Hello everyone and welcome back. I'm so happy to have you here with me to discuss yet another case today.

And if you're new, then welcome. Before we get into today's case, I wanted to quickly remind you guys that my charity merch has restocked.

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It's actually really cool and I'm excited about it. So all right, let's go ahead and get into this case.

So today we're going to be talking about Lauren Cho, who was born December 20th, 1990 in Huntington County, New Jersey.

There is some basic information available about her early childhood and her life leading up to the disappearance.

However, any information about her family has been largely kept private. But Lauren or L, as she was nicknamed, was a Korean American woman who at an early age found a passion for the arts.

Not only was she a black belt in Taekwondo, she was also a classically trained soprano singer. For school, she attended 110 Central Regional High School and spent most of her summers touring with her choir group in Europe.

And it was actually in her high school choir group that she met her very close friend and future boyfriend Cody Oral.

Lauren graduated high school in 2009 and her passion for music and for choir led her to the Westminster choir college at Ryder University where she studied music education.

And after she graduated in 2013, she won on to get a job as a high school music teacher.

And Lauren spent the next several years of her life pursuing music, but she also had a lot of other artistic interests.

And if there's one thing to know about Lauren, she was a very determined person. And if she had her mindset to do something, she sure as hell was going to do it.

She was very open to trying new things and was constantly exploring different artistic mediums. And in 2019, she was working part time as an apprentice for a tattoo and piercing artist named Len Gerardi in Flemington, New Jersey.

She had several tattoos and piercings herself, which was just one of the many ways that she expressed herself creatively.

But this new life that she was just getting started building really started to change when the pandemic hit. And I'm sure many of us can relate to that.

Lauren was still working as a school music teacher and obviously education was one of the biggest fields impacted by the pandemic.

Many teachers had to switch to teaching over zoom, which was a huge adjustment for all of them. I'm sure definitely not easy to teach virtually like that.

And especially when you're teaching music, that's hard. Lauren loved interacting with her students and teaching just wasn't as effective or as fun as it was when she could actually be with them in person.

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