at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and left. She E-mailed professors saying there was a death in the family.

The New Hampshire Union Leader
May 14, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7oqt35
She also apparently planned to get away because she lied to professors about a death in the family and said she would be gone from class for the week, then packed her belongings as if she was moving out.

VERMONT STATE POLICE - NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE POLICE
June 8, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7lzrh4
By Monday morning, Feb. 9th Maura had packed up all her belongings in her dorm room at U-Mass, putting everything neatly in boxes and putting all the boxes on her bed along with a personal note she had recently received from her boyfriend.

The Caldedonian-Record
June 9, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r8fyy
Investigators also said Murray had nearly cleaned out her bank account, packed up her belongings in her dorm room at UMass Amherst, and made off for destinations unknown.

The next day she packed up all her belongings in her dorm room and headed off to a destination unknown.

The New Hampshire Union Leader
July 2, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7os4gh
She also apparently planned to get away because she lied to professors about a death in the family and said she would be gone from class for the week, then packed her belongings as if she was moving out.

The Patriot Ledger
July 13, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7sn1zj
Murray, a nursing student at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, packed up her belongings in her dorm room on Feb. 9, loaded up her car and abruptly left school.

WCAX
July 13, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r8r4u
"What is clear it was her intention to leave school at the time she drove and ended up in Haverhill, New Hampshire. She had packed all her belongings, put them in boxes," said Lt. John Scarinza who is heading up the investigation for the New Hampshire State Police.

The New Hampshire Union Leader
July 14, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7orn17
By the morning of Feb. 9, she had packed up all her belongings in boxes and left a note for her boyfriend.

Massachusetts Daily Collegian
September 9, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r97c7
22-year-old Maura Murray, a nursing student, is still missing after 7 months. It was February 9, 2004 when the Hanson, Mass. resident packed up her belongings from her Kennedy Hall dorm room, drove her car to New Hampshire and got into a minor car accident. After the accident, she vanished without a trace. She has not been seen or heard from since that cold February evening.

"Sometime between Sunday and Monday morning, she packed up all her belongings in her dorm room, to include taking all her pictures off the walls, taking everything out of her bureaus, [and] put them all in boxes [and] left [them] on her bed," Scarinza told WCVB-TV, "[She] left a personal note to her boyfriend on top of the boxes."

Massachusetts Daily Collegian
January 26, 2005

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6su89v
The 21-year-old nursing student from Hanson, Mass. packed up her belongings in her Kennedy Hall dorm room on February 9, 2004. In recent months, the Murray family has discovered that police have made several critical errors in the investigation, and allegedly lied to the news media.

“Sometime between Sunday and Monday morning, she packed up all her belongings in her dorm room, to include taking all her pictures off the walls, taking everything out of her bureaus, [and] put them all in boxes [and] left [them] on her bed,” Scarinza told WCVB-TV, “[She] left a personal note to her boyfriend on top of the boxes.”

The Republican
February 9, 2005

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6u77b9
Before leaving UMass, Murray e-mailed her professors to tell them she was heading home for the week because of a death in the family, but there was no death in the family. She also packed up her dorm room.

The Republican
January 5, 2006

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6u9czp
Shamshak said that means going back to the UMass-Amherst campus, where Murray, 21, of Hanson, was a junior nursing student. Before she disappeared on Feb. 9, 2004, she packed up her dorm room and e-mailed her professors to tell them she was going home for the week because of a death in the family, but there was no death in the family.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Between February 2, 2004 (or earlier) and February 9, 2004, Maura had her personal items packed in boxes and took her artwork off the wall. She also left a note on top of the boxes.
Part 3

Whitman-Hanson Express
July 12, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7khx6v
Maura had "fastidiously packed all her belongings into boxes before she left school, even removing the art from her dorm room walls," the Boston Globe reported, citing UMass Police Lieutenant Robert Thrasher.

"It looked like she was planning to leave school," said Lieutenant John Scarinza of the New Hampshire State Police.

Although police and some friends suggest from her packing that Maura may have been intending to leave school permanently, there is reason to doubt such a conclusion.

Maura met her boyfriend, Billy Rausch, in the fall of 2001 while attending West Point. Maura was following in her sister Julie’s footsteps, but later decided military life wasn’t for her and transferred to UMass. Despite the distance Maura and Billy remained close.

Maura had recently returned from winter break. The University of Massachusetts has an unusually long break running from before Christmas into late January. Maura returned home to Hanson during her break and logically would have packed her belongings for such an extended time away. The UMass calendar refers to a "Welcome Back Week," occurring over the last week of January and into the first week in February. It is therefore plausible that Maura had been back on campus less than 10 days.

Family members also point out that Maura was a "neat-freak" by nature, so it wouldn't be unusual for the former West Point cadet to have her belongings carefully packed and arranged.

Moreover, there is no indication that Maura was doing poorly in school. To the contrary, she had made the dean's list the prior semester and was known as a good student.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7kimwk
On the UMass Amherst campus, another search was underway at Maura's dorm room. Investigators found her belongings packed in boxes and a search of her computer showed she had downloaded directions to Burlington, Vermont.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7kjcba
One line Fred repeated throughout the day was, "it doesn't matter." If you ask what he did for a living, or why Maura packed her things, or didn't tell anyone where she was headed, he'll just answer, "It doesn't matter." "We'll never know why she came up here," Fred said.

The Hampshire Union Leader
February 10, 2005

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7osfg4
The investigation found that Murray had packed up her dorm room and headed north to the White Mountains, where she and her father had hiked over the years.

New Hampshire Sunday News / New Hampshire Union Leader
October 28, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6ste89
Dorm room packed - Although police believe the belongings packed in Maura's dorm room were another indication she had no intention to return, the mother of Maura's then-boyfriend has another explanation.

Sharon Rausch thinks Maura hadn't yet unpacked her things after a long Christmas break. During one of Maura's visits to the Rausch home, Mrs. Rausch tried to loan her an extra suitcase, only to discover it hadn't been unpacked.

That made Maura laugh, Sharon Rausch said.

"Maura said, You're just like me. I unpack as I use my things.' That's out of her own mouth. Maybe she just never unpacked."

New Hampshire Sunday News
October 28, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7u8b79
Monday, Feb. 9, 2004: Maura departs Amherst, Mass., at about 4:30 p.m., leaving behind packed belongings in her UMass dorm room.

SOCO Magazine
April 2011

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d87wdmg
While she had packed up belongings from her dorm room, it looked more like she was moving away for awhile -- or perhaps had a plan to meet someone.

Concord Monitor
March 31, 2013

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m39kf
The morning of the disappearance she packed all of her belongings in boxes, placed them neatly on her dorm room bed, withdrew most of her money from her bank and emailed a professor and work supervisor that she would be taking a week off because of a death in the family.

Boston Magazine
January 28, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2pb2
When she left her dorm room, did she hint at what lay ahead? Some reports claim she had packed her belongings and taken art off her walls—evidence, perhaps, that she was leaving for good.

