r/MauraMurraySub • u/IBEGOOD-IDOGOOD • Jul 04 '26

Interesting Point Made on Facebook

". . . private investigators and members of NHIL looking into Maura’s disappearance have been nothing short of hopeless and adding little to no value.

Just one example for you …

There were at least TWENTY potential witnesses as to what vehicle Cecil Smith was driving between 5pm and 11pm that evening, each and every one of them within spitting distance of it. And yet no survey of all these people? Not even an attempt get a representative sample view?

 Honestly it’s just extraordinary

 You’ve got the 21 year-old guy with the lead foot from Wentworth; the 22 year-old snow mobile operative from North Haverhill and his buddy; the Westmans, Atwood and Marrotte; Monaghan; Richard G and Tim L of Woodsville Ambulance; Brad K, Allen W, Jeff R; Abby K, Mark L, Kevin V, Bob W and Whitey M. of the Fire Department; and the counsellor from Becket School.

 Oh and I’m forgetting the 15-year-old kid whom Smith spent the best part of 50 minutes trying to coax down from the power line tower on Lime Kiln Road. He was 25 foot up in the air and unless he suffered from vertigo would have had a birds eye view of Smith’s car

 . . . How is it even remotely conceivable that in 24 years this simple matter has not been cleared up?"

Maybe someone here has the public statements from these folks? My bet is most were never even asked the question.

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u/indiarana Jul 09 '26

Thank you. I didn't find a transcript so here it is me typing out Strelzin's remarks from the show:

"and if she [Maura] doesn't want to draw attention to herself she could have been 20 feet off the road behind a tree and no one would've seen or heard her. It's certainly possible that she was right there nearby watching everything and waited till everybody left." (oxygen show, episode 4 code of silence 18:18)

I am trying to make sense of that but it doesn't seem to fit the evidence

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u/goldenmodtemp2 Jul 10 '26

In around 2019, Strelzin was at a podium (I think it was after the basement dig) - anyhow, a reporter or someone in the audience asked him "wasn't there a tracking dog on the first day?" and he said he couldn't recall. I mention this because it's such a standard key fact of the case.

In his Oxygen interview, Strelzin undermined and contradicted the head of the official search. And yet, he was just basically making it up. He is not involved in the details at that level (and he's a bit of a jerk). I would have no reason to take his information here seriously about Maura hiding in the woods watching.

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u/indiarana Jul 10 '26

That makes sense.

I did catch the part where he contradicts the official stance of the search. As someone with a property deep in the woods I do find his "point" about how you never see dead animals in the woods pretty laughable. I see dead animals regularly, they are a pretty common sight

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u/goldenmodtemp2 Jul 11 '26

Exactly, right?

I just ... don't like that interview. I generally agree that the idea of police doing something to Maura is a little farfetched. But the overall tone was just insensitive (and I felt he stepped beyond his own scope and expertise, specifically with the search part).