Significance
Maura's case was compared in an episode of 20/20 to that of Brooke Wilberger who went missing within a few months of Maura's disappearance, and was later found murdered. The two families have become close. There are more than 21,500 active missing person cases involving people between the ages of 18 and 29. Maura's case was one of those cited by proponents of a cold case unit for New Hampshire. Her case was added to the newly established cold case unit in late 2009.
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“The hypothesis I wish to advance is that ... the language of morality is in ... grave disorder.... What we possess, if this is true, are the fragments of a conceptual scheme, parts of which now lack those contexts from which their significance derived. We possess indeed simulacra of morality, we continue to use many of the key expressions. But we have—very largely if not entirely—lost our comprehension, both theoretical and practical, of morality.”
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)