Morbid - Episode 196: The Senseless Murder of Lauren Giddings

Episode Date: December 28, 2020

Your Ash-centric episode this week is about the murder of Lauren Giddings. Lauren was 27 years old and had just graduated law school when she was brutally murdered and dismembered by her neighbor, Stephen McDaniel. Stephen McDaniel had been stalking Lauren for quite some time, breaking into her house, moving things around and plotting her murder. There were a few suspects in the beginning but police were able to narrow it down to Stephen after his strange behaviour when he heard a body had been discovered. We’ll leave the rest of the details to the episode! Link to donate to Lauren’s Scholarship:  https://mailchi.mp/134e97389fe4/awls20205k?fbclid=IwAR2dtJ7MtqDu1hA9c9hu6PoNJmqPfDv0fDvasUqzpz-yaDe_GVGHHFR9lq8 Link showing Stephen acting real strange upon the news there was a body discovered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIroLgiCyP8&feature=youtu.be As always, thank you to our sponsors: Upstart:  Hurry to Upstart.com/morbid to find out HOW LOW your Upstart rate can be! Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/Morbid Squarespace: Check out Squarespace.com/MORBID for a free trial and when you’re ready to launch, use the offer code MORBID to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain Honey: Get Honey for FREE at JoinHoney.com/MORBID See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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That's ANGI, or download the app today. Hey weirdos, I'm Alina. And I am Ash. And this is an Ash-centric morbid. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited.

I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so Cool, frickin' who. Very exciting. And on the holiday week, look at us just gifting you. The holiday whistle. We're gonna take time off, but then we were like, no! NAY! NAY say aye.

You're like, let's just keep on trucking. So here we are. It's late because it's the holiday week. But it's better. But it's here. Better late than never. Better late than never. That's what I say.

I don't really know if I have much to say because we actually just recorded your list or tails on this one. We did. And I think we said everything we wanted to say in that one. And I think we did. So, you know, we can just jump right into this one. You want to do that?

Let's do it. All right. To be honest with you, I don't even remember how I decided to do this story. I think I just found it on a list of crazy crimes. I've seen things about this one, and it always fascinated me. So I'm excited you're covering. You know what's fun is I do love a good date line,

and I didn't realize until like halfway into this case that there's a date line on it. There is. And so then I watched it, and it was really good. It was, so good to listen to that once you know what the case is. I got some more really good information, and this is a flip and doozy. It's a doozy. So we're gonna talk about Lauren Giddings this week. Oh, I'm excited. So Lauren Giddings was born on April 18th in

1984 to her parents Bill and Karen Giddings. Bill and Karen Giddings. No, and this case is gonna be a rough for me because I have a little sister named Lauren. Ooh, fun fact. She was the oldest of three daughters. She had two younger sisters, Caitlin and Sarah. And according to all her friends and family, Lauren was a super good friend, a really good time, like people love to go out with her. She loved to read. She loved her dog named Butterbeen. Butterbeen. So cute.

I can't. So cute. And her mission in life was really just to help others. Like she somehow she wanted her job to be able to like help anybody else. Great. So she was just a really awesome person that we need more of in this world. Yeah, but some good. Good. That's really good. Now she was in Aries obviously. And like it was her. So is my husband. I know when I thought of that. And like a true Aries Lauren was super passionate. She was determined and she was a motivated woman. Yeah. She had graduated high school in 2002. And then after high school, she made a move from Maryland to Georgia. And everyone was like, this move was perfect

for Lauren because she was a quote country girl at heart. She's a Georgia peach. Exactly. So her move to the South just made a lot of sense for her. Yeah, some people just have it in their blood, even when they don't have it in their blood. I like you, you would do great. Yep, I absolutely would. You're a Southern bell. I absolutely. Hello, it's me, Blanche Debra.

This is about Lauren. I would not. So she was actually the first person in her family to attend college. And obviously people in her family were super proud of that. Good for her. She went to Agnes Scott College, I people in her family were super proud of that. Good for her. She went to Agnes Scott College, I believe is how you say that.

And she graduated in 2006 with her degree in political science. Wow, look at her go. Now, because her main mission in life was to help others, she decided in 2008 to start law school in hopes to one day become a public defender. Man, so she was in a public defender. Wow, she was doing the damn thing. Now she made the choice to study at Mercer University Law School,

and that is in Macon, Georgia. And the reason that she wanted to do this was one because she wanted to stay in Georgia because she just fell in love when she moved there. Yeah. And also because this lady that she really admired named Nancy Grace. Oh, Nancy Grace, you say.

I do, because Nancy Grace actually received her, I think it's called a jurist doctor. Yep. The same year that Lauren was born. Wow. And she received it from that law school. So look at that. Perfect.

Now, Lauren was super, super pretty. She was always accompanied with her fluffy dog Butterbean and she would always wear pink. It was her favorite color. She was often a lot of pictures of her. She's wearing pink. I'm drawing a lot of parallels. Yes, so her friends would tease her a lot

and they'd call her L-woods. That's exactly what I was thinking. So they all, like, joked that she was like the new L-woods. Butterbean is her bruiser. Yes. Butterbean is just the cutest fucking L-dog. And like, she was was like the new L Woods. Butterbeen is her bruiser. Yes. Butterbeen is just the cutest fucking Navey dog. And like she was blonde and the dog, her friend in the date line that I watched was like,

she was blonde, her dog was blonde, just made sense. Now, Lauren had been dating a man named David Vandiver, I believe is how you say it. Vandiver. Vandiver throughout college. And she dated him even before she went to law school. Oh wow. Now her relationship with him was kind of strained like on and off again because at that point David and

well at all points he was like 20 years older than her. Only at that point. Only at that point in time he was 20 years older. It was weird. He's 20 years older than her. All right. And I imagine that can present some challenges. Yeah. And I also think probably the fact that she was pretty busy at school would add some challenges. I think law school is kind of hard. So yeah, yeah. Now, so they were on and off again. And at one point when they weren't dating, Lauren started dating somebody from school named Joe. And Joe was a fellow law student. He was in her friend group. And he was like a super great guy, but there was something about David that Lauren couldn't let go of. And so she ended up breaking things off with Joe and going back to David.

