When Your Neighbor Is A Psycho: Stephen McDaniel Police Interrogation — Transcript

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1. 0:00Sometimes it's the people closest to you
2. 0:02that you should be worried about. And I
3. 0:04mean closest in proximity as in your
4. 0:07neighbor. You know, the people that are
5. 0:09supposed to look out for you, watch your
6. 0:10house while you're out of town, water
7. 0:12your plants, you know, give you a cup of
8. 0:15sugar if you ever need one. Not cut up
9. 0:17your body with a hacksaw in your own
10. 0:19bathtub after chopping off all your
11. 0:22fingertips and throwing them in the
12. 0:24toilet. And that is exactly what Steven
13. 0:26McDaniel did to Lauren Giddings. I'm
14. 0:29currently researching the case right
15. 0:30now, but I wanted to show you guys these
16. 0:33videos of Steven McDaniels when he's
17. 0:35talking to the news versus when he's in
18. 0:38his police interrogation. Just so you
19. 0:40can see what an actual psychopath looks
20. 0:42like as their mask is slipping off. And
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25. 0:52if there was anything amiss, but I mean,
26. 0:55she had a door jamb that was sitting
27. 0:58right by it, so there was no sign that
28. 1:00anyone broke in.
29. 1:02I mean, the door was locked when
30. 1:03everyone got here.
31. 1:08I mean, we we just don't know where she
32. 1:10is. I mean What about in the like the
33. 1:12parking lot area? I know they've been
34. 1:13doing a lot of I think that's where they
35. 1:15were have recovered the body or whatever
36. 1:17they recovered from there. Body?
37. 1:19Had you heard any Had you seen anything
38. 1:21there?
39. 1:24Had you seen anything there? I
40. 1:26I mean, we don't know if this is the
41. 1:27same person. You know what I mean? Like
42. 1:29they took out a lot of stuff earlier. We
43. 1:30don't know if it's the same person or
44. 1:31not. That's why we're trying to ask
45. 1:33people if they know who lived there.
46. 1:37They said that she was over there in the
47. 1:38morning
48. 1:40and then that was the last time that
49. 1:42anyone
50. 1:43would been able to find out from I'd
51. 1:46seen her. She hadn't mentioned what she
52. 1:47was going to do that day or anything? Uh
53. 1:50We uh Joe, he got on the computer last
54. 1:54night to see she'd sent anything She'd
55. 1:56sent an email out to some people.
56. 1:59That afternoon talking about like going
57. 2:01out to eat or something.
58. 2:04And then the last thing that anyone
59. 2:07There was an email that she sent out
60. 2:09after 10:00 that night where she she
61. 2:13sent to
62. 2:14I think it was someone in Atlanta, a
63. 2:16friend of hers in Atlanta and he she
64. 2:20said that she she was afraid in her
65. 2:23apartment that she thought someone had
66. 2:24tried to break in on Thursday night.
67. 2:27And she she was afraid to stay in there,
68. 2:31but
69. 2:33Where did you hear Where did you hear
70. 2:34that from? From Joe? No,
71. 2:36he he pulled it up and we we read it off
72. 2:38the screen.
73. 2:40She had sent that to her friend in
74. 2:41Atlanta? Yeah, I I can't remember his
75. 2:44name, but
76. 2:44>> And you hadn't heard anything
77. 2:50about Thursday night or anything?
78. 2:51>> No.
79. 2:52She never came to you to tell you
80. 2:54anything? No, I mean
81. 2:57I I if she had I I could have done
82. 2:59something. I mean,
83. 3:01I could have lent her a handgun. I've
84. 3:02I've got a little handgun that I have
85. 3:04for defense. She had a sleepover or
86. 3:07something? Yeah, I mean something. I
87. 3:09mean, if she was afraid in her
88. 3:10apartment, then I mean
89. 3:13get her out of there. Is that what she
90. 3:15said that someone tried to break in on
91. 3:16Thursday? That that's what she said in
92. 3:17the email. She thought that someone had
93. 3:18tried to break into her apartment. She
94. 3:20said like "Macon hoodlums tried to break
95. 3:22into my apartment on Thursday night."
