I think this one occurred somewhere in New England where a girl's car was found parked up against an old shack and the girl was a waitress who had uncashed paycheck(s) in the car. I forget if she was found in the car or if they didn't recover the body. Can someone fill in the blanks for me?

I think you may be referring to the case of Brianna Maitland.

BRIANNA MAITLAND



DESCRIPTION
Date of Birth: October 8, 1986 Place of Birth: Vermont
Sex: Female Hair: Brown
Height: 5'4" Eyes: Hazel
Weight: 105 pounds Race: White

THE DETAILS
Brianna Maitland was last seen during the late evening hours of March 19, 2004, as she was completing her shift at a restaurant in Montgomery, Vermont. She left the restaurant in a green 1985 Oldsmobile 88, which was later located abandoned against the side of a barn in what may have been a staged accident. The car was found approximately one mile from the restaurant.

REMARKS
Brianna Maitland has a scar on her forehead near her left eyebrow. The left nostril of her nose is pierced and she usually wears a nose stud in it.


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Individuals with information concerning this case should take no action themselves, but instead immediately contact the nearest FBI Office or local law enforcement agency. For any possible sighting outside the United States, contact the nearest United States Embassy or Consulate.

That's it, thank you. So have they not caught the Valley Killer yet?

Where to start... The Brianna Maitland case has complexities of its own.. .. Im from NH, where you would think this case would have been all over every newspaper, and news channel around.. WRONG. Barely a peep was muttered about this case. NOT to mention the case of Maura Murray who vanished LESS than 90mi AWAY from where Brianna disappeared, and a WHOLE MONTH earlier than Brianna. Maura disappeared on Feb 9 2004. Brianna disappeared on March 19 2004. Heres a brief overview of the MM case...


22-year-old Maura Murray, a nursing student, is still missing after 7 months. It was February 9, 2004 when the Hanson, Mass. resident packed up her belongings from her Kennedy Hall dorm room, drove her car to New Hampshire and got into a minor car accident. After the accident, she vanished without a trace. She has not been seen or heard from since that cold February evening.

Maura's parents, Laurie and Fred Murray, have said all along that her daughter had excellent grades. Murray was a Dean's list student a track star in high school, and a close friend to many.

Murray has described her daughter's relationship with her boyfriend, Army Lt. Bill Rauch of Oklahoma as "a very, very good relationship." However, Maura's family and friends suspect foul play was involved in the young woman's disappearance.

Events leading up to her disappearance

There are clues indicating that Maura Murray may have had some personal troubles just before she left UMass.

Maura allegedly left her campus job the Thursday before she disappeared and co-workers described her state as upset and troubled, according to WCVB-TV.

In an interview with WCVB-TV, Maura's older sister, Kathleen Murray of Hanover, Mass., admitted that she had a phone conversation with Maura that evening.

"It was just a regular phone call. It made no difference to me. It was just Maura calling me, that was that. I told her about my day and quarreling with my fiancée," Murray said. "I don't know what I could have done to upset her... Seriously, I think she just wanted to get out of work."

New Hampshire State Police Lt. John Scarinza is one of the lead investigators on the Murray case. He disputes Kathleen Murray's statement about her sister trying to leave work early.

"It wasn't a case where she called the supervisor and said, 'Listen, I've had a bad phone call...' The supervisor on her own initiative said, 'Why don't you take the rest of the night off? I'll walk you to your dorm.' So clearly she was upset," Scarinza told WCVB-TV.

It was less than four days later when Maura decided to leave UMass. She apparently had some type of plan before for her departure.

In the early morning hours of Monday, Feb. 9th Maura performed an Internet search for directions to Burlington, VT and the Berkshires.

"Sometime between Sunday and Monday morning, she packed up all her belongings in her dorm room, to include taking all her pictures off the walls, taking everything out of her bureaus, [and] put them all in boxes [and] left [them] on her bed," Scarinza told WCVB-TV, "[She] left a personal note to her boyfriend on top of the boxes."

