Lauren Giddings was a bright, outgoing law student focused on making a life for herself, we just wish that life never included Stephen McDaniel. Stephen was a peeping tom turned murderer who put the spot light on himself by doing news interviews about Lauren’s case.

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Sources:

• News Coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSK47WlZ6Ac

• News Coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiNMbCvc5Sk

• News Coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_xb_JnXGeI

• Dateline NBC, S9E16, “The Watcher”

• https://allthatsinteresting.com/lauren-giddings

• https://wgxa.tv/news/local/the-girl-next-door-lauren-giddings-family-remembers-her-10-years-after-brutal-murder\

• https://www.macon.com/news/local/crime/article271369827.html

• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12695035/Law-student-torso-trash-strangled-death-college-classmate.html

• https://allthatsinteresting.com/stephen-mcdaniel

• https://www.11alive.com/article/news/truly-evil/85-17ec0d7e-0e45-4ca4-878d-5a117061b614

• https://www.facebook.com/LaurenTeresaGiddings/

• https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/local/stephen-mcdaniel-loses-another-appeal/93-bff77d64-efce-43bf-b943-f2468623debc

• https://wgxa.tv/news/local/stephen-mcdaniel-lauren-giddings-mercer-law-school-student-murder-dismembered-macon-bibb-county-appeal-marc-treadwell-federal-court

Lou Pearlman was convicted of running one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history and potentially stealing over $300 million from banks and people alike. He also has some VERY close ties to boy bands in the 90’s including Backstreet Boys AND *NSYNC.

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• Documentary - The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story (free on youtube) from 2019

• Documentary - American Greed in the 2009 episode "Boy Band Mogul"

• Documentary - 20/20 episode "The Hitman: From Pop to Prison" from December 13, 2019

• Book - The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History by Tyler Gray (available on ebay, walmart website, and kindle)

In this one we talk about the happiest careers in the world (they might surprise you), a planned prison in the Florida everglades, and a man who set a brush fire just to open fire on firefighters as they arrived.

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