This podcast may contain content that is graphic and disturbing in nature.

Listener discretion is advised. A young female law school graduate vanishes into thin air,

but a shocking discovery would reveal a threat right next door.

This is the Lauren Getting Story.

Good morning Amy. Hi Megan. Great to see you as always and I know that we are both getting

pretty close to the wire here at the end of our semester. Yes, favorite time of year.

Are breaks? Yes. I don't know about you, but I am very excited for the upcoming winter break.

And a semester burnout, but it also gives us some nice time to just sit down and you know work,

focus a little bit on this kind of work and you know do you have anything planned for the break?

Nope, just trying to catch up. Yeah, I guess that's probably what I have to.

We know that the holidays can be stressful too, so we hope that our listeners find a little relief

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Today's episode was suggested by a listener and we thank you for bringing us the Lauren Getting's case.

Lauren Teresa Giddings was born in 1984 into Koma Park, Maryland to parents Bill and Karen.

Lauren had two sisters and was the first to leave home, choosing to go to a small liberal art

school near Atlanta, Georgia to study medicine with hopes of becoming a doctor.

Interesting, Amy, when we cover some of these episodes, recently, remember we covered some Texas ones.

We're like, oh, we just got back from Texas. Now this is Atlanta. Oh, we just got back from Atlanta.

I feel like we're connected to these cases in some ways, right? Yes.

At least geographically. So Lauren had gone to study medicine with the hopes of becoming a doctor,

but sometime into her fourth year, Lauren realized that medicine wasn't quite for her.

So she pivoted her attention to political science and went on to work for a think tank

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