College Girl, Missing
The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**
"This book is the heartbreaking story that every parent dreads… Cohen sheds light on what really happened the night Lauren was never seen again.” —David Crow, author of The Pale-Faced Lie
She visited friends. She walked to a bar. She was right there... until she was gone.
College student Lauren Spierer was pursuing her dreams, joining her boyfriend at a party school eight hundred miles from home. Social and gregarious, studying fashion and rooming with friends, Lauren embraced her new adventure with the zeal of a young woman who suddenly had everything she desired.
But there was a dark side that she and her inner circle kept secret. And one warm June evening, after heading out with friends, she seemingly vanished. When investigators retraced Lauren's last steps using eyewitness accounts and security camera footage, the evidence ended at the doorstep of a group of wealthy, well-connected male students.
With original reporting including new testimony witnesses never shared with police, College Girl, Missing takes readers back to that fateful night and dives into the disappearance that captured front-page headlines around the world. Investigative journalist Shawn Cohen breaks more than a decade of silence as he pursues the truth: what really happened to Lauren Spierer?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Former Westchester, N.Y., Journal News crime reporter Cohen debuts with a chilling if inconclusive account of 20-year-old Indiana University student Lauren Spierer's unsolved disappearance. In June 2011, Spierer vanished after a seemingly routine night of college partying. Back in New York's Westchester County, her parents and friends took to Facebook and Twitter, made posters and wristbands, and rented billboards to track her down. Cohen first picked up the story for the Journal News, then traveled to Indiana to investigate further. There, the three men closest to the case—Lauren's boyfriend, Jesse Wolff, and the two classmates who last saw her, Corey Rossman and Jay Rosenbaum—swiftly lawyered up. The stories they told their attorneys, and then Cohen when he reached them, were riddled with inconsistencies. Cohen prods at several key mysteries: Did Lauren ever meet up with Wolff, whom she'd been texting the night of her disappearance? Did she actually leave Rossman's townhouse, where she'd been partying? Might she have died of an accidental overdose, given her heart condition, or was it foul play? Cohen lays out a series of plausible scenarios, but the lack of concrete evidence puts a ceiling on how far he can take his theories. This has more questions than answers.
