GUILTY GA - Lauren Giddings, 27, Macon, 26 June 2011 #15 *appeals denied*

[bessie]

The Telegraph/macon.com called its breaking coverage of the evidence over the past few days "exclusive" -- and I guess maybe it actually was; this just hit 13WMAZ today:

more at: http://www.13wmaz.com/story/news/crime/giddings-case/2014/04/30/mcdaniel-case-file/8537215/

I read last week that the file would be made public, and I've been wondering if there's still more to come. :thumb:

Cooke also said he's preparing the case file on the McDaniel case for release to the public and the news media, but could not say when it would be available. 13WMAZ has requested a copy of that file.

http://www.13wmaz.com/story/news/crime/giddings-case/2014/04/22/mcdaniel-leaves-bibb-jail/8023435/

We might get an answer after all.

The case file contains several pictures of the trash cans and their contents.

 

[Backwoods]

I haven't even looked to see if there is much new at the following link (I'm about to try to), but thought I would go ahead and post the link to the latest evidence coverage from 13WMAZ. Does look, at a glance, as if his chan posting may be at least part of it:

McDaniel talked violence, hiding evidence

Convicted murderer Stephen McDaniel's online blog site offered a preview of techniques he used while killing and dismembering his fellow Mercer University Law School graduate Lauren Giddings....

more at: http://www.13wmaz.com/story/news/cr...urder-and-dismemberment-on-blog-site/8574525/

 

[Backwoods]

I've been meaning to mention the mask. I don't recall ever hearing or reading about a mask. AFAIK, there wasn't even speculation about a mask. Is that brand new? Or have I just forgotten about it?

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I don't remember anything about a mask, either -- until he mentioned it in his allocution.

In the long (2 hours) interrogation video here, though --

McDanielFirstInterview - YouTube

--one of the investigators (Patterson, I think) does ask Stephen about some "underwear" found in his room, saying it has been cut up, and asking him if it is a mask. (I think this piece of cloth was mentioned in one of the search warrants.) I didn't note at which point in the video this occurs -- I do think in the second hour, probably, not that that helps a lot!

I finally got the time to watch that whole video last night. I just don't know what to think about it. Strange, very strange.

 

[Backwoods]

Looks like another area TV station, WGXA FOX24, has gotten the file now and has done a couple of stories. Couple of things have me scratching my head a little --errors, or ...? bbm:

Giddings Investigative File Opened

The Bibb County District Attorney's Office finally gave access to WGXA on Thursday thousands of documents, pictures, and hours of interview tape related to the murder of Mercer Law grad Lauren Giddings. ...

...Investigators also took a picture of a woman's underwear in McDaniel's apartment, but it's unknown who they belonged to.

more at: http://www.wgxa.tv/story/giddings-investigative-file-opened-20140502

More Documents Released on Murder Investigation of Lauren Giddings

...Investigators did finally get a chance to search McDaniel's apartment, finding the wrapping for a hacksaw used to dismember Lauren Giddings, and the master key used to enter her apartment.


Police documents show the key was thought to be lost by the apartment complex property owner, but somehow ended up in McDaniel's apartment sitting next to a key for Giddings&#8217; unit. ...

more at: http://www.wgxa.tv/story/more-documents-released-on-murder-investigation-of-lauren-giddings-20140502

Nothing really head-scratchy in that last one, except that I sure wish we could get a better idea of where that key originated.

First, for once and for all, was it a "true" official master key, or a "counterfeit" of some kind ...

Way back (during civil suit threat against apartments), pretty sure BB said she did not know of any master key being lost.

At one of the early hearings (maybe commitment hearing?) Det. Patterson, pressed by Buford, said DD -- maintenance man/resident contact (and, I think at one point in SM's interrogation interview, he calls DD the "property manager") -- did not have a master key, but had "multiple keys". I keep wondering if the master key that SM ended up with was one originally entrusted to DD -- and even if the key to Lauren's door found in SM's apartment might have originally belonged to DD's set of "multiple keys". Was DD the same "David" who was one of the apartment residents whose apartments Stephen confessed to taking a condom from, anybody know?