Maura Murray's vehicle was then found in the town of Haverhill, N.H. crashed and abandoned on the side of the road. Her doors were reportedly locked and a few items had been removed from her car.

Authorities did not begin their search for Murray until Feb. 11, to the dismay of her parents.
(THIS ARTICLE WAS TAKEN FROM THE PROJECT JASON WEBSITE)


Less than a month later, Brianna Maitland Disappeared. Here's a short overview of that case-

Late Friday evening, March 19, 2004, Brianna Maitland left her waitress job at the Black Lantern Restaurant in Montgomery, Vermont. She climbed into her mother's green, 1985 four-door Oldsmobile 88 and drove off into the night. Brianna was heading for a friend's house where she had been staying since she left her parent's home. At 1:22 a.m. that Saturday morning, a state trooper radioed in that he had found an empty car which had plowed backward into an abandoned building, a mile from the Black Lantern.

When questioned by investigators, Bruce and Kellie Maitland, said they had not seen their daughter in several days. They told them they did not know she was missing until they got a call from her friend informing them Brianna had not shown up after work. Bruce and Kellie quickly filed a missing person report with local police. Nearly a week later, investigators linked the wrecked car to the missing child. They had believed it was deserted by a drunken driver.

Authorities had searched the area where the car had been found and decided to search it again, this time with police dogs and helicopters. They still could find no signs of the missing teenager. "The initial investigation did not show there was a violent struggle. We have nothing concrete as to her whereabouts," said Lieutenant Thomas Nelson of the Vermont State Police (VSP) Bureau of Criminal Investigation. "The search has been concentrated. Over the weekend, there were a few leads that had come in. We conducted several interviews up in the Montgomery area." Law enforcement began to handle the case as if Brianna was a runaway.

"I can't describe the gut-wrenching feelings. It's just awful," said Bruce Maitland. He went on to say that he believed his daughter had left Vermont and was still alive. More than 500 volunteers searched throughout Franklin County. The Vermont National Guard also aided in the search for Brianna. Bruce and Kellie wrote a letter to Vermont's governor, asking for his help because they felt the investigation was not proceeding fast enough. He also expressed his concerns that authorities should have connected the car and Brianna's disappearance much sooner.

"We are looking for good, factual leads," said Vermont State Police Captain Bruce Lang. "We are not looking for frivolous or pointless information that will lead us on more wild goose chases." Vermont police began to suspect Brianna was not a runaway. The evidence they uncovered leads them to believe she was more than likely involved with drug dealers who had out-of-state dealings, and she owed money to them.

"Brianna has a very questionable background," said VSP Lieutenant Nelson. "She made some unhealthy lifestyle choices."

Vermont State Police (VSP) issued a press release stating that "With each day that passes without a solid trace of information on her whereabouts, it becomes more apparent that she may have been the victim of a violent crime. Brianna had been living away from home and was socializing with community members involved in the use of illegal drugs. Investigators with the Vermont State Police are interested in solid fruitful information that may assist in furthering this investigation."

An upset Bruce Maitland made the retort, "I am a little discouraged they are bringing up the drug stuff. Everything I have gotten from her friends doesn't indicate that. No one has seen her high. They (VSP) are desperate for really good information because I don't think they have any. I don't think she herself was a heavy drug user, but I think she was hanging around with some people who were some pretty bad people. My own feeling is somebody took advantage of her."

Brianna Maitland also goes by the nickname "B". She has a scar on her forehead near her left eyebrow and her nose is pierced. A $10,000 Reward is being offered for any information leading to Brianna's safe return. Anyone with information about Brianna's case should immediately contact the Vermont State Police (802-524-5993) or the nearest FBI Office. ](THIS ARTICLE WAS TAKEN FROM THE CRIMLIBRARY WEBSITE)[/U]

These two cases show so many similarities.. and the further you read about them the further you see that some kind of cover up is happening. Id love for some of you regulars to search for yourselfs and see what you find, and conclude. I cant post everything here, because its so extensive.. But Id love to hear what other ppl have to say.
Myself, I think the cases are related, I think both girls have foul play involved in their disappearances, and I think both families DESERVE TO KNOW THE TRUTH!!!

