Unfortunately I’ve seen this too often while looking into unsolved cases. People have a tendency of looking at the most obscure scenario before looking at what is directly in front of their faces.

Fact number one:

Bill Rausch left Fort Sill Oklahoma headed to Haverhill NH on Wednesday 02/11/2004. While I don’t know what time he left, according to this article it was sometime in the morning of 02/11/2004.

Article link: https://www.caledonianrecord.com/news/family-members-fiance-seek-help-in-finding-woman/article_eda774a1-12be-514c-a379-240180e0723c.html

Also worth noting is the time it would take to fly from Fort Sill to Haverhill. Flights from Fort Sill directly to Haverhill NH don’t exist which means, he would have landed at the Lebanon NH airport and drove to Haverhill NH after landing, which is a 44 minute drive from Lebanon. Ok, now have a look at this:

As you can see here, the flight alone would have taken almost 10 hours. Then he would have landed at the Lebanon airport and needed to drive to Haverhill, have a look:

Bill said that he left Fort Sill in the morning. Let’s assume he left at 8 am, this means he would have arrived in Lebanon at about 7:30 PM (keep in mind Haverhill NH time is one hour ahead of Fort Sill time)… Then from Lebanon he would have to drive 44 minutes which means he arrived at about 8:10 PM on Wednesday.

Now what everybody seems to forget is the emails Maura had sent prior to leaving. Now Maura sent this following email to Bill the say day she disappeared:

Now does this sound like someone who is terrified of her boyfriend? Not to me it doesn’t… next set of emails were sent to her friends about a Dane Cook concert she planned to attend with her friends which was the following day, Thursday February 12th 2004. Have a look:

And next I want you to read this bit from an article I found:

Now does that sound like the reaction of a stone cold killer. This happened on 02/18/2004 btw.

Now the issue with the theory that Bill Rausch somehow killed Maura doesn’t makes sense because this means Bill would have needed to find Maura either Wednesday night after he arrived at nearly 9 PM, being jet lagged and all or early Thursday. Why? Easy, “if” Maura somehow survived past Monday night after her crash, then her intentions would have been to return to UMASS Amherst on Thursday February 12th 2004 in time for the Dane Cook concert, which means she most likely would have left Haverhill in the morning or afternoon to make it on time for the Dane Cook concert.

The problem is Maura never made it to the Dane Cook concert. The other problem is that Maura told Bill she would call him on the night of 02/09/2004 and never did. She had made the same promise to her father Fred, making arrangements to call him at 8 PM on Monday February 9th 2004. What this tells me is that whatever happened to Maura happened shortly after her accident. Had Maura arrived at her destination, she would have called Fred her father Period. Bill Rausch didn’t have the time to either find nor kill Maura and cover it up so well that she wouldn’t be found for 15 years, there is no way in hell he harmed Maura. Can we all move on now?

~Acdetective~