I just don't know what to make of this. A little background - Erinn Larkin is a woman who went to UMass with Maura Murray. She worked the same security job as Maura Murray. And she ran track with Maura. Her "Big Sister" was Maura's best friend - Kate Markopoulos. After the publication of my book, Erinn inserted herself into the investigation. She created a blog, whose sole purpose was to discredit my reporting. She ingratiated herself with the Murray family and the admin of the official site, giving her access to information that filters in.
After I reported that Bill Rausch was under investigation by a Grand Jury in DC, she took aim at me again, claiming I was lying and that the women he attacked were exaggerating. She posted my unlisted home address online, with a map to my house. Her obsession with me became so alarming, I filed a criminal complaint in my home town. Eventually I took down my blog just to have some peace. After Bill was indicted for felony sex abuse last month, she kept the false information on her blog.
Her blog makes every effort to direct the narrative of the investigation, going so far as to defame a man - allowing a guest on her podcast to literally accuse an innocent man of murdering Maura and using his name.
I've been confused by her actions for months and have had this inkling that I was missing or forgetting an important piece of it. So I went back to our first email exchanges. I found this email from Erinn in which she says she was at Bretton Woods skiing with her family and returned on Monday evening and may have driven past Maura's accident.
Quote:
"I had been skiing in Bretton Woods the weekend before with my family and they were still there. And I had decided to come back for practice and for classes and I drove back the opposite route she had taken on that Sunday night and the next morning was really the first official day of Spring track that Monday and it was a morning practice and it was absolutely freezing and really awful not very fun at all and I got injured and it was actually an injury I got the day before skiing but it got a lot worse that day and it ended up that I was done running competitively in college after that."
It is absolutely clear that Erinn Larkin got caught in a lie here. But the important question is what was that lie's purpose? Was it to ingratiate herself with me or with Tim and Lance? Or was it to distance herself from whatever the truth really is? And let me be clear, I have no clue what the real truth is. I am in the weeds with this one. What is clear is that Erinn Larkin has no credibility now and her cozy relationship with the Murrays in light of this is very troublesome.
I would imagine she will try to explain this away as a faulty memory but she was VERY specific in both the email to me in which she says she was driving along Rt 112 at the time of Maura's accident, and the interview with Tim and Lance, in which she has changed it to Sunday - because she reminisces about the cold weather and the first day of practice. One or both of these must be a deliberate lie.
Making matters worse for Erinn, she probably can't even appear at Rausch's hearings to report on the case when he returns to court in DC. She's been dodging a summons to appear in DC Superior Court, herself - for failure to pay $1,800 to Victoria Secret. If she shows up in court, she could be served.
So, as always, this damned case is a bit of a clusterfuck. In closing, here are few posts in which she claims that the Grand Jury was a lie.
