Editing Disappearance of Brianna Maitland

{{Short description|Unsolved 2004 disappearance of 17-year-old from Vermont}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Brianna Maitland
| image              = Brianna Maitland.png
| image_size=  
| caption            = Portrait of Maitland 
| birth_name         = {{nowrap|Brianna Alexandra Maitland}}{{efn|The Charley Project erroneously reports Maitland's middle name as "Alexandria," which conflicts with official Vermont vital statistics, which list her middle name as "Alexandra."}}
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1986|10|8}}
| birth_place        = [[Burlington, Vermont|Burlington]], [[Vermont]], U.S.<ref>"Vermont Vital Records, 1760-2008," database with images, [https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KF51-K76 FamilySearch] (6 December 2014), Brianna Alexandra Maitland, Birth, 08 Oct 1986, Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States; from "Vermont, Birth Records, 1909-2008," "Vermont, Death Records, 1909-2008," "Vermont, Marriage Records, 1909-2008," and "Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908." ([http://www.ancestry.com Ancestry] 2010); citing Vital Records Office, Vermont Department of Health, Burlington and New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.</ref>
| disappeared_date   = {{Disappeared date and age|2004|3|19|1986|10|8}}
| disappeared_place  = [[Montgomery, Vermont]], U.S.
| disappeared_status = {{Missing for|2004|3|19}}
| nationality        = American
| known_for          = [[Missing person]]
| height             = {{convert|5|ft|5|in|m|abbr=on}}
| parents            = {{plainlist|Bruce Maitland
*Kellie Maitland
}}
}}
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'''Brianna Alexandra Maitland''' (born October 8, 1986; [[list of people who disappeared mysteriously|disappeared]] March 19, 2004) is an American teenager who disappeared after leaving her job at the Black Lantern Inn in [[Montgomery, Vermont|Montgomery]], [[Vermont]]. Her car was discovered the following day, backed into the side of an abandoned house about a mile (1.6&nbsp;km) away from her workplace. Maitland has not been seen or heard from since. Due to a confluence of circumstances, several days passed before Maitland's friends and family reported her missing.

In the days and weeks following Maitland's disappearance, numerous tips were investigated by state law enforcement, including a claim that she was being held captive in a house occupied by local drug dealers of whom she was an acquaintance; however, none of the tips resulted in her discovery. An alleged 2006 sighting of Maitland at a [[casino]] in [[Atlantic City]], [[New Jersey]], brought renewed interest to the case, but the woman seen was never properly identified. In 2012, law enforcement investigated a possible connection between Maitland's disappearance and [[serial killer]] [[Israel Keyes]], who was active in Vermont, but he was ultimately ruled out as a suspect by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]].

Maitland's case was profiled across various local media, on ''[[Dateline NBC]]'' and the documentary series ''[[Disappeared (TV series)|Disappeared]]''. In 2017, the case was discussed in the documentary series on missing college student [[Disappearance of Maura Murray|Maura Murray]], who vanished a month prior to Maitland in [[Woodsville, New Hampshire|Woodsville]], [[New Hampshire]]. Maitland's disappearance remains unsolved.

