MACON, Ga. AP – Detectives began to suspect a 25-year-old Georgia law school graduate in the death of his classmate after he made “distraught” statements to the media before it was revealed that her dismembered body had been found stuffed in a garbage can, authorities said Friday in court.
The detectives also found among Stephen McDaniel’s possessions a master key to an apartment where 27-year-old Lauren Giddings lived next door and packaging for a hacksaw. A hacksaw was later found splattered with Giddings blood in a nearby laundry room. And, authorities said, they had McDaniel’s former roommate telling them McDaniel had talked openly about how to commit the “perfect murder.”
