Where is MAURA MURRAY

Philip, here you go:

Bartlett Condo for Rent: Family Resort minutes to White Mountain Attractions - Property 110587
$75 -$100/nt ...$550 -$850/wk

Call Domenic Salamone
Area Code: Seven-eight-one
Phone: Two-four-five .. Seven-one-seven-eight

This was readily available on the Internet just by Googling on his name -- just making the point that I'm not giving up an unpublished number or anything like that.

looking4amoose wrote:

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If she were headed toward Attitash, then 112 is way off base. The resorts at Attitash/Bear Peak are right on 302. Where in Vermont was Maura searching for directions for? Was it another ski/resort area?

looking for a moose, I realize that Attitash is not on the route the car ended up, and she was looking at Stowe, VT too.

Yes, according to news articles, Maura had placed a phone call to someone on campus. My personal belief is that authorities must know very well "who" that person was (is), because surely UMass knows what students have or had what dorm rooms, even a few months later.

Saying the person had moved on was, in my opinion, a way to deflect further questions about that particular phone call. I can understand why authorities (UMass or other) would not reveal the student's name, but if the call was about something completely innocuous, why not state that the call was checked out and had nothing to do with Maura's leaving Amherst? It was reported that Maura had contacted a student about returning some borrowed scrubs, so why not tell us that Maura had contacted this other student about returning a borrowed book, or to ask the student to share next week's class notes with her upon her return, or whatever?

Advocator, Thanks for the info, I saw that, just wasn't sure I could post it...lol..

Further thought about the Salamone condo. That condo sleeps 9 people. Most rental condos do sleep several people, which is a lot more room than one person needs. The fact that Maura was looking up *condos* rather than just motels, is really highly suggestive that she intended to meet up with someone else, and possibly more than one person at that. Because surely she would know that renting a condo for several nights would be pretty expensive by comparison with a motel.

Hello all,

Regarding the Attitash resort at Bartlett,NH, it cannot conclusively be said not to be on the route where Maura´s Saturn ended up.

Rte 112 on which the Saturn was found continues as the Kangamagus Highway east of Lincoln towards Conway. From there it´s only a rather short drive north to Bartlett.

Apparently route 302 from Woodsville via Littleton and Bretton Woods to Bartlett is a far better road than the 112 to travel in winter, as has several times been pointed out on this board by the "locals" here.

Just by looking at a road map and not knowing this information on beforehand, it would not be out of order for the uninitiated driver to just as easily choose the 112 rather than the 302 when confronted with that choice just a few miles north of Woodsville.
Both road options look fairly equal when surveyed on a map as for the road distance. The 112 may even come across as a slightly shorter drive than the 302 or at least not a longer one.

In my mind, the question here is:

Did Maura - if she indeed drove the Saturn - had a particular reason for choosing the 112 instead of the 302.
Was she indeed heading for a place to stay overnight in Lincoln/North Woodstock?
Was she just by pure chance opting for the 112 rather than the 302 as a means for going all the way to the Bartlett area?

The questions are mounting and the answers are so very few and far between, as always....

Advocator wrote:

Yes, according to news articles, Maura had placed a phone call to someone on campus. My personal belief is that authorities must know very well "who" that person was (is), because surely UMass knows what students have or had what dorm rooms, even a few months later.
Saying the person had moved on was, in my opinion, a way to deflect further questions about that particular phone call. I can understand why authorities (UMass or other) would not reveal the student's name, but if the call was about something completely innocuous, why not state that the call was checked out and had nothing to do with Maura's leaving Amherst? It was reported that Maura had contacted a student about returning some borrowed scrubs, so why not tell us that Maura had contacted this other student about returning a borrowed book, or to ask the student to share next week's class notes with her upon her return, or whatever?

According to some reports, the number is simply described as a "dead end." That could mean any number of things.

Why is everyone so insistent that every bit of information not known indicates a cover-up? Can't some of it simply be "we don't know"?

FireCat wrote:

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According to some reports, the number is simply described as a "dead end." That could mean any number of things.
Why is everyone so insistent that every bit of information not known indicates a cover-up? Can't some of it simply be "we don't know"?

Guess its part of the drama..

FireCat wrote:

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According to some reports, the number is simply described as a "dead end." That could mean any number of things.
Why is everyone so insistent that every bit of information not known indicates a cover-up? Can't some of it simply be "we don't know"?

I agree with FireCat. No conspiracy. Phone numbers at colleges and universities are changed faster than dirty socks.

(That didn't come out quite right.)

I forgot to mention that the NO TRESPASS ORDER also prevents me from seeing my neurologist at UMass Memorial Hosptial in Worcester. So, yes, FC, I did take one in the teeth as you put it, but I still don't want your useless first grade gold star.

BeagleBart wrote:

<quoted text>I agree with FireCat. No conspiracy. Phone numbers at colleges and universities are changed faster than dirty socks.
(That didn't come out quite right.)

Actually I thought it came out quite well.

BeagleBart wrote:

I forgot to mention that the NO TRESPASS ORDER also prevents me from seeing my neurologist at UMass Memorial Hosptial in Worcester. So, yes, FC, I did take one in the teeth as you put it, but I still don't want your useless first grade gold star.

