College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight
“Shawn Cohen brings the reader along on a remarkable minute-by-minute reconstruction of the last night Lauren Spierer was seen, uncovering new information and giving a reporting masterclass along the way. A truly unputdownable read.” —John Glatt, New York Times bestselling author
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?
Shawn Cohen is one of the top crime reporters in the country. He is a senior reporter for the Daily Mail exclusives team where he routinely breaks news on national stories. A native New Yorker, he now lives with his wife and two children in California.