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I would tell her how much i miss her and then i love her. She is the reason why i am who i am today. I will tell her thank you. Laurent, a Law School Graduate with the world at her feet. Fiercely intelligent. Fierce with her opinion. It was strange when she dropped out of sight. She did not take her car or purse. There was something wrong. They could not have guessed how wrong. There was another level of evil, the person that did this with trying to create a vanishing. The first person you look ...

Is an interesting debate. well be right back. >> and he was right back. in the morning show. >> he lost a show. >> the only thing is what happens is when the government gives people money this is a work so none of this make sense. >> what if either find out you are the descendant of people who sold -- from africa than what you do? >> best part of. >> is to be somebody who looks like kat, looking to get the most money. [laughter] >> because you dont know, and that was my luck, theyll find out abo...

Him, and he just stared like he was staring off into space. even shook him, and he just still kept staring off into space. finally, i ended up doing a sternal rub on him, a paramedic as well. >> a sternal rub? >> its called a sternal rub, which a stimuli you give someone -- >> on the sternum. >> on the sternum, to check to see if they are unconscious or alert. >> so that perked him up a little bit. >> it woke him up. all of a sudden he came to life, like what happened? didnt know what was going ...

Laurens loved ones, including boyfriend david looked on as stephen was sentenced to life in prison. hell be parole eligible in 2041. stephen, the d.a. believe, had been planning to kill for a long time and took pleasure in what he did to lauren. >> here is someone who told his friends for years leading up to this that he thought he would commit the perfect murder. it was an obsession for him. his dream was to commit murder and to get away with it. >> so he had been thinking about this for a long...

Crime scene was there. >> the tv people knew a body had been found. thats why they were here. but some of those who had been down at police headquarters werent quite up to date, like stephen, her fellow law student and next door neighbor. >> hes telling, you know, yeah, weve been trying to look for lauren. weve been out trying to find her. we dont know where she is. >> when stephen started talking to local station wgxa, he seemed relaxed, chatty. but then the reporter broke the news to stephen t...

>> and so in late april 2014, stephen cried uncle. hed make a deal, plead guilty, and confess to murdering his neighbor, lauren giddings. >> he admitted that he came into her apartment in the middle of the night, that she said something to him, essentially telling him to leave, but colorfully. >> yeah. >> and that he attacked her. she fell off the bed as they struggled. her legs ended up under the bed where she couldnt kick him or get out from under it, and that put him at an advantage. >> steph...

Swagger that he and his team had. i think they felt not unreasonably that they could win it. >> and sure enough, stephens highly regarded macon attorneys had already accused the state of getting evidence from improper search warrants. >> i think there were eight or nine searches of stephens apartment. >> and laurens underwear and the apartment keys and the hacksaw packaging, all of that evidence that attorney said should be thrown out. do you believe the prosecution was particularly worried abou...

Stephens place and this time found womens underwear. test results proved they were laurens. and then they found this. >> we found packaging for that same type of hacksaw in his apartment. >> it was the same type as the one found in the maintenance room. >> same size and brand and everything. >> now they felt certain they had their man. they cleared laurens boyfriend, david, and ex-boyfriend, joe. no surprise at all to laurens friends. >> i never thought it was david. i never thought it was joe. ...

Key to the closet? the maintenance man. >> he had a master key to all the apartments in the complex and the door where they kept supplies in the laundry room. >> so, did you bring him in for questioning? >> we brought him back in. >> the maintenance man said he didnt buy that hacksaw and provided an alibi. but by then, the investigators knew the maintenance man wasnt the only one with keys, because in stephens apartment -- >> we found two keys on his dresser that stood out. one of them was a bra...

>> look at me when you talk to me, son, okay? was you friends with her? >> yes. >> every answer was, yes, no, hands on the table. we had to tell him to look at us when you talk to us. >> stephen, did you hurt lauren? >> no. >> i know this is hard for you to tell it. but its weighing on you right now, aint it, stephen? >> i didnt do it. >> stephen didnt budge. he insisted he had nothing to do with the murder and didnt know who did. as he talked, investigators combed through his apartment. no bloo...