Okay. And the, I mean, he was, Joe was really heartbroken after the breakup, but I guess they remained friendly and the friend group, it didn't get super weird and the friend like it didn't change anything. Yeah. Now, so when she got back together with David, he was actually there in June 2011 when Lauren graduated law school with her, just Dr. Get it.

So she graduated law school, she did the damn thing. Wow. Obviously. She's an attorney. Obviously that's a huge deal, but if you're a lawyer, you know that graduating is not the last step. Certainly not. And Lauren also knew that.

And she did? She did. Good for her. And she knew that the bar exam was coming up. And she and all her friends were going to be pretty much like isolating themselves for probably like a couple of weeks or months at a time. Oh yeah, that shit is no joke.

Just ask Deb. Yeah, Deb, Deb, Deb. Deb Deb is an Esquire. An Esquire. So they were going to be like cramming super hard for the bar. But before they started that, they wanted to have one last big night together to celebrate graduating, which is a huge celebration. To celebrate your loss of freedom. Yeah, exactly. So on Friday night June 24th, 2011, they all rounded up. They went to a bar together. Like they

everybody said it was like a night of drinking. They were celebrating whatever yeah old enough and then after that They went back to Lauren's friend Ashley's house, which is funny because Lauren is my sister and I You're given name. I'm not Ashley. I'm Ash anyway, so Lauren's group of friends like I said was really close knit and Joe Lauren's ex actually happened to be one of Ashley's roommates. Hmm, which was weird But like I said wow X actually happened to be one of Ashley's roommates, which was weird. But like I said, one of those friends groups that are like really like, yeah, I don't know how to describe it without being very offensive. Yeah, I think everybody knows what you're trying to say.

You know what I mean? And they all date each other and everything's fine. Yeah, exactly. And whatever, like they're friendly and I think they're like friends. They're lawyers, so they have shit going on. It is like friends. It's always shit happens. But like I said, things weren't like weird between the friend group after they're lawyers. So they have shit going on. It is like friends. So shit happens. But like I said, things weren't weird between the friend

group after they broke up. And Lauren and Jo didn't seem to be weird to each other that night. And actually, Lauren ended up spending the night in Jo's room that day. So nobody knows if anything happened. It's not really talked about that much, but we do know that she spent the night in his room.

All right. She had mentioned to him and some other friends that night that she thought someone was stalking her. Oh. And I am a little bit mad at her friends because no one took her seriously. Yeah, when one of your friends says they think someone's stalking them,

like take that seriously, no matter what. And somebody pointed out, they'll just come out with that usually. No, not not a lot. They do sometimes, but like take it's better to take it seriously than to ignore it. Even just with an ounce of seriousness. Yeah.

Also, you're all going to be lawyers, so you should believe people in this. That's good to believe people. But people said that's just who Lauren was. She had a lot of male admirers and people who wanted to go out with her. And they kind of thought she was exaggerating and saying, like, oh, like this person's stalking me, but like really they just liked her.

Yeah, it's like, that's a little different than, like, admirers. Yeah, it's stalking is pretty different. Pretty different. Like, look in a law book, it'll tell you. It'll tell you stalking. It'll tell you it's real bad, illegal. It's actually something you can prosecute, so. It is, you don't want to work on that.

Yeah. It could have been your first case. It's going to be a bar exam question. Yeah, work on that. So they were like, yeah, we're not so sure, Lauren. Maybe you should come down a little bit. But Lauren had actually briefly mentioned the idea of a stalker before, or at least somebody that broken to her apartment when she was home.

Maybe that broke into her apartment. Yes, she thought that somebody broke into her apartment. Oh, shit. And she mentioned it when she was home, like, a year before to her sisters. And I guess it was just mentioned briefly in passing. Wow. And it never really got brought up again. But she told them that she had come home on more than one occasion and things were, like,

out of place in the apartment. That's not good. No. If I came home to my apartment and shit was out of place, I would, first of all, I would call the maintenance man and flip a fuck. Yeah. And then I would move out promptly.

Yeah, I would not be back in that apartment. No, and they should have taken more and more seriously because she was right. Someone had been watching her for a while. Oh my God. And unfortunately that Friday night was gonna be the last one they were gonna be able to see her again. Oh, this hurts my soul already.

It's this case is a doozy. So people started making their way out of Ashley's apartment early the next morning, Saturday. Ashley didn't remember seeing Lauren leave, but Joe said that she had left that morning. Okay. No one let's say it. Joe said it.

Okay. And remember, Joe is the person who she had broken things off with. She spent a night in his room and he was like, Oh, yeah, she left that morning. So no one really thought anything of it. Because again, Joe's their friend. Yeah. People who were leaving at different times, they'd been drinking the night before. So it wasn't crazy for people to get up and leave. No, that's not weird. Early in the morning. Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, the host of Wondries Podcast American Scandal. We bring to life some of the biggest controversies in U.S. history, presidential lies, environmental

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the Amazon Music app. Download the app today. And Lauren was a runner, so they thought, oh, you know, maybe she left early and then went for a run to be a runner. Jesus Christ. I see people running all the time and I'm like, I wish I was you. It must be nice. I often taste blood when I run, so I don't think I'm made for that. Anyways, Lauren's family look inside Ash's life.

