Post by Matt H on Sept 6, 2018 6:05:52 GMT
Thank you for making this site. I have been interested in Maura's case for a number of years and it's nice to see people keeping her memory alive.
One thing I have always wondered is regarding the voicemail Bill received that he claimed sounded like Maura whimpering or crying. I am stunned that there was no way to trace where this call came from. We know it was a calling card, which almost certainly means it was a payphone. It also means Maura likely walked to the payphone. Other scenarios, such as her being kidnapped and managing to make a phone call, don't really add up otherwise surely she would call 911 Anyway, couldn't investigators locate every payphone within, say, a 3 or 5 mile radius from Maura's car? You can then pull the outgoing call records of those payphones to check if any call was made to the calling card. And we know the calling card number because it was on Bill's phone; he even said he tried calling it back. Even if that wasn't the actual number Maura dialed (it's possible the caller ID number might differ from the number/numbers customers dialed to make a call), we DO know the calling card company. There's only so many numbers they would have. Investigators could then identify which payphone Maura used and draw a line from her car to the phone to get an approximate direction she was heading in. It might also generate more witnesses if anybody saw her using the phone.
I am not an expert by any means. I just have an interest in this case. It's very possible that this kind of cross referencing WAS indeed done and I've missed it somewhere in all the information. I apologize if that's the case.
One thing I have always wondered is regarding the voicemail Bill received that he claimed sounded like Maura whimpering or crying. I am stunned that there was no way to trace where this call came from. We know it was a calling card, which almost certainly means it was a payphone. It also means Maura likely walked to the payphone. Other scenarios, such as her being kidnapped and managing to make a phone call, don't really add up otherwise surely she would call 911 Anyway, couldn't investigators locate every payphone within, say, a 3 or 5 mile radius from Maura's car? You can then pull the outgoing call records of those payphones to check if any call was made to the calling card. And we know the calling card number because it was on Bill's phone; he even said he tried calling it back. Even if that wasn't the actual number Maura dialed (it's possible the caller ID number might differ from the number/numbers customers dialed to make a call), we DO know the calling card company. There's only so many numbers they would have. Investigators could then identify which payphone Maura used and draw a line from her car to the phone to get an approximate direction she was heading in. It might also generate more witnesses if anybody saw her using the phone.
I am not an expert by any means. I just have an interest in this case. It's very possible that this kind of cross referencing WAS indeed done and I've missed it somewhere in all the information. I apologize if that's the case.