just backed off. but of course, they couldn t just take his word for it. they asked david for proof. receipts, documents, to show he was aware in california when lauren was murdered. so, did he just have them hand them over a? what he didn t have them with. her david was free to leave the police eastern. they would follow up with him of course. but back in the apartment complex, they found something. but what did it mean? coming up. one of the men investigators have already interviewed is about to attract their attention all over again. and then, a discovery in a maintenance closet at lauren s complex. it looks like blood. when dateline continues. (tony hawk) skating for over 45 years has taken a toll on my body. i take qunol turmeric because it helps with healthy joints and inflammation support. why qunol?
months but lauren called it off. but he didn t call it off. joe told detectives that lauren 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 the credit card where she purchase at the same pool. and that zaxby s receipt her friends found, that was time stamp six away saturday. so they pulled the video. hard to tell which was lawrence car and if anyone was with. her jewel for example, had he rejoined her? impossible to tell from this. willie no one can vouch for him because we re all doing our own thing. we were all studying. it seemed pretty certain lauren was still alive and well at 10:30 pm. because that s when she sent that strange email her friends found on her computer. essentially that she thought someone was trying to break into her house. on a night prior. the recipient of that email was the man she intended
flaky. lauren s called david. he said he hadn t doctrine days. i remember specifically him hanging up and calling back a few minutes later saying, what s going on? back at the apartment, ashley rounded up lauren s law school friends. including the 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 restaurant drive-through time stamped saturday, six away pm. the evening after that pre-study party. but now it was wednesday night. the restaurant was at that 0. 4 days old. so, where did she go? for a run? did she have some sort of accident? or was it something even worse? friends lauren s knew she spent time visiting prisoners when she was a public defender at the it make you wonder about which encountered? she encountered all sorts.
she had thought someone had been stalking her. but we didn t really pay much attention to it. because of who lauren was. she was a girl who always had admirers who stood out. just about everybody who lived in the apartment complex new lauren. including of course, her fellow student and next door neighbor, and he wanted to help search for her. he asked about window locks. somebody check her windows to see if they were open? or locked? yes, i think one might have been on lock. friends also checked lauren s computer and discovered that her last online activity was an email sent saturday night. this was disturbing. it was an email to david. it was eerie. what did it say? essentially that she thought someone was trying to break into her house the night prior. i think she worded it, the person being a hoodlum. a macon hoodlum. the ultimate fear. that some evil stranger had
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 kind of hacksaw in his apartment. it was the same type as the one found in the maintenance room? the same size, brand and everything. now they felt certain they had their man. they cleared lauren david an ex-boyfriend joe. no surprise at all to lawrence friends. i had never thought it was david. i never thought it was joe. they eventually cleared the maintenance man, to. and on all the second, five weeks after lauren disappeared, stephen mcdaniel, the quiet young law school grad was charged with murder. he maintained his innocence. pleaded not guilty. then, really of a crime so awful, a dismembered victim. we stephen head seems so harmless. no criminal record. the evidence against him with circumstantial. the district attorney wasn t confident.