Interesting opinions on here, I see there are 2 clearly different "camps" on what may have happened to MM. Seems to be a common theme.
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I am definitely one that has been more of the suicide theory camp than believing that maura met foul play, however, and i say with a big HOWEVER, I currently find myself puzzled by fred's written statement (done two weeks after maura went missing) that james released on his blog.
I was always quick to dismiss any sort of attempt to tie maura to petrit vasi and the hit and run that may have occured on the same thursday night that maura was working and went into a zombie-like state as described by her supervisor.
Not many things in life would make someone go into a zombie-like state, but I know personally, if i just struck a person and then left the scene, i would have a hard time focusing at a security desk and would probably allow people to walk on by as i stared into space, because my nerves would be shot and i would be a mess.
Back to fred's statement and his time line of events that saturday night.
It makes no sense in the world that Maura would have his car that night. They were all at the Amherst brew pub and the girls wanted to go attend a dorm party at their own dorm (therefore they need no car that night), yet instead of fred dropping them off a block away from the pub, he has maura drive him seven miles to his hotel (after she had been drinking) then she and her friend drive back to the dorms to attend a party that they would just go on to their rooms and sleep once the party ended.
I am very troubled by this bit of info we heard from fred. It makes no sense to me at all.
He in any tv interview I have seen, has always made it clear that it was very routine for him to come visit his daughter at school (but I wonder if it really was that routine)
the fact that he swoops into town to look for a new car for her just two days after this hit and run allegedly took place, is somewhat disturbingly coincidental.
Everyone always says maura had no opportunity to hit this guy because she was working at the time he was found lying in the road. But for one, her security desk is less than a mile from where this took place. you literally walk out of the dorm go to the end of the street and make a right and you are on the same street he was found. I know supervisors check up on the security desk workers, but I bet there are plenty of time gaps in between visits.
I don't know what to think if she is indeed tied in to the vasi angle. Obviously even if they were able to get her a new car that Saturday (they would not successfully have gotten rid of her old car) so taking it out of state and wrecking it to cover up previous wreck evidence is plausible (all though it sounds way too movie-like I know)
I don't know. If it can ever be proven that she had nothing to do with the hit and run, then I stick to a suicide theory. If she was involved in the hit and run then all bets are off and I say she was met by foul play or succumbed to the elements.
It's odd that police have no clear answer on what happened to vasi. he was in a coma for months and did not recall himself what took place that night. Yet if they had done a proper investigation at the time, they would have evdience from a car striking him. Yet they were always open to the fact that he may have just been jumped by a bunch of people and struck in the head. When he finally did come out of his coma he noticed his wallet was emptied so that is where the whole he might have been jumped theory came from.
sorry for the rambling