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>> and so in late april 2014, stephen cried uncle. he'd 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 couldn't kick him or get out from under it, and that put him at an advantage. >> stephen said he strangled lauren to death. then dismembered her body, put her torso in the trash bin of...

Swagger that he and his team had. i think they felt not unreasonably that they could win it. >> and sure enough, stephen's 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 stephen's apartment. >> and lauren's 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 about your challenges? >> yes, i did think they were. >> this though defense attorney had known and a...

Stephen's place and this time found women's underwear. test results proved they were lauren's. 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 lauren's boyfriend, david, and ex-boyfriend, joe. no surprise at all to lauren's friends. >> i never thought it was david. i never thought it was joe. >> they eventually cleared the maintenance man, too. and on august 2nd, five weeks after lauren...

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 didn't buy that hacksaw and provided an alibi. but by then, the investigators knew the maintenance man wasn't the only one with keys, because in stephen's apartment -- >> we found two keys on his dresser that stood out. one of them was a brand-new key, and the other was a key with a georgia bulldog emblem on it. >> they tested the georg...

>> 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 it's weighing on you right now, ain't it, stephen? >> i didn't do it. >> stephen didn't budge. he insisted he had nothing to do with the murder and didn't know who did. as he talked, investigators combed through his apartment. no blood. no sign of any trouble. but this was interesting. >> they found some condoms in his dresser ...