➖Law student dismembered by stalker Stephen McDaniel - Police interrogation and confession. 2 of 6 — Transcript
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- 0:00[ __ ] news and stood out there and
- 0:03gave a media report that her mother saw
- 0:06about her missing daughter
- 0:10and you want me to sit there and tell
- 0:11them that you don't know
- 0:14is that what you want me to tell them
- 0:16because you're all over the news
- 0:18you sure stood out there and ran your
- 0:19mouth to the news media but now you're
- 0:21going to get out of here and you don't
- 0:23[ __ ] know
- 0:24you know
- 0:26you're just a sorry piece of [ __ ] that
- 0:28don't give a [ __ ]
- 0:30right
- 0:31you know why'd you tell the media
- 0:33everything
- 0:34do you need to see what you told the
- 0:36media today it was all 11 o'clock news
- 0:38well I'm asking you tell me I want to
- 0:41know
- 0:42I don't know where she is that ain't
- 0:44what you told the media
- 0:48you didn't stand in front of that camera
- 0:49and say I don't know
- 0:51I don't know
- 0:52I don't know
- 1:00right
- 1:03you buy all these weapons was you ever
- 1:05in the military no
- 1:08what do you need all these weapons for
- 1:09are you scared somebody's gonna hurt you
- 1:11no
- 1:12what do you need all these weapons for
- 1:15why there's a reason why were you
- 1:18molested as a child no then why do you
- 1:20need all these weapons
- 1:23why give me one good reason
- 1:26Just Give Me One Reason to have wow
- 1:29does it make you feel important yeah
- 1:32um
- 1:33are you a big guy because you got a
- 1:34weapon no do you even know how to use it
- 1:37yes
- 1:39I need you to tell me what you want me
- 1:41to tell her mother and then I won't ask
- 1:43you another thing I'm not going to tell
- 1:45her mother that you don't know because
- 1:46her mother saw you on the news tonight
- 1:49and she cried all the way down to Macon
- 1:51because you had the balls to get on the
- 1:53news and tell everybody everything
- 1:57you didn't have no problem talking to
- 1:58the news when I asked you questions
- 2:01I'm asking you questions
- 2:03where's Walmart
- 2:05I don't know yes you do know
- 2:07you do know
- 2:10you do know
- 2:11you know
- 2:14you know
- 2:16you do know
- 2:19and everybody in making those you knows
- 2:20because you got your sorry ass on the
- 2:22news and told everybody
- 2:23so every friend you have in Macon
- 2:26knows but you know
- 2:30everybody go to school with every one of
- 2:33your professors everybody
- 2:35videos that you know
- 2:37because you got on the news tonight and
- 2:39told everybody that you know
- 2:42how do you think
- 2:46I think you're gonna be walking down the
- 2:48street tomorrow and nobody bother you
- 2:52think nobody's gonna come over and knock
- 2:53on your door
- 2:55to see if you want to talk to me again
- 2:57I don't know oh they're gonna be over
- 2:59there brother
- 3:01so this little act that you're doing
- 3:03right now
- 3:04ain't working with me
- 3:06okay because you didn't have no problem
- 3:08talking to me
- 3:12no problem
- 3:14so you just snap out of it and tell me
- 3:16what the hell happened so we can move on
- 3:20I don't know well
- 3:22how many times you gonna say I don't
- 3:23know
- 3:25huh
- 3:26how many times you gonna say it
- 3:30what are you gonna say I remember I
- 3:32don't want to remember what happened to
- 3:34her
- 3:35how many times you gonna say that
- 3:39if you did something
- 3:41that you regret
- 3:44and you let me know
- 3:46I didn't
- 3:47oh dear I don't know well a body was
- 3:51found over here right next to where you
- 3:53live
- 3:54and what do you have in your Apartments
- 3:56a lot of knives
- 3:59a lot of guns
- 4:01right yes
- 4:09I'm asking you
- 4:11about it and you're just saying I don't
- 4:12know
- 4:13that's all that's the only answer you
- 4:15can give is I don't know
- 4:16it's six hours or a couple hours ago he
- 4:18was out there telling me everything you
- 4:19didn't stand in front of that camera and
- 4:20say I don't know
- 4:21you were actually answering questions
- 4:24right
- 4:27how many interviews you give three I
- 4:29don't know you gave like three
- 4:32do you think that was a proper thing to
- 4:34do well the mother's looking for her
- 4:36child
- 4:37they asked me what happened and what did
- 4:39you tell them
- 4:40what did you tell her that Lauren was
- 4:43missing okay what else to tell that we
- 4:46had gone looking for
- 4:48okay
- 4:49and what
- 4:50that we hadn't found her
- 4:53what else do they ask you
- 4:55I don't remember why don't you remember
- 4:58I don't you're telling me
- 5:01that you went through law school well
- 5:03you went through college first right did
- 5:04you graduate from college yes now you're
- 5:06in law school did you graduate from law