For more information on these girls visit thier missing sites- www.mauramurraymissing.com
www.bringbrihome.org

Obviously there is TONS of info floating around out there.. but these are the family sites.. LOVE to hear what Ppl think here!

Thanks for the info. Didn't some site compare her death to the Valley Killer case?

I havent seen it compared to the valley killer, but that doesnt mean these disappearances havent been. One or both. Ill have to keep an eye out for that. If you find an article about it.. Id love to see it.. :)

I'll look for some more info and get back to you.

I found this article while searching.. its more of a blog than an article, but it makes for some good reading, and makes some incredibly thought provoking points. It is taken from the website noted here- www.crime.com/huffsblog

Maura, Brianna, and the Valley Killer?
Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 9:28 pm
If you click the thumbnail on the left it will take you to a map of the Vermont/New Hampshire border. The map you will see once you’re there is best viewed by pressing F11 on your keyboard to render it full-screen. Pressing F11 again, by the way, will render your screen back to normal, unless you like the full-screen effect in general.

On the map I’ve marked the approximate locations where victims of a still-unsolved series of murders committed by a killer local press dubbed the “Valley Killer” were found. In addition to the known victims of the Valley Killer I have also marked the approximate location in northern New Hampshire where, on a wintry February night in 2004, 21-year-old Maura Murray disappeared.

On the surface, there appears to be little reason to connect Maura Murray’s disappearance with a series of apparent abductions and murders that seemed to cease in 1988. In fact, there seems to be an attitude on the part of authorities responsible for investigating Maura’s disappearance that Maura might have even made a conscious decision to vanish that February night, over a year ago.

It is true that events leading up to Maura’s disappearance are puzzling. From a column in the Boston Globe by Brian McGrory published February 27, 2004, titled, Footprints in the Snow:


(…)Maura received a call on the evening of Feb. 5 that reduced her to tears. A couple of days later, she told professors she’d be gone for a week for a family emergency. On Feb. 9, she left her boyfriend of three years, an army lieutenant in Oklahoma, an e-mail and voice mail in which she indicated nothing wrong, packed her car, and headed north.

The next time she was seen was in this tiny valley town (Haverhill, New Hampshire), by Butch Atwood, a 58-year-old local school bus driver who passed her car as it sat in the snowbank. He said he stopped and asked if she needed help. She declined. He drove the 100 yards to his house and called the police. When they arrived, she was gone…

The weather that night was, as it can be in that part of New England in February, cold and nasty, the roads freezing. Maura had already had a wreck earlier that week, on February 8, at 3:30 a.m. She’d run her father’s new Toyota into a roadside post.

The morning of Monday, February 9th, 2004, the day Maura vanished, she is known to have done the following:

Some time after midnight on the ninth Maura performed a Mapquest search of the Berkshires and Burlington, Vermont.
At 3:40 p.m. that afternoon, Maura Murray withdrew $280 from an ATM and later made a stop at a local liquor store in Amherst, where she was attending the University of Massachusetts. Surveillance cameras recorded her movements at both locations and she appeared to be alone.
The next time anyone saw Maura Murray was on that icy road in Haverhill, New Hampshire. It was about 7 p.m. when Butch Atwood asked the young woman if she needed help.
In the 10 minutes between Atwood driving 100 yards to his home and the police arriving at the scene, Maura Murray vanished.
Maura had no known health issues, physically or mentally, and her grades were good. Her relationship with her boyfriend was solid. There were no tracks leading into the woods by the road where she had the mishap in Haverhill, tracking dogs found no scent, and aircraft with heat-seeking devices found nothing in the area.

Ten minutes to most of us doesn’t sound like much time at all. Yet in that brief span of time, Maura Murray vanished without a trace.

Why even assume that Maura’s disappearance has anything to do with a pattern of murders that seemed to stop about 16 years ago? Why assume that her disappearance was part of a pattern at all? People young and old do disappear, and they disappear at random, sadly. Natalee Holloway is the first middle class white American girl to disappear in the manner she did from the island of Aruba in recent memory, perhaps ever, and no one has disappeared since Natalee vanished. No one is murmuring warnings of serial murder down there.