The Patriot Ledger / The Enterprise
February 8, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6sw703
On Feb. 9, 2004, Maura Murray packed up belongings in her dorm at University of Massachusetts at Amherst and headed north in her car.

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Maura was upset at work on Thursday February 5, 2004

Boston Herald
February 16, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7gjg2q
Last Thursday, she received an "upsetting" phone call at the art gallery where she worked, her father said, but he did not know what it concerned. That Saturday, she got into an accident with his car, and called her boyfriend Sunday in tears.

Boston Globe
March 2, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r7ige
Investigators have determined the origin of an unusual telephone call that Murray received a few nights before she fled the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The conversation upset her so much that she had to be escorted from her job to her dorm room.

The call, according to UMass police Lieutenant Robert Thrasher, came from one of Murray's two sisters. But Thrasher said police have yet to receive an explanation of what was so upsetting.

Yesterday, Fred Murray, the girls' father, said he was told that Maura's sister called her to talk about a "monstrous" fight with a boyfriend. "But I don't think that would upset her all that much," Murray said.

The Patriot Ledger
March 3, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r8xn1
According to her family, Murray called her sister, Kathleen Murray of Hanover, at about 10 p.m. Feb. 5, four days before she packed her belongings and headed north to New Hampshire. But what was said should not have upset the 21-year-old, Kathleen Murray said.

We didn't really talk about much. I had been fighting with my fiance', and we talked about that, but I don't know why she would be upset about that, Kathleen said.

Massachusetts Daily Collegian
September 9, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r97c7
Maura allegedly left her campus job the Thursday before she disappeared and co-workers described her state as upset and troubled, according to WCVB-TV.

In an interview with WCVB-TV, Maura's older sister, Kathleen Murray of Hanover, Mass., admitted that she had a phone conversation with Maura that evening.

"It was just a regular phone call. It made no difference to me. It was just Maura calling me, that was that. I told her about my day and quarreling with my fiance'," Murray said. "I don't know what I could have done to upset her... Seriously, I think she just wanted to get out of work."

New Hampshire State Police Lt. John Scarinza is one of the lead investigators on the Murray case. He disputes Kathleen Murray's statement about her sister trying to leave work early.

"It wasn't a case where she called the supervisor and said, 'Listen, I've had a bad phone call...' The supervisor on her own initiative said, 'Why don't you take the rest of the night off? I'll walk you to your dorm.' So clearly she was upset," Scarinza told WCVB-TV.

It was less than four days later when Maura decided to leave UMass. She apparently had some type of plan before for her departure.

New Hampshire Sunday News / New Hampshire Union Leader
October 28, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6ste89
Distraught on the job - Mrs. Rausch said Maura worked security late Thursday, Feb. 5, 2004, into Friday morning checking students in and out of a UMass dormitory. Maura's supervisor that night said she found her sobbing at about 1:20 a.m. and had to help her back to Murray's room.

The source of her distress, Maura told the supervisor, was a phone conversation with Murray's sister.

Since married, Kathleen Carpenter remembers finishing a phone call with Maura at about 10:20 the night of Feb. 5, but doesn't recall talking with her sister in the early-morning hours.

Kathleen, who said she had talked about troubles with her husband-to-be during the nighttime conversation with Maura, said her sister didn't seem upset.

But, she added, Maura and Billy were having relationship troubles at the time. Kathleen said she takes sleeping pills at night and didn't remember a later call.

"We'd always talk about boy troubles. She was with Billy Rausch and every time they got into a fight or if had a fight with my (now) husband, I'd call her. It was girl talk, always late at night," Carpenter said.

She believes her sister went to the White Mountains to sort out her troubles with Billy.

"I think it was stress. I don't know what her and her boyfriend were going through," Carpenter said. "I kind of think that might have triggered it. They weren't getting along at that time.

"She wanted to go to a place that made her happy and look at the mountains, and something went terribly wrong."

Whitman-Hanson Express
July 12, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7khnzt
During a slow point in her shift, around 10:20 p.m., Maura chatted on the phone with her older sister, Kathleen. The two were discussing men troubles, specifically Kathleen's tiff with her then fiancé, now husband, Tim Carpenter. The two sisters talked nearly every day and this conversation was not unlike any other, Kathleen would later say. Maura was especially close to Kathleen and her other older sister, Julie. She also had two brothers, Freddy and Kurt.

Maura did not burst into tears right after hanging up the phone, contrary to some published reports. But she did start crying about three hours later for reasons that remain unclear. Maura was comforted by her work supervisor, Karen Mayotte, who walked her back to her single room in the Kennedy dormitory around 1:20 a.m. Maura never told Mayotte why she was upset. Supervisors are on a 30-minute rotation so Mayotte would not have been present for Maura's entire shift.

SOCO Magazine
April 2011

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d87y4zg
Maura received another phone call while still at work, at 1 a.m. all Friday Feb. 6, after which she become upset. She was escorted back to her dorm room by her supervisor.

Boston Magazine
January 28, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2pb2
She also worked as a security guard at an art gallery and in the dorms. At around 10:20 p.m. on the Thursday before she disappeared, she received a phone call, and later in her shift that night, she became so upset that her supervisor escorted her back to her dorm room.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2t2c
In February 2005, members of the DIY detective message board websleuths.com jumped into the fray. Anonymous posters with names like Grassyknoll2 and CyberLaw attempted to piece together a time line, wondering why Maura would have partied on Saturday night, or what made her so upset at work.

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Fred Murray Came to Umass on Saturday, February 7, 2004 to car shop with Maura

Boston Globe
February 15, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r6xlu
A junior in the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's nursing program, Murray was doing well in school. She had a dedicated boyfriend, a loving family, and close friends. Her father, Frederick, had just told her he wanted to buy her a new car.

The Patriot Ledger
February 28, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r7g8t
The Saturday before Murray left school, she and her father, Frederick Murray of Weymouth, were shopping for a new car in Amherst because her Saturn was running on three cylinders.

The Patriot Ledger
March 9, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7gix3d
Alfieri said Markopoulos, Murray and a few friends were drinking into the late-night hours of Feb. 8. Fred Murray was staying in a hotel on Route 9 that weekend. He was in town to help his daughter find a new car.

Whitman-Hanson Express
July 12, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7khnzt
The father and daughter were looking at a three-year-old Geo Prizm. "She would have had a new car by next week," Fred said later.

After a day of car shopping on Saturday, the two had dinner at the Amherst Brewing Company on North Pleasant Street in downtown Amherst. Each time Fred visited Maura their routine included trying another of the many local brew pubs in the area.

Seventeen Magazine
About May 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d87vfwb
Two days later, on Saturday, February 7, Maura's dad drove up to Amherst to help Maura buy a new car.

