joe, the ex. what did you learn about him? they had dated for a couple months. lauren called it off, that he didn t call it off. tectives la spent the night in his room friday night, but she left the next morning, said she was going to the pool at a local country club. but did she make it there? detectives checked, and? we were able to trace down her credit card, which she had made a purchase at the same pool. and that zaxby s receipt her friends found? that was time-stamped 6:08 saturday. so they pulled the video. hard to tell which was lauren s car and if anyone was with her. joe, for example, had he rejoined her? impossible to tell from this. really, no one could vouch for him, because we were all doing our own thing. we were all studying. it seemed pretty certain lauren was still alive and well at 10:13 p.m., because that s when she sent that strange email her friends found on her
stephen s place and this time found women s underwear. test results proved they were lauren s. and then they found this. we found packaging for that same type of hacksaw in his apartment. it was the same type as the one found in the maintenance room. same size and brand and everything. now they felt certain they had their man. they cleared lauren s boyfriend, david, and ex-boyfriend, joe. no surprise at all to lauren s friends. i never thought it was david. i never thought it was joe. they eventually cleared the maintenance man, too. and on august 2nd, five weeks after lauren disappeared, stephen mcdaniel, the quiet, young law school grad, was charged with murder. he maintained his innocence, pleaded not guilty, and really, a crime so awful, a dismembered victim? stephen had seemed so harmless, had no criminal record. the evidence against him was circumstantial.
building. was it her? must be. downtown, investigators resorted to method. who s closest to her, romantically or geographically? start close, as they say, close to the victim, but how close? oh, they had no idea. coming up police look at the men in lauren s life, her boyfriend, david, and her ex, joe. they wondered, could there have been a love triangle gone wrong? some people react badly to that sort of thing. very badly, sometimes. when the watcher continues. such tree-mendous views. i m at a moss for words. when a cough tries to steal dad s punchlines, he takes robitussin naturals powered by 100% drug-free ingredients. are you gonna leaf me hanging? soothe your cough naturally.
lauren s family called david. he said he hadn t talked to her in days. i remember specifically him, like, hanging up and then calling back a couple minutes later, like, wait, what s going on like, what is going on? back at the apartment, ashley rounded up lauren s law school friends, including that ex-boyfriend, joe, with whom she d spent the night last time any of the friends saw her. joe immediately went to the law school to search the law school for her. while the other friends took a careful look around the apartment. they found some food wrappers, and in her car a receipt from a zaxby s restaurant drive-through, time-stamped the evening after the prestudy party. now it was wednesday night. zaxby s was at that point in time four days old. so, where did she go, for a run? did she have some sort of accident? or was it something even worse? lauren s friends knew she spent
yeah. mind you, there was alcohol involved, so surprising, right. right. lauren stayed the night in joe s room. and the next day, everybody was moving a bit slowly. i did not see lauren that morning. i didn t see joe that morning either. we just kind of assumed they were in the room together. and then it was time to buckle down. all of the friends, joe included, went off to cram. really, you kind of just go into this hole and study constantly and don t really have any contact with anybody. everyone was kind of in their own world trying to get ready for this, this test that you worked so hard for. so, it s a lot of pressure. you just you become a hermit. so, it took a few days to realize, no one had heard from lauren. coming up no reason yet to assume anything was wrong, but soon, there would be. i immediately was like, this isn t right. so, i called her sister,