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Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore

MISSING: Maura Murray

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore

PAVE Studios

True Crime

4.4945 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In 2004, 21 year-old Maura Murray vanished after crashing her car on a rural New Hampshire road and was never seen again. Her disappearance became one of the internet’s first viral true-crime mysteries, spawning endless theories, false leads, and new suspects more than twenty years later. Morgan and Kaelyn follow the clues, from Maura’s life at West Point to the final moments before she vanished, to uncover what might have really happened on that cold February night. CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains mentions of disordered eating , self-harm, and SA. Please listen with care. Show Notes: allianceforeatingdisorders.com https://www.mauramurraymissing.org/Episode Sponsors:MasterClass always has great offers during the holidays, sometimes up to as much as 50% off. Head over to https://www.masterclass.com/CLUES for the current offer. The best way to cook just got better. Go to https://www.HelloFresh.com/CLUES10FM now to get 10 free meals and a free breakfast for life! One per box with active subscription. Free meals applied as discount on first box, new subscribers only, varies by plan. Go to https://www.Cymbiotika.com/CLUES for 20% off plus free shipping. Clues is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Don’t Miss out on all things Clues! YouTube: @CluesPod | @crimehousestudios Instagram: @cluespodcast | @Crimehouse TikTok: @Crimehouse Facebook: @crimehousestudios X: @crimehousemedia Clues is hosted by Morgan Absher & Kaelyn Moore  Instagram: @morgsyabsher | @itskaelynmoore TikTok: @twohottakes | @heartstartspounding To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, crimehouse community. It's Morgan Absher. And if you love digging into the most gripping true crime stories, then you need to listen to another crime house original, Crimes of. With Sabrina, Deanna Roga, and Corinne Vienne, Crimes of is a weekly series that explores a new theme each season. From Crimes of, paranormal, unsolvedolved murders mysterious disappearances and more

0:22.2

Sabrina and Corinne have been covering the true stories behind Hollywood's most iconic horror villains

0:26.6

and this month they'll be diving into the paranormal listen to Crimes of every Tuesday on

0:31.5

Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon music or wherever you listen to podcasts

0:35.7

you listen to podcasts.

0:45.3

This is Crime House.

0:53.3

Today we are going to talk about one of the first missing persons cases to go viral on social media back in 2004.

0:56.0

More than 20 years later, there are more questions than answers about what happened to 21-year-old Mara Murray when she vanished

1:00.3

from a road in New Hampshire in the middle of winter. New theories and clues about Mara's

1:04.6

baffling disappearance are still emerging. And there's even been a recent development that

1:10.4

could point to a brand new

1:11.8

suspect who wasn't on the original investigator's radar.

1:35.0

Hi guys, and welcome back to Clues, where we sneak past the crime scene tape to explore some of the key evidence behind the most gripping true crime cases.

1:40.3

I'm Kayla Moore, and I'm going to be digging deeper into the timelines, the backstories, and the court files on these cases.

1:42.6

And I'm your internet sleuth, Morgan Absure.

1:45.1

I'm diving into Reddit forums and anything else I can find online to look at the threads that just don't add up. At Crimehouse, we value

1:50.1

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2:02.1

Let's get into this case and the clues that defined it.

2:07.3

Just a quick content warning for this episode today. We talk about eating disorders,

2:12.0

self-harm, and essay. So listen with care. First case to go viral on social media, which at the time of Mara's disappearance, I think Facebook was like four, five days old. Days. Days old. Yeah. It was a brand new social media tool. It was really like the first social media tool. And it wasn't until a little bit later that our case started going viral on Facebook because that's just not what people were using Facebook for at first. No, it was like dating and seeing who the cool kids in your college were. Yeah. I got Facebook when I was in middle school. That was probably a little young and I still missed the MySpace page of being able to pick my song. But it is crazy to think in the context, like there

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