#357: Lauren Smith-Fields - Part 2
Real Crime Profile
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🗓️ 11 February 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
We continue our analysis of the Lauren Smith-Fields case. Laura talks about the need for online dating sites to step up their responsibility for flagging possible predators. Jim talks about the dangers of fentanyl and his doubts about the likelihood that Lauren was using it recreationally. Lisa is just beside herself with all the "wtf"s in this case.
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| 0:07.0 | Without a doubt, we know that my daughter was not a drug user and I had a second autopsy myself. |
| 0:17.0 | We paid out of pocket because we felt so uncomfortable with the way it was handled. |
| 0:43.0 | Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. |
| 0:47.0 | Lauren was a familiar face to YouTube audiences. Her family says she had been a track star at Stanford High School and was now studying physical therapy at Norwalk Community College. |
| 0:58.0 | A sweet child, they say, who had blossomed into a beautiful young woman who had the whole world at her feet. They say Lauren had met, quote, an older white man on the dating app Bumble and it was he who alerted police to Lauren's death. |
| 1:12.0 | The family says they are not satisfied with answers they got from an investigator. |
| 1:17.0 | I asked him about the guy he just made it seem like the guy was a nice guy. It was nothing to investigate. |
| 1:22.0 | The only contact that we have had was from a very insensitive condescending and arrogant detective. |
| 1:28.0 | Lauren's dad reading a scathing statement saying police failed to extend the most basic curses and told his family to stop calling. |
| 1:37.0 | Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile and Lisa Zambetti. I'm a casting director and Los Angeles and have a real interest in real crime and the minds that should be solving these crimes and with me today is. |
| 1:55.0 | I'm Jim Clemente. I'd be a profile of former New York City prosecutor and co host of the podcast best case worst case. |
| 2:02.0 | I'm Laura Richards, Criminal Behavioral Analyst, former New Scotland Yard and Founder of Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service and a host of the podcast crime analyst. |
| 2:12.0 | We're jumping back into the case of Lauren Smith Fields who died on December 12, 2021. |
| 2:19.0 | She was a 23 year old college student in Bridgeport, Connecticut and her death and the subsequent handling of her death is something that is so shocking and upsetting that we had to. |
| 2:31.0 | We had to talk about it. |
| 2:33.0 | Absolutely. So let's dive back in where we left off. |
| 2:37.0 | Bumble also put out a statement saying your enforcement had not contacted them for data or information. |
| 2:44.0 | So exactly to that point, what if three women heard made complaints to Bumble and the police have not requested that information and to put another context on it. |
| 2:55.0 | We've seen the Tinder Swindler on Netflix. We've talked about John Meahan, dirty John. |
| 3:03.0 | These predators pray in these pools and they have to be scrutinized. |
| 3:09.0 | So it really pulls into question. Yes, the investigation. Yes, the fact that things questions hadn't been asked, but also for me, online dating. |
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