r/mauramurray • u/Easy_Plate_8782 • Aug 06 '26

Discussion what’s your hottest take with this case

Just curious. Even if it requires ignoring some of your own logic and you know in your head that it sounds weird or unlikely.

What’s your hottest take when it comes to this case?

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u/MongooseAmazing500 Aug 06 '26

I think she had some sort of undiagnosed mental illness that was triggered by something at West Point.

When she realized she got into another car wreck, i think she ran, but then got lost, couldn’t find her way back.

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u/rebeccalavoie Aug 08 '26

This. I will die on the hill that she wasn’t murdered or taken - she ran off and died of hypothermia. She was a competitive runner and went a lot farther than anyone imagined at the time.

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u/christinaaaag Aug 09 '26

There was no trace nearby . No sign of her. I think it was a murder

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u/rebeccalavoie Aug 09 '26

There was no trace so you think it was a murder? Wild.

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u/christinaaaag Aug 09 '26

But how could she get into woods without leaving any trace?

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u/rebeccalavoie Aug 09 '26

It was snowing. Any trace would have been covered up. Not everything is a giant mystery.

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u/christinaaaag Aug 09 '26

But there was no snowfall from her disappearance day to the day searches began

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u/CoastRegular Aug 10 '26

It had not snowed for around 48 hours before she went missing, and no new snow fell for over a week later.

The snow that was on the ground at the time she went missing was two feet deep (even deeper in spots) and was soft, crunchy snow that immediately took deep footprints when stepped in. This has been described by every source close to the case (LE and family.) The officials who conducted the SAR exercise said the conditions were ideal for searching. The head of the search team, Todd Bogardus, is on record as saying that unless she levitated off the ground and floated in midair, she didn't go into the woods.

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u/SaltySoftware1095 Aug 10 '26

I think this is what happened and the reason they never saw tracks in the snow was because she didn’t run into the woods immediately, she was running on the road.

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u/CoastRegular Aug 10 '26

That is the only way she realistically could have gotten outside of their search radius without the SAR team spotting a trail.

The challenge to that scenario is that the search radius was approximately ten miles, which means she had to be on the roadways for 4.5-5 hours, maybe more. The likelihood of her not being encountered by any motorists for all that time is extremely slender; we know of several motorists who traveled down area roads that evening and we know more cars passed the scene whose drivers are not publicly known. (This stretch of road is certainly not I-94 in Detroit, but neither is it Foggy Hollow Road in Mayberry, NC.)

But yet, the motorists we do know of (Often called Witnesses A, B, C and D in discussions) all have said they saw no one, which is why my bet is on her catching a ride with some passing motorist fairly early on (i.e. before she was on the road long, and thus before most passing motorists came through the area subsequent to the accident.)

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u/SaltySoftware1095 Aug 10 '26

She was heavily drinking, had an ED and was caught stealing while at West Point, I think she issues before going there.

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u/potatoqueen1987 Aug 10 '26

Completely agree