Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. Crimes, cryptids, cons, and beyond. There is always something new to dive into.

In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee to talk about the senseless murder of Lauren Giddings. Lauren was a law student who was on her way to do big things with her life, before Stephen McDaniel took that light and extinguished it. Stephen was a peeping tom turned murderer who went on to do TV interviews about Lauren’s case… which ultimately seals his own fate.

Our sources for this weeks episodes:

• 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