Hadar Tamir, Spierer's roommate at Smallwood Plaza apartments, on Monday filled in more details of that morning, saying Spierer was hanging out with her until 12:30 a.m., then went with another Smallwood resident, David Rohn, to friend Jay Rosenbaum's apartment up the street.
Spierer, Rohn and Rosenbaum watched a basketball game at Rosenbaum's, said Tamir, who is friends with Rohn and Rosenbaum. They were joined there by Corey Rossman, who lives two doors down, she said. Tamir said Mike Beth, Rossman's roommate, was also there.
A while later, Rossman and Spierer went to a bar, Tamir said, and Rohn returned to Smallwood.
About 2:30 a.m., Spierer -- who left her cell phone and shoes at the bar -- and Rossman returned to her building, where other students confronted him.
One punched him in the face, causing him to lose memory of the exchange and his interactions with Spierer after that, Rossman's lawyer said.
They then went to Rossman's building, where Beth, his roommate, put him to bed, said Beth's lawyer, Ronald Chapman.
Beth watched Spierer leave. She then went to Rosenbaum's apartment.
Tamir, who has spoken with Rosenbaum since then, said Monday that he had tried to prevent her from leaving.
"He told me he tried to make her stay and sleep on his couch but she refused, so finally after trying to convince her, she left," Tamir told The Journal News.
"He told me he watched her leave and told her, 'If you stumble then I'm going to make you come back in here.' But he watched her leave and she seemed fine so he just let her go," Tamir said.
Before leaving, Tamir said, Spierer used Rosenbaum's phone to call Rohn to see if he knew where her phone was.
Chapman, who represented Rohn in a prior public intoxication case and spoke with him in recent days about his interactions with Spierer, would only say that that "somebody" called Rohn at 4:15 a.m. and that "he didn't answer his phone because he was in bed."
He did say that police questioned Rohn.
"It's pretty clear that the police looked at his phone," Chapman said. "They wanted to talk to him and everything seemed copacetic."
http://www.indystar.com/article/2011...t|IndyStar.com
A couple thoughts regarding this new info:
- IMO the above info absolves CR and MB. I now completely believe their actions to be true. That coupled with the fact that they are on living their lives leads me to believe they have nothing to hide. I'm guessing that they have not been allowed to help in searches.
- I wonder how much we can take Hadar's word?? I thought she originally said LS was looking for someone to go out with and left to meet CR at Kilroy's? Now she left with Rohn and went to JR's to watch BB game? Again curious that if she went to watch BB game, why wouldn't she choose to do so with her BF?
- So LS and CR head to Kilroys. JR stays behind, Rohn goes home, and MB returns to his apt to do homework.
- Around 3am LS returns a stumbling CR to his apt. and MB puts him to bed. Would make sense then that LS would go back to JR's especially since she had been there earlier in the night.
- "Someone" calls Rohn at 4:15am. I wonder if Lauren's roommate knows this is Lauren because she left a message for Rohn or if it's because that is what JR told her? This timeline fits with JR's and if is true, we know LS is most certainly alive at 4:15am. I would be interested to know if any additional calls were made from JR's phone around that same time? I question why LS would call Rohn and ask if he knew where her phone was? Rohn had gone home, so how would he know? Surely she'd remembered taking it to Kilroys with CR? I wonder if she went back and tried to ask CR if he knew where her phone was?
- JR tries to convince LS to stay, she insists upon leaving. He recognizes she is intoxicated, watches her leave, doesn't see her stumbling, so decides (perhaps against better judgement) to let her walk home, afterall, it's only a few blocks.
- So LS knew she didn't have her phone. I wonder if on the walk home she realized she didn't have her keys as well. Maybe she knew her roommates would let her in? Maybe she made her way back to the alley or somewhere to look for them? But no reports of cameras seeing her after 4am in the alley.
UGH! Where could she be????