I would really like a chance to look through the documents from the case -- investigative reports, witness statements, forensic reports, etc. Apparently there is a BIG old pile of them.

 

[bessie]

McDaniel guilty plea almost didn’t happen

By AMY LEIGH WOMACK and JOE KOVAC JR.
Telegraph StaffApril 27, 2014

Floyd Buford, one of McDaniel’s lawyers, said while there’s always uncertainty leading up to a guilty plea, McDaniel’s was tenuous, “more iffy than most.”

[...]

On the Thursday before the hearing, McDaniel offered to plead guilty and write out a confession if Giddings’ parents dropped a wrongful death lawsuit they’d filed against him and if prosecutors dismissed the additional burglary and sexual exploitation of children charges.

Buford said McDaniel was seeking a “global resolution.”

“We just wanted to have everything wrapped up,” he said.The Giddingses agreed to the dismissal if the confession was “fulsome, truthful and verifiable,” said Kristin Miller, Giddings’ close friend who, along with her father, represents Giddings’ parents.

[...]

“We thought it was written backwards to fit the known evidence,” Miller said. “It fits all we know.

Read more here: http://www.macon.com/2014/04/27/3068279/mcdaniel-guilty-plea-almost-didnt.html#storylink=cpy

Exclusive: Documents detail McDaniel investigation

The Telegraph April 27, 2014

In the days since Stephen McDaniel pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering fellow law school graduate Lauren Giddings, The Telegraph has reviewed thousands of pages of documents and hundreds of photos and videos included in the case file against him.

Read more here: http://www.macon.com/2014/04/27/3066850/documents-detail-mcdaniel-investigation.html#storylink=cpy

The Killer Wouldn't Crack
How Stephen McDaniel clung to a deadly secret

by Amy Leigh Womack and Joe Kovac Jr.

“This pretty little girl right here, your neighbor, is missing,” the detective said.

McDaniel denied doing anything to her.

Chapman eased his chair over to McDaniel and put his hand on McDaniel’s shoulder. Then the detective got loud.

“There’s blood in your apartment, Stephen. You didn’t get it all up!”

McDaniel said nothing.

Read more here: http://www.macon.com/static/media/p...lair.jquery/McDaniel/index.html#storylink=cpy

McDaniel had been inside Giddings’ apartment before

By AMY LEIGH WOMACK and JOE KOVAC JR.
Telegraph staffApril 28, 2014

A picture proves it.

Prosecutors found the photo on a camera seized from McDaniel’s apartment after Giddings’ torso was found in a trash can June 30, 2011.

McDaniel snapped the picture of a certificate that Giddings had received at her law school graduation that May. He’d staged the shot to include some of Giddings’ personal belongings.

Read more here: http://www.macon.com/2014/04/28/307...giddings.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1#storylink=cpy

Stroke of fortune helped cops catch Giddings’ killer

By AMY LEIGH WOMACK and JOE KOVAC JR.
Telegraph staffApril 29, 2014

It was a stroke of luck. The garbage man was late.

When a pair of Macon police detectives pulled into Lauren Giddings’ Georgia Avenue apartment complex the morning she was reported missing, they parked their cars, blocking some curbside trash cans.

Minutes later, the garbage truck arrived and its driver “just waved at us like he wasn’t worried about it,” investigator Scott Chapman recalled.

The truck kept going.

[...]

‘Crazy-looking man’

Two days before Giddings was last seen alive, a Wal-Mart cashier remembered that McDaniel, the “crazy-looking man from the TV,” had checked out at her register.

He was with another man, a guy who seemed to be in a bad mood, who bought a tarp, rope and hacksaw blades, the cashier told detectives.

The cashier asked the customer if he was “doing a home-improvement project,” but the man didn’t answer, and McDaniel walked off with him.

Trouble was, it wasn’t McDaniel.
Read more here: http://www.macon.com/2014/04/29/3072700/stroke-of-fortune-helped-cops.html#storylink=cpy

 

[bessie]

LAUREN GIDDINGS case on WMAZ


McDaniel leaves Bibb jail for Jackson prison

Randall Savage 6:24 p.m. EDT April 22, 2014

Stephen McDaniel
(Photo: Georgia Department of Corrections)

Stephen McDaniel case file released

Katelyn M Heck, WMAZ 8:12 p.m. EDT April 30, 2014

Bibb District Attorney David Cooke is releasing the complete file of the nearly three-year investigation into Lauren Giddings' murder. That includes two large boxes of paper files, videos, and more. It also includes dozens of photos that detail the investigation, how the murder happened, and how investigators got their man.

