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Post by LadyBlue on Jun 26, 2011 12:21:25 GMT -5
Indiana College Student Missing Since Friday - June 3rdBloomington police continued to search Monday for an Indiana University student last seen early Friday morning walking barefoot only a few blocks from her apartment. 20-year-old Lauren Spierer has been missing since 4:30 am on Friday, when she was seen near the intersection of 11th Street and College Avenue in Bloomington wearing black stretch pants, a tank top, a loose light-colored shirt and no shoes. She was believed to be heading toward her apartment, but police say surveillance cameras there do not show her arriving. According to CNN affiliate WRTV, Spierer did not have her cell phone with her when she disappeared and her keys were found nearby. She reportedly has a heart condition that requires medication. Police have interviewed several of Spierer’s friends and others who saw her on Thursday night, and they are reviewing text messages and emails to establish a timeline leading up to her disappearance. Bloomington police Lieutenant Bill Parker told WRTV that “there could be foul play,” but authorities do not know what may have happened to her at this point. A website set up to assist with the search describes Spierer as 4’11” and approximately 95 lbs, with blonde hair and blue eyes. Anyone with information about her is asked to contact the Bloomington Police Department at 812-339-4477. nancygrace.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/06/indiana-college-student-missing-since-friday/
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Post by LadyBlue on Jun 26, 2011 12:24:09 GMT -5
Lauren Spierer Update: Chance of foul play "very great" for missing Ind. Univ. coed, say cops(CBS/WISH) BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - "We believe the chance that there was foul play is very great," said Bloomington Police Lt. Bill Parker, in a press conference Wednesday about missing Indiana University student Lauren Spierer. Lt. Parker said if that were not the case, the 20-year-old from Greenburgh, N.Y. "would have made contact by now." He said he had no big news about the sophomore who disappeared early last Friday morning, adding, "I wish we did." Parker said searchers would be expanding their search Wednesday outside of the city. He said the effort would be joined today by a representative from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which has offered their resources. Spierer was last seen about 4:30 a.m. on Friday, June 3, as she left a friend's apartment after a night out with friends, and started walking home to her downtown Bloomington apartment, reports CBS affiliate WISH. Police have interviewed her friends and say they fully cooperated with the investigation. Lt. Parker also said police have found "items of value" in their investigation, but would not say what they are. He also indicated acquaintances of Lauren were being given polygraph tests. There is still no one police "could characterize as a suspect," according to Parker. Spierer's father, Robert, once again professed gratitude to the town of Bloomington and the volunteers for their support. "It's really hot out there," Spierer said. "These people are incredible for coming out to volunteer." He added, "We need all the help we can get." Robert Spierer once again asked anyone with information to contact the Bloomington Police Department. www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20070079-504083.html
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Post by LadyBlue on Jun 26, 2011 12:26:37 GMT -5
Missing IU student's parents determined to find daughterAfter a massive search effort turned up nothing Saturday, the parents of missing IU student Lauren Spierer say there is much more work to be done. “As a parent, you need to get up every day and look for your child,” said Robert Spierer, Lauren’s father. "There are still areas that have not been touched. Today, teams are getting assignments to go out and search. There are people on horses and ATVs searching,” he said. The 20-year-old coed has been missing since June 3rd, when she was last seen in the downtown Bloomington area, near her apartment complex. After a big media push last week to get volunteers to come out Saturday to join the search, hundreds of people showed up and canvassed heavily wooded areas, including going to Brown County. But investigators say no new clues were found. “We’re just overwhelmed. More than 600 people came out to search. We greatly appreciate everything that was done,” said Robert Spierer. Lauren’s mom said she is not giving up and is drawing on her daughter’s spirit to keep up the search. “I get a lot of strength from Lauren. She’s a strong young lady,” said Charlene Spierer. “I can’t imagine not finding