sv614...I wasn't able to quote your post from the previous thread, but you shares some interesting insight. When you say that the OD rumor was circulating, do you mean that it was circulating BEFORE JW made the missing person report? If that it the case, surely there was great cause for people to be discussing that. Many people have mentioned here, the lifestyle of college kids (partiers or not - even the non-party crowd often stays up til 3-4 AM) so honestly, I struggle with the thought of JW asking around, "Where is Lauren? I can't find her." , then someone starting a rumor before 3 PM, "Oh, I bet she ODd when she went over to JR's house." That's weird to me. It's just so hard for me to imagine that between the time he awoke (maybe noon?) and 4 PM, he thought she ws in danger and contacted the police. It would take a LOT more than 4 hours as a college student, for most people to believe their friend/gf/roommate was missing these days, especially one who was supposedly such a big partier. So, if you're saying that this rumor began BEFORE the 4 PM report - that makes me feel that it wasn't just speculation, but perhaps someone who knew the truth had actually given someone else reason to start this rumor - maybe things were said.
I am sorry if I gave the impression that I had information suggesting that there were rumors before 3pm/4pm. I do not have any information suggesting this.
What I meant was, I heard the OD rumor days before it was acknowledged by MSM or, anywhere else that I had seen (I am not saying it wasn't acknowledged on blogs or forums such as this one, I am just saying the first I heard of it was from someone that went to Indiana).
Because I have not been in contact with anyone directly related, but a few people that went to Indiana and/or knew LS and/or POIs, I can only imagine that they were circling in that immediate POI crowd long before they got to me. I am all the way out in NYC, 6 years older than LS and heard from he-said-she-said sources. But then all of the sudden, a few days later, it seems like a common suspicion acknowledged by LE ... leading me to believe there is something to these rumors.
And it would make sense that those rumors were circling before 3pm or 4pm on June 3. It is the only reasonable explanation I can think of for reporting someone missing less than 12 hours before they were supposedly last seen.
These are all my speculations. I have no information supporting my theory that those rumors existed that morning.