Where is the information coming from that there have been grand jury proceedings? That's a new one by me.
I feel I am repeating myself but for the sake of new members I will repeat myself. The presence of a Grand Jury, and yes there was at least one and perhaps more than one early on in the investigation, DOES NOT MEAN there is an indictment or even a person of interest. Police often use what is called an "Investigative Grand Jury" to question witnesses and gather data and information. It is commonplace in large cases and especially commonplace with the Investigators who lead this case.
The presence of a Grand Jury does not mean there was an indictment or a POI. To my knowledge there had never been a person of interest who has not been mostly eliminated,
LOL okay, we'll have to agree to disagree then. The last place I'd want to be in freezing cold weather is the woods at night.
A huge problem with persons who have not been involved in major crime investigations is that they can not themselves grasp or understand the mindset of a person who has reached 'maximum overload' in their personal life.
So for you to say that the last place YOU would want to be is in 'freezing cold' weather in the woods at night, and therefore you preclude the possibility that Maura, or anyone for that matter, would have chosen that path, is naive and close minded.
Once you work a couple dozen suicides you start to see what 99% of 'normal' people don't and can't see, which is that people are capable of the most incomprehensible acts when they reach a certain point in their life. If you can't see that then good for you, it means you are in the 99% of people who have not committed suicide.
No one has made a rational argument on why she would run in the woods and somehow die.
Perhaps because for whatever reason she had reached the end of her rope and saw no way out. See above reference suicide.
She packed all of her things in her dorm room, she left a troubled email on top of those boxes.
She had several auto accidents just prior to her leaving UMass and had a less than ideal relationship with her father.
She bought quite a bit of alcohol on her way to NH, she was drinking while she drove.
She also bought several packs of sleeping pills with her and took at least one entire pack with her when she left her car.
She had her Third auto accident as a result of alcohol in less than 3 weeks.
She refused help from a local bus driver, and lied about calling AAA. She pleaded with the bus driver to NOT contact the police.
She took all of the alcohol (except the damaged box of wine) and one pack of sleeping pills with her and intentionally left the scene of her car accident ON FOOT in less than 10 minutes with the intent of avoiding the police and help.
When her Father and Sister were contacted by the police immediately after she went missing BOTH her Father's and Sister's reaction was that she likely walked into the woods to commit suicide, ie: "did the squaw walk."
So based on the totality of those facts and circumstances, can you seriously not understand that she could have run away and died on those woods?