her and leaving her out here. We need information. Somebody has it,” she said. “We’re so certain that the night she disappeared, someone has to know what happened,” said Robert. “Someone can share information that will help us find her.” Several people who know Lauren have been questioned by police, but investigators say they do not have any suspects in Spierer’s disappearance. Anyone with information in the case is urged to contact Bloomington Police at 812-339-4477 or mail anonymous tips to P.O. Box 1226 Bloomington, IN 47402-1226. The Spierers also asked for continued support in their search effort through volunteers. Organized search groups will leave from McNutt Quadrangle on the IU campus during the daytime throughout the upcoming week. www.fox59.com/news/wxin-missing-iu-students-parents-determined-to-find-daughter-20110626,0,842465.story
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Post by LadyBlue on Jun 26, 2011 12:32:10 GMT -5
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Post by LadyBlue on Jun 26, 2011 12:47:00 GMT -5
Lauren leaving her Smallwood Apt for the evening
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Post by LadyBlue on Jun 26, 2011 12:50:10 GMT -5
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Post by LadyBlue on Jun 26, 2011 12:53:10 GMT -5
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Post by LadyBlue on Jun 26, 2011 12:58:51 GMT -5
Vanished BLOOMINGTON, Ind. The distance Lauren Spierer covered on the last night anyone saw her can be walked on a hot day without breaking a sweat, spanned with a decent golf shot and traversed -- it turns out -- without shoes. That a young woman could disappear -- seemingly off the face of the earth -- from such a small area that was trafficked by people and vehicles even in the wee hours of the morning would seem to defy every probability. Especially in a city that, on the night of June 2 and the early hours of June 3, never really went to sleep. Yet more than three weeks after a friend said Spierer rounded the corner at 11th Street and College Avenue, the 20-year-old woman with the blinding blonde hair and the rich blue eyes is still missing, vanished not without a trace, but seemingly with very few. The course she followed that last night, it turns out, says much about the rhythms of a college town and of the exuberance of youth. But it also reveals that even in a carefree college town, there are unfriendly faces, dark alleys and hidden corners that, once you take them, there's no going back. The last available photo of Spierer -- taken in the hallway of her apartment building just a few hours before she was last seen -- captured so much. It's of a college woman going out for the night. She's wearing a white V-neck blouse with butterfly sleeves and black leggings with silver zippers at the ankles. But the feature that is most memorable is her smile. She looks like she's having the time of her life and heading out for a promising evening. As with so many details, Bloomington police have said very little about the photo -- exactly when it was taken and where they think Spierer was headed at that moment. But what's clear from the accounts of police, friends and others is that, about 12:30 a.m., Spierer left her residence at the decidedly upscale Smallwood Plaza student apartments with a friend named David Rohn, who also lived there. They walked about 31/2 blocks up to 5 North Townhomes, a row of five townhomes on 11th Street. It would be a hub for much of the evening. Known for its back-to-school block parties and free-flowing alcohol, it was a place where some of her friends had been gathering in the corner residence occupied by, among other people, friend Jay Rosenbaum. In keeping with the open-door party policy at 5 North, two friends from a couple of doors over -- Corey Rossman and Mike Beth -- soon joined the gathering. Whether they were drinking, or how much, isn't known. But they -- Spierer, Rohn, Rosenbaum, Rossman and Beth -- were part of a group that had spent Memorial Day weekend camped out in the infield of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, sleeping in tents and having a good time. The outing at the race track was the place, in fact, where Spierer had first met Rossman and Beth. Friends say they seemed to have hit it off. After an hour or so of hanging out with the group, Spierer and Rossman set out alone on a five-minute walk along 11th Street, across College Avenue and over to Walnut Street to one of downtown Bloomington's favorite watering holes, Kilroy's Sports Bar. In some ways, Kilroy's is a place with a split personality. Inside, it has all the trappings of a typical sports bar -- wood floors, round tables, dark lighting, multiple TVs tuned to the night's sporting events and murals of Indiana University sports heroes. There's an