True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray

True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray

by James Renner
True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray

True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray

by James Renner

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Overview

As seen on the Oxygen mini-series The Disappearance of Maura Murray

When an eleven-year-old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession led James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave him PTSD. In 2011, James began researching the strange disappearance of Maura Murray, a UMass student who went missing after wrecking her car in rural New Hampshire in 2004. Over the course of his investigation, he uncovers numerous important and shocking new clues about what may have happened to Maura, but also finds himself in increasingly dangerous situations with little regard for his own well-being. As his quest to find Maura deepens, the case starts taking a toll on his personal life, which begins to spiral out of control. The result is an absorbing dual investigation of a complicated case that has eluded authorities for more than a decade and a journalist’s own complicated true-crime addiction.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781250113818
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 06/06/2017
Pages: 304
Sales rank: 93,972
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

About The Author
JAMES RENNER is the author of The Serial Killer's Apprentice and several other works of nonfiction. His true crime stories have appeared in The Best American Crime Writing anthology, as well the Cleveland Scene and Cracked.com. His method of using social media to solve cold cases was the subject of a CNN profile in 2015. He has also written two novels, The Man from Primrose Lane and The Great Forgetting. He lives in Akron with his wife and children.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

1 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 3

2 Paramour 8

3 Full Disclosure 12

4 All-American Girl 16

5 Past Is Prologue 20

6 The Gatekeeper 23

7 Forget the Past 27

8 Last Shift at Melville 31

9 The Zoo 34

10 Hacking the Universe 38

11 Never Take Rides from Strangers 44

12 The Runner 50

13 Private Eyes 52

14 What Really Happened at West Point 57

15 Cracks in the Façade 60

16 The Clique 67

17 Molly, Holly, and Bri 71

18 Murray v. State of New Hampshire 75

19 My Baker Street Irregulars 82

20 The Chief's Demons 86

21 What the TV Guy Told Me 89

22 Aunt Janis 94

23 Baby Brother 98

24 How an Abduction Happens 103

25 A Lucky Break 108

26 Maura's Lovers 114

27 BFF 117

28 Consider the Red Herring 120

29 The Londonderry Ping 124

30 The Man with the Knife 128

31 22 Walker 130

32 Between the Lines 132

33 Petrit Vasi 134

34 The Shadow of Death Returns 139

35 Motive 143

36 112dirtbag 149

37 Mr. 1974 154

38 Family 158

39 Bad Rabbit 162

40 An Overdue Visit 167

41 Outliers 175

42 More Trouble in St. Albans 178

43 The Zaps 181

44 Silver Linings 184

45 Confrontations 188

46 "Drunk and Naked" 193

47 Graves 197

48 Borderland 200

49 I Saw Your Think 204

50 Eucatastrophe 207

51 Contempt 211

52 Hard Time 217

53 Beagle Strikes Back 222

54 The Fool 226

55 Everybody Lies 231

56 Billy, Don't Lose My Number 237

57 Closure Is for Doors 240

58 Failed Tests 246

59 How to Disappear 251

60 Oh, Canada! 255

61 Poker Face 262

62 The Bitter and the Sweet 266

Epilogue 271

Acknowledgments 279

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