Twenty years ago this week, Maura Murray, a college student from Massachusetts, crashed her car in Haverhill, New Hampshire, and was never seen again.
The mystery surrounding her disappearance continues to be an obsession for cyber sleuths and podcasters. But for the Murray family, not knowing what happened to her is a decades-long source of heartbreak and frustration.
Murray was 21 when she crashed her 1996 Saturn on a sharp bend on Route 112. A school bus driver, Butch Atwood, called police.
"She said she was shaken up," Atwood said. "I couldn't see any blood on her face. She was shaking, I guess. I said, 'OK, I'm going to call police.'"
When police arrived, Murray was no longer at the scene of the crash. Atwood died in 2009.
"There are people out there that, they have no training, no background, no experience doing this type of investigation," private investigator Louis Black said. "And yet they think they do, and they bother people. They trespass on property."