MAN: You did something stupid,
and I think you feel bad about it,
and that's why you're all freaked out right now.
NARRATOR: An innocent victim snuffed out
in the prime of her life.
And I said, "You'll never believe it.
I'm going into apartments looking for body parts."
And... it was horrible.
In my numerous years of law enforcement experience,
I have never seen anything
as shocking and as horrific as that in my entire life.
NARRATOR: A gruesome murder with the marks of a sociopath.
NARRATOR: The truth will be revealed.
I think his problem was, was that he thought
he was smarter than we were.
NARRATOR: Every day in North America,
dozens of people are murdered.
The key to solving the toughest of these homicides
lies in the final 24 hours of the victim's life.
To crack the case,
detectives must reconstruct that critical timeline,
the minutes and hours containing evidence
that can help unlock the mystery
and catch the killer.
♪♪
Macon, Georgia,
a city known for its old manor homes, Southern rock and roll,
and the prestigious Mercer University,
SHURLEY: Mercer is Macon.
It opened in 1823,
so you're talking now well over
200 years worth of history there.
It's known as being one of the top schools in the country.
NARRATOR: At the entrance to Mercer's Law School
sits the now infamous Barristers Hall Apartments.
BUSH: I came to Macon to go
to law school in 1995 and saw the apartments,
and the looked totally different from what you saw today.
They were extremely run down.
There were no balconies, no wrought iron,
no patios, nothing.
And people, especially at the law school,
were so excited when we bought 'em
and did the first renovation.
So then we felt like that it was a good investment
as long as the law school didn't move, we would be good.
But you don't expect
what happened to happen either.
NARRATOR: The day that everything changed
was June 30, 2011.
My office received a phone call from some of
our investigators, uh,
stating that they were going up
to the Barristers Hall Apartments.
SHURLEY: And the only thing that we knew
was that a student had been missing,
and no one had heard from her
within about a four-day timeframe.
The missing woman is 27-year-old law student
Lauren Giddings.
Lauren Giddings had just graduated law school.
I mean, she was a very pretty girl, tall.
She was athletic. She loved to run,
came from a good family.
She was preparing for a big move to Atlanta
to live with her boyfriend,
and she kind of had everything going for herself.
BUSH: She was very vivacious.
She just had a beautiful smile,
and she loved her dog.
When I picture her in my mind, that's --
That's a picture I have,
is her smiling and holding Butterbean.
NARRATOR: Detectives Randy Gonzalez
and Dan Shurley are assigned to the case.
When the case first pops off,
um, all the detectives in the bureau, um,
of the Violent Crimes Unit, were --
Were called out to the scene.
GONZALEZ: Her friends that she hangs out with, uh,
said they haven't heard from her, which is unusual,
because of if they text her,
she would normally text back to them at some point in time.
NARRATOR: The first place they search
his Lauren's apartment in Barristers Hall.
Nothing looked to have been disturbed in any way.
It appeared to be in its normal state.
The only thing we saw that was probably out of place was
the fact that her purse, her cellphone,
and her keys were still there in the apartment and that
her vehicle was still parked in front of her apartment,
which was suspicious in itself.
GONZALEZ: We're thinking, what's happened to her, you know.
Has she been abducted? Had something happened to her
where she can't get help for herself?
SHURLEY: Our crime scene investigators were called
to the scene, at which time they went into the apartment,
and they conducted, um, you know,
the process of fingerprinting, looking for DNA,
any type of evidence of -- Of what may have happened
or anything that could tell us what happened.
They used luminol, which it lights up
the blood under a black light,
and when they sprayed her shower with that,
it glowed like a Christmas tree.
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So we knew that something had happened
in Lauren's apartment and left a large amount
of blood behind, we just didn't know what.
NARRATOR: It's a troubling discovery,
and it sends investigators out
into the neighborhood in full force.
SHURLEY: So we started canvassing
the area, we were speaking with neighbors.
At the time, there were only a few
students from Mercer that was left on campus.
Most people are cooperative with us.
They don't have anything to hide,
and they were just -- They sincerely want to help.
NARRATOR: One of those concerned friends
is Lauren's next-door neighbor, Stephen McDaniel,
who is holding out hope that Lauren may still be alive.
REPORTER: Do you know anybody that --
Any enemies she might have had, somebody that might want
to hurt her? - No.
I -- where -- we don't know where she is.
