So, it's not a secret that I live in New Hampshire. I moved to the area that Maura disappeared in within a few months of her disappearance - she disappeared in February of 2004 and I was living in nearby Littleton in August of 2004. We would have been peers - I am about three years older than her, tops. I work in criminal justice and know the people that are involved in investigating this case. I'm legit obsessed with this case because of the plethora of personal connections that I have to the case and lately I have been consuming all that I can on this case.
This book is the very personal memoir of James Renner as he gets involved in the unsolved case of Maura Murray, a college student who went missing in February of 2004 in the White Mountains of NH. This was the first real true crime case of the internet era, occurring in the same month that Facebook went live. It's fair to say that James had an obsession with true crime and missing persons cases specifically when a neighborhood girl, Amy, went missing. James is open not only about his obsession with true crime but about his struggles with PTSD and the behavioral struggles that his child has in this memoir. He begins, however, to investigate Maura's disappearance. Renner's book reveals not only his own personal struggles during the time that he was investigating, but also that Maura had a lot going on in her own life at the time of h er disappearance.
I may not agree with Mr. Renner on everything that he espouses, but his book is amazing nonetheless. The books is compulsively readable and quick. I couldn't put it down and I could hear Renner talking to me as I was reading. He made himself particularly vulnerable by airing his own personal demons and telling us about the stuggles his family was experiencing while he was writing about this case. Definitely recommend reading this book.
On a serious note, if you have any information about Maura's disappearance, please contact NH's cold case unit at (603) 271-2663 or by email at coldcaseunit@dos.nh.gov. Maura is still missing. Her family misses her tremendously.
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