Maura Murray: Sister Explains Phone Call
Maggie
it's true, as this article says, that Maura placed the call, it makes the whole
thing look even more like a set-up. I still think she was having some sort of
psychotic/emotional break and was getting away (maybe to committ
suicide--probably just to think) when she was kidnapped and killed. From the
Patriot Ledger (MA):
Leads fruitless, police stalled in Murray probe
By JOE McGEE
The Patriot Ledger
Police investigating the disappearance of Hanson native Maura Murray have
discovered that the disturbing phone conversation Murray had four days before
leaving the University of Massachusetts at Amherst was with her sister.
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 fiancé,
and we talked about that, but I don't know why she would be upset about that,''
Kathleen said.
Maura Murray's Saturn sedan crashed on Route 112 near Haverhill in northern New
Hampshire at about 7 p.m. Feb. 9, hours after Murray left campus. She was gone
when police arrived about 10 minutes later.
There were no footprints in the snow, and search dogs could not pick up her
scent.
With the investigation well past the search-and-rescue phase, police are at a
standstill trying to determine why Murray, a promising student and athlete,
appears to have walked away from her college life.
A number of fresh leads have developed during the past three weeks, but none
have proved fruitful, according to New Hampshire State Police Sgt. Bret
Beausoleil. Nobody knows if Murray wandered into the woods and perished or if
she was kidnapped.
‘‘The more time that goes by, the more concerned you get, but there is
nothing we have found to point one way or the other,'' Beausoleil said.
Murray left UMass on the afternoon of Feb. 9. She cleaned out her dorm room as
if she were leaving for good; did a MapQuest search for directions to
Burlington, Vt.; took $280 in cash out of her bank account; and E-mailed her
bosses and professors to say she would be away for personal reasons.
Kathleen Murray said she talked to her sister regularly to chat. Like all of
their phone conversations, the one on Feb. 5 was about ‘‘regular stuff,
‘just-trying-to-get-through-the-day' kinds of things,'' she said.
‘‘When I heard she was crying after that, I couldn't understand why,
especially because it's not like her to cry,'' she said.
Last week, Kathleen Murray and her brother Fred found a pair of women's
underwear on a roadside in Haverhill. DNA testing had not been completed as of
yesterday.
Sgt. Beausoleil said another tip, from a woman who was walking on Route 112 in
Bath, N.H., on Feb. 9, also could not help investigators develop a criminal
case.
The woman reported a suspicious man in a red pickup truck with Massachusetts
plates eyeing her near the Stage Stop general store in Bath at about 7 that
night.
According to the woman, the man left when she went into the store and headed
east toward the accident scene. Ten minutes later, the woman saw Haverhill
police go by in the same direction, responding to the accident.
‘‘She didn't have a license plate number, so that doesn't give us
anything,'' Beausoleil said. ‘‘We don't feel confident it's connected.''
Joe McGee may be reached at jmc...@ledger.com.
Maggie
"Objects in your mirror may be closer than they appear." --John Edwards after
the WI primary
Cate
news:20040304073406...@mb-m22.aol.com:
> I still think she was having some sort of
> psychotic/emotional break and was getting away (maybe to committ
> suicide--probably just to think) when she was kidnapped and killed.
I agree with you, but what I really don't get is how there were no
footprints in the snow if the police actually did arrive just 10 minutes
after she crashed. What method of transportation would enable her to leave
the area without her--or anyone else's--feet touching the ground. It's just
weird.
Cate
Hester888Mofet
>
>I agree with you, but what I really don't get is how there were no
>footprints in the snow if the police actually did arrive just 10 minutes
>
>after she crashed. What method of transportation would enable her to leave
>
>the area without her--or anyone else's--feet touching the ground. It's just
>
>weird.
>
>Cate
If she crashed and then walked onto the road there might not be footprints if
another car came and picked her up. It wouldn't be the first time that someone
had been killed because they were emotionally vulnerable or had an accident at
the time when the killer came by. Are there any other missing women from that
area?
Hester Mofet
SageJelly
That's a good point. If someone grabbed her, I would expect to see some
footprints around the car, as well as signs of a struggle, such as marks in the
snow where her heels might have dragged in the snow if she was resisting while
being pulled along.
I'm still not quite convinced she was abducted, although it's certainly a
possibility. Does anyone know approximately how long she had been waiting by
the car before the good samaritan came by and offered help? Maybe she had
already called on someone - like a secret bf - to come get her and he arrived
between the time the guy went off to call authorities and the time the
authorities arrived.
Cate
news:20040304090544...@mb-m14.aol.com:
> If she crashed and then walked onto the road there might not be
> footprints if another car came and picked her up.
The way I read it--which certainly could be wrong--is that her car went off
the road when it crashed, and that there were no footprints anywhere in the
snow leading away from her car. I'm picturing her car 10-20 feet away from
the road, up against a tree, surrounded on all sides by snow. Did she jump,
a la the Bionic Woman, from the site of the crash to the road, where she
was then picked up?
Cate
Kris Baker
"Cate" <notreally....@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns94A2652FF4...@130.133.1.4...
Maura's car was sticking out into the road, after it crashed
into the tree. She could have easily walked onto the road
without leaving footprints.
Kris
Cate
@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com:
> Maura's car was sticking out into the road, after it crashed
> into the tree. She could have easily walked onto the road
> without leaving footprints.
Thanks. I missed that. I was just honed in on the comment that no
footprints were found in the snow.
Cate
Kris Baker
You are expected to read *every* article and be able to quote
them back, verbatim ;)
Kris
Cate
@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com:
> You are expected to read *every* article and be able to quote
> them back, verbatim ;)
But, but.... I have *you* for that. <g>
Cate