Maura’s Last Drive

0:00 Speaker 1: True crime story The disappearance of Mara Murray February ninth,

0:05 Speaker 1: two thousand and four, Haveril, New Hampshire, A quiet winter road,

0:09 Speaker 1: a crashed car, a missing college student, and a mystery

0:13 Speaker 1: that has haunted investigators for more than two decades. Twenty

0:17 Speaker 1: one year old Mara Murray was a bright nursing student

0:20 Speaker 1: at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She was described by

0:24 Speaker 1: friends and family as hard working, caring, and someone with

0:28 Speaker 1: a promising future ahead of her. But in the days

0:31 Speaker 1: leading up to her disappearance, something changed. On February ninth,

0:36 Speaker 1: Maura suddenly emailed her professors and told them she would

0:39 Speaker 1: be away from school for a week because of a

0:41 Speaker 1: family emergency. She packed her belongings withdrew money from her

0:45 Speaker 1: bank account, and loaded her car with clothes, food, and

0:50 Speaker 1: personal items. No one knew where she was going. Later

0:54 Speaker 1: that evening, Mara was driving through the remote roads of

0:57 Speaker 1: New Hampshire when her car crashed into a snowbank on

1:00 Speaker 1: Route one twelve. A nearby residence saw the accident and

1:03 Speaker 1: called police. When a witness approached the vehicle, Mara was

1:07 Speaker 1: standing outside. She appeared shaken, but said she had already

1:11 Speaker 1: contacted Triple A for help. The witness went inside to

1:14 Speaker 1: call authorities, but just minutes later, Mora was gone. When

1:18 Speaker 1: police arrived at the scene, they found her damaged saturn.

1:22 Speaker 1: The air bags had deployed, her belongings were still inside,

1:26 Speaker 1: her phone was missing, her credit cards were left behind,

1:30 Speaker 1: but Mora herself had vanished into the freezing night. Search

1:34 Speaker 1: teams immediately began looking through the surrounding woods. Dogs were

1:38 Speaker 1: brought in. Volunteers searched miles of wilderness. Nothing no footprints,

1:45 Speaker 1: no confirmed sightings, no explanation. The most disturbing part was

1:49 Speaker 1: that the crash happened in an area where people rarely

1:52 Speaker 1: passed by. Whoever saw Mora after the accident may have

1:56 Speaker 1: been the last person to ever see her alive. Investigators

1:59 Speaker 1: on and covered strange details about the days before she disappeared.

2:04 Speaker 1: Mora had recently experienced personal struggles, including a car accident

2:08 Speaker 1: involving her father's vehicle and issues at her university. Her

2:12 Speaker 1: father believed she may have been overwhelmed and needed time away.

2:16 Speaker 1: But where was she going and why didn't she tell anyone.

2:20 Speaker 1: Over the year's countless theories emerged. Some believe Maura ran

2:24 Speaker 1: away and started a new life. Others believe she accepted

2:27 Speaker 1: help from someone after the crash, and something terrible happened afterward.

2:31 Speaker 1: Some investigators have questioned whether foul play was involved. Her

2:36 Speaker 1: family has spent years searching for answers, refusing to believe

2:40 Speaker 1: that Mora simply disappeared without a trace. More than twenty

2:44 Speaker 1: years later, the case remains one of America's most mysterious

2:48 Speaker 1: missing person investigations. A young woman drove into the mountains,

2:52 Speaker 1: crashed her car, and disappeared into the darkness, and the

2:56 Speaker 1: biggest question remains what happened to Maura Murry three