Where is MAURA MURRAY

ScooterD wrote:

Do any of you remember a body (skeleton I believe) being found in the White Mountains by someone on a scavenger hunt? Think it was 2004. I recall at the time, LE determined the remains were in the elements much too long to be Maura. Did they ever discover who it was?

You are going to have to be a little more specific. Bodies pop up with some regularity in the Whites. One over near Mt Kancamagus had been there for 30 or 40 years. IIRC there was another they had thought was out there longer. Then there was the man who walked out ill prepared and died in the middle of winter. He wasn't found until spring, even with several fairly extensive searchs including air assets. And he wasn't even that far off the trail.

Bill

Thanks for all of your kind words.......... Ok. I called my dad - these are HIS words NOT mine - I don't know how people are in New Englad - he is definatly not cultured - but can shake a stick at most due to his bank account.. none the lesse
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This is MY DAD's view not mine.. oh gosh I hate even typing it because I am so liberal
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Dad's view.. oh this is painfull. He said if I had a boyfriend with a race other than mine (white) or if I was gay.... He would disown me and I might as well dissapear I wouldn't be welcome in his house..
I had it out with him. I'm ashamed my dad would do that... his opinion.......... its mean horrible and makes me angry

Dawn wrote:

Thanks for all of your kind words.......... Ok. I called my dad - these are HIS words NOT mine - I don't know how people are in New Englad - he is definatly not cultured - but can shake a stick at most due to his bank account.. none the lesse
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This is MY DAD's view not mine.. oh gosh I hate even typing it because I am so liberal
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Dad's view.. oh this is painfull. He said if I had a boyfriend with a race other than mine (white) or if I was gay.... He would disown me and I might as well dissapear I wouldn't be welcome in his house..
I had it out with him. I'm ashamed my dad would do that... his opinion.......... its mean horrible and makes me angry

i understand we're you're going with this thought...while a possibility, no one here can know with any certainty if this was true for Maura.

It is so sad that racism is still a factor in our daily lives. It is 2009 and racism is still so strong everywhere. People are shamed, shunned, beaten, tortured and killed all in the name of RACISM. Just think how much more civilized this country would be if it were not for RACISM.

Whenever I see it happen around me I confront people and get in long heated discussions all the time, but I NEVER WIN because it is so ground into our society. Even though I never win, I will not stop making my feelings known.

Art

Money sux, it is evil.

Art

Thanks everyone.

I agree - racism is horrible. I do not want to go that route - at all. I just thought I would ask my dad - why he would think I would vanish. I don't know what happened............... We all wish we did. My mind has opened to Amherst in a big way though....

Art, only people that don't have money think that.

As far as things like racism and other changes of attitude. Unfortunetly, it is somewhat rare that people change their attitudes or beliefs. What usually happens is that the old guard dies and the new way of thinking becomes the norm.

It IS disturbing that people think like that though. I thought that most of them were gone.

Bill

WTF-the-original wrote:

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You are going to have to be a little more specific. Bodies pop up with some regularity in the Whites....Bill

Sorry Bill - I just found the article posted from the project jason site:
Post by: Denise on May 19, 2007, 11:27:10 PM
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Skeletal remains found are too old to be missing Mass. woman
By MICHAEL COUSINEAU
Union Leader Staff
www.theunionleader.com

A hiker out on a scavenger hunt Friday discovered human skeletal remains in a rugged and remote region of Mount Kancamagus east of Lincoln, state police said last night.
Police quickly ruled out that the remains belonged to Maura Murray, the Massachusetts woman who disappeared from Haverhill on Feb. 9. The remains are believed to be at least several years old.
“We’re looking into any missing persons/hikers reported missing from that area, and I’m aware of one and maybe two from the last decade who were in fact missing and not found,” State Police Lt. John Scarinza told the Sunday News last night.
Authorities hadn’t determined whether the remains were of a man or woman.
“We’re going to send the remains to the medical examiner for identification and cause of death,” he said.
A jacket and sneaker were found at the site. Scarinza said the items “appeared to have been out in the elements for quite a long time.” No further details were available.
The hiker reported his discovery to State Police Friday and authorities waited for sufficient light before heading out with the hiker yesterday to find and recover the remains in an area more than 3,000 feet in elevation, he said.
“It’s certainly safe to say he was bushwacking off the trail, which is probably why he had located the remains and others have not through some pretty rugged terrain up there,” Scarinza said.
He said the hiker, whose name wasn’t available, was participating in a treasure hunt....
Members from State Police, the New Hampshire Fish and Game and the U.S. Forest Service removed the remains from the mountain, which is located south of Route 112 in the town of Livermore, about 8 miles from the center of Lincoln. Authorities took approximately nine hours to reach the site and return with the remains.
The skeletal remains were found about 25 miles east from where Murray was last seen. The discovery isn’t unprecedented.

