Kate Markopoulos is the Key to This Mystery
Sometimes we don't see the forest for the trees...I got to thinking about the phone calls Billy Rausch and Maura Murray were making the day that Maura disappeared.Billy is trying to get Maura on the...
View ArticleSo What is True Crime Addict About, Anyway?
With three weeks to go before its release, more early reviews are popping up in magazines and on Goodreads. The book contains some answers and some new clues not yet discussed on this blog, as well as...
View ArticleWin a Free Copy of True Crime Addict
Goodreads is giving away five free copies of True Crime Addict right now. You can enter to win here.Good luck!
View ArticleThe Top 10 Unsolvable Unsolved Disappearances
Head on over to Boing Boing for my new crime article,"10 Unsolvable Unsolved Disappearances." Guess who's #1? Here's a snippet:As a true crime journalist who searches for the missing, I am keenly aware...
View ArticleMaura's Case Featured on The Night Time Podcast
The latest episode of The Night Time Podcast, a really spooky show out of Nova Scotia, features the Maura Murray case. I'm on for the first half.Check it out here.
View ArticleLance & Tim Speak to the AG in new Podcast
The latest episode of the Missing Maura Murray podcast just went live. According to Lance & Tim, this is the first episode of "season 3" and a new turn in their investigation as they begin to go...
View ArticleTrue Crime Garage Delves into the Maura Murray Mystery
Looking for a new podcast to binge on? Check out True Crime Garage, where Nic and The Captain crack open a cold one and discuss today's most frustrating unsolved mysteries.This week is the first part...
View ArticleUMass Athletes Had Access to Cabin in the White Mountains
It has been a long time since anything in the way of a new clue has surfaced in Maura Murray's disappearance. But today, a Redditor known as AncientExplorer1989 discovered an interesting connection...
View ArticleBREAKING: The Cabin in the Woods
Yesterday, we learned of the existence of a cabin in the White Mountains, owned by the UMass Outing Club and wondered whether this was Maura's ultimate destination the night she vanished in Haverhill,...
View ArticleTrue Crime Garage: Maura Murray Part 2
The True Crime Garage podcast continues this week, with Part 2 of their discussion on the Maura Murray case. Some really fantastic ideas are bandied about this week. A must listen.
View ArticleKate Markopoulos, the Week of the Disappearance
I've always believed Maura's friend, Kate Markopoulos, knows some important pieces of this mystery. She's never been completing honest with me - she claimed she didn't know that Maura and Hoss were...
View ArticleNew Podcast Episode Explores Criminology and the UMass Cabin
Fascinating new episode of the Missing Maura Maura podcast, this week. Lance & Tim talk to Professor David Wilson and Elizabeth Yardley of Birmingham City University, in England, criminologists who...
View ArticleMaura's Hometown Paper Covers True Crime Addict
Today's Whitman-Hanson Express has a lengthy article about True Crime Addict."At the time Murray vanished on Feb. 9, 2004, Renner was a reporter for alternative weeklies in northeastern Ohio. By 2009,...
View ArticleComments Policy
Now might be a good time to explain the comments policy again.Because of the number of spam and trollish comments, and because of the sensitive nature of the case, I have to approve every single...
View ArticleHoss: "Maura felt she couldn't get away from Bill Rausch"
A little recap: Last week, we learned about a cabin owned by the Outing Club at UMass, which could have been Maura Murray's destination the night she disappeared. The cabin was known to family and...
View ArticleWomen Claim Bill Rausch Assaulted Female Coworker in 2011
True Crime Addict is out, today. It is the definitive book on the Maura Murray case and includes several new clues and insights into the 12 year old cold case. It ends with an epilogue in which we...
View ArticleTrue Crime Garage Completes Their Coverage of Maura Murray's Disappearance
Check out the final chapter in True Crime Garage's coverage of the Maura Murray mystery. I'm on this one and we talk about EVERYTHING!
View ArticleThe State of the Case
Two months to go before True Crime Addict is released! The traffic to this blog is picking up every day, and there are a lot of new readers. I feel the need at this time to address a couple concerns...
View ArticleBook Tour!
I have a couple events coming up in Massachusetts and I'd like to finally meet you in person, after all these years.The first official public reading for True Crime Addict will be at Trident...
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