Well, they shouldn’t. And perhaps if Maura was the only young woman to vanish in the winter of 2004 from that northern border area between New Hampshire and Vermont there would be no reason to suspect any pattern at work.

But on March 19, 2004, just under 100 miles due north along Interstate 91, Brianna Maitland vanished.

One month and ten days after the mystery of Maura Murray began, Brianna Maitland left her job at a restaurant in Montgomery, Vermont in her 1985 Oldsmobile 88. Her car was found abandoned later against the side of a barn one mile from Brianna’s workplace. Brianna left behind a couple of paychecks in the vehicle, as well as contact lenses and medication she apparently needed.

In this article published on May 6, 2004 in the St. Johnsbury, Vermont Caledonian-Record, a meeting between the parents of Maura Murray and Brianna Maitland was detailed. From the article, titled, Police Have New Lead In Maura Murray Case:


The Maitlands and Murray believe there may be a connection between what has happened to their daughters. And they want that connection explored.

However, state police from Vermont and New Hampshire have discounted any connection between the disappearances of Brianna and Maura…


Often law enforcement agencies dislike efforts to link crimes in this manner. The term used by some who study serial crime for this problem is linkage blindness. Serial killers depend on linkage blindness — it is the achilles heel of local law enforcement, and can permit a killer clever enough to understand the problem years of anonymous freedom. Jurisdictions don’t exchange information, have separate and proprietary databases they use to track criminals and types of crime. Some departments, quite simply, compete, and try to outdo one another in percentage of crimes solved, number of perpetrators arrested.

There are many problems with mentioning Maura Murray and Brianna Maitland and then thinking about any connection between these girls disappearing and a serial criminal prowling the interstate that marks the border between Vermont and New Hampshire. If we want to go ahead and wonder about a connection to the Valley Killer from the late ’70s and ’80s and these girls, we have the gap of 16 years between the Valley Killer’s last known murder and the winter of 2004. The initial tendency is to doubt such a gap, since we know serial criminals either tend to keep killing or die, most of the time. If anything, amateur cybersleuths like me are guilty of the opposite of linkage blindness, if we are honest with ourselves — amateur sleuthing can lead to a bit too much of a conspiratorial mindset. It can be too easy to fall prey to what we’ve learned from crime fiction, and forget that the movies, novels, and fact are often as different as night and day.

But is it a rule that serial criminals only cease their favorite pasttimes when they get too sick to move or die? Nope. They age like the rest of us, and sometimes they just slow down. My favorite example at the moment — if “favorite” is the right word — Dennis Rader, the BTK Strangler, just recently confessed to 10 murders. Until March of 2004 Wichita authorities were fairly certain BTK’s murders had ceased in 1977. Only after Rader started talking did we find that he simply became more patient, more careful. More deliberate. In 1985, his neighbor Marine Hedge. In 1986, a murder the squad actively hunting BTK actually declared shortly after its discovery to definitely not be his — Vicki Wegerle. And if Rader is to be believed, finally, in 1991, Dorothy “Dee” Davis.

Rader’s method of operation changed. Not much — but just enough. He ceased his communication with authorities and the press. He abducted two of his later victims, where he’d killed people inside their homes before. Small changes, in retrospect. His victims, too, seemed to age with the killer — Hedge and Davis both in their fifties while Rader was still in his forties.

The point is, Dennis Rader proved to us all that even when we think they’ve gone away, sometimes they haven’t. Robert Graysmith, in his comprehensive book about the Zodiac Killer, may have discovered more than 40 murders beyond those for which Zodiac took credit in his many letters to the San Francisco press and northern California authorities. Those authorities have never been able to back Mr. Graysmith up, and some of them seem to prefer strongly the idea that Zodiac either died or moved from his habitual killing zone — that if Zodiac kept killing it was so far removed that law enforcement couldn’t adequately connect the crimes and recognize the signature of a single criminal.

