Hello everyone. On May 28, 2024, The Berkshire Eagle published a new article on Meghan's disappearance, with more details about the case. The Eagle is a subscription-based paper, but you can read a few articles a month, so hopefully anyone interested can access it here.
To summarize a few key points:
1. The teacher she claimed was stalking her had a solid alibi, according to police (specifics mentioned in the article)
2. According to investigation documents obtained by the Eagle, police alo speculated that Marohn may have been in "an advanced hypothermic state" before she died
3. The Berkshire District Attorney’s Office closed the case, but said it would reopen it should new evidence surface
4. The April 2, 2022, police narrative by Lee Police Sgt. Stephanie Burdick details the timing of the male teacher’s whereabouts that weekend, as well as a slew of other tips and evidence local and State Police were busy tracking down. Stalker claims he doesn't even know where she lives.
5. Leftovers from Marohn’s Saturday room service meal at the Red Lion, included“clam chowder soup, turkey dinner and a drink, dark and stormy.” Police say they found this as she left it, “no evidence of foul play” in the hotel room.
6. Police found tht on March 23, Marohn traveled to Canna Provisions in Lee, and alone bought “five packages of Strawberry Gummies” for $240 cash. The store manager reviewed surveillance footage and found that “since September 2021, Meghan has been at the shop 18 times, 5 times during the month of March [2022].”
7. A convenience store clerk admitted she lied to police about Marohn having been in the store and making purchases, also told police she had given purchase receipts of March 27 transactions to a woman named “Ellen” who had asked for receipts purported to be Marohn's. "Ellen" apparently passed them to police. Police reviewed surveillance and found that Marohn was not in the store that day, and also found that the transactions weren't made by her.
8. Police also ran into roadblocks. The Albany County Sheriff’s Department, said it wasn’t able to help subpoena Marohn’s medical records to help them learn what might have happened to her.
9. Police floated a theory based on some of the clothing they found within 100 to 150 yards of her remains. Marohn appeared to “have shed her clothes due to an advanced hypothermic state," a State Police investigator wrote in his report. “The weather during the time of Meghan’s disappearance,” the investigator wrote, “was snowy, windy, and day time temperatures in the low [30s].” What indicated this to him was that her clothing did not have “noticeable blood” nor showed signs of animals “chewing or ripping the clothing to get to the remains.”
MY THOUGHTS:
I'm curious about her purchases at Canna Provisions. Was the $240 worth of 5 packages of gummies located in her room, and were any missing? Gummies can be expensive depending on brand, strength, and number in a package. Canna Provisions changes their inventory offerings frequently. I'm not currently seeing any that cost more than approximately $35 a bottle/package containing about 20 each, so if the dollar amount written was correct, that'd be $48 each, except that perhaps $240 was the grand total including the high taxes placed on such items (MA sales tax of 6.25% plus a local excise tax of 10.75% Was she stockpiling these (5 trips in March)? Perhaps hoping to make an end of life event less painful?
I'm also annoyed by the convenience store clerk lying. That blew up on social media big-time.
The male colleague spent Sunday at home, then went to his band’s practice session that afternoon. “He then picked up Chinese food and went home and had dinner with his
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