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10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

Abducted At Auburn

10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

Joe Kuner

Entertainment News, True Crime, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4.8614 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

On March 4th, 2008, multiple witnesses watched as a naked woman threw herself out of a moving car. 18-year-old Lauren Burk had been abducted by a stranger while heading to a college study session, and spent the last moments of her life, doing everything she could to live.

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0:00.0

Discretion is advised.

0:16.0

This is 10-minute murder.

0:27.6

18-year-old Lauren Burke was in her freshman year year at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama.

0:38.7

She was a multi-talented student, a lacrosse playing sorority member who was majoring in

0:43.2

graphic design and dreamed of one day working in marketing.

0:47.3

On the 4th of March 2008, Lauren spent the afternoon hanging out with her boyfriend at his

0:52.1

dorm and planned on an evening study session

0:55.0

at one of the university's libraries with a friend. At around 8 p.m. Lauren walked back to her car,

1:02.1

a 2001 Honda Civic, which she had parked nearby. What she didn't know is that someone was watching

1:09.0

her, and when she moved to open her car

1:11.6

door, he struck.

1:14.6

Courtney Lockhart had spent the day scoping out the university's campus, looking for people

1:19.8

to rob.

1:21.3

It was an unusual behavior for him, between joining the military in 2003 at the of 19, and his dishonorable discharge in 2006,

1:31.2

he'd been a nightmare for other soldiers to deal with, doing drugs, picking fights, going AWOL,

1:37.4

and even physically assaulting one of his superiors.

1:40.4

After he served half a year in confinement, he was discharged in December 2006, but he never cleaned up his act.

1:48.4

Throughout Georgia and Alabama, Courtney was the perpetrator of a series of carjackings and robberies.

1:54.7

He usually followed the same method.

1:57.1

First, he selected a female victim, one who didn't look like she could fight back.

2:03.2

He would watch and wait as she climbed into her vehicle.

2:07.0

Then he would quickly approach an Amos pistol at her.

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