So Lauren's family knew she was going to be studying like a lot for in the like the next couple weeks and months. Yeah. So they knew she was going to be hard to reach and they were like, all right, like that's fine. That's one thing. But after days of not hearing from her, Lauren's sister contacted Ashley and asked if she had heard or seen her at all. Now Ashley hadn't seen Lauren and she tried to reach out. after a day of Lauren not responding she decided and actually Lauren's family asked her on this same day if she could go check out Lauren's apartment. Yeah. So Ashley and her boyfriend headed out to the apartment. The apartment was right

across from the college and they immediately noticed that Lauren's car was parked outside. So that was already pretty weird. Yeah, like why is she not answering, but she's home. Yeah, it was weird and they were like, okay, like it kind of gave them like a temporary moment of relief, but then they were like, we need to make sure that she's inside, because that's strange.

So Ashley told Dateline's Keith Morrison, my favorite model. Keith Morrison, we love Keith. She said before she opened the door, she looked at her boyfriend and was like, are you prepared for whatever we're about to see when we walk in this apartment? Oh, like she was like, I have a, she just had a bad feeling. I would too, she'd be like, like, because once you see the car, that quick little like,

oh, good, okay. And then you're like, but wait, she has a sudden, like, something must be wrong in there. Right. Like, ugh. So, she, he was like, yep, like, let's go in, we have to do what we have to do. So when they walked in, it was a really calm scene. Lauren's purse, it was eerie though, because Lauren's purse and keys were right there in plain sight.

Her phone was there, her laptop was sitting on her bed, but there was no sign of Lauren. Ooh. Now what was even stranger was that Lauren was actually supposed to move out of her apartment the next day Like she was supposed to be out and she was gonna be moving like an hour and a half away to her boyfriend David's place Oh, but it looked and it looked like she had started putting things together kind of but it didn't look like It packed up like it should be if you're leaving the next day

Yeah, normally pretty much everything would be packed up. And that was not the case. So they were like, okay, that's weird. And also for all my dog lovers out there worrying where the hell is Butterbeen. I'm worried. He was actually already being taken care of by Laurence family. Oh, good, okay. They were back in Maryland with Butterbeen. Okay, good. So they waited and they were like thinking, maybe she's out for a run. It's weird that she left her phone here, but I don't know, maybe she just wanted some alone time. Well, you're just trying to think of any logical reason why this could be. Your first thought is not gonna be,

oh no, something bad happened. You're trying to be like, okay, but maybe. Maybe it's this, she's fine. That's not what should happen. Yeah. Because I've had times where I couldn't get into contact with you for like a minute, and I've thought crazy shit, but then I'm like, okay, maybe her phone's just dead.

You have to think of like logical things. And usually things are fine. Yeah. So Lauren didn't come back. And that's when they were like, okay, she's not coming back and something is really weird going on here. Yeah, I mean, her keys, her purse, her phone, like everything you'd need when you leave.

Her laptop, yeah, was there. Exactly. So the police were called and people began searching Everywhere for Lauren her neighbor Steven McDaniel proposed the idea that maybe she went out for a run and somebody just like snatched her up Which is not crazy to think about sure like that's Like absolutely like I listened to true crime podcasts like that definitely happens all the time There was a huge case a couple like a year or so ago. But it's also like, if someone just like, proposed that idea. If someone was like, well, here's a thought.

Yeah. Maybe she went out for a run and someone just snatched her. I'd be like, okay, like you'd come down. All right. Or like maybe she twisted her ankle and she just need some help. Like, let's hope someone didn't just snatch her up while she was running.

Now, Lauren's father was back in Maryland, so he got in the car and started making an 11 hour drive from Maryland to Georgia. You know that is like a dad. And can you imagine being a parent that far away from your child when something goes wrong like that? And nobody knows where they are. And you just are in the car driving as fast as you can,

but you know you have like 11 hours between you right. Helping your, like that. And you can't imagine that drive. That's probably when like you, you know when you have to get somewhere and you just experience all the worst drivers. Oh, 100%

and you're like, I just need to get where I'm going. Every red light. God damn it. I keep knocking over my microphone. We're having a day. It's been a live, I work today. Then we're recording multiple podcasts. So you know we're here. We're doing it Yeah, it's like you're gonna hit every red light. You're gonna hit every bad driver Yeah, it's just and you're just like please get me to where I'm going

That just hurts and Caitlin was actually the one Lawrence younger sister the middle sister who had to tell him like Lawrence missing We can't get into contact with her like, boy, to come to Georgia. Boy, oh boy. So the police checked Lauren's car in her apartment for evidence, and they started interviewing all the people close to her. As much as many people hated to admit it, both David and Joe were on people's minds, as suspects. Of course. And even like Ashley says in the date line, she's like, I hate to admit this, but yeah, I did think Joe had something to do with it. Wow.

Like he was the last person that I knew that saw her. And it's like they had dated. It didn't work out. She had gone back to the other boyfriend. And then she spent the last night that I saw her. Suddenly they don't see her the next morning. But he does. He says, oh, I saw her and she left.

Like I, that's, I, friend or not. I'd. Oh, I saw her and she left. That's friend or not. I'd be like, Joe. Yeah. Like you're not looking good. No. And people are thinking David too, because he's 20 years older. They're on again off again. She's going to move in.

Maybe he doesn't want to change his lifestyle. So this is the way to do it. Yeah. Absolutely. You got to look at it that way. Yeah. But so David told the police that he hadn't talked to Lauren in days because he had been on a tree, a tree.

Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. My, I just almost spit my coffee straight across the couch. Oh, I also, I laughed into one of my very fluffy pillows and I just had like a hair in my mouth. Okay, I feel like I need to explain why I just said TREOP instead of TRIP.

