>> I WORK AT THE ATTORNEYS GENERAL’S OFFICE, WITH ME TODAY IS COLONEL WAGNER THE DIRECTOR OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE POLICE AND SPECIAL AGENT CRISTIANO.
TODAY A TEAM OF INVESTIGATORS FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE POLICE AND FBI SEARCHED A HOME IN WYTHEVILLE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
THEY WERE LOOKING FOR EVIDENCE CONNECTED TO A MISSING PERSONS CASE.
I CAN TELL YOU THAT NO EVIDENCE WAS FOUND IN CONNECTION WITH THE CASE.
I WILL EXPLAIN TO YOU WHY WE SEARCHED THE HOME AND WHAT BROUGHT US THERE.
SO IN FEBRUARY OF 2004,MOOR MURR WENT MISSING, SHE WAS LASTAY SEEN AT 7:30 P.M..
SHE HAS NOT BEEN SEEN OR HEARD FROM SINCE THEN.
-- IN THAT AREA IN THE SURROUNDING AREA A HOME WAS SEARCHED IN THE AREA.
THE HOME WAS SEARCHED TODAY AFTER MORE WENT MISSING.
THAT HOME WAS SEARCHED ON THE OUTSIDE, DOGS WENT BY THERE AND SEARCHERS FOUND NOTHING CONNECTED WITH THE CASE.
OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS THAT HOME HAS BECOME A TARGET OF INCREASED SPECULATION BY A VARIETY OF PRIVATE SENTENCES -- CITIZENS.
SOME STATED THEY BELIEVED THERE WAS A BODY IN FACT IN THE HOME, IN THE BASEMENT.
REALLY THAT THEORY WAS BASED ON A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT PIECES OF EVIDENCE, INCLUDING A SEARCH DONE BY A COUPLE OF DOGS THAT BELONGED TO CITIZENS AND A SEARCH DONE WITH SOMETHING
CALLED BROWN PENETRATING RADAR.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OFFICE AND STATE POLICE REVIEW THE VIDEO FROM THE SEARCHES AS WELL AS THE RESULTS FROM THE RADAR AND BASED ON THAT REVIEW WE DETERMINED THERE WAS NO CREDIBLE EVIDENCE
THAT THERE WAS ANY EVIDENCE CONNECTED TO THIS CASE IN THAT HOME AND CERTAINLY NO EVIDENCE OF HUMAN REMAINS.
THERE WAS CERTAINLY NO PROBABLE CAUSE TO DO ANY SEARCH IN THE HOME.
DESPITE THAT, WE DID CONTACT THE HOMEOWNERS.
THEY GRACIOUSLY ALLOWED US TO -- GAVE US CONSENT TO SEARCH THE HOME.
SO IN MARCH, STATE POLICE AND FBI RETURN TO THE HOME AND DID A FURTHER SURVEY OF THE BASEMENT.
TODAY A TEAM OF FBI AGENTS AND STATE POLICE TO TEXAS WHEN INTO THE HOME AND SEARCHED THE BASEMENT.
THEY DID THAT BY ACTUALLY CUTTING AND REMOVING CONCRETE IN THE AREA WITH THE GROUND PENETRATING RADAR -- WHERE IT DETECTED DISTURBANCE.
THE RADAR FOUND NOT AN OBJECT OR ANY PARTICULAR PIECE OF EVIDENCE, IT SIMPLY DETECTED AN AREA OF DISTURBED GROUND.
WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IS THE TEAM OF OVER A DOZEN AGENTS AND EFFECTIVES WHEN INTO THE BASEMENT, THEY CUT THE AREA, REMOVED THE CONCRETE, AND THEN SEARCHED SEVERAL FEET DOWN AND
COVER THE ENTIRE AREA OF THE DISTURBED GROUND.
THEY LOCATED ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OTHER THAN A SMALL PIECE OF WHAT LOOKS TO BE POTENTIALLY POTTERY, MAYBE A PIECE OF OLD PIPE, THAT IS ALL THEY FOUND.
I WANT TO BE CLEAR, WE CERTAINLY DID NOT BELIEVE THERE WAS ANY CREDIBLE EVIDENCE IN THIS CASE THAT WOULD LEAD TO THE EVIDENCE CONNECTED TO HER DISAPPEARANCE.
THE STATE POLICE AND FBI AND OUR OFFICE CONDUCTED THE SEARCH TODAY.
WE CONTINUE TO WORK A GREAT DEAL ON THE CASE COOPERATIVELY BETWEEN THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE AND STATE POLICE AND FBI AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS.
