Family Offers $100,000 Reward for Information in Spierer Case
It’s now been seven long days since Edgemont’s Lauren Spierer disappeared in Bloomington, Indiana where she recently completed her sophomore year. Though police, family, friends and over 400 volunteers have been scouring the area the investigation has failed to lead to Lauren.
Here are the latest developments in the case:
A New York Post article updated on Thursday morning June 9th reports that a male friend, Corey Rossman was seen entering her apartment building with her at 2:40 am. According to witnesses, Spierer was drunk and Rossman was “overly aggressive” and “belligerent.” Rossman took a polygraph test and gave conflicting reports in the news about what happened that night – in one report he says he last saw her walk away at 4:30 am.
However, in another report he says he was punched in the face and “has no memory of their last moments together.” His first memory was of the following morning when he woke up in his bed.
Lauren Spierer’s father announced that the family is offering a $100,000 reward for information that leads to her safe return.
Jim Irsay, the owner of the Indianapolis Colts, has offered a $10,000 reward for information.
In a press briefing, Lieutenant Bill Parker said that police and volunteer searches will continue, and that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children will provide resources and help to coordinate the search.
Police obtained a search warrant and broke down the doors at the Smallwood Apartment Building on the night of 6/7 and seized the security camera footage.
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I was doing some digging and Lauren's case sounds a lot like Holly Bobo's case. Holly was a 20-year-old short, blonde girl who went missing in Parsons, TN just TWO MONTHS AGO. My guess is that Holly did not have the same network opportunities that Lauren has (being from NY, Jewish community, etc.), but it sounds like she was victimized by the same person.
Both girls are college students, 20 y/o, blonde, blue eyes, petite and have strange circumstances regarding their disappearances. Neither had any identification (wallet, cell phone) on them and both had an item left behind after getting taken (Holly's family found a lunchbox 8 miles from her house; Lauren's parents found her keys). Also, the police have very few leads/ concrete evidence.
I hope the Bloomington police have realized the uncanny similarity between these two cases. If there is a relation, he/she could strike again on another short blonde at a state university.