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Peabody, having grown up as a young person in rural central Ohio, and also having been in Ft Sill as an Army draftee at age 23 in 1971, I have mixed feelings about your post above--both places have their charms, pigs and cows and corn in Ohio while there are buffalo only a few miles outside...

I really don't know the complete details, but nearly two years of reading posts has given me the following impression. Maura would have left Sara's room sometime after 2.30am and walked to the lot where Dad's car was parked. She left Amherst on Rte 9 the main road to Northampton although...

That's just the point that leaps out at me-other than checking in with her Dad after he arrived home at 11pm on Sunday night, and making the various calls & emails as she left campus on Monday, Maura clearly "did not feel much like talking to anyone" and remember she refused KMayotte's offer...

I have read and re-read the media stories quoted above. Yes maura had secrets but I would not put too much weight on one story. yes maura was probably a different person to some extent at UMA than at West Point but again I would not put too much weight on one story, although Joe McGee of...

This is an attempt to answer partially queries by Nnglas and Czechmate above. The presumption if Maura was the caller to Lt Rausch's cellphone on 2/11 is that either her cellphone's battery was dead 36 hours later (see Sharon Rausch's extensive post on trying to trace Maura via the cellphone...

speaking only about the Wed am phone call of 2/11/04 Cyberlaw's post above is misleading, and there has been much more detailed discussion of the call on the Maura site especially by Sharon, Lt Rausch's Mother. As the call being from Maura would support the runaway theory, it puzzles me that...

Is the best I have seen in two years of following Maura's case and since the Maura website opened in Nov 2004 as well. We need more of this wide ranging consideration and mutual respect. Above all we need to help the family to find Maura and Maura herself if she is alive and reading these...

One aspect about this site's discussion of Maura's disappearance is its wide ranging consideration of various theories whether or not the posters have followed the case for two years or two weeks. That's ok in my view, and each fresh post even if it revisits previously discussed issues is also...

Czechmate, I share your incredulity. Look at the guy's website and claims of being able solve cases based on some kind of method called "inferential statistics." If transcendental meditation would find Maura I am all for it.

There was initially a PI firm retained for a while in 2004, RC Stevens of Northampton Ma , and they did some interviewing in Ma and NH. But the current group is more of a roundtable, a group of volunteers including retired police officers and PI's who volunteered to assist the family thanks...

This is mostly to Nnglas but any other new posters as well. Maura's items on her trip were according to Sharon her usual stuff that she took on trips including the book Not Without Peril, except for the alcohol of course. Yes, a number of lies or deceptions show up in the various events of...

I have not argued for or believed that Maura was suicidal except in one fleeting way--wondering what she did next after the phone call to Lt Rausch on Wed am 2/11/04, assuming the call was from Maura as he believes. If she was so distressed that she called him (not 911) hoping he would calm...

Doc's links are good and very helpful. Again on the Maura site there is a CaseInfo section on the "forum" button with a timeline and notes from Sharon on such puzzlers as the call to Lt Rausch's cellphone on Wed am 2/11/04. There is a lot of ground to cover if you want to be up on this...

Czechmate, you are offering what I have called, I believe correctly, the track star theory of Maura's leaving the Swiftwater crash scene. As recently as a few weeks ago there was a post by Sharon on mauramurray.com, Lt R's Mother who appeared on 20/20, describing how Maura would get up...

I had a slightly different take on the comments by NH detective John Scarinza who was the only LE person directly involved in Maura's case to be quoted on 20/20 last night. He talked about thousands of hours being spent on the case--and yes there were considerable belated search efforts made...

Being an advocate for Maura is probably the best position for anyone to be in, and the hoping for the best but fearing the worst attitude expressed by many friends and family members is entirely consistent and understandable. I have tried to stick to and even be a pest when it comes to the...

Yes it is true that any 1am phone call made to/by Maura on 2/6/04 at her campus security job remains a mystery, and only the police have had access to the unnamed co worker which is as it should be. But KMayotte's posts, especially her account of seeking to assist and to comfort Maura as much...

Please, everyone should understand that KMayotte the student supervisor has posted last week on the Maura site pretty much all that is known about the confusing media stories in March/April 2004 of Maura being upset while at her job around 1am on 2/5 (actually 2/6) of 2004. I got...

The best accounts are still the two articles by Gary Lindsley in Caledonian Record for Feb 20 and Feb 27 of 2004. The first on 2/20 interviews Butch Atwood and gives the details above on Atwood & Smith driving around the scene (and then back west; they did not go east into the wilderness...

There was no search for Maura by a search dog or helicopter until Wednesday and Thursday, 2/11 and 2/12 of 2004. Other searches were performed in the weeks and months following as late as July, I believe, but this is in the news articles. Butch Atwood the schoolbus driver and Cecil Smith...