NH NH - Maura Murray, 21, Haverhill, 9 Feb 2004 #16

[Mrs..b]

To play devils advocate, the FBI issued an alert in 2022 and NH State police released an updated sketch in 2024, would they bother with that if they didn’t have information that is being withheld. Their treatment of it doesn’t necessarily come across as a person lost to the elements.

 

[Bodine]

To me this case is a classic example of Occam's Razor needing to be applied.

Maura had problems with alcohol and had been involved in recent car accidents.
Driving intoxicated she crashed again, and not thinking clearly fled into the woods to avoid a DUI.
Hence why she declined assistance from the neighbor. Her remains are in the woods somewhere and one day will be recovered.
Sad but its the most likely scenario.

Except there was snow on the ground and no footprints leading into the woods.

 

[Tarik]

I don't know that it's ever definitively been determined that there was no footprints leading into the woods especially since there were no searches into the woods until many days after the disappearance.

 

[scrimpies]

I think i've seen age progressions of people who are confirmed deceased- but i can't remember who. Maybe it's just easy to do even if it's a long shot.

 

[FaerieDust]

I think i've seen age progressions of people who are confirmed deceased- but i can't remember who. Maybe it's just easy to do even if it's a long shot.

I believe it's more of a tactic to get people talking about the case and get it back in the news. It's very rare for a progression to lead to an identification, there's one case that comes to mind of an age progression leading to an identification and it's this one: Marx Panama Barnes AKA Steve Carter.

I don't think she's necessarily 'confirmed' deceased, just suspected. Until they find her body they can't be 100% sure. Even if she was legally declared deceased, it's mostly for her family to organise the life she left behind, bank accounts and such.