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The Hi, everybody and welcome to an extra special episode of True Consequences podcast.

I'm your host, Eric Carter Lundee, and today I'm joined by a friend of mine, somebody who I admire so much and have so much respect for Julie Murray.

Welcome to the show. Oh, thanks, Eric.

It's so good to see you and I'm so glad that we decided to do this. Me too. It's been a while.

I think it's been since the summer of last year that we saw each other in person, but we stay connected

as much as we can. We're both pretty busy people. Julie, can you take a moment and just

introduce yourself, introduce if you'd like your sister's case a little bit, give us a summary,

and then we'll get into our conversation. Yes, again, thank you for inviting me on. It's an honor to

connect. I'm so glad that we do have this community where we can meet people that can empathize with our

situations.

And you are certainly one of them.

So I'm Julie Murray.

I'm the sister of Mara Murray.

Mara is a missing person.

February of 2004, my little sister, Mara,

she was a nursing student at the University of Massachusetts.

And on a Monday, she decided to turn in her nursing school homework

at about 3.30 in the morning.

And then she started doing some odd things. She was looking up directions to both

Vermont and New Hampshire. And again, this was on a Monday night. She's in school, so that was odd that she was

looking up places to go because she should have been in school. So later on in the day, she emails her professors and says

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