Oh how great that would be for Maura to have been alive, well, and off creating a whole new little world for herself.. I just personally do not at all find it likely.. Is it possible?.. Well, pretty much anything is possible, especially when there are so very many unknown factors and variables to this case.. So, yes in terms of possibility Maura could be off having lived a whole new life for herself for the last decade..
Just my own little personal opinion in it being way slimmer than even the "slim to none" used up cliché.. Again jmo.. I do however find it to be bull$hit on the part of JR to come out with such a post, yet zero, nil, none, zip of anything whatsoever to even begin to substantiate his claim.. A claim that according to none other than himself he is merely days away from bringing resolve to it all..
He has all the need to know factors that would lead to resolve(as in according to him he knows the who, the why, and even the where).. Well, if indeed it is a fact that he knows those 3 extremely crucial pieces to the puzzle, then IMO the puzzle is already solved and it is none other than JR, himself who is holding the very answers that SO VERY MANY CARING AND CONCERNED PEOPLE have been desperately seeking FOR A DECADE..
I personally call BS, but will be the very first person to step up, eat crow, and offer a sincere apology to JR if I am wrong ..and we see the proof that JR has the case resolved in the next weeks with the correct answers to why Maura has devastated the lives of many, with whom Maura went off with to create herself this whole new life, and where it is that Maura's whole new life has been created and built over the last decade..
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Maura's family does not cooperate with efforts to find her. I find that very odd, and the complete opposite of what other families of missing persons do. The only conclusion I can come to is that they know she is alive and are now trying to keep her from being found.
Maura's family does not cooperate with efforts to find her. I find that very odd, and the complete opposite of what other families of missing persons do. The only conclusion I can come to is that they know she is alive and are now trying to keep her from being found.
In what way has Renner been rude to them? He asked to interview them about his book and they refused. No doubt her family were the first people he contacted when researching his book. They would have not even seen the blog at this point. Thus, I find it damn odd that they would not participate in any interview that might help find Maura. Why would they not want more publicity for their daughter's case? It seems like a great way to either find her, or bring the people responsible for her disappearance to justice.
I know a lot of people think Renner is some big meanie, but all he has done, like any good investigator, questioned the narrative we all originally heard. That is not being rude. He was right to question it, as much of what was reported was inaccurate. He should be questioning if Fred Murray has always told the truth. Again, that is being thorough. I also question Fred Murray's version of events. This does not mean I am "hating" on FM, or that I am "mean." It means that, IMO, Fred Murray has said a few things that have raised some red flags. For example, when he talks about how he and Maura spent that weekend shopping for cars, he ends it with "you know?" which is a classic phrase people use after telling a lie. He may or may not be lying, but I think it is totally fair to question whether he was telling the truth about car shopping. Why? Because the truth of why Fred went to visit Maura that weekend might have something to do with her disappearance. Again, questioning him is not being rude. It is being a good sleuth.
Fred's focus for many years now has been on trying to prove that police bungled his daughter's case, not on locating Maura alive.
So, I don't believe they aren't cooperating when it comes to doing interviews in the current day. I just think they are past that point and going over all of the minute details of Maura's last days (to them) is not going to accomplish anything anymore.
I tend to think JR's theory is off. I hope he is right about MM being alive, but I doubt it. There is another writer, who wrote a book about the McStay family disappearance. His theory was that Summer McStay killed her husband and fled to Mexico or beyond with the children. A worldwide media storm followed about his theory. Well, last week, the whole family was found in 2 graves in the Mohave Desert. LE said it was a homicide. The writer was way off! He pretty much made a fool of himself. So, I hope JR knows what he is talking about. It could backfire, if he is unsure.
JMO
This is why I consider Fred Murray to be uncooperative in finding his daughter. He has (repeatedly) said that Maura's past is "irrelevant." Wait, what??? The only way we would know if Maura's past is irrelevant, is if we knew what happened to her. We do not know what happened to her, thus we do not know if her past is or is not relevant to solving the case.
To me this means either that Fred Murray knows what happened to Maura, or he knows that her past is relevant, and that it would lead to her being found, and he does not want her found.
The only other explanation I can think of is that Fred so desperately wants to stop people from digging into his daughter's past, that he is willing to take the risk that she will never be found because of it. So far I have not seen anything from Maura's past that is all that horrific. In fact it seems relatively within the range of "normal" behavior for someone her age. Besides the credit card fraud, Maura did nothing I did not do in college.
But back to the past being relevant. Say Maura met a guy (in her past, before the wreck) who she was planning to meet up with. Like all girls her age, she did not tell her father about it, so he does not know anything about. What if that guy murdered Maura? How can we find her body and solve the crime without digging into her past and actually knowing about the guy's existence and presence in Maura's life? Obviously this is just one example of a possible scenario, but I could come up with many more hypotheticals that would be within the realm of things that could have actually happened, which would involve Maura's past being relevant.
Fred Murray's constant insistence that Maura's past does not matter is a huge red flag for me. It is the main reason I see him as being uncooperative. He wants this crime solved with only a fraction of the information a person would need to solve a missing person's case.