Where is Maura Murray?
It was February 9, 2004, and as far as any of Maura Murray’s relatives knew, everything was going well in the 21-year-old woman’s world. But on that day, Maura, a nursing student, stunned everyone she knew when she packed up her dorm room, withdrew some money from the bank, e-mailed her professors to tell them she wouldn’t be in class for the next week due to a death in the family, and then hopped into her 1996 black Saturn and disappeared.
And it was the strangest thing… There was no death in the family.
According to the Haverhill, New Hampshire police, at 7:27 p.m. that night, Maura’s car slammed into a tree on Wild Ammonoosuc Road in Woodsville, N.H.
Police were on the scene by 7:45 p.m. The responding officer wrote that “evidence at the scene indicated the vehicle had been eastbound and had gone off the roadway, struck some trees, spun around and come to rest facing the wrong way in the eastbound lane.”
Damage was visible to the driver’s side, front end, front passenger side, rear driver’s side and rear passenger side of the vehicle. The windshield had also been cracked. The vehicle was locked and Maura was nowhere in sight. A witness to the crash, a local bus driver, said the car had been driven by a young female who told him not to report the accident to the police. He did anyway.