- 5:07school yeah but you don't [ __ ]
- 5:09remember what they asked you this
- 5:10afternoon no huh I just don't [ __ ]
- 5:13believe that [ __ ]
- 5:15don't sign up yet
- 5:18what's up buddy
- 5:20you talk to him about his guns yeah
- 5:22when's the last time you shot those guns
- 5:23I have you've never shot a gun no have
- 5:26you ever shot any gun in your whole life
- 5:27no no
- 5:31so you bought three guns that you've
- 5:33never shot yes why
- 5:36for what
- 5:39for what I'm asking for what
- 5:41why do you want to have them what makes
- 5:42do they give you I mean tell me why it's
- 5:44important to you to have three guns
- 5:50that's an easy question
- 5:52Come on talk to me buddy me and you
- 5:53talked all day today we ain't had a
- 5:55problem communicating
- 5:56why is it important for you to have
- 5:57three guns
- 6:01do you not know
- 6:02okay
- 6:05um you got a girlfriend no
- 6:07who's your best friend
- 6:09Michael Quinn Michael Michael who win
- 6:11who is he he was a law student with me
- 6:14yes does he still lawsuit no he
- 6:17graduated when was the last time you
- 6:18talked to him
- 6:19before we moved up to Boston how long
- 6:21ago was that a few weeks a few weeks
- 6:24like a month two months two weeks three
- 6:25weeks what
- 6:27the beginning of June beginning of June
- 6:30beginning of June
- 6:33okay
- 6:35so let me ask you a question how
- 6:37you say you don't know where Lauren is
- 6:38right
- 6:40you said you told me earlier you along
- 6:42with friends right yes
- 6:44how would you describe y'all's
- 6:45relationship
- 6:46she was my friend
- 6:48friend she was your friend
- 6:49what did you ever do things for us you
- 6:51have to do things for you what did she
- 6:52ever do for you
- 6:54we talked we talked what'd y'all talk
- 6:56about
- 6:57news the news
- 6:59okay
- 7:00um
- 7:01earlier you was telling me something
- 7:02about you fixed your computer before I
- 7:04couldn't fix it you couldn't fix it what
- 7:07was wrong with it I don't remember how
- 7:09long ago was that
- 7:12around graduation well how long ago was
- 7:14that middle of May middle of May
- 7:17so you were over in her apartment in the
- 7:19middle of May yeah yeah have you been
- 7:20over there since then yes when was the
- 7:22last time you rode there that's night
- 7:24before last night have you ever been
- 7:27over there with Lauren since the time
- 7:28you worked on her computer in the middle
- 7:30of May no how many times have you been
- 7:32in her apartment with her hanging out
- 7:39you don't know
- 7:43if you had to guess
- 7:45what just I mean one time two times
- 7:47three times what
- 7:50maybe two maybe two see if I had only
- 7:52been somewhere twice I could remember
- 7:55that if I had been there over 50 times
- 7:57and you asked me how many times I'd be
- 7:58like I don't know I lied but the fact
- 8:00that you've only been there twice when I
- 8:01say how many times has been you say you
- 8:02don't know that's just odd to me
- 8:05does that make sense to you
- 8:07that does make sense so what I'm saying
- 8:09right now makes sense no
- 8:14when was the last time you saw Lauren
- 8:16two or three weeks ago and you have you
- 8:18been on vacation for the last couple
- 8:19weeks yeah yeah you've been home every
- 8:21night yes has she been at home every
- 8:23night I
- 8:24has she been on vacation
- 8:27I was away for a while hello
- 8:30what are you looking for no
- 8:33let me tell you even if I didn't talk to
- 8:35my neighbors I know if my neighbors have
- 8:38been in and out I hear them come in and
- 8:39I hear them go out I see them when they
- 8:40walk by my window I've lived in
- 8:41apartments most of my life
- 8:43so the fact that you haven't seen her in
- 8:45two or three weeks that's just odd to me
- 8:47I hope it makes me feel like you're not
- 8:48being honest with me Stephen
- 8:52why would you not be honest with me I am
- 8:54being honest Stephen it just doesn't
- 8:55feel like it buddy you know
- 8:58I get the sense that
- 9:00there's something wearing heavy on your
- 9:02heart right now
- 9:03and it's breaking you down
- 9:06and you feel bad about it I can tell you
- 9:09you haven't slept much have you in the
- 9:11last few days have you no like
- 9:13something's Weighing on your mind ain't
- 9:14it we were looking for Lauren you
- 9:16started looking for Lauren yesterday
- 9:17yeah yes but you haven't said in several
- 9:19days have you
- 9:21you have
- 9:22earlier when I talked to you you said
- 9:24you hadn't slept in days at this morning
- 9:25was the first time he was able to get
- 9:26any sleep was this morning for a little
- 9:28bit no
- 9:29yes that's what you said
- 9:33that's what you're telling me
- 9:37so I asked you if you haven't been able