abundance of neon, a wooden pirate and IU logos. But half of the establishment has garage bay doors that open to the outside. Tons of sand have been spread across the courtyard and inside up to the beach bar. It's a place adorned with fake palm trees, Adirondack chairs, beach furniture and other seaside furnishings. It's an ideal place to kick off your shoes, stick your toes in the sand and enjoy a beverage with friends. Here, Rossman, who is 21, and Spierer, who is 20, stayed for 41 minutes. Police won't say whether they were drinking alcohol or how much. The bar is being investigated for possible alcohol violations. But when they were done, Spierer, with Rossman at her side, walked barefoot across the sand and out the door, leaving her shoes behind, along with her cellphone, which would ring away the next morning with text messages from Spierer's boyfriend, Jesse Wolff, whom Spierer never seemed to connect with that night. Spierer and Rossman walked downhill along Eighth Street on one of two sidewalks, one cracked and broken on the side nearest Kilroy's, the other smooth and solid across the narrow lane. Arriving at the corner of Eighth and College Avenue, they faced two structures standing on opposite sides of the road -- the Monroe County Sheriff's Office and the Smallwood Plaza Apartments. Smallwood isn't a dorm. It isn't anything like what college students from even a generation ago would imagine as a student residence. It is an eight-story apartment building with a red-brick facade, its own self-contained parking garage and a fitness center. Rents range from $1,500 to $3,000 a month. As Smallwood spokesman Ernie Reno puts it, the clientele it serves "clearly is a higher-income demographic." For a college town in Southern Indiana, Smallwood has an inordinate number of students from the Northeast. Spierer is a native of the New York City suburb of Greenburgh. Her roommate, Hadar Tamir, is from Long Island. Amanda Roude, another of Spierer's friends, is from Chappaqua, N.Y., which Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton call home. In Smallwood, residents from New York and elsewhere find apartment styles with names like the Carnegie and the Manhattan, units furnished with oak cabinets, ceiling fans in every room and stainless steel kitchen appliances. It is also a place with $700,000 worth of video surveillance equipment -- 156 cameras covering every nook in the hallways, parking garage and common areas. Those cameras captured footage that Bloomington police were so interested in grabbing that they broke down the doors to Smallwood's data room, causing several thousand dollars' worth of damage, even though a maintenance man with a key was on his way to let them in, Reno said. Police haven't described exactly what happened at Smallwood. But they captured two days' worth of video. And one of the main points of interest seems to be a confrontation between Rossman and some other young men police haven't identified. From available information, this is what's known to have happened at Smallwood: Spierer and Rossman entered the complex at 2:30 a.m. and spent 12 minutes there, according to police. Rossman entered Smallwood despite having a "no trespass order" banning him from the place, Reno said. In October, he said, Rossman and another young man were arrested after wandering the halls while drunk. In early May, Rossman had urinated in the parking garage and had been shown the street by security guards. During the confrontation with the group of young men on the night of Spierer's disappearance, Rossman was hit or punched in the head and, according to his attorney, left with a split lip and a lost memory of the moments around the encounter. Rumors have swirled around Bloomington about the young men who wanted a piece of Rossman. As with so much else, police have revealed almost nothing. What's clear is that Spierer and Rossman -- her new friend from the Indy 500 and companion for the evening -- trudged on toward Rossman's place. Six minutes after they left the gaze of Smallwood's surveillance, they fell into the view of a phalanx of cameras lining a small north-south alley just off 10th Street, an alley wedged between two apartment buildings. This isn't a trash can alley. It's a corridor for residential parking. It has speed bumps. There's a pool alongside the alley that Spierer herself had used in visiting other friends. It's not a scary place, just an alley. As Spierer and Rossman emerged from the alley, they could have taken the direct route across a rocky gravel lot, but that might have been problematic for a girl with no shoes. They could have continued straight in a narrower, less inviting stretch of the alley. Or they could have taken a clearer but less direct path over to Morton Street up to 11th Street, and Rossman's place at 5 North.
