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10 years later, questions linger on disappearance of 21-year-old Mass. student after NH crash

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This Tuesday Feb. 4, 2014 photo shows a missing person poster of Maura Murray that hangs in the lobby of the police station in Haverhill, N.H. Ten years ago, the Massachusetts college student drove off a road in a rural section of Haverhill in northern New Hampshire and hasn't been seen since. She left a tormented family, vexed investigators and a case rife with rumor and innuendo. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) (The Associated Press)

In this Tuesday Feb. 4, 2014 photo, a missing person poster of Maura Murray hangs in the lobby of the police station in Haverhill, N.H. Ten years ago, the Massachusetts college student drove off a road in a rural section of Haverhill in northern New Hampshire and hasn't been seen since. She left a tormented family, vexed investigators and a case rife with rumor and innuendo. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) (The Associated Press)

In this Tuesday Feb. 4, 2014 photo, a recently hung ribbon hangs on a tree where Maura Murray was last seen after crashing her car in Haverhill, N.H. Ten years ago, the Massachusetts college student drove off the road in the rural section of Haverhill in northern New Hampshire and hasn't been seen since. She left a tormented family, vexed investigators and a case rife with rumor and innuendo. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) (The Associated Press)

Ten years ago, Maura Murray packed her car, lied to professors about a death in the family and headed to New Hampshire.

Then, the 21-year-old nursing student from Massachusetts vanished.

She left a tormented family, vexed investigators and a case rife with rumor and innuendo.

Investigators say there hasn't been a single, credible sighting of her since minutes after her car spun into trees and a snowbank along Route 112 in North Haverhill the night of Feb. 9, 2004.

It is one of the most intriguing among scores of New Hampshire cold cases.

Fred Murray believes his daughter is dead, the victim of a crime. But he wants to keep her case in the public eye in hopes of finally knowing what really happened that night.