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College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight

by Shawn Cohen

A disappearance reconstructed through reporting

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A disappearance reconstructed through reporting

Lauren Spierer vanished after going out with friends one June evening while she was a college student. Shawn Cohen’s account retraces her final known movements through eyewitness accounts and security-camera footage, then examines the investigation and the questions left by evidence that led to a group of students. Drawing on original reporting, including testimony witnesses had not previously shared with police, the book revisits a case that drew international attention and explores the private circumstances surrounding Spierer’s social circle. Its emphasis is on piecing together a documented timeline while pursuing what remains unresolved about her disappearance.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in true-crime accounts of missing-person investigations.
  • Those who value reporting built around timelines, witness accounts, and security-camera evidence.
  • Readers seeking a book about a widely covered college-student disappearance.

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Missing personsInvestigative reportingEyewitness testimonyCollege social circles

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Book overview

**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?

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