Detective: McDaniel was ‘staring out into space like a zombie’
...New details pertaining to evidence in the case arose during Monday’s testimony.
Documents in the case previously have revealed that the purpose of one of the nine search warrants obtained by Macon police was to look for blue fibers in McDaniel’s apartment.
Macon police Sgt. Scott Chapman testified Monday that the FBI’s lab in Quantico, Va., notified police that they found matching blue fibers on shorts found on Giddings’ torso and a gray T-shirt seized from McDaniel’s apartment.
The purpose of searching for blue fibers on July 12, 2011, was to find the origin of the fibers, Chapman said. ...
...Chapman said he got a call from another detective who had talked with one of Giddings’ uncles who said Giddings had said she had a “creepy” neighbor who had been stalking her. ...
...At the detective bureau, police interviewed several of Giddings’ friends and McDaniel. After McDaniel’s interview, he was told that he was free to leave, but he stayed in an interview room with the door open. He didn’t have any transportation. ...
When questioned by Franklin J. Hogue, one of McDaniel’s lawyers, Patterson confirmed that a police captain’s voice can be heard on a recording that shows McDaniel sitting in an interrogation room.
Hogue said the captain can be heard saying he was “watching this guy” and calling the person he was watching a “bushy haired guy.” Patterson said he couldn’t recall the comments.
The lawyer seemed to insinuate that although McDaniel had not been arrested, an officer was standing guard outside the door. ...