==Background==
===Early life===
Brianna Maitland was born October 8, 1986, in [[Burlington, Vermont|Burlington]], [[Vermont]], to Bruce and Kellie Maitland ([[née]] Fisher).<ref name=ancestry>{{cite web|url=https://www.myheritage.com/names/kellie_fisher|work=[[MyHeritage]]|title=Kellie Fisher - Historical records and family trees|access-date=22 December 2017|archive-date=22 December 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20171222023932/https://www.myheritage.nl/names/kellie_fisher|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was raised with her older brother on their parents' farm in [[Franklin, Vermont|East Franklin, Vermont]],<ref>[http://charleyproject.org/case/brianna-alexandria-maitland Brianna Alexandra Maitland profile], charleyproject.org; accessed 6 February 2020.</ref> near the Canadian border.<ref name=id/> In her youth, Maitland was extensively trained in [[Jujutsu|jiu-jitsu]].<ref name=id/> She attended [[Missisquoi Valley Union Middle/High School|Missisquoi Valley Union High School]] before transferring to Enosburg Falls High School in nearby [[Enosburg Falls, Vermont|Enosburg Falls]], during her sophomore year.<ref name=crawl1>{{cite podcast|host=Pilleri, Tim;  Reenstierna, Lance; Canter, Chloé|title=Brianna's Disappearance|work=Crawlspace|publisher=[[AudioBoom]]|date=1 February 2017|url=https://audioboom.com/posts/5558742-brianna-maitland-ep1-bri-s-disappearance|access-date=22 December 2017|archive-date=9 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809165946/https://audioboom.com/posts/5558742-brianna-maitland-ep1-bri-s-disappearance|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Prior to disappearance===
On Maitland's seventeenth birthday in October 2003, she decided she wanted to move away from her parents' farm.<ref name=id/> Her mother, Kellie, stated there were no serious stresses at home, but that Maitland wanted to be more independent and to live closer to a group of friends who resided {{convert|15|mi}} away and attended a different high school.<ref name=id/> Maitland enrolled at her friends' high school but her living arrangements were unstable, as she moved in and out of several friends' homes.<ref name=id/> By the end of February 2004, Maitland dropped out of high school and moved in with her childhood friend, Jillian Stout, in [[Sheldon, Vermont]], approximately {{convert|20|mi}} west of Montgomery.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/a-decade-later-vermont-police-hope-new-leads-solve-disappearance-of-brianna-maitland/|work=Fox News|title=A decade later, Vermont police hope new leads solve disappearance of Brianna Maitland|last=Corbin|first=Cristina|date=26 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011084827/http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/26/authorities-hopeful-new-leads-might-crack-10-year-old-disappearance-brianna.html|archive-date=2017-10-11|access-date=28 December 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> To complete her education, Maitland enrolled in a [[General Educational Development|GED]] program.<ref name=id/>

Three weeks prior to her disappearance, Maitland was physically attacked at a party by a female former friend, Keallie Lacross.<ref name=crawl2>{{cite podcast|host=Pilleri, Tim; Reenstierna, Lance; Canter, Chloé|title=Brianna's Dad|work=Crawlspace|publisher=[[AudioBoom]]|date=21 February 2017|url=https://audioboom.com/posts/5632005-bri-ep2-brianna-s-dad|access-date=22 December 2017|archive-date=23 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223160529/https://audioboom.com/posts/5632005-bri-ep2-brianna-s-dad|url-status=dead}}</ref> The motive for the attack was unclear,<ref>{{cite web|title=Brianna Alexandra Maitland profile|url=http://charleyproject.org/case/brianna-alexandria-maitland|website=The Charley Project|access-date=2 May 2018}}</ref> though Maitland's father, Bruce, later stated he believed it stemmed from jealousy over Maitland's interaction with a male peer at the party.<ref name=crawl2/> One of her friends at the party claimed that Maitland, despite her martial arts training, refused to fight with Lacross, who subsequently hit her in the face several times while Maitland was seated in a truck.<ref name=crawl5>{{cite podcast|host=Pilleri, Tim;  Reenstierna, Lance; Canter, Chloé|title=Brianna's Friend Katie|work=Crawlspace|publisher=[[AudioBoom]]|date=26 May 2017|url=https://audioboom.com/posts/5987521-crawlspace-brianna-maitland-ep5-bri-s-friend-katie|access-date=22 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223102810/https://audioboom.com/posts/5987521-crawlspace-brianna-maitland-ep5-bri-s-friend-katie|archive-date=23 December 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> The altercation resulted in Maitland suffering a broken nose and [[concussion]]; she later filed charges against Lacross.<ref name=id/> The complaint was subsequently dropped three weeks after Maitland vanished, and Lacross was cleared of any involvement in her disappearance.<ref name=id/>

