College Girl, Missing

The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight

De: Shawn Cohen

Narrado por: Kyle Snyder

**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 listeners 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?

©2024 Shawn Cohen (P)2024 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Reseñas de la Crítica

"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

Finished it the day it was released via audio

This was a great book. As a Bloomington native it really captures everything that surrounded the mass hysteria of events that took place. I love that it also introduces new information we hadn’t known previously and includes interviews for the persons of interest!

The reader made the story great!

The reader did an excellent job with this book. The emphasis in just the right places!

Incredibly insightful-

Learned a lot! The story is filled with details to help shed some light on this case. So glad I read/listened.
The narrator was very good too.

interesting, gripping, crucial

This is a story of one man's dedication to getting a grieving family answers in the disappearance of their child. This was a cade I followed when it happened as we were the same age. I was just dumbfounded and still am to this day that she has not yet been found and her case has gone cold. 10 out of 10 would recommend.

Complex case in a digestible format.

Great research and a story that grabs you and haunts you (if a parent). This is every parent’s nightmare.

Ok

Story started out strong but lost interest towards end. Didnt tell much than what was shared in media.

Extremely captivating story of an incredibly sad situation

This book reels you in very quick, incredibly intriguing and tragic. Eye opening and could be a great read for college kids and the dangers they could face

A bit too dribble

Not as investigative I was hoping..the last few chapters were too author centered and their personal life had very little journalistic value

Very detailed

Live in Bloomington during all this and still now. I learned things I had never heard before.

An under told true crime mystery

Cohen is clearly an old school journalist with a hard fought reporting record. His resume includes some of the more salacious & aggressive outlets, which potentially contributed to a reluctance to speak with him from some corners. But the bottom line is Lauren’s life mattered & what happened to her deserves to be understood. There are some minor detectable errors in here (for example, he writes Natalie Holloway was from Mississippi rather than Alabama) but I give this book 5 stars for it’s depth of reporting over a decade & for taking on a case that is not previously over saturated with other works. People, perhaps young in 2011, continue to behave atrociously in 2024. Lauren deserves better from her affluent community members, better from IU & better from BPD. True crime readers should take the time to listen & spread Lauren’s story along with the others we know so much about.