I mean, the only thing we can think is
that maybe she went out running,
and someone snatched her.
NARRATOR: The problem is, like Lauren's other neighbors,
Stephen had his head down studying for
the Bar and didn't see or hear anything.
SHURLEY: It does make it challenging, because everyone's
kind of preoccupied with their own thing,
so they -- no one's noticed
anything out of -- Out of the ordinary.
NARRATOR: Then investigators make a grisly discovery.
We were outside of Lauren's
apartment complex in front of building.
It was kind of a windy day, a little bit,
the wind was blowing,
and we'd smell an odor, like a foul odor,
every once in a while, and, um,
you know, we was just trying to figure out,
you know, was -- what it was.
SHURLEY: That smell led us to a trash can
that was located outside of Lauren's apartment building.
So when we opened up the trash can,
there was, um, a black trash bag.
Pull it out, and upon opening it,
we located a torso inside those trash bags.
In my
numerous years of law enforcement experience,
I have never seen anything as shocking and as horrific as that
in my entire life.
[camera shutter clicks]
And unfortunately, we had a pretty good idea
that it was Lauren's body.
NARRATOR: Detectives won't know for certain until the autopsy
results come in,
but until then, they're treating Lauren's
disappearance as a homicide.
I drive up, and I...
the -- the officer stopped me, and I said, "Unh-unh."
"I own this place.
I need to get in here," so they let me through,
and they had just, not 30 minutes before, found
the torso and knew that we had...
a murder.
NARRATOR: Based on the decomposition of the body,
the medical examiner believes Lauren was likely killed
between Saturday morning,
June 25th, and Sunday evening, June 26th.
Murder is a bad thing, but you take somebody's life,
and then you going to cut the body up...
My -- my thoughts are of, you know, what kind
of person would do something like this?
What is -- what kind of mindset does a person have that could
treat another human being like this?
BUSH: I was just in shock.
This happens to other people.
It doesn't happen in your -- In your neighborhood.
It doesn't happen in your life.
NARRATOR: To catch her killer, detectives will need to
unravel the last 24 hours of Lauren Giddings' life.
We knew that we were dealing with
a different kind of killer than what
we were normally used to.
We didn't know if it was a serial killer,
someone traveling through town.
We didn't know if it was a jilted lover.
We didn't even -- you know,
we had no idea what we were dealing with.
BUSH: Quite honestly, I felt like it was somebody
random and that we were never gonna know.
ARNTFIELD: When we see dismemberment used
in any case of murder, number one,
it can have a strategic or an instrumental purpose,
which means to conceal the body in smaller parts
so that it's never found.
But often it can also have a symbolic or sexual purpose.
There is actually a disorder called mutiliophilia,
which describes an offender's need to, um, dismember
and mutilate a body, so, in other words,
the murder is just step one,
and it's what comes after that's really motivating.
SHURLEY: As you would imagine, with a crime of this nature,
um, it just sent panic through the community,
so we were trying to
to establish a suspect in this case as quickly as possible.
NARRATOR: Detectives turn to Lauren's best friend, Ashley,
hoping she can help fill in Lauren's whereabouts during
the window of time they believe she was killed.
SHURLEY: Ashley stated that the last time
she saw Lauren was on June the 24th.
She and Lauren, along with some
other friends, had went to a bar downtown.
NARRATOR: One of those friends is a man named Joe.
Ashley said that Lauren and Joe had previously been in
a relationship, but, um,
they had since broken it off.
NARRATOR: She said Lauren's current boyfriend lives
in Atlanta, but she and Joe remained friends.
Ashley described the night, I mean, it was just
a normal night, they went down to blow off
some steam from studying for the Bar.
Everybody seemed to be happy and having a good time.
Ashley said that after they left the bar,
everyone went back to Joe's apartment.
They had some more drinks,
and Lauren had spent the night at Joe's house.
NARRATOR: It wasn't until four days later,
when Ashley hadn't heard from Lauren,
that she went over to her apartment to check on her.
No one's that surprised when they don't hear from Lauren for
a number of days, and that's normal
when you were in the midst of studying for the Bar,
it's everybody goes into their hole.
They don't want to speak to the outside world.
SHURLEY: Joe was immediately considered a possible suspect
in the case.
Usually the first people that are looked out of the ones
closest to 'em, boyfriends, husbands, ex-boyfriends.
So in Joe's case, he wasn't
the one that cut the relationship off.
