Stephen McDaniel: Case, confession, Lauren Giddings murder update

Stephen McDaniel’s murder story came to the limelight to the extent that it was covered on Discovery’s ‘A Time to Kill: What Happened to Lauren’.

In this post, we are going to get into details about the murder story of Stephen McDaniel who was convicted in Georgia.

Stephen McDaniel was convicted after pleading guilty to the murder of Law Student, Lauren Giddings in 2011.

Who is Stephen McDaniel?

Stephen McDaniel is known to be the murderer of Lauren Giddings. He was the Mercer Law Student and also a native of Lilburn, Georgia.

He was enrolled as a law student and was also the classmate of his victim, Lauren Giddings. Stephen McDaniel was the next-door neighbor to Lauren.

In the yard 1981, McDaniel made his way into the world and at the time of his conviction he was 31 years old but as of 2022, he is 41 years old.

Stephen McDaniel was born to his parents, Glenda (mother) and Mark McDaniel (father). His father holds a Ph.D. degree and later became a painter but now he has a factory worker.

Due to the busy schedules of Stephen McDaniel’s parents, they didn’t have enough time for him hence they were shocked to hear about the crime of their son as they didn’t expect he would turn into someone like that.

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Stephen McDaniel murdered Lauren Giddings

On June 26th, 2011, Stephen McDaniel killed Lauren Giddings. According to data, he broke into her apartment in the early morning of that day and strangled the poor lady to death.

After committing the heinous crime he chopped off her body parts so it was discovered in a trashcan by the investigation team on the case.

After family and friends weren’t able to reach her as she was missing for four days but was later discovered inside a dumpster shattering the mood of her close relatives.

Initially, her massacred and dismembered human torso was discovered and after days of investigation and test, it was disclosed that the torso belongs to Lauren Giddings.

Meanwhile, Stephen McDaniel has acted distraught neighbor throughout the investigation who didn’t show any concern about the disappearance.

Stephen McDaniel murder confession

Stephen McDaniel confessed to having killed Lauren Giddings as he claimed he has a strong hatred for women through his blog post.

During his time in high school, Stephen McDaniel bullied girls and even wrote posts about women’s violence and torture.

Stephen McDaniel revealed that he asked Lauren Giddings on a date but she declined him because she was already hooked with someone else. He even claimed he had no serious motive to murder Giddings.

After Stephen McDaniel confessed to killing Lauren Giddings he added that he dumped her body in many dumpsters.

Where is Stephen McDaniel now?

Stephen McDaniel is currently serving a life sentence for his heinous crime of murdering Lauren Giddings. After the incident happening in 2011, he was proved guilty in 2014 after police found various proofs that he killed Lauren Giddings.

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