And yet, you keep bringing the entire matter up.

(College professors, as a rule, do not give out gold stars. At least, this one doesn't.)

Did Butch Atwood move to Fla after Maura went missing? Are there any photos of him online? He must have been a person of interest. Someone familiar with him from many years past claimed he had been a mean SOB as a young guy. Was his DNA tested?

Many questions but no answers. Our prayers are with the family of Maura Murray.

Birds80 wrote:

Did Butch Atwood move to Fla after Maura went missing? Are there any photos of him online? He must have been a person of interest. Someone familiar with him from many years past claimed he had been a mean SOB as a young guy. Was his DNA tested?
Many questions but no answers. Our prayers are with the family of Maura Murray.

Yes, he moved to Florida. I don't know why his DNA would have been tested, as I don't know there was any DNA to compare it to.....

As to "are there any photos of him online" not that I've seen but you're more than welcome to google and see if you can find any.

Would Atwood's DNA/fingerprints be taken as as possible last person to have seen her? Or would he, his vehicle and or home be searched for evidence as to her having been there.

The Maura Murray Forum might have been just
Tea n Crumpets...but, I see such anger and spite
here. Why on earth would a newcomer posting here
get judged "Nuts and Clueless"..
Soon, all you angry people will only have each other with whom to bicker.
Birds80, Welcome to the carousel of snide.
Most here just want to solve this crime and see the perp(s) locked up.
(wringing my hands to see how I am judged)
..NOT!!!
Atwood did move to FL after the diappearance..I
am guessing a year later..but, others here with better memory/notes will know. I know nothing of his previous years..He did lie and say that he was formerly with the police, in Taunton, MA.

Advocator wrote:

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Or possibly because she intended to return them. I mean absolutely no disrespect whatsoever to Maura's boyfriend Bill Rausch with these thoughts, but we have been told that their relationship had its rocky points in the past -- and what relationship doesn't?-- maybe Maura, for whatever reason, had determined she didn't want to marry him after all. This could explain (1) her upset at work in the wee hours of Friday Feb 6 (earlier she had talked with a sister and the sister was having boyfriend problems, maybe the conversation caused Maura to think about boyfriend problems of her own and caused a realization that she no longer wanted to be in her relationship)...(2) why she urgently needed some time away (privacy to think, to work through her feelings, to gather courage to make a breakup)...(3) why she would head to the White Mtns (a kind of spiritual base for her)...(4) why Bill heard what sounded like whimpering or muffled crying on the cellphone message he received but she didn't actually leave a verbal message (she was going to tell him her decision, but of course not leave it in a message). It could explain why she never used the cellphone again, because it was on his cellphone plan and being paid for by him or his family and she didn't want to "take" anything from them under the new circumstances.

This sounds like the most reasonable thing I've heard in a long time!

Response to other posters: OK, Jigger Johnson I didn't know, had no facilties at that time to "hole up in" for the night. Thanks.

Please... why didn't her friends post ANYthing --- it really makes me feel (after that quote in an article by a friend that after Maura turned 21 she became flirtatious after drinking) that Maura may have been torn apart by feelings for a new boy, maybe one who borrowed her car Thursday night 2/5 2/6 when Vasi was hit?

I'm sorry to have no facts to present. But I have the feeling Maura was staying somewhere other than her dorm room.

What mechanic or other person looked at her Saturn and told her she'd be able to make the 150-mile trip to NH when she felt insecure driving around town? If this did not occur, than Maura was, for sure, acting in desperation. If she got an "OK, but take it easy," well, that might imply a one-way trip or maybe her own plan devised in a hurry to counteract the financial troubles caused by the Saturday Toyota wreck by ditching the saturn out of state.

Still seems that something gone wrong with a person accompanying her up north, or her own depression even though "in reality" she had everything in the world going for her, was more likely to be instrumental in her disappearance than a bad guy showing up in front of lots of lit-up houses and witnesses (watching between peeling oranges or whatever) within a few minutes....

Brother to Dale.

Shack wrote:

The Maura Murray Forum might have been just
Tea n Crumpets...but, I see such anger and spite
here. Why on earth would a newcomer posting here
get judged "Nuts and Clueless"..
Soon, all you angry people will only have each other with whom to bicker.
Birds80, Welcome to the carousel of snide.
Most here just want to solve this crime and see the perp(s) locked up.
(wringing my hands to see how I am judged)
..NOT!!!
Atwood did move to FL after the diappearance..I
am guessing a year later..but, others here with better memory/notes will know. I know nothing of his previous years..He did lie and say that he was formerly with the police, in Taunton, MA.

He was in Taunton???? HAHAHA, that is so funny! You have to be local and well over 50 to appreciate that one. I haven't heard it in years. He was in Taunton! HAHAHAHA!!!

Early environment has a lot to do with how a person develops as an adult and Atwood didn't have such a good childhood. Nasty business breeds nasty people. Is why I am astonished to read he was the person involved in the disappearance of a young woman and I think he was questioned and released after giving his statement, which seems to have happened. The Atwood's I remember didnt' "retire to Florida."