As seen on the Oxygen mini-series The Disappearance of Maura Murray
When an eleven-year-old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession led James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave him PTSD. In 2011, James began researching the strange disappearance of Maura Murray, a UMass student who went missing after wrecking her car in rural New Hampshire in 2004. Over the course of his investigation, he uncovers numerous important and shocking new clues about what may have happened to Maura, but also finds himself in increasingly dangerous situations with little regard for his own well-being. As his quest to find Maura deepens, the case starts taking a toll on his personal life, which begins to spiral out of control. The result is an absorbing dual investigation of a complicated case that has eluded authorities for more than a decade and a journalist's own complicated true-crime addiction.

CONTENTS
Prologue 1
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 3
2. Paramour 8
3. Full Disclosure 12
4. All-American Girl 16
5. Past Is Prologue 20
6. The Gatekeeper 23
7. Forget the Past 27
8. Last Shift at Melville 31
9. The Zoo 34
10. Hacking the Universe 38
11. Never Take Rides from Strangers 44
12. The Runner50
13. Private Eyes 52
14. What Really Happened at West Point 57
15. Cracks in the Façade60
16. The Clique 67
17. Molly, Holly, and Bri 71
18. Murray v. State of New Hampshire 75
19. My Baker Street Irregulars 82
20. The Chief 's Demons 86
21. What the TV Guy Told Me 89
22. Aunt Janis 94
23. Baby Brother 98
24. How an Abduction Happens 103
25. A Lucky Break 108
26. Maura's Lovers 114
27. BFF 117
28. Consider the Red Herring 120
29. The Londonderry Ping 124
30. The Man with the Knife 128
31. 22 Walker130
32. Between the Lines 132
33. Petrit Vasi 134
34. The Shadow of Death Returns 139
35. Motive143
36. 112dirtbag 149
37. Mr. 1974 154
38. Family158
39. Bad Rabbit 162
40. An Overdue Visit 167
41. Outliers175
42. More Trou ble in St. Albans 178
43. Th e Zaps 181
44. Silver Linings184
45. Confrontations 188
46. "Drunk and Naked" 193
47. Graves 197
48. Borderland 200
49. I Saw Your Think 204
50. Eucatastrophe 207
51. Contempt 211
52. Hard Time 217
53. Beagle Strikes Back 222
54. The Fool 226
55. Every body Lies 231
56. Billy, Don't Lose My Number 237
57. Closure Is for Doors 240
58. Failed Tests 246
59. How to Disappear 251
60. Oh, Canada! 255
61. Poker Face 262
62. The Bitter and the Sweet 266
Epilogue 271
Acknowledgments 279

JAMES RENNER is the author of the novels The Man from Primrose Lane and The Great Forgetting, as well as several works of nonfiction, including The Serial Killer's Apprentice. His true crime stories have appeared in The Best American Crime Writing anthology, Cleveland Scene, and Cracked.com. His method of using social media to solve cold cases was the subject of a CNN profile, in 2015. He lives in Akron with his wife and children.