A nursing student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Maura left campus earlier that afternoon after packing her car and emailing her professors and work supervisor that she was taking a week off due to a family emergency. No family emergency existed.[2] Due to her preparations and a lack of evidence of foul play, police investigators initially suggested she may have wanted to disappear and treated her case as a missing persons investigation,[3] but her family and friends have maintained she was abducted.[4][5]
As of February 2014, ten years after her disappearance, there is no suspect and her whereabouts remain unknown. New Hampshire authorities continue to handle Maura's disappearance as a missing persons case.
In November 2003, three months before her disappearance, Maura was questioned by police regarding credit card fraud.[7]She had used a discarded credit card number to purchase $80 worth of delivery pizza. The charge was continued in December to be dismissed after three months' good behavior.[8]
On Thursday, February 5, 2004, around 10:30 pm, Maura spoke on the phone with her older sister Kathleen while on break from her campus job. They discussed Kathleen's relationship problems with her fiance. Hours later, still on her shift, Maura broke down into tears. Her supervisor escorted her back to her dorm room around 1:20 am. Maura apparently did not share with anyone the reason for her breakdown.[2][9]
On Saturday, February 7, Maura's father Fred Murray arrived in Amherst. That afternoon they shopped for a used car and later went to dinner with a friend of Maura's. Maura dropped her father off at his motel room and, borrowing his Toyota Corolla, returned to the campus to attend a dorm party with her friend. At 2:30 am she left the party and drove the Corolla with the intention of returning it to her father. At 3:30 am, en route to his motel, she struck a guardrail on Route 9 in Hadley. The police questioned her but didn't file charges or administer a sobriety test.[10] She was driven back to her father's motel and stayed in his room the rest of the night. At 4:49 am she called her boyfriend in Oklahoma to discuss the accident.[2][9]
Sunday morning, Fred Murray determined the auto damage was covered by his insurance. He rented a car, dropped Maura off at the university, and departed for Connecticut. At 11:30 pm that evening, Fred phoned Maura reminding her to obtain the forms pertaining to the accident on Monday from the Registry of Motor Vehicles. They agreed to talk again Monday night to discuss the forms and together fill out the insurance claim over the phone.[2]
Around midnight, Monday, February 9, shortly after speaking with her father, Maura used her personal computer to searchMapQuest for directions to the The Berkshires and Burlington, Vermont.[9][11]
At 1:00 pm Maura emailed her boyfriend: “I got your messages, but honestly, I didn't feel like talking to much of anyone, I promise to call today though.”[10]
Around 1:00 pm she also made a phone call to inquire about renting a condominium in the same Bartlett, New Hampshirecondo association her family vacationed at in the past.[12] Telephone records indicate the call lasted three minutes. The owner did not rent the condo to Maura. Then Maura called a fellow nursing student for reasons unknown.[2]
At 1:24 pm Maura emailed a work supervisor and nursing school faculty that she would be out of town for a week due to a death in her family and that she would contact them when she returned. There was no family emergency at the time.[2][13]
At 2:05 pm she called a number which provides prerecorded information about booking hotels in Stowe, Vermont. She listened to this information for approximately five minutes. At 2:18 pm she telephoned her boyfriend and left a voice message promising him they would talk later.[10] This call ended after one minute.[2]
In her car she packed clothing, toiletries, and college textbooks.[2] When her room was searched later, campus police discovered most of her belongings packed in boxes and the art removed from the walls. It's disputed if she packed them that day or they were merely still packed from her recent return from winter break.[10] Around 3:30 pm, she drove off the campus in her black Saturn sedan.[2]
At 3:40 pm Maura withdrew $280 from an ATM. Closed-circuit footage indicates she was alone. This withdrawal nearly emptied her bank account although she was due to receive paychecks in the coming days.[9] She then purchased nearly $40 worth of alcohol at a nearby liquor store, including Baileys Irish Cream, Kahlúa, vodka, and a box of Franzia wine.[10]Footage also shows she was alone when she made that purchase.[9] At some point in the day she obtained Registry of Motor Vehicle accident report forms, as they were later found in her car.[2]
Maura then left Amherst, presumably via Interstate 91 north.[14] She called to check her voice mail at 4:37 pm, the last recorded use of her cell phone.[10] To date there is no indication she had informed anyone of her destination or evidence she had chosen one.
