Timeline as of 7/1/20
- Lauren is last seen by live-in boyfriend on June 19th at 4927 Coronado Parkway Apartment #1 (no time is given).
- An unidentified man told police he saw Lauren June 19 around 8 a.m. and waved at her. He said, the day before, Lauren asked him about available apartments, saying she “wanted to get out of the situation she was in.”
- June 19th Lauren's purse is found at Four Freedoms Park (not stated who found it or time).
- Lauren did not call her Dad on Fathers Day-June 19th, which is extremely out of character for her.
- Dad calls and reports her missing on Tuesday, June 21st after not being able to reach her.
- Police respond to her apartment for a well-check and find her phone there.
- CCPD elevated Lauren’s case to endangered because, when someone disappears voluntarily, they take their belongings, a wallet, a phone. In this case, she did not.
Cape Coral Police Department
Police search for missing, endangered woman in Cape Coral
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We spoke to Lauren’s dad, Paul Dumulo, who has been in Southwest Florida since his daughter went missing. He traveled from California when she failed to call him last on Father’s Day Sunday.
He told us she always kept in touch during good times and bad. But he fears the worst every day his daughter remains missing.
Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers and CCPD say, so far, they’re not getting very many tips.
CCPD is asking for anyone with information to come forward. Tipsters can call CCPD at 239-574-3223. Tipsters can also submit an anonymous tip at the Cape Coral Police website, TipSubmit, a message through CCPD social media platforms or Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-8477 using case number 20-011323.
Investigators say public help critical in search for Cape Coral woman
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New clue in case of missing Cape Coral woman //
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"The family was checking the routes Lauren normally traveled, such as Four Freedoms Park, which she walked through every day. When her family went to the park, not only did they find her purse, they also found her shirt.
“Right here, down right in here,” said Lauren’s sister, Cassie Carey, at the shoreline where her sister went every day. She and her other sister’s boyfriend found the shirt together.
“We ran over to it and it was this burgundy, lace shirt that Lauren commonly wore,” Carey said. “When we spotted it, we took a look at it and compared it to photos that she was in, so it’s a very distinguished…it has a pattern on it. It’s lace. It’s not just, like, your typical t-shirt. It’s very obvious that it was one of hers.”
But finding the shirt left Lauren’s family with more questions than answers about her disappearance.
“It’s panic. It’s oh my god how did this get here because we’ve been frequenting this park a lot. We’ve been through this park probably two to three times a day, every day for the last week and a half,” said Carey.
Lauren’s sister called the police to turn the shirt over to them as evidence.
“You don’t know if it was left there as evidence that something bad has happened to her or was it left there for us to have false hope. I honestly don’t know because you have a mixed amount of emotions right now,” said Lauren’s father Paul Dumolo.
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New clue in case of missing Cape Coral woman
