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I never heard about this when it happened a few years ago, but I watched police interviews with the accused, Stephen McDaniel, who was a law student who had an obsession with a female student named Lauren Giddings who lived in the same apartment complex. Very strange young man.
A Georgia law school grad was sentenced to life in prison for killing his neighbor after he wrote a chilling confession note detailing how he strangled the blond beauty before he dismembered her body.
Stephen McDaniel, 28, told investigators that he used a master key to sneak into Lauren Giddings’ apartment before finding her sleeping in her bedroom before dawn on June 26, 2011.
But once the masked man neared the 27-year-old’s bed, he said she suddenly woke.
“I leaped across the bed onto her and grabbed her around the throat,” McDaniel wrote in a one-page confession note last week.
“We tumbled out of the bed to the floor and in her struggle to get away. She moved her legs and her lower body under her bed, preventing her from getting away or kicking me.”
Giddings managed to pull off the creep’s mask during the attack, McDaniel said. Lauren Giddings, 27, had just graduated from the Mercer University School of Law before she was killed in June 2011 in her Georgia Ave. apartment. Police suspect her killer had broken in before to steal a flash drive that had hundreds of her photos on it.
But McDaniel continued to throttle the woman until her body went limp.
“I dragged her into the bathroom and placed her in the bathtub,” McDaniel wrote, adding that he soon left — but returned with a hacksaw later that day.
“I removed her limbs and head, wrapped them in several black trash bags, separately and discarded them in the Mercer law school Dumpster,” he wrote.
McDaniel confessed to the gruesome crime after he learned prosecutors knew he had used a video camera taped to a wooden stick to record Giddings in her apartment just hours before she was killed.
I remember seeing this on one of the true crime shows. He sure looks different in court than what he looked before. His lawyers tried to clean him up into a normal looking guy, but that wasn't possible.
I remember seeing this on one of the true crime shows. He sure looks different in court than what he looked before. His lawyers tried to clean him up into a normal looking guy, but that wasn't possible.
I watched his prison interview. He is VERY weird. He would only answer questions with "yes" "no" or "I don't know" and he looked and sounded like a lost little boy. I read elsewhere that he was very strange and his fellow law students couldn't handle being around him. Somehow he got a job working for the DA. I find that beyond weird, also.
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Lauren Giddings, 27, had just graduated from the Mercer University School of Law before she was killed in June 2011 in her Georgia Ave. apartment. Police suspect her killer had broken in before to steal a flash drive that had hundreds of her photos on it.
