Stephen McDaniel and the Murder of Lauren Giddings

Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee to talk about the senseless murder of Lauren Giddings. Lauren was a law student who was on her way to do big things with her life, before Stephen McDaniel took that light and extinguished it. Stephen was a peeping tom turned murderer who went on to do TV interviews about Lauren’s case… which ultimately seals his own fate. 

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Our sources for this weeks episodes:

• News Coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSK47WlZ6Ac 

• News Coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiNMbCvc5Sk 

• News Coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_xb_JnXGeI 

• Dateline NBC, S9E16, “The Watcher”

• https://allthatsinteresting.com/lauren-giddings

• https://wgxa.tv/news/local/the-girl-next-door-lauren-giddings-family-remembers-her-10-years-after-brutal-murder\

• https://www.macon.com/news/local/crime/article271369827.html

• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12695035/Law-student-torso-trash-strangled-death-college-classmate.html

• https://allthatsinteresting.com/stephen-mcdaniel

• https://www.11alive.com/article/news/truly-evil/85-17ec0d7e-0e45-4ca4-878d-5a117061b614

• https://www.facebook.com/LaurenTeresaGiddings/

• https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/local/stephen-mcdaniel-loses-another-appeal/93-bff77d64-efce-43bf-b943-f2468623debc

• https://wgxa.tv/news/local/stephen-mcdaniel-lauren-giddings-mercer-law-school-student-murder-dismembered-macon-bibb-county-appeal-marc-treadwell-federal-court