Thomas "TJ" Murray Jr. 24 , Sam Houston State Student Msg 10/19/11 Huntsville TX

[MuffyBee]

I can't believe that nothing has come out about this young man.  Didn't anyone see anything?

I'm of the opinion his friends need to man up and talk.  I could be wrong.  I've been wrong before.  But I think some are just not talking.  JMHO

[MuffyBee]

http://www.kbtx.com/news/headlines/Strangers_Come_Together_To_Find_Missing_Student__134728088.html?ref=088
Strangers Come Together To Find Missing Student
November 30, 2011

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T.J. Murray was last seen at a sports bar in October near the Woodlands. His parents say it's as if he just vanished.

For $5 each, T.J. Murray's classmates are selling wristbands in hopes of raising awareness and money.

"He's a Bearcat here, and I love the Bearcats, so it's our duty to help in any way we can," said Paiten Chriss, a SHSU student.

These volunteers are actually providing the service for a complete stranger.

"I don't know T.J. I don't know his family or anything like that. I heard about it on their Facebook page. They have a Facebook Page called 'Bring TJ Murray Home Safe'," said Colleen Byrd, a student at SHSU. "I really don't want it to just fade away and for people to stop thinking about it. I'd like to keep it as an active thought in everybody's mind until we have an answer."

All the wristband proceeds will go towards increasing the $5,000 reward for information that leads to finding T.J.

The reward amount can soon be found on I-45 between Conroe and The Woodlands. Lamar Advertising donated the billboard space to help raise awareness. No one in the company knows T.J., but they are determined to help.

"There's no reason to give up until we've accomplished what we need to do. We need to find him regardless of the situation--if he is alive or well or not. The family needs closure. There's no minimum of what we can do," said Jackson Felty, a SHSU student.

Wristband sales so far have brought in more than $6,000.

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[KittyMom]

I can't believe that nothing has come out about this young man.  Didn't anyone see anything?

I'm of the opinion his friends need to man up and talk.  I could be wrong.  I've been wrong before.  But I think some are just not talking.  JMHO

I think you're correct.  This story of his buddy going to the bathroom and he just disappeared just doesn't seem realistic.  I mean, common on.  If they were into something they don't want their parents to know about I'm pretty sure the parents won't care now if they can just get their son back.  Just start talking.

[MuffyBee]

http://www.houstonianonline.com/news/shsu-optimist-club-selling-bracelet-to-help-find-missing-student-1.2678297
SHSU Optimist Club selling bracelet to help find missing student
By Stephen Green
Published: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Updated: Thursday, December 1, 2011

Courtesy "Bring TJ Murray Homes Safe" Facebook page.
All bracelets are being sold for $5 on the LSC mall area from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. by the SHSU Optimist Club.

A missing student is getting support from the campus community as the seventh week of his disappearance begins.

The SHSU Optimist Club is selling bracelets for $5 to raise money and awareness of the search for Sam Houston State University student Thomas (TJ) Murray.

"I started the booth in an effort to spread the word about TJ's disappearance," member Colleen Byrd said. "Despite the fact that TJ has been missing for a month, many students had not heard that this had happened."

"I wanted to change that, and give some support to the family. It's really all for them. I don't know TJ, and neither did any of the students who have been working at our booth."

A Facebook page, "Bring TJ Murray Home Safe," was also setup and shows the reward poster and several pictures of Murray. There is a $5,000 award for information "directly leading" to finding Murray, according to the reward poster.

Byrd, and the other members of the Optimist Club, are doing this not only for Murray, but his family as well.

"They deserve to have their family member home," Byrd said. "They deserve closure. Someone in this world knows exactly where (Murray) is. They need to come forward."
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[MuffyBee]

https://www.facebook.com/bringTJhome

Bring TJ Murray Home Safe

[MuffyBee]

http://itemonline.com/local/x1940557695/Volunteers-sought-to-help-search-for-missing-student
Volunteers sought to help search for missing student
By Cody Stark Staff Reporter
December 8, 2011

Family and friends are still hoping that Thomas Murray Jr. will return home safely.

The Sam Houston State student has been missing for close to two months and law enforcement officials have not been able to find any solid leads in the case. Now a group of Murray’s friends are going to take to the streets to try to find the 24-year-old who was last seen at a sports bar in Montgomery County on Oct. 19.

On Sunday, a group of close to 50 people will be searching an area in Spring from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and they ask that anyone with ATVs or horses join in on the search.