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Post by LadyBlue on Jun 26, 2011 12:59:41 GMT -5
Here, though, mounds of questions begin. From this point on, police say, they have no more video footage of Spierer's course that night. They have only accounts from the handful of people who saw her last, some of whom stand accused in the no-rules court of the blogosphere. And most of them -- Rossman, Beth, Rosenbaum and others -- now have attorneys acting as gatekeepers. What's clear is that Spierer, shoeless and phoneless and apparently serving as a crutch for her beaten friend Rossman, dropped her clutch purse and car keys shortly after emerging from the gaze of the alley's video cameras. The two items were found the next day by a hair stylist going into work. After leaving the alley, Rossman and Spierer made it to Rossman's apartment, according to Carl Salzmann, a former Monroe County prosecutor who now represents Rossman. At Rossman's place, Beth put his roommate to bed, and Salzmann said Rossman knew nothing else about the night until waking the next day to news that Spierer was missing. Beth had been home that night writing a pair of term papers, his attorney, Ron Chapman, told the Bloomington Herald-Times. After taking care of Rossman, Spierer walked two doors down the row of 11th Street townhouses to the place where her evening began -- Rosenbaum's apartment. It's not clear when she got there. And police have not revealed details of statements witnesses have given. They only say a friend reported seeing her walk up 11th Street toward College Avenue, where she turned the corner and was never seen again. That friend was Rosenbaum, according to Tamir, Spierer's roommate. Tamir, who said she spoke with Rosenbaum after Spierer went missing, said he told her that he tried to persuade Spierer to stay and sleep on his couch; that he was concerned that she was unable to walk home. But Spierer was determined to leave and walked with a steady gait as she moved toward College Avenue. So Rosenbaum let her go. According to Tamir, Rosenbaum was the last person to see her before she rounded the corner. This, according to police, was about 4:30 a.m. Normal part of college life That Spierer, who weighed all of 90 pounds, had been drinking and who was barefoot and phoneless, would set out alone through town in the darkest hour of the morning seems -- to the sensibilities of older adults -- to be frighteningly risky. But in Bloomington, home to 42,000 college students, with 30,000 of them living off campus, a place whose downtown is dotted with bars open until 3 a.m., and where the party is just getting started after midnight, such a story is not so unusual. Kelly Wold, a 20-year-old employee of the Les Champs Elysees spa and salon, was walking alone in a striped sundress on 11th Street at 3:45 a.m. She was on her way home after a night drinking with friends. She walked right past 5 North Townhomes -- by Rossman's place, by Rosenbaum's. She didn't see Spierer. But she probably passed within 10 feet of where Spierer was last seen with friends. Wold's own roommate came in by herself at 4:20. It was a warm night and not a bad one for walking, Wold recalls. But it was also quieter than most. Often, at 3:45 a.m., people are still partying with their front doors open. Not on the early morning of June 3. It was quiet. Courtney Kraft, a 23-year-old student from Indianapolis, has made the trek through downtown at night before. Kraft lives at 5 North immediately between Rossman's place and Rosenbaum's. And she said she's never run into trouble walking alone at night. Never has she been whistled at or given a catcall. She said it just isn't a problem on the tight, well-traveled streets of late-night Bloomington. As for her neighbors, Kraft said Rosenbaum went abroad the spring semester, and she doesn't know him well. But she's gone out to bars with Rossman and Beth, and she said they are friendly, funny guys whom she can't imagine hurting anyone. Rossman is skinny and tall -- their "nerdy friend," she and her roommates like to joke. Beth is shorter and thicker. The morning after Spierer turned up missing, all three young men -- Rosenbaum, Rossman and Beth -- were working the phones trying to do what they could to find her. As the days have turned into weeks since Spierer went missing, searchers have combed almost every inch of the several blocks between Kilroy's and the 5 North Townhomes. Volunteers by the hundreds have come forward to help. They have parsed through blades of grass looking for anything -- a broken necklace, perhaps, or a stray earring. With time, the search area has expanded to lakeshores and forests. Along Ind. 37, searchers with long, cattle prod-like poles were visible poking into weeds and culverts last week. Billboards featuring Spierer and her bright smile have gone up around the state. Travelers heading out of state and out of the country have carried her face on fliers attached to their luggage. There's a website, a Facebook page, a Twitter feed. The search for Spierer has gone global. Yet