College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight
According to Amazon:
**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**
“This book is the heartbreaking story that every parent dreads… Cohen sheds light on what really happened the night Lauren was never seen again.” ―David Crow, author of The Pale-Faced Lie
She visited friends. She walked to a bar. She was right there… until she was gone.
College student Lauren Spierer was pursuing her dreams, joining her boyfriend at a party school eight hundred miles from home. Social and gregarious, studying fashion and rooming with friends, Lauren embraced her new adventure with the zeal of a young woman who suddenly had everything she desired.
But there was a dark side that she and her inner circle kept secret. And one warm June evening, after heading out with friends, she seemingly vanished. When investigators retraced Lauren’s last steps using eyewitness accounts and security camera footage, the evidence ended at the doorstep of a group of wealthy, well-connected male students.
With original reporting including new testimony witnesses never shared with police, College Girl, Missing takes readers back to that fateful night and dives into the disappearance that captured front-page headlines around the world. Investigative journalist Shawn Cohen breaks more than a decade of silence as he pursues the truth: what really happened to Lauren Spierer?
Note: I received a copy of this to read, for a review. It was an exciting read. Though the title kind of gave away the investigation that the author and journalist, Shawn Cohen, wrote. I give him props for continuing the search as long as he did. Some of the characters in this book made me mad. There were the unhelpful college students, and so-called friends of the College Girl, Missing. And then there was the police department. Agencies were not working together. The people from the university were not very helpful at all. And sadly, it appears that everyone forgot that the missing girl had parents and a sister that loved and missed her. The fact that it’s been over a decade and the parents have no idea what happened to their daughter, or where she’s at, is heartbreaking. You have to give Shawn Cohen credit for going back through all the information, for re-interviewing people, etc. This book for nicely written. We learn about the initial investigation. Then we find out more about a decade later when Mr. Cohen goes back, hoping to find more. I do hope the parents receive an answer one day. But sadly, in this case, I wouldn’t hold my breath. Please read it.
