According to a very highly placed source within the UMass administration, there is no indication, despite an exhaustive records search, that Maura Murray worked past midnight on the night of Thursday, 05 February 2004.
Perhaps Maura did in fact work beyond midnight, as some have claimed, but there seems to be, at least at present, no indication of this in UMass records.
So far as I can find, the only written statement about security desk hours is contained in Clery Act Security Reports, which indicate that dorm security ended at midnight on Thursdays.
According to a blog post by James Renner, Maura was on her cell phone, talking with her boyfriend a few minutes after midnight, from approximately 12:07 am to 12:14 am. The time of this call is, it would seem, consistent with Maura’s having clocked out of work at midnight.
But if Maura had been allowed by a supervisor to leave work briefly, and if she had struck Vasi while on that break, then UMass would be financially liable. For a real lot of money. Not to mention how much trouble the supervisor would have been in.
So if Maura struck Vasi, a whole lot rides on whether or not she was on the clock.
Maura's actual shift Thursday night is just one example of the many little things that the so-called "hive mind," and every single so-called citizen detective, has overlooked.
