Well, as I said before, even a loner needs a tool or a helper sometimes.Masterj said:If Maura did run away to start a whole new life, I just don't see someone as fiercely private and guarded as her enlisting the help of someone else.
Few humans do absolutely everything for themselves. Maura was a wonderfully capable person but even she did not do everything from scratch for herself. In college she needed someone to teach her. She did not grow her own food but bought it in a grocery store or cafeteria or fast food place. She did not make all her own clothes but bought them in a store after someone else had made them. We all use some level of help. Even track takes a minimal amount of coaching. People like Maura may use the minimum amount of help they can get by with but they will use what help they have to. And Maura did not do everything alone. She drank with her friends. She may not have lots of close friends but she drank with some so she was not a total loner. She was described as being elusive by some of them but also she was described as being flirty when drinking. There was alcohol with her when she left. Maura may have had a helper.
Two Things that could point to a possible helper:
1.The way she was able to leave the scene of the accident within such a short few minutes after being seen by the neighbor. I believe she was picked up by the helper back down the road a ways.
2. She said she had already called AAA when we know that to have been a lie. If she had a helper following the same route it would not have been completely untrue because help was truly on the way.
Yes, I know that there might be other things that could account for those two facts but the facts do support a possible helper as one of the possible explanations.