By Steve Huff
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Another detail brought forward in the article by Pat Grossmith in the Union Leader was the fact that Laura had been seeing someone at the time of her disappearance, fellow Goffstown High student, 17-year-old Tom Leo. Though Tom and Laura had a date as late as March 7th, Leo's absence from activities surrounding his girlfriend's vanishing has been, to Laura's parents at least, conspicuous. Tom Leo didn't join a group at the school, "Friends of Laura Mackenzie," and at first was speaking with investigators. Eventually, his family hired Attorney Brian M. Quirk of Concord, NH, and Tom Leo's direct communication with police was cut off. No one has spoken openly about Leo otherwise, except to say his lack of involvement in the search for Laura Mackenzie is puzzling.
Whatever her faults, a survey of Laura Mackenzie's journaling shows a thoughtful and intelligent young woman. Reading Laura's writings online could also suggest a certain amount of moodiness. Was she trying to flee her problems and in the process she encountered misadventure? Was she perhaps trying to flee from life itself? Not all suicides leave notes or explanations behind — some do just vanish one day. Could it be that the idea of walking into court on the 8th to confront being charged with a crime produced an emotional chain reaction in the young woman, closed off her perception of her world until she saw no other option but to just leave?
Laura Mackenzie's family doesn't believe she meant to vanish so completely. From www.findlaura.org:
"Laura W. Mackenzie, an 18-year-old senior honor student at Goffstown High School, left home in her car for school on March 8, 2006 and since then there have been no calls or emails from her to her family or friends.
"Since mid March, thousands of flyers have been distributed across southern New Hampshire and the world. Law enforcement detectives from Goffstown Police and the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Department are working full-time to bring Laura home to her family. A search task force has been formed to coordinate the community activities to find Laura"
Laura Mackenzie is 5'4" and has blue eyes and brown hair. The plate on her black VW Golf is numbered 211 0126.
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| Laura's License Plate |
Anyone who has information about Laura Mackenzie's disappearance can contact Lt. Bill Barry at the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Dept, 1-800-562-8201, or the Goffstown, NH police at 603-497-4858. A hotmail e-mail address has been set up for tips as well at find-laura@hotmail.com. There is a $5000 reward for information that leads to Laura's safe return.
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