it always seems to come back to within a few blocks of Smallwood Plaza. As the blogosphere began to light up with unsubstantiated allegations, as the media began to focus on Spierer's friends, the flow of information seems to have frozen. Lawyers representing the students -- with the exception of Rossman's attorney -- don't return calls. The police have news conferences but take very few, if any, questions. And they have begun to remark about how little help Spierer's friends have been. Charlene Spierer -- the missing girl's desperate mother -- has made repeated pleas to the consciences of her daughter's friends, even more than to the general public. But the trail grows colder. So close to home At the last place Spierer was reported to have been seen -- the corner of 11th Street and College Avenue -- she would have been maybe 600 steps -- three small Bloomington-sized city blocks -- from the front entrance to her apartment building. That last short distance along College Avenue is among Bloomington's busiest streets, one that is trafficked -- lightly -- even at 4:30 a.m. Nearby is the Waffle House Family Restaurant, open 24 hours, known as an early morning refueling station for college kids who have been out partying all night. It is an area where a white truck once considered suspicious -- but later dismissed as no worry -- passed through. It was driven by a business owner about to start his day. Truly, this was a part of town that never quite went to bed. For more than three weeks, countless people -- police, family, friends, strangers and even the IU basketball coach -- have been looking for Spierer. Like someone searching through the same drawers for something that's been misplaced, they keep going back over the same turf. Yet Spierer is never there. "As I travel throughout Bloomington," Charlene Spierer said recently of her missing daughter, "she is here with me." [glow=red,2,300]"She is everywhere, but nowhere."[/glow] Call Star reporter Robert King at (317) 444-6089. www.indystar.com/article/20110626/LOCAL/106260358/Following-last-known-steps-Lauren-Spierer?odyssey=tab|topnews|img|IndyStar.com
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Post by huntone on Jun 27, 2011 6:00:27 GMT -5
there is a lot wrong with this case but what I found most interesting was when I used google earth to scan the area that she was said to have walked with her friend. These is no gravel area to cross. Only gravel is in parking areas or delivery alley ways behind the building. Only lot that would qualify as vacant has grass and trees.
Even more interesting is that there is a railroad underpass at about 12th and college ave. The railway tracks there are blocked from view by a the trees which line it. Enough trees to block the view and noise of a lot of things.
Everyone who can do so should use google earth to view the area. Have no idea of what camera shots the police were able to see but google earth takes you down to street level like you are standing there on the sidewalk or in the street.
Now at approximately 2:30 in the morning with no lights in the alley ways that I could see, the cameras around the area are only going to see people entering and coming out of the alleyways and even then the pictures are not going to be all that clear unless the are crossing the streets or standing at or on the sidewalks.
Anyway I hope someone has walked those railroad tracks which seem to be pretty obsure to the buildings close to them.
All I can really say at this point is that the more I check out, the more red flags go up in my mind. Is this another case of college student partying/drunkenness going too far?
maybe it is just my strange mind, but it is reeking of a possible rape scenario to me. A drunken boy gets his arse kicked in front of a pretty girl and she feels sorry for him? They walk want looks like delivery alleys or some such with little light to guide them or allow them to be seen or noticed? At perhaps the darkest part of night? On what is reported to be one of the quietest nights for some time? The possible events or actions that occurred on that night/morning are easy enough to reasonably guess at and they do not bode well for Lauren.
Also where her keys and purse where found is another parking access alley way that intersected the one they were walking through. had she retraced her steps to find them she easily would have yet she was reported going in the wrong direction to retrace her steps to find them.
Qustions, Questions and more Questions and everyone lawyered up. Red flags galore and railroad tracks that may not have been properly searched. Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive
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Post by LadyBlue on Jun 27, 2011 14:50:04 GMT -5
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Post by LadyBlue on Jun 27, 2011 14:55:20 GMT -5
I've also just added a chat room to the forum, you'll find it at the top right hand side of the tool bar. For now, guests are welcome to chat, hopefully we won't have a problem with it set that way.