==Disappearance==
===Friday, March 19, 2004===
[[File:Black Lantern Inn.jpg|thumb|left|190px|Black Lantern Inn, Maitland's workplace and the last place she was seen alive<ref name=id/>]]
On the morning of Friday, March 19, 2004, Maitland took an exam to receive her GED.{{sfn|Renner|2016|p=71}} After completing the test, she and her mother, Kellie, had lunch to celebrate the occasion; her father, Bruce, was out of state working in [[New York (state)|New York]] at the time.<ref name=id/> Kellie described her daughter as being in good spirits, and recalled that Maitland had discussed plans of attending college.<ref name=id/>

After lunch, Maitland and Kellie spent the afternoon shopping and running errands. While waiting in the check-out line of a store, Kellie said something outside caught Maitland's attention; she told her mother she would return shortly and left the store.<ref name=id/> Kellie completed her purchase and met Maitland in the parking lot, and noticed that her daughter seemed unnerved, shaken, and agitated.<ref name=id/> Maitland told her mother that she needed to go home and prepare for her upcoming work shift at the Black Lantern Inn, a restaurant in [[Montgomery, Vermont|Montgomery]].<ref name=id/> Not wanting to pry, Kellie did not ask what had happened, and dropped Maitland off at Stout's home between 3:30 and 4:00{{nbsp}}pm.<ref name=id/> This was the last time she saw her daughter.<ref name=id/><ref name=crawl1/> At some point before leaving for her work shift, Maitland left a note for Stout saying she would return after work that evening.<ref name=id/> Maitland then departed for the Black Lantern Inn in a 1985 [[Oldsmobile]] sedan registered to Kellie.<ref name=id/>

After completing her shift at work, Maitland clocked out and left the Black Lantern Inn at approximately 11:20{{nbsp}}p.m.<ref name=rupa/> She told her co-workers she needed to get home and rest before working the next day at her second job in [[St. Albans (city), Vermont|St. Albans]].{{sfn|Renner|2016|p=180}}<ref name=id/> By all accounts, Maitland was alone in her vehicle when she left.<ref name=WCAX1>{{cite news|url=http://www.wcax.com/story/18782076/mystery-skull-part-3|title=Mystery Skull, Part 3 |last=LeBlanc|first=Deanna|date=13 June 2012|work=WCAX-TV|access-date=20 July 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140719223130/http://www.wcax.com/story/18782076/mystery-skull-part-3|archive-date=19 July 2014}}</ref>

===Saturday, March 20, 2004===
====Discovery of vehicle====
[[File:Brianna Maitland vehicle 2004-03-20.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Brianna Maitland's vehicle as discovered on 20 March 2004]]
Early the next afternoon, on March 20, a [[Vermont State Police]] trooper was dispatched to an abandoned house on [[Vermont Route 118|Route 118]] in [[Richford, Vermont|Richford]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.google.ca/maps/@44.9114713,-72.659662,3a,75y,149.64h,74.51t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1ss3TT-E4x4hSGpXFpEjXD8w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656|work=[[Google Maps]]|title=3451 N Main St, Richford, Vermont|access-date=15 June 2017|date=May 2012}}</ref> about a mile (1.6&nbsp;km) from the Black Lantern Inn. Maitland's Oldsmobile was found backed into the side of the house. Known locally as "the old Dutchburn house,"<ref name="Dutchburn News Story">{{cite news |title=Fear Settles on the Farm After Two Brothers Survive a Violent Robbery |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-29-mn-1799-story.html |access-date=4 December 2016|work=The [[Los Angeles Times]]|last=Shulins|first=Nancy|date=29 January 1989|publisher=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref> the siding of the home had been breached by the rear end of the sedan. A piece of plywood that had been covering a window lay on the car's trunk. Two of Maitland's paychecks were on the front seat of the car, and outside it, law enforcement observed loose change, a water bottle and an unsmoked [[cigarette]].<ref name=costa/> The trooper assumed the car had been abandoned by a drunk driver, and a towing company took the vehicle to a local garage.<ref name=id/>

