Should We Classify Lauren Spierer's Disappearance as a Cold Case?

It has been nine months since Lauren Spierer vanished from Bloomington, Ind., without a trace. The IU fashion student was last seen during a night of drinking and partying with her friends, but disappeared in the early morning hours of June 3, 2011. The last people known to have been in her company say that she wandered home barefoot and drunk, but there has been plenty of speculation and strange behavior in this case to draw questions toward when she was truly last seen. Most suspicious are the claims of amnesia being made by Corey Rossman, one of the young men last seen with the missing woman.

Charlene Spierer has made another attempt at engaging the person or persons responsible for her daughter's mysterious disappearance. She has posted another open letter on a blog dedicated to news on Lauren Spierer. "You Know Where She Is," begins as follows:

To whom this may concern,

Thoughts on a page. You and I share unique roles; we are both insiders, forever bound by the senseless circumstances of June 3, 2011. You were with Lauren, you know what happened and you know where she is.

The letter goes on with the same heartfelt emotion that's been shared by the parents of Lauren Spierer since the day she vanished. When will they get the answers they so desperately seek? It certainly seems that investigators on this case aren't too interested in sharing any details with the public, if there are any to share. Why are they being so quiet?

Once this case reaches a year old, it could be considered a cold case by definition, but the detectives in this instance are behaving as if it has already gone cold. Yet there are tons of clues that are quite indicative that something sinister went down on the morning of June 3, 2011. For instance, the following series of enhanced images show the infamous white pickup which law enforcement cleared of suspicion early in the woman's disappearance. From the looks of this pickup, the mass in the back could in fact be observed as humanoid shapes. Nonetheless, detectives out of Bloomington have failed to address these damning images. Maybe they're hoaxed, but maybe they're not. How is anyone to know without so much as a "yay" or "nay" from law enforcement?

Charlene and Rob Spierer have been desperately trying to find their daughter, and it seems that they are finding very little help as far as the official investigation is going. Could there be a reason for this? Could the reason Bloomington investigators are staying so mum on the case have anything to do with other missing women in the surrounding regions? Some investigators and crime analysts believe that there are connections between the disappearance of Lauren Spierer and the strange cases of Holly Bobo, Paige Johnson, Katelyn Markham and murdered woman Misty B. Gwinner. One such person is Bill Warner PI, who believes that a serial predator could possibly be involved in these numerous cases of missing women in the Midwest and Southern states. If that's the case, then chances are the person or persons responsible has probably read Charlene Spierer's open letter, but will they be compassionate enough to give this family the closure they deserve?

 

 

 

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Comments

[Larry Tucker]

09:07 PM on 03/07/2012

Other students who disappeared like Spierer returned in altered mental states in as much as eight months after they vanished. Some encountered authorities in locations where they tried to leave the country without a passport. One from California rode a motorcycle through Mexico but was stopped when he tried to reenter Mexico from the south.

Barring problems with her health or an encounter with some criminal element Spierer is likely alive with some remaining amnesia.

When this mental event happened to my wife she hallucinated a severe legal problem. If Spierer has the same outcome she may be hiding still believing the police are seeking her.
VisionAndPsychosis.Net "Missing Students" page. Read the "Letters" page for an overview.

[TiffM dn]

08:28 PM on 03/20/2012

I don't know about Lauren, she has a heart decease I'm sure there's still possibilities to find her alive, but even if she is I doubt she's receiving the appropiate medical care or in good conditions, that makes me uneasy and I think she's probably deceased. This world is so dangerous and full of evil people who only want to hurt others, some people are being abducted in plain daylight, Lauren was in a vulnerable posicion alone at 4:30 am without shoes, cellphone and probably drunk and while I feel very sad for Lauren and her family I think her story sets an example for other young people so they can avoid such situations and pain.

[Parade Keegan]

05:36 PM on 03/07/2012

This is the first I've heard about this disappearance, is she white?

[owiseone]

09:40 AM on 03/07/2012

Any tips, anonymous or otherwise may go to any of these contacts:

BDA [phone] or investigations.com
Bloomington Police Department [phone]
[e-mail]
Find Lauren PO Box 1226 Bloomington, IN 47402

[owiseone]

07:49 AM on 03/07/2012

For anyone who would like to learn more, there is a good, honest, unslanted account at this link:

http://legalpublication.blogspot.com/2011/06/lauren-spierer-disappearance-puzzles.html

[owiseone]

07:42 AM on 03/07/2012

Did I miss the section in this piece which tells of Lauren's friends, with whom she spent the early hours of the day she disappeared, and that they almost immediately hired criminal attorneys and refused to talk? That there is rumor that one or more of them was involved in illegal drug trade?
There are so many twists and turns in this case that most who follow it refuse to believe that there was a stranger abduction. That theory seems highly unlikely in light of all the evidence--video, phone records, witnesses, etc.
In fact, there seems to be a counter-campaign to publicly place blame on "stranger abduction" when suspicion from those who know Lauren and this case points to one or more of the persons with whom she last spent time, and not some random stranger invented by a PI who has not worked this case.

[Arthur Davis Arthur]

12:31 PM on 04/02/2012

Every bit of information you have shared during your comments is correct and on point . The police have, for whatever their reasons, failed to linked the video from her friend's apartment to her walk home, ( my understanding ) there was video footage of that walk . Once inside her apartment, there were cameras . Or did that camera show her ever entering her building . She walks a male friend home, but he would not see a young lady safely to her door, wee hours of the morning ? He was not asleep when she exited his building. The boyfriend, did contact her parents at an odd hour to say she was missing, with the knowledge she had been out drinking, her shoes, cell phone were left at the bar, that served alcohol drinks to an underage student .
It does appear the lawyering up, says much in that her disappearance is of a complicity nature.