003 - The Vanishing of Lauren Spierer

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 2 June 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In the early morning hours of June 3rd, 2011, twenty year old Indiana University sophomore Lauren Spierer vanished without a trace after a night out with friends. In the aftermath of Lauren's disappearance, everyone becomes a suspect; her friends, her boyfriend and yet unknown figures.

Three years later, Indiana University student Hannah Wilson goes missing and is later found murdered. The similarities between the murder of Hannah Wilson and the disappearance of Lauren Spierer are startling. Did Lauren meet the same fate at the hands of the same man, or was it the man seen driving the white truck the night Lauren vanished? Or, perhaps, one of Lauren's friends knows more than he is saying.

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0:00.0	At 12.30 in the morning on Friday, June 3rd, 2011, 20-year-old University of Indiana
0:07.2	sophomore Lauren Spear left her apartment for a night out with friends.
0:12.2	After visiting a group of friends at a nearby apartment,
0:15.2	Lauren headed into downtown Bloomington, Indiana, where she used a fake ID to get into Kilroy
0:20.7	Sports Bar. Two hours later, Lauren is caught on surveillance footage exiting the bar,
0:26.7	having left behind her shoes, and cell phone. Lauren is last seen on surveillance footage at 251am,
0:34.4	exiting an alley and walking toward an empty lot. Lauren's person keys would later be found by
0:40.5	investigators in this alley. This is the last verifiable sighting of Lauren. According to a friend
0:47.2	who claims to have last seen Lauren, she left his apartment and was observed at 4.30am,
0:53.6	walking to the intersection of 11th Street and College Avenue. When no one can reach Lauren the
0:59.2	next day, friends and family grow concerned and report her as a missing person. Lauren's companions
1:05.9	that evening would become key suspects, in addition to the unidentified driver of a white truck
1:11.5	seen in the area from which Lauren is said to have vanished. Theories begin to develop
1:17.0	at speculation points in accusatory finger at Lauren's friends, while others debate whether
1:22.0	Lauren's disappearance was murder or the result of an accidental overdose of illegal and prescription
1:27.5	drugs. As time goes by, fewer and fewer leads are developed as Lauren's case grows cold.
1:34.5	A few years later, the shocking and horrifying murder of Indiana University student Hannah Wilson
1:40.8	will bring Lauren's name back into the headlines and many begin to wonder if Lauren met the same
1:46.4	fate as Hannah at the hands of the same suspect. This is the Trace Evidence Podcast, Episode 3,
1:53.8	the disappearance of Lauren's spear. Welcome to the Trace Evidence Podcast, I'm your host,
2:02.1	Stephen Pacheco. Today's case involves the mysterious disappearance of 20-year-old University of
2:07.7	Indiana student Lauren's spear. It's a complex case with a lot of people involved and a lot of
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