Did a Cop Help Maura Murray Disappear?

I have discussed this at length elsewhere in this blog. However, I think I need to repeat some of it here in order to better argue that an Amherst-area cop was involved in both the Vasi hit and Maura Murray’s subsequent disappearance. It’s not an air-tight argument, but I think it’s worth considering.

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Without identifying the Saturn’s ownership or history in any way, I showed five or six autobody repairmen, separately on the same summer day in 2008, a photo of the front of Fred Murray’s Saturn. I asked them how they thought the damage to the hood, especially its front left corner, had happened. BSG was one of the autobody repairmen.

1) BSG said he immediately recognized the Saturn – by its damage.

2) BSG, like all the other repairmen, said he thought the Saturn’s damage near the front left of the hood was the result of its having contacted an overhanging object. 

3) BSG, unlike any of the other repairmen, said the Corolla had been closely inspected by police.

I posted on Topix: 

1) All of the repairmen agreed that the Saturn’s damage was the result of its having contacted an overhanging object.

2) One of the repairmen (I didn't say it was BSG) told me police had closely examined the Corolla.

A few hours later, after dark, someone started to vandalize my backyard.

Even if speaking only statistically, there is no way around this: the vandalism was a direct result of my post on Topix. It was not a hungry bear, a malicious teenager, or an act of God - none of which had ever visited my neighborhood in the twenty-one years I lived there.

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Again, I never described to BSG the ownership or history of the Saturn in any way. Yet BSG transitioned seamlessly from his observation of the Saturn’s damage to his remark about Fred Murray’s Corolla without a single word or prompt from me. BSG had, therefore, referred to Fred Murray’s Saturn (not some other Saturn), something I never posted on Topix.

Because BSG had recognized the Saturn, by its damage, he therefore knew the Saturn was damaged before it left Amherst for New Hampshire.

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However, there was no reason for the ordinary Topix reader to infer - from the limited information I had posted - that BSG saw and recognized the exact Saturn registered to Maura Murray’s father. 

Only a Topix reader with first-hand knowledge of the Corolla’s examination would have been in a position to correctly infer the larger picture: that I had discovered someone (BSG) who knew that the Saturn was damaged before it left Amherst. 

Even more alarming, BSG had, for all the vandal knew, likely conveyed – intentionally or not - this very same information to me, a frequent Topix poster. Hence the vandal’s immediate need to warn me against saying anything more about the Saturn’s damage.

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Since the vandal could be only someone with inside knowledge of the Corolla’s inspection, he could be, realistically, only one of three people: 1) BSG, 2) someone else at BSG’s shop, or 3) a cop.

BSG knew nothing about me. He did not know who I was or where I lived. He could not have been the vandal.

It’s extremely unlikely that someone else at BSG’s shop would:

1) follow the Maura Murray case on Topix four and a half years after her disappearance;

2) know that “Beagle” had posted his own real name and address on Topix some weeks or months prior;

3) be somehow involved with the Saturn’s damage before it left Amherst;

4) have something to hide;

5) risk drawing the attention of police.


That leaves only a cop.

Only a cop would 

1) have first-hand knowledge of the Corolla’s examination;

2) be in a position, like BSG, to know that the Saturn was damaged before it left Amherst;

3) have regularly watched the Topix discussion about Maura Murray;

4) know my name and address;

5) not worry about drawing the attention of police.

The only reason that someone, anyone, would vandalize my backyard a few hours after I commented on Topix would be to suppress public revelation that the Saturn was damaged before it left Massachusetts. This kind of action is taken only by someone who has something to hide. There is no other explanation for the vandalism. 

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My conclusions so far:

1) The Saturn's damage occurred before it left Amherst.

2) My backyard was vandalized in order to keep secret the fact that the Saturn was damaged before it left Amherst.

3) The only reason to keep the origin of the Saturn's damage secret is that the car hit Vasi.

4) The vandal was a cop.

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I think there's an excellent chance this cop, or someone close to him, helped Maura Murray disappear.