"At a hairpin turn, she went off the road. Her car hit a tree. At that point, a person came along who was driving a bus. It was a neighbor. He asked her if she needed help. She refused. About 10 minutes later, police showed up to the scene and Maura Murray was gone."
Some time after 7:00 pm, a Woodsville, New Hampshire resident heard a loud thump outside of her house. Through her window she could see a black Saturn sedan up against the snowbank along Route 112, also known as Wild Ammonoosuc Road. The car pointed west on the eastbound side of the road. She telephoned the Grafton County Sheriff's Department at 7:27 pm to report the accident.[14] At about the same time another neighbor saw the Saturn as well as someone walking around the vehicle. She witnessed a third neighbor pull up alongside the Saturn.[10][14]
That neighbor, a school bus driver returning home, noticed the young woman was not bleeding but cold and shivering.[14] He offered to telephone for help. She asked him not to call the police (one police report says "pleaded"[14]) and assured him she'd already calledAAA.[6][10] (AAA has no record of any such call.[14]) Knowing there was no cell phone reception in the area, the bus driver continued home and phoned the police. His call was received by the Sheriff's Department at 7:43 pm.[14] He was unable to see Maura's car while he made the phone call but did notice several cars pass on the road before the police arrived.[15]
At 7:46 pm, a Haverhill police officer arrived at the scene. No one was inside or around the car. The car's windshield was cracked on the driver's side and both airbags had deployed. The car was locked.[14] Inside and outside the car he discovered red stains that looked to be red wine.[10] The officer found a damaged box of Franzia wine on the rear seat. In addition, he found an AAA card issued to Maura Murray, blank crash report forms, gloves, compact discs, makeup, two sets of MapQuest driving directions (one to Burlington, Vermont, another to Stowe, Vermont), Maura's favorite stuffed animal, and Not Without Peril, a book about mountain climbing in the White Mountains. Missing were Maura's debit card, credit cards, and cell phone, none of which have been located or used since her disappearance.[9]
At 8:00 to 8:30 pm, a contractor returning home from Franconia saw a young person moving quickly on foot eastbound on Route 112 about 4 to 5 miles (6 to 8 km) east of where Maura's vehicle was discovered. He noted that the young person was wearing jeans, a dark coat, and a light-colored hood. He didn't report it to police immediately due to his own confusion of dates, only discovering three months later (when reviewing his work records) that he'd spotted the young person the same night Maura disappeared.
Just before 8:00 pm, EMS and a fire truck arrived to clear the scene. By 8:49 pm, the car had been towed to a local garage. At about 9:30 pm, the responding officer left. A rag believed to have been part of Maura's emergency roadside kit was discovered stuffed into the Saturn's muffler pipe.[14] Authorities would only refer to Maura as missing the next day, almost twenty-four hours after she was last seen.
Ongoing investigation[edit]
It's been speculated that Maura's disappearance is linked to her credit card fraud, as both car accidents (in Hadley and Haverhill thirty-eight hours later) involved alcohol and occurred less than three months' after the continuance.[10] Her family disputes the connection.[8]
Toward the end of 2004, a man allegedly gave Maura's father a rusty, stained knife that belonged to the man's brother, who had a criminal past and lived less than a mile from where Maura's car was discovered. His brother and his brother's girlfriend were said to have acted strangely after Maura's disappearance.[18]
On the anniversary of her disappearance, a service was held where Maura's car was found, and her father met briefly with New Hampshire Governor John Lynch. In June 2005, police dismissed any connection between Maura's case and that of Brianna Maitland,[38][39] and retrieved the items found in Maura's vehicle from her family. In July, another search was conducted around the area in which Maura's car was discovered. In late 2005, Maura's father filed suit against several law enforcement agencies, with the aim of seeing files on the case.[40] The New Hampshire League of Investigators, ten retired police officers and detectives, and the Molly Bish Foundation started working on Maura's case in 2006.[18][41][42] Tom Shamshak, a former police chief and a member of the Licensed Private Detectives Association of Massachusetts said "It appears ... that this is something beyond a mere missing persons case. Something ominous could have happened here."[16][43]
"Based on what I know, I believe Maura was killed... Somebody knows something. Whether Maura's alive and got a ride or whether Maura is dead, somebody knows something."
