16 Gut-Wrenching Murder Cases That Remain Unsolved To This Day

5. The Disappearance Of Maura Murray

Maura Murray via Wikipedia

Not really a murder (maybe), but the disappearance of Maura Murray and the videos some guy uploaded that seem related.

Maura Murray disappeared on the evening of February 9, 2004 after a car crash on Route 112 in Haverhill, New Hampshire.

From Wikipedia:

Murray was a nursing student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. On the afternoon of February 9, before she left campus, she emailed her professors and work supervisor writing that she was taking a week off due to a death in the family. No one in her family has been able to confirm the family death. Police initially treated her case as a missing-person investigation as investigators thought at first that she wanted to disappear. This speculation was due to her travel preparations and no obvious evidence of foul play. Others believe she was abducted.

Murray has not been found. New Hampshire authorities are handling it as a “suspicious” missing persons case.

On the anniversary of her death, a man going by the username 112dirtbag posted two videos. The first is him simply laughing before the video says “Happy Anniversary”. The second is a ticket to a resort that was near where Murray disappeared. Below are both videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R3qMrNMSRY

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6. The Death Of Gareth Williams

The spy in the bag murder.

The victim was a British secret service member who was found locked in a bag that was determined impossible to do from the inside, with no evidence of a struggle and no evidence of anyone having been in the room with him.

The authorities have called it an accident.

From Wikipedia:

Gareth Williams (26 September 1978 – c. 16 August 2010) was a Welsh mathematician and employee of GCHQ seconded to the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) who was found dead in suspicious circumstances at a Security Service safe house flat in Pimlico, London, on 23 August 2010. The inquest found that his death was “unnatural and likely to have been criminally mediated.” A subsequent Metropolitan Police re-investigation concluded that Williams’s death was “probably an accident”.

Police visited Williams’s home during the afternoon of Monday 23 August 2010, as a “welfare check” after colleagues noted he had been out of contact for several days. His decomposing naked remains were found in a red The North Face bag, padlocked from the outside, in the bath of the main bedroom’s en-suite bathroom. The police had gained entry into his top floor flat in Alderney Street, Pimlico at around 16:40. His family believe that crucial DNA was interfered with and that fingerprints left at the scene were wiped off as part of a cover-up. No fingerprints, palm-prints, footprints or traces of Williams’s DNA were found on the rim of the bath, the bag zip or the bag padlock. A key to the padlock was inside the bag, underneath his body.

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