Laura Cossey was a student at George Washington High School, who in 1994, was one of the five victims in Brandon James' original killing spree, that was mentioned in Season 1 of the Scream television series.
The way she was killed is unknown, as well as where Laura is placed in order of the other three victims being unknown, due to only Dara Alden and Brett Keener's deaths and as the first and second victims being confirmed by Noah Foster, and physically shown via flashback in "Wanna Play a Game?". She was one of the people that picked on Brandon, who allegedly gets his revenge on her by killing her. It's later revealed that she was killed by the 94 Killer (identity unknown) who would kill her and her friends in order to frame Brandon as the suspect, due to the killer using his mask.
Laura would be the second female victim of the Lakewood Slasher, and of the Lakewood Murders overall which spanned two decades, over the course of the first and second season of the TV series.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Not much is known about Laura except for the fact she was born in between June 1978-August 1979 (whether or not in Lakewood, Louisiana), who would attend the same public high school, George Washington High, along with future victims classmates, and friends Dara Alden, Brett Keener, Mike Vinson, and Trent Price, alongside the survivors and fellow classmates Margaret "Daisy Anderson, Kevin Duval, and Miguel Acosta as well as the town's deformed outcast, Brandon James, of which she bullied.
The 1994 Lakewood Murders[]
On Halloween night during a dance held at George Washington High, a sophomore Laura would participate in the bullying of Brandon. Unbeknownst to her, an unidentified killer taking Brandon James' mask would target each of the five bullies of Brandon; including Kevin Duval, due to the latter being informed of Brandon and Kevin's own girlfriend, Daisy, supposedly hooking up and thus leading for Laura and the others to harass Brandon during the Halloween dance because of this. Not long after the deaths of Dara and Brett, would Laura and the other two victims, Mike and Trent, each be attacked and killed off-screen in an unknown fashion, with Laura's placement in the victims of 1994 following Dara and Brett being unknown.
Trivia[]
- Laura's name shares a similar nomenclature and structure to Laura Crane, who similarly, is also a victim, in Scream VI.
- Alongside the other victims of the 1994 murders, they are the only characters in the TV series alongside Adam James, and of the franchise, the only victims to not have appeared or have been portrayed by any actor on-screen.