Let's Talk True Crime

Hi everyone and welcome to the 3rd post on Lets Talk True Crime! Today we are going to be discussing a maybe somewhat unknown set of murders to those who aren’t as deeply invested in true crime. We are heading to Espoo, Finland to talk about the Murders at Lake Bodom. This is one of the many cases that I simply cannot give you answers to for one very real fact: the case was never solved. They never found the true perpetrator of this heinous crime making it probably the greatest unsolved murder in Finnish history. So, lets talk true crime! On June 5th, 1960, at Bodom Lake, 2 young women both aged 15 and an 18-year-old male were killed through a combination of stabbing and blunt force trauma to the head. There was a fourth male along for the trip who actually survived the attack, and was found outside of the tent that the group had shared. Taking it back to June 4th, 15-year-olds Maila Irmeli Björklund and Anja Tuulikki Mäki had decided to go camping with their 18-year-old boyfriends Sep

So up until now, we discussed what brought Maura to the point of leaving, and what happened to her along Wild Ammonoosuc Road. I want to move us forward now into the search efforts that started for Maura on February 10th. At 12:36 pm the police issued a BOLO or a “Be On The Lookout” for Maura, stating her physical description and the fact that she would be wearing a dark coat, jeans, and carrying a black backpack. A message had been left for her father Fred around 3 pm but he, unfortunately, was out of state working and never received the message. Luckily, Maura’s older sister was able to contact their father at 5 pm to inform him of the situation. He reached out to the Haverhill Police Department and was told that if Maura didn’t return by the next morning, the Fish and Game Department would begin a search for it. It was at this point that police really started to refer to Maura as a missing person. The next morning, Fred arrived in Haverhill before dawn broke. A few hours later, at 8

I want to share the information with you in a way that most people learned it during the time she went missing, through what we have learned now.  Maura was born May 4, 1982, to Laurie and Fred Murray. She was the fourth child, having 3 older siblings and a younger brother. At the age of six, Maura’s parents divorced, and Maura went to live with her mother primarily. Maura was a star track athlete in high school and was actually accepted into West Point. For those of you who may not know, West Point is the United States Military Academy in New York. It is a notoriously difficult college to be accepted into, but between good grades and athletics, Maura was a shoo-in. By all accounts from family and friends of hers, Maura was an all-American girl. Beloved, and in the eyes of many, Maura was perfect.  But as we came to find out, she was flawed like everyone else. See Maura got caught attempting to steal a few small items from the commissary at Fort Knox. Ya know Fort Knox? One of the most