College Girl, Missing

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

By: Shawn Cohen

Narrated by: Kyle Snyder

**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

Critic reviews

"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

All the details and the way it was told.

I liked how the details and the book were told so you could understand the sense of what was going on at the time.

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!

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

Very detailed

Live in Bloomington during all this and still now. I learned things I had never heard before.