I am saying, I suppose, that it isn’t as crazy to think the Valley Killer went away as it might seem at first glance. The link in the killer’s moniker in the preceding sentence will take you to verbal_plainfield’s comprehensive geocities site about serial murder, and the breakdown of the Valley Killer’s known crimes there is pretty succinct. A quote from verbal_plainfield:


The unknown slayer’s first victim was likely Cathy Millican, 26, her body found on September 25, 1978, in a wetlands preserve near New London, New Hampshire. She had been stabbed to death. (…T)he Valley Killer struck again on May 30, 1984. Nurse’s aid Bernice Courtemanche, 17 when she disappeared, was not found until almost two years after her disappearance. A subsequent autopsy revealed evidence that she too had been stabbed to death.

Nurse Ellen Fried went missing on July 10, 1984, but her remains were not discovered until over a year later in rural New Hampshire. Her autopsy also showed signs that she had died by knife. Eva Morse was last seen hitchhiking in Charlestown, New Hampshire, after leaving her place of work on July 10, 1985. Her corpse was not located until logger found it on April 25, 1986, with obvious evidence of knife wounds. Next was Lynda Moore, stabbed to death in her home outside of Saxtons River, Vermont, on May 15, 1986. Courtemanche, Fried, and Morse had all disappeared from Claremont , New Hampshire.

Another nurse was murdered by the elusive killer in January of 1987. Barbera Agnew, 36, disappeared on her way home from a ski trip. Her car was soon found abandoned at a Vermont rest stop but her body was not discovered unti March 28. She too was the victim of a vicious stabbing with wounds in the neck and lower abdomen area, which investigators were learning was the Valley Killer’s signature…

Again, the map I linked at the beginning of this entry is no work of art — I didn’t even use photoshop — but it does give you a decent visual representation of the locations of the Valley Killer’s dump sites. In general he seemed to keep his trolling confined to the Claremont area, tending to keep close to the border between the states. It would appear that Interstates 91 and 89 could have been his main routes of travel. He killed no further east than Cathy Millican in 1978, as far south along I-91 as Lynda Moore in Saxtons River, Vermont, in 1986.

I did not add Brianna Maitland’s disappearance to the map, but I did place a marker for Maura’s disappearance. She vanished from an empty country road in the dark, just a few miles from I-91 and the Connecticut River, which run like strange twins of asphalt and water northward until they part ways near St. Johnsbury.

When I first read of this unsolved series of murders and then wondered if there could be any connection between the killer trolling the I-91/Connecticut River corridor nearly 20 years ago and the girls missing last year I naturally shot as many holes as I could in the idea at first. I’ve tried to touch on a number of reasons it might be a silly conclusion to reach.

But there is also the nagging fact that Maura Murray was a nursing student.

From the North American Missing Persons Network page about Maura:


A nursing student from Amherst, MA, Maura was last seen at approximately 7:00 pm in the vicinity of Route 112 in Haverhill, NH…

Read the quote from the geocities site again and note:

Nurse’s aid Bernice Courtemanche
Nurse Ellen Fried went missing on July 10, 1984…
Another nurse… Barbera Agnew, 36…

It is an odd coincidence. Of the missing or dead women in question, the probable victims of the Valley Killer from the late ’70s and ’80s and the two girls who vanished in 2004, 4 were either associated with the nursing profession — student, nurse’s aid — or actually a nurse. If we include Brianna Maitland and Maura Murray as possibly having run afoul of the Hollow Man traveling that Interstate route, we have have 9 potential victims of the Valley Killer — six women apparently abducted and murdered, one — Jane Boroski — attacked but survived, two vanished.

Note too that I wrote “interstate route.” You can see at the verbal_plainfield site that it is the fact that the murders which began with the death of Cathy Millican in 1978 occurred mostly in the Connecticut River Valley that eventually even gave the unknown killer his nickname. Michael Newton, who has entries in both his Encyclopedia of Serial Killers and The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes about this case, begins his own entries in the books thusly:


The scenic Connecticut River Valley forms a natural border between the states of New Hampshire aqnd Vermont… ~ Michael Newton’s Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, page 228.