Maitland was not reported [[missing person|missing]] for a number of days.<ref name=id/> Kellie did not learn about the discovery of Maitland's car until five days afterward.<ref name=id/> Stout saw Maitland's note on Friday, March 19, spent the weekend away, and found the note undisturbed when she returned on Monday. Assuming Maitland was staying elsewhere, she did not call Kellie until the following day.<ref name=id/> On Tuesday, March 23, Kellie began calling various people in order to find Maitland, including friends as well as her employers, none of whom had seen or spoken to her.{{sfn|Renner|2016|pages=71–2}} Failing in her efforts—and still unaware that the vehicle Maitland was driving had been recovered—she filed a missing persons report that day. On Thursday, March 25, Maitland's parents gave photos of her to the Vermont State Police in St. Albans. A trooper showed them a picture of the Oldsmobile found at the old Dutchburn house, upon which they immediately identified the car as their daughter's.<ref name=id/> Kellie said in interviews that she was "instinctively revulsed" by the photo, and believed someone else, not Maitland, had left the car in such a way.<ref name=id/>

===Witness sightings===
After Maitland's reported disappearance, several individuals came forward to law enforcement to report sightings of Maitland's vehicle at the old Dutchburn house the night she disappeared:

* A man who drove by the house between 11:30&nbsp;p.m. and 12:30&nbsp;a.m. on March 19–20 said the car's headlights may have been on. He said he did not see anyone in or around the car.<ref name=id/>
* A second man who drove by between midnight and 12:30&nbsp;a.m. on Saturday, March 20, recalled seeing a turn signal flashing on the car.<ref name=id/>
* Around 4:00&nbsp;a.m. on Saturday, March 20, a former boyfriend of Maitland's drove past the scene after a night of partying across the border in Canada. He thought he recognized the vehicle, but he did not see anyone in or around it.<ref name=id/>
* The next morning, some passing motorists found the scene odd enough that they stopped and took pictures of it. One of the photographers reported some loose change, a water bottle and a bracelet or necklace on the ground next to the car.<ref name=id>{{cite episode|series=[[Disappeared (TV series)|Disappeared]]|season=4|number=7|title=Vanished in Vermont|network=[[Investigation Discovery]]|date=5 December 2011}}</ref>

==Investigation==
===Initial findings===
The Vermont State Police, who led the official investigation for the first months after Maitland's disappearance, were skeptical that [[Crime|foul play]] was involved, considering the possibility that Maitland was a [[runaway (dependent)|runaway]].<ref name=where>{{cite news |url=http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?s=1944121 |title=No News is Bad News for Maitland Search |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140719204842/http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?s=1944121|archive-date=19 July 2014|last=Bosma |first=Mark |date=15 June 2004  |work=WCAX-TV |access-date=20 July 2012}}</ref> The area surrounding the old Dutchburn house was combed on foot by police and search dogs, but nothing was found.<ref name=id/> Maitland's vehicle was processed by the state crime laboratory for evidence on March 30, 2004, after the car had been [[Vehicle impoundment|impound]]ed at a local garage for several days. Upon the car's return to the Maitland family, Bruce noted that his daughter's [[ATM card]], glasses, contact lens case and [[migraine]] medication had all been left inside.{{sfn|Renner|2016|p=72}}

It was later concluded by law enforcement that foul play was the probable cause of Maitland's disappearance,<ref>{{cite web |title=Brianna Maitland |url=http://www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/985167/1/screen |website=missingkids.org |publisher=[[National Center for Missing & Exploited Children]] |access-date=22 March 2016}}</ref> and a 2007 flyer provided by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] stated that the scene at which Maitland's car was discovered may have been staged to appear as an accident. Maitland's parents publicly speculated that she may have been abducted by multiple people, stating that it would have been difficult for a single assailant to subdue her given her jiu-jitsu training.<ref name=id/>