New Hampshire Sunday News
October 28, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7u8b79
Maura Murray mystery timeline - Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004: Maura and her father, Fred Murray, look for used cars to replace her balky 1996 Saturn.

SOCO Magazine
April 2011

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d87y4zg
Fred Murray arrived at the UMass Amherst campus on Saturday, Feb. 7, to visit his daughter.

Investigation Discovery, September 27, 2012

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6yfts3
Saturday starts off as a father-daughter weekend where they spend the day used car shopping and eating out at their favorite local brew house.

Boston Magazine
January 28, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2pb2
That weekend, her father came up from his job in Connecticut to help Maura find a new car. Maura’s 1996 Saturn “kind of blew a cylinder” and was “smoking something fierce,” according to Fred Murray. “I said, ‘You can’t drive this car. The cops will pull you over in a heartbeat,’” he recalls. As a temporary fix, Fred says he suggested she put a rag inside the tailpipe to hide the smoke. He says he withdrew $4,000 over the course of eight ATM transactions and that on that Saturday he took Maura to purchase a car in Northampton. They ended up a couple of thousand dollars short, though, so Fred figured he’d go home, round up some more money, and come back another time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2u8w
“She didn’t have any reason,” Fred says. “She had things going for her. She was going to be a nurse. She was getting a new car—a three-year-old car—the very next Saturday. She was getting married soon. She was getting great marks.”

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Maura Borrowed her Father's New Car on the Evening of Saturday, February 7, 2004.

VERMONT STATE POLICE - NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE POLICE
PRESS RELEASE
June 8, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7lzrh4
On Saturday Feb 7th Maura spent the evening out with her father and friends at a local brew pub. Later that evening, in the early morning hours of Sunday the 8th of February, Maura was involved in a single vehicle accident in the town of Hadley, Mass. She was driving her fathers’ new car at the time of the accident, and struck a set of guardrails causing approx 10,000 dollars damage to the vehicle.

The Caldedonian-Record
June 9, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r8fyy
Scarinza also said the day before she disappeared, she had had an accident with her father's brand-new car in Hadley, Mass.

Whitman-Hanson Express
July 12, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7kimwk
Fred Murray was asked if his daughter had recently experienced any traumatic events. He could only think back to Amherst when Maura banged up his new car. But in Fred's words, "It wasn't a big deal."

SOCO Magazine
April 2011

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d87y4zg
She borrowed his car that evening and drove herself back to the UMass campus to attend a dorm party with her friend.

Boston Magazine
January 28, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2pb2
Later, Maura dropped off Fred at his hotel and drove his new Toyota Corolla to an on-campus party, where she drank with friends.

WCBV
February 5, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2gmv
Fred Murray was in Amherst visiting his daughter two days before she vanished. She borrowed his car to go to a party and struck a guardrail. No tickets were issued, but there was $8,000 in damage to the car.

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On the evening of Saturday, February 7, 2014, Maura attended a small party in the dorms

Boston Globe
March 2, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r7ige
Feb. 7, Maura and a girlfriend had dinner with Fred Murray, who was visiting Amherst. Afterward, the father returned to his hotel, and the two young women attended a campus party.

Whitman-Hanson Express
July 12, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7khnzt
Back on campus, Maura attended a small party in the dorm with Kate and their friends. The girls were chatting and drinking Skyy Blue malt mixed with wine, friend Sara Alfieri later said in an interview with Seventeen magazine.

New Hampshire Sunday News
October 28, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7u8b79
Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004: Maura and her father, Fred Murray, look for used cars to replace her balky 1996 Saturn. After dinner at a brewpub in Amherst, Mass., Maura drops Fred off at the Quality Inn in Hadley, Mass., takes his new Toyota for the night, and joins friends at a University of Massachusetts dormitory party.

SOCO Magazine
April 2011

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d87y4zg
Also all Saturday, Maura and her father ate dinner along with one of Maura's friends at an Amherst restaurant. After dinner Maura dropped her father off at his hotel room. She borrowed his car that evening and drove herself back to the UMass campus to attend a dorm party with her friend.

Boston Magazine
January 28, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2pb2
Later, Maura dropped off Fred at his hotel and drove his new Toyota Corolla to an on-campus party, where she drank with friends.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2u8w
Renner has just completed a 300-page book about his search for Maura, and can rattle off minute details about the case as if they were baseball stats. During his investigation, Renner wrote on his site that he discovered that just three months before her disappearance, Maura was visited by police officers at her dorm on account of $79.02 she had spent on pizza deliveries with a stolen credit card number. He also wrote that records indicated the charges would be dropped within three months under one condition: Maura would have to stay out of trouble until then. Could her late-night car accident, after drinking at a party, have brought those charges back into play?

WCBV
February 5, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2gmv
Fred Murray was in Amherst visiting his daughter two days before she vanished. She borrowed his car to go to a party and struck a guardrail. No tickets were issued, but there was $8,000 in damage to the car.

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On the morning of Sunday, February 8, 2004, Maura drove to her father's motel to return the car. During the trip, Maura got into an accident that cost $8,000 - $10,000 of damage to her dad's new Toyota Corolla.

Boston Globe
February 15, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r6xlu
If Murray was troubled by something, family and friends said, it might have been a small car accident she got into last Saturday night, when she damaged her father's new Toyota.

The Caledonian-Record
February 27, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r6rfb

She said Murray had called Bill Feb. 8 and was crying because of the previous Saturday accident, though he didn't feel that was it.

The Brockton Enterprise
February 20, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r6j2b
She had crashed her father's car in Amherst on the Saturday night before she disappeared, but Rausch said it was nothing serious, that she skidded on ice. Police, however, said it was a significant accident.

The Patriot Ledger February 28, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r7g8t
Police believe Murray left UMass that afternoon, possibly upset over cracking up her father's car days earlier, or for some other reason nobody knows about.

VERMONT STATE POLICE - NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE POLICE
PRESS RELEASE
June 8, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7lzrh4
On Saturday Feb 7th Maura spent the evening out with her father and friends at a local brew pub. Later that evening, in the early morning hours of Sunday the 8th of February, Maura was involved in a single vehicle accident in the town of Hadley, Mass. She was driving her fathers’ new car at the time of the accident, and struck a set of guardrails causing approx 10,000 dollars damage to the vehicle.

The Caldedonian-Record
Wednesday, June 9, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r8fyy
Scarinza also said the day before she disappeared, she had had an accident with her father's brand-new car in Hadley, Mass. The accident, he said, caused $10,000 worth of damage to Fred Murray's car.

Whitman-Hanson Express
July 12, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7khnzt
Around 2:30 a.m. Maura told friends she was heading home to her dorm room. Instead she got into her father's car and drove toward his motel. While driving along Route 9 in Hadley, Maura slammed into a guardrail causing about $8,000 worth of damage to the Toyota. Local police responded to the scene of the accident but no charges were filed.

