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Investigators searched the property with cadaver dogs, which indicated potential evidence. [[Anthropologist|Anthropologists]] conducted a dig and sifted dirt from the barn where the cadaver dogs hit, but found nothing.<ref>{{cite news|date=28 January 2016|title=FBI raid of properties in Martinsville and Trafalgar connected to Lauren Spierer investigation|agency=WTHR|url=http://www.wthr.com/story/31081621/fbi-investigating-home-in-martinsville|accessdate=29 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=28 January 2016|title=FBI, Bloomington police investigate Martinsville property in ongoing Lauren Spierer investigation|agency=FOX 59|url=http://fox59.com/2016/01/28/fbi-bloomington-police-investigate-martinsville-location-in-ongoing-lauren-spierer-investigation/|accessdate=29 January 2016}}</ref> Investigators also towed a white truck from the property belonging to Wagers.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
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A number of theories have emerged in reference to what happened to Spierer that evening. Spierer's parents have stated that they believe their daughter is dead. Based on her level of intoxication, they also felt that she may have been drugged while at the bar. "We felt somebody could have slipped something into her drink at Kilroy's," said Robert Spierer. The family has voiced suspicions about the men she was with that evening as well as Wolff, since they refused to take police-issued [[polygraphs]] and retained lawyers soon after Spierer's disappearance. While the parents have not made any specific accusations, they do believe the two know more than they have told police so far.<ref name="no longer alive">{{cite news|last=Cohen|first=Shawn|title=Parents believe missing Indiana student is no longer alive|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-04-24/missing-indiana-student/54498696/1|work=USA Today|date=April 24, 2012}}</ref> The men responded that they have taken privately administered polygraphs, as well as one from the FBI.<ref name=Unraveled/> Since they do not trust the Bloomington police, they say, they have retained lawyers.<ref name=disappearance>{{cite news|title=Missing student's beau's parents fume at cops, media|url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/02/missing-student-boyfriend-family-fume/2382909/|newspaper=USA Today|date=3 June 2013}}</ref>
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Regarding Spierer's level of intoxication, her friends and Wolff told police that she used drugs in addition to [[alcohol]] on the night leading up to her disappearance. Wolff's mother alleged that Spierer was asked to leave the summer camp where she met her son and Rosenbaum years earlier because of drug use. "This poor little girl is not with us today because of her drug abuse," she said.<ref name=disappearance/> On September 2, 2010, nine months before her disappearance, Spierer was arrested on charges of public intoxication and illegal consumption.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|last1=Tonsing|first1=Abby|date=30 June 2011|title=Who's who in the Lauren Spierer case|url=http://ww.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2011/06/30/news.qp-0075723.sto|accessdate=29 June 2016|website=heraldtimesonline.com|publisher=[[The Herald-Times]]|language=en}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{cite web|author1=Brian Ross|author2=Brian Epstein|date=24 June 2016|title=5 Years After She Vanished, New Hope in Lauren Spierer Case|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/lauren-spierer-case-years-vanished-hope/story?id=40084230|accessdate=29 June 2016|website=abcnews.go.com|publisher=[[ABC News]]|language=en|quote=The 20-year-old had been arrested for public intoxication nine months before her disappearance...}}</ref> After her disappearance, police found a "small amount of cocaine" in her room.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Brian Ross|author2=Brian Epstein|date=24 June 2016|title=5 Years After She Vanished, New Hope in Lauren Spierer Case|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/lauren-spierer-case-years-vanished-hope/story?id=40084230|accessdate=29 June 2016|website=abcnews.go.com|publisher=[[ABC News]]|language=en}}</ref> ▼