—Helena Murray, Maura's cousin-in-law who runs Mauraismissing.com, in December 2009[44]
In October 2006, volunteers led a two-day search within a few miles of where Maura's vehicle was found. In the closet of an A-Frame house, cadaver dogs allegedly went "bonkers," identifying the possible presence of human remains. A sample of the carpet was sent to the New Hampshire State Police.[18] The Arkansas group Let's Bring Them Home offered a $75,000 reward in 2007 for information that could solve her disappearance.[45] In July 2008, volunteers led another two day search through wooded areas in Haverhill. The group consisted of dog teams and licensed private investigators.[46] Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin said in February 2009 that the investigation is still active. "We don't know if Maura is a victim, but the state is treating it as a potential homicide. It may be a missing-persons case, but it's being handled as a criminal investigation.
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This is disturbing. This individual posted this video on youtube on the eighth anniversary of the disappearance of a missing woman and sent the link to her family. He had another video (taken down) showing him holding ski lift tickets with the name of the missing woman on it.
org tua ni dikatakan pembunuh maura murray tpi akaun utube beliau ditutup oleh utube for investigation
The disappearance of Amy Fitzpatrick occurred on New Year's Day 2008. At 10pm on that day, 15-year-old Irish teenager Amy Fitzpatrick said goodbye to friend Ashley Rose, with whom she had been babysitting Ashley’s brother at her friend’s house in Mijas Costa in Málaga, Spain. Fitzpatrick should have arrived at her home on the urbanisation Riviera del Sol in Mijas Costa, near Fuengirola, at about 10:10pm, as it was only a short walk away. She never arrived home and has not been heard from or seen since that night.
Initial search[edit]
Following her disappearance, a search involving hundreds [1] of people was launched amidst speculation this was not an abduction. Audrey Fitzpatrick and her partner Dave Mahon continue to try to keep the campaign to find Fitzpatrick alive.[2]
In August 2008, the home of Mahon and Fitzpatrick's lawyer in Riviera del Sol was broken into and a laptop that was used in the search for Fitzpatrick was stolen. In addition, Amy Fitzpatrick's Nokia mobile phone was stolen. The 32-year-old lawyer, Juan José de la Fuente Teixidó, said the burglars got in to his property by forcing a locked garden gate. He said: "The stolen documents included confidential police reports about Fitzpatrick's disappearance. I believe the burglary was related to Fitzpatrick's disappearance. It makes no sense that they took documents which financially are worthless, and left behind all my expensive valuables like TVs, computers and music equipment.
Ransom demand[edit]
In June 2009, Audrey Fitzpatrick received a telephone call from a man claiming he knew the location of Amy Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick described the caller as having an African accent asking her if she was Fitzpatrick’s mother. In an article published by expatriate newspaper Euro Weekly News Audrey said:
“He went on to say he knew where she was. She had been kidnapped and was in Madrid and the police were not to be involved. So I agreed, of course. He then said he’d ring me back with a name and address in two hours. Five hours later, after sitting with my phone in my hand and my heart in my mouth, I got a text to say, and I quote: ‘Can you pay us 500,000 euro. Yes or no send your answer now and will send you all the info you need.’ The phone number on this text is 672 564 687. I’ll also give you the number he rang me on, too: 672 564 681, [she says.]”[3]
Audrey Fitzpatrick commented that the Guardia Civil and her private investigators followed up on these numbers, but they are both pre-pay, and have never been registered.
The search continues[edit]
Audrey Fitzpatrick has taken on private investigators who have been working on Fitzpatrick’s case since 2008. They are the same detectives used in the case of Madeleine McCann's disappearance. They are following up on names that they think might be significant, mainly two English people.[citation needed] In May 2012, it was reported that an infamous Irish gangland killer, Eric "Lucky" Wilson, murdered her.[4] Her parents believe that that this particular piece of information is credible, however, a body is yet to be found. Crucially, Amy was seen out with an older man on the night she disappeared who her family now believe was Wilson. Amy's mother, Audrey, is to publish a book later this year about the disappearance of her daughter hoping that it will prompt people with any information to come forward.
