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After 3 Years of Stalling, Victim in Bill Rausch Sex Assault May Finally Get Her Day in Court
Billy Rausch, Maura Murray’s boyfriend at the time of her disappearance, was indicted by a grand jury in D.C. in April, 2019 for felony sex abuse. The alleged attack occurred in the office of the President of Ray Group International, in 2011. Due to Covid and the machinations of his attorney, Billy has managed to…
White supremacists and Maura Murray advocates utilize new Twitter policy to attack journalists.
Last week, Twitter changed its policy regarding the use of private images on its site. Immediately, I was inundated with reports on tweets that linked to articles I’d written on Bill Rausch and Erinn Larkin. The intention of Twitter’s policy was to limit harassment online. However, this group is using it to scrub the net…
Who Was Maura Communicating with via AOL?
In August, Julie Murray released some new information just before the finding of the remains in New Hampshire that I think kind of got lost in all the reporting – and it may be important, in light of what I learned at CrimeCon UK. According to Julie, she recently met with New Hampshire police, who…
Ten Things We’ve Learned in the Maura Murray Case Since Her Disappearance
10. Maura had an affair with a track coach at UMass, who claims she talked about running away. 9. Bill Rausch’s mistress won a restraining order against him, after he stalked her, but not until after his lawyer had her watch their sex tape on the stand. 8. At the time of her disappearance, Maura…
Bones found at Loon Mountain were likely there for less than 20 years, says employee.
Last week I received an anonymous tip that human remains were found during construction of a new gondola at Loon Mountain Ski Resort, in Lincoln, New Hampshire, in late August. I was able to verify this information by speaking with a spokesman for Loon Mountain yesterday. Hours after I first reported on Twitter, the New…
My Interview with “Maura Murray.”
On Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 4:43 p.m., I received the following message from the email fsm.sb@protonmail.com: Dear James, I’ve written to you a few times, you have never responded. I have told you I found Maura some years ago (no longer her name), after making sure it was her, we talked for a while,…
Collision Report May Support Hit-And-Run Theory
Some time ago, a man named Daniel Parkka was given access to Maura Murray’s car and the data from the Saturn’s computer. Parkka is an expert in accident reconstruction. His findings were presented to the Murray family in a Collision Report. A copy of that report that was given to Erinn Larkin leaked online last…
Request for Information – How to Send Anonymously
There are still a couple important unknowns in Maura Murray’s cold case. Who was at the Saturday night party she attended? Was Maura involved in the Vasi hit-and-run? Where was Bill Rausch during the search, when his cell phone was off? If you have info related to these or other questions but are fearful of…
Petrit Vasi, Revisited
In light of the new strangeness regarding the possibility that Maura Murray called Billy Rausch using a calling card two days after she disappeared, I’m reviewing some long-held assumptions. From the very beginning, there was a rumor that the reason Maura Murray had to do something about her car so quickly – and a motive…