Marker request denied in Murray disappearance

HAVERHILL—New Hampshire officials have denied a request to erect an official state highway marker at the roadside where Maura Murray was last seen in February 2004.
The decision came just one week after the “blue ribbon” memorial tree at that location was cut down.
It has been over 17 years since Maura, then a 21-year-old nursing student at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, disappeared on the evening of Feb. 9, 2004. For over 16 years the Murray family has placed a blue ribbon around the trunk of a tree near the location where she was last seen after her car crashed on Route 112.
Since then, the unsolved mystery of her disappearance has developed a worldwide following.