SOCO Magazine
April 2011

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d87y4zg
At 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 8, Maura left her friend's dorm room and started to drive her father's car, a brand new Toyota Corolla, back to his hotel. On the way, she went off the road on Route 9 in Hadley, Mass., striking a guardrail. No charges were filed by police and damage to the vehicle totaled $8,000. Fred Murray recalled that at the time Maura was shaken up and apologetic about the accident.

WCBV
February 5, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2gmv
Fred Murray was in Amherst visiting his daughter two days before she vanished. She borrowed his car to go to a party and struck a guardrail. No tickets were issued, but there was $8,000 in damage to the car.

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Maura called her boyfriend Billy Raush at around 4:49 AM on Sunday, February 8, 2004

Boston Globe
February 15, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r6xlu
If Murray was troubled by something, family and friends said, it might have been a small car accident she got into last Saturday night, when she damaged her father's new Toyota.

The day after the accident, she called her boyfriend, Army Lieutenant Bill Rausch, who is stationed in Oklahoma, in tears. A day later, on Monday, she got into her Saturn and headed north.

The Caledonian-Record
February 27, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r6rfb
Sharon Rausch said, "It's obvious to us something has happened to distress her."

She said Murray had called Bill Feb. 8 and was crying because of the previous Saturday accident, though he didn't feel that was it.

"He told her on a scale of 1 to 10, it was only a 3 or 4," she said. "He had to talk to her a long time to calm her down. We are convinced something happened at school and her Amherst friends know."

Whitman-Hanson Express
July 12, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7khnzt
At 4:49 on Sunday morning a little while after the accident Maura called her boyfriend, Billy Rausch, on her father's cell phone. Billy consoled her over the phone, though he would later say he thought there was more than just the accident on Maura's mind.

SOCO Magazine
April 2011

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d87y4zg
Maura called her boyfriend at 4:49 A.M. from her father's cell phone.

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Fred Murray left Umass on Sunday, February 8, 2004

Whitman-Hanson Express
July 12, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7khnzt
After a few calls Sunday morning, Feb. 8, it appeared Fred's insurance would cover the accident and it was time to "move on." Fred had a work obligation in Bridgeport, Connecticut so he rented a car and dropped Maura off at her UMass dorm.

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Maura Talked to her Father at around 11:30 PM on Sunday, February 8, 2004

CNN - American Morning
February 17, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6ssxhg
FRED MURRAY, FATHER OF MISSING STUDENT: We think because of the general direction she was traveling that she was going to an area that she's familiar with, which would be up in the White Mountains where we used to camp and hike. But the whole thing came on so suddenly that I know the night before she had no such plans. I spoke to her, and she was due to talk to me Monday night, but I don't think she was able to.

Whitman-Hanson Express
July 12, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7khnzt
That evening at 11:30 p.m. Fred talked to Maura on the phone and reminded her to pick up accident forms from the Registry of Motor Vehicles. Maura agreed to call her dad on the phone the next night (Monday) at 8 to go over the forms and fill out the insurance information.

The next day, Monday, Feb. 9, Maura made a number of phone calls.

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Maura searched for Accommodation in Vermont after getting off the phone with her father, between about 12:00AM and 4:00 AM on Monday, February 9, 2004)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78TfLz9KBeg&feature=youtu.be&t=42s

To 1:22

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Maura Called Dominic and Linda Salamone at 12:55 p.m. PM on Monday, February 9, 2004

Discovery ID
February 8, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP4th7xreWU&feature=youtu.be&t=59s

Boston Herald
February 16, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7gjg2q
Last Thursday, she received an "upsetting" phone call at the art gallery where she worked, her father said, but he did not know what it concerned. That Saturday, she got into an accident with his car, and called her boyfriend Sunday in tears.

Boston Globe
February 21, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7giqmv
Two days later, she damaged her father's car in a minor accident. Distraught over her fender-bender, she called her boyfriend, Army Lieutenant Bill Rausch, in tears the next day.

The Patriot Ledger
November 19, 2004

Missing Hanson woman's last call yet to be investigated: N.H. condo owners say police made no effort to contact them since February.

The family of a missing 22-year-old is demanding to know why police apparently failed to investigate one of the last telephone calls she made on the day she disappeared.

At 1 p.m. on Feb. 9, Maura Murray called a Wakefield couple who own a condominium at the Seasons at Attitash resort in Bartlett, N.H., that was for rent. Murray's family has stayed at the resort.

But the couple, Dominic and Linda Salamone, say they have never heard from investigators.

''It's so upsetting,'' Linda Salamone said last night. ''I was the last person she talked to, so wouldn't I be the first person they would call to at least find out her state of mind?''

Salamone said she did not know about Murray's mysterious disappearance until last month, when the mother of the young woman's boyfriend telephoned to ask about the February call.

''I couldn't even tell her what she said because it was so long ago but I'm assuming she wanted to rent the place,'' Linda Salamone said.

Sharon Rausch, the mother of Murray's boyfriend, Army Lt. Bill Rausch, said she discovered the call to the Salamones last month when she looked over Murray's cell phone bill for February.

''It blew our minds that it's now eight months later and we're finding out that (police) never even called these people,'' Rausch said.

The Hanson Express
November 24, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6u72xh
But the other number is more troubling in its omission from the investigation. The number Maura called belonged to a Wakefield couple, Linda and Domenic Salamone. When Rausch called them, she learned that they rent a condo in the same New Hampshire complex where Murray and her family had often stayed.

The New Hampshire Union Leader
January 9, 2005

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7osa83/ Family vacation spot For Fred Murray, it's logical that his daughter would seek to stay at the condominium complex at Attitash, where the family had vacationed in the past, and disturbing that investigators did not follow through on the call until prompted by a newspaper story.

Whitman-Hanson Express
July 12, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7khnzt
At 4:49 on Sunday morning a little while after the accident Maura called her boyfriend, Billy Rausch, on her father's cell phone. Billy consoled her over the phone, though he would later say he thought there was more than just the accident on Maura's mind.

Billy was an army lieutenant who was stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Just a few weeks earlier Maura had arranged for a summer job at a hospital in Oklahoma to be closer to Billy. "They would have ended up married," said Fred. Later, Billy would tell a local newspaper that he and Maura were "engaged to be engaged."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7kjcba
Why did Maura bring her cell phone charger, birth control, insurance forms or school textbooks? Why would she have called a condo resort in Bartlett, New Hampshire just before leaving (A phone call that was not investigated by police for nearly a year). Maura was not driving aimlessly. She had some sort of a plan, a destination.

New Hampshire Union Leader / New Hampshire Sunday News
October 28, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6uak2q
Murray said police waited 11 days to interview some of the people who lived near the accident site and then did so only after they were prompted. And, he said, police waited months before heeding pleas to call Dominic and Linda Salamone, who rent a condominium in Bartlett, even though Maura's phone records indicated she called their number at 1 p.m. the day she disappeared.

