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Was it really this simple? – Maura Murray

Lately I’ve been reading old articles on Maura Murray’s disappearance. I felt like I had reached a dead end in my search. I had theories but no facts to back them up with. Well this all changed tonight when I read an old interview someone had with Faith Westman. The person who interviewed Faith was called Angela Pitrone-Nason and the interview took place on January 8 2006, less than two years after Maura disappeared.

There were certain sections in the interview that really peaked my interest. If you would like to read the transcript of the interview, you can find it here:

https://mauramurray.createaforum.com/evidence/another-westman-interview/msg319/#msg319

What caught my attention was the comment made by Faith Westman, have a look:

“They never saw anyone else around that car besides that one person and never saw any other vehicles stop, prior to police arrival, other than a school bus.”

What this statement confirms is that there were no vehicles that passed in front of the Westman’s between the time Butch left the scene and Cecil arrived. The reason this statement is important to helping solve Maura Murray’s disappearance is that it limits the roads her abductor could have taken.

If no vehicles passed in front of the Westman’s then it only leaves two roads or options for her abductor. He either made a right turn from Bradly Hill Rd to 112 heading east and the other option is if a vehicle was heading west on 112 and makes a left turn on Bradly Hill Rd.

Here’s another interesting statement by Faith Westman in this interview:

“Both Tim and Faith Westman say they are positive that nobody walked by their house (back towards Route 10)…they said that they could see clearly out in front of their house and would have seen her go by…plus the officer came from that way and didn’t see her. (I was there when it turned dark and the light is fairly bright and the house is close to the road). They feel that she must have walked the other way.”

This means Maura Murray did not head west, but in fact headed east of the crash site. This is also supported by evidence when the search dog tracked her smell to approximately across the street from the Atwoods. We know that there was a 7-9 minute window between the time Butch left and Cecil arrived. We also now know that no vehicles where seen between the time Butch left and Cecil arrived. Now in my opinion this means her the abduction took place between 7:37 – 7:45.

So when we put all of this together, it shows that Maura headed east after the crash and her abductor either lives east of the accident site or was east of the accident site when the 911 call came in because the Westmans claim there were no vehicles to pass in front of their home between the time Butch left to the time Cecil arrived. Assuming Maura Murray was abducted, her abductor lived east of the crash site and was about a 10 minute drive from the crash site when the call came in at 7:27 PM.

Now if you take this into consideration and trace out the path 10 minutes from the crash scene and east of the crash scene, you get this. When I saw this I was shocked because this is where Rick Forcier claimed he saw Maura Murray the night she disappeared…..

~Acdetective~