David Blake

B.o.l.o.: Be on the Look out David Blake

On Monday, February 9th 2004, Maura Murray, a student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst just starting the second semester of her junior year, went missing. At 7:29 that evening, police in the tiny northern hamlet of Haverhill, New Hampshire just a few miles from the Vermont border received a report of a single-car accident that had just occurred at a sharp curve on Route 112. Minutes later, a man returning to his nearby home happened upon the scene and spoke briefly with the woman driver whom he later identified as Maura. She declined his assistance, and he phoned in a second report of the crash at 7:43. By the time the first officer arrived at the accident site at 7:46, the woman driver had vanished without a trace. Maura Murray has never been seen since. While very little is known about her activities during the weeks and months leading up to her mysterious disappearance, absolutely nothing is certain about what happened to her after the accident. B. O. L. O. fills in the blanks, staying mainly within the boundaries of case facts to weave a tale of how Maura came to be in northern New Hampshire on that cold February night. And it suggests three scenarios for what happened next ? sad, hopeful, and chilling.   Thirty-six hours after the car crash was first reported to authorities, a Be On the Look Out bulletin for the missing young woman was issued by Haverhill police to neighboring communities.   It has never been rescinded.