Ixchel13
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I don't know what would have been lost or gained in releasing video footage in this case. There are those who feel strongly it should have been released. Apparently, Lauren was very unsteady in some of the footage,and CR did not look so disabled and was helping her a lot to the point of carrying her at times. That it came down to whether she left JR's place the way he said she did, however, became the crux of the situation. No evidence to the contrary could be found.
I have always felt that if surveillance videos from a larger radius from where Lauren was last pinpointed were immediately obtained and viewed, LE would have had some more leads. That a car left either the corner where JR said he last saw her or even several blocks from that point might have been caught had a video dragent bee obtained as tightly as possible around the area. It took civilians, not LE to do this in the Leiby Kletzky case, and a civiliian who found the boy getting into the car with the perp. So much attention was given to search groups, massive searches, and very little to other ways of tracking who was doing what at that time in the morning IMO. There simply was not that much activity at 4 AM and so it would not have been so difficult to get a picture of it.
Also so much was put on those three students who admitted outright that they saw Lauren at the last reported times, that I think other alternatives were not investigates as thoroughly as they could have been. They lawyered up and stayed put. LE did not have any reason to give out their names, they had no recourse with them. Their silence will have served them well in the civil suit that the Spierers have levied against them. They did not admit to doing much of anything. TO prove they gave Lauren anything more than their company, their advice and offer to stay around, and her way--and she is an adult, is going to be tough. That was likely why their attorneys advised them to say nothing. I would not be surprised if the source of some of the contraband Lauren likely had that night and early morning was from them, but there is no proof.
Le hardly got any stories from the POIs, THey were lawyered up as are such folks of privilege. Morgan Harrington's friends who were in the arena while she was outside of it, lawyered up too, and they were never suspected in the least of killing her. There is a pattern here that is unmistable in the cases of Lauren, Morgan and Hannah. Partying with friends from college, all of privilege, taking enough substance to become disoriented, leaving the group with friends not accompanying though we are talking young women, under the influence, alone when dark, and then disappearing. We know what happened to Hannah and Morgan. Lauren has not yet been found, and I think most people knowing about this case, think the same happened to her. The difference is that there is not a clean proven break from the college friends in Lauren's case, only someone's word that has neither been disproven or proven.
BBM,UBM There is also a pattern of predators looking for these women. I agree that people should stick together when out clubbing. Men and Women. In this environment, we have the wolves among the lambs, no doubt. But, women who go out and get lost from their friends
or have one two many drinks are most likely than not to be of average means. Mixed in with those women are a some wealthy girls. It has nothing to do with money in general, although in this particular case, yes.
In Lauren's case either all the crazy things that went on led up to her walking out the door and being abducted. In this case, all of the interactions had to happen in order for the
event to happen at the precise moment; yet no one person is singularly to blame, unless one is inclined to blame them, and that's ok too IMO. OR all of the running around all night by everyone led up to some final altercation or event that caused Lauren to die. In that case, within these interactions are the ones that caused Lauren to die and so it is important to look at all of them and vet them through a scenario, JMO.