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The Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray - Part III · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: He did not report this sighting to the authorities right away,
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  as he was confused about the dates. It was only
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  three months later, while reviewing his work records that he
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  realized he had seen the young person on the same
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  night that Murray went missing. He did not immediately inform
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  the authorities about this sighting due to his uncertainty regarding
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  the dates. It was only three months later, while he
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  was reviewing his work records that he came to the
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  realization that he had encountered the young individual on the
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  same night that Murray disappeared. The officer who responded, along
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  with the bus driver, conducted a search of the area
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  for Murray. Shortly before eight pm. Emergency medical services and
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  a fire truck arrived to manage the situation. By eight
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  forty nine pm, the vehicle had been towed to a
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  nearby garage. The responding officer departed around nine thirty PM.
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  A rag, which is believed to have belonged to Murray's
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  mine emergency roadside kit was found lodged in the muffler
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  pipe of the Saturn. Authorities would classify Murray as missing
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  at twelve pm the following day, nearly twenty four hours
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  after her last confirmed sighting initial investigation. At twelve thirty
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  six pm on February tenth, a Bee on the Lookout
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  alert was issued for Murray. She was described as wearing
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  a dark coat, jeans and carrying a black backpack. A
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  voicemail was left on Fred Murray's home answering machine at
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  three twenty pm, indicating that her car had been found abandoned. Fred,
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  who was working out of state, did not receive this message.
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  At five PM, one of Murray's older sisters informed their
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  father about the situation. Subsequently, Fred contacted the Haverhill Police Department,
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  where he was advised that if Murray was not reported
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  safe by the next morning, the New Hampshire Fish and
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  Game Department would initiate a ch At five seventeen pm,
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  the have A Hill Police officially classified Murray as missing.
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  On February eleventh, Fred arrived in have A Hill before dawn.
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  At eight am, the New Hampshire Fish and Game, along
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  with the Murrays and other volunteers, commenced their search efforts.
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  A tracking dog picked up the scent from one of
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  Murray's gloves, tracing it one hundred yards east of the
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  location where her vehicle had been found. But subsequently lost
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  the trail. This led police to speculate that she may
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  have left the area in another vehicle. At five pm,
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  Murray's boyfriend and his parents arrived in have A Hill.
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  The boyfriend was questioned privately before his parents joined him
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  for further interrogation. By seven pm, police expressed their belief
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  that Murray may have come to the area with intentions
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  to run away or to attempt suicide. However, her family
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  found this notion on the likely. During his flight to Haverhill,
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  Murray's boyfriend had deactivated his cell phone. Upon landing, he
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  discovered a voicemail that he interpreted as the sound of
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  Murray weeping. The call was traced back to a calling
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  card associated with the American Red Cross. On February twelfth,
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  an evening press conference was conducted by Murray's father and
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  boyfriend in Bethlehem, New Hampshire, followed by the initial press coverage.
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  The following day, at three zero five pm, law enforcement
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  indicated that Murray might be in the vicinity of Cancamegus Highway,
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  categorizing her as endangered and possibly suicidal. The police report
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  also noted that Murray was under the influence at the
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  scene of the crash. Although the bus driver claimed she
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  did not seem impaired, the police chief of have A
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  Hill expressed concern, stating, our worry is that she may
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  be upset, debt or suicidal. A week following the disappearance
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  of Murray, her father and boyfriend participated in an interview
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  with CNN's American Mourning. The family of Murray extended their
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  search efforts into Vermont, expressing frustration that local authorities had
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  not been notified about her disappearance. Typically, missing person investigations
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  are managed by local and state law enforcement. However, the
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  FBI became involved ten days after her disappearance. They conducted
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  interviews with family members in Massachusetts, and the police chief
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  of Haverhill announced that the search had escalated to a
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  national level. On the tenth day after her disappearance, New
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  Hampshire Fish and Game initiated a second search operation, employing
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  both ground and aerial methods, which included a helicopter equipped
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  with a thermal imaging camera, as well as tracking and
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  cadaver dogs. On February twenty sixth, Murray's older sis mister,
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  found a torn white pair of women's underwear on a
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  remote trail near French Pond Road, but subsequent DNA testing
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  revealed that the underwear did not belong to Murray. By
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  the end of February, police returned the items recovered from
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  Murray's vehicle to her family. On March second, the family
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  checked out of their motel, weary from their search efforts. Fred,
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  her father, returned nearly every weekend to continue the search.
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  In April, have Ahill Police notified him of complaints regarding
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  trespassing on private property. The disappearance of Brianna Maitland in
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  March two thousand and four in Montgomery, Vermont, located sixty
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  six miles from where Murray was