The [[disappearance of Maura Murray]], a college student from [[Massachusetts]], in northwest [[New Hampshire]] the month before was deemed unrelated to Maitland's disappearance by law enforcement,<ref name=rupa/> in spite of the events occurring within {{convert|90|mi|km}} of each other.{{sfn|Renner|2016|p=71}} In 2004, Maitland's family organized a website, now defunct, titled ''bringbrihome.org'', with a posted maximum reward of [[US dollar|USD]]$20,000 for information leading to her whereabouts.<ref name=bringbri>{{cite web|url=http://bringbrihome.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217063241/http://bringbrihome.org/|title=Brianna Maitland: Reward $20,000|archive-date=17 December 2008|work=bringbrihome.org|url-status=dead}}</ref> The website was active until at least 2009.{{efn|According to records in the [[Internet Archive]], ''bringbrihome.org'' was active until at least 2009; after this, archives of the website show empty domain notices. However, archives for the years of 2010–2013 do not exist, so it may have remained active until at least 2013.<ref name=bringbri/>}} According to a March 2017 article published in the ''[[Burlington Free Press]]'', the reward remained available.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2017/03/01/tips-sought-brianna-maitland-montgomery-vermont-2004-womans-disappearance-reward/98572900/|work=Burlington Free Press|title=Tips sought in Vermont teen's 2004 disappearance|last=Baird|first=Joel Banner|date=2 March 2017|access-date=16 June 2017}}</ref> In June 2017, however, it was reported that the reward was due to expire in early July of that year.<ref>{{cite news|work=U.S. News & World Report|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/vermont/articles/2017-06-23/20-000-reward-to-find-missing-teenager-expiring-in-july|title=$20,000 Reward to Find Missing Teenager Expiring in July|agency=Associated Press|date=23 June 2017|access-date=1 May 2018}}</ref>

===Allegations and affidavit===
In the week following Maitland's disappearance, the Vermont State Police received an anonymous tip claiming that she was being held against her will in a house in nearby [[Berkshire, Vermont|Berkshire]], {{convert|10|mi|km}} from Montgomery.<ref name=id/> The rented house, then occupied by Ramon L. Ryans and Nathaniel Charles Jackson, two known drug dealers from New York, was raided by police on April 15, 2004.<ref name=affidavit/> Various drug paraphernalia was discovered inside, as well as substantial amounts of [[cocaine]] and [[marijuana]], but no sign of Maitland was found.<ref name=id/> Ryans was arrested during the raid on drug charges.{{sfn|Renner|2016|p=72}} Upon interviewing Maitland's close friends, law enforcement was informed that Maitland had allegedly experimented with hard drugs in the recent past, specifically [[crack cocaine]],{{sfn|Renner|2016|p=72}} and was an acquaintance of Ryans and Jackson.<ref name=id/>

In late 2004, police received a statement from an anonymous "older female" who implicated both Ryans and Jackson in Maitland's disappearance and alleged murder.<ref name=id/> The signed [[affidavit]] contained allegations, written in graphic detail, that Maitland had been murdered approximately a week after her disappearance.<ref name=affidavit>{{cite news|title=Affidavit: Brianna Maitland Murdered|last1=Albarelli|first1=H.P. Jr. |last2=Kettler|first2=Jedd |date=1 February 2007|work=The County Courier|location=Enosburg Falls, Vermont|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140103224953/http://transmog.net/cgi-bin/nph-mobilewebonastick-scroll-ipad2.cgi/000000A/http/web.archive.org/web/20070619144717/http:/=2fmauramurraymissing.com/tmp/viewtopic.php=3ft=3d4=26view|url=http://transmog.net/cgi-bin/nph-mobilewebonastick-scroll-ipad2.cgi/000000A/http/web.archive.org/web/20070619144717/http:/=2fmauramurraymissing.com/tmp/viewtopic.php=3ft=3d4=26view|archive-date=3 January 2014|via=Transmog.net|url-status=dead}} {{small|(Link to text transcript only)}}.</ref> The woman who provided the affidavit claimed that Ryans murdered Maitland during an argument over money she had lent him to purchase crack,<ref name=affidavit/> and that her body had been temporarily stored in the basement of a recently incarcerated local woman's home; Maitland's body was then allegedly [[dismemberment|dismembered]] with a [[table saw]] and disposed of on a pig farm.<ref name=id/> Law enforcement was unable to corroborate the claims in the letter.<ref name=id/>

