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Transcript of NewTalk Central 940 WMAC's Kenny B with Reporter Michelle Quezada on July 7, 2011 at 7:30 a.m. Some of the name spellings may be incorrect because I'm not taking time to check each one.
Part I:
KENNY: Welcome to NewsTalk Central. It is 7:30, half past seven. We're the hosts of the show. I'm Kenny B.
CHARLES: I'm Charles E.
KENNY: And if you'd like to join us, 742-**** will get you through. We're joined on set this morning by Reporter Michelle Quezada from NewsCentral. Good to have you here with us early this morning.
MICHELLE: I know, right. Good to be here.
KENNY: Yeah, welcome. Last week, Thursday, a week ago, you spoke -- and you and a videgrapher were on the scene at Georgia Avenue. You spoke with Stephen McDaniel.
MICHELLE: Yes.
KENNY: He is the young man charged two counts of burglary by Macon police, being held without bond in the Bibb County Jail. He will go before a superior court next Thursday.
MICHELLE: Uh-huh.
KENNY: McDaniel accused of entering two apartments through unlocked doors between Christmas '08 and January 2009. If you would, tell us how you came up on Stephen McDaniel when you arrived on the scene of Georgia Avenue last week after the body was discovered.
MICHELLE: Okay. Well, first of all, we were on the scene for quite some time. I mean, they had brought out the body around 10 a.m. We had been there since -- I think Officer (inaudible) Perry had been out there since 9:30 maybe. And Tyler Southern, our meteorologist and reporter, came out with me. Perry then left and we stayed there to cover the story.
And I mean the body -- they took out the body. You know, we were out there for a really long time. I think it was around one or two p.m. when Stephen McDaniel came out. And he wasn't at the apartment the entire time, from what I understand from his interview. He was being questioned by police with some other friends of Lauren Giddings. And then he arrived to the scene.
And I was speaking to an employee over at the AT&T building next door, talking about, you know, what he had seen, what he had heard. And our photographer, Tyler Southern, was able to grab Stephen McDaniel. So from what Tyler told me, he was very forthcoming. He was like "Yeah, you know, I'll talk to you." And we pulled him to the side, and he just started -- we asked him his name. He just started talking to us.
At this point, when we show you the video of the interview, you'll see that he was not aware that a body was recovered from the scene. So he was talking to us about Lauren Giddings being missing and how they had been searching for her and all that.
KENNY: He had identified himself to you and the other members of the press that he was a neighbor to Lauren Giddings.
MICHELLE: Yeah. We had asked him if he knew the person who lived on Apartment 4. He said, "Yeah, that's my neighbor, Lauren Giddings."
KENNY: All right. Could you set up this first video piece that we're about to see --
MICHELLE: Sure.
KENNY: -- interviewing Stephen McDaniel.
MICHELLE: Sure. So this is the beginning of the interview when he first comes up to us. We asked him his name. You know, we asked him if he
-- how do you know Lauren Giddings, and he starts pretty much telling us about her.
KENNY: All right, guys, if you'll roll that video.
(Continued)