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College Girl, Missing by Shawn Cohen

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College Girl, Missing

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

Shawn Cohen

Sourcebooks · Print & ebook · May 28, 2024

Reading lane: Murder & Homicide

**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.

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Why This Clicks

Quietly Unsettling

A true-crime account with a steady pull and a plain-spoken, unsettling title concept.

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  • true-crime momentum
  • daily-dip reading

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  • college-age disappearance
  • crime-story framing

Book Details

Authors
Shawn Cohen
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Published
May 28, 2024
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Murder & Homicide · Abductions & Missing Persons
Reading lane
Murder & Homicide

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Publisher Categories

  • Murder & Homicide

  • Abductions & Missing Persons

About This Book

**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 a...

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**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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