96. 3:26Is that her car parked there, the Chevy?
97. 3:28No. Small car? No, um
98. 3:31I think that's the detective's car,
99. 3:33Detective Patterson.
100. 3:35>> No, it it was here earlier and they they
101. 3:37towed it. I mean, it it'd been there for
102. 3:40days and then they towed it to I guess
103. 3:42look through see if there was
104. 3:45Yeah.
105. 3:46How did she find out that something was
106. 3:48wrong with the police doing it like when
107. 3:51you walked out a little while ago or
108. 3:53No, I mean
109. 3:54we the police were called last night and
110. 3:57they came and they looked around and
111. 4:00they didn't see anything. I mean, they
112. 4:02went in we looked around we tried to
113. 4:04find out where she was. But they were
114. 4:05knocking on neighbors' doors and stuff?
115. 4:07>> I mean, they they went in they had a key
116. 4:09to her apartment and
117. 4:11and they checked around, didn't see
118. 4:14anything out of place. I mean, it was
119. 4:16locked when everyone got there. And that
120. 4:18was midnight? Yeah, around midnight and
121. 4:20then we went we went over to the law
122. 4:22school see if maybe she was
123. 4:24over in the the library studying or
124. 4:26something. And we we looked up in the
125. 4:28study rooms on the third floor and there
126. 4:30was
127. 4:31no one there. And we came back, we
128. 4:34looked around and just trying to find
129. 4:37any anything to figure out where she
130. 4:38was.
131. 4:40She doesn't have any family in Georgia?
132. 4:42I I don't know. I mean, as far as I know
133. 4:45every all of her family is from in
134. 4:47Maryland. Have you met her family
135. 4:49before? I I mean, there there was one
136. 4:51time that I met them. They came down
137. 4:54first year.
138. 4:55She she had a little dog, a little brown
139. 4:57dog that she would
140. 5:00exercise out in front of the law school
141. 5:03and it got hit as she was coming across
142. 5:06the road. I
143. 5:08I heard the car hit it and ran out and
144. 5:12she was there crying and we thankfully
145. 5:15there was someone who came along who
146. 5:17knew a vet or something and they helped
147. 5:20out and the her family came down. I
148. 5:22think a a couple weeks after that or
149. 5:24something and I met them just briefly.
150. 5:26>> Right. But
151. 5:28They're a boyfriend or anything?
152. 5:30I
153. 5:32We've been trying to figure out She has
154. 5:33a boyfriend up in Atlanta.
155. 5:36earlier in the day? Yes.
156. 5:37>> We came down here and talked a little
157. 5:39bit and then we left. Yes. Okay. I need
158. 5:42to know
159. 5:44about this girl right here. Do you know
160. 5:46her?
161. 5:47Yes. Who is that? Lauren Giddings.
162. 5:51Does she live next door to you? Yes.
163. 5:55When's the last time you seen her?
164. 5:57Two or three weeks ago.
165. 6:00Okay. Was you friends with Lauren? Yes.
166. 6:03Look at me when you talk to me, son.
167. 6:05Okay?
168. 6:07Was you friends with her? Yes. Close
169. 6:09friends?
170. 6:10We were good friends.
171. 6:11>> y'all were friends, right? Both of y'all
172. 6:13were law students, you're studying to be
173. 6:14an attorney, right? Yes.
174. 6:16>> What kind of law do you want to go into?
175. 6:18Criminal law? Yes.
176. 6:19>> Civil Is that what you want to do for a
177. 6:20living? Yes.
178. 6:22>> Okay.
179. 6:23Are you almost finished? Yes.
180. 6:25>> Okay. So, you don't have too much more
181. 6:27to do, right? No. All right.
182. 6:30Are you going to still stay here in
183. 6:31Macon? I don't know. Did you used to
184. 6:34work at the District Attorney's office
185. 6:36in Macon? Yes. Was you on the
186. 6:39prosecutor side or the defense side?
187. 6:41Yes. Who do you think
188. 6:44took Lauren away? I don't know. Well, I
189. 6:47need your help.