The Maitland family additionally reported that they had received several uncorroborated anonymous phone calls from persons claiming Maitland was "tied to a tree in the woods," and that she had been disposed of at the bottom of a lake.<ref name=id/>

===Later developments===
In 2006, security footage at the [[Caesars Atlantic City|Caesars]] [[casino]] in [[Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]], [[New Jersey]], showed a woman resembling Maitland sitting at a [[poker]] table.<ref name=casino/><ref name=rupa>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/09/grace.coldcase.maitland/index.html|work=[[CNN]]|title=Vermont teen vanishes on way home from work|date=9 December 2008|last= Mikkilineni|first=Rupa|access-date=15 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202012616/http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/09/grace.coldcase.maitland/index.html?eref=ib_us|archive-date=2 February 2018}}</ref> The woman was never properly identified.<ref name=id/>

In 2012, law enforcement investigated a potential connection between Maitland's disappearance and [[serial killer]] [[Israel Keyes]], who committed numerous [[rape]]s and murders in [[Alaska]], [[Oregon]], and [[Washington (state)|Washington]],<ref>{{cite web|work=[[The Oregonian]]|publisher=Associated Press|location=[[Portland, Oregon]]|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2014/03/confessed_alaska_serial_killer_1.html|title=Confessed Alaska serial killer Israel Keyes likely not connected to Olympic National Park disappearance|last=Haberman|first=Margaret|access-date=21 December 2017|date=21 March 2014|archive-date=22 December 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20171222005853/http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2014/03/confessed_alaska_serial_killer_1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/american-psychos-10-serial-killers-youve-never-heard-of-w431398/israel-keyes-w431409|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161212153115/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/american-psychos-10-serial-killers-youve-never-heard-of-w431398/israel-keyes-w431409|last=Locker|first=Melissa|date=1 August 2016|archive-date=12 December 2016|title=American Psychos: 10 Modern Serial Killers You've Never Heard of - Israel Keyes|access-date=22 December 2017}}</ref> as well as in Vermont and New York, where he owned property in [[Constable, New York|Constable]].<ref name=keyes>{{cite web|url=http://www.mynbc5.com/article/fbi-serial-killer-not-linked-to-missing-vt-teen/3306593|work=MyNBC5|title=FBI: Serial killer not linked to missing Vt. teen|publisher=Associated Press|date=19 December 2012|access-date=21 December 2017|archive-date=22 December 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20171222010548/http://www.mynbc5.com/article/fbi-serial-killer-not-linked-to-missing-vt-teen/3306593|url-status=dead}}</ref> The FBI ruled out Keyes's potential connection to Maitland's disappearance in late December 2012,<ref name=keyes/> shortly after Keyes died by  [[suicide]] in [[Anchorage, Alaska]].<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024193229/http://abcnews.go.com/US/serial-killer-israel-keyes-suicide-letter-creepy-ode/story?id=18421558|archive-date=24 October 2016|work=ABC News|title=Serial Killer Israel Keyes' Suicide Letter Is Creepy Ode to Murder|date=6 February 2013|last=Ng|first=Christina|access-date=22 December 2017|url=http://abcnews.go.com:80/US/serial-killer-israel-keyes-suicide-letter-creepy-ode/story?id=18421558|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In March 2016, on the case's twelfth anniversary, investigators revealed to a local television station they had recovered [[DNA]] samples from Maitland's car.<ref name="costa">{{cite news |last=Costa |first=Jennifer |title=WCAX Investigates: New details on Brianna Maitland's disappearance |url=http://www.wcax.com/story/31498228/wcax-investigates-new-details-on-brianna-maitlands-disappearance |newspaper=[[WCAX-TV]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628232407/http://www.wcax.com/story/31498228/wcax-investigates-new-details-on-brianna-maitlands-disappearance|archive-date=28 June 2017|url-status=dead|date=17 March 2016 |access-date=30 March 2016}}</ref> The results of the DNA tests were not made public.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/vsp-reveal-new-evidence-in-maitland-case/403865917|work=My Champlain Valley|title=VSP Reveal New Evidence in Maitland Case|last=Aragon|first=Rachel|access-date=16 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222105217/http://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/vsp-reveal-new-evidence-in-maitland-case/403865917|archive-date=22 December 2017}}</ref> In July 2016 the old Dutchburn house, where Maitland's vehicle had been discovered, was destroyed in a fire.<ref name=thirteen>{{cite web|work=The County Courier|location=Enosburg Falls, Vermont|url=http://countycourier.net/2017/03/state-police-still-work-maitland-case/|date=17 March 2017|access-date=22 December 2017|last=Lamoreaux|first=Gregory|archive-url=https://archive.today/20171222023449/http://countycourier.net/2017/03/state-police-still-work-maitland-case/|title=13 years later, troopers still work Maitland case|archive-date=22 December 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In March 2022, the Vermont State Police revealed they had found a match to the DNA sample found in Maitland's car. The identity of the person has not been released, although officials did say it belonged to one of eleven people they tested previously in connection to Maitland's disappearance and "that person has been very cooperative and spoken to us."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sullivan |first=Adam |title=Police: Source of DNA in Brianna Maitland investigation identified |url=https://www.wcax.com/2022/03/18/police-source-dna-brianna-maitland-investigation-identified/ |date=18 March 2022 |access-date=18 March 2022 |website=[[WCAX-TV]] |language=en}}</ref>

