Her searches were for lodging in the area. I think she wanted to get to the other side of the National Forest. Since she was traveling from Amherst, her route had to go through the National Forest or around it to get to the lodging area she preferred. I could be wrong, but this is how it looks to me.
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Her searches were for lodging in the area. I think she wanted to get to the other side of the National Forest. Since she was traveling from Amherst, her route had to go through the National Forest or around it to get to the lodging area she preferred. I could be wrong, but this is how it looks to me.
To me, it seems she was heading to an area she knew from her summer vacations with the family. She was coming from Amherst, so she was not accustomed to traveling from that direction. According to her father, she didn't know Woodsville or Haverhill at all. With her family, they probably traveled up from Hansen, MA, which is on the eastern side of Massachusetts.
I agree. I think Maura was highly emotional and wanted some time to sort things out. I do not believe her intentions to go up to the mountains were part of a plan to commit suicide. Maura was a champion runner and a honors student. She worked very hard at being her best. I think when she crashed her dad's car it rattled her to the core. She may have had some underlying emotional troubles or a budding drinking problem, which caused her to beat herself up over the situation.
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In re-reading James' blog
Did Maura reach her destination?
http://mauramurray.blogspot.com/2011/07/did-maura-reach-her-destination.html
and looking at the maps of area, I think James may be right! The local motel may well have been her destination!
Thinking back to my "route 66" days of driving around - often I would plan to go somewhere, have a destination in mind, but after starting out, for one reason or another, impromptu, I would pick a place along the way that appealed to me on a map and look for a motel there....
Did Maura reach her destination?
http://mauramurray.blogspot.com/2011/07/did-maura-reach-her-destination.html
and looking at the maps of area, I think James may be right! The local motel may well have been her destination!
Thinking back to my "route 66" days of driving around - often I would plan to go somewhere, have a destination in mind, but after starting out, for one reason or another, impromptu, I would pick a place along the way that appealed to me on a map and look for a motel there....
OldSteve,
You might be right on the money about that, but the only problem I have with that scenario is that her father checked into that hotel just a few days later and surely even if Maura had used a fake name, the motel staff would've remembered a mysterious girl by herself checking in, especially since their motel quickly became the find maura murray search headquarters.
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You are right scoops .... perhaps then she had not yet checked in, maybe was going to ride around a bit before doing so... but I would have checked in first while it was still a little light out.... still, if Haverhill wasn't her destination, it seems she would be driving on some lonely roads in a remote area at night trying to reach ?
OldSteve,
Maybe she was trying to get to a particular mountain. She was obsessed with mountains and heading straight for some at the time of her wreck.
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http://mauramurray.blogspot.com/2011/07/big-reveal-maura-might-have-been.html
James: "forensics on Maura Murray's computer at UMass revealed searches for websites related to pregnancy which were conducted just prior to her searches for lodging in the Stowe, Vermont area. She was specifically searching for material relating to the effects of excessive drinking on an unborn fetus, according to those familiar with the investigation."
James: "forensics on Maura Murray's computer at UMass revealed searches for websites related to pregnancy which were conducted just prior to her searches for lodging in the Stowe, Vermont area. She was specifically searching for material relating to the effects of excessive drinking on an unborn fetus, according to those familiar with the investigation."
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IF IF IF Maura was pregnant that explains much of her impulsive decision to get away, as well as her distress a few nights before at work.Who knows what she was thinking or feeling about what she might do..Perhaps she was considering abortion and wanted to help that along with all the booze...(pure speculation of course)..
Could even speculate that the car wreck(s) was subconciously intentional in that she was possibly drinking/driving in a reckless manner(hoping for miscarriage?)
Definitely an intersting "find".
http://mauramurray.blogspot.com/
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I think Mr Renner's discovery of a possible pregnancy changes percetion of things dramatically, especially concerning her behavior before she disappeared.
http://mauramurray.blogspot.com/
If Maura wanted to tell her father she was pregnant, perhaps that explains why she JUST HAD TO get his car back to him that same night she wrecked it; before she lost her nerve. The accident completely shut down that discussion taking place..how could she tell him THEN??
After that she probably felt more desperate.
I wonder if her BF was aware of a possible pregnancy.
In any case, and most importantly, does any of this have bearing on what ultimately happened and/or where she is??
http://mauramurray.blogspot.com/
If Maura wanted to tell her father she was pregnant, perhaps that explains why she JUST HAD TO get his car back to him that same night she wrecked it; before she lost her nerve. The accident completely shut down that discussion taking place..how could she tell him THEN??
After that she probably felt more desperate.
I wonder if her BF was aware of a possible pregnancy.
In any case, and most importantly, does any of this have bearing on what ultimately happened and/or where she is??
The pregnancy issue makes me rethink what a pp said about the other student who was a victim of a hit-and-run in front of a health clinic that offered abortions.
That aside, I do wonder if she thought she could induce a miscarriage with excessive drinking, and wanted to do so in privacy.
That aside, I do wonder if she thought she could induce a miscarriage with excessive drinking, and wanted to do so in privacy.
If he didn't know then does that say something as well.
I would think if they were as close was thought, he would have known pretty quickly. But this information has never come out, and rightfully so in some ways, that is a private matter.
But after all these years, no one knew. Seems that if she knew for more than 2 days without telling a soul then she was in a DEEP state of anxiety.
Wow, just wow!
I hadn't heard this either, the blogger is saying this is brand new fresh information - an exclusive.
Does anyone know who this blogger is, and are they reliable? I followed this case when it first broke, and that was one of the possible scenarios offered over and over again to explain her sudden packing up and leaving, although it was never more than pure speculation.
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He evidently has a couple of different blogs on Cold Cases/Unsolved Crimes, most notably:
http://amymihaljevic.blogspot.com/
from the blog:
"I haven't forgotten about the updates I promised. They're coming soon.
At the moment,I'm finishing up a novel and doing a bit of traveling (meetings in New York and research in New Hampshire on the Maura Murray case).
Expect something next week."
Here is another blog:
http://jamesrenner.wordpress.com/
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Incidentally, Mr. Renner is not allowed to post on Maura's Missing FB group page anymore, nor is anyone allowed to post a link to his blog.It seems Fred Murray does not want a book about Maura published and feels Mr Renner is trying to profit off Maura's story. Mr Renner addresses that issue in his blog:
http://mauramurray.blogspot.com/2011/07/profiting-off-tragedy.html#links
http://mauramurray.blogspot.com/2011/07/profiting-off-tragedy.html#links
Interesting. I guess it's hard to know exactly why Fred Murray is against this, but he may just feel like it will lead nowhere and would reveal unflattering things. I do think relying on writers and investigators like Mr. Renner might be Mr. Murray's only hope of shaking information out of the Haverhill PD - they seem to have locked horns and barely have a civil relationship. With fresh eyes this case may actually be solvable -
The information about the computer search may be leaked from the PD - it may be that Fred himself doesn't even know that. He was trying to hard to force HPD to open their investigation to him, and they wouldn't.
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