They Left Everything Behind Except an Explanation

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This happened on February 9, 2004, in New Hampshire.
On the side of a mountain road, Maura Murray's Saturn sedan sticks out of a snowbank. Someone stops to help, but she refuses. A neighbor reported the accident to the police. She didn't see a young woman. She said a man was in the car smoking a cigarette.
When the police arrive, the car is there, but Maura's backpack, phone, keys and bank cards are gone. 22 years later, we still don't know who is in that car smoking, and we still don't know what happened to Maura Murray.
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Maura Murray was a nursing student at UMass Amherst, and before that, a cadet at West Point. She made the Dean's List, ran on the track team, and spent her free time hiking. Everyone who knew her described her the same way. She was smart, responsible, and driven. But something was wrong.
In early February, her supervisor found her sobbing at her desk at her campus security job. When asked what was wrong, all she said was two words, my sister.
That weekend, her father drove up from Connecticut to help her shop for a new car. On Saturday night, she borrowed his Toyota to get to a party. On the way home, she ran into a guardrail and totaled it.
The accident report didn't mention drinking. She was never charged and insurance covered the wreck. Just a bad week, getting worse. Her friends noticed a change in her too. Months earlier, she got caught using another student's credit card number to order food. She paid the money back, but the stress piled up anyway. School, money, a long-distance boyfriend station to have a country away.
On Monday, February 9th, whatever was bothering Maura came to a head. At one in the afternoon, she emailed her professors and her work supervisor. They all got a version of the same message. There was a death in the family, and she needed to go home for about a week.
Only there was no death in the family. Her father was alive in Connecticut. Her mother was alive in Massachusetts. Her siblings were fine too. But it was a lie nobody questioned, and it bought Maura Murray a week of invisibility. Then she started packing.
Not a bag for the week. Everything she owned went into boxes. Her whole life stacked and sealed in the middle of her dorm room. And then she left the boxes behind. At 3.15, she walked across campus to an ATM and took out $280, nearly everything in her account. At 3.40, she stopped at a liquor store one town over and bought a bottle of vodka, some Baileys and Kahlua, and a box of Franzi wine. Enough booze for a party. But the store video showed her shopping alone. Then, she headed north.
Her computer history showed directions to Burlington, Vermont, and to a resort in the Berkshires. She also searched for places to stay along the way.
At 4:37 p.m., she checked her voicemail, the last activity ever logged on her phone. Mora was leaving, and only she knew where. And wherever it was, she never made it.