A police report from May 2011 claims three witnesses have come forward alleging they saw Amy with a mystery blonde woman in the Trafalgar Bar, in Calahonda’s El Zoco centre hours after her previous last reported sighting.[5]
Tragically, Amy's brother was stabbed to death in Coolock, Dublin in 2013 in an incident involving Dave Mahon, his mother's partner. Investigations into this killing are ongoing by An Garda Síochána.
Craig Arnold (November 16, 1967 – c. April 27, 2009) was an American poet and professor. His first book of poems, Shells(1999), was selected by W. S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.[1][2] His many honors include the 2005 Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature, The Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, an Alfred Hodder Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, an NEA fellowship, and a MacDowell Fellowship.
On April 27, 2009, Arnold went missing on the small volcanic island of Kuchinoerabujima, Japan. He went for a solo hike to explore an active volcano on the island and never returned to the inn where he was staying. While Japanese law mandates government-backed searches for three days, on April 30, 2009, the Japanese government agreed to extend the search an additional three days.[9] Arnold was not found, and the search was then picked up by the international NGO 1st Special Response Group.[10] Craig Arnold's trail was found near a high cliff, and he was presumed to have died from a fatal fall near the date of his disappearance.[11]
A collection of poetry, Love, an Index, written by Arnold's girlfriend Rebecca Lindenberg and telling the story of their relationship, was published in March 2012.[12]
A detailed account of Craig's last few days and the extensive search, entitled An Exchange for Fire, was written by Christopher Blasdel and appeared in the anthology My Postwar Life: New Writings from Japan and Okinawa, published by Chicago Quarterly Review Books, January, 2012.
Gray was born in San Francisco, California, the second child of a mother who was a teacher and a father in the U.S. Army; the family moved to Rome where Gray spent most of the first three years of his life, learning to speak Italian before English.[2] The family then moved to Virginia, spending about four years there, until Gray's parents divorced, after which he returned to San Francisco with his mother.[2] His father, an amateur inventor, patented a design for a ribbon cartridge for typewriters that earned him a substantial royalty stream.[2]
After being turned down for the Air Force Academy he entered the University of California, Berkeley as a freshman in 1961, paying $67 per semester.[2] To help pay for college he worked as a co-op for General Dynamics, where he learned to use a Monroe calculator. Discouraged by his chemistry grades, he left Berkeley for six months, returning after an experience in industry he later described as "dreadful."[2] Gray earned his B.S. in Engineering Mathematics (Math and Statistics) in 1966.[[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipediaitation_needed]citation needed[/url]]
After marrying, Gray moved with his wife Loretta to New Jersey, his wife's home state; she got a job as a teacher and he got one at Bell Labs working on a digital simulation that was to be part of Multics. At Bell, he worked three days a week and spent two days as a Master's student at Courant Institute. The couple planned to work for a year, making "enough money so that we could take off five years and go travel around the world."[2] Before commencing their travel plans, they returned to Berkeley for three months. After about two months travelling, they returned again to Berkeley, their interest in travellingsatisfied.[2] Gray entered graduate school with Michael Harrison as his advisor. Gray got his Ph.D. in 1969, in programming languages, which was followed by two years of post-doctoral work for IBM
On Sunday, January 28, 2007, during a short solo sailing trip to the Farallon Islands nearSan Francisco to scatter his mother's ashes, Gray and his 40-foot yacht, Tenacious, were reported missing by his wife, Donna Carnes. The Coast Guard searched for four days using a C-130 plane, helicopters, and patrol boats but found no sign of the vessel.[18][19][20][21]
Gray's boat was equipped with an automatically deployable EPIRB (Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon), which should have deployed and begun transmitting the instant his vessel sank. The area around the Farallon Islands where Gray was sailing is well north of the East-West ship channel used by freighters entering and leaving San Francisco Bay. The weather was clear that day and no ships reported striking his boat, nor were any distress radio transmissions reported.
On February 1, 2007, the DigitalGlobe satellite did a scan of the area, generating thousands of images.[22] The images were posted to Amazon Mechanical Turk in order to distribute the work of searching through them, in hopes of spotting his boat.
