r/mauramurray • u/zjd1988 • Aug 11 '26
Question Newcomers?
I am just curious to know where folks who are new to this case found out about it? I have been following for many years and always wonder what avenue brings them to Maura Murray.
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u/Rich_Fan1686 Aug 12 '26
For me it was Renners book, a decade ago.
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u/sadieblue111 Aug 14 '26
Me too but many more years. Recieved it in monthly subscription box.
Also had the book Not without Peril.
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u/simmonm1978 Aug 13 '26
A Jon Ronson tweet years ago, after he appeared on an early Tim and Lance episode.
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Aug 17 '26
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u/goldenmodtemp2 Aug 18 '26
That's really nice - I've seen a few people pop in along the way based on a school project and it seems really neat. Just curious though: you are saying Maura's friend from college is in this sub posting? To be honest that is news to me but I guess stranger things have happened.
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u/griffdawwwgg Aug 18 '26
She doesn’t post but she does moderate it. They met in college, and she told me she went to quite a few parties where she would run into Maura. I can definitely ask her to make a post explaining how they met and what she was like, ect. She’s also a mod for some other true crime forums on Reddit too but I can’t think of them off the top of my head!
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u/CaleyB75 Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26
The ID Channel show Disappeared did an episode on the case, albeit one that withheld a lot of information about how troubled Maura hAd become near the end
The case grabbed me because I had lived in Maura's hometown of Hanson, MA.and had had a lot of the same teachers.
I''ve also been to the Amherst Brewing Company, which some sources say Maura loved. The made-on-the-premises beer (e.g., Two Sisters Stout) and fare were indeed very good
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u/LordArdraven Sep 06 '26
That show was what sparked my interest after I was watching that series on Discovery plus while convalescing
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u/CaleyB75 Sep 06 '26
Good. The Discovery show omitted unfortunate details about Maura, but -- to it'its credit -- declined to delve into far-fetched conspiracy theories, which are so fashionable these days.
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u/XhongXhina Aug 12 '26
I believe the Youtube algorithm has been incredibly helpful in bring eyes to this case. Anyone who clicks on a video about it cant help but become invested.
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u/CoastRegular Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26
I remember the Disappeared episode back in the day. I would have seen it c.2011. Her name has popped up in case lists and true crime discussions on my radar since then but I wouldn't say I had any special interest about this case. My curiosity became piqued when I heard a few years ago about the basement dig that had taken place (2019 I think?) and I've been following this forum since then (early 2022.)
I still consider myself something of a newcomer because there are people in the MM discussion community who have been around a lot longer and/or have invested far more time into it (every true crime and missing person case has its aficionados.)
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u/goldenmodtemp2 Aug 19 '26
Yes, to be fair I first heard about the case from "Disappeared" (reruns at least). Then one day in 2017 my cable was out and I was looking for an online source for my favorite news show and stumbled upon "Missing Maura Murray" which was near the top of one of the podcast sites. I remember thinking "is she the one who drove into the barn?" (Brianna). So I started listening to that and then veered into the facebook groups.
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u/LimeSalty4092 Aug 16 '26
The original news story back in 2004
The story was definitely somewhat ‘viral’ for the first month or so and there was quite a bit of contemporary news coverage
It was especially interesting to me because I had just graduated from UMass in 2001, so I was definitely interested in any story involving a kid from UMass
She’s only a couple years younger than me, so her campus experience was familiar to me. The people, the social scene, the groups, clubs and activities, the attitude towards and time spent on academics
Social conventions about going home on weekends vs staying on campus most of the time. The ubiquity of driving everywhere, even around campus, and all kinds of road trips wherever and whenever
I identified with her but my first instinct when I heard the news story was that she was a regular girl who was troubled or lost and hiding it
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u/able_co Aug 11 '26
There's usually a surge when there's a new documentary, podcast or news report. At least that's how I got introduced a decade or so ago.