==Media depictions==
Maitland's case has been profiled by ''[[Dateline NBC]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/18519247/ns/dateline_nbc/t/whereabouts-vermont-teen-still-mystery/|work=Dateline|publisher=NBC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226061305/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/18519247/ns/dateline_nbc/t/whereabouts-vermont-teen-still-mystery/|archive-date=26 December 2013|title=Whereabouts of Vermont teen still a mystery|last=Stafford|first=Rob|date=6 May 2007|access-date=26 December 2016}}</ref><ref name=casino>{{cite news|title=Missing Vermont teen|date=6 May 2004|access-date=16 June 2017|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/video/dateline/18541331|work=Dateline NBC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502140813/https://www.nbcnews.com/video/dateline/18541331 |archive-date=May 2, 2018 |via=[[Wayback Machine]]}}</ref> and on the [[Investigation Discovery]] documentary series ''[[Disappeared (TV series)|Disappeared]]'' in December 2011.<ref name=id/> Maitland's disappearance was also mentioned in an episode of ''[[20/20 (U.S. TV program)|20/20]]''.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} In 2016, her case was profiled on the podcast ''[[The Vanished (podcast)|The Vanished]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=EPISODE 2: BRIANNA MAITLAND|url=http://www.thevanishedpodcast.com/episodes/2016/5/10/episode-2-brianna-maitland|access-date=2020-07-01|website=The Vanished Podcast|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2017, her case was profiled in an episode of the documentary series ''The [[Disappearance of Maura Murray]]'' on the [[Oxygen (TV channel)|Oxygen]] network.<ref>{{cite episode|series=The Disappearance of Maura Murray|network=[[Oxygen (TV channel)|Oxygen]]|title=Something Bad Happened|number=5|airdate=21 October 2016}}</ref> In 2023, a book about her disappearance was published by a private investigator who has worked for the Maitland family.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Overacker |first1=Greg |title=The Hunt for Brianna Maitland: The Relentless Pursuit of Answers to One of Vermont’s Biggest Mysteries |date=2023 |publisher=Bloated Toe Publishing |isbn=1939216745 |url=https://www.bloatedtoe.com/north-country-store/product/the-hunt-for-brianna-maitland/}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of people who disappeared mysteriously: post-1970|List of people who disappeared]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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==Works cited==
*{{cite book|last=Renner|first=James|title=True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray|year=2016|publisher=[[Thomas Dunne Books]]/[[St. Martin's Press|St. Martin's Griffin]]|isbn=978-1-250-08901-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vd7aCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA71}}

==External links==
*{{NamUs MP|2030|Brianna Maitland}}
*{{NCMEC|985167|Brianna Maitland}}
*[https://www.facebook.com/BriannaMaitlandmissingfamilypage/?fref=ts Maitland family Facebook page]

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