Police tried to keep the discovery quite but it did not take long before the news was online and back in maryland where Lawrence Family gathered my uncle came in, did you hear the news . We are in maryland, tell us what you are talking about. He said they found the body. At that point it is just hysterics. Was it hurt . It must be. Downtown investigators resorted to method. Who is closest to her romantically or geographically . Start close as they say, close to the victim, but how close . They had no idea. Coming up, police look at the man in lawrence life, her Boyfriend David and her ex joe. They wondered, could there have
into our apartment in the middle of the night and that he attacked her. stephen said he strangled lauren to death then dismembered her body. put her torso in the trash bin of the apartment. the other remains in the law school dumpster. over the years, police and volunteered search for countless hours. even dug up a landfill. but never found anything. lauren s loved ones, including boyfriend david, looked on as stephen was sentenced to life in prison. he will be paroled eligible in 2041. stephen, the da believes, had been planning to kill for a long time. and took pleasure in what he did to lauren. it was an obsession for him. his dream was to commit murder and to get away with it. and he almost succeeded. had the police not turned up to check out was then a missing persons case. had their cars not prevented a garbage crock truck from picking up a bin outside the apartment. the body would ve never been discovered and we never would have captured his stephen mcdaniel. and we neve
coming up, police look at the man in lauren s life. her boyfriend david, and her ex, joe. they wondered, could there have been a love triangle gone wrong? people react badly to that sort of thing? very badly, sometimes. when dateline continues. but then learning that your child has cancer is unbelievably hard. brennon: that s not something that we woke up that morning planning to hear. just hearing that she had cancer, it breaks you. mckenzie: eliza is diagnosed with bilateral retinoblastoma at four months. it s cancer of the eyes. it s aggressive and it s fast growing. and as a mom, hearing that, i still cry because you want to take away all of the pain and you don t want your kid to be sick, obviously. brennon: you kind of get tossed in the fire and you have to figure certain things out. and with what we ve been going through, i don t know how we would have made it without st. jude.
yes. the first time? uh-huh. how many times? she told me at least three times. and then there was this, what brad did to the kids. binding their hands and feet together, even taping the baby s mouth. cassy told her mom about it, said he called this a game. they were relieved when the couple finally split. and they liked her new boyfriend, david berry. i thought when she moved in with david, that maybe she d be more safe, could get on with life. the kids loved him. uh-huh. tristan actually started calling him daddy david, which cassy would be like, you can t call him that. your dad s gonna get mad. and sure enough, said cassy s sister, he did. he expressed to cassy that he didn t like it. that the kids better not call him that. he blamed cassy for it. yeah. and a few weeks before cassy s death, she told her parents, son tristan came home from a visit with brad utterly terrified. they ask him, what s wrong, tristan? he says, daddy said he s gonna ki
lieutenant tavizon had already confirmed billy lee s alibi. boyfriend david s too. we know he was at work, he left at 5:00 in the morning to go to work in demning, and all that was verified. and still nothing happened. so one day months after the murder, the anger cassy s family was feeling boiled over. i called the d. a. s office, asked for a meeting to complain about the sheriff s department. and complain he did. forcefully, said chief deputy district attorney george zsoka. people got a little hot under the collar, the sheriff, the undersheriff were there. and lieutenant tavizon was also there. he and the others had to admit that lead detective, jose sanchez, had made mistakes, many mistakes. i had no reason to doubt him, but i should have. i should have micromanaged him. so maybe the whispers about some blue code were understandable, said deputy