Stephen M. McDaniel, the Mercer Law School graduate accused of killing classmate Lauren Giddings, made an appearance in court this morning. As you may recall, Giddings’s decapitated torso was found on June 30 in Macon, Georgia, and thus far, police have been unable to recover the rest of her body. Last month, we mentioned that […]
As we mentioned in Morning Docket on Friday, prosecutors will be seeking the death penalty against Stephen McDaniel if he is convicted of the murder of Lauren Giddings. The Macon Telegraph conducted a long interview with Lauren Giddings's boyfriend, David Vandiver. The King & Spalding lawyer wonders if Giddings's final email to him was entirely hers....
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This should not come as a great shock, since he’s been in jail since July, but Stephen Mark McDaniel has been indicted by a grand jury for the murder of Lauren Giddings. McDaniel and Giddings graduated earlier this year from Mercer Law School, where they were classmates, and they were also neighbors in the Barristers […]
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Bad news keeps on coming for Stephen Mark McDaniel, 25, the recent Mercer Law School graduate accused of killing Lauren Giddings, his former neighbor and classmate. Last week, a judge found probable cause in the murder case against McDaniel, which will now be bound over to Bibb County Superior Court. We were fortunate enough to have a reader at the hearing. Let's hear what this roving reporter has to say....
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It seems that Stephen Mark McDaniel just can't catch a break. He has been in Bibb County jail for almost two months, and the incarceration has been taking its toll on him. And now, McDaniel is being fingered as the author of some exceedingly creepy postings to internet message boards. If the claims of his authorship are true, they will definitely not help his case....
Things just got a lot more complicated for Stephen McDaniel, the 25-year-old Mercer Law School graduate accused of killing his former neighbor and classmate, Lauren Giddings. McDaniel has now been hit with seven charges of sexual exploitation of children. So even if McDaniel is cleared of the Giddings murder, he's still looking at a whole host of other allegations....
It has been a few weeks since we last wrote at length about the investigation into the murder of Lauren Giddings. A former neighbor and classmate of Giddings, Stephen M. McDaniel, 25, has been charged with her murder. McDaniel is being held at the Bibb County jail, where he has been for several weeks. There have been a few recent developments in the case -- nothing major, but still worth noting....
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The Macon Telegraph has reported that Stephen McDaniel might have missed a bar exam review class on the morning that Lauren Giddings's body was found. Where was he, and what do blue and gray fibers have to do with it?
In prior coverage of Stephen McDaniel, the Mercer Law School graduate accused of murdering his former neighbor and classmate, Lauren Giddings, we alluded to several emails that McDaniel sent to some of his classmates. Some students found the emails, which reflected McDaniel's conservative political views, to be strange or disturbing. We will now share them with you....
Revelations continue to spill forth regarding Stephen McDaniel, the recent Mercer Law School graduate accused of killing his former classmate and neighbor, Lauren Giddings. Was he framed? Is he innocent? Take our reader poll and find out more....
In our coverage of Stephen Mark McDaniel, the 25-year-old Mercer Law School graduate who has been charged with the murder of Lauren Giddings, his former classmate and neighbor, we have repeatedly stressed that McDaniel remains innocent until proven guilty. We have pointed to past examples of individuals who were viewed by the public as almost […]
We tried to come up with a Nancy Grace-style nickname for the accused in the Lauren Giddings case. One reader suggested "Chain Mail Man" (based on Stephen McDaniel's penchant for wearing chain mail to his law school classes). In light of new evidence that has come to light, however, a better nickname has emerged: "Hacksaw McDaniel." Read on to find out why....