Post by LadyBlue on Jun 3, 2013 5:13:02 GMT -5
"This poor little girl is not with us today because of her drug abuse," Nadine Wolff said.
Their comments came two days before the second anniversary of the Indiana University student's disappearance. They said they were responding to a continuing onslaught in the media against their son, including an article in which Robert and Charlene Spierer repeat their call for Jesse Wolff and three other young men to submit to police-administered polygraphs.
The Spierers have been highly critical of Corey Rossman, Mike Beth and Jay Rosenbaum, the last three people known to have seen the 20-year-old before she went missing early June 3, 2011. They've also scrutinized Wolff's account that he was sleeping when she disappeared.
Alan Wolff said his son, Jesse, was texting him from his house the previous night as a Knicks basketball playoff game was under way on television. He said his son was texting, back and forth, with Spierer that night and that "she indicated to him that she was home and going to sleep." He texted to her that "if you wake up, call me and we'll talk." Then he went to bed, the father said.
Spierer didn't go to sleep. Rather, she and friend David Rohn went to a "pre-game" party up the street at Jay Rosenbaum's townhouse, where she met up with Rossman. Rosenbaum told investigators that either Spierer or Rohn told him they'd crushed up and snorted Klonopin, a drug used for seizures and panic attacks, beforehand and that he believed they'd also taken cocaine. Spierer's family and investigators said they have no information that she consumed cocaine.
Rossman and Spierer went to a bar, then back to her building, Smallwood Plaza, where he was punched in the face by someone on her floor.
Rossman's lawyer later would claim that he lost memory of that night from the punch. But Rossman's friend, Zoe Camp, told the paper, "He knows that he got in a fight with some of Jesse (Wolff's) friends in Smallwood."
After they left Smallwood, Spierer fell twice on her head. Rossman carried her part of the way up to his townhouse. Rosenbaum, a friend two doors away, has said he let her leave his place, barefoot, unsteady, intoxicated and with her face bruised, shortly after 4 a.m. June 3. She had lost her keys, shoes, cellphone and ID.
Alan Wolff joined his son in Bloomington shortly after the disappearance. He said he had his son take him to Rossman's apartment.
"I knocked on the door and asked for Corey," the father recalled. "I confronted the kid. I just looked into his eyes. I saw fear."
Alan Wolff said his son has cooperated fully with police and the Spierers, discussing the case with the parents without a lawyer present. He also met with their private investigators, the father said.
"The Spierers are coming out now and telling lies," Alan Wolff said, claiming they have not been truthful about his son's level of cooperation.
Nadine Wolff said she and her husband had their son take a polygraph just two weeks after the disappearance, and that it was administered by a retired FBI polygrapher with "irrefutable credentials."
"We did it because we wanted to be 100 percent sure," she said. "We thought he was innocent, but you could never be 100 percent sure."
The polygraph confirmed his innocence, she said.
"Jesse was not with Lauren that night," Nadine Wolff said.
Wolff, who is from Port Washington, N.Y., on Long Island, lives part time with his parents, they said.
He remains devastated because "he lost the love of his life," Nadine Wolff said. "He's in therapy now for over a year."
She said her son had been in a relationship with Spierer for three years. They met at a sleep-away camp in Pennsylvania. Nadine Wolff said Spierer was "asked to leave" the camp because of drug use.
"If Jesse was guilty of anything, he was guilty of taking care of Lauren, who had some serious drug issues," she said. "She would abuse to the point where she would black out. Jesse always threatened to call and tell her parents and she said, 'If you do, I'll break up with you.'
"My son took care of her for two years while she was in college," she said. "The one night she went out without him and did what she did unfortunately cost her her life."
Asked what he thinks happened to Spierer that day, Alan Wolff declined to offer theories.
He said his priority was merely to get the Spierers and the media to leave his son alone.
Wow, now this is news. Funny we never heard about Lauren and her drug use. You would think this would have been important information, information that would have been useful to know as to why Lauren seemed so out of that night and had to be carried up the street, and helped out of her apartment building. If she had just been helped to her own apartment that night, might she have still been alive, or had she already taken something that she might have ODed on? I don't like this new info. This makes the other boys look even more guilty of covering up what may have happened to Lauren even more. Waiting to see how this all plays out.