If you guys have ever seen America's Next Stop model, Danielle, one of like, I think she's the winner. She's the winner. She's my favorite content. I love her. And she has this accent and it's the best. I think she's from Louisiana. I think you're right. Tyrone all of them are like you need to change your accent I was like the block all of you the entire season they harp on this poor girl

About our accent which is amazing and she's from so she's gonna be a model She's not gonna talk that much. Yeah, it's like come and she's where she's from like that's what she's people sound different It's allowed and she kind of exaggerates it sometimes for like a joke. And at one point she says it was a trip. Yeah. And she like really like exaggerates. Oh, Louisiana accent in there. And so will everyone sit in well, say it and apparently the ghost of Danielle, who is still with us. All right, I'm really sorry. That's not funny. But Danielle, if you're listening, we love you. God, I love you. So David said he hadn't talked to Lauren in days

because he had been on a trip, a trip, a trip. And I believe it was a golfing trip in California. I went to say Florida, but that's not true. Either way. Whatever. It was on the coast. The investigators were like, that's weird. You didn't call her to say, like, hey, I arrived in California. Yeah, it was strange. No. I mean, they were like, that's weird. Like you didn't call her to say like, hey, I arrived in California.

Yeah, yeah, it was strange. No, I mean, they were like, you didn't call to say like, hey, I'm home, like can't wait for you to move in. And he was like, no, it's just like not the relationship we have. Well, like you didn't like text back and forth throughout the trip. And he was like, well, no, I was golfing.

So I'm confused about what you're confused about. He's like, what you're talking about is communication. That's not something that we did. No, no. Well, and I think that's just like, I don't know. Like, there were 20 years of parties, probably not like fucking taxed on as firefly phone. Yeah, probably not.

You know what I mean? On his firefly phone. Just aged that man about 32, just for years. He certainly did. So they were like, OK, like, that's a little weird. Yeah, that's a little strange. And they were like, but I will say, and they will all say he was helpful as he could be

because they were like, it's just being honest. Did you have any receipts from your trip in California? They didn't have them on his person, but he was like, I can go find some. Yeah, can I leave? Like, I'll produce as much as I can. And they were like, yeah, yeah, whatever. So then they brought Joanne and they were like,

all right, so you're the last one that we know that scene Lauren, like she spent the night in your room and she left on Saturday, like what's the deal with that? And he was like, yeah, like we spent the night together. Nothing was said about anything that happened. I don't know if she literally just slept in his room. But anyway, he's being a gentleman. He's being a gentleman.

And he said that she left early on Saturday and she said that she was gonna go to the pool. So they checked Lauren's accounts and it did show that she had used one of her cards at like a local country club to access their pool. Oh, okay. And then they searched her car like I said and they found a receipt from a fast food restaurant

on Saturday night. And then they were able to look in her computer because now it's like a missing person so they have access to this stuff. And her last outgoing communication was that Saturday night and she wrote an email to David telling him she was feeling uneasy and she thought someone had tried to break in when she wasn't home the previous night.

Why? So the only thing that I can assume is she's like, maybe I'm being like a little too nervous about this. And it's also, it was like probably one of the last night she was gonna spend there. So she was thinking anything. Yeah, and she's probably like, you know what, it'll be gone because I'm gonna be gone.

Right, she's leaving in a couple of days to move in with her boyfriend. She's gonna be fine. But I'm gonna be honest, if somebody tried to break into my house, I'd be out of there. Also, I think that home invasions aren't literally my biggest fear.

Before we get into anything else, I just wanna tell you, your security deposit, fuck it, because this is what you can do. We have a lock on our door that like everybody else does, but somebody has a master key. To all of us. Like every apartment, if you live in an apartment complex.

So this is what you're gonna do. You're gonna drive down to Ace Hardware, TM, sponsored, not at all, and you're gonna get one of those fucking, what is it called? Like a chain lock. It's like a chain lock, yeah. And you're gonna get one of those fucking, what is it called, like a chain lock? It's like a chain lock, yeah. And you're gonna install that. And if your landlord has a problem with it,

you're gonna tell him to go fuck himself. Or you can keep his security deposit. You can keep that, what the fuck was it worth? You can keep yourself to the house. You can keep it, wow. It's, you can keep your security deposit. Clearly we never record two episodes in one day.

So here we are. Sorry security deposit is what I meant to say. And all I want you to know is that you have the right to add an extra lock to your door that nobody else has a key to. Make yourself feel safe. Yeah, fuck. Whatever you need to do to make yourself feel safe, you do it.

Also get a simply safe. That's right, simply safe. I'm not kidding you. I love my simply safe. But, boop. And my door on the top of my staircase. Yeah, that locks. That locks. Yeah, that locks. My apartment is hell of a safe. Fuck you if you try to break in here. I'll hit on the top of my staircase. Yeah, that locks. That locks. Yeah,

I love it. My apartment is hell to say. Fuck you if you try to break in here. I'll hit you with a big small box. For Triss. Yeah. It's like Alcatraz up in this bitch. So after they searched through Lauren's apartment, they found no sign of a struggle or a break in. And they were like, oh, okay, let's start checking out like outside of the apartment to see if there's anything weird. Yeah. Now immediately around the area of the garbage, the investigators were hit with a very familiar smell to that. Oh no! Not just like your usual trash smell.

Nope. You know the difference. So they follow the scent and they open a barrel. And inside this barrel there's two large black trash bags. Now the first one that they pull out is literally just garbage. Nothing suspicious. The second bag, though, was heavier and the county sheriff Randy Gonzalez said he knew when he picked that up that some kind of human remains were going to be found in this bag. So unfortunately the bag was opened and the torso of a Caucasian woman was found inside

with no other limbs attached. What the fuck? A torso. That's it. You don't want to find a torso. So they didn't want this to be a media frenzy. So they decided it would be best to keep this discovery super quiet, not even tell the family. Because again, they don't have an identity.

