her. and she is the reason why i am who i am today. i would tell her thank you. lauren giddings, law school grad with the world at her feet. fiercely intelligent? and fiercely her opinion, she made friends wherever she went. so, it was strange when she dropped out of sight. did not take her car, did not take her purse. we realized something was wrong. they could not possibly have guessed how wrong. there is another level of evil here, the person who did this was trying to create a vanishing. good do such a thing? first thing you look is who is closest to her, romantic lee or geographically. the list was long. they boyfriend, an ex and fellow students. had somebody been studying more than textbooks? but he would ask people, how would you commit the perfect murder? his roommates said he thought he was smarter than everybody else. smart, maybe. but had he slipped up? what they had found told us everything we needed to know. a confounding case that w
dropped out of sight. did not take her car, did not take her purse. we realized something was wrong. they could not possibly have guessed how wrong. there is another level of evil here, the person who did this was trying to create a vanishing. good do such a thing? first thing you look is who is closest to her, romantic lee or geographically. the list was long. they boyfriend, an ex and fellow students. had somebody been studying more than textbooks? but he would ask people, how would you commit the perfect murder? his roommates said he thought he was smarter than everybody else. smart, maybe. but had he slipped up? what they had found told us everything we needed to know. a confounding case that would come down into a damning piece of video that no one was supposed to see. sick, twisted. what was it like to see that? i knew that we had him. hello, and welcome to dateline. lauren giddings spooked south to law school, and immediately felt ri
Did not take her car, did not take her purse. We realized something was wrong. They could not possibly have guessed how wrong. There is another level of evil here, the person who did this was trying to create a vanishing. Good do such a thing . First thing you look is who is closest to her, romantic lee or geographically. The list was long. They boyfriend, an ex and Fellow Students. Had somebody been studying more than textbooks . He would ask people, how would you commit the perfect murder . His roommates said he thought he was smarter than everybody else. Smart, maybe. But had he slipped up . What they had found told us everything we needed to know. A confounding case that would come down into a damning piece of video that no one was supposed to see. Sick, twisted. What was it like to see that . I knew that we had him. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Lauren giddings spooked south to law school, and immediately felt right at home. Smart and vibrant, she turned heads on campus, but kep
ready to face off in court with stephen still claiming his innocence, the fbi broke the secrets of stephen s digital camera. and recovered this oh my will! the video was him spying on her the last night she was alive. he was all stealth. must have taped his camera to a long stick, said the prosecutor. so he could peer through lauren s window and into her apartment. chilling. here was a predator in the final stage of planning. he was spying in there to see if she was home. because that is the night i think he planned to kill her. we lauren was right, she did have a stalker. someone was trying to break into her place. what s it like to see that? i knew we had in. i just knew we had him. attorney hogue had to agree. that would ve been virtually insurmountable evidence at trial. and so, early april 2014, stephen cried uncle. he make a deal, plead guilty, and confessed to murdering his neighbor, lauren we giddings. he admitted that he came