The Forty Year Search For Laureen Rahn

Murder, She Told

Kristen Seavey

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

1980- Manchester, New Hampshire. The hallway was unusually dark as Judith Rahn stepped inside her apartment building in Manchester, New Hampshire. It was around 1am, and she was returning home to her 14-year-old daughter, Laureen, after a night out. Immediately, she knew something was wrong. Laureen wasn’t home. In fact, the young teen had just... vanished. Little did Judith know, she was about to be thrust into an agonizing journey of unexplained phone calls, and rumors of cults, pornography, and sex hotlines to find her missing daughter—a journey that would span over 40 years and counting. This is the bizarre 1980 disappearance of Lauren Rahn, and a mother's endless quest for answers. Detailed sources can be found on murdershetold.com Connect on Instagram @murdershetoldpodcast and on Facebook. Support the show here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is murder She Told. True Crime stories from Maine, New England, and small town
0:17.3	USA. I am your host, Kristen Zevi. You can connect with me and suggest your hometown crime at
0:24.3	murder she told dot com and follow me on Instagram at murder she told
0:28.2	podcast. The hallway was unusually dark as Judith Ron and her boyfriend climbed the stairs of her three-level apartment building on Merrimack Street in Manchester, New Hampshire,
0:44.7	where she shared a two-bedroom apartment with her 14-year-old daughter, Lorraine.
0:49.2	It was about 1 a.m. on a Saturday evening and the pair had just gotten back from a tennis
0:53.9	tournament her boyfriend was playing in and Lorraine who normally went with her
0:58.3	mother to watch the matches every weekend had lobbied her to stay home.
1:02.0	Lorraine wanted to enjoy the first session. weekend had lobbied her to stay home.
1:09.8	Lorraine wanted to enjoy the first Saturday of her eighth grade spring break and her mother finally gave in and let her stay home.
1:16.0	Judith carefully felt her way up the stairs to the third floor apartment in the pitch darkness. Maybe a fuse had blown.
1:18.0	When she got to her familiar front door, she found the door unlocked and her heart skipped a beat. Surely her daughter had just
1:25.8	been careless when she went to bed that night, right? This kind of negligence concerned
1:31.1	Judith. She knew her daughter was young,
1:33.7	but there had been a lot of scary things
1:35.5	happening in the neighborhood recently,
1:37.6	and forgetting to lock the door wasn't an option.
1:41.0	Judith peered into her daughter's room and found Loreen sleeping under the covers, so she went to get ready for bed herself.
1:48.0	But just as Judith was about to
1:53.0	lorine's room creaked open, and a sleepy, slightly hungover girl walked out, rubbing her eyes.
1:59.0	This girl was not her daughter.
2:02.0	Where's Lorraine?
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