SOCO Magazine
April 2011

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d87y4zg
On the day of her disappearance, at 12:55 p.m. Maura called for information about renting a condo in Bartlett, N.H. The call lasted for three minutes and she did not rent a condo.

Boston Magazine
January 28, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2pb2
Over the next couple of days, as she and her father tried to figure out the car’s insurance situation, Maura started to make travel plans: Just before 1 p.m. on Monday, she called the owner of a condo rental in Bartlett, New Hampshire; she also dialed 1-800-GOSTOWE, but did not make a reservation at one of the hotels in the area. The same day, she sent an email to her boyfriend:

New York Daily News / Concord Monitor
February 8, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6yfvli
Before she left that Monday, she had already called several lodgings, including one in Bartlett, N.H., that her family regularly visited. In her car were directions to Burlington, Vt., said retired state police Lt. John Healy, who has continued to investigate the disappearance.

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incomplete

Maura emailed Billy Raush at about 1:00PM on Monday, February 9, 2004

Discovery ID
February 8, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78TfLz9KBeg&feature=youtu.be&t=3m36s To 4:00

SOCO Magazine
April 2011

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d87y4zg
At 1 p.m. she sent Rausch an e-mail saying that she didn't feel like talking to anyone but that she would call him later that day.

The same day, she sent an email to her boyfriend...

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incomplete

On Monday, February 9, 2004 at 1:13 PM, Maura called a fellow nursing student.

Whitman-Hanson Express
July 12, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7khnzt
Maura called a fellow nursing student at 1:13 p.m., though the purpose for her call is not clear. According to John Healey, a New Hampshire private investigator who is familiar with the case, Maura may have arranged to give her scrubs to a fellow nursing student. Family member Helena Murray maintains that Maura, always conscientious, was merely returning scrubs she borrowed from another student.

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Maura emailed faculty at the Umass Nursing School on Monday, February 9, 2004 at 1:24PM saying there was a death in the family (Part 1)

Massachusetts Daily Collegian
February 17, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r7nx8
In addition, an email was written by Breslin, and released to the UMass nursing community. According to the email, Murray sent an email to her faculty Monday afternoon at 1:24 p.m. indicating she was heading home for the week due to a death in the family and that she would contact everyone when she returned.

The Brockton Enterprise
February 20, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r6j2b
On the day she disappeared, Murray e-mailed the art gallery where she worked and her teachers to say she would be gone for a week to attend to a family emergency, Scarinza said.

Boston Globe
February 20, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r727a
Hours before she departed for New Hampshire on Feb. 9, Murray e-mailed a professor and her part-time campus job to say she was heading home for the week because of a death in the family, according to school officials and the Massachusetts Daily Collegian, a student newspaper.

The Caledonian-Record
February 21, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7go5mc
Scarinza said UMass campus police have been interviewing people, including professors and students, since Murray left the university for unknown reasons. She'd e-mailed her professors telling them she would be away for a week because of a family emergency.

Boston Globe
February 21, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7giqmv
About 24 hours later, on Feb. 9, she lied to a professor and the campus art gallery where she worked, informing them through e-mails that she needed to return to her hometown of Hanson because of a death in the family, officials and family members said.

Lowell Sun / The New Hampshire Union Leader / Foster's Sunday Citizen / Nashua Telegraph
February 22, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6psz81
Searchers found no signs of struggle at the scene, and it appears Murray was planning a getaway. She lied to professors about a death in the family, and said she would be gone from class for the week and then packed her belongings as if she was moving out.

The Caledonian-Record
February 27, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r6rfb Murray also had notified her professors she was going to be gone for a week because of a family emergency.

Boston Globe February 27, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7ajrdi
This much is known: At UMass, Maura received a call on the evening of Feb. 5 that reduced her to tears. A couple of days later, she told professors she'd be gone for a week for a family emergency. On Feb. 9, she left her boyfriend of three years, an army lieutenant in Oklahoma, an e-mail and voice mail in which she indicated nothing wrong, packed her car, and headed north.

The New Hampshire Union Leader / Boston Globe
March 2, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7glint
She lied to professors about a death in the family, said she would be gone from class for the week, then packed her belongings as if she were moving out. Her family and friends believe she was given a ride and want police to treat her disappearance as a criminal investigation.

Sun Journal
March 2, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7knyth
It appears Murray, a nursing student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, was planning a getaway. She lied to professors about a death In the family. said she would be gone from class for the week, then packed her belongings as if she was moving out.

The Patriot Ledger
March 9, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7gix3d
On the afternoon of Feb. 9, Murray acted like she wanted to drop everything she worked hard for in life. She packed up her belongings in her room on the fourth floor of the John F. Kennedy residence hall, including wall decorations. She left messages for professors and bosses, lying about a death in the family.

Pittsfield Berkshire Eagle / Portsmouth Herald / Boston Globe / The New Hampshire Union Leader
April 4, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6pv6k5
She lied to professors about a death in the family, and said she would be gone from class for the week.

Seventeen Magazine
About May 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d87vfwb
Four hours after she e-mailed Bill, Maura did write a note to her boss at the campus art gallery before she took off. In it, she said that she had a family emergency and had to go out of town for a week.

The Patriot Ledger
May 6, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7slnii
The last time friends saw her was the afternoon of Feb. 9, when Murray packed her belongings at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and left. She E-mailed professors saying there was a death in the family.

The New Hampshire Union Leader
May 14, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7oqt35
Murray said his daughter might have been distraught because she had another accident two days earlier. She also apparently planned to get away because she lied to professors about a death in the family and said she would be gone from class for the week, then packed her belongings as if she was moving out.

VERMONT STATE POLICE - NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE POLICE - PRESS RELEASE
June 8, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7lzrh4
She sent e-mails to her supervisor at work as well as a college professor saying she would be absent from work and school for a week due to a death in the family. There was no death in the family.

The Caldedonian-Record
June 9, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r8fyy
"She withdrew most of her money from her personal bank account," Scarinza said in the press release. "She sent e-mails to her supervisor at work as well as a college professor saying she would be absent from work and school for a week due to a death in the family."

"There was no death in the family," he continued. Lindsay Pemberton, a junior nursing major, has the same class schedule as Murray and was present for the meeting on Friday. Pemberton told The Massachusetts Daily Collegian that staff in the nursing department spoke to Murray’s family, and were told that there were no recent family deaths.

“Also, her dorm room was all packed up, like she was planning on moving out,” said Pemberton.

The New Hampshire Union Leader
July 2, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7os4gh Murray had said his daughter might have been distraught because she had another accident two days earlier. She also apparently planned to get away because she lied to professors about a death in the family and said she would be gone from class for the week, then packed her belongings as if she was moving out.

The New Hampshire Union Leader
July 14, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7orn17 She sent an e-mail to her work supervisor and a professor saying she would be absent from school for a week due to a death in the family. Scarinza said there was no death in her family.