What occurred to me as I looked at maps tonight, both online and off, and tried to incorporate the idea that perhaps Brianna Maitland and Maura Murray both might have met up with a legacy older than anyone living along the border between those small New England states may understand, was that Interstate 91 parallels the Connecticut River — until St. Johnsbury, where I-93 splits off from 91 and the Connecticut River appears to wend northeastward while I-91 continues a more northerly track. If you continue on I-91 you eventually merge on to U.S. Highway 5 heading west, toward Montgomery, Vermont. And of course in March of 2004, just a little over a month after Maura Murray disappeared, the mystery of what happened to Brianna Maitland began in that very town. A mystery that is, if considered apart from any theories about the Valley Killer, still disturbingly similar to the one surrounding Maura.

So, Dr. Lecter asked Clarice, what does he do, this man you seek?

Consider the one who got away from the Valley Killer, Jane Boroski. Here is her experience as recounted in Michael Newton’s Encyclopedia of Serial Killers — Borowski was at a country store on Route 9 south of Keene, New Hampshire on August 6, 1988, when:


An unknown man approached Boroski in the parking lot, dragging her out of her car, and pulled a knife when she fought back. At one point in their scuffle, when she asked why he had chosen her, the man replied, “You beat up my girlfriend.” Boroski denied it, and the man appeared confused. “Isn’t this a Massachusetts car?” he asked. Boroski pointed out New Hampshire license plates, and the stranger hesitated, began to turn away, then rushed at her with the knife again… ~ The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Michael Newton, pages 229-230.

Boroski was able to give the only description available of the killer — a thin-lipped man with pale eyes and hair. Most interesting to me as I put this entry together was the odd exchange Jane Boroski had with her killer — “Isn’t this a Massachusetts car?”

Of course, it could have been just part of a ruse, or evidence of a truly disordered killer acting out of motivations making sense only to the voices in his head. Keene is close to the Massachusetts border, about sixty miles or so up I-91 and 14 miles or so east of the interstate down Highway 9. Maura Murray would have driven by on I-91 that February 9th, coming from Amherst and UMass, where she was studying to be a nurse.

Consider, then:

Serial killers are frequently the most mobile of criminals. Many of them drive habitually — Ted Bundy [crimelibrary.com link], is just one example of a serial killer who self-reported as much.
With the typical wanderlust of the serial killer in mind, consider it then as possibly being much more significant that Interstate 91 runs along the border between New Hampshire and Vermont than that the original Valley Killer murders took place in the Connecticut River Valley. The original crimes tended to center around the Claremont, New Hampshire area, but again, the killer appears to never have strayed much further from one of those interstate routes than when he killed Cathy Millican.
What could the connection between many of these victims and the nursing profession possibly be? Could it be significant that Maura Murray studied nursing at UMass Amherst, just south of the New Hampshire/Massachusetts border? Did any of the other victims from more than 20 years ago study at UMass?
The killer seemed non-plussed after seeing that Jane Boroski’s car was not from Massachusetts, to the degree that he seemed ready to back off. His final attack on the woman seemed like a second thought, since she’d seen his face, perhaps. Why would it matter if her car was from Massachusetts? Was there some esoteric criteria in the murderer’s head that dictated he look for cars crossing the state borders — to confuse authorities, and take advantage of “linkage blindness?”
All the victims were, as best as I can tell — fine details of the Valley Killer murders are not easy to come by — white women under 40. Three worked in some capacity as a nurse, Maura Murray was studying to be a nurse.
As demonstrated by what we now know about BTK, Dennis Rader, serial killers can slow down the pace of their murders and change their method of operation at will. The previous Valley Killer victims were mostly found some time after their deaths, indicating active efforts to hide the bodies in many instances. Neither Brianna nor Maura have been found — if we factored in the idea of the Valley Killer, would he have simply refined his methods at this point to the degree that he found a foolproof place to dispose of victims’ remains? If he has had all this time to practice, that is a logical conclusion.
Assuming for the moment there might be a connection between Maura, Brianna, and the Valley Killer; if there really did appear to be a lull between 1988 and 2004, where did the killer go? An examination of unsolved murders elsewhere in the U.S. that match up with what we know of the Valley Killer’s murders might not be a bad idea.
What happened to Brianna Maitland? To Maura Murray? At the moment we simply don’t know. We don’t even know if the similarities between the ways these girls disappeared are simply bizarre coincidences, or not. A twenty-something student and girl in her late teens, both attractive, one studying to be a medical professional, the other working as a waitress. Both of them appear to have single-car accidents, and both disappear completely, leaving their cars and questions behind.

