06-15-2011, 05:20 PM
NY Daily News
Indiana police released the last known images of a missing Westchester college student taken from surveillance cameras at her apartment just hours before she vanished.
In the photos, Lauren Spierer, a 20-year-old sophomore at Indiana University, smiles as she strolls through her building wearing a loose-fitting white shirt and tight black pants on her way to a night on the town with friends.
"She's a happy, smiling, beautiful young lady on her way out for the evening…that's the Lauren we're looking for," her dad, Robert Spierer, said at a news conference on Wednesday.
The Greenburgh, N.Y., native disappeared just steps from her Bloomington apartment at around 4:30 a.m. on June 3 after partying at Kilroy's, a local hangout.
Bloomington police on Wednesday also released surveillance photos of a truck they said was spotted circling the block around the time the petite fashion student went missing.
Bloomington Police Capt. Joe Qualter described the truck as a mid-2000 white Chevy Silverado or Chevy Colorado four-door shortbed pickup with writing or logos on the sides.
Qualter said cops want to talk to the driver, though they don't know whether the truck was connected to the co-ed's disappearance.
"We are treating it as hopefully someone who can provide information to us," Qualter said.
Investigators have received thousands of tips over the past two weeks - dozens poured in after the case appeared on America's Most Wanted on Saturday - but they still have no suspects.
Cops have used lie detectors and DNA tests to interview several of Spierer's friends, including a group of male buddies who were hanging out with her in an apartment shortly before she vanished.
At the news conference, her parents continued their emotional plea with any information about the case to come forward.
"She's very dear to us…we want to get her back just to embrace her and tell her we love her," Robert Spierer said.
Indiana police released the last known images of a missing Westchester college student taken from surveillance cameras at her apartment just hours before she vanished.
In the photos, Lauren Spierer, a 20-year-old sophomore at Indiana University, smiles as she strolls through her building wearing a loose-fitting white shirt and tight black pants on her way to a night on the town with friends.
"She's a happy, smiling, beautiful young lady on her way out for the evening…that's the Lauren we're looking for," her dad, Robert Spierer, said at a news conference on Wednesday.
The Greenburgh, N.Y., native disappeared just steps from her Bloomington apartment at around 4:30 a.m. on June 3 after partying at Kilroy's, a local hangout.
Bloomington police on Wednesday also released surveillance photos of a truck they said was spotted circling the block around the time the petite fashion student went missing.
Bloomington Police Capt. Joe Qualter described the truck as a mid-2000 white Chevy Silverado or Chevy Colorado four-door shortbed pickup with writing or logos on the sides.
Qualter said cops want to talk to the driver, though they don't know whether the truck was connected to the co-ed's disappearance.
"We are treating it as hopefully someone who can provide information to us," Qualter said.
Investigators have received thousands of tips over the past two weeks - dozens poured in after the case appeared on America's Most Wanted on Saturday - but they still have no suspects.
Cops have used lie detectors and DNA tests to interview several of Spierer's friends, including a group of male buddies who were hanging out with her in an apartment shortly before she vanished.
At the news conference, her parents continued their emotional plea with any information about the case to come forward.
"She's very dear to us…we want to get her back just to embrace her and tell her we love her," Robert Spierer said.