The Hanson Express
November 24, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6u72xh
Before she left the UMass campus, where she was a nursing student, Murray sent a letter to her professors stating that there had been a death in the family and she would need some time off from school. It was later determined that there was no death, and many believe that Murray was simply seeking to get away for a few days to deal with the stress of a recent car crash. But if she was simply seeking a few days' respite, the car crash on that snowy road may have changed the plans.

Massachusetts Daily Collegian
January 26, 2005

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6su89v
This new information does not back up the NH State Police theory that Maura ran away or committed suicide because it would be unlikely for her to rent a condo if she was planning on running away. Before she left UMass, she contacted her professors stating there was a death in the family, when there was no such death.

The Republican
February 9, 2005

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6u77b9
Before leaving UMass, Murray e-mailed her professors to tell them she was heading home for the week because of a death in the family, but there was no death in the family. She also packed up her dorm room.

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Maura emailed faculty at the Umass Nursing School on Monday, February 9, 2004 at 1:24PM saying there was a death in the family
(Part 2 of 2)
Discovery ID
February 8, 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78TfLz9KBeg&feature=youtu.be&t=4m59s

Hanson Express
February 9, 2005

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m1lpz
Why that was so significant is because it seems to poke a hole in the state police's theory that Maura went missing of her own accord. Maura was in New Hampshire after she left UMass Amherst, where she was a nursing student. She emailed her professors, saying there had been a death in the family, which turned out not to be true.

Steve Huff's Crime Blog
July 21, 2005

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m3lfc
(...)Maura received a call on the evening of Feb. 5 that reduced her to tears. A couple of days later, she told professors she’d be gone for a week for a family emergency. On Feb. 9, she left her boyfriend of three years, an army lieutenant in Oklahoma, an e-mail and voice mail in which she indicated nothing wrong, packed her car, and headed north.

The Republican
January 5, 2006

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6u9czp
Before she disappeared on Feb. 9, 2004, she packed up her dorm room and e-mailed her professors to tell them she was going home for the week because of a death in the family, but there was no death in the family.

CNN - Transcript from Nancy Grace Show
January 27, 2006

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6ygoh0
DIMOND: Well, it was two years ago, right before Valentine's Day actually -- and this young woman, who was a nursing student, she'd also been a cadet at West Point, a girl with her head on straight, you would think -- e-mailed her professors and said, "I'm going to be gone for a week because there`s been a death in the family."

GRACE: Well, let`s look at the facts. No footsteps in the snow to indicate where she had gone. The police got there 10 minutes later, no sign of her. She had said there was a death in the family, told her professor she was leaving, no death in the family, and she went a different way. This was a minor crash; she went right into a tree.

Boston Globe
January 29, 2006

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6st245
The day Murray disappeared, officials and family members had said she lied to a professor and the campus art gallery where she worked, informing them through e-mails that she needed to return to her hometown of Hanson because of a death in the family.

Massachusetts Daily Collegian
January 31, 2006

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6sre49
Prior to her disappearance, Maura withdrew $280 from an ATM and e-mailed her professors to tell them she was going home for the week because of a death in the family, although there had been no death.

Whitman-Hanson Express July 12, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7khx6v
A police investigation later revealed that Maura also emailed teachers at the UMass Nursing School and her boss at a local art gallery to let them know she would be out of town for several days due to a death in the family. There was no death according to Maura's family.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7kimwk
Details about Maura's last few days on campus were starting to emerge, including the fact that Maura had reported a death in the family when there was no death.

The Patriot Ledger
August 7, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7so27o
In February 2004, Murray, a student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, told her professors that she needed to deal with a family emergency. After going to her dorm room and packing belongings, she drove to New Hampshire. She had not told anyone what her destination was.

New Hampshire Sunday News
October 28, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7u8b79
Monday, Feb. 9, 2004: Maura departs Amherst, Mass., at about 4:30 p.m., leaving behind packed belongings in her UMass dorm room. She took $280 from her personal bank account. Computer searches later show she looked up travel and lodging information for Bartlett, N.H., and Burlington, Vt., and sent e-mails to her job supervisor and a college professor saying she would be absent from work and school for a week due to a death in the family. There had been no recent death in the family, and she does not tell family or friends of her plans to leave campus.

New Hampshire Union Leader / New Hampshire Sunday News
October 28, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6uak2q
Why did Maura withdraw $280 from an ATM, lie to professors that she would be gone a week because of a death in the family, buy her favorite liquor, pack all of her school books, a few clothes, a book about dying in the White Mountains, and head north with no word to any of the many people who love her?

ABC News - 20/20
August 14, 2008

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6yh2n0
"She took a lot of belongings and didn't tell anybody where she was going other than e-mails she sent to a professor saying that there had been a death in the family and that she needed to leave unexpectedly. And then she headed north," said reporter Joe McGee.

Before she left campus, police learned, Murray had e-mailed her professors and informed them she'd be absent for a few days because of a death in the family. Murray's family and friends said no one in the family had died.

Nashua Telegraph / Pittsfield Berkshire Eagle / Boston Globe / Boston Herald
February 8, 2009

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6q9th4
She had told her friends and professors at the University of Massachusetts Amherst that she would miss a week of class because of a death in the family, but her family has said that wasn’t true.

ABC News - 20/20
September 21, 2009

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7lxenf
"She took a lot of belongings and didn't tell anybody where she was going other than e-mails she sent to a professor saying that there had been a death in the family and that she needed to leave unexpectedly. And then she headed north," said McGee.

The New Hampshire Sunday News
February 7, 2010

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7u7xyq according to police, and told professors she would be away for a week because of a death in the family, although there had been no death. She then headed north to an area she knew from vacationing with her family.

Investigation Discovery
September 27, 2012

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6yfts3
The 24-hour time line before Maura's disappearance is filled with contradictions. One minute she's emailing her long distance boyfriend, while also picking up the insurance forms to go over with her father. But the next minute she's emailing teachers stating there is a death in the family and she is going away for a while. There was no death in the family.

Concord Monitor March 31, 2013

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m39kf
But the manner in which she left Massachusetts was cryptic. The morning of the disappearance she packed all of her belongings in boxes, placed them neatly on her dorm room bed, withdrew most of her money from her bank and emailed a professor and work supervisor that she would be taking a week off because of a death in the family. There was no such death.

Boston Magazine January 28, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2pb2
On the afternoon of February 9, 2004, a 21-year old nursing student at UMass Amherst named Maura Murray sent an email to her professors: There was a death in the family, she wrote, and she’d be gone for a few days.

WCBV
February 5, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2gmv
The day before she left campus, Maura Murray searched for directions to Burlington, Vt., which were found in the car. On Feb. 9, she sent an email to teachers saying there had been a death in the family and she would be away.

New York Daily News / Concord Monitor
Saturday, February 8, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6yfvli
Ten years ago, Maura Murray packed her car, lied to professors about a death in the family and left Massachusetts. That night, on a rural road in the northern part of New Hampshire, the 21-year-old nursing student crashed her car.