▲Regarding Spierer's level of intoxication, her friends and Wolff told police that she used drugs in addition to [[alcohol]] on the night leading up to her disappearance. Wolff's mother alleged that Spierer was asked to leave the summer camp where she met her son and Rosenbaum years earlier because of drug use. "This poor little girl is not with us today because of her drug abuse," she said.<ref name="disappearance" /> On September 2, 2010, nine months before her disappearance, Spierer was arrested on charges of public intoxication and illegal consumption.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|last1=Tonsing|first1=Abby|date=30 June 2011|title=Who's who in the Lauren Spierer case|url=http://ww.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2011/06/30/news.qp-0075723.sto|accessdate=29 June 2016|website=heraldtimesonline.com|publisher=[[The Herald-Times]]|language=en}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{cite web|author1=Brian Ross|author2=Brian Epstein|date=24 June 2016|title=5 Years After She Vanished, New Hope in Lauren Spierer Case|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/lauren-spierer-case-years-vanished-hope/story?id=40084230|accessdate=29 June 2016|website=abcnews.go.com|publisher=[[ABC News]]|language=en|quote=The 20-year-old had been arrested for public intoxication nine months before her disappearance...}}</ref> After her disappearance, police found a "small amount of cocaine" in her room.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Brian Ross|author2=Brian Epstein|date=24 June 2016|title=5 Years After She Vanished, New Hope in Lauren Spierer Case|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/lauren-spierer-case-years-vanished-hope/story?id=40084230|accessdate=29 June 2016|website=abcnews.go.com|publisher=[[ABC News]]|language=en}}</ref>
Rosenbaum told investigators that Spierer consumed alcohol, snorted [[cocaine]] and crushed up [[Clonazepam|Klonopin]] tablets that evening. Her rare heart condition—[[long QT syndrome]]—added to the danger of drug use.<ref name=cocaine>{{cite news|last=Tonsing|first=Abby|title=Police: Cocaine use a problem, and not just among IU students|url=http://ww.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2011/07/18/news.qp-1176138.sto|newspaper=Hearld Times|date=July 18, 2011|author2=Mullins, Christy}}</ref> Police addressed rumors that implied Spierer may have [[overdose]]d and those with her may have hidden her body to avoid criminal charges.<ref name=WDRB>{{cite news|title=Did Lauren Spierer die of a drug overdose?|url=http://www.wdrb.com/story/14898476/did|newspaper=WDRB|date=June 13, 2011}}</ref> [[Bo Dietl]], a [[private investigator]] hired by the Spierer family, doubts that a fatal drug overdose could be enough motive to hide her death; he cited the prevalence of drug abuse on the IU campus. "Every kid's buying pot, cocaine, drinking, pills," he said. "I mean, it's all over the place. So that really can't be the motive behind it."<ref name="drug use"/><ref name=cocaine/>
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The police have also acknowledged they have not ruled out other possibilities, such as abduction by a stranger.<ref name="WDRB" /> Spierer's parents have previously stated that they do not believe her disappearance was a random abduction.<ref name="Truesdell2">{{cite news|last1=Truesdell|first1=Jeff|date=2015-04-27|title=Murder of Indiana University Student and Lauren Spierer Mystery 'Eerily Similar,' Cops Say|agency=People|url=http://www.people.com/article/hannah-wilson-murder-linked-lauren-spierer-disappearance}}</ref>
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In 2017, Brown County prosecutor, Ted Adams, reported he believed Daniel Messel could be connected to Spierer’s disappearance. In 2016, Messel was convicted of killing another IU student, Hannah Wilson, in 2015. Wilson had only been reported missing for one day when her body was found in a desolate field; she had been bludgeoned to death. Messel’s cell phone was discovered at her feet.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Buckley|first=Madeline|title=Hannah Wilson trial: A night of celebration gone horribly wrong|url=https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2016/08/07/hannah-wilson-trial-night-celebration-gone-horribly-wrong/88315824/|access-date=2021-02-21|website=The Indianapolis Star|language=en-US}}</ref> Messel has never been charged in connection with Spierer’s case.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-06-03|title=Lauren Spierer's family still searching 9 years after her disappearance|url=https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/lauren-spierers-family-still-searching-9-years-after-her-disappearance|access-date=2021-02-21|website=WRTV|language=en}}</ref>
== Missing white woman syndrome ==
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