College Girl, Missing

The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight

De: Shawn Cohen

Narrado por: Kyle Snyder

Duración: 4 h y 57 m

Resumen del Editor

**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 listeners 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?

©2024 Shawn Cohen (P)2024 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Reseñas de la Crítica

"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

A bit too dribble

Not as investigative I was hoping..the last few chapters were too author centered and their personal life had very little journalistic value

Kept me interested

I am from Bloomington, IN, so Lauren Speirer is a well known name around here. Many from my family went on the search party. I was very anxious to listen to this book. Unfortunately, this is a true story and if people felt unsatisfied with the ending, it’s to no fault of the author. We all want to know what happened to her, but the author can only tell us the facts…and the fact is, there may never be anymore answers. I would recommend and have recommended this book to friends and family.

Finished it the day it was released via audio

This was a great book. As a Bloomington native it really captures everything that surrounded the mass hysteria of events that took place. I love that it also introduces new information we hadn’t known previously and includes interviews for the persons of interest!

The reader made the story great!

The reader did an excellent job with this book. The emphasis in just the right places!

Incredibly insightful-

Learned a lot! The story is filled with details to help shed some light on this case. So glad I read/listened.
The narrator was very good too.

interesting, gripping, crucial

This is a story of one man's dedication to getting a grieving family answers in the disappearance of their child. This was a cade I followed when it happened as we were the same age. I was just dumbfounded and still am to this day that she has not yet been found and her case has gone cold. 10 out of 10 would recommend.

Complex case in a digestible format.

Great research and a story that grabs you and haunts you (if a parent). This is every parent’s nightmare.

Boring

Is there anything outside of what was reported 12 years ago. It felt more like a chance for the author to make a comeback.

Self-Obsessed Author Reports Nothing But Innuendo

I have been interested in this case for years, and was really excited to read this book. Unfortunately, the author is often more interested in himself than the victim. The book is about 1/3 basic outline of the facts, 1/3 him talking about himself (notably him getting fired for unethically sleeping with a source who was a prostitute), and 1/3 word for word recaps of conversations he has with suspects.

Rather than digging in and actually reporting on why certain suspects were supposedly not viable, notably Israel Keyes, he spends the entire time just making innuendos about how he thinks it was the group of guys she was last seen with. He, almost comically, goes on and on about a call one suspect made to a 17 year old girl the night of the crime, as if the guy was calling Ted Bundy for advice. In fact he harasses a number of people, like said random girl, and implies to them that they better talk or else.

Please do not waste your money. Honestly, I think the author should really be ashamed of this work. Go read Jack Olsen instead.