The Caledonian-Record
February 8, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7r5esy
Maura, 21, had been a nursing student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. According to police, she departed the campus the afternoon of Feb. 9, 2004, after emailing her instructors, falsely, that she was taking time off for a death in the family.

The Patriot Ledger / The Enterprise
February 8, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6sw703
She lied to her professors in an email, saying she would be gone for a week because of a death in the family.

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incomplete, not sure this is true

Maura emailed her employer on Monday February 9, 2004 at 1:24 PM saying she would be away for a week due to a death in the family

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Maura Called 1-800-GO-STOWE at 2:05PM on Monday, February 9, 2004

Discovery ID
February 8, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78TfLz9KBeg&feature=youtu.be&t=4m12s

The Patriot Ledger
November 19, 2004

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6pky1b
Murray made her last call at 2 p.m. on the same day to a toll-free number that offers information about lodging in Stowe, Vt.

Whitman-Hanson Express
July 12, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7khnzt
At 2:05 p.m. Maura made a five-minute call to 1-800-GOSTOWE, where hotel bookings can be made. The "Go Stowe" system was actually out of order at this time so Maura could not have made a reservation and could only listen to voice recordings.

SOCO Magazine
April 2011

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d87y4zg

She also called 1-800-GOSTOWE at 2 p.m., but the number was out of order.

Boston Magazine
January 28, 2014

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2pb2
Maura started to make travel plans: ... she also dialed 1-800-GOSTOWE, but did not make a reservation at one of the hotels in the area.

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Maura Called and left a message on Billy's cell phone on Monday February 9, 2004 at 2:18PM

Discovery ID
February 8, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78TfLz9KBeg&feature=youtu.be&t=4m46s

Whitman-Hanson Express
July 12, 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7khnzt
At 2:18 p.m. Maura called Billy on his cell phone and left a brief voicemail message. She said something along the lines of "I love you, I miss you, I want to talk," according to Billy's mother, Sharon Rausch. The cell phone Maura used was a gift from Billy, but Sharon's name was on the account.

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Maura withdrew $280 from her bank ATM on Monday, February 9, 2004 at 3:15PM. Her account was nearly empty, but she had some paychecks coming. Footage from the video camera from the show Maura to be alone

Note: Previous to released still photos acquired by the Oxygen Network and made public on October 28, 2017, the following newspapers reported that Maura Murray had been to her ATM machine at around 3:40PM. We now know, by looking at the time stamps, that she was there at 3:15PM.

Discovery ID
February 8, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78TfLz9KBeg&feature=youtu.be&t=5m59s

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On Monday, February 9, 2004 at about 3:40 PM, Maura went to a liquor store and bought about $40 of alcoholic beverages, including Bailys Irish Creme, Kahlua, Vodka and a box of Franzia wine. Footage from the video camera from the show Maura to be alone

Part 1 of 2

Missing Maura Murray Podcast, response to questions by New Hampshire Authorities May 10, 2016

"Maura left the liquor store at 3:43 PM"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0O1jPqDWms&feature=youtu.be&t=22m20s

Discovery ID
February 8, 2010

"Marybeth Conway: Maura then stooped at a local liquor store. At the liquor store, Maura bought a bottle of Kahlua, a battle of Baileys, a bottle of vodka and a box of red wine.

Anncouncer: Maura's stop to the liquor store is known, because the receipt of what she purchases is later found in her wrecked car.

Marybeth Conway: Kahlua, baileys and vodka are known for making a white Russian. No one understands why Maura bought such a large quantity of alcohol for uh, if she was traveling alone."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78TfLz9KBeg&feature=youtu.be&t=5m59s

Officer Scarinza: "He noticed that there was a box of wine, like a 5 liter box of wine, behind the drivers side seat he could see that through the window, he noticed uh... in the snow, what appeared to be something pink that had been poured into the... into the snow, subsequently when they removed the vehicle, he found a coke bottle and uh... it smelled like there had been an alcoholic beverage in that bottle."

Marybeth Conway: "I spoke with the one witness that actually talked to Maura Murray that night at the accident scene. That witness says that Maura appeared a bit shook up, but she did not appear intoxicated."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTtuowTdeaM&feature=youtu.be&t=4m40s

The Brockton Enterprise
February 20, 2004

"A witness at the New Hampshire crash site said she appeared to be impaired by alcohol. Police have not provided information to support that, but Lauri Murray said she believes there was some wine in her daughter's car, though she is unsure if it was open or broke when the two airbags deployed in the crash. "

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r6j2b/

Boston Globe
March 2, 2004

"At 3:40 p.m. Monday, she withdrew $280 from an area ATM, then stopped at a liquor store. Surveillance cameras at the bank machine and in the store show that she was alone."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r7ige/

Seventeen Magazine
About May 2004

"When they looked inside, they found an open can of Skyy Blue malt liquor in the front seat."
...
"Then she packed her stuff, left her dorm, took $280 out of an ATM, bought a can of Skyy Blue and a bottle of red wine at a liquor store, got in her car-and started driving."
...
"About an hour later, Maura arrived at her friend Sara Alfieri's dorm room to hang out. For the next three hours, Maura, Sara, and a couple of friends sat around talking and listening to music while drinking Skyy Blue malt mixed with a little bit of wine."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d87vfwb/

The Caledonian-Record
July 1, 2004

"Scarinza also said when Murray left the Amherst campus, she had with her a box of wine, and bottles of vodka, Kahluha and Bailey's Irish Cream. The box of wine, of which most had been spilled, was found in the car. But some of the other bottles were not found."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r8jcl/

The New Hampshire Union Leader
July 2, 2004

"Missing woman had books, liquor in car" "Scarinza also said when Murray left Massachusetts, she had with her a box of wine and bottles of vodka, Kahlua and Bailey's Irish Cream. The box of wine, most of which had spilled, was found in the car. Some of the other bottles were not found."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7os4gh/

WCAX
July 13, 2004

" 'There were indications inside the vehicle, specifically we found what we believe to be red wine, spilt on the driver's door, on the headliner and front seat of the vehicle and we found a container that we believe was holding red wine immediately outside the vehicle on the ground,' said Haverhill Police Chief Jeff Williams."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6r8r4u/

Steve Huff's Crime Blog
July 21, 2005

"At 3:40 p.m. that afternoon, Maura Murray withdrew $280 from an ATM and later made a stop at a local liquor store in Amherst, where she was attending the University of Massachusetts. Surveillance cameras recorded her movements at both locations and she appeared to be alone."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m3lfc/

The New Hampshire Union Leader
December 28, 2005

"Murray is requesting items such as ... and the surveillance tape from a liquor store where she made a purchase.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6u7xoi/