WE ALSO WANT TO EXTEND OUR APPRECIATION TO THE FAMILY THAT LIVES IN THAT HOME, THEY WERE GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO ALLOW US AND THE FBI AND STATE POLICE IN THEIR TO CONDUCT THE SEARCH.
THE LAST THING I WANT TO SAY BEFORE I TAKE QUESTIONS IS THAT THIS IS -- HAS BEEN DIFFICULT ON THE MURRAY FAMILY.
IT HAS ALSO BEEN DIFFICULT ON THE RESIDENTS IN THE AREA.
MANY OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE ASKED THEIR PRIVACY BE RESPECTED, SOMETIMES PEOPLE COME OUT OF THEIR PROPERTY AND SEARCH AROUND . THE APPRECIATE THE PRIVACY BEING
RESPECTED.
>> WHAT IS THE NEXT UP -- THE NEXT STEP.
>> WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN, WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING, OUR OFFICE AND THE STATE POLICE AND OTHER PARTNERS WILL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW-UP ON LEADS, LEADS GENERATED FROM THE PUBLIC AND
OTHER SOURCES AS WELL AS SIMPLY ADDITIONAL MEASURES THAT WE GENERATE ON HER OWN.
THAT HAS BEEN CONTINUING AND WILL CONTINUE.
THIS HAS BEEN A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION FROM THE START.
WE COMPLETED NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, BUT WE ARE KEEPING OUR OPTIONS OPEN AND THAT IS WHY LAW ENFORCEMENT IS INVOLVED.
IT WAS REALLY DONE SIMPLY TO CROSS SOMETHING OFF THE LIST.
I CAN TELL YOU THAT BASED ON HOURS OF IO, WE TRY TO BE AS BOTANICAL AS POSSIBLE WHICH IS WHY IT TOOK TIME AND WE TOOK STEPS WHICH INCLUDES SEARCH, STATE POLICE HUMAN REMAINED
HUMAN REMAINS DOGS GOING IN AND THE GROUND PENETRATING RADAR RESULTS, THERE CERTAINLY WAS NOT ANY CREDIBLE INFORMATION THAT LED US TO BELIEVE ANYTHING WAS THERE.
DESPITE THAT, WITH THE ADDITIONAL STEPS, WE DID THE SEARCH AND WE’RE CONFIDENT THERE’S NOTHING THERE.
THE MESSAGE IS THE SAME, EVERYONE INVOLVED REMAINS COMMITTED TO FOLLOWING THE LEAD OUT THERE.
AND TRY TO GET ANSWERS TO HAPPEN -- TO WHAT HAPPENED.
>> HAVE YOU SEEN ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS?
>> WE HAVE ASKED THE PUBLIC ALL ALONG FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE.
EVERY CASE IS DIFFERENT, SOME CASES GENERATE MORE INTEREST AND ACTIVITY.
THIS CASE HAS -- GENERATED A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT.
SOME OF IT YOU MIGHT LIKE -- MIGHT CALL WILD SPECULATION, REGARDLESS THE STATE POLICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT PARTNERS HAVE CONTINUED TO FOLLOW EVERY LEAD.
WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO CONTACT US WITH INFORMATION, SOMETIMES PEOPLE THINK, MAYBE THE POLICE ALREADY KNOW THAT, WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO CONTACT US AND GO TO THE COLD CASE WEBSITE TO PROVIDE
INFORMATION IF THEY TO DO SO -- IF THEY CHOOSE TO DO SO THAT WAY.
>> WAS THIS, THE SEARCH YOU DID TODAY, WAS THAT BASED ON THE RESULTS OF THE GROUND PENETRATING RADAR?
>> IT WAS BASED ON THE MANY ALLEGATIONS MADE THAT THERE MIGHT BE EVIDENCE IN THIS HOUSE.
IF YOU LOOK TO BE RADAR, YOU WOULD NOT CONCLUDE THERE WAS ANYTHING OF VALUE THERE OR FROM A PRIOR DOG OR FBI SEARCHES REGARDLESS, WE DID GO IN AND EXCAVATE THE AREA WITH THE
GROUND FOR TREATING RADAR.
THAT IS NOT UNCOMMON.
YOU MIGHT DIG UP THE FOUNDATION, AND THAT IS A OLDER HOME.
>> YOU SAID THAT POLICE USED DOGS AFTER SHE HAD DISAPPEARED, DID YOU EVER ENTER THE HOME?
>> NO.