In the immediate aftermath of the disappearance, many theories were put forward on how Gray disappeared.[23]
On February 16, 2007, the family and Friends of Jim Gray Group suspended their search,[24] but continue to follow any important leads. The family ended its underwater search May 31, 2007. Despite much effort and use of high-tech equipment above and below water, searches did not reveal any new clues.
Madeleine and her younger siblings had been left asleep at 20:30 in the ground-floor apartment while her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, dined with their travelling companions in a restaurant 50 metres (160 ft) away.[5]The parents checked on the children throughout the evening until Madeleine's mother discovered she was missing at 22:00. The Portuguese police seemed at first to accept that it was an abduction, but after misinterpreting a British DNA analysis came to believe that she had died in the apartment, which placed a cloud of suspicion over her parents.[6] The McCanns were declared arguidos (suspects) in September 2007, but were cleared in July 2008 when Portugal's attorney-general closed the case Last edited by azrain98 on 28-6-2014 06:14 PM
Susan Cox Powell (born October 16, 1981) was an American woman from West Valley City, Utah, who was last seen alive on December 6, 2009. On February 5, 2012, in an act of murder and suicide, Powell's husband, Josh (b. January 20, 1976), killed himself and their two sons (Charles Joshua Powell b. January 19, 2005, and Braden Timothy Powell b. January 2, 2007) after custody of the boys was awarded to Cox-Powell's parents
Susan Powell's disappearance[edit]
The morning of December 6, 2009, Susan (then 28 years old) and her two sons attended church services at the Hunter 36th LDS Ward / stake building. A neighbor visited them at their home in the afternoon, leaving around 5 p.m.
At first, the entire Powell family — Susan, Josh and their sons Charlie and Braden (ages 4 and 2) — were reported missing on December 7, 2009, by family members.[9] Josh Powell's mother and sister went looking for the family at their home, which is in a suburb of Salt Lake City, shortly after being informed that the children had not been dropped off at daycare that morning. They called the police when they failed to make contact with Josh and Susan. The police broke into the home, fearing that they might be victims of carbon monoxide poisoning. They found no one inside but noticed two fans blowing on a wet spot on a carpet in the home.[10] Susan Powell did not show up at her job at Wells Fargo Financial on December 7; her purse, cell phone, and car were all found at the home.
Later that day, at about 5 pm, Josh Powell returned home with the two children and was taken to the police station for questioning. He claimed he had left Susan sleeping at home shortly after midnight on December 7, and had taken his boys on a camping trip to Simpson Springs Campground in western Utah
Death of Josh Powell and sons
On February 5, 2012, a social worker called 911 after bringing Braden and Charlie Powell to a supervised visit at their father's house in Graham, Washington. The woman, who was supposed to monitor the visit between Josh Powell and his children, said he grabbed the children and would not let her in the door.[39] Soon thereafter, the house exploded, killing Josh and the two children. Local authorities treated the case as a double murder-suicide,[40] saying that the act appeared to have been deliberate.[2]
When authorities notified Steven Powell who was in jail, he "didn't seem very upset by the news, but was angry towards authorities who notified him" [41] Two weeks later, Steven invoked his Fifth Amendment right to not answer questions about the Susan Powell case. Chuck Cox and others have stated they believe that Steven Powell knows what actually happened to Susan.[42] Steven Powell was convicted of voyeurism charges in May 2012 in a trial which largely skirted the issue of Susan's case.[43]
After a relatively brief investigation, officials confirmed that the explosion had been deliberately planned. The official cause of death for Josh and the two boys was determined to be carbon monoxide poisoning, though the coroner also noted that both children had significant chopping injuries on the head and neck. A hatchet was recovered near Josh's body, indicating that he had attacked the boys with it before being overwhelmed by smoke and fumes.[44] The fire investigation also found two five-gallon cans of gasoline on the premises, as well as evidence that gasoline had been spread throughout the house. Friends and relatives of Josh Powell told authorities that he had contacted them by email minutes before the incident to say "goodbye". Some of them, including his pastor, received instructions on finding his money and shutting off his utilities.[45] Records also showed that Josh had withdrawn $7,000 from his bank account and had donated his children's toys and books to local charities the day before the incident
Aftermath[edit]
In February 2013, approximately one year after the death of Josh and his sons, Josh's brother Michael Powell committed suicide in Minneapolis.[47] Utah authorities have since said they believe that Josh and Michael were accomplices in the murder of Susan Powell.[48]
On May 21, 2013, West Valley City police announced that they had closed the active investigation into Susan Powell's disappearance.[49] Shortly after, a hand-written will assumed to have been written by Susan was found in a safety deposit box. It contained the line: "If I die, it may not be an accident, even if it looks like one," and instructed the reader not to show her husband the will. A video also surfaced of Susan surveying her home and the destruction of some of her property. An excerpt: "And I had necklaces too, wherever those are [inaudible] got in a rage, as you can see, and broke this, there's studs and pearls and opals in there, broke those and threw all my DVDs and made a mess because he was angry at me about a year or two back," she said.