“We just hope to bring T.J. home,” Hannah McDonald said. “We are not sure where we are going to meet, but we are going to search and we have his family’s blessing.”

Anyone who is interested in joining the search party can email McDonald at h_frc@yahoo.com and she will provide the meeting place and any other information as it becomes available. The search group does ask that volunteers be at least 17 years of age or older.
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[MuffyBee]

https://www.facebook.com/bringTJhome


Bring TJ Murray Home Safe
TJ's billboard has been spotted. It is located up in the Willis/New Waverley area. North bound. Not 100% what exit though.

Although this should not have even needed to happen, I'm thankful that this sign was donated to get the word out and keep it out there.

Let's hope it can come down in the near future because someone will speak up! Keep praying.

[cecilita]

http://itemonline.com/local/x1940557695/Volunteers-sought-to-help-search-for-missing-student
Volunteers sought to help search for missing student
By Cody Stark Staff Reporter
December 8, 2011

Family and friends are still hoping that Thomas Murray Jr. will return home safely.

The Sam Houston State student has been missing for close to two months and law enforcement officials have not been able to find any solid leads in the case. Now a group of Murray’s friends are going to take to the streets to try to find the 24-year-old who was last seen at a sports bar in Montgomery County on Oct. 19.

On Sunday, a group of close to 50 people will be searching an area in Spring from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and they ask that anyone with ATVs or horses join in on the search.

“We just hope to bring T.J. home,” Hannah McDonald said. “We are not sure where we are going to meet, but we are going to search and we have his family’s blessing.”

Anyone who is interested in joining the search party can email McDonald at h_frc@yahoo.com and she will provide the meeting place and any other information as it becomes available. The search group does ask that volunteers be at least 17 years of age or older.
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Thank you!! I dint know that this boy is missing and I live in this area. Something is really weird, he was leaving his "dad's truck" in so many places, I know he was with his friends but after the last call he called the "dad" and told him that he coulnd go back to a club and he got separated to his his friends..it means that he went back to the first bar to get his truck and then go where? he told his father in his second phone call that he was leaving the car at a high school right? why he dint go home if he was alone? or  where he was going that he "had" to leave the truck in the high school parking lot? ...something is very weird....

[MuffyBee]

Cecilita, I agree with you, there's a lot in TJ's  case that isn't making sense nor is it adding up.  I don't know if we just don't have enough information or what.  Some of it just doesn't sound right.  And one of my son's attends SHSU and I've asked him about the case several times and his reply has been that there's no news coverage about it. He never hears anything about it. There's been a bit of news from the local paper The Huntsville Item itemonline.com, but no real follow up, other than the initial report.  That's not surprising, because even though it's a college town, it's more of a prison town, and a lot of the older generation act like they can barely tolerate the students, and this has been my experience from spending time there.  I was glad to see some of the students at Sam make an effort to raise money by selling bracelets  and encourage an awareness of TJ's disappearance.   Of course, TJ's family aren't from Huntsville, and neither did he go missing from there.  So that leaves other news sources from areas such as The Woodlands or Conroe.  Not much there either.  The largest city nearby with big news agencies would be Houston, and news sources such as www.myfoxhouston.com, Khou.com and chron.com would be possible sources.  Not much in that either.  There's the facebook, and of course the new billboard near New Waverly, and that's an area a lot of students going to The Woodlands, Conroe or of course, Houston would pass, so that might be good, depending on which side it's on and if it's readily visible from the highway.  I haven't been down that way lately, so I don't know.  I look for any news I can find on this case and I post it here.   At the end of the day, I think there are people that know things about TJ's disappearance and they aren't coming forth.  And it's leaving TJ's family in the dark, with their son missing.  Someone needs to man up imo.  

[cecilita]

I think that he was with somebody when he called the dad. He supposed to leave the car in a high school to go to another bar and somebody had to be with him in order to take him to another place.

[MuffyBee]

http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/spring/news/searchers-hold-out-hope-at-finding-missing-murray/article_d75e1c5c-e5c8-57a9-a903-257eec114223.html
Searchers hold out hope at finding missing Murray
By Jennifer Bell
December 15, 2011

It’s been almost two months since Sam Houston University student TJ Murray went missing in the Spring area, but a search party of family, friends and those who never even met Murray held out hope for clues to his location Sunday.

Hannah McDonald lives in Walker County, and never knew Murray. But she organized an all-day search Sunday with several others because she’d “like to see him come home.”
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Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office investigators and members of Equusearch searched near Interstate 45 and Spring Creek and an area near Borough Park Drive near Sawdust Road in the days after TJ was declared missing on Oct. 26, but nothing turned up.

