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The Watcher

Dateline NBC

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True Crime, News, Society & Culture, Culture, Social

4.440.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A recent law school graduate in Georgia with a promising future disappears without a trace. What could have happened? Keith Morrison reports. Keith Morrison and Josh Mankiewicz go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’: Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/3WbmXTR Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6GfJa90n7dIldbXi0ciyQZ

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0:00.0

I would tell her how much I miss her and that I love her and that she's the reason why

0:09.6

I am who I am today.

0:11.5

I would tell her thank you.

0:17.0

Lauren Giddings, law school grad with the world at her feet.

0:22.0

Fiercely intelligent.

0:23.0

And fierce with her opinion.

0:26.0

She made friends wherever she went.

0:28.0

So it was strange when she dropped out of sight.

0:31.6

Didn't take her card and take her purse.

0:33.9

We realized there was something wrong.

0:35.8

They couldn't possibly have guessed how wrong.

0:39.1

There's another level of evil here.

0:41.4

The person who did this was trying to create a vanishing.

0:44.7

Who could do such a thing?

0:47.0

First thing you look at, who's closest to her, romantically, or geographically.

0:52.0

The list was long, a boyfriend, an ex, and fellow students.

0:57.1

Had somebody been studying more than textbooks?

1:00.4

He would ask other people, how would you commit the perfect murder?

1:03.4

Mr. Rumi, I said he always thought it was smarter than everybody else.

1:06.3

Smarter than all in fours.

1:08.1

Smart maybe.

1:09.4

But had he slipped up?

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