They have an ID the body. They don't want people freaking out in a college town. Oh, of course. There's a murderer on the loose. Yeah. So they're like, all right, let's keep this quiet until we positively ID her. That's really smart. It is, unfortunately, though.

One of one media station heard something about the discovery somehow, and they wrote a piece. Oh, come on. That made the word completely spread. And Lauren's uncle actually called her family to see how they were doing now that a body had been found. So that's how they found out that a body was found. Wow.

They hadn't been told yet, because, like I said, how do you fuck that up as a leak? Nothing was ID. So on. That's how they found out. You always make sure that the family knows. That's fucked. I know, seriously.

That's fuck. I know, seriously. So Lawrence's father is now in Georgia and he heads down to the station and he told the chief of police Mike Burns that he wanted to ID Lawrence remains. Oh. Now Mike Burns told Lawrence father that it was not a good idea. He was like, this is not the last memory you want to have of your daughter. I'm a father and I don't want you to do this. Like, please don't do this. Wow. And like wouldn't let them, wouldn't let him do it. And eventually Lauren's dad was like, okay, like, thank you. Maybe I shouldn't see this. Yeah. So DNA analysis was used to determine that the torso found in the garage, sorry not in the garage, in the garbage barrel. Outside of Lauren's apartment was Lauren 27 years old.

Oh my God. 27 years old. 27 years old. So now we're just spreading that part of Lauren's body had been found. And WGXATV was interviewing friends and family outside of Lauren's apartment when the announcement is made. Yeah. Now Lauren's neighbor, Steven McDaniel, who I mentioned earlier, he's the one that was like, oh, maybe she got snatched up. Oh yeah, he's the one who came up with the theory right away. Right away, super weird. He was in on the search for Lauren from day one

and he was like, you know, maybe she got abducted. He told WGXA, Lauren was nice as could be and he described how he looked for her and then the reporter was like, wow, what do you think about the recent news of a body being discovered? Steven had this weird ass reaction. And I know we're not supposed to judge people's reactions,

but this is a weird reaction. It's weird. And I'll post the link to the video on the show notes. But basically, Steven just repeats the word body while looking at the, looking just into space. body while looking just like into space. Yeah. He just blinks a couple times and he's like, body? Basically, it's like a freshman in like a theater college.

Yeah. He's trying to act like he is sure. Yeah. But it's not good acting. No, it's not. So he just starts to look like he's on another planet. And he goes, I think I need to sit down. And he walks away from the reporter

and just like collapses onto the curb and just starts staring off into the distance. Yeah. So eventually the police were directed to him in his weird ass. And they took notice of his weird reaction. And they actually noted in a police report that he was unresponsive for quite some time, and quote, staring into space.

An officer had to perform a sternal rub on him to get him out of his like weird trance. Wow. Now, if you don't know what a sternum rub is, like I didn't have no fear, I googled that for you. Ashes here. So, quote, a sternum rub is the application of a painful stimulus with the knuckles of a closed fist into the center chest of a patient who is not alert and does not respond to verbal stimuli.

The sternal rub is the most common painful stimulus practiced in the field by EMTs and paramedics. It'll get you awake. So basically it just sounds like they shove their knuckles into your sternum. Basically. It's not a rub, it's right. And it's like when they're, like, especially when patients are like pretending to be in a day, it's like, well, it's like, oh, look, you're awake now, motherfucker.

So Steven comes to when he's ASAP brought in for questioning. That sentence made sense, I think. ASAP brought in for questioning ASAP, oh my God. That reaction isn't even normal for someone who was like very close to her. No, and he wasn't. Like even somebody who is very close for her wouldn't have that kind. That's a theatrical reaction.

If anything, I don't know. Usually people are just like, you'd be like, wait, what? Yeah. Like you wouldn't be like, body? Body? If anything, you'd be like, what? Like what do you talk about? What did you say?

Like if they were like a body's been found, you'd be like, where? What? Like how can you explain? Like you wouldn't be all the information. All the information apart. Because you wouldn't assume that's her. Exactly. And you would be hearing it for the first time.

So you'd be more like, what? Exactly. Yes. Exactly. So after the whole like post interview or deal, the investigators, they already thought he was super odd and they were really interested in hearing what he had to say. They also thought he was like super weird throughout his entire interview process

because he answered almost every single question with just a simple yes or no. Like they would ask like a very detailed question and he'd be like, yes. No. And he also just sat up super straight in his chair with his palms pressed against the table. Ooh.

It was, and I'll try to find a picture of it. Yeah, that's strange. It was weird. And obviously it's explainable, but just fucking weird. So they were like, hey, what do you mean up to lately? And he was like, what's she been doing? What's up, no? And he's like, oh, you know, I've been studying for the bar.

I've been home. I haven't really gone anywhere. And they're like, convenient. It's crazy. And he was like, oh, I haven't seen Lauren in like a week or two. And they were like, okay. I haven't seen Lauren in like a week or two. And they were like, okay, now the further they got into questioning the deeper the questions got. And Steven revealed

to the investigators that he was a virgin, which I don't know how they got on that topic. But okay, hey, you ever fucked. He was like, no, actually, I'm saving myself for marriage. All right. Well, and good talk. And that's what he said. He was saving himself for marriage. All right. Get it like, all right. And then later on on he agreed to give them a tour of his apartment. And when they were on this tour, they found condoms in his dresser. Okay, and they were like, okay, that wouldn't be weird for like literally anybody else, but you just told us you are a virgin. So I don't think you're like practicing putting these on bananas. Do you want to talk to me? Yeah, but like, can you maybe tell us what this is about?

And he was like, oh, I actually stole those from a couple different apartments that I broke into. Oh, yeah. OK. So they were like, wow, you're shady as hell. And we're going to take you in on burglary charges because we don't want you running. I really hope that the officer was like, wow, you're shading his health.

