Family hopes highway billboards finally lead to answers in NH cold case

HAVERHILL, N.H. (WCAX/WGGB/WSHM) – Thursday marked 19 years since a younger lady went lacking in New Hampshire below mysterious circumstances. Now, her household hopes new freeway billboards will lastly result in some solutions.

Maura Murray, a nursing pupil in Massachusetts, disappeared after crashing her automotive in North Haverhill, New Hampshire, in 2004. Through the years, police investigated a number of leads, however all have turned up empty.

Now, Murray’s household hopes freeway billboards will assist encourage somebody to return ahead.

“It’s been a marathon that we didn’t join or prepare for. It’s been a protracted journey, however on the identical time, it feels identical to yesterday it occurred,” stated Julie Murray, Maura’s sister.

It’s been a protracted 19 years for Murray’s household, together with Julie. Nonetheless, she instructed our sister station, Western Mass Information, that she hopes that is the 12 months her household will get solutions.

“You possibly can by no means lose sight of that and you’ll by no means lose hope as a result of that’s the one factor that fuels us and allowed us to proceed for nearly 20 years now,” she stated.

She hopes her new marketing campaign will assist. Freeway billboards are actually up in Massachusetts with Maura’s picture and knowledge on who to contact with clues.

“The primary is to hopefully jog somebody’s reminiscence. The second is to reinvigorate folks. Crucial aim of the marketing campaign is to proceed to boost consciousness that Maura Murray continues to be lacking,” Julie Murray stated.

On the night time of the nineteenth anniversary of Maura’s disappearance, the Murray household is holding a candlelight vigil, each in-person and nearly.

“We’re additionally encouraging individuals who can’t make it up right here to do a digital vigil by lighting a candle at 7:30 p.m., Jap Customary Time,” Julie Murray defined.

If you happen to’d wish to take part within the vigil, put up a photograph of you lighting a candle at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and caption the picture with #mauramurray and #engagewithempathy.

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