This case is just nuts.
As you can see, I’m diving back into the case for a bit since the women came forward about Bill Rausch. Currently, I’m going back through the Maura’s cell phone records from the days before her disappearance. On January 24, Maura made two separate calls to the home of a woman who worked for the Department of Human Services Children & Families, investigating and working on child abuse cases in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Her number was unlisted but she sometimes gave it out to clients. In 2004 she was retired but she was working up until the late-1990s, and would have been an employee of DCF when Maura and her siblings (or even friends & relatives) were children.
She does not recall speaking to Maura directly.
I also found it interesting that she has never spoken to police, though her number is one of the last numbers Maura called on her phone before she disappeared. She was never contacted by the Rauschs or Murrays, either.
* For those suggesting this had something to do with Maura’s nursing classes, this was an unlisted home number. And the woman had nothing to do with UMass.
Wow ..so what are u thinking ..this might link to her disappearance
I think there are a number of possibilities and one does not negate the other. 1. Maura calling this professional to get information to make some decisions about the direction of her nursing education.
2. It is my understanding and it was reported that Maura and her mother had a difficult relationship. Maura had to live with her, and there may well have been some needed professional intervention for that.
Possibility in that Maura was acquainted with this professional she would naturally turn to her for counsel, if she was interested in that avenue of nursing.
While it's certainly possible MM could have been introduced to this lady when she was younger (during her parents divorce or something perhaps?) and stayed in touch w her over the years, you'd think that she would at least remember MM. Could she have been concerned for other minor(s) at the time?
Bruce McGuire´s most recent Mindshock Maura Murray podcast Part 48: Silent UMASS Part 5 was excellent. Serious UMASS issues on campus involving criminal activity. Maura working late nights at her security desk job – did she accidentally witness something deeply disturbing (i.e., someone in authority or someone she knew that was sexually or physically abusing a minor or young, vulnerable student) and contacted this social worker to discuss how to report it, how to help the victim and remain anonymous. Maybe she did report something alarming and recvd a serious threat, decided to get away from UMASS. Also, who was Maura talking to at 3:40am at Domino´s.