Please Help Find Lauren

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Please Help Find Lauren

Lauren has been missing since early Friday morning, June 3rd, and was last seen on 11th St. and College Ave. in Bloomington, IN at 4:15 A.M.. Did you see Lauren that night?

http://iuhillel.org/lauren.php

[NINO]

Beautiful girl. Hope they find her - and well.

[Father Wrath]

Stickied

[Father Wrath]

Subscription not required to these stories from the H-T, excerpts below

Police: No new breakthroughs in Lauren Spierer case
http://heraldtimesonline.com/stories/20 ... 404668.sto

Bloomington police had no breakthroughs Monday night on the whereabouts of Lauren Spierer, after two days of searching beside hundreds of volunteers for the 20-year-old Indiana University student who disappeared early Friday morning.

Open search groups will organize again Tuesday at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. outside Smallwood Plaza, and police have planned an 11 a.m. press conference to share any new details that emerge overnight, if they have any.

“We’ve had extensive searches and interviews over the last few days,” Lt. Bill Parker said. Police searched separately from the 500 to 600 volunteers who scoured in small groups downtown, in wooded areas, along railroad tracks, at construction sites and around lakes. IU officials said their personnel searched and inspected all the campus’ buildings and grounds for anything that might assist police in their investigation. But Parker said none of the searches so far have turned up new details.

Sue Silberberg, director of the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center, which coordinated the volunteer searches, confirmed that no one found anything significant Sunday or Monday. But she said they’ll keep hoping and searching.

The missing woman’s father, Robert Spierer, said he would do the same.

“We’re out searching now,” he said Monday evening by phone. Robert Spierer and his wife, Charlene, along with their 25-year-old daughter and a pack of family friends, flew from New York to Indianapolis and drove a rental car to Bloomington this weekend to file the police report and start looking themselves.

Spierer said his daughter has a heart condition called Long QT and could be in danger without her medication. The Spierers last talked to their daughter Thursday. They usually hear from her every day, making the past four days especially stressful...

Searchers comb Bloomington for clues in case of missing IU student
http://heraldtimesonline.com/stories/20 ... 873940.sto

Hundreds of people turned out Monday to help police search for clues in the disappearance of Lauren Spierer, a 20-year-old Indiana University student who was last seen on her walk home to Smallwood Plaza early Friday morning.

People crowded into the lobby and filled the sidewalk in front of the downtown apartment complex Monday afternoon, and five times as many people came that night, most saying they’d heard about Spierer’s disappearance in media reports and wanted to help. That included IU basketball head coach Tom Crean and several fellow coaches.

“This is a gut-wrenching thing,” Crean said by phone at 3:30 p.m. Monday as he walked along a railroad track with a group of seven people. “I can’t imagine what the family is going through. We just want to do what we can to help.”

Crean, who has three children himself, ages 6 to 16, said parents everywhere are feeling empathy for Robert and Charlene Spierer, even though they can’t begin to understand the depth of their fear.

“It’s certainly not surprising that a community like Bloomington is rallying to help,” he said.

Bloomington police Sgt. Pam Gladish gave searchers tips before splitting them into groups to search a portion of the community Monday afternoon, starting up near 17th Street and the Ind. 45/46 Bypass and working their way south. She instructed searchers to look for anything “suspicious,” reminded them that Spierer was last seen wearing a white shirt and black stretch pants and told them if they discovered anything to contact Gladish by cellphone and wait for an officer to arrive...

...The group of coaches — including Crean — started near Indiana Avenue and 15th Street, working their way through wooded areas, dumpsters and behind buildings and in parking lots. “I remember when Jill Behrman went missing, and it brought back a lot of memories,” IU employee Momi Ford said. “We wanted to help.”

Also at Smallwood Plaza was Eric Behrman, father of Jill Behrman, another IU student whose May 31, 2000, disappearance sparked similar searches and pleas for information. “When we got the news of this, we knew exactly what her friends and family are going through,” Behrman said. “It’s not anything you ever want anybody to go through.”

Behrman was one of the 100-some people who participated in the 1 p.m. search for Spierer.

Jill Behrman went missing on a bicycle ride over Memorial Day weekend in 2000. Her father said the search brought back painful memories.

“I feel so sad for the family and their friends because I know exactly what they are going through,” he said. “I know a lot of folks want to tell the parents ‘I know what you’re feeling,’ but until you’ve been through something like this you don’t know how it is...”

...Spierer, who just finished her sophomore year at IU studying apparel merchandising, was last seen walking south on College Avenue from 11th Street on her way back to her apartment in Smallwood Plaza. Video footage does not show her entering the apartment complex. She was supposed to start a class on Monday at Ivy Tech, according to Ivy Tech’s vice chancellor for student affairs Jennie Vaughan.

