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certain as lauren's family and friends prepared to go to the trial. >> the rest of my life stopped. it was all about lauren and this trial. >> as the two sides were ready to face off in court with stephen claiming his innocence. the fbi probed the secrets of stephen's digital camera and recovered this. >> the video was him spying on her at the last night she was alive. >> he was all stealth, must have taped the camera to a long stick so he could hear through lauren's window and into her apartment. chilling. he was a predator in the final stage of planning. >> he was spying in there to see if she was home because
>> there is something else about the south, something sweet and magnetic. it draws people in. macon with its history and its cherry blossoms. >> it is slow and relaxing. everybody is welcoming. >> even for a new yorker who signed up at the mercer law school. >> you never meet a stranger in the south. that is what makes it wonderful and comforting. >> it is where she met lauren. >> when we found out we both were from the north we instantly connected. >> why would she not want to connect with lauren? she was eager than life. >> she was infectious, you could not be around her for more than five minutes and not already be having a good time. >> she was the eldest of three sisters, youngest sarah. >> we would go on runs together. >> caitlin in the middle.
so he knew her. like everyone else he said he was busy studying. >> we just work on it. >> there were more friends and cops talked to all of them, even a running buddy that joined the party that night. >> you hung out with her for a little while? >> i was there with her for about 45 minutes that night. >> he said he had not seen lauren since. >> do you know where lauren is? >> no. >> nobody was immune from suspicion. >> you are thinking about your friends and you are questioning your friends. you are never asking them, did you do something to lauren? you are wondering in your mind. >> you cannot stop that wondering. >> who do you trust? you cannot trust anybody.
response. >> that is not normal for her. >> katie called lauren's cell phone. >> her phone was off, this is not right. i called her sister caitlin. i said lawrence phone is off and she has not answered me for days, have you heard from her? >> she had not so caitlin and reached out to lawrence law school friend ashley. >> her sister contacted me over facebook. >> trying to get in touch with lauren, can you let her know? >> this was wednesday, thinking back ashley had not seen lauren since the party friday night. ashley went to lauren's apartment and her car was there. she knocked at the door. >> when she did not answer i did not think anything of it i assumed she was running or
know anybody. >> a month later another celebration up north, her sister's wedding. lauren was made of honor. then back to macon for the final hurdle, the bar exam. >> a scary time for a young lawyer. >> first. >> it was everybody's last hurrah. >> it was buddy night june 2011, the graduates gathered at a local bar for one last blowout before hunkering down to study. the closed the bar. went to ashley's boyfriends place. ex-boyfriend joe was the roommate. >> we decided to go to sleep. there was alcohol involved. >> lauren stayed the night in joe's room and the next day everybody was moving slowly. >> i did not see lauren or joe
and he said what happened. i do not know what was going on that made him act like that? >> was a just surprise? stephen already allowed detectives to take a cadaver dog to his apartment but it did show interest but not enough to mean anything. that combined with stephen's behavior was enough to take him back to the station for a chat. >> were you friends with lauren? >> look at me when you talk to me. >> yes. >> every answer was yes and no, hands on the table. had to tell him to look at as. >> did you hurt lauren? >> no. >> i know it is hard but it is weighing on you right now. >> i did not do it. >> stephen did not budge, he
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unhealthy liking to her. then they remember something lauren said the night of the party. >> she thought somebody had been stalking her but we did not pay attention to it because of who lauren was. >> she was a girl that always had admirers that stood out. everybody in the apartment complex new lauren including her fellow student and next- door neighbor and he wanted to help search for her. he asked about window locks. >> somebody check her windows to see if they are locked? >> one may have been unlocked. >> friends also checked her computer and discovered her last online activity with the email sent saturday night. >> it was to david it was eerie. >> what did it say? >> that she thought somebody was trying to break into her house the night prior. she referred to the person being a hoodlum.
say goodbye. >> in retrospect, doesn't matter now that you did that? >> absolutely. >> memories for a family, a daughter and sister who loved to run. >> i am happy when i think about her. it pushes me to run further. my daughter is named lauren after her. >> memories of a vibrant woman fully alive. lauren. >> i would tell her how much i miss her and that i love her. she is the reason why i am who i am today. i would tell her thank you. >> that is all for this edition of dateline. thank you for watching.
here is keith morrison with the conclusion of the watcher. >> lawrence law school friends could not make sense of it, how is it possible their odd classmate could do such a horrible thing? >> he was trying to make it seem like he was a innocent bystander and a friend of lauren. >> when the da david cook took over it was already a death penalty case but he was not sure it should be. after all they had no evidence to prove the cause of death. this was a gruesome crime yet none of stephen's dna was found in lauren's apartment. aside from the underwear none of lauren's dna was found in stephen's place and the circumstantial evidence they did have, a good defense attorney could raise reasonable doubt. perhaps stephen had been framed. >> he could argue that his apartment was not adequately