Retired UMass Cop Robert Chip Thrasher Follows Maura Murray Case

As Thrasher might say, hhhhhhmmmmm.

Advice from UMass-Amherst Police Department

Apparently, Lt. Thrasher (ret.), as supported by this article in the UMass Daily Collegian, has an abiding interest in the Maura Murray disappearance. Seems like he would make a good source for someone covering the story. Brian Davies, too.

After all, both Thrasher and Davies would know about the Corolla crash. Both would presumably know 1) the cadet who was supposedly at the Corolla crash, 2) that Maura was headed back to the Hadley motel as originally planned (as apparently stated in a TV interview with Maura's father), 3) and that the Corolla was inspected for its potential connection to the Vasi hit. Also, that, according to a motel employee, no detective had ever gone to the Hadley motel to verify that Maura had in fact stayed there, although she was apparently overheard throwing up in the bathroom off the motel lobby.

And I can conclude only that any cop as familiar with the Murray disappearance as were Thrasher and Davies also knew about the vandalism to my backyard. (I had told Skinner about it to his face.) But no cop ever bothered to say a single word about it, let alone regard it as a possibly important lead.

So if they knew all these things, then it seems like they would make good sources of both true information and plain, old misinformation for anyone with eager ears and a keyboard.

So, what they did not look into, which seems to amount to quite a few things, might indicate what they actually did take an interest in.


I wonder how they felt about my asking Officer Skinner a few questions in 2008, questions about where the Saturn may have actually been parked on a Thursday night in February 2004, four and a half years earlier. I wonder who, above rank in Skinner, approved the no-trespass order, and why. Because Skinner sure was clueless when he served it.

Although I'm not really clear what Thrasher meant when he said "believe in the author James Renner," I do wonder whether Thrasher ever followed Renner's You Tube channel and saw these comments among the roughly 3400 other comments posted over the course of several years, all under one video (Happy Anniversary).

Which makes me wonder whether every cop (and their many private-sector/non-profit associates) in Franklin and Hampshire counties knew all about these comments - for years.

Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan's office (NWDAO) has never had a problem with the comments, for several years, nor with who actually wrote them, which certainly helps confirm their real source. (Stupid me, all this time I thought NWDAO was very pro-active in the anti-bullying department. Apparently, they make some exceptions, as was partly explained by NWDAO spokesperson Mary E. Carey.)