Spierer is described as white, with long blond hair and blue eyes, and is about 4 feet, 11 inches tall. She was wearing a white tank top with a loose, light-colored, buttoned shirt over it; full-length, black stretch pants; and was not wearing shoes.

“Missing” posters and photos have flooded campus and downtown. The Helene G. Simon Hillel Center has created a website connected to the search — http://www.iuhillel.org/lauren.php — that organizers said will be updated regularly. In addition, a virtual search group has formed on Twitter at @NewsOnLaurenS.

Anyone with information about Spierer is asked to call the Bloomington Police Department at 339-4477.

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By News Staff Fox59

8:41 p.m. EDT, June 7, 2011
Bloomington, Ind.—

Bloomington Police have removed two computer hard drives from rooms off of the lobby at Smallwood Plaza. Missing IU student Lauren Spierer lives at Smallwood Plaza.

An apartment complex resident told Fox59 News the hard drives contain security camera footage. Police said there's no evidence Lauren ever entered her apartment building Friday.

Police are continuing to search the apartment building looking for clues into her disappearance.

The 20-year-old sophomore went missing early Friday morning. She was last seen walking towards her apartment on College Avenue.

At about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night, the first of four Bloomington Police cars with lights flashing arrived in the 800 block of College Avenue. One officer was carrying a battering ram. An officer told Fox59 News that investigators were attempting to find a key to open an apartment.

At 8:25 p.m., police used the battering ram to knock down two doors near the lobby of the apartment building.

A live report from Bloomington is coming up on Fox59 News at 10.

[mimicus]

Why are the police using battering rams to get the security camera recordings and why are they using the battering rams now, instead of two days ago?

[Wolverine]

They must have received some information that made them want in those rooms really badly...

[mimicus]

They must have received some information that made them want in those rooms really badly...

Why wouldn't the management just open the rooms for them? Why the drama?

[Diamond Joe Quimby]

They may not have needed to use the battering rams, they may have brought those with them "just in case" they met some resistance while the search warrants (or possibly subpoenas) were executed (or served). Though the IDS reports a few moments ago:

Members of the Bloomington Police Department are reportedly searching near the lobby of Smallwood Plaza.

The police have broken down two doors to the right of the lobby of the apartment complex. They immediately began taking photos. The reason for these actions has not been given.

The two rooms are a mail room and a security room. So far, police have taken two hard drives and two CD cases.

As for the time interval, that could be due to numerous factors (but taking a guess here, if the police had to bring battering rams and obtain a search warrant, that tends to indicate cooperation with whoever the warrants were being served on was not to be expected... searching the building's mail room and security room leads to a possible conclusion that the apartment building folks are not cooperating)

[Muppethead]

Is anyone but me curious about the timing of this disappearance and Jill Behrman? Both around the same time of the year. I can't remember where I read it-I'm trying to find it and there seems to be a post on Huffington Post (Been reading that more lately..don't know why lol) about a women missing around Memorial Day in Bloomington every 5-7 years but I can't seem to locate it anymore.
This being said, I hope she isn't a victim of anything but having an unexpected vacation and in a day or so, shows up and says "I didn't know everyone was looking for me."
My prayers are going out to her family. I wish I could do more.

[clayfeat]

They must have received some information that made them want in those rooms really badly...

Why wouldn't the management just open the rooms for them? Why the drama?

If this went down at 7:30 then the property management office would have been closed for an hour or more; therefore no one would have been readily available with a key.

[Village Idiot (R)]

Rumor that her body has been found.

That might explain the urgency to enter Smallwood if evidence was found.

[Village Idiot (R)]

They must have received some information that made them want in those rooms really badly...

Why wouldn't the management just open the rooms for them? Why the drama?

If this went down at 7:30 then the property management office would have been closed for an hour or more; therefore no one would have been readily available with a key.

Surely they are not after security camera recordings. Surely they looked at those first thing after her disappearance.

[mimicus]

They must have received some information that made them want in those rooms really badly...

Why wouldn't the management just open the rooms for them? Why the drama?

If this went down at 7:30 then the property management office would have been closed for an hour or more; therefore no one would have been readily available with a key.

I just don't understand why they would be getting this stuff now. I'd have thought they would collect the tapes as a matter of standard procedure a couple of days ago.

[Village Idiot (R)]

They must have received some information that made them want in those rooms really badly...

Why wouldn't the management just open the rooms for them? Why the drama?

If this went down at 7:30 then the property management office would have been closed for an hour or more; therefore no one would have been readily available with a key.

I just don't understand why they would be getting this stuff now. I'd have thought they would collect the tapes as a matter of standard procedure a couple of days ago.

Surely there is an explanation.