POLICE have announced a major update in the case of a 21-year-old student who went missing in 2004.
University of Massachusetts-Amherst student Maura Murray vanished after her car skidded on a snowy road in Haverhill, New Hampshire and has not been seen since.
State prosecutors and police have now announced they have returned to two New Hampshire towns – Landaff and Easton – to undertake "a more extensive search surrounding areas that had been previously searched in a more limited fashion".
"We've had no clues, we've had no answers, so any little clue would help us," Maura's sister, Julie Murray, told NBC10 Boston Wednesday.
In 2019, investigators searched a house and dug up a basement in Haverhill. They had previously searched the dwelling, but had not searched inside.
The search was prompted by local dogs and a radar scan, which seemed to indicate that the ground had been moved.
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The search did not bring any further clues as to what might have happened to Maura.
On the day she vanished, the nursing student is said to have emailed one of her professors to tell them that she wasn't able to go to class as she need to go home due to a family bereavement.
This turned out to be a lie.
Maura crashed her car into trees and a snowbank 140 miles away from her university, on Route 112, which leads to the White Mountain National Forest.
After the accident at 07:30pm, a local couple called the police, while a school bus driver asked if she wanted him to ring the police. Maura refused, and told him she had already called AAA. The driver called the police anyway.
But by the time officers appeared, Maura was nowhere to be seen: he car's doors were locked and the vehicle was facing in the opposite direction than what she was driving.
All her possessions were in the car, bar her wallet.
Since that day, there has never been any credible sightings of Maura and her missing persons case is one of the most mysterious in New Hampshire.
Her dad Fred, as well as some investigators, believe Maura wanted to get away for a few days.
The young woman had recently resolved an issue with a stolen credit card and had caused damage to Fred’s car during a previous crash.
And just four days before her disappearance, she received a mysterious phone call while she was working in her university's security department.
The call left her in tears, and her supervisor had to walk her home as she was too upset to do her job.
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Theories about what happened to Maura range from her being kidnapped and murdered to her fleeing and starting a new life in Canada.
Fred is certain Maura has fallen the victim of someone wanting to cause her harm.
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Maura's dad told the Associated Press on the 10th anniversary of the student's disappearance: "There's no letting go. My daughter wouldn't want me to quit on her. She'd want me to keep trying to find out who grabbed her.
"She was out there helpless. Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. No one to ask for help. I think some local dirt bag grabbed her."
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