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murraydwyer said:The following are some links on news articles which appeared recently, they are all on the forum at Maura's website...most are lead ins with links but one is the entire article:
From The Express
HANSON
Maura Murray: A year of waiting
Feb 9, 2005, 17:01
After a year, Maura Murray's family and friends are no closer to finding out what happened to her.
The Hanson resident and former Whitman-Hanson track standout hasn't been seen since running her car
off the road last Feb. 9 in a remote New Hampshire town near the Vermont border. Since then, her friends
and family have banded together in an effort to put her name in the media so that someone, somewhere,
will come forward with some information.
For the first six months after her disappearance, Maura's father, Fred Murray, trekked up to New Hampshire
every weekend to search for his daughter. He combed the woods near the crash site for any trace of her,
and talked to locals endlessly two things he believes the state and local police didn't do enough of in the
immediate aftermath of the crash.
The only person looking for my daughter is myself, he said.
On Wednesday, Murray petitioned newly elected New Hampshire governor John Lynch to release the
records on the case. He said he has had difficulty obtaining many documents that should be public
records. He also wants the case to be classified as a criminal investigation, which he believes may result
in a more diligent investigation by the state police.
Hanson Express
This whole article also appears at www.mauramurray.com
Maura Murray Remembered A Year After Disappearance
Fears Center On Abduction
BY GARY E. LINDSLEY Staff Writer
HAVERHILL, NH - News photographers and reporters practically outnumbered family and friends of Maura Murray as they marked the one-year anniversary of her disappearance with a ceremony Wednesday.
Kathleen Murray, Maura's sister, wiped away tears and buried her head in the shoulder of her fiance, Tim Carpenter, as a small boom box played the song, "For Maura."
Others choked back tears or dabbed at them with tissues as traffic passed by on Route 112, the site where Maura Murray was involved in a minor one-car accident the night of Feb. 9, 2004.
Caledonian Record
Missing Hanson woman's family prods officials; Treat it as crime, they urge N.H.
By JOE McGEE
The Patriot Ledger
It was one year ago that Maura Murray of Hanson disappeared in the snowy woods of New Hampshire. Her father and other family members were in New Hampshire today, trying again to get authorities to treat her disappearance as a crime.
(Note as time passes the Ledger will archive these links and ithey may not work)
Patriot Ledger
Father of Mass. woman who disappeared meets governor
By Anne Saunders, Associated Press Writer
February 9, 2005CONCORD, N.H. -- The father of a Massachusetts woman who disappeared a year ago met with Gov. John Lynch on Wednesday to ask for his help in getting records of the investigation.
Fred Murray, whose daughter Maura vanished after a minor car accident in Haverhill, wants state police to release their records so he can pursue leads himself."I asked, failing that, to have it declared a criminal investigation rather than a missing person investigation, and, if he didn't want to do that, I asked him to accept the offer of the FBI to come in," Murray said after the meeting with Lynch.
Boston.com
Mass. dad asks N.H. gov for help finding daughter
By Marie Szaniszlo
Thursday, February 10, 2005
The father of a University of Massachusetts at Amherst student who vanished a year ago on a New Hampshire road asked Gov. John Lynch yesterday to release records of the investigation and accept the FBI's offer to help find her.
``Right now, I am the investigation,'' Fred Murray said. ``That's why I want the information.''
New Hampshire state police have declined the FBI's offer to help find Maura Murray, saying there is no evidence of foul play, even though the nursing student and former West Point cadet left behind her car and belongings after it skidded into a snowbank on Route 112 in Haverhill.
Boston Herald
edited to remove links that don't work
Any news on whether he was able to get the records released on the investigation or lack there of?