Metro

Last person to see missing student alive won’t talk

His silence is deafening.

More than three weeks after Westchester college student Lauren Spierer vanished during a night out partying at Indiana University, Jason “Jay” Rosenbaum — the last person to admit having seen her alive — has ignored her parents’ pleas for information that could lead them to their daughter, family friends told The Post.

“He is one of the people we wish would be more forthcoming,” said a person involved in the ongoing search for the pretty, petite 20-year-old in Bloomington, Ind.

Instead, Rosenbaum, 21, has hired a high-profile criminal defense lawyer, left his Bloomington condo and, sources said, clammed up. His Indiana lawyer, James Voyles, didn’t return calls.

Police have said Rosenbaum remains a ” person of interest” in the case — as do Lauren’s boyfriend, Jesse Wolff, of Port Washington, who reported her missing, and David Rohn, also from New York. Two other students, Corey Rossman and Mike Beth, have given DNA samples.

Last week, Lauren’s mom, Charlene, fought back tears as she castigated her daughters’ pals for not coming forward.

“Perhaps it was a terrible accident that happened, and we can deal with that,” Lauren’s mom said. “What we can’t deal with is what we don’t know.”

The Rosenbaum and Spierer families’ paths have crossed before. For nearly two decades, Lauren’s grandparents lived just yards from Rosenbaum’s grandparents on the same Rockland County street.

Additional reporting
by Jennifer Bain in
Rockland County and
Andrea Schroeder in
West
Bloomfield, Mich.