Natalee Ann Holloway disappeared on May 30, 2005 while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba. Holloway, an 18-year-old American, lived in Mountain Brook, Alabama, USA at the time of her vanishing, and graduated from Mountain Brook High School on May 24, 2005, shortly before the trip.[4] Her disappearance caused a media sensation in the United States.[5]
Holloway was scheduled to fly home on May 30, but failed to appear for her flight.[6] She was last seen alive by her classmates outside Carlos'n Charlie's, a Caribbean chain restaurant and nightclub in Oranjestad,[7] in a car with locals Joran van der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe. When questioned, the three men said they dropped her off at her hotel and denied knowing what became of Holloway.[8] Upon further investigation by authorities, Van der Sloot was arrested twice on suspicion of involvement in her disappearance and the Kalpoes were each arrested three times. Due to lack of evidence the three men were released without charge each time.[9][10]
With the help of hundreds of volunteers, Aruban investigators conducted an extensive search for Holloway. Special Agents from the FBI,[11] fifty Dutch soldiers and three specially equipped Dutch Air Force F-16 aircraft participated in the search.[12][13][14] In addition to the ground search, divers searched the ocean floor for Holloway's body.[15] It was never found.[16][17][18] On December 18, 2007, Aruban prosecutors announced that the case would be closed without any charges made against the former suspects.[19][20] The Aruban prosecutor's office reopened the case on February 1, 2008, after receiving video footage of Joran van der Sloot, under the influence of marijuana, saying that Holloway died on the morning of May 30, 2005, and that he disposed of her body.[21] Van der Sloot later denied that what he said was true, and in an interview with Greta Van Susteren (the contents of which he later retracted) said that he sold Holloway into slavery.
Holloway's parents criticized Aruban police for a lack of rigor in the investigation and questioning of the three men last seen with her. The family also called for a boycott of Aruba, which gained Alabama Governor Bob Riley's support but failed to gain widespread backing.] On January 12, 2012, an Alabama judge declared Holloway legally dead
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tahun 2011 ada kecoh kat US jumpa body kat laut kekonon minah tu punya....sampai skang tktau...
filem pun ada buat cite hilang ala2 mcm dia nih Last edited by azrain98 on 29-6-2014 12:16 AM
kes yang paling misteri : Kes DB Cooper, bukan saja dia hilang dan tak dapat dikesan sehingga sekarang tapi siapa dia yg sebenarnya pun takde siapa yg tahu..
kes yang paling misteri : Kes DB Cooper, bukan saja dia hilang dan tak dapat dikesan sehingga sekarang tapi siapa dia yg sebenarnya pun takde siapa yg tahu..
Pada 2001, beliau dilaporkan hilang kononnya kerana merajuk.Setelah keluarganya melaporkan kehilangan Hizairi di balai polis, polis beberapa minggu kemudian menemui kereta Citreon miliknya di kawasan Kelab Golf Saujana Impian dekat Kajang.Ibu Hizairi, Timah Baba memaklumkan bahawa anak sulungnya itu tidak muncul-muncul walaupun pada hari pengkebumian bapanya Othman Puteh pada 19 Oktober 2003. Bapanya itu meninggal dunia akibat serangan jantung.
Polis dan keluarga tenggelam punca kerana Hizairi seorang penulis muda yang berbakat dan masih berusia 31 tahun.[1]