I think she did bring you in. Yeah, like time to go in. You know what, you're being brought in on charges of being shady as hell. So get in there. They were like, we're gonna take you in on burglary because you literally just told us that you burglary around these condoms that you don't need. Okay. What?

So while he was being held, they searched his apartment way more extensive. Yeah. And they searched Lawrence apartment way more extensive. Yeah. And they searched Lauren's apartment way more extensively because now they have a body. It's her body. She's not just a missing person. And this is all looking very strange. But they're like, when they went in her apartment, originally there's no sign of a break in, there's no sign of a struggle.

They didn't really, like, I mean, they're not looking for blood right away. No. Or, you know, they might be looking for a little bit, but nothing for anything. No, so they were like, okay, let's do a lumenall test in Lauren's apartment. So they did that. And the bathtub quote, lit up like a Christmas tree. Oh, but unfortunately, no other fingerprints or blood stains were found at all.

So whoever had killed her had done a really good job of cleaning up afterwards. Wow. And not only themselves, like cleaning up good job of cleaning up afterwards. Wow. And not only themselves, like cleaning up themselves, but her apartment too. Yeah. And there's no other prints found. Which she was obviously just remembered in the bathtub. In her own bathtub.

Exactly. So they were like, okay, that's weird. So they go obviously. So they go into Stephen's apartment and that gave investigators a lot more than they bargained for. Uh-oh. A lot more. So literally sitting right on top of his dresser in plain sight were two keys. And they're like, okay, let's test these keys.

One was a master key to the entire apartment complex. What? And the other was a key to Lauren's apartment. So I tried to look into like how the fuck he got a key to Lauren's apartment. I don't know if he found her hidden key and made a copy of it. I don't know if he was able to like break in because he had the apartment complex key and just grabbed the duplicate that maybe was like lying around somewhere. Or maybe one of the times he broke into her apartment.

He was like he grabbed the key she had and maybe she hadn't been able to tell anyone that she didn't have her key. Yep, that's true. So maybe he took the only key. Exactly. So like I said, Lauren had told her sisters and her friends that she thought she had a stalker and she was right because it was Stephen.

And he was described as like a quirky zombie obsessed kid and he had been her neighbor for three years. So this a quirky zombie obsessed kid, and he had been her neighbor for three years. So this like quirky zombie obsessed kid, who's her neighbor for three fucking years, he also asked her on a date once, and she was like, I have a boyfriend, sorry. He broke into her apartment multiple times, and then eventually began tracking her movements

and eventually started preparing to kill her. What the fuck? So three years you lived next to this creepy dude? Three years. And he suddenly explodes like this? Yeah, that's unreal. It's insane. So, during an earlier search of the apartment's maintenance room,

which they thought only the maintenance man had access to, they found a hacksaw, and eventually they determined that it had Lauren's flesh and blood on it. The maintenance man had been brought in for questioning, but he told the investigators he actually didn't know where that hacksaw was from, and he certainly hadn't purchased it. But now that they knew Steve, Steve and had a master key, it was obvious that the hacksaw was his because they found the packaging for it in his apartment.

Wow. The stupidest criminal ever. So at this point, he's left two incriminating keys right on his dresser. He has the Ketelorne's apartment and the Ketelorne's all the apartments. He has the packaging to a hacksaw with her flesh and blood on it.

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While he was booked on charges for first degree murder. Now the district attorney, and honestly, every other investigator working on the case, knew that Lauren was killed by Stephen. Yeah. After he had stalked her for quite some time. But the DA was worried that the evidence they had was only circumstantial,

because there's no prints linking him to this. Oh, my God. And he could say, you know, the maintenance guy did this and he put all the evidence in my house. Like I've been framed for murder. Yeah. So they were like, also this was, it started off as a death penalty case.

So they couldn't fuck up at all in this case. Like there was no room for fuck ups. Eventually the death penalty was taken off the table for that very reason. And also because they wanted to get the trial going and get Steven sent in as soon as possible, because a lot of times death penalty cases take a long time to go to trial.

So they took that off the table. And I just thought it was important to note that Lauren herself was actually against the death penalty. Oh, okay. So I kinda guessed it away. It was like honoring her wishes. I was gonna say I'm glad that it didn't went that way. Yeah.

So like I said, they took Steven's computer and a digital camera in to like search through it all. And that's when the real groundbreaking evidence that was going to make this fucking trial was found on his computer. Oh man. So he had been searching for sadistically violent pornography. And at the same time that he was doing this, they were able to determine that at the exact same time, he would also be on Lawrence Facebook page, her LinkedIn profile, and he had also stolen a flash drive from her apartment, and there were pictures on his computer of her that he downloaded, and those

pictures would be up while he was on these, like, scary ass porn sites. Oh! I hate all of this! Yup, so he, his, like his type of foreign that he liked, depicted torturous situations, murder, and then they found child pornography on his computer. Oh, fuck this guy, come. Yup, bye.

So that wasn't just the only damning evidence though, because that's, so that's just the evidence on his computer. They, like I said, also seized a digital camera. On this digital camera, they found the super eerie video that they believe was taken the night that Lauren was murdered. So they concluded that Steven must have taped his camera to some kind of wooden pole or something and held it up to Lauren's window.

And the video shows the inside of Lauren's apartment while the camera just peers in, going back and forth slowly, just like scanning her apartment to see, probably if she's like a sleep, because I think it's her living room and the blinds are slightly open, so you can see just like an empty living room.

And it's just scanning back slowly. Yup. So that's great. And I can link the video in the show notes, too. What a demon. So Steven, at the beginning of this trial, thought that he was gonna get away with murder because he had like a dream team of lawyers.