So there's a possibility there for a...
quite possibly a jilted lover.
NARRATOR: Detectives bring Joe down to the station to
question him about the last time he saw Lauren.
He confirms that she stayed the night at his house
but says she left alive and well the next morning at 8 a.m.
Joe's story makes him the last person, if that story's true,
verified as seeing our victim when she was last alive.
And while there's nothing on the surface wrong with that
story, unfortunately, as an investigator
in this land of work, you have to think dirty.
You have to start thinking, is this story a play?
Does he know more? Did something involving alcohol
happen that night that he hasn't told people?
NARRATOR: After finding what investigators believe is
Lauren Giddings' dismembered torso in
the trash can near the Barristers Hall apartments,
suspicions air swirling around her ex-boyfriend Joe.
The pressure was very, very intense,
uh, you know, like I said, due to the nature of the crime.
A city in panic,
and so we needed to give them answers as quickly as possible.
And Joe was the last person to see her alive.
NARRATOR: During the interrogation,
Joe remembers something.
When Lauren left his apartment on Saturday morning,
she said she might try to sneak into the local country
club later on that afternoon.
So I went to the Healy Point Country Club, and she was
actually captured on camera at that -- at the country club,
out by the pool and ordering a drink.
The significance of the camera footage is
that it gives us a new timeline
of when the last time Lauren was alive.
NARRATOR: With Joe's story checking out,
investigators shift their focus
to Lauren's current boyfriend, David Vandiver.
David lived in Atlanta, you know, an hour way.
He was an established attorney out there.
He was about 20 years older than Lauren.
We'd receive information that David had planned on
proposing her, but he had also admitted
that their relationship was a little rocky.
I think I met David one time in passing.
I don't know him that well,
but I can tell you that the family
wasn't enamored with David.
I don't know if he just
liked being single and didn't really want to commit.
Um, I don't know,
but I know that
at least her cousins were not...
happy with the relationship.
NARRATOR: Detectives ask David to come
down from Atlanta for questioning.
GONZALEZ: Being that he was her current boyfriend,
we wanted to see what he knows about
Lauren, when's the last time he's talking with her.
When's the last time he seen her.
NARRATOR: Detectives decide to keep
their cards close to their chest while they sussed David out.
Okay.
NARRATOR: David immediately claims he has an alibi, that
he was in California golfing from 9:40 a.m.
Friday morning until Monday morning at 6 a.m.
David said that he didn't speak to
Lauren the entire time he was in California.
If you're in a relationship with someone,
to me, it's kind of unusual that you don't talk
to someone, you know, in five days.
Um, I mean, not even a phone call or text.
You know, that's kind of one of those moments
when you think, well...
does he know something about this?
Is he involved in this?
PATTERSON: Recently.
SHURLEY: David had a lot of motivation there.
It very well could have been the fact that David,
being the successful older man, and Lauren being the trophy,
the fact that --
That Lauren had spent the night with Joe
a couple of days beforehand -- We didn't
know possibly if David knew about this and, um, had,
you know, done harm to her.
NARRATOR: While David appears suspicious,
his alibi checks out, but before he's released,
he reveals a disturbing piece of new information.
SHURLEY: So in interviewing David, he did provide us
with an email that Lauren had sent him,
saying that she thought that someone had possibly broken
into her apartment.
NARRATOR: David says he never responded to that email.
SHURLEY: We know at least on Saturday night at 10 o'clock
when she sent that email,
that Lauren was alive at that timeframe.
NARRATOR: Detectives begin to develop a new theory
about Lauren's murder.
SHURLEY: Well, that was significant in the fact that
now we have someone that's broken into her apartment
we also have a possible another suspect on the case.
It's possible that someone was actually stalking her.
NARRATOR: Detectives are exploring a theory that whoever
killed Lauren Giddings in her apartment
might have been stalking her.
There was no, um,
forced entry to the apartment.
Your thinking process is that she let someone into
her apartment, uh,
was the apartment unlocked
at the time and someone entered in?
If no one forcibly broke in, how did they get in?
You can't break in through the doors.
Um, the doors are solid wood.
They're set -- they're set in
a steel casing that is set into concrete.
So when the deadbolt goes through the steel casing,
it goes into concrete, and unless you have an axe,
you can't chop down that solid wood door.
Someone had to have a key,
either spare key or a master key.
SHURLEY: And we knew one person that had a spare key
to the apartment complex was the maintenance guy.
