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🗓️ 30 July 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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0:45.0 | It is shocking that someone so loved could vanish without a trace, but entirely possible. |
0:51.0 | It did happen and 10 years later I still struggle. The space that once held hopes and dreams for Lauren will never heal. |
0:59.0 | It is replaced by an ache, yould, by the not knowing. Those were the words Charlene Spear wrote on the 10-year anniversary of the disappearance of her daughter, Lauren. |
1:09.0 | When Lauren's parents dropped their daughter off at Indiana University in the fall of 2009 for the start of her freshman semester, |
1:17.0 | they had felt she would be safe to learn and grow. And then she would come back home, ready for the next chapter in her life. |
1:24.0 | But Lauren never came back home. And to this day, 10 years later, no one has any idea where Lauren's beer is. |
1:31.0 | But her parents and many others believe that there is someone, or maybe more than one someone, who does know more than they're saying. |
1:39.0 | And who could help bring the Spear family some closure. |
1:57.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow. |
2:01.0 | And I'm Derek Lovasser. |
2:02.0 | Okay, so today we're talking about a mysterious missing person's case. And I know that unsolved missing person cases, they're usually my favorite to cover. |
2:09.0 | And I always try to get Derek to talk about them. Because to me it's like a serious mystery. And I want to like look at every little detail and try to put everything together like a puzzle to see if there's something that's been missing or that's been missed. |
2:21.0 | And I mean, honestly, in a lot of these cases, like the people that go missing, or somebody's kid, somebody's loved one. |
2:27.0 | And I personally can't imagine anything worse as a parent to have your child to vanish. And then not know what happened to them for years and years. |
2:36.0 | And you have to live with that every single year. It's just awful. So if we can help by getting the word out, keeping their stories live, keeping their names live, it's important that we do that. |
2:45.0 | And I've got a lot of requests on YouTube to cover Lauren Spears case since I started YouTube. I've been getting requests. |
2:52.0 | But I never really looked deeply into it until we decided to cover it on crime weekly. And I remember the morning after I started doing my research, Derek called me and I was like, I can't talk right now. |
3:01.0 | I'm so engulfed in this case. I'm obsessed with it. So needless to say, what happened to Lauren Spear has been on my mind for several days now. |
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