“In my career in the past 25 years, I know of at least several occasions where skeletal remains have been found in northern New Hampshire,” Scarinza said.

Meanwhile, the families of two missing women came together in Haverhill yesterday to plead for help from the public and federal authorities.

Fred Murray’s daughter, Maura, 21, disappeared on Feb. 9 in Haverhill after a car accident.

The Weymouth, Mass., man was joined by Bruce and Kellie Maitland of East Franklin, Vt., whose daughter, Brianna, 17, was last seen on March 19.

Also lending their support were Charlotte and Michael Riley of Chester, parents of 20-year-old Amie Riley, who was last seen leaving a Manchester bar in August. Her body was found last month in a marsh.

I was curious if they for certain found out the specifics of the body...

Old Timer wrote:

Money sux, it is evil.
Art

It is evil...because without it, it's harder than hell to live. Whoever said "Money isn't everything" either had too much or was a very sarcastic person.

Dawn
Hope all goes well!
A little nuts beats being mean and insane like some!
Take Care!
K

Dawn wrote:

OH... I should add it is on my brain.. so go figure I always knew I was a little nuts.. no serisoulsy its on the OUTSIDE SO I am sane.

Same kind of looking as you did with the HPD rig
that nobody could find?

We'll see what we can find again for you!

Good thing I loved the game CLUE!

Between you and Shack I can't figure out who
less shameless you both pop in like nothing!

Detective Columbo wrote:

M_Chaplin....
Do you know where the abandoned church is near the acc. site? It it still standing or just the remains of a building? I have looked for this church before, but have had no luck.
Thanx....Columbo

Speaking of wiping lips!

Can you explain to me why people don't answer questions?

Does it mean I'm right?

I asked what someone did who complaining about LE
with the things they saw? No answer! When does two
wrongs make a right? Or how about nothing I wish had now? Something that answers my thoughts on
how someone doesn't do anything then complains about it!

Det. Col. pops in with the do you know where?
Seriously he is the PI here or so he tells us.
After all these years he should have some ANWERS!

Wowzer wrote:

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Did you wipe your lips too? I think there's a little left in the corners.

it was just a thought.......... unfortunatley my own father thinks like that.......... sad but true. i was just trying to get a gut feeling and letling you know he isn't in a lean 2. for me it is what is and i really don'[t care.

his comments are what i care about.......... wha if she did have a special friend .. and i tend to lean on the female side... come on. very common in college.. i'm 39 but dang it wasn't that long ago...... it happens

Thanks Snowy I got your message

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm wonder how quickly one could rule that out. several years would have serious decomposision

this is when we nee Mason/ Fred if you here... please speak up.. We miss your insight. I sure do.

Beagle
You have been oftly quiet.......... Since I will be gone for awhile.......... send me off with some cheer. I will get you going. K

Where is Karma ?

i'm not even a scientiest not even a scientologist.......... i love that one..

WW wrote:

"Just wondering who you reported these issues to cause if you are not part of the solution then
that makes one part of the problem yes?"
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Two (2) times I called people on this stuff and was told to mind my own business or there would be hell to pay. I also called Concord and was told it would be looked into. Nothing was ever done about it so I had nowhere else to go with it. Corruption is a wonderful thing isn't it?

Detective Columbo wrote:

M_Chaplin....
Do you know where the abandoned church is near the acc. site? It it still standing or just the remains of a building? I have looked for this church before, but have had no luck.
Thanx....Columbo

Colombo - just in case this isn't commonly known -
Once in reading a book about ghost towns the author explained his methods for finding them in the Introduction.

Anyway - he said he has found many of them by acquiring topographical maps from the U.S. Geological survey - in which there are some instances in which older buidings will be shown on the maps.

Obviously the U.S. Geological Survey didn't limit their map making to ghost towns, they just happen to sometimes be included as are the locations of older buildings.