"It does not matter why she left or if she told anybody about it," Fred Murray also told World News Daily. "She had an accident and this presented her with a completely different set of circumstances, any other plans went out the window. I believe that my daughter would be home safe and sound right now if the police had not ignored the case until it was way too late. They would have known where she was heading if they had bothered to check the last phone call she made three hours before she left Amherst. I told the police where she was going two days after the accident but they didn't check that either. The police failed to follow their own procedures and are now striving to prevent this from coming to light. Maura probably did get a ride with one or more of the area's multitudinous sex offenders who law enforcement can't catch because they waited too long to get started."

On The Disappearance of Maura Murray, which premiered last week on Oxygen, podcasters Reenstierna and Pilleri told Maggie Freleng that the Murray family wouldn't speak to them when they tried to get in touch "because of the James Renner factor."

Fred Murray wouldn't speak to Renner for his book, and Renner has been of the opinion that Fred hasn't shared everything he knows about his daughter's disappearance. Reenstierna and Pilleri had Renner on their podcast.

But despite his reluctance to work with certain people, Fred Murray hasn't given up his search, nor does he crave justice for Maura any less than he did 13 years ago.

"The case has to stay alive,'' he told the Globe in February. "That's the only hope I have. I can't help Maura now. The only thing I can do for Maura is to grab the dirt bag who grabbed her. That's all I can do. I must find her and bring her home."

Watch new episodes of The Disappearance of Maura Murray on Saturdays at 7 & 9 p.m. on Oxygen.