#282 Peepin' Steven

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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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. Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS: https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com 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

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to True Crime Guys podcast. I'm your host Michael and you know I brought
0:08.9	Andy with me. Oh that's a nice breeze I feel going in here. Michael got like I got a little fan
0:12.8	going for Andy today. That's just for me baby. That's just for me. You don't want this chair as wet as it
0:16.8	has been. No, I got to cut down the damage, the mold in here in here i'm kidding but uh guys thank you for joining us today for another true crime guys
0:26.7	episode today we got a crazy one that i'm kind of surprised is not covered by by more
0:32.0	podcast this stephen McDaniel uh murder i searched it up and it's really maybe five, six podcasts that have done it. I was, yeah, I was, I was kind of surprised. Will that be the mavericks today, Michael? All right. Let's do it. Uh, but before we get into it, guys, I got to remind you that you can catch these episodes early and ad free on Patreon, Patreon. Patreon.com slash true crime guys. And we would appreciate that very much, guys.
0:55.4	It's the best way to support the show.
0:57.7	And right off the bat, you get to hear all of these episodes early and ad free with some bonus content.
1:04.3	Me and Andy just had a little bonus banter about 20 minutes.
1:08.8	Earlier, Andy had me rolling in here. But we put that at the end of every episode.
1:14.7	Just, you know, it's just like a little wind down. You know, a little palate cleanser, if you
1:19.8	will. That's what I'm looking for. Palet cleanser, Andy. Because you're going to need it after
1:23.8	today's case. Probably. Yeah, you are. You are, Andy. I can go ahead and tell you that.
1:28.8	But also, here on the free platform, we have lots of other shows.
1:31.6	You can check out Strange and Unexplained, Cryptic Soup with Tina and Kylie, and also Sandu
1:37.1	Stories, wherever you listen to podcast.
1:39.9	And of course, you can hear everything we've ever made, including all of these episodes on patreon.com
1:45.4	slash true crime guys.
1:47.1	But also give us a follow on social media at true crime guys wherever you're at.
1:51.6	And we'll keep you up to date on what's going on in the true crime world as well as the cases that we're covering.
1:57.6	Like the case today, the case of Lauren Giddings.
2:01.9	Lauren was a bright, outgoing law student focused on making a life for herself.
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