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S1 Ep35: Disappearance at Indiana University: Lauren Spierer (Part 2)

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🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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“It is shocking that someone so loved could vanish without a trace, but entirely possible. It did happen and ten years later I still struggle. The space that once held hopes and dreams for Lauren will never heal. It is replaced by an ache fueled by the not knowing”. Those were the words Charlene Spierer wrote on the ten year anniversary of the disappearance of her daughter Lauren. When Lauren’s parents dropped their daughter off at Indiana University in the Fall 2009 for the start of her freshman semester, 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. But Lauren never came back home, and to this day, ten years later, no one has any idea where Lauren Spierer is, but her parents and many others believe that there is someone, or more than one someone, who does know more than they’re saying, and who could help bring the Spierer family some closure.

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0:00.0

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0:06.1

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0:11.0

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0:20.8

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0:26.6

take our word for it. Search UWE Bristol today.

0:44.4

Hello everybody, welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow.

0:47.5

And I'm Derek Lvassar. So we are picking up with Part 2 of Lauren's Spear case.

0:52.3

Unless you have something you want to talk about, I think we should dive right in.

0:55.6

Yeah, let's dive right into it. If you just listen to Part 1 or you listened to it last week,

0:59.9

then you know we just take in about a 10 minute break, we're going right at it. So this is

1:04.7

freshen our heads. Let's not waste any time. We'll get right into it. So Lauren's missing and her

1:10.0

parents, they go to IU and they're staying in the city so they can search for her. In the initial

1:16.3

search for Lauren went on for several weeks and there was tons and tons of local volunteers,

1:21.6

including notable local figures such as the IU basketball coach Tom Kreen and Eric Berman.

1:28.4

And Eric Berman's the father of another IU student who'd gone missing only to turn up dead.

1:35.1

Her name was Jill Berman. Now apparently Lauren's boyfriend, Jesse Wolf, he did help search for her.

1:41.6

It was the first two days he was with everyone searching for her, talking to her parents. But then his

1:47.2

parents flew in from New York and they basically like spirited him away like they took him back with

1:53.6

them on June 7th. The police gave their first press conference where Lieutenant Bill Parker said,

1:58.7

quote, when somebody at 4.30 in the morning, no shoes and has earlier been drinking goes out and

2:04.4

then just disappears off a street corner, we feel there certainly has to be foul play involved.

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