>> WHY IS THAT?
>> BECAUSE THERE IS NO BASIS, WE WOULD NEED A PROBABLE CAUSE.
>> THE FIRST TIME YOU SEARCHED WITH DOGS WHAT -- WOULD HAVE BEEN NOVEMBER?
>> YES.
>> DID YOU BRING IN DOGS BEFORE?
>> THAT WAS SEARCHED IN JANUARY -- FEBRUARY, THERE WERE NO DETECTIONS.
THIS YEAR.
FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR.
NOTHING.
YES.
>> SOON AFTER THE DISAPPEARANCE THERE WAS AN OUTSIDE?
>> THERE WERE MULTIPLE SEARCHES.
>> DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER LEADS OR SUSPECTS?
>> WE DO NOT NAME SUSPECTS IN THE CASE.
>> IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE TO LOOK INTO AS FAR AS LEADS?
>> AS I SAID EARLIER, THERE IS A LOT OF INFORMATION WE CONTINUE TO FOLLOW UP ON.
SOME OF THAT IS GENERATED FROM LEADS FROM THE PUBLIC AND SOME IS IN TURN -- INTERNALLY WHETHER FROM FORENSIC WORK OR GOING BACK TO REVIEW INFORMATION.
THAT HAS BEEN A CONSTANT PROCESS IN THE CASE.
IN SOME CASES THERE ARE TIMES OF DORMANCY AND TIMES OF ACTIVITY, THIS CASE HAS BEEN VERY ACTIVE IN THE LAST YEAR.
>> WHEN WAS THE LAST, YOU HEAR A LOT OF INFORMATION OVER THE YEARS, WHERE WAS THE LAST INDICATION OF WHERE SHE WAS?
>> THE FIGHTING AT THE ACCIDENT SCENE.
THAT IS THE LAST CREDIBLE SIGHTING.
THAT IS ABOUT 7:30 P.M..
>> DID THE DOGS LEAVE A TRAIL TO THE CAR?
>> I DON’T RECALL.
>> ARE YOU PRODUCING A REPORT OR FEEDBACK TO THE FAMILY?
>> I AM NOT SURE I UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION.
>> OK, THE MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE STUDENT DISAPPEARED INTO 2004 WHILE DRIVING THROUGH NEW HAMPSHIRE.
WE LOST OUR SIGNAL.
TODAY INVESTIGATORS ARE ON THE SITE IN THE COMMUNITY.
TO BRING YOU UP-TO-DATE -- THE DEVELOPMENT ARE THAT THERE ARE NO DEVELOPMENTS REALLY.
EVERYTHING STANDS WHERE IT IS PRETTY MUCH.
THEY DID PENETRATE A BASEMENT IN THE HOME AND WOULD STILL, LOOKING FOR A POSSIBLE HUMAN REMAINS.
THEY APPARENTLY CONCRETED -- EXCAVATED A CONCRETED AREA IN THE BASEMENT AND FOUND NOTHING.
>> THAT WAS JUST ROUSING GIVING US THE UPDATE.
SAYING THAT A PRIVATE INVESTIGATIVE TEAM INCLUDING A DOG IN THAT GROUND PENETRATING RADAR WAS BROUGHT IN AND THAT IS WHEN THAT TEAM PURPORTED -- REPORTED TO AUTHORITIES THEY DID
HIT ON SOMETHING IN THE BASEMENT BENEATH THE CONCRETE, POTENTIALLY DISTURBED EARTH.
WITH RESPECT TO THAT, FINDING NO EVIDENCE WITHIN THAT REPORT IS HEALTH, FBI AND STATE POLICE INVESTIGATORS DID RETURN TO THAT HOME IN WYTHEVILLE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND DID INVESTIGATE
FURTHER.
AGAIN, GOING TO BE CEMENT, LOOKING AROUND AND REPORTING TODAY THEY HAVE RECOVERED NO NEW EVIDENCE IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF BEEN 21-YEAR-OLDMOORE MURRAY.
>> THEY DID INDICATE WHEN THEY EXCAVATED THEY FOUND AN OLD HEIGHT OR PIECE OF POTTERY, BUT NOTHING OF SIGNIFICANCE.
THE TYPE OF THING YOU MIGHT FIND WHEN YOU EXCAVATE A BASEMENT.
WE ARE BASICALLY BACK TO WHERE WE STARTED.
MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS.
THE DISAPPEARANCE REMAINS A NUMBER -- MYSTERY.
WE WILL CONTINUE TO BRING YOU UP