Where is MAURA MURRAY

paris wrote:

<quoted text>Ok now as for this one. I heard it through the grapevine and so it might not be true. But it did make the papers. Whitewash, maybe you can recall for me. Kathleen had been quoted as being told that her sister may have been seen at the McDnlds. That's when i heard that an employee drove the same make, model and year Saturn, same color too and was the TS. The rest was my mind wondering how that could get a person in trouble too. IThat is if Maura was mistaken for that person, pulled from the car, whatever and on and on.

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paris wrote:

<quoted text>I smoke for a spell, quit and then back at 'em in times of stress. Mom has never suspected it however, so I can relate to parents not knowing. I have had to pinch a lit cig to put it out many times, and in the pocket it goes.
When I recall the quote about someone sitting at the car, smoking a cigarette,- and a man at that, I think Faith W-Man. I also think FW-man when she is later quoted as saying that she stopped looking when she saw her neighbor out there with the girl. So then there were two?
If it were me riding along with Maura, I'd be trying to get all of her things out of there while she runs ahead. If it were me, heck maybe I'd be backing the car into the snow and playing the part of Maura for the world to see. And yes, maybe smoking a butt. OR, maybe Maura is back in that truck or something, intercepted at a gas station while I and my partner in crime move her car until we get stuck and maybe I think something like SHIT, where did my wallet fall in this stolen car dammit, gotta get out of here NOW, as I also decide to grab the backpack. Why not? If committing a crime, why not make it look like the person walked away with their stuff and locked the car too?

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Snowy White wrote:

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Bill ~
It is unknown and unconfirmed whether she did, in fact, leave Amherst at all. Therefore, it cannot be stated with certainty that she planned to 'escape'.
By all appearances, it would seem she planned to leave, voluntarily.
However, it is unknown whether that leaving was to be a retreat of a social nature; and
1) it is unknown whether she traveled alone
2) if she was accompanied by another person or
3) whether she planned to meet another person at an unconfirmed destination.
1a) if she traveled alone, it is more likely she intended to 'escape'.
2a) if she was accompanied by another person, we do not know if it was planned and voluntary, or unplanned and coerced.
in the first instance, it would be an 'escape'; in the second, it would not.
3a) again, if alone, this might be considered an 'escape'; if another person was involved, it may or may not be considered an 'escape', according to whether it was in getaway in a romantic context, or even a getaway with a college friend.
if so, i cannot explain the silence of a female or male college friend.
The circumstances of the upsetting call would be telling, and would provide information about her intent.
The 'evidence' you present seems inconclusive, in my mind, as to her motivation for leaving, her intended destination, and whether she left Amherst at all.
Everything seems to circle back and around when the 'ifs' and 'buts' are considered.

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WTF-the-original wrote:

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Thats fine, I think I remember this informaton from many years ago. I always remember hearing that she sent an email to her professors claiming "a death in the family". Nothing wrong with going over what we believe to be "known" information.
On another note I am unsure that what the specifics of what she used to get away makes much of a difference. The intent and the people she didn't notify were still the same.
Bill

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elsewherebriefly wrote:

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Firstly, I should have proof read before pressing the post comment button...lol...sorry for the botched grammar.
Yes, but there is some truth to the fact that Maura may have been having family problems. There was an earlier discussion with her dad about the possibility of Maura not being covered under the insurance policy on the new Toyota. There was also a discussion about one of Maura's sisters possibly being deployed overseas to Iraq or Afganastan.
The fact that the statement had somehow evolved into a blatant lie about death in the family is bothersome to me. Needless to say that the UL went out of their way to make Maura appear to have a serious drinking problem in an article published during the fall of '07'.
Just the same, I am sticking to my steadfast beliefs that Maura did not run away to start a new life (with $240 in her pocket) or commit suicide.

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looking4amoose wrote:

<quoted text>I haven't seen that---the McDonalds in Woodsville?

Snowy White wrote:

Another dangling thought....that if she planned an 'escape', it is still unknown whether it was interrupted by an abduction along the way, and unrelated to her original plan.
None of this is new thinking...just my thinking at the moment.

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Mason wrote:

My recollection is the McDonalds was in St.Johnsbury, VT.
Fred and Billy drove up there and checked it out. Nobody knew anything about Maura.
I've never read or heard anything about the Saturn resembling a snitch's car.

FireCat wrote:

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Teeny correction--Maura DID pack both a wall charger

Dawn wrote:

I was curious about the "hockey bag" is this a term used on the east coast for a "duffle bag". Not sure how it works - do you pay a deposit in MA? In oregon you do but not in WA. You pay more when you buy the beer. Do we know who reported it ? did he hear bottles clinking together ? I would imagine it would smell like beer. Beer has a strong smell when you have a bunch of empties.