IN LAUREN SPIERER: Missing from Bloomington, IN - 3 Jun 2011 - Age 20

[Romulus]

Have you seen this child? Lauren E Spierer

Missing From: Bloomington, IN. Missing Date: June 3, 2011. Lauren was last seen on the morning of June 3, 2011. She was wearing a white tank top, a white button-down shirt, and full-length black spandex pants..

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[Summer_Breeze]

https://www.lohud.com/story/news/crime/2024/05/23/lauren-spierer-college-girl-missing-book-has-never-published-details-cold-case-bloomington/73770775007/

Peter D. Kramer
Rockland/Westchester Journal News
May 23, 2024

"June 3, 2011. There was a different energy in the air around Bloomington, Indiana, this time of year. Late at night, the streets, usually bustling with college students, could be eerily silent."

So begins investigative reporter Shawn Cohen's book "College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight" ($17.99 from sourcebooks). The book hits stores May 28, six days before the 13th anniversary of the night Lauren Spierer vanished.

Spierer was the petite 20-year-old blonde coed from Westchester, fresh off her sophomore year at Indiana University, who disappeared on one of the college town’s silent summer streets after a night of drugs and drinking. She staggered off into the pre-dawn hours of June 3, 2011, and was never seen again.

Her disappearance triggered a massive search, and has spawned a cottage industry of conspiracy theories, amateur sleuths, psychics, Reddit threads, true-crime podcasts and TV magazine stories.

Where was Lauren? How could she vanish? Who knows the truth? Who isn't talking?
Cohen’s new book, written with the cooperation of Robert and Charlene Spierer and drawing on their private investigators' files, fills in key details of that fateful night. While it doesn't solve the case, it goes a long way to exploring the personalities and motivations of those at the center of the mystery, and the code of silence that has kept the Spierers in anguish for 13 years, not any closer to finding out what happened to their daughter.
Cohen is able to flesh out the story, to fill in the details beyond where Lauren went, from her off-campus apartment to a friend’s dinner party to a “pre-game” drinking bout to friend Jay Rosenbaum’s townhouse, to a local bar, on an odyssey during which she lost her shoes, her phone, her keys and, eventually, her life.

Cohen had unprecedented access​

The Spierers granted Cohen access to the files of their private investigator Bo Deitl.

He sifted through that information, and supplemented it with interviews with case insiders. His knock-on-doors approach brings to light new elements of Lauren Spierer's final hours, permitting Cohen to craft a tantalizing single line that stands alone before the book’s preface, eight words to entice followers of the case: "This book contains information never before made public."

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[Imamazed]

https://fox59.com/indiana-news/author-shines-new-light-on-lauren-spierers-disapperance/

In the days after IU coed Lauren Spierer disappeared following a night of partying on June 3, 2011, a reporter from her hometown newspaper in Westchester County, New York, arrived in Bloomington and started breaking stories and scooping the local reporters who flocked to cover the case.


Shawn Cohen of the Journal News made inroads with the closed-mouth circle of friends who knew Lauren’s secrets and what she had been up to in the last days before she vanished.


Now, eleven years after her disappearance, Cohen has returned to Indiana to unveil his new book, “College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight.”


It’s a painstaking probe into Lauren’s last known night, the people she encountered and the police and community investigation that has yet to reveal the clues to solve the mystery.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

https://www.newsnationnow.com/missing/lauren-spierer/

Lauren Spierer: A night out ended with a 14-year mystery​

More than 14 years after Indiana University student Lauren Spierer went out for a night with friends, her whereabouts are still unknown.

It’s been over a dozen years since Spierer’s parents heard their daughter’s voice. The grief is so paralyzing that her parents have stopped doing interviews about their daughter.

Instead, the family has hired private investigator Mike Ciravolo. The former NYPD detective led the Zodiac Killer task force in the 1990s and is the senior investigator at his firm, Beau Dietl and Associates.

“I saw it on every news channel,” Ciravolo said of the case.

Spierer disappeared after a long night out with friends on June 3, 2011. That night, she followed a common path for IU students living downtown.

She started at her apartment in Smallwood Plaza. Spierer texted her boyfriend, Jesse Wolff, saying she had plans to go to bed.

But she didn’t.

Instead, Spierer went out to Kilroy’s Sports Bar with friends, using a fake ID to drink. Witnesses said Spierer was visibly intoxicated when she left the bar, forgetting her shoes and phone.

She wasn’t alone when she left. Spierer was with Corey Rossman, who was seen on unreleased surveillance video walking with Spierer back to her apartment building.

At one point in the video, Spierer trips and falls in an alley.

When they arrived at Spierer’s building, Rossman was confronted by others who knew her.

“They saw she was in bad shape to travel, and they were trying to do the right thing. They suggested to Corey, ‘Hey, you know she’s in bad shape. Why don’t you just make sure she gets back to a room down the hall?'” Ciravolo said.

According to police and reporting from NewsNation affiliate WXIN in Indianapolis, Rossman resisted, and one of the men hit him in the face.

Then, Rossman and Spierer took a five-minute walk to Rossman’s apartment at the 5 North Townhomes.

Based on what the men told authorities, Rossman’s roommate, Mike Beth, saw they were both drunk. He helped put Rossman to bed after he threw up and tried to convince Spierer to stay on the couch.

Beth said he was studying at the time and asked his neighbor, Jay Rosenbaum, to help with Speirer. Rosenbaum tried to convince her to stay, but she ultimately left the apartment barefoot with no phone.

Rosenbaum said he saw Spierer walk to 11th Street and College Avenue.

It was the last time anyone saw her.

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