Recent content by carpanthers

What about the lie detector tests? What about the state police searching Rick Forcier's trailer on the side of the highway? These weren't the actions of Fred Murray, right? A known detail of this case is that Fred Murray lied to police. Why did he do this? Why did he lie about material facts?

I agree with you that it is no coincidence that Maura decided to go to the White Mountains. She liked that place, she intended to have her honeymoon there. The fact that she went to the place she loved most in no way suggests suicide over other possibilities. Who said the FBI was on her...

Ignoring details is not the same thing as questioning details. How the abduction theory developed has no bearing on the likelihood of this possibility.

I agree that Maura would know what it meant to be in the wilderness, unprepared. I think it is unlikely that she would choose this death for herself (I am not saying it is impossible or unlikely that she died of exposure, just that I do not think she would have willfully chosen this). I think...

I wouldn't put it at 90% unless there was additional information of which I was not yet aware (there might be). I don't think that planning to live necessarily means she did live, either. I would be very uncomfortable assigning a high level of probability to a particular theory, at least at...

What do you make of the seeming lack of footprints in the woods around the crash site? Do you think there were footprints that the police didn't tell us about? Do you think there were footprints that the police missed? If there weren't footprints, do you think she walked along the road for a...

I don't know that we can assume Maura to have a history of mental health issues. She may have had an eating disorder, but I'm not sure if anything outside of rumors confirms this. Even if she did have mental health issues, not all mental health issues influence your ability to orchestrate and...

We don't know how big the coke bottle was. Many people have suggested that a 20 oz. bottle would be easier to drink from while driving, and I agree with this statement. In the pictures of the car that were taken years after the crash, a crumpled 20 oz. (could be 16 oz. I guess, but I think it is...

But we don't know when she started drinking or how much she drank.

If she stole lots of things, wouldn't this give her a reason to run away? What if the police thought she stole more things? Being troubled doesn't necessarily mean you are suicidal. I'm not against looking critically at the book, that's exactly what I'm doing. The book doesn't discuss suicide...

If the book can take on new meanings, how do we know what the meaning of the book was at the time she disappeared? Do you mean mentally troubled? What kind of troubled do you think Maura was?

Was it cherished by her for longer than the amount of time we believe she was suicidal?

I know that you didn't say the book would make Maura suicidal, you implied that I said it. "Now you're putting words in my mouth. I never said that this book would MAKE her suicidal but I think a troubled person who already loved the mountains could read passages about death there and see them...

You're the one putting words in my mouth. I asked how owning the book would make it more likely that a person was suicidal, not how the book would make Maura suicidal.

I read all of your comments. You told me that the book was about suicide, and fortunately I didn't take your word for it. "You're right, it's not specifically about suicide, but here's an excerpt from the official Amazon.com review of the book. Guess we looked at different reviews. It would be...