Maura’s Last Drive

0:00 True crime story The disappearance of Mara Murray February ninth, two thousand and four, Haveril, New Hampshire, A quiet winter road, a crashed car, a missing college student, and a mystery that has haunted investigators for more than two decades. Twenty one year old Mara Murray was a bright nursing student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She was described by friends and family as hard working, caring, and someone with a promising future ahead of her. But in the days leading up to her disappearance, something changed.

0:34 On February ninth, Maura suddenly emailed her professors and told them she would be away from school for a week because of a family emergency. She packed her belongings withdrew money from her bank account, and loaded her car with clothes, food, and personal items. No one knew where she was going. Later that evening, Mara was driving through the remote roads of New Hampshire when her car crashed into a snowbank on Route one twelve. A nearby residence saw the accident and called police. When a witness approached the vehicle, Mara was standing outside.

1:08 She appeared shaken, but said she had already contacted Triple A for help. The witness went inside to call authorities, but just minutes later, Mora was gone. When police arrived at the scene, they found her damaged saturn. The air bags had deployed, her belongings were still inside, her phone was missing, her credit cards were left behind, but Mora herself had vanished into the freezing night. Search teams immediately began looking through the surrounding woods. Dogs were brought in. Volunteers searched miles of wilderness.

1:42 Nothing no footprints, no confirmed sightings, no explanation. The most disturbing part was that the crash happened in an area where people rarely passed by. Whoever saw Mora after the accident may have been the last person to ever see her alive. Investigators on and covered strange details about the days before she disappeared. Mora had recently experienced personal struggles, including a car accident involving her father's vehicle and issues at her university. Her father believed she may have been overwhelmed and needed time away.

2:16 But where was she going and why didn't she tell anyone. Over the year's countless theories emerged. Some believe Maura ran away and started a new life. Others believe she accepted help from someone after the crash, and something terrible happened afterward. Some investigators have questioned whether foul play was involved. Her family has spent years searching for answers, refusing to believe that Mora simply disappeared without a trace. More than twenty years later, the case remains one of America's most mysterious missing person investigations.

2:50 A young woman drove into the mountains, crashed her car, and disappeared into the darkness, and the biggest question remains what happened to Maura Murry three