So we are all trying to figure out what happened to Maura from the time she refused a ride, phone call for help, warm house, one or all the above. Either way she said no to all of them obviously and when BA offered to make a call she again said no. So the question that I have was what was Maura thinking. Probabley easier to guess the lottery numbers. I still can't help but wonder. From what I know about the area which is very little there was a house just across the street. For whatever reason she did not want to go there. Then there's BA's house right down the road. She obviously saw him pull in there or at least she most likely did. So within minutes or even seconds? she starts to walk. This is where things get fuzzy for all of us. Did she start to walk with the intentions of waiting for another ride offer? Was her only intention to just get the heck out of there because she didn't want to get in trouble? Was she thinking of going to a different house further away so LE could not find her? If she did have access to a phone who would she have called? When she said she called AAA did she realize she had no cell reception? This could be important in my mind because if she didn't even try to make a call this in my mind means she had no one to call and was not meeting with anyone. She did take her phone, but we have no way of knowing if she ever tried to call anyone. We also have the eye witness who says he saw someone who looked like Maura 5 miles down the road. If this is a real sighting then she was wandering for a long time. No one else has ever said they saw anyone. Is this because that road was so sparcely traveled? We all have so many questions and no one seems to have one answer to any of them!!.
You pointed it out yourself.
Maura wasn't looking for help, it had nothing to do with being fearful of a old man driving a school bus. He asked her if he could get help for her not take her away on a field trip
Maura was not stranded in the middle of nowhere, there were two houses she could've thrown a rock at and hit from where her car wrecked (westmans across the street and Marottes right above her). Keep in my mind this was just after 7 p.m., and both these set of neighbors were home with lights on in their houses.
and I have asked this several times, where would maura go with anyone whom came along and offered a ride (Maura wasn't familiar with where she was specifically. Is she going to have someone drive her 2 1/2 hours back to amherst or 20-40 more miles east into the mountains for her?
Maura had just passed the swiftwater store about a mile before she wrecked. Wouldn't she head back west to the store to get help (It was open) and probably had lights on and cars in the parking lot.
Yet investigators (hired by the murray family) know for a fact she headed on foot east for at least 100 more yards (opposite direction of the swiftwater store).