When a person goes missing, their loved ones often find themselves overcome with worry and grief.

Bruce Matlin started the 501 C3 Nonprofit Organization private investigations for the missing because he knows this feeling all too well.

When Bruce's daughter, Brianna, disappeared in March 2004, he was surrounded by licensed private investigators dedicated to finding her.

Now his mission is to provide dedicated private investigators at no cost to other families of the missing desperate for answers but without the financial means.

Private investigations for the missing needs your help. To read the mission statement, make a donation and keep up with our blog.

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Because forever is too long to wait.

On February 9th of 2004, 21-year-old UMass student Maura Murray drove from her dorm in Amherst, Massachusetts to the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

At approximately 7.27pm, Maura spun out her 1996 Saturn on a hairpin turn on Route 112 in North Haver. There has never been a credible sighting of Maura since.

Maura is 5'7", tall. She weighs 120 lbs and she has brown hair and hazel eyes.

If you have any information regarding Maura's disappearance, please submit it to us.

The Maura family at MauraMariFamilyDirect at gmail.com or the New Hampshire State Police cold case unit.

This is Missing Maura Murray.

Welcome back to Missing Maura Murray. I'm Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today?

I'm doing really well. I'm excited about this episode. It's been a long time coming. I can't wait to hear what people think about it.

Me too. This was a search that we went on back in October of 2020 for private investigations for the missing.

We were joined by Greg Overacker, the private investigator and former bounty hunter and overall general badass who works on Brana Matlin's case among many other cases.

He joined us on this search because he is leading the case of Erica Franellich who is a missing person out of Middleburg, New York.

He is leading that investigation for our nonprofit private investigations for the missing.

Right, Erica went missing on October 13, 1986. She was 26 years old, 5 foot 4 inches, 100 pounds. She is a white female.

Her disappearance has taken us along with Greg to this area where there are numerous caves.

There was some talk that there might be something of interest in one of these caves and Greg introduced us to a woman named Emily Davis who is a professional cavever and led an incredible crew.

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