![]() Strelzin’s office has been investigating Murray’s disappearance since shortly after her disappearance. By 2019, the FBI had included more than 750 victims in its database, and identified more than 450 possible predators. ViCAP was created in 2009 as part of the FBI’s Highway Serial Killer Initiative. Law enforcement agencies nationwide have been asked to forward information about cases meeting “highway serial killings criteria,” including kidnapped or missing persons whose last known location was along a highway. Department of Justice website explains that crime analysts, specially trained to study the database with the goal of identifying serial offenders, “have developed timelines on potential highway serial killer suspects.” The purpose of ViCAP is to largely help find people who may be victims of a crime as well as find patterns that will lead to nailing down serial criminals. “But I think it’s because law enforcement has exhausted all their sources that they have available, and this is a very powerful database they can use to track and correlate information.” “I hope it’s because there’s new information,” she said in a News Nation interview. Julie Murray, who publicly represents the family, said in television interviews last week that when she was notified about the ViCAP alert, she wasn’t told why the alert was issued now, nearly 18 years after her sister disappeared. The FBI ViCAP alert poster of Maura Murray that was issued a week ago. Extensive investigation by local and state law enforcement in the years since have turned up scant information about what may have happened to her. ![]() Murray disappeared after crashing her car on Route 112 in North Haverhill Feb. Murray’s family was notified by a victim-witness advocate of the AG’s office last week, Strelzin said. “Like all investigative avenues, the hope is that it may lead to useful information in the case.” “ is simply another investigative avenue being used in the case,” NH Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin told Manchester InkLInk. ![]() ⇒ RELATED STORY Investigators still digging for clues in 2004 Maura Murray case Local law enforcement can request that missing people, among other potential victims, be added to the base. The FBI Violent Criminal Apprehension Profile’s purpose is to share information with law enforcement across the country to track and apprehend “violent serial offenders,” according to the U.S. File PhotoĬONCORD, NH – It was at the request of the New Hampshire Office of Attorney General that Maura Murray, a University of Massachusetts student who’s been missing since 2004, was added to the FBI ViCAP registry last week. Maura Murray was 21 when she was last seen in New Hampshire.
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