Upon hearing about TJ’s disappearance, McDonald contacted the Murray family and organized Sunday’s search, which focused on areas near the ORWALL Field and the Montgomery County Wildlife Preserve.
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As of Sunday afternoon, all the search had turned up was animal bones, Koumonduros said. While searchers aren’t sure what exactly they’ll find of TJ, McDonald said “eliminating ground” is still an important part of the search.

“It’s hard when you don’t know what you’re looking for, but it gives you hope when you know he’s not here, so we can go on looking somewhere else,” McDonald said.

Koumonduros said that she knows there was an altercation at On the Rox, the night Murray disappeared, and the people who were with and around TJ have since been questioned. But no one is suspected in his disappearance.

“Somebody knows something,” Bench said. “It’s just a matter of getting the word out to the right person.”

[MuffyBee]

For the story/updates on TJ Murray, please visit: http://texasequusearch.org/2011/10/missing-thomas-murray-jr-23-yrs-spring-tx-101911/
http://www.facebook.com/bringTJhome

http://twitter.com/#!/bringtjhome

BringTJHome BringTJMurrayHome
come on, people! we need to spread the word. someone, somewhere knows something! we need TJ to come home, it's been 3 months now!
12 hours ago

[MuffyBee]

TJ's Candles

Please light a candle and say a prayer for TJ.

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=TJM

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https://www.facebook.com/bringTJhome

[MuffyBee]

There was a search this morning for TJ.  I hope there will be answers soon.

https://www.facebook.com/bringTJhome


Bring TJ Murray Home Safe
Just a reminder, if you would like to be a part of the search for TJ Murray we are meeting at the Orwall Baseball Fields (1130 Pruitt Road, Spring, Texas 77380) at 8:30AM this Saturday morning. You need to be 18 years or older to participate in the search. The more volunteers the better.
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[KittyMom]

I'd love to know if those buddies he was out with are helping with the searches.

[MuffyBee]

I'd love to know if those buddies he was out with are helping with the searches.

Me too, KittyMom.

[MuffyBee]

http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/courier/news/father-of-missing-student-doubles-reward-money/article_8a11dd05-3095-5813-821b-40d4931a64aa.html
Father of missing student doubles reward money
By Andrea Bolt
Posted February 23, Updated February 24, 2012

After the disappearance of his son Oct. 19, Tom Murray has doubled the reward for information on his missing son T.J. Murray from $10,000 to $20,000.

The first reward amount Tom Murray offered was for $5,000, which he then raised to $10,000. He just increased the reward again to $20,000, he said Wednesday.
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The case is still open and under investigation. Montgomery County Sheriff’s Lt. Dan Norris said increasing the reward amount could be a positive factor in getting leads that might help find T.J. Murray.
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Texas Equusearch is waiting on more information, office administrator Sherry McKinney said, so law enforcement can proceed in the case. Texas Equusearch has conducted three searches for T.J. Murray, she said.

“We need more credible information,” she said. “But already, we have searched and searched and searched.”
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[MuffyBee]

http://www.houstonianonline.com/news/reward-increased-for-missing-shsu-student-1.2711811?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The_Houstonian&utm_campaign=The_Houstonian_201236116
Reward increased for missing SHSU student
By Misti Jones, Senior Reporter
March 6, 2012

The family and friends of missing Sam Houston State University student, Thomas "T.J." Murray Jr., has doubled the reward to $20,000 for any information that can be given about the vanished young man.

Murray, 24, has been missing since Oct. 19, 2011. He was last seen leaving the On the Rocks sports bar located at 592 Sawdust Road in South Montgomery County, shortly after midnight on Oct. 19, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office.
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[MuffyBee]

It looks like some tips have come in from Crime Stoppers.

http://woodlandsonline.com/npps/story.cfm?nppage=47872
Authorities believe foul play involved in Murray disappearance
June 14, 2012

THE WOODLANDS, Texas –– Authorities are still searching for T.J. Murray, who disappeared off Sawdust Road last October, and now have confirmed that foul play is suspected.

Murray, 23, met a friend on Oct. 18, 2011 at Papa’s Ice House before leaving to go to another bar and then ended up at On The Rox in the 300 block of Sawdust Road. While there, Murray was involved in an altercation with multiple patrons, according to Crime Stoppers. Staff from the sports bar asked Murray to leave the bar and escorted him off the property.

Murray was last seen on video surveillance outside of the bar at about 12:30 a.m. that night.
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