190. 6:49Can you give me some what what is your
191. 6:52observation of this?
192. 6:55I know you're smarter.
193. 6:57Okay?
194. 6:59I know that you have
195. 7:01an observation you can tell me. What's
196. 7:04What do you think happened to her?
197. 7:06I think someone took her.
198. 7:12If you think
199. 7:15uh
200. 7:16I mean, you watch TV shows, right? Like
201. 7:18detective shows. What's your
202. 7:20observation? How do you think somebody
203. 7:22would take her if somebody did take her?
204. 7:25When she was running.
205. 7:28Does she normally run all the time?
206. 7:30She runs I don't know how often.
207. 7:34You mean you think somebody might have
208. 7:35took her when she was running like down
209. 7:37the street somewhere? Yes.
210. 7:39>> [snorts]
211. 7:42>> You don't think somebody got her when
212. 7:44she got back to her apartment?
213. 7:46I don't know.
214. 7:51Well, you know there was a body found in
215. 7:52the trash can next to the apartments.
216. 7:55Yes.
217. 7:55>> You do know that.
218. 7:57And it's a female white female's body.
219. 8:01Right there.
220. 8:03Right next to y'all's apartment.
221. 8:06Feet within from her apartment.
222. 8:11I mean
223. 8:16we don't know 100% sure it's Lauren.
224. 8:20But we're pretty confident it is.
225. 8:23We're waiting for some tests to be done
226. 8:26to be 100% sure.
227. 8:29I mean, who would who would
228. 8:31do something to somebody and throw them
229. 8:32in a trash can? I don't know.
230. 8:34>> I'm asking for your advice or your
231. 8:37observation.
232. 8:39Who in your complex
233. 8:42would do something like that? You lived
234. 8:44over there for 3 years.
235. 8:46That's Tonight's the first night I think
236. 8:48I've ever been over there.
237. 8:50In your expert opinion
238. 8:54of all your knowledge of going through
239. 8:56law school and all that,
240. 8:59who in that complex do I need to talk
241. 9:01to?
242. 9:03I don't know.
243. 9:05No names come to mind? You can't help me
244. 9:07out a little bit?
245. 9:10Huh?
246. 9:13You can't help me out?
247. 9:15I don't know. You don't know anybody
248. 9:20at all
249. 9:23that lives in that complex?
250. 9:26You know, earlier you told me about a
251. 9:28guy that lives in apartment 15.
252. 9:32I mean, is he a decent guy?
253. 9:34I think so.
254. 9:36Don't y'all have a laundry room there or
255. 9:38something? Yes. Does everybody have
256. 9:40access to the laundry room?
257. 9:42Yes.
258. 9:44Has anybody been working on the
259. 9:46apartments below you in the last couple
260. 9:49weeks that you've noticed?
261. 9:51I haven't seen anyone.
262. 9:55But you don't you don't know if been
263. 9:57doing work on that apartment, number
264. 9:59one.
265. 10:00No.
266. 10:06I mean, earlier today me and you sit
267. 10:08here and talk normal. What's going on
268. 10:10with you now? Why are you acting like
269. 10:12this?
270. 10:13I need to know.
271. 10:15Why all of a sudden you're acting like
272. 10:16this?
273. 10:18Huh?
274. 10:20I don't understand. Okay.
275. 10:22Earlier today we sit here and talked.
276. 10:26But now you're acting like you don't
277. 10:28know what's going on.
278. 10:31Huh?
279. 10:36I mean, did something happen or
280. 10:38something to you?
281. 10:42Hey, why are you [clears throat] not Why
282. 10:43are you shutting down? Why are you not
283. 10:45talking to me?
284. 10:47I don't know. You don't know? Are you
285. 10:49scared?
286. 10:51No.
287. 10:54I mean, you're not scared, are you? No.
288. 10:59Are you sad that something happened to
289. 11:00Lauren? If that's her in that trash can?
290. 11:03Yes.
291. 11:11When's the last time you you said you
292. 11:14can't remember the last time earlier
293. 11:15today that you took the trash out to the
294. 11:17trash can.
