This last year, I’ve been working hard to put together a new non-profit that can provide financial help and media attention to the families of the missing and murdered, focusing on cold cases in Ohio. I’m excited to announce that The Porchlight Project is here and our first case is the 1987 unsolved murder of…
Here’s the indictment filed in DC Superior Court, which provides some context for the crime Bill Rausch is charged with. He did not show up for his scheduled arraignment today because he has not yet left Camp Lemonnier, in East Africa. Word is the Army is having issues with getting a flight out, though they…
Three Five women have come forward to ask police to investigate Bill Rausch and what role his actions may have played in the fate of Maura Murray. Here are their stories. Lawton, OK, 2004 Two weeks ago, I was contacted by a woman who lived in Lawton, Oklahoma, in 2004. She knew Bill a few…
After Bill Rausch was forced to resign at Ray Group following allegations of a sexual assault in 2011, he moved to the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America nonprofit. Once there, according to coworkers, the improper and alarming behavior continued. Two sources describe a night in the winter of 2015 where Rausch led a small…
If you’ve seen the trailer for tomorrow’s episode of The Disappearance of Maura Murray, there’s a clip of me saying I believe Maura ran away from the men in here life. But what was so bad that she’d run away? Was she really that afraid of someone? At the time of her disappearance, she was…
I’m just now reading about the arrest of Eric Bellquist, who police believe pushed a woman toward a bus while jogging on a London bridge. It’s a curious case and by all accounts unprovoked. But it’s by no means an isolated incident. Why do some men do this? This article from The Independent talks about…
True Crime Addict is out, today. It is the definitive book on the Maura Murray case and includes several new clues and insights into the 12 year old cold case. It ends with an epilogue in which we learn more about the character of Bill Rausch, who was Maura’s boyfriend at the time of her…