The Caledonian-Record
December 29, 2005

"He's now sued Lynch, Attorney General Kelly Ayotte, state police and other law-enforcement agencies seeking the release of information tied to the investigation, such as accident reports; an inventory of items taken from her car; a copy of his daughter's computer hard drive; and a surveillance tape from a liquor store where she made a purchase."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7r4jgu/

Nashua Telegraph / Portsmouth Herald / Boston Globe
December 29, 2005

"He’s now sued Lynch, Attorney General Kelly Ayotte, state police and other law-enforcement agencies seeking the release of information tied to the investigation, such as ... and a surveillance tape from a liquor store where she made a purchase." https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6pxenf/

CNN - Transcript from Nancy Grace Show
January 27, 2006

"She had diamond jewelry in the car that her boyfriend had given her, a bottle of liquor, some clothes, a book, you know, just the normal things, like she was just going to go home. But she went the opposite way. "

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6ygoh0/

Massachusetts Daily Collegian
January 31, 2006

"Since then, Murray has sued Lynch, state police and other law enforcement agencies in the hope of obtaining information from the investigation, such as ... a surveillance tape from a liquor store where she made a purchase. "

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6sre49/

New Hampshire Union Leader / New Hampshire Sunday News
October 28, 2007

"Why did Maura withdraw $280 from an ATM, lie to professors that she would be gone a week because of a death in the family, buy her favorite liquor..."
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"The Bailey's Irish Creme, Kahlua and vodka Maura reportedly bought for the trip had been removed from the car, as had her black backpack and cell phone. A box of wine was still in the car. "

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6uak2q/

Whitman-Hanson Express
July 12, 2007

"Back on campus, Maura attended a small party in the dorm with Kate and their friends. The girls were chatting and drinking Skyy Blue malt mixed with wine, friend Sara Alfieri later said in an interview with Seventeen magazine. At some point Maura mentioned that she wanted to return the car to her father that night, which didn't make sense to Kate since it was so late, Maura had been drinking and her father wasn't expecting the car until the next day, the magazine reported."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7khnzt/

"Maura then stopped off at a local liquor store and bought about $40 worth of alcohol: Bailey's, Kahlua, vodka and a box of wine according to her sister Kathleen. Police later found a liquor store receipt in Maura's car. A police review of surveillance footage showed Maura was alone at both the ATM and the liquor store."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7khx6v/

SOCO Magazine
April 2011

"On her way to New Hampshire, police said, Maura had stopped off for bottles of liquor and a box of wine."
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"The report discusses the liquid, with Smith noting, "When the vehicle was towed from the scene ... I recovered a Coke bottle that contained a red liquid with a strong alcoholic odor." Also, according to Helena Murray, a member of the extended Murray family who manages the website http:\mauramurraymissing.com, a damaged box of Franzia wine was said to be in the passenger seat, but Smith's accident report states that the wine was in the back seat of the car. (Its been suggested that the wine was the red liquid in the Coke bottle, as well as the red liquid Smith found on the car door and ceiling.)"

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d87wdmg/

"After she left the campus, Maura's first stop was at an ATM, where she withdrew $280 from her bank account. According to Helena Murray's account, the surveillance footage from the ATM shows Maura was alone. Maura's second stop was at a Iiquor store, where she purchased a box of Franzia red wine and bottles of Kahlua, Bailey's, and vodka."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d87y6rt/

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On Monday, February 9, 2004 at about 3:40 PM, Maura went to a liquor store and bought about $40 of alcoholic beverages, including Bailys Irish Creme, Kahlua, Vodka and a box of Franzia wine. Footage from the video camera from the show Maura to be alone

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Concord Monitor
March 31, 2013

"In the suit he requested thousands of pages of records, including ... the surveillance tape from the liquor store she visited before leaving." ...
"The bus driver returned home and phoned 911, and a local police sergeant arrived within the next 10 minutes. But Maura was gone. The sedan was locked, its windshield smashed and airbags deployed. A near-empty box of wine was found inside."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m39kf/

Boston Magazine
January 28, 2014

"She withdrew $280 from an ATM—almost all of the money in her account—and purchased, according to police, Baileys, Kahlúa, vodka, and box wine from a nearby liquor store."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2pb2/

"Sgt. Smith found a box of Franzia wine behind the driver's seat of the vehicle and a red liquid on the driver's side door and ceiling of the car. (Maura's high-school friend Liz Drewniak recalls that Maura was not a heavy drinker, but often liked to buy wine by the box.) The box was damaged, perhaps in the accident, and reddish spots resembling wine were also found on the road, according to investigator John Healy. Sgt. Smith later recovered a coke bottle that contained "a red liquid with a strong alcoholic odor." None of the other bottles of alcohol that Maura had bought in Amherst were found in the car.

While later reports would suggest that a witness observed Maura intoxicated at the time of the accident, the source of that information is unclear. Circumstantial evidence suggests Maura may have been drinking wine prior to the crash, but Butch Atwood confirmed to a reporter for this story that Maura did not appear intoxicated when he spoke with her."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7kidtm/

"Nearly everyone I have interviewed over the past months suspects foul play. Fred believes Maura may have been drinking while driving as a soda bottle with an alcoholic smell was found by Maura's car along with a box of wine found inside the car. Maura may have feared a confrontation with police and tried to flee the scene by taking a ride from a passing motorist."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7kjcba/

"The first police officer arrived at 7:46 p.m. He found a car, but no woman. Inside the Saturn, police later detected the smell of alcohol, and found stains on the driver’s-side door and the ceiling that looked like red wine. Red liquid was found on the ground, as well as an empty soda bottle, which smelled of booze. “It was obvious that she had been drinking,” says Jeff Strelzin, chief of the homicide unit at the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office and the lead prosecutor in the investigation."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2t2c/

WCBV
February 5, 2014

"Maura Murray packed her car, withdrew money and bought alcohol, including a box of wine that was found in the wrecked car."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d7m2gmv/

The Patriot Ledger / The Enterprise
February 8, 2014

"He called them anyway, as did several other neighbors. When the first officer arrived, about 10 minutes later, he found the car locked. The windshield was cracked on the driver's side, and there was a spilled box of wine inside. There was no sign of Maura."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6sw703/

New York Daily News / Concord Monitor
Saturday, February 8, 2014

"A police report says... There was a box of wine on the back seat and a strong odor of alcohol."

https://www.reddit.com/r/MauraMurrayEvidence/comments/4yq4rq/newspaper_articles/d6yfvli/

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The Following Items Were Found in Maura Murray's Saturn when the vehicle was found. The implication could be that these items were packed, or it could be that the items accumulated in her car over time, or both.
1. Clothing
2. Toiletries
3. College Textbooks
4. Toothbrush
5. Floss
6. College Textbooks
7. Cell Phone Charger
8. Stuffed Monkey
9. Diamond Necklace
10. Not Without Peril Book
11. Accident/Insurance Forms
12. computer-generated directions for locations in Vermont.

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Maura Checked Her Voice Mail on Monday, February 9, 2004 at 4:37PM