The Disappearance of Maura Murray

Bones found at Loon Mountain were likely there for less than 20 years, says employee.

Posted on by jamesrenner

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 Hampshire State Police confirmed the find in a press release.

Today, I spoke to an employee of Loon Mountain who was on the scene when the first bone was found on a Friday. An excavator was digging a long ditch for cables that would power the new gondola when the dig kicked up a piece of bone, which turned out to be part of a human skull.

“It was awful,” says the employee, who wishes to remain unnamed. “We were told to put it in a towel and then it was brought down and given to police.”

On Monday, they returned to the dig site, this time to put up a boundary around the ditch. They started to look around the site, again, and found another piece of bone, which was bagged and given to police. The following day, says the employee, members of the Forestry Service and a couple people who appeared to be academics returned to the ditch and began sifting through the dirt. This time they discovered human hair and a vertebrae. “The hair was lightish brown,” the employee says. “But it was hard to tell.”

The workers on site were familiar with the disappearance of Maura Murray and wondered if it might be her. “We were told, because of the hair, the person died less than about twenty years ago.”

Police continue to investigate.

25 thoughts on “Bones found at Loon Mountain were likely there for less than 20 years, says employee.”

  1. Wowza…..could this be her..?

    If it is Maura, or whoever it is will make it easier to nail down a suspect bc of the location and the hope that they will be able to figure out how the remains arrived at this location.

    1. My question is, why would they think bones found 25 miles from where she disappeared would be her??

      1. 25 miles is not that far if she took a ride with someone away from the accident site. It’s not like they found bones in California and thought “this could be Maura Murray!” If she took a ride with a stranger that night, they could have driven anywhere within the state. Or, she could have made it alive to the vicinity of Loon and met with foul play a day or two later. It’s not a stretch.

      2. Because at that time I believe they questioned three workers that took her crash route too Loon. Two Brothers and some other worker. But as I mentioned. No one could bury someone up there in February? Grounds frozen solid!

  8. I got the chills when you mentioned the lightish brown hair. It’s her isn’t it? I do hope not, I always thought she ran away like your initial theory James. This would be just awful…

  9. Concerning the hair –per the internet hair decomposes within 2 years at most. But it is cold there. Maybe they’re wrong I hope. It would be more questions than answers but finality would be relief. Does anyone know how long the testing takes? Hopefully it will be authorized to do in a speedy fashion.

  10. I knowe it’s stupid by i remeber old youtube video about Maura case – it looked like trolling- but someone’s showed in it tickets from gondola in new hempshire. That is just strange old coincidence

    1. At one point in the docuseries I watched, it was speculated that shift workers at a ski resort on Loon mtn went to work at roughly that time by that route. Interestingly, one did not show up to work his shift and had not called in, but that was all that was said…

  11. Go to The Loon Mountain website or YouTube and see the video of the “Kanc8” project. There are two; click the second titled, “Kanc8 Episode 2: A Work of Art”. Note the small white tent early on, but note another in the background at 1:36.

    It’s possible this upload on August 11 predates the discovery, but there appears to be a tripod set up in the tent at 1:36.

    At least these videos give us an idea as to the scale of the construction; it’s huge.

    It’s very possible that construction may have crushed and further scattered the bones. Rain and animals could have spread them still further.

    1. Pray it’s her so her family can have closure. I know people were questioned that worked at loon at Time Maura, went missing. Along with others. Pray her family gets closure if it’s not her I hope whoever families it is gets closure. Brianna Maitland, from Vermont went missing too she had light brown hair as well she went missing 4 weeks after Maura, did the same year. Neither one of these ladies were found., until maybe now. I hope and pray it’s one of these two ladies so family can have answers, closure and maybe justice .

    2. I wonder if any workers dads were in the police. Just re watched the dissaperance then saw on google about the bones.

  13. Did anyone notice the coordinates given during the disappearance of Maura Murray documentary are very close to loon mountain?

    1. Maura disappeared in Feb. 2004 I believe! How could someone bury a person when the ground up there is still frozen like Concrete?

  14. If there was part of a human skull , were dental records requested and if so that could indicate it was her . Until dna could returned with a complete elimination or identification.

  15. Loon is a good half hour-45 minutes from where she was last seen, quite a hike if she was walking. It is about halfway to Bartlett, if that’s where she was going. I’m thinking she would have had to been picked up by someone if she got all the way to Lincoln. Pretty sure there are webcams throughout town—-maybe there is/was footage.

  16. I would call this good News! But the Police are saying the Bones from Loon are from the 1700’s. Question? Has anyone ever brought in a ” Psychic”? If not, I beg one too look into this case. Someone knows what happened! And let this Family have Peace!

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