Bloomington, Ind.— Bloomington police said Wednesday that their search for missing IU coed Lauren Spierer has moved into a new phase now that most of the young woman’s friends and the witnesses to her last hours in town have departed for the summer.
“There are many things going on with this interview behind the scenes,” said Blommington Police Department Captain Joe Qualters. “(There have) been a number of interviews that have been completed not only with individuals that we knew to be with Lauren prior to her disappearnce but also with people in that secondary tier as well.”
Qualters said there are one or two potential witnesses that investigators have not yet interviewed. Based on the information from that ring of sources, detectives may decide to re-interview what they are calling first tier individuals. That would include Spierer’s boyfriend Jesse Wolff who was the person to report her missing on the afternoon of June 3.
Wolff returned home to Port Washington, New York, within days of Spierer’s disappearance but his roommates cleared out of their off campus rental home this week. Last week, one of Wolff’s roommates told Fox59 News he had not been interviewed by police but last saw wolff at 2:30 a.m., just a couple of hours before Spierer was reportedly last seen.
Charlene Spierer had harsh words for her daughter’s friends and their level of cooperation with the case during a news conference Wednesday.
“I am extremely disappointed by the fact that only one of Lauren’s friends have called the Bloomington Police Department with information. I’m extremely disappointed and my question to all of you is why? Because as I’ve said before I can guarentee you Lauren would’ve been the first to call,” Charlene said.
With the end of IU’s spring semester, most students and volunteers have left Bloomington. Approximately three dozen volunteers and Indiana State Troopers searched Wednesday morning. Some of them spent time prowling the median and shoulders of State Road 37 just north of Bloomington.
Robert Spierer said he is requesting a major turnout of volunteers to search for Lauren this Saturday, three weeks and one day after the 20-year-old disappeared. The family has also established an address to accept anonymous tips.
Anyone with information is asked to write to:
Find Lauren
P.O. Box 1226
Bloomington, Indiana 47402
Lauren Spierer is described as approximately four feet, 11 inches tall with a slender build. She has blue eyes and blonde hair, longer than shoulder length. The 20-year-old had just finished her sophomore year at IU. Anyone with information should call Bloomington police at 812-339-4477.
Spierer’s mother Charlene Spierer said Lauren has a life-threatening heart condition called Long QT Syndrome. Her mother has asked if anyone knows where Lauren is, to please take her to a hospital
