Backwoods
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I don't find the level of contact between Lauren and David odd. IIRC, they have been together for four years or more? They met and started dating during her internship at K&S. IMO, their relationship was that of two very busy, independent people. The number of times they communicated in a week would have no bearing on their commitment to each other.
The email and when it was sent, has always been for me the most relevant marker in a timeline of that night. There were no calls or text messages, no communication from Lauren to anyone after that point. David seems to feel there is a possibility that Lauren was interrupted while writing that email. Many seem to feel that one sentence "Macon hoodlums tried to break into my apartment" is odd. The fact that McD repeated that sentence verbatim on camera, makes me feel he remembered it because he wrote it. One of those things we probably will never know the answer to.
The jewelery is very interesting. Did he stash it as a trophy or is it with her remains? But what about her underwear which was rumored to have been found in his apartment? Was it taken during one of his creepy crawler missions (condoms).
Backwoods, as you pointed out, the time line is very interesting. Lauren was gone for 3 weeks for her sister's wedding festivities, IIRC? She returned home Wednesday and was killed Saturday night? Is that correct? I need to look back and see if that is correct. McD would have had very little contact with Lauren in the period leading up to her death. IMO, that points to obsession and premeditation on his part.
No doubt in my mind he is guilty or that he will be convicted. My thoughts are with Lauren's family and friends, this is going to be a long journey for them.
bbm: One thing I'd like to know, Knox --and we probably won't unless and until this goes to trial -- is how long of an interval there was between the next-to-last communication from Lauren and that final email. (We know that there were some other communications that evening -- think her mom, for one, said she had had texts or some communication from her.)
on the other bbm: What I'm gleaning from the article is yes, she returned to Macon on Wednesday and was last seen/heard from by friends/family Saturday (don't guess we can say for sure that she was killed Saturday)
ETA: ... in fact, this just occurs to me: From the article, about how Lauren's last email to DV began:
QUOTE:
... “I just had an awkward conversation,” her message began.
Giddings wrote that a friend of hers had inquired about her romance with Vandiver. ...
from link at: http://www.macon.com/2011/12/11/1819448/lauren-giddings-and-the-man-whose.html
If she truly had "just" had the awkward conversation with the friend ... I surely wonder with whom (we might learn that at any trial, I bet) and by what method -- in person (doubt it), phone, email ...? Because, if the time of that conversation could be confirmed, it would point strongly toward at least a general time frame in which Lauren began to compose the final email!