NARRATOR: Detectives track down the maintenance man
at the Barristers Hall Apartments, David Dorer.
BUSH: He was a law student himself
and, um, very
much dedicated to finishing his degree and practicing law.
SHURLEY: He said that he didn't keep a close eye
or have a lot of contact with the other, um,
occupants of the apartment complex unless
he was doing a job for 'em.
NARRATOR: Investigators ask him when he last saw Lauren.
He had informed us that he had been to Lauren's
apartment a couple of weeks prior to us finding her body.
NARRATOR: David Dorer says that he, too,
was consumed with studying all week and therefore can't
provide a solid alibi.
ARNTFIELD: The fact that David, the building's maintenance man,
had access to that room and to the saw
and would have had access to all the residents' personal
information, to keys to their units,
could have wandered through the halls and around
the grounds under the cover of darkness
and had a lawful pretext for doing so, to me,
I mean, it seems like it was a good fit.
NARRATOR: When the autopsy results come in,
confirming that the torso does belong to Lauren Giddings
and that she was likely dismembered with a hacksaw,
detectives go on the hunt for the murder weapon.
Then they asked to see in
the laundry area.
We let 'em into our lockout closet,
and all of our -- as I told you, all of our tools were
hanging there, and there was a saw there,
but it was one of about three saws that was
on the peg, and they ask are these --
Are your tools?
And I said, "Yes," had no reason to think they weren't.
They all look alike.
NARRATOR: But one of those saws isn't like the others.
It shows positive traces for blood.
ARNTFIELD: If I was a betting man, and I found this hacksaw
covered with what appeared to be human blood
in the same building complex as Lauren, who was dismembered,
I mean, I would be betting 100 to 1 that
that was her blood on the saw.
At that point, it shoots the maintenance man up to
the top of the list of being a possible suspect.
NARRATOR: When they asked the maintenance man if
the hacksaw belongs to his set of tools,
he denies it.
The maintenance man told us that he --
He didn't know anything about the hacksaw,
that he'd never seen it before.
We're lied to all the time,
so for him to not be truthful about
the hacksaw would not be unusual in a case at all.
ARNTFIELD: The question then is,
if he was so careful about disposing of the victim,
why leave the most incriminating piece of evidence
essentially in plain view in a room only he had
access to -- it almost seems too convenient.
NARRATOR: While the hacksaw is sent off to forensics,
detectives fend off a media firestorm.
GONZALEZ: When you got a crime like that,
and, you know, people are wondering what happened,
people want to ask, 'cause they want to know, you know,
what are you doing? Do you have any suspects?
QUESADA: We kept calling every day, trying to find out
new information,
so I'm sure the police department felt the pressure.
It was definitely the main thing
everyone in the community was talking about.
NARRATOR: Facing immense pressure to solve
Lauren's murder, detectives bring in over 20
members of the police force to help bring her killer
to justice.
I think once they found the hacksaw in the laundry room
or maintenance room of the development,
they knew that he had to be someone who either lived in
that development or was able -- Was very close to it.
NARRATOR: Detectives begin a thorough search
of every apartment in the complex.
There's only one person who doesn't willingly consent --
Lauren's classmate, Stephen McDaniel.
GONZALEZ: The way the apartments were set up,
there were two downstairs apartments and two
upstairs apartments,
and Lauren lived in the apartment upstairs
to the left.
Stephen lived in the apartment upstairs to the right,
So they were kind of next door to each other.
BUSH: Stephen is a very different person.
He seemed a little socially awkward.
Some of the conversations he would have with me when I was
on site working,
working in the flowers or whatever,
he'd stand there and talk to me
for 30, 45 minutes about the entomology of bugs.
And... that was Stephen.
NARRATOR: Suspicious about why Stephen won't voluntarily
allow a search of his apartment,
investigators question him downtown.
And...
I remember getting so upset,
because they were treating Stephen differently.
I remember saying to one of my friends that...
they're stereotyping.
Just the way that he was acting was suspicious
in general to me.
SHURLEY: Investigators went over to
the apartment and began searching it.
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They had noticed in his apartment condoms,
and we knew that within speaking with him that he had
made some comments about saving himself for marriage,
that he was a virgin.
So when the investigators question Stephen
about these condoms, he spontaneously stated
that he had -- He had stolen them out
of some of the residents --
Other residences, apartments.