And he decided to enter a plea deal because he obviously, once they found the video and everything like that, was he's obviously going away for lots of time. Yeah, of course. But before they had that, he's obviously going away for some time. Yeah, of course. But before they had that, he was like, I could get away with this. You can't.

Unfortunately, the deal that he took, took off the charges of, took the charges of child pornography off the table. Are you fucking kidding me? Yeah. How does it even get taken off the table? I have. I have child pornography on the end of story.

End of story, actually. That should never be allowed to be taken. You have it on your computer. Fuck you. You're going to get charged for it. Absolutely. Now, how do you... Fuck these lawyers, that did that. Like, that's fuck. Oh, yeah. And actually, I should mention,

one of these lawyers was Lawrence teacher. Yeah, you're an asshole. He's a dick. He has a ponytail. He has a ponytail, so I got that. You have a ponytail. Fuck you. Fuck you and your ponytail. Yeah. That's so fucked. Yeah, seriously. You are representing a student who killed another you in your ponytail. Yeah, that's so fucked. Yeah, seriously, you are representing a student

who killed another one of your students. Oh, how do you sleep at night? Anyways, how do you not enter this plea deal, though? He would have faced seven counts of sexual exploitation of children and he would face five to 20 years for each individual charge. So he should, yeah, this is, I'm so angry.

So he could have gotten a minimum of 30 years just based off of that. Yeah, let's just take off the child porn charges. Let's pretend that never happened. I really hate that people even get to make deals. And when that, specifically, that kind of deal, like taking off to, you can't take it off. It's there. I feel it.

But honestly, I feel like most of the plea deals that we talk about are just like, they get a, like, Carla homoka. And fucking, I know, plea deals, it sucks, because it's like they're necessary and sometimes like in the Carla homoka case, they felt it was necessary to get the information on Paul, but still they felt was the more,

but now she's out and she's out. But now, exactly, but it's like at what cost? Exactly. I don't, it's like, there's certain times where and she's out exactly but it's like at what cost exactly I don't it's like there's certain times where you you can see why it's done and then this sometimes like this time fuck that yeah fuck that yeah so he pleaded guilty and in a written statement admitted to all the events that unfolded that night and explained them so he wrote that he made his way into Lawrence apartment at 4.30 a.m. on Sunday morning, using a key that he had for God only knows how long, and just stood over her as she slept.

Now he was wearing a mask and gloves in an effort to conceal his identity and not leave fingerprints. Now as he walked closer toward a sleeping Lauren, a floor board creaked and woke her up. So what? This is nightmare. He was planning to probably kill her in her sleep, but the floor board woke her up. Uh, he said that she calmly told him to get the fuck out, but before she could make any move, he quote, leapt onto her and began to strangle her. Oh.

He said during the struggle, she actually took his mask off and said Stephen please stop. Oh my gosh. Because she knows who it is. He obviously didn't though. He strangled Lauren Giddings until he was sure that she was dead. He then either carried or dragged her to her own bathtub and left her there for hours until he decided what he was going to do next. He went back to his own apartment next door

and just went about his day, his went about his Sunday. Oh yeah. At some point, he went out to purchase the hacksaw and then he came back on Sunday night around midnight. So she was killed Sunday morning around like 4.35 o'clock. He comes back at midnight.

She had been sitting in her bathtub dead all day. Now, he comes back at midnight to dismember her in her own bathtub with a fucking hacksaw. And also a bloody sheet was later found in the wash machine in the apartment. So I guess that's how we like kept things clean. He then took her limbs and headed to the college across the street to dispose of them.

And then he threw the bag containing Lawrence torso in the apartment's trash barrels. And that's where she was found. So when he was finished, he cleaned up and just went back home and then joined the search for her. Wow. And he thought that he committed the perfect murder. Now this is a quote, a direct quote from his confession.

Quote, it's difficult for me to explain why I killed Lauren and attempted to conceal my deed the way I did. The difficulty in explaining it lies within my own ability to understand it myself. I know that it was very wrong. I'm not delusional or without all morals or decency. What? You do, dude. Just not only do you, number one, not only do you look at child pornography. You also dismembered your neighbor that you've been like acquaintances with, but obsessed with. You broken to her apartment while she wasn't there

for like, God only knows how long. And then dismembered her in her own bathtub, but you don't lack morals or decency. Yeah, he's like, come on everybody. He's like, I'm still a human. I'm still a great person. Let's kick his ass into the kuiper belt. I'm done with this guy. I don't think ass into the kuiper belt. I'm done.

I don't think he, I also don't think that he has any remorse because, of course, he doesn't. And he could have gotten away with Lauren's murder and he intended to. So listen to this. If Lauren's family and friends hadn't decided to contact the police when they did, that day that the police were there searching, the trash, like the trash truck

was due to come take the trash away that day, but because the scene was blocked off, the trash guy couldn't come and collect that barrel. Wow. So that would have been gone, I mean, that would have been in a landfill somewhere, you never would have found it. Never, ever, ever.

And he never would have been caught because whoever would have been connected to it. Whatever, and see, there's no fingerprints of his, there's nothing. He probably wouldn't have been a suspect. It's like, had they not found her torso? Who knows what would have happened wow unfortunately Lawrence head though and other parts of her body have never been found and

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So to drive home the point that this insult 100% killed Lauren, the DA Greg Winters read the jury one post among a lot determined to have been written by Stephen McDaniels about Lauren. Oh god. Now he posted on a blog site using the name SOL aka son of Liberty. Literally go fuck yourself. Yeah. Now above the law.com reports that Mr. Winter's read the following to the court. Quote, graduate from law school, party hard by drinking alone in front of my computer. See my sexy neighbor classmate come home late.