Their comments came two days before the second anniversary of the Indiana University student's disappearance. They said they were responding to a continuing onslaught in the media against their son, including an article in which Robert and Charlene Spierer repeat their call for Jesse Wolff and three other young men to submit to police-administered polygraphs.
The Spierers have been highly critical of Corey Rossman, Mike Beth and Jay Rosenbaum, the last three people known to have seen the 20-year-old before she went missing early June 3, 2011. They've also scrutinized Wolff's account that he was sleeping when she disappeared.
Alan Wolff said his son, Jesse, was texting him from his house the previous night as a Knicks basketball playoff game was under way on television. He said his son was texting, back and forth, with Spierer that night and that "she indicated to him that she was home and going to sleep." He texted to her that "if you wake up, call me and we'll talk." Then he went to bed, the father said.
Spierer didn't go to sleep. Rather, she and friend David Rohn went to a "pre-game" party up the street at Jay Rosenbaum's townhouse, where she met up with Rossman. Rosenbaum told investigators that either Spierer or Rohn told him they'd crushed up and snorted Klonopin, a drug used for seizures and panic attacks, beforehand and that he believed they'd also taken cocaine. Spierer's family and investigators said they have no information that she consumed cocaine.
Rossman and Spierer went to a bar, then back to her building, Smallwood Plaza, where he was punched in the face by someone on her floor.
Rossman's lawyer later would claim that he lost memory of that night from the punch. But Rossman's friend, Zoe Camp, told the paper, "He knows that he got in a fight with some of Jesse (Wolff's) friends in Smallwood."
After they left Smallwood, Spierer fell twice on her head. Rossman carried her part of the way up to his townhouse. Rosenbaum, a friend two doors away, has said he let her leave his place, barefoot, unsteady, intoxicated and with her face bruised, shortly after 4 a.m. June 3. She had lost her keys, shoes, cellphone and ID.
Alan Wolff joined his son in Bloomington shortly after the disappearance. He said he had his son take him to Rossman's apartment.
"I knocked on the door and asked for Corey," the father recalled. "I confronted the kid. I just looked into his eyes. I saw fear."
Alan Wolff said his son has cooperated fully with police and the Spierers, discussing the case with the parents without a lawyer present. He also met with their private investigators, the father said.
"The Spierers are coming out now and telling lies," Alan Wolff said, claiming they have not been truthful about his son's level of cooperation.
Nadine Wolff said she and her husband had their son take a polygraph just two weeks after the disappearance, and that it was administered by a retired FBI polygrapher with "irrefutable credentials."
"We did it because we wanted to be 100 percent sure," she said. "We thought he was innocent, but you could never be 100 percent sure."
The polygraph confirmed his innocence, she said.
"Jesse was not with Lauren that night," Nadine Wolff said.
Wolff, who is from Port Washington, N.Y., on Long Island, lives part time with his parents, they said.
He remains devastated because "he lost the love of his life," Nadine Wolff said. "He's in therapy now for over a year."
She said her son had been in a relationship with Spierer for three years. They met at a sleep-away camp in Pennsylvania. Nadine Wolff said Spierer was "asked to leave" the camp because of drug use.
"If Jesse was guilty of anything, he was guilty of taking care of Lauren, who had some serious drug issues," she said. "She would abuse to the point where she would black out. Jesse always threatened to call and tell her parents and she said, 'If you do, I'll break up with you.'
"My son took care of her for two years while she was in college," she said. "The one night she went out without him and did what she did unfortunately cost her her life."
Asked what he thinks happened to Spierer that day, Alan Wolff declined to offer theories.
He said his priority was merely to get the Spierers and the media to leave his son alone.
Wow, now this is news. Funny we never heard about Lauren and her drug use. You would think this would have been important information, information that would have been useful to know as to why Lauren seemed so out of that night and had to be carried up the street, and helped out of her apartment building. If she had just been helped to her own apartment that night, might she have still been alive, or had she already taken something that she might have ODed on? I don't like this new info. This makes the other boys look even more guilty of covering up what may have happened to Lauren even more. Waiting to see how this all plays out.
