In 2011, a college girl in Indiana went missing. The events of that night are still shrouded in mystery.
Let me begin by saying, I absolutely flew through this audiobook. My preferred way of consuming nonfiction is through audio so this was the perfect book for me! I thought that the narrator was engaging and easy to follow along with. My only gripe with this work is more of a personal pet peeve, I don’t totally love when nonfiction authors insert personal narratives while telling the story. I understand the author goes into to detail of how he came to write the book and while it does provide context as to why some involved in Lauren’s case would not speak with him, it’s just not my personal thing. However overall I had limited to no knowledge on this case (I had seen approximately one TikTok about it which prompted me to add it to my Goodreads tbr) and i walked away feeling as though I was decently knowledgeable on the subject. Thank you NetGalley for the audio arc!!

𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒆 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍, 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟏 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲’𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭, 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐰𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐡𝐞𝐧—𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐝.

𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 (𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭), 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐰𝐚𝐬. 𝐂𝐨𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞.

𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐭. 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥, 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭.

**𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒖𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝑳𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒏’𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒅.**

𝒯𝒽𝒶𝓃𝓀 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓉𝑜 𝒮𝒽𝒶𝓌𝓃 𝒞𝑜𝒽𝑒𝓃, 𝒮𝑜𝓊𝓇𝒸𝑒𝒷𝑜𝑜𝓀𝓈, & 𝒩𝑒𝓉𝒢𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓎 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒜𝑅𝒞! 𝒜𝓁𝓁 𝑜𝓅𝒾𝓃𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓂𝓎 𝑜𝓌𝓃.