Think We Can Ever Solve The Lauren Spierer Case?

I wrote this originally back in 2013, but some new developments have popped up.

I watch a crap-load of true crime on TV. In September, my wife and I cut cable; we did this in the middle of the final Breaking Bad run (four episodes to go), but at the time, my biggest concern was actually missing Dateline and 48 Hours. I’ve probably seen every rerun of those shows, and I think Unsolved Mysteries might be the most gut-wrenchingly-terrifying thing in television history (that music! Robert Stack’s voice!). Point is … I’m big into true crime.

In the last five or so years, I can’t think of an unsolved case that’s seen so many flashes of false hope and dead ends than the Lauren Spierer case. That video above has a pretty detailed timeline of what happened — or rather, what we know happened — which is to say, she disappeared on June 3, 2011 in Bloomington, Indiana; she was a student at IU but from the Lower Hudson region of New York state. If you want probably the best rundown of the timeline and every potential suspect in the case, read this. There are a lot of different theories, mostly centering around three guys: Corey Rossman, Jay Rosenbaum and Michael Beth. In perhaps a last-ditch effort (although hopefully not a last-ditch effort), Spierer’s parents filed suits against those three; the…