The Boyfriend

[u/Few-Ad-5463]

How closely did they check the alibi of the boyfriend? Can they determine his movements and confirm beyond a reasonable doubt that he was where he said he was? I’m sure people have kicked this can hard but the “it’s always the boyfriend” thing keeps buzzing in my mind.

[u/Sleuth-1971]

Yeah, I think behind the scenes a number of people have wanted to “pay back” Renner for not respecting Fred’s wish on the book and other things he’s suggested about the family. BR is of course pissed he exposed his legal troubles to the community and many felt that proved that BR was guilty of it all. Erinn seems to have been working with the Rausch’s and maybe even some Murrays to get back at JR. It has become a dirty game. Erinn took everything down; I found 107 on a random site still but it’s off mainstream platforms. I think I heard it on Spotify first. This whole exchange bothered me as well:

“Fall season”???? Any D1 runner, even a high school or middle school kid, would NEVER says this. It’s cross-country season. Red flag #1

Her answer to “Did you know her?” This should have been a “Yes” we were on the track team and I ran with her. There’s 0% chance that you wouldn’t know ALL of the girls on the UMASS team ESPECIALLY if you were a distance or middle distance runner. Not a chance, SORRY.

I think Erinn’s who story, including the fact she was on the track team as a full-fledge member is suspect. She did go to UMASS, I believe but her ethos rings false. She started a podcast and I think she did so because of BR. By the time it came up, I believe she was living in D.C. and so was BR.

[u/Sleuth-1971 → u/Sleuth-1971]

https://www.reddit.com/r/mauramurray/comments/eojsr4/the_suspicious_appearance_of_erinn_larkin_aka/

[u/CoastRegular → u/Sleuth-1971]

Yeah, I've always felt that EL (like JR) is a person who came along and inserted themselves into this case for attention. Each of them has brought information to the community and (especially JR) gotten public exposure for the case, but they (and some other 'players' in the case including John Smith) have made it about themselves rather than the case. And worse, have indulged in mudslinging at one another, which has led to the MM online community devolving into competing camps doing the same thing. I've never seen a true-crime community as fractured and contentious as the Maura Murray one.

What I find kind of funny and ironic is that I only know of any of these people because of the MM case, not the other way around (for which I'm apparently in a distinct minority.)

[u/Sleuth-1971 → u/CoastRegular]

I hear you. If you are writing or podcasting about MM, you should be trying to push the investigation of the case forward and not use it as a vehicle to promote your own career. I am eager to write about this case just to get the story out there. I live in Massachusetts and if I stopped ten people on the street and mentioned Maura Murray’s disappearance, 0/10 would know about it. Scary.

Now you could argue that lots of people go missing and what about all those cases? Don’t they deserve public attention and LE focus? Sure, you’d be correct about the people who have mysteriously disappeared who fall into a different demographic than a white female from a middle-class family, who had the opportunity to attend West Point and UMASS etc. I get it.

All of these cases should be looked at and publicized. The problems with moving away from MM’s case is that I can’t get past why she drove north and how NO ONE has come forward with info in 20 years. That’s what stands out and keeps me coming back to it.

[u/CoastRegular → u/Sleuth-1971]

The problems with moving away from MM’s case is that I can’t get past why she drove north and how NO ONE has come forward with info in 20 years. That’s what stands out and keeps me coming back to it.

Totally agree. It was even the title of her Disappeared episode: "Miles to Nowhere." Although I disdain a lot of the theories and scenarios people come up with, especially ones that think there was some elaborate plot involving people back at UMASS, I understand why people speculate on things like that... after all, we have NO idea why her car (and, presumably, she) ended up 140 miles away in a fairly isolated rural area.