The fact that Stephen confesses to having burglarized apartments
in that complex, to me, is the game changer.
We know, first of all,
that burglary is the most common first crime among both
homicidal and non-homicidal sex offenders
who are currently incarcerated. It is a gateway crime.
NARRATOR: As suspicions deepen around Stephen,
investigators pore over several news interviews
that he gave the day the torso was found.
I mean, we just don't know where she is.
REPORTER: What about in the, like, the parking lot area?
I know they've been doing a lot of -- I think that's
where they had recovered a body or whatever they recovered
from there. - Body?
REPORTER: Had you heard -- Had you seen anything there?
- Had you seen anything there? - I...
I mean, we don't know if this is the same person,
You know what I mean? They took out a body there
earlier -- we don't know if it was the same person or not,
so that's why we're trying to ask people if they know
who lived there?
Are you okay, sir?
- I think I need to sit down. - REPORTER: Okay.
SHURLEY: When I saw the way that he acted when
he found out that there was a body in that trash can,
I mean,
you knew that this man knew something about the murder,
without a shadow of a doubt.
It's right there in front of your face.
NARRATOR: But not everybody believes Stephen is guilty.
BUSH: The Stephen that I had met
could never have done this.
And I didn't believe it for a minute.
NARRATOR: Stephen McDaniel has confessed
to burglarizing his neighbors,
leading detectives to wonder whether he was the stalker
who murdered Lauren Giddings in her own home.
SHURLEY: We were able to take a burglary warrant out on him.
He was subsequently arrested on that burglary and held until
we were able to possibly get enough evidence to prove,
um, murder.
With Stephen in custody,
the investigators obtained a search warrant
for Stephen's apartment,
where a more detailed search
that time was conducted, and during that search,
they located a pair of panties.
STOCKDALE: So, in my mind, as a psychologist,
I'm thinking, what is Stephen's fantasy life?
What is he thinking about?
What is sexually arousing to him,
and how may have Lauren fit into that?
NARRATOR: They send the underwear to forensics
for DNA analysis.
Meanwhile, they make a startling
find in Stephen's apartment.
And this was the second or third day,
and I arrived at the apartments, and they called me over, one of
the techs called me over, and he said, "Do you recognize this?"
I recognized it, and I said, "It's a master key.
Where did you get?"
And he said, "It came out of Stephen's apartment,"
and I was absolutely devastated.
I was feeling like, oh, my God,
am I the one that lost this key that Stephen found?
Is this my fault?
NARRATOR: But they didn't find just one key.
There were, uh,
two keys that were found in the apartment.
One was a passkey.
There was another key found that was actually
a key that fit the lock to Lauren Giddings' apartment.
NARRATOR: Armed with this incriminating evidence,
detectives interrogate Stephen McDaniel for the second time
that evening.
Yes.
The first thing that the investigators who
interviewed him asked Stephen
was did he hurt Lauren?
He doesn't say anything.
Stephen just kind of --
Just puts his hands up on
the table in the interview room
and just kind of stares off into space.
I think it was a desperation move on his part.
Stephen, at that point, he probably knew that he was --
He'd been had or that
the gig was up, and he didn't know where to go from there.
NARRATOR: Detectives interrogate Stephen
for three hours trying to get him to confess,
but they get nowhere.
In Stephen's case, the fact that he clams up, lawyers up,
whatever term you want to use and essentially doesn't want to
speak to investigators or confess,
the joke is that his browser
history does the confessing for him.
SHURLEY: On his computer, we located
websites of sadomasochism.
Um, there was bondage
on his web browser.
We also located where he had looked up
on how to get away with murder.
We also found where he had looked
up on how -- how to dismember a body.
STOCKDALE: I think what we see with Stephen is somebody who may
have begun by thinking about Lauren, looking at certain
materials online.
And the more he looks at this, the more aroused he becomes,
and he resorts to more intrusive kind of activity.
So he starts taking pieces of clothing from her,
letting himself in to her apartment
using a key, so he becomes occupying of her
personal space, violating her, if you will,
in more and more intrusive ways, to the point where
perhaps this was what we would refer to as a lust murder, where
he, you know, is pairing his sexual arousal with cruelty.
[suspenseful music]
NARRATOR: Working to build a solid case
against Stephen McDaniel,
detectives are digging for irrefutable evidence to
charge him with the murder of Lauren Giddings.
QUESADA: Everyone thought he did it.