She has talked to me occasionally in the past. He wanted a certain piece of my anatomy, I think that was like redacted. For three years, invite her up for a nightcap, make her a special drink called a Mickey Finn. She's out cold, I finally lose my V card. Oh no, she OD'd and died. I barbeque her legs and arms to celebrate losing my V card Not into Organ meat, but throw out her torso, lose it on TV while the cops discover it or discovering her remains. You mad virgins What he wrote that he wrote that And Also in case you're confused a Mickey Finn that drink, it's like basically like a drink with roofies and it's called a Mickey.

Yeah, yeah. So he wrote that somewhere. Wow. And it was reported that Steven McDaniel had his eyes closed while the post was read in the courtroom. Other writings of Steven's talk about committing the perfect murder, how you can dump somebody's body in a garbage can, to like not, like have it not be linked to you. You can use chloroform to bring them to the point

of unconsciousness, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. You know, all normal stuff. All super normal stuff. Now, he was sentenced to life in prison in 2014 and he will spend the rest of his life in prison. Good, but he will be eligible for parole in 2041 and he's already tried to shoot a shot at a retrial. No, no, get this.

In 2018, he Ted Bundy did and decided to represent himself on the argument that his council was ineffective and that his constitutional rights were violated during the investigation. Well, he literally tried to tend Bundi. He did. He called his former attorney Floyd Buford to the stand and Buford said that he truly believed McDaniel was innocent until he went into terrific detail of the murder in his confession and that the evidence on his computer was found. Yeah, he said to McDaniel, quote, you could get out one day, Stephen, you viciously murdered and murdered a woman and

dismembered her and you still could be paroled. So I don't see how that's ineffective assistance. Right? It's like, he's like, you're stupid. Now he was unsuccessful. The judge was like, no, I'm not giving you a retrial. You're a vicious murderer.

And the judge told him, I don't know if I've heard a single threat of testimony or evidence that would compel me to grant any portion of your ret- Oh, and grant any portion of your petition. and grant any portion of your petition. Good. And like laughed at him. Good. Laugh at him. I hope everybody laughs at him until the day he dies. Oh, he's so nasty. So Lauren, Lauren Gettings family continues to remember her as a breath of sunshine. Oh. A lot of laughter. Oh. Like, now Caitlin, Lauren's middle sister that I kind of mentioned a lot throughout this. Yeah. She was married just before Lauren was murdered, and Lauren was the maid of honor at her wedding.

So Caitlin named her daughter Lauren Magnolia, after her big sister. And my heart out. Lauren's memory also lives on through the scholarship that her family established with Agnes Scott College, and a scholarship helps students with, quote, strong academic credentials or a demonstrated need, especially those who are in their first,

who are the first in their immediate family to attend college. And those who are interested in pursuing the career's in legal profession or special education. Wow. And there's also a 5K run that's held every year, and that's organized by Mercer's Association of Women Law Students, and the proceeds from the 5K go directly to Lauren's Scholarship.

I love that. I always love when something good comes out of this. I do too. And I, in the, there's a ton of stuff to link in the show notes, but I can link where you can donate in Lauren's memory. I love that. Wow. What a fucked up tale.

So crazy. Wow. What a fucked up tale. So crazy. Man. He had been breaking into her apartment for like, who even knows how long? What a disgusting little goblin he is. Yeah, exactly. And just an in-sell. Literally the definition of an in-sell.

Oh, that's so gross. He's so gross. And I'm supposed to like picture of him. And like, I'm not one to like hate on people's looks, but if you murder somebody, you deserve it. Yeah, if you murder someone, I'm like, shit all over your nose. Gross, gross, gross, gross, gross.

Yeah, he's truly disgusting. He's nasty. And for him to sit there on TV and pretend to lose it. The worst acting you have ever seen, but when you watch it now, knowing what he did to her, only hours or whenever it was or before that. Like, you're like, you, that person sitting there in front of the camera on

this new station just dismembered this woman. And you're sitting there like, you know, idea. And also the fact that she kind of can be. Yeah, nicest can be. And also the fact that he could have gotten away from it if they didn't call the police when they did. Like a goodness they did. If that scene wasn't blocked off, they never would have uncovered her photo. Yeah, because think about it. Right now they can't find her head or anything.

Right? It would have gone... I mean, it's both in the same area, so I'm sure it would have gone to the same landfill or something. But it's like, landfills are massive. Right. It's like, you'll never find it. Right. Wow. That's truly something. I know. It's so sad. Wow. So that was a lot. Yeah.

Christmas is over guys. Everybody put locks on your doors and you know, take your friends seriously when they say that they think something weird is happening in their apartment. Uh-huh. Even if they're that crazy friend that you're like, oh, they do that sometimes. They're just silly. Take it seriously. It's better to take it seriously than to ignore it. Right, because, you know, it's like, take it seriously, you get proven wrong, it's fine. I wish one of them was like, you know what, why don't you stay with me

and then I'll go help you during the day, pack up your apartment. Yeah, I don't want you to stay there. Yeah, I'd be like, you're not staying at your apartment alone. Like, it doesn't matter if you're being dramatic. Yeah, it's like, if you're not feeling safe. And if you think things have been moved in your apartment and nobody's listening to you, get the fuck out of there.

Yesterday. Yeah, you got to get out because that's really scary. Oh, that hurts my heart. I know. I hate this guy so much. RIP learn. I hope that he never gets paroled. He better not get paroled.

And the fact that he was able to make a plea deal where seven counts of child pornography were taken off the table. I can only hope that like people in prison know that that was part of it. I hope that has leaked back to them that child pornography charges were part of that. And he just gets he's getting a lot every day. Eat in the line. I hope so. So yeah, that was the case of Lauren Giddings. And again, I'm going to post where you can donate to that scholarship.

Perfect. And you guys should all do it. Wow. Yeah. If you're able to. Thanks you guys should all do it. Wow. Yeah. If you're able to. Thanks for that. You're welcome.

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