- 9:39to sleep in several days what have you
- 9:39been doing studying you said yes
- 9:41studying
- 9:43you don't remember that no
- 9:51what I want you to do I'm going to ask
- 9:53you this question I want you to describe
- 9:55to me how you feel right now
- 10:03you don't know how to answer that with
- 10:04yes or no do you
- 10:06I don't know what's going on
- 10:10Lauren's missing
- 10:12this pretty little girl right here your
- 10:16neighbor
- 10:18she's missing
- 10:20I know
- 10:22you went looking for her last night yes
- 10:25did you hurt Lauren no
- 10:28Stephen did you hurt on no
- 10:30I know this is hard for you to tell it
- 10:33but it's waiting on you right now you
- 10:35know Stephen
- 10:36I didn't do it
- 10:37but I know you could probably help me
- 10:39with who did
- 10:42can't you buddy I don't know
- 10:46Steven you know
- 10:48and I me and you both know it's no
- 10:50different than when you was a little kid
- 10:52right
- 10:53and you reached in that cookie jar and
- 10:54you got caught after your mama told you
- 10:56not to get that cookie did you get a
- 10:58cookie no and whenever you tell a lie
- 11:00you feel bad about it right then one
- 11:03with every light is a chance you gonna
- 11:04get caught
- 11:07and that weighs on you
- 11:09because you know you did something bad
- 11:12am I right
- 11:14didn't do it you didn't take the cookie
- 11:16no
- 11:21what'd you do buddy
- 11:25I didn't do anything
- 11:26would you do to Lauren
- 11:28I didn't do anything
- 11:30you sold on last night though yesterday
- 11:32no
- 11:34what time was it that she went out to do
- 11:35a laundry
- 11:36I don't know
- 11:37where were you at yesterday
- 11:39at home what'd you do at home tell me
- 11:42everything you did yesterday
- 11:44from the time you woke up to the time
- 11:46you went to sleep
- 11:50check the news at what time
- 11:53I don't remember was it yesterday
- 11:54morning
- 11:56remember what'd you do when you woke up
- 11:59I think I checked the news all right you
- 12:01check the news okay
- 12:08what'd you do after that
- 12:11I watch some videos online
- 12:15to clean up
- 12:16no you didn't
- 12:18no
- 12:19you smell like you've been cleaning up
- 12:21like you've been using cleaner to clean
- 12:22up
- 12:23I know what that smells like my wife
- 12:24smells like that all the time when she
- 12:25cleans the house
- 12:26you've been using some kind of cleaner
- 12:28to clean up your apartment haven't you
- 12:29no Stephen did you tell me you live like
- 12:32how does your apartment get cleaned
- 12:34I cleaned it okay when's the last time
- 12:37you cleaned it Stephen
- 12:38I don't remember
- 12:40was it this week no you mean you go a
- 12:42whole week without cleaning yes wow
- 12:45that's horrible Steve
- 12:47was it possibly over the weekend last
- 12:49weekend no it wasn't if you can't
- 12:52remember
- 12:53then how is it that you can tell me that
- 12:55you didn't clean up your apartment last
- 12:56weekend
- 12:58a minute ago you couldn't remember
- 13:02I don't remember cleaning last weekend
- 13:04so you it isn't that you didn't it's
- 13:07that you just don't remember
- 13:11right
- 13:16help me out buddy
- 13:18right
- 13:19I don't understand I just don't
- 13:21understand
- 13:27I don't know how else to say it Stephen
- 13:29let me tell you what I think
- 13:31I think that she was a friend of yours
- 13:33look at it right here
- 13:35I think that she was a friend of yours
- 13:38and I think something happens to you
- 13:44used to watch her come in and out of her
- 13:46apartment didn't you
- 13:48now
- 13:49I mean then how are y'all friends if
- 13:51y'all if me and you friends we live next
- 13:53door to each other every time I see look
- 13:55at what I see oh that's my buddy going
- 13:56in
- 13:57because we're friends I'm gonna pay
- 13:59attention to when you come in and out
- 14:00then you just tell me that y'all were
- 14:01friends yes
- 14:03but you don't even pay attention to when
- 14:04she came in and out
- 14:06see when you're lying now you're lying
- 14:10you're just lying that's a lie
- 14:13you you ever see her come in and out of
- 14:15her apartment yes you did when was the
- 14:17last time
- 14:19you don't remember like last week maybe
- 14:22I think so you don't think so
- 14:25Stephen you understand that everything
- 14:27that you're saying it doesn't make any
- 14:28sense at all none
- 14:31none
- 14:32you totally contradict everything that
- 14:35relates to human behavior
- 14:37we have skills to be able to observe
- 14:38things to hear things to see things
- 14:40there are natural things out there that
- 14:41draw our attention every day because
- 14:43when you're driving down the road and
- 14:44somebody hits the horn you look around
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