At this point,
he was in jail for the unrelated burglary charges,
and there were search warrants executed at his apartment
almost every day for weeks.
They just kept pulling out stuff,
pulling out stuff of his out of his apartment.
NARRATOR: What they find is a cornucopia of weaponry,
handguns, a semiautomatic rifle,
an entire collection of knives,
and even a samurai sword.
But the most damning of all...
The packaging from the hacksaw was found in his apartment.
And the packaging matched the hacksaw
that was located in the maintenance room
of Barristers Hall.
Stephen was a law student,
and I think his problem was was that he thought
that he was smarter than we were.
But I will tell you this, in my career is being investigator
and investigating homicides, he is
the only one that I've ever known up to be stupid enough to
get on camera and speak
about a murder, that he's actually the one that committed.
At that point,
um, we believed we had enough circumstantial
evidence to present it to the district attorney's office
for the go-ahead on Stephen being
charged with the murder of Lauren Giddings.
NARRATOR: While reviewing the evidence retrieved from
Stephen's apartment,
they discover yet another piece of the puzzle.
SHURLEY: Electronic equipment was also
taken from Stephen's house,
and there was also some videos found.
One of those videos showed
Stephen holding a pole up to
Lauren's window and looking in.
There was a time stamp on that.
June 25th at 11:10 that night.
SHURLEY: The video in itself was very creepy.
The fact that someone is in the privacy of their own home,
conducting everyday, their everyday routine,
business, and that someone has a camera pointed
into your window, watching your every move.
Once that was presented to Stephen and his attorney,
uh, that's what led
to Stephen confessing and taking a plea.
NARRATOR: Based on Stephen McDaniel's written confession,
detectives can now reconstruct the final 24 hours
of Lauren Giddings' life.
[distant crowd noise]
SHURLEY: On that Friday night,
Lauren, Ashley, and Joe had went to a bar downtown.
They had a few drinks.
Afterwards, they went back to Joe's apartment.
Lauren had spent the night there.
Lauren had gotten up the next morning and went to Healy Point
Country Club,
where she had hung out by the pool in order to drink.
June 25th, Saturday,
Stephen McDaniel videoed through
the window of her apartment around 11:10 p.m. that night.
Stephen said he entered into her apartment at around 4:30 a.m.
He said he came in the apartment that morning with a mask on.
[music building]
She awoke and screamed, "Get out of my apartment!"
At some point during the struggle,
the mask was pulled off.
She saw it was him.
[suspenseful music]
He confessed to strangling her to death.
He dismembered her in the shower.
Stephen did admit to, uh,
taking the rest of Lauren's body parts and distributing
them throughout different trash bins in the neighborhood.
We searched the landfill
to see if we could find anything related to Lauren.
We didn't find anything at all.
There's only one person that knows where
the rest of -- of Lauren is, and that's Stephen McDaniel.
QUESADA: I think that for Stephen, the clock ran out.
He didn't think that police were
gonna find that torso that morning.
He was counting on the dumpster
coming in and picking up that trash bin
and taking it to the landfill.
After that, you know, everything was in motion,
and he didn't have time to catch up.
I believe Stephen's motive was purely lust, murder,
all wrapped up into one.
As far as I'm concerned, Stephen McDaniel is the...
poster child for a sociopath.
He knew exactly what he was doing.
He planned the murder,
and then he carried it out.
He's the worst kind of killer.
NARRATOR: Stephen McDaniel is sentenced to life in prison
for the murder of Lauren Giddings.
SHURLEY: Initially, they were going to go
for the death penalty on this case,
but due to the fact that
Lauren didn't believe in the death penalty,
they did not want -- want to --
To hand it out to Stephen
in memory of her.
NARRATOR: Detectives believe they may have stopped
a serial killer in the making.
I think that if he had
killed once,
that it's possible that he could kill again.
I don't think that
anybody would be safe with him back on the street again.
QUESADA: The fact that they were able to catch Stephen McDaniel
and arrest him for the murder,
I think brings some relief to the family,
but it doesn't change anything.
How can you get through something like that?
Especially when the last few hours of Lauren's life,
they have really no idea what happened or what
went through her mind, and then to not be able to give
your sister your -- Your child --
A proper burial...
I mean, it's heartbreaking.
When you have someone that you love taken from you,
there's nothing that anyone can do to give you closure,
even catching the person who did it.
You're scarred forever.