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"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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"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

"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

"College Girl, Missing is investigative journalism at its finest. In his pulse-pounding true crime narrative, author Shawn Cohen takes readers on a painful, twisted journey to find out what really happened when Lauren Spierer vanished in 2011. Cohen unearths a truck load of new evidence in this heart wrenching mystery, shatters nearly impenetrable walls of silence, and doggedly pursues those who may have been involved in a sinister crime." — Casey Sherman, New York Times bestselling author of Helltown and A Murder in Hollywood