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Post by LadyBlue on Jun 27, 2011 18:29:35 GMT -5
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Post by huntone on Jun 27, 2011 23:26:32 GMT -5
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Post by LadyBlue on Aug 17, 2011 15:59:45 GMT -5
Search for evidence in Lauren Spierer disappearance leads to landfillThe search for evidence in the case of missing Indiana University student Lauren Spierer has led to a Vigo County, Indiana landfill. The Bloomington Police Department began searching the Sycamore Ridge landfill in Pimento, Ind., just south of Terre Haute. The FBI, Indiana University Police Dept., and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are helping in the search, which involves 20-30 people. The search effort may take up to two weeks. Bloomington Police say preparations for the landfill search began within days of Spierer's disappearance. Authorities searched dumpsters in the area where she disappeared immediately after she was reported missing. The area where waste from the city was taken around the time of Spierer's disappearance has been secured, and no additional waste was allowed to be dumped there. Authorities have brought wash stations, food, water, and other supplies to the site for search personnel. The Spierer family released this statement: "Please keep all the members of the Bloomington Police Department and all other law enforcement agencies who are assisting in this incredibly complex undertaking to search the landfill safe. With sincere thanks and appreciation for their continued support in our efforts to find Lauren." www.wdrb.com/story/15275863/search-for-evidence-in-lauren-spierer-disappearance-leads-to-landfill
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Post by LadyBlue on Aug 17, 2011 16:02:51 GMT -5
Finally they have decided to search the landfill, and it makes me feel better but yet so scared that they will actually find her there. LE has had to get a search warrent to do this, and had that section of the landfill set asside just in case they needed to do this. If they don't find here there, I still have my theory of where they may find her. Where are you Lauren? If only you could reach out to me and speak.
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Post by LadyBlue on Mar 7, 2012 7:17:07 GMT -5
Marking nine months since her daughter vanished, the mother of Indiana University student Lauren Spierer has issued an open letter to the person responsible, saying, "You know where she is." The 20-year-old fashion major from Edgemont, N.Y., disappeared in the predawn hours of June 3 while walking home after a night of partying with friends in Bloomington, Ind. In her "to whom it may concern" letter, Charlene Spierer writes, "Maybe you spend every day trying to forget. I am Lauren's mother. I have a front row seat in this never-ending nightmare." I spend every day trying to find answers to the questions, which will end this mystery. Whatever the events of the night, you hold the key to what happened to Lauren at night's end. I wonder if you give Lauren a second thought. I wonder what type person it takes to watch our grief as we face another day. I think about you all the time. I wish for one instant you were in our place, waiting, praying, hoping. I wish you knew what it felt like to have lost a loved one. Here's the full letter. The police investigation has included searching an Indiana landfill and the discovery of a body that was not Spierer's. BLOG: Autopsy finds no link to missing Indiana University student Spierer's mother also provides phone numbers for anyone with tips, LoHud.com reports. content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/03/mother-of-missing-indiana-u-student-issues-open-letter/1
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Post by LadyBlue on Mar 28, 2012 19:31:35 GMT -5
I don't know if this could be related to Lauren's disappearance or not, but I'm placing it here just in case.Mar. 26, 2012 A man called police at about 10:30 p.m. Sunday to report an attempted kidnapping of two girls, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Steve Kellams said. The girls’ ages were not identified in the police report. However, the man who reported the incident said a man in a white four-door car attempted to coax two “young” girls into his car on East Graham Drive near South Henderson Street, Kellams said. The alleged kidnapper was described as an older Caucasian male with a white beard and glasses. Kellams said detectives have been assigned to the case and will continue investigation. Police have been unable to contact the man who called in the complaint, hurting chances of a successful investigation, Kellams said. www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=86298
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Post by LadyBlue on Apr 26, 2012 4:36:00 GMT -5
Parents believe missing Indiana student is no longer aliveBLOOMINGTON, Ind. (USA TODAY) — The mother of missing college student Lauren Spierer paused for a moment, tears welling up in her eyes as she gave a different answer to a question she's been asked numerous times since June — do you believe your daughter is alive? "I don't," she said softly. Charlene Spierer revealed her change of perspective in the first interview she and her husband, Robert, have given in months, returning to Bloomington as the one-year anniversary of their daughter's disappearance nears. Spierer, a sophomore at Indiana University, hasn't been seen or heard from since June 3, when she went out partying with friends. "We're trying to be realistic," Robert Spierer said. "We know that if she had the chance to reach out to us, she would have done it." The Spierers sat down with The Journal News for the first of several interviews this week to try to sustain interest in the case — despite a lack of any visible progress