As for inaccuracies in Mr. Renner's blog, to name a few:
1. This has already been commented on in previous pages here.....Maura's supervisor initially placed her conversation with a troubled Maura much, much later in the evening--12:30 or 1 am. I have not spoken to her directly (in person), but she maintained this in public on message boards for years. Whether the years since have dimmed and confused her memory (with the addition of the repeated piece of information that Maura spoke to her sister at ten) or whether this is erroneous or sloppy note-taking or transcribing by Mr. Renner, I can't say. But this second-hand account does not jibe with Ms. Mayotte's first-hand account, which came as early as winter of 2005/2006, when I first became aware of Maura's disappearance. Like Mr. Renner himself, I choose to rely on primary sources whenever possible. Having seen it from Ms. Mayotte's own computer keyboard at the time she said it, I choose to believe her.
2. Mr. Renner has indicated that Fred Murray refused interviews with police for 2 1/2 years. This seems incorrect judging by all available news accounts from day one--go up a few posts and read archived articles on the Justice for Chandra website. As early as February 2004--right after Maura disappeared--he was talking to the police.
As for why he brought attorneys with him, he had just sued for the records of Maura's case. Wouldn't YOU bring an attorney? Actually, bringing an attorney is not, and never will be, an indication of guilt. Police say that all the time in hopes that the person they're interviewing will through their civil rights out the window and allow an interview to proceed without one.
3. The fact that Maura MAY HAVE BEEN pregnant is certainly not news. That's been brought up at least since I have been aware of the case in late 2005 and early 2006. As for what the forensics on her computer revealed, that I can't speak to--but a pregnancy is something that's certainly been bandied about for years. (and for that matter, I'm not sure how it's possible to tell WHY someone was researching something. How do we know it wasn't for school? How can Mr. Renner be certain?)
4. I cannot say for certain that the note from Billy to Maura was an old email printed out recently--it may have been an old email printed out at the time it was sent, and simply hung onto--nor can I speak to its content. But it still has no bearing on her being missing, except that it was by no means a suicide note. Police indicated within the first week of Maura's disappearance that they would publicly retract that statement of a suicide note from Maura to Billy--to this date, to my knowledge no such retraction has ever been printed or issued.
5. According to Mr. Renner, "Helena Dwyer Murray runs a website devoted to the search for Maura. She has been identified in news reports as an aunt, but is actually not related to the family through blood." This is, in fact, true--she is not related by blood to Maura but through marriage--but it doesn't make Ms. Murray less of an aunt. She is, in fact, an aunt of Maura's. The implication there is such that we are meant to somehow discredit Helena Murray because she married into the family. What's that about? And how is it at ALL relevant in finding out what happened to Maura?
6. Regarding the Red Cross call: there continue to be conflicting sources on this. The police have maintained that the call can be traced to the American Red Cross; however, the phone company told Sharon Rausch that the phone call could not be traced without the calling card pin number--and of course the pin number is on the card, which....is with Maura.
If the call cannot be definitively traced, the person who made the call cannot be interviewed.
It is highly probable that the police DID interview a Red Cross worker who spoke to Billy, as he was working through them to try to get emergency leave from his Army post at Ft. Sill. However.......
To this day, Sharon and Billy firmly believe that the phone call was made by Maura. And they are two people who knew her very, very well.
So file that under the "maybe" column.
7. Maura did not leave West Point "abruptly." She left at the end of a semester, which of couse is when most students transfer between colleges or universities, if they are transfering. Leaving abruptly is dropping out mid-semester, which Maura did not do. What she did was simply "transfer from West Point to UMass."
