Recent content by Gene S.

The hotel that Fred stayed at, currently a Rodeway Inn, in Hadley is being torn down to make way for a new hotel. Hadley planners OK new hotel on Route 9

"The danger of rumors like this is how fast they can be viewed as fact when people want a resolution." Not so much with the self-awareness.

He seems to be amassing a bunch of evidence that a particular person is a very bad person. He then makes a giant leap to speculate about the actions of that person. For his speculation to be true he needs a tandem driver who appears at the exact right time and then disappears, he needs Maura...

I agree. Hard to draw conclusions from that list. I would be curious to learn more about the 3 x 5 index cards with directions. Directions to or for what? And if the cards are handwritten, is it Maura's handwriting or did someone else write them?

Eating disorders among girls who are distance runners aren't unusual: http://www.pale-reflections.com/news_view.asp?id=35

This is probably the most frustrating part of the case for me: Why did Fred visit UMass that weekend and why, prior to his visit, did he haphazardly gather $4,000 in cash to bring with him? Answer those two questions and you get a long way toward figuring out everything else. Fred obviously...

If she had lost contact with a car ahead of her, she may have been driving faster than normal to attempt to catch up which could have contributed to her wrecking on the curve.

Again, I don't find that, as he presents it, particularly persuasive. Especially coming almost eleven years after it happened. Perhaps he's verified that the cashier worked at Butson's in early 2004 and that the person she says was her supervisor also worked there at that time and was in fact...

Perhaps he's withholding some additional information that he used to authenticate her story, but the four points he makes don't seem all that persuasive to me. Photos from 2004 of the two women I'm guessing that he thinks were with Maura are readily available on his blog, as is information...

Obviously it's hard to know why she felt it was so important to return her father's car Saturday night. Fred may know, her friends she was with that night may know, but no one else really knows. As I said about, my best guess is that she had resolved to say or do something to Fred and wanted...

This certainly could have been the case as well, although it wouldn't have simply been a desire to not be alone. It would have been very easy for her to spend the night in one of her friends' dorm rooms if all she wanted was to not be alone. Instead, she chose to do something that required...

My guess would be that, perhaps with the courage that drinking can bring, she had resolved to say or do something to her father and felt it was very important to say/do it right then while she had the courage. The $4,000 cash, Maura having Fred's car in the first place, and the sudden...

Has there every been a list released of exactly what was found in Maura's car? I know that there's a photo of her sister sitting with Maura's belongings from the car, but I've never seen an inventory. I've seen postings on various forums and news articles about things that Maura was "known" to...

This is an excellent point, I think. Fred certainly had knowledge of Maura's state of mind in the days prior to her disappearance. When told that the car had been found, his knee-jerk leap to suicide is very telling.

That road you can't turn down is the exit for Amherst High School--those athletic fields you see (and the track) are part of Amherst High School.