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

samjam

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!

pjtradeking

Sorry to hear about this... :-(

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Cool Face Ryan

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.

DreamOfAngels

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

wow, scary and sad stuff.
i do hope this has a happy ending. or really, a beginning. 20? just the start of living.

JTH

I'm an IU alumnus. She was last seen near 11th and College? I lived a couple blocks from there my junior year.

DreamOfAngels

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

That's awful, hope she is found safe and well.

Gary Carter

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.

conman

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dr0ptheleash

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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

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.

PilateOfTheStorm

very scary and awful, hope she is found safe and healthy and soon
sending my prayers and thoughts and good vibes

PureandEasy

Missing person's cases freak me out.

I pray she is found safe.

Lizard

Just heard about this on the news........so sad.
I pray she is found safe and sound.

Black Diamond

We got the notice yesterday...
She and her father before her attended the same summer camp as my kids...
Tragic...

DreamOfAngels

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

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

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DreamOfAngels

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

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samjam

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conman

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DreamOfAngels

I actually had a news woman ask me tonight why I decided to help and asked how I felt about searching.... I really wanted to suggest she put down her microphone, take off the high heels, and join in. Seriously - are Journalist really trained to ask these kinds of questions?

Call for help from those of you in Indy or other nearby cities! The volunteer search is continuing every day, 3 times a day. Come on down and come dressed for searching the wooded areas. Flip flops seem to be very popular with the volunteers - but wow - with this heat and humidity - and the areas we're going into - can't imagine flip flops would feel good.

dr0ptheleash

DreamOfAngels wrote:

I actually had a news woman ask me tonight why I decided to help and asked how I felt about searching.... I really wanted to suggest she put down her microphone, take off the high heels, and join in. Seriously - are Journalist really trained to ask these kinds of questions?

Call for help from those of you in Indy or other nearby cities! The volunteer search is continuing every day, 3 times a day. Come on down and come dressed for searching the wooded areas. Flip flops seem to be very popular with the volunteers - but wow - with this heat and humidity - and the areas we're going into - can't imagine flip flops would feel good.

You're doing a great thing by helping. I only wish I was closer to join you. Man do I feel for this family, I can't imagine my child being lost and feeling so damn helpless. I pray she is found soon and is safe.

conman

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samjam

Really cannot stop thinking about this. Everybody in town can't either, and have been expressing their deepest sympathies, thoughts & prayers. Here's some links of the latest updates:
This is a good article that has a lot of info: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2000877/Lauren-Spierer-missing-Man-seen-memory-moments.html
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/09/3689623/attorney-ken-nunn-makes-25000.html -talks about lack of surveillance videos plus rewards for information up to $145,000

DreamOfAngels

Search continued last night with police check points asking for information from drivers around 4-4:30 this morning which would be about the time she went missing. We are continuing today 11am, 2 pm, and 5:30. Parks were searched again yesterday. Follow http://iuhillel.org/lauren.php or http://www.facebook.com/Lauren.Spierer.Family.Updates#!/Lauren.Spierer.Family.Updates.

The family is still very optimistic they will find her so keep up the good vibes and hope. If you are wanting to help but aren't physically close enough to do so, sending cards to the IU Hillel center would be awesome too. They will be able to get them to the family. They have received a lot of support from local businesses too and are so happy to have the continued support

Inside_Job_IN

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whispering hands

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My friend in Indy was helping out with this her son Dillon goes to IU, and she's got him on a shorter leash than ever, since this happened.. I pray they find her soon..so scary..

F5AgainstOne

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