in the investigation. "It's very frustrating to be talking about the exact same things we were talking about the first 30 days after her disappearance," Robert Spierer said. They are still pushing forward with their effort to find their daughter, take her home and bring justice to whoever was responsible. Some of the people the 20-year-old hung out with that night remain persons of interest in the criminal investigation, and the young woman's parents continue to question their truthfulness — even after their private investigator interviewed a couple of them. In his toughest comments yet about the persons of interest, Robert Spierer implored the parents of each of them to "take their sons to the police station and allow for the law enforcement to (perform) polygraphs." "I feel if she never met Corey Rossman, she'd be alive today," he said of one of the students she was with that night. "His claim of memory loss is laughable. "He's a perfect example of someone who only cares about self-preservation, without any thought for another human being," he added. The parents, who met earlier Monday with Bloomington police, would particularly like to hear from Rossman. "Unfortunately, Corey continues to refuse to talk to us, talk to police," Robert Spierer said. "It's continuously frustrating that we can't have a face-to-face with him." Her parents are well-aware that their daughter was not in a clear state of mind that night; she left her shoes and cellphone at Kilroy's Bar, and was later seen stumbling out of an elevator in her apartment. For the first time, the Edgemont couple raised a possibility that she was drugged. "We felt somebody could have slipped something into her drink at Kilroy's," Robert Spierer said, but offered no proof to support the allegation. After leaving Kilroy's, Lauren Spierer returned to her off-campus apartment building with Rossman. They left after he was confronted by several people in the hallway. Rossman said he was punched so hard he lost memory of the night, though video surveillance shows he helped her out of her building. The two went up the street to his apartment. She then visited Rossman's neighbor, Jay Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum, who was the last person to report seeing her, is another person of interest. Earlier that night, he hosted a party that Spierer and Rossman attended. He later joined them at Kilroy's, according to her parents. When she showed up at Rosenbaum's place again, he said, he tried to get her to sleep over on his couch, but let her leave after she showed she could walk. The Spierers met with Rosenbaum in the fall, and had a private detective interview him. But they came away with the same impression they had before — that Rosenbaum is withholding information. Robert Spierer said the young man seemed to be rehashing a "story line." "If he (Rosenbaum) was really worried about Lauren, he should have walked her home," Spierer said. He added, "I don't think anyone who saw her in the last hour-and-a-half did anything to help her," prompting his wife to reply, "If they had, we probably wouldn't be having this conversation." Rossman and Rosenbaum declined to speak to a reporter Monday night. The parents arrived in a college town that has essentially returned to normal. In the weeks after her disappearance, police held daily news conferences as hundreds of volunteers scoured the region for evidence. In recent months, the only significant attention to the case came from false alarms, the latest in March when a body found in Illinois turned out not to be the missing student. Nearly all of the persons of interest will graduate in the spring. "I initially felt we were up against the clock, but I don't feel there's a deadline on a person's conscience," Robert Spierer said. "I'm less concerned about them leaving Bloomington than I was initially." www.lohud.com/usatoday/article/54498696?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|News|s
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Post by LadyBlue on May 4, 2012 19:15:05 GMT -5
Police probe possible connection between murder suspect, missing college student Lauren SpiererIndiana police are investigating a possible connection between a man accused of murdering several women and a missing college student. The Bloomington Police Department said in a press release Thursday that a detective has been assigned to investigate whether murder suspect William Clyde Gibson is linked to Indiana University student Lauren Spierer, who disappeared almost a year ago. Gibson, 54, was charged last week with murder in the deaths of a 75-year-old family friend found dead April 19 in Gibson's New Albany, Ind., home, and the 2002 death of a Florida hairdresser whose body was found near the Ohio River. Police also are investigating the death of a 35-year-old woman whose body was found Friday in Gibson's backyard. Bloomington police said there is no known connection between Gibson and Spierer, but said they are still investigating the matter. "We have no indication that there is any connection to Lauren's case, but we are certainly interested in anyone who comes to the attention of law enforcement for targeting women as victims," the department said in a statement obtained by FoxNews.com. Bloomington police reached out to Illinois authorities in early April, after skeletal remains were discovered in a remote area of eastern Illinois, Fox affiliate WXIN-TV reported. An autopsy revealed the remains were those of a man. Spierer disappeared on June 3, 2011. She was last seen on surveillance video, walking home after a night out with friends. She is described as 4 feet, 11 inches tall with blonde hair and blue eyes. www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/03/police-probe-possible-connection-between-murder-suspect-missing-college-student/?test=latestnews
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