But Their Hands Are Tied

The result of any possible agreement between the New Hampshire Attorney General's office and Amherst-area police in Massachusetts is that Amherst must stay quiet about the Vasi hit because they “can’t” interfere with the NH “investigation” of a missing person - a person who is more likely a suspect in an Amherst case, a case that NH cannot investigate, than she is a victim of a NH crime.

Amherst, by happily deferring to NH in what may amount to a phantom NH case, has conveniently tied its own hands for its own benefit. As long as Maura Murray’s disappearance remains an active and unsolved NH investigation, then the Vasi case will likewise remain unsolved.

And if Amherst police are not even acknowledging that the Vasi hit is an investigation of any kind, open or closed, then they are obviously not even slightly interested in any new information that, with no effort on their part, might come their way.

For example, say John Doe asks Amherst PD whether the Vasi case is still an on-going investigation. Wouldn't it be normal for detectives to get back to him and ask him whether he has anything he wants to say about the hit?

If detectives were even slightly interested in new information about the Vasi hit, they would get back to the person, just to ask whether they knew anything that might be useful. But they don't. Which tells me that they already have one person in mind and don't need to hear anything else about it.

And if the Vasi hit is a closed investigation, then they could, as they always do, just say it's closed. But they don't do that.

A law enforcement Mobius strip if ever I've seen one.

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UPDATE: It's now the middle of March 2019. Fourteen months ago, I sent Chief Scott Livingstone at Amherst Police Department a letter (certified mail with return receipt) asking whether the Vasi case was open or closed. No one from Amherst PD has replied. It seems very unlikely that they are interested in any new information about the Vasi hit. But the records they supplied to Renner show a very active investigation right up to about an hour before Maura Murray disappeared.