News & Developments
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From NBC 10 Boston, the NHSP in conjunction with the FBI have released an aged-progressed image of what they believe Maura Murray may look like at 41. Read the official press release here.
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From CBS News, Maura Murray’s sister, Julie Murray, launched a podcast titled Media Pressure Season 1: The Untold Story of Maura Murray. The show tells the story of Maura’s disappearance through the voices of those who knew her best. You can listen to Media Pressure here.
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From The Nashua Telegraph, families of some of the 130 unsolved cases in NH, including the family of Maura Murray, gathered outside the Attorney General’s office in New Hampshire to push for more action on unsolved cases.
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From WMUR, the family of Maura Murray awarded a senior at Whitman-Hanson High School in Massachusetts with the first ever scholarship in Maura’s honor.
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From the New Hampshire Union Leader, billboards near Stoneham, MA and Methuen, MA were erected in hopes of raising awareness about Maura Murray ahead of the 19th anniversary of her disappearance.
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From Western Mass News, the New Hampshire State Police, with the assistance of the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department conducted a ground-search of an area located off Route 112 in the towns of Landaff and Easton, New Hampshire, in connection with the investigation into the disappearance of Maura Murray. Read the official press release here.
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From Boston.com, the FBI has issued a nationwide alert adding Maura Murray to ViCAP, the bureau’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program. ViCAP focuses on crimes such as serial killings, sexual assaults, missing persons, and unidentified human remains. The purpose is to facilitate cooperation and communication between law enforcement agencies across the country. See the official FBI poster and alert here.
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From the Patriot Ledger, human bones uncovered on Loon Mountain in Lincoln, NH during a construction project in September of 2021 were confirmed not to belong to Maura Murray.
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From WMUR, homeowners near the site of where Maura Murray disappeared allowed the NH State Police and FBI to search their basement, however no evidence was uncovered as a result of their effort.
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From Oxygen.com, a six part documentary series featuring the investigation into the disappearance of Maura Murray and produced by Texas Crew Productions aired over the course of six weeks in the fall of 2017 on the Oxygen Network. Find and watch the series here.
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From Boston Magazine, this piece by Billy Jensen, published just before the 10th anniversary of Maura’s disappearance, highlights the role of the internet and online sleuths in the search for Maura Murray.
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From SOCO Magazine, this piece by Kerry Miller appeared in a 2011 issue of SOCO Magazine and details some past reporting by Maribeth Conway, as well as work being done by Terrence O’Connell. The piece also features an interview with a witness, Susan Champy.
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From the Whitman-Hanson Express, This 5-part series written by Maribeth Conway and Josh Cutler appeared in the Whitman-Hanson Express in 2007. This thoroughly researched piece utilized primary sources an interviews with witnesses in the case.
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From the Boston Globe, Fred Murray, who has been highly critical of law enforcement’s investigation into the disappearance of his daughter, sued Governor Lynch, Attorney General Kelly Ayotte, the state police, and other law-enforcement agencies seeking the release of information tied to the investigation. [For more information about this case, see the Records section of this site.]
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This investigative piece by Vanessa Grigoriadis was published in the July 2004 issue of Seventeen Magazine and features quotes by Maura’s friend, Kate Markopolous.
Collections/Archives
This is a link to a selection of articles that appeared in The Boston Globe in 2004.
This is a link to a composite of all articles to feature the disappearance of Maura Murray in The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, the student run newspaper at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst.
This is a link to a composite of articles from 2004 that appeared in The Caledonian-Record, which is a daily newspaper published in St. Johnsbury, VT. The majority of the pieces are written by Gary E. Lindsley, who was one of the few journalists covering Maura’s disappearance in 2004 that used primary sources and obtained direct quotes from witnesses in his reporting.