**HELP SPREAD THE WORD- 20 year old IU student missing**

samjam
samjam New York Posts: 9,283
edited June 2012 in All Encompassing Trip
Hi everybody. Don't know if anyone's heard this or not. 20 year old Lauren Spierer, an Indiana University student has gone missing. Lauren went to my high school, which makes this close to home and even more scary for me and my community. I've been asked to spread awareness. Here are some news reports so you can get the full story:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/lauren-spierer-missing-indiana-university-student-heart-condition/story?id=13772510
http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=81845

Please click 'attending' on FB too: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=215405565157089

Thanks!
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  • pjtradeking
    pjtradeking Posts: 4,045
    Sorry to hear about this... :-(

    bump to keep it up top...
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  • Cool Face Ryan
    Cool Face Ryan Posts: 1,254
    samjam wrote:
    Hi everybody. Don't know if anyone's heard this or not. 20 year old Lauren Spierer, an Indiana University student has gone missing. Lauren went to my high school, which makes this close to home and even more scary for me and my community. I've been asked to spread awareness. Here are some news reports so you can get the full story:
    http://abcnews.go.com/US/lauren-spierer-missing-indiana-university-student-heart-condition/story?id=13772510
    http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=81845

    Please click 'attending' on FB too: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=215405565157089

    Thanks!
    reported on this on a news show i do at my college. hope she is found safe.
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  • DreamOfAngels
    DreamOfAngels Posts: 829
    I live in Bloomington. Driving around campus today and watched several groups of young people with the fliers with her photo/info punching them on every post they could find. Broke my heart.
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    wow, scary and sad stuff.
    i do hope this has a happy ending. or really, a beginning. 20? just the start of living.
    Stay with me...
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  • JTH
    JTH Chicago Posts: 3,238
    I'm an IU alumnus. She was last seen near 11th and College? I lived a couple blocks from there my junior year.
  • DreamOfAngels
    DreamOfAngels Posts: 829
    I drove by there tonight at almost 6pm. There were news trucks and tons of people on the sidewalk and into the street. The scene looked as if some famous person was on the red carpet - so many people. It didn't hit me til I arrived home who they were all there for...and why.
  • Loulou
    Loulou Adelaide Posts: 6,247
    That's awful, hope she is found safe and well.
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  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    decides2dream wrote:
    wow, scary and sad stuff.
    i do hope this has a happy ending. or really, a beginning. 20? just the start of living.
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  • conman
    conman Posts: 7,493
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  • dr0ptheleash
    dr0ptheleash Posts: 1,264
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    This is so scary. I hope that they find her and she is safe and well. Try to stay strong, she needs to come home safe. Thoughts and prayers.
  • samjam
    samjam New York Posts: 9,283
    Thanks for the support. You hear about so many terrible occurrences from the news and elsewhere, but it really is scary when it's someone you know of. And someone so young and close to your age. Just found out about another way to spread the news- I'm not on Twitter, but if you are you can use the hashtag #FindLauren. There's also a page called @NewsOnLaurenS.
    "Sometimes you find yourself having to put all your faith in no faith."
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  • PilateOfTheStorm
    PilateOfTheStorm Posts: 4,319
    very scary and awful, hope she is found safe and healthy and soon
    sending my prayers and thoughts and good vibes
  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    Missing person's cases freak me out.

    I pray she is found safe.
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    Just heard about this on the news........so sad.
    I pray she is found safe and sound.
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    We got the notice yesterday...
    She and her father before her attended the same summer camp as my kids...
    Tragic...
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  • DreamOfAngels
    DreamOfAngels Posts: 829
    Message sent to all IU employees/students today:

    "Dear members and friends of the IU Bloomington community,

    Our thoughts continue to be with Lauren Spierer, a junior at IU Bloomington
    who has been missing since early Friday morning. Lauren was last seen at around
    4:30 a.m. on the morning of Friday, June 3 near the intersection of 11th St.
    and College Avenue.

    Members of the university and the Bloomington community are doing all they can
    to find Lauren and to assist fellow students who have been affected by her
    disappearance. The Bloomington Police Department is leading the investigation
    and the Indiana University Police Department is working very closely with them.

    Searches are ongoing. If you are able to assist in the efforts to find Lauren,
    please visit the Indiana Daily Student web site at http://www.idsnews.com for search
    schedules and logistics. A Twitter account at
    http://twitter.com/#!/NewsOnLaurenS, a Facebook page (Missing: Lauren Spierer),
    and the web site of the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center (http://iuhillel.org/)
    will also have information on organized searches.

    At http://protect.iu.edu/, you can also find up-to-date information on Lauren's
    disappearance. You can sign up to receive safety, security, and preparedness
    related information from IU. Protect IU is a supplement to the IU Notify
    system. Click 'Connect and Subscribe' and select the types of notifications
    you would like to receive.

    If anyone has any information about Lauren's whereabouts, please call the
    Bloomington Police Department at 812-339-4477, or the Indiana University
    Police Department at 812-855-4111.

    Our thoughts continue to be with Lauren, her family, and her friends.

    Karen Hanson
    Provost and Executive Vice President"
  • Bronx Bombers
    Bronx Bombers Posts: 2,208
    INDIANAPOLIS - The disappearance of an IU student has similarities to several other college students that have gone missing in the area in the past decade or so.

    http://www.wthr.com/story/14860243/miss ... es-of-past

    Hopefully this girl is found safe but it seems like this has been happening way too much over the past decade at midwestern colleges specifically in Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Indiana. When I saw this story today the first thing I thought of was Brian Shaffer, the second thing was that there is definitely a serial killer(s) in the midwest targeting college kids.
  • conman
    conman Posts: 7,493
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  • DreamOfAngels
    DreamOfAngels Posts: 829
    I assisted with the search this evening with another PJ member. In our 7 block area we found 4 items and reported them all but doubt it was useful. The police had many tips and they were following up on each one so their parking lot was like a revolving door of police cars checking in after each run. The parents spoke to us prior to the beginning of the evening search and I could feel my broken heart crying for them. It's such a helpless feeling.

    As an aside - I've lived here for 20 years and it never crossed my mind to dispose of, or lose, articles of my clothing on the streets. In a college town I guess the chances of losing clothing on the street is greater ? ... It's amazing the number of articles of clothing, bottles/cans, and trash on the ground in our city that I have apparently been blind to over the years.
  • conman
    conman Posts: 7,493
    conman wrote:
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