Seven women in the 1970s and ’80s attacked, six brutally murdered. Some of them connected across the years to Maura Murray by pursuit of a medical profession. Snaking through all of these questions the twin rivers of asphalt and water marking the borders of states, Interstate 91 and the Connecticut River.

The closest I can come to an answer in the midst of all this speculation at the moment is the idea that the truth, if it is ever found, will have much more to do with the highway than the river.

Yeah, I had seen that page before a couple of years ago when I used to post here when UM was still on TV and it's now clicking for me again. I tried to click the link of the source of that blog page so I can check out the map, but the link doesn't seem to work.

I find the nurse link to be very interesting and another thing I found interesting is that Michael Nicholaou’s first wife was a nurse and that his mother worked at a hospital. Nicholaou had visited a hospital where one of the victims worked within a few months of her death. His sketch looks eerily similar to the composite:
http://www.musicspotproductions.com/RP/CRV_Murders/Michael_Nicholaou_Sketch&Pic.jpg
If he was looking down in his photo like he was looking down on his victims like in the composite, it's pretty uncanny.

But sadly we will probably never know what happened because the police misplaced the DNA evidence according to Jane Boroski who joined this thread:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=180576
It seems the police majorly fudged this one and now we won't know if Michael Nicholaou was the Valley Killer or not and the families won't get the closure they deserved. We also won't know if Brianna and Maura were connected to the Valley Killer either. I'm surprised the FBI didn't get involved with this and roll some heads over there in New Hampshire and Vermont since it was the FBI's jurisdiction when the victims of the same killer turned up in 2 bordering states like that right off an interstate.

I remember seeing the Brianna Maitland case on episode of Montel Williams which was devoted to missing adults. Her and Maura's story are really weird. I do think they were kidnapped or murdered because it was mentioned that Brianna's medication and contact lenses were left behind. I do feel for their families.

Not to mention, the two uncashed paychecks they found in Brianna's car. How would someone runaway voluntarily in those circumstances? It's obviously foul play.

Yeah, I had seen that page before a couple of years ago when I used to post here when UM was still on TV and it's now clicking for me again. I tried to click the link of the source of that blog page so I can check out the map, but the link doesn't seem to work.

I find the nurse link to be very interesting and another thing I found interesting is that Michael Nicholaou’s first wife was a nurse and that his mother worked at a hospital. Nicholaou had visited a hospital where one of the victims worked within a few months of her death. His sketch looks eerily similar to the composite:
http://www.musicspotproductions.com/RP/CRV_Murders/Michael_Nicholaou_Sketch&Pic.jpg
If he was looking down in his photo like he was looking down on his victims like in the composite, it's pretty uncanny.

But sadly we will probably never know what happened because the police misplaced the DNA evidence according to Jane Boroski who joined this thread:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=180576
It seems the police majorly fudged this one and now we won't know if Michael Nicholaou was the Valley Killer or not and the families won't get the closure they deserved. We also won't know if Brianna and Maura were connected to the Valley Killer either. I'm surprised the FBI didn't get involved with this and roll some heads over there in New Hampshire and Vermont since it was the FBI's jurisdiction when the victims of the same killer turned up in 2 bordering states like that right off an interstate.


Uhh, for the love of God. That composite sends chills down my spine. :eek:

Uhh, for the love of God. That composite sends chills down my spine. :eek:
You too?