[June 10, 2011] IU student Lauren Spierer: "America's Most Wanted" to cover disappearance Saturday Tweet Jun 10, 2011 (Herald-Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Bloomington police and investigators are trying a few new tactics in their search for missing Indiana University student Lauren Spierer. A segment about Spierer's disappearance will be featured on the television program "America's Most Wanted" Saturday night, Bloomington police Lt. Bill Parker said in a Friday press briefing. Local police will receive additional assistance with fielding an anticipated large number of phoned-in tips. Friday morning from 3:45 to 6, Bloomington police established a checkpoint for motorists on College Avenue between 10th and 11th streets. Police passed out fliers and gathered information from people who normally pass through that area at that time of day. Checking with the 135 motorists who drove through the checkpoint did not yield any new information, Parker said, but police may arrange other stops. Police and members of Lauren Spierer's family have requested that business owners in the immediate area of the missing Indiana University student's last known whereabouts give video surveillance to police. "We may have businesses that have video that we don't know about yet," Parker said. "However insignificant you think it is, please provide it to us," Lauren's father, Robert Spierer, said Friday. As the search for their daughter has widened in scope throughout Monroe County, Robert Spierer asked that private landowners allow searchers and investigators on foot and on horse to traverse and search their properties. More than a week into the investigation, Parker said police are not losing hope that Spierer will be found alive and safe. "No, we're not losing hope," he said. "We're concentrating completely on this case and finding Lauren and we certainly want to find her alive and we hope that's the case." "I believe she certainly may be (alive) and hope she is," he said. Police continue to report they do not have suspects in the case and have a group of about 10 people they consider persons of interest. Some of these persons of interest are "not necessarily" known to Spierer, Parker said. Spierer's boyfriend, Jesse Wolff, has been interviewed by police, Parker said, and has cooperated with police. Friend back at police station Corey Rossman was with Spierer at Kilroy's Sports bar on North Walnut Street, after which the two walked to the downtown Smallwood complex where Spierer lived, according to his attorney Carl Salzmann. Rossman reported he was injured in an altercation at Smallwood, but remembers nothing about the event, Salzmann said. At 4 p.m. Friday, Salzmann said he and Rossman had just finished with another meeting with Bloomington police. "We have just left the police station and are cooperating in any way we can in giving whatever statements or tests they need from us," Salzmann said by phone. Other media outlets have reported that Rossman has given police a DNA sample. Salzmann did not confirm that DNA was given to police, and said that some reports out of the New York area about DNA evidence are false. Salzmann said he and Rossman have given police "whatever they've asked for," but did not give specifics. "Police are being prudent by collecting samples that they need from several circles removed," Salzmann said Friday afternoon. Police are "not prepared to stop looking at anybody," Parker said. Smallwood records to police Before the press conference in the front atrium of the Bloomington Police Department, a representative from Smallwood Plaza, Ernie Reno, told reporters apartment officials gave key card logs and records to police Friday morning. Almost 400 pages of data, showing a 48-hour period of time and an estimated 4,000 different card swipes in and out of the apartment building, have been compiled, Reno said. The apartment complex data shows the name of each key card user, dates, times and apartment unit numbers. They key card data fits the same time frame that police had requested in a previous search warrant for Smallwood's surveillance videos, Reno said -- 24 hours before Spierer's disappearance and 24-hours after her last known whereabouts. On Friday, Parker said police have issued other search warrants in this investigation. Who to contact with information Police and the Spierer family announced a new tip email address: [email protected]. Anyone with information about Spierer's disappearance is encouraged to call the Bloomington Police Department at 812-339-4477. All tips given to this line may be given anonymously. Anyone with information may also call the "America's Most Wanted" tip line at 800-CRIMETV. 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