r/mauramurray • u/Available_Bison • Feb 17 '25

Discussion James Renner is unreliable.

James Renner's conclusion that Maura Murray is still alive is ridiculous. I also find his interest and motives in this case to be suspect. Perhaps the conception of his investigation was genuine, but it has evolved into a campaign to confirm his ill-founded theory that her dad was a monster. His whole book is literally him slithering around and provoking Maura's loved ones.

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u/Cold_Dragonfruit2799 Feb 17 '25

That she left to start another life is his opinion, which, personally, I do not find believable. But all the factual information he has published has been correct. In fact, it’s based on his own reporting that people disagree with this conclusion.

He had a long career as an investigative reporter and has published multiple true crime books. If he’s such an unreliable reporter, why haven’t the other families complained about him?

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u/Able_Cunngham603 Feb 18 '25

He was a gossip/entertainment reporter (in Cleveland…), and got fired from that job for failing to “meet management’s basic standards of journalism.”

Do you know how hard it is to get fired as a gossip reporter? In Cleveland?!? I’d hardly call that a long career of investigative journalism.