Sorry, but can you point me to a link or where that quote was taken? I hadn't seen that anywhere before.
Thanks
Certainly!
Former NH State Trooper With Troubled Past Says Maura Was Murdered, Buried Under Suspect's House
You do realize right that in the first five years or more after Maura went missing that the people on the internet were overwhelmingly sympathetic to the family?
I could have worded my comment better because I agree with you. I was trying to say that if the Murrays and LE have long been operating under the assumption that a specific person was responsible for Maura's disappearance, I can better understand Fred's mindset. To him, the internet community would have been on a wild goose chase which wasn't contributing any evidence against this suspect. In the end, however, all of the digging may have been what was needed to uncover the real working theory. I don't fault anyone for being curious given the limited information the public has been provided.
I am almost certain he is about to very strongly shine a spotlight on someone. I have a feeling it is going to be an accusation of abuse/violence that occurred within the confines of some sort of romantic relationship, against a known person in the MM cast of characters. It will recast the accused person in a different, predatory light.
It also seems quite possible that we've never heard of this person. You probably saw that Renner wrote, "
this new info has nothing to do with any member of Maura's family." Outside of the Murray family, the known cast of characters is rather limited. Any thoughts on who among them could reasonably have been in a romantic relationship with Maura? Rick Forcier? The track coach? I'm also starting to wonder how well Billy's alibi was vetted by amateur sleuths, so there's another seemingly unlikely possibility.
It wouldn't be hard to determine if she was taking the birth control properly. More than likely the pharmacy label would have the date she refilled it, so by looking at the number of pills left you'd have a good idea.
So if she last filled it a month prior, and she nearly had a full pack left in the car, one could conclude she wasn't taking it properly and possibly pregnant. Or conversely, if it was refilled at the beginning of February and there was nearly a full pack, she probably was taking it correctly.
That would absolutely be valuable, but not definitive, information which I doubt LE will be sharing with us. Even with "perfect use," oral contraceptives result in
3/1000 pregnancies per year. With "typical use," that number jumps to 80/1000 per year, mostly attributable to missed pills as you point out. There are all kinds of other imperfect use scenarios and it's even not unheard of for a woman to surreptitiously skip pills in order to get pregnant. I think Fred is a radiology tech*, so he would know better than anyone that sexually active young women are assumed pregnant until proven otherwise before they are irradiated for medical imaging.
*I've only seen Fred referred to as a "radiologist," which is a medical specialty. Since he doesn't appear to have an MD or DO, I assume Fred is actually a radiology technician. Furthermore, in the early 2000s, radiology was exceptionally lucrative. Only an extremely disastrous scenario could have resulted in a working radiologist having his sub $200,000 home foreclosed upon.
