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Computer. >> essentially, that she thought someone was trying to break into her house on a night prior. >> the recipient of that email was the man she intended to move in with, david. now the detectives wondered if they were dealing with a love triangle gone wrong. had david found out about lauren's night with joe? some people react badly to that sort of thing. >> very badly sometimes. >> yeah. >> so, down at the station, detectives questioned david on tape. >> we found a body. we don't know if it's her or not. >> i heard that. someone told me on the way down. >> okay. all right. so, i need yo...

Lauren's loved ones, including boyfriend david looked on as stephen was sentenced to life in prison. he'll 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 time? >> oh, yes. >> and he almost succeeded. had the police not turned up to check out what was ...

>> anyway, at graduation time, may 2011, david was there to cheer her on. it was a big event for the whole family. >> we went out after her graduation with her friends and got to know everybody. >> and just a month later, another celebration up north, her sister's wedding. >> i did want to say how special this wedding is. obviously, not because -- >> lauren was the maid of honor. and then back to macon for the final hurdle, the bar exam. a busy and scary time for a young lawyer to be? >> absolutely. >> but first -- >> it was everybody's kind of last hoorah. >> it was friday night, end of june ...

>> and now memories. of a friend's last party. >> i remember hugging her, saying goodbye. >> in retrospect, does it matter now that you did that? that you hugged her? >> oh, absolutely. >> memories for family of daughter, a sister who loved who run. >> i'm happy when i think about her when i run. it pushes me to run farther. >> my daughter is named lauren magnolia after lauren. >> memories of a vibrant woman fully alive, lauren giddings. how often do you think about her? >> all the time. her picture is in my office, and i always think about, you know, what would lauren be doing right now. and ...

>> around 2:00 a.m. thursday, lauren's sister woke up their dad. >> he has 100 questions, and i didn't have an answer to any of them. i didn't know anything, you know? her apartment was empty. her stuff was there. >> unable to sit and wait for answers, lauren's dad packed up his car and started the 11-hour drive to georgia. macon police, now part of the sheriff's department, looked around lauren's apartment the night before, but by morning, with still no sign of her, detectives were called in. and with them, crime scene investigator steve gatlin. do crime scene techs go work on missing person'...