Lauren Spierer

Lauren Spierer disappeared in the early hours of June 3, 2011, after a night out with her friends in Bloomington, Indiana. She was last seen walking home alone from a friend’s apartment around 4:30 a.m. She was never discovered again. So far, an ongoing investigation has failed to solve her disappearance.

There is surveillance video from several buildings and streets that shows Spierer walking around campus the night she disappeared. But she was suddenly gone.

Lauren Spierer was 4 feet 11 inches tall, 90-95 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing black leggings, a white tank top, and a white shirt. Despite such a detailed description for the authorities, however, no progress was made.

Meanwhile, the national press extensively covered Spierer’s disappearance, but despite a thorough search, she remains missing and her case remains unsolved.

Bloomington Police have worked with the FBI for the last ten years to examine surveillance footage, conduct interviews with hundreds of people, and conduct land searches in a case that is “still very active,” according to police. Though her family remains hopeful, many now believe Lauren Spierer’s disappearance will never be solved.

The haunting Case of Lauren Spierer’s Disappearance

Lauren Spierer had a couple of friends over to her apartment on the day she vanished to watch a basketball game and drink some wine. She met some of her IU friends at a summer camp in Pennsylvania years before, including her boyfriend, Jesse Wolff, and friend Jason Rosenbaum.

However, Wolff was at his apartment on the evening in question when Spierer texted him that she was going to sleep after the game. She eventually went to a party at Rosenbaum’s townhouse two blocks away.

On surveillance video, she is seen leaving her apartment around 12:30 a.m., looking happy and healthy.

She met Rosenbaum’s neighbours and friends Corey Rossman and Michael Beth at the party. Officials believe that, in addition to more drinking, drugs such as Klonopin or cocaine were consumed.

Lauren Spierer and Rossman went to Kilroy’s, a nearby sports bar, after Rosenbaum’s party. Spierer, who was only there for about a half-hour, also left her cell phone and shoes behind.

They returned to Spierer’s apartment complex after leaving the bar. They saw a group of young men in the hallway who were said to be friends of Spierer’s boyfriend, Jesse. One of the men punched Rossman in the face, erasing much of his memory of the night, he later claimed.

Following the incident, surveillance footage shows them leaving Spierer’s complex, with Rossman carrying a clearly intoxicated Spierer over his shoulder. They arrived at Rossman’s apartment, where his inebriated friend vomited and went to bed, according to his roommate Michael Beth. Michael claimed that Spierer then returned to Rosenbaum’s apartment next door.

Rosenbaum claims he insisted on Spierer sleeping on his couch, but she refused, claiming she wasn’t done partying yet, and left. According to his account, Jason Rosenbaum was the last person to see Lauren Spierer as she walked up the street toward her own apartment at 4:30 a.m.

The Investigation Into How She Disappeared

Spierer’s parents believed from the start that the group of friends Lauren Spierer was hanging out with that night knew more than they were telling the police. Four of the men she hung out with that night were lawyers. Corey Rossman, Jay Rosenbaum, Mike Beth, and Jesse Wolff remain “persons of interest” in Spierer’s disappearance, but not suspects.

Despite the fact that Jesse Wolff claimed to be at home in the early hours of June 3, police cannot prove or disprove his alibi. Had his friends who met Spierer and Rossman at her building informed him that she was drunk and in the company of another man?

While they all cooperated with the investigation, some of their parents refused to let them take police polygraphs. Instead, some used third-party polygraphs administered by lawyers. Rosenbaum and Wolff claim to have passed the independent tests, but the results are not public.

Top theories about Lauren Spierer’s Disappearance

There is always the possibility that someone kidnaps Lauren Spierer off the street in addition to the theories that someone she was with that night hurt her. A drunken, barefoot, 90-pound girl could be snatched off the street in a matter of seconds.

A sex offender who killed Hannah Wilson, an additional IU student, in 2015 was in the neighborhood. However, police later denied that the case was comparable to Spierer’s. Furthermore, Spierer could have been picked up while walking home by any other friend or acquaintance.

Accidental overdose is a different common theory. In addition to Lauren Spierer’s heart condition and/or medication, consuming large amounts of alcohol (and perhaps other drugs) may have contributed to her passing. If she passed away while staying at someone else’s apartment, fear might have taken hold, leading a drunk college student to fear and seek to hide her body.

Although a tip that was received in 2016 certainly seemed to suggest this possibility, further inquiries into the matter have not turned up any conclusive proof.

Even after ten years, nobody who knows anything about what happened that night is willing to speak out.

The mother of Lauren Spierer, Charlene, said at a press conference, “Perhaps it was a terrible accident that happened, and we can deal with that.” “What we don’t know is something we can’t deal with.”