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The Disappearance of Maura Murray .

Maura Murray was born May 4th 1982 in Hanson, Massachusetts. She was the fourth child of Frederick and Laura Murray. When Maura was six her parents divorced, and after that Maura primarily lived at home with her mother. In high school, Maura was a star athlete on her school's track team. She was accepted into the United States Military Academy in New York, where she studied chemical engineering for three years.

Three months before Maura disappeared she admitted to using a stolen credit card to purchase food from several restaurants. The charge was continued into December only to be dismissed.

On the evening of February 5th, 2004, while she was on duty at her campus security job, Maura spoke to her older sister Kathleen. At around 10:30 p.m., while on her shift Maura reportedly broke down in tears. When her supervisor arrived at her desk they described Murray as " completely zoned out". Her supervisor later escorted her back to her room at around 1:20 a.m.

On Saturday, February 7th, Maura's father arrived in Amherst . He told investigators that him and his daughter had went car shopping, and later that afternoon they went out to eat with a friend of Maura's. Maura later dropped her father off, and borrowed his Toyota Corolla to attend a dorm party on campus. Maura arrived on campus at around 10:30 p.m., and at 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning, she left the party. At 3:30 a.m. on her way back to her father's motel, she struck a guardrail causing nearly $10,000 worth of damage to her father's car. The responding officer wrote up an incident report, but strangely enough, there were no reports of a field sobriety test being conducted. Murray was then driven back to her father's motel, where she spent the rest of the morning. At 4:49, there was a cell phone call placed to her boyfriend from Fred Murray's cell phone. The content and participants of the phone call are unknown.

After midnight on Monday, February 9th , Murray used her personal computer to search MapQuests for directions to Burlington, Vermont.

The first reported contact Murray had was at 1:00 p.m. when she emailed her boyfriend : "I love you more stud. I got your messages, but honestly, i didn't feel like talking to much of anyone, i promise to call today though. love you, Maura". She was also reported to have made a phone call inquiring about renting a condominium, at the same condo association with which her family had vacationed in the past. Telephone records indicate that the call lasted about three minutes, and at 1:13, Maura called a fellow nursing student for reasons unknown.

At 1:24, Maura emailed a work supervisor, and told them that she would be out of town for a week due to a death in her family. She also said that she would contact them when she returned to town. At 2:05, Murray placed a call to a number which provides recorded information about booking hotels in Stowe, Vermont. This call lasted approximately 5 minutes. At 2:18, she telephoned her boyfriend and left a voice message promising him again that they would talk later. This call ended after one minute.

In her car, Murray packed clothing, toiletries, college textbooks, and birth control pills. When Maura's room was later searched, police found that most of her belongings were packed in boxes, and her art was removed from the walls. On top of the boxes were printed emails to Murray's boyfriend indicating problems in their relationship. Around 3:30 p.m. she drove off campus in her black Saturn sedan, as classes that day had been canceled due to a snowstorm.

At 3:40 p.m. Maura withdrew $280 from an ATM. Closed-circuit footage showed that Murray was alone when this withdrawal was made. At a liquor store, she purchased about $40 worth of alcoholic beverages. Again security footage shows she was alone when the purchase was made. At some point during the day, Murray picked up accident-report forms from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles.

Murray then left Amherst between 4 and 5 p.m., she called to check her voicemail at 4:37 p.m., the last known use of her cellphone.

Some time after 7:00 p.m. a Woodsville, New Hampshire resident heard a loud thump outside her house. Through her windows she could see a car up against the snowbank. At about 7:27, another neighbor saw the car, as well as someone walking alongside the vehicle. She also witnessed a third neighbor pull up alongside the vehicle.

That neighbor, a school bus driver that was returning home, noticed that the young woman in the car was not bleeding or visibly injured, but cold and shivering. He offered to telephone for help, but she asked him not to call the police, and assured him that she had already called AAA. Knowing that there was no cellular reception in the area, the driver continued home and called the police. His call to the sheriffs department was received at 7:43 p.m.

Another local resident driving home from work claims she passed by the scene at around 7:37 p.m., she reported seeing a police SUV parked face-to-face with Murray's car. This witness's statement contradicts the official police log, which reported that Haverhill police arrived nine minutes later.

According to the official police log, at 7:46 p.m., a Haverhill police officer arrived at the scene. No one was inside or around the car. Inside and outside the car the officer discovered red stains that appeared to be red wine. Inside the car the officer discovered and empty beer bottle, and a damaged box of Franzia wine on the rear seat. In addition, he found an AAA card issued to Murray, blank accident report forms, gloves, compact discs, make-up, diamond jewlery, driving directions to Burlington, Vermont, Maura's favorite stuffed animal, and a book about mountain climbing in the white mountains. Maura's debit card, credit card, and cellphone were missing. The police later reported that some bottles of the liquor she had purchased were missing as well.

Between 8:00 and 8:30 p.m., a contractor returning home from Franconia saw a young person moving quickly on foot eastbound about 4 to 5 miles east of where Murray's vehicle was found. He noted that the young person was wearing jeans, a dark coat, and a light colored hood. He did not immediately report it due to the confusion of his dates, only discovering later that he had spotted the young person the same night Murray had disappeared.

The responding officer and the bus driver drove around searching for Murray. Just before 8:00, EMS and a fire truck arrived to clear the scene. By 8:49 p.m., the car had been towed to a local garage. A rag believed to have been part of Murray's emergency roadside kit was discovered stuffed into the Saturn's muffler pipes. Authorities would refer to Murray as simply "missing" at 12 p.m. the next day almost 24 hours after the last confirmed sighting of her.

At 12:36 on February 10th, a "Be on the Lookout" report was issued for Murray. A voicemail was left on Fred Murray's home answering machine at 3:20 p.m., saying that the car had been found abandoned. He was working out of state and did not receive this particular phone call. Murray's older sister Kathleen eventually got in touch with her father, and told him about Maura's disappearance.

On February 11th, Fred Murray arrived in Haverhill. At 8:00 a.m., New Hampshire Fish and Game, the Murray's, and others began their search. A police dog tracked the scent of Murray's gloves 100 yards east of where her vehicle had been discovered, but eventually lost the scent. At 5:00 p.m., Murray's boyfriend and his parents arrived in Haverhill. He was originally questioned in private, but later on his parents were brought in and joined him for questioning. At 7:00 p.m., the police were ready to rule Murray's disappearance as a running away or suicide, Maura's family believed this to be unlikely.

Murray's boyfriend had turned off his phone during his flight, and at some point he received a voicemail that he believed to be Maura crying. The call was traced to a calling card issued to the American Red Cross.

On February 12th, Murray's father and her boyfriend held an evening press conference, and the next day the first press coverage was published. Searches subsequently continued until it was considered in late 2009 to be a " cold case."

THEORIES ON MAURA'S DISAPPEARANCE!

MAURA HAD A TROUBLED PAST :
Murray's parents contend she was an " overachiever that excelled both academically, and athletically." In contrast, Maura was asked to leave West Point after she was caught stealing makeup from a campus store. After transferring to the University of Massachusetts to pursue her nursing degree, Maura started using stolen credit cards to make purchases, including food. Maura was sentenced to probation with the charges to be dismissed upon completion.

ADDITIONAL THEORIES :
Some people believe Maura faked her own disappearance because she was pregnant, others simply suggest that she wandered into the woods and died of exposure , or that she went into the woods with the plan of committing suicide.

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