Lauren Elder

For other uses of Lauren, see Lauren (disambiguation).

Elder, Lauren

Appeared in Abandoned in Death (Wednesday, June 7 - Friday, June 9, 2061)

Personal Information

• Description: Slim and blond, probably about 5 feet, 5 inches and 125 pounds if she matched the target mommy, young and pretty
• Age at TOD: 26
• Hair: Blond
• Address: West 17th Street, third floor apartment (305), New York, NY
• Relationships: Roy Mardsten (cohab); unnamed parents in Flatbush (Brooklyn); two unnamed younger brothers
• Occupation: Bartender at Arnold’s

Criminal History

• Disorderly conduct twice - probably college protests

Homicide Information

• Throat slit and then stitched back up and covered with a black ribbon
• Marks on her right wrist and left ankle showed she was held against her will
• She was washed and dressed (in Hot Shot jeans), including fresh makeup, perfume, and nail polish, and had a new tattoo of a blue butterfly with yellow markings on her lower back and a bar through her belly button area
• Left on a park bench in a park near Mavis’s new house with a sign reading “Bad Mommy”
• Found by a licensed companion on her way home
• Killed by Andrew Dawber

Interesting Facts

• Her cohab reported her missing when she didn’t return from work on May 28, and Detective Norman out of the four-three caught the case.
• Her parents had been married for 29 years and her brothers, the 24-year-old one in grad school, and the 20-year-old one in college, still lived with them.
• She worked at Arnold’s for four years and before that she majored in hospitality in college.
• Wanted to own her own bar someday.
• Her father was a mechanic who owned his own place, and her mother was an artist who ran a local gallery.