295. 11:19Right? Am I wrong?
296. 11:21That's right. I mean, cuz you said you
297. 11:23like stayed inside the whole
298. 11:26the whole weekend, I think, cuz you had
299. 11:28all your food and all that.
300. 11:30You never went to Kroger over the
301. 11:31weekend or Walmart or anything? I don't
302. 11:35remember.
303. 11:38But you could have.
304. 11:40I don't know. When you go to Kroger when
305. 11:43you do go to the store to get your food,
306. 11:45do you use a credit card or you pay
307. 11:47cash?
308. 11:48Cash. Do you have a Kroger card? Yes.
309. 11:52Okay. So, the Kroger card should be able
310. 11:54to tell if you were
311. 11:55hit Kroger this weekend, right? I don't
312. 11:58know.
313. 12:00Huh?
314. 12:03You're going to have to tell me what to
315. 12:04tell her family.
316. 12:06It's all on you, brother.
317. 12:09What do you want me to tell her family?
318. 12:12Huh?
319. 12:14I don't know. Well, I need to know.
320. 12:17I need to know.
321. 12:20Okay?
322. 12:24If something happened to Lauren and you
323. 12:26know you need to tell me.
324. 12:31If you know something.
325. 12:33Cuz I need to know.
326. 12:35Because her family's down here
327. 12:38want to know what happened to her.
328. 12:41I don't know.
329. 12:47You don't know?
330. 12:49No. That's what you want me to tell her
331. 12:51mother and her father.
332. 12:53That you don't know.
333. 12:55I don't know.
334. 12:55>> Not that you're sorry that she's
335. 12:57missing. Not that you've been trying to
336. 12:59help me all day find her, but you just
337. 13:01want to me to tell her I don't know.
338. 13:05I don't know.
339. 13:06>> Are you a sorry piece of shit that you
340. 13:07want me to tell her that?
341. 13:12You got your ass on that fucking news
342. 13:15and stood out there
343. 13:17and gave a media report that her mother
344. 13:20saw
345. 13:23about her missing daughter.
346. 13:27And you want me to sit there and tell
347. 13:28them that you don't know.
348. 13:32Is that what you want me to tell them?
349. 13:34Cuz you're all over the news.
350. 13:37You sure stood out there and ran your
351. 13:39mouth to the news media.
352. 13:41But now you're going to get out here and
353. 13:43you don't fucking know.
354. 13:46You know.
355. 13:48You're just a sorry piece of shit that
356. 13:50don't give a fuck.
357. 13:53Right?
358. 13:55Yeah.
359. 13:56Well, why'd you tell the media
360. 13:57everything?
361. 13:59Do you need to see what you told the
362. 14:00media today?
363. 14:02It was on the 11:00 news. Well, I'm
364. 14:04asking you.
365. 14:06Tell me. I want to know.
366. 14:09I don't know where she is. That ain't
367. 14:12what you told the media.
368. 14:17You didn't stand in front of that camera
369. 14:18and say, "I don't know.
370. 14:21I don't know.
371. 14:22I don't know."
372. 14:33Right?
373. 14:36You bought all these weapons. Was you
374. 14:38ever in the military? No.
375. 14:42What do you need all these weapons for?
376. 14:44Are you scared somebody's going to hurt
377. 14:45you?
378. 14:46No.
379. 14:48What do you need all these weapons for?
380. 14:51To have. Why? There's a reason why.
381. 14:55No.
382. 15:05You know what's crazy? I was talking to
383. 15:07people that he works with and
384. 15:08everything. They talk about how he's
385. 15:10always expresses himself. He don't know.
386. 15:12He's very talkative. Didn't they say
387. 15:14you're so talkative, buddy? That you're
388. 15:16always so friendly. You stop and say
389. 15:18hello and you talk.
390. 15:20What Why is it that you're acting so
391. 15:22short with us tonight? If you If you
392. 15:24have all this kind of personality about
393. 15:26you, why is it that everything that we
394. 15:28get from you is yes, no, I don't know?
395. 15:31I don't know.
396. 15:34>> [snorts]