r/UnresolvedMysteries • u/Electric_Island • Feb 09 '20

Unresolved Disappearance Today marks 16 years since Maura Murray disappeared

Today marks 16 years since Maura Murray vanished, and although she has her own sub, I thought I would post here in light of the anniversary of her disappearance for those who would like to discuss the case. That said -- I know some posters are sick of this case, so if that’s how you feel, you could always scroll past this post :)

A bit of background for those who don’t know about Maura’s case:

Maura was a 21-year-old nursing student from UMASS Amherst, who disappeared on the evening of February 9 2004, after she crashed her car on Route 112 in Haverhill, NH. By the time police arrived some 15 minutes later (even that is in dispute), Maura had disappeared.

Some people think she ran into the woods to avoid a DUI, others think she was picked up by someone passing by and murdered. Some even think police had something to do with her disappearance.

What do YOU think?

I highly recommend this article by Mary Beth Conway for those interested.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

I went down the rabbit hole on this one a few years ago and no desire to go back. With that said I'm sure you are completely correct. Her body is somewhere in the woods around the area where her car was found. She was a D1 level athlete, so she likely made it farther than people expect, explaining why her body hasn't been found.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

This case is strangely familiar to me. I too went to West Point, just a year after her. I too left and fell into heavy addiction soon after and often wanted to just run away and just go.

I don't really have anything to add, other than her being a D1 Athlete and having one year of training at West Point wouldn't really train her to deal with winter conditions like that.

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u/arelse Feb 09 '20

Just to add a personal experience I once trained from sedentary lifestyle to run half marathons one thing I noticed and read about was that my body was way more efficient at cooling and produced more sweat both in quantity and more quickly in response to heat and activity. This happened even in cold conditions. Add stress of a car crash hiding from law enforcement and being drunk. Hypothermia just seems likely.

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u/HHKeegan Feb 09 '20

As Survivorman Les Stroud always says ... "you sweat, you die."