McDaniel talked violence, hiding evidence

7:26 p.m. EDT May 1, 2014

Had the plea deal not been struck, District Attorney David Cooke planned to use as evidence hundreds of posts McDaniel made on the "Operator Chan" website. He made the website posts under the user name S-0-L, or Son of Liberty.

But in other posts, he attacked himself with comments such as "I consider myself to be a true cold-hearted monster." He also described a scenario in which masses of people were killed, referring to them as "human waste" and "leeches."
http://www.13wmaz.com/story/news/cr...urder-and-dismemberment-on-blog-site/8574525/

http://www.13wmaz.com/local/stephen-mcdaniel-trial/

 

[bessie]

McDanielFirstInterview - YouTube

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How Lauren Giddings’ killer could have slipped away
By AMY LEIGH WOMACK and JOE KOVAC JR.
Telegraph staffMay 3, 2014

Acquaintances have said it was as if he had been preparing for a zombie invasion, the end of the world. Maybe he was right after all. Perhaps the end was coming -- his.

Detectives asked him to name the last book he’d read. McDaniel said it was the zombie thriller “Day by Day Armageddon.”

One of McDaniel’s unfinished works, a 56-page manuscript police found in his apartment, was titled “The Story of Travir.”

[...]

In “The Story of Travir,” McDaniel writes, “Without both power and wisdom you cannot achieve the level of greatness and fame that you have, for so long, desired. Without patience, you cannot gain power. ... I will take whatever action necessary to gain glory.”

[...]

“If you act in haste and without knowledge of what your actions will bring about, the result will be ruin ... due to your brazen carelessness,” McDaniel writes.

“Strength lies not only in the sinews of one’s arms, but in wisdom as well. Do not think I am weak and fearful because I do not charge madly into battle. I am strong because I know when to strike.”

Read more here: http://www.macon.com/2014/05/03/3079983/how-lauren-giddings-killer-could.html#storylink=cpy

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McDaniel talked violence, hiding evidence
WMAZ 7:26 p.m. EDT May 1, 2014

Convicted murderer Stephen McDaniel's online blog site offered a preview of techniques he used while killing and dismembering his fellow Mercer University Law School graduate Lauren Giddings.

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[bessie]

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I don't remember anything about a mask, either -- until he mentioned it in his allocution.

In the long (2 hours) interrogation video here, though --

McDanielFirstInterview - YouTube

--one of the investigators (Patterson, I think) does ask Stephen about some "underwear" found in his room, saying it has been cut up, and asking him if it is a mask. (I think this piece of cloth was mentioned in one of the search warrants.) I didn't note at which point in the video this occurs -- I do think in the second hour, probably, not that that helps a lot!

I finally got the time to watch that whole video last night. I just don't know what to think about it. Strange, very strange.

A June 30, 2011, search warrant return lists a "White, cotton 'V-shaped' cloth". Is that what you mean?

p.55 https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/540762-mcdaniel-defense-motions-351-pages.html#wgt=rcntnews

[ETA: It's at 7:20 in the video. "What's up with that pair of underwear that was in your apartment. It looks like a mask. You cut up underwear that look like masks?"]


Oy! That interview. :facepalm: Now I really understand Chief Burns' expression when asked if McD was cooperating, right before he said, "no comment".

 

[bessie]

Looks like another area TV station, WGXA FOX24, has gotten the file now and has done a couple of stories. Couple of things have me scratching my head a little --errors, or ...? bbm:

...Investigators also took a picture of a woman's underwear in McDaniel's apartment, but it's unknown who they belonged to.

more at: http://www.wgxa.tv/story/giddings-investigative-file-opened-20140502

more at: http://www.wgxa.tv/story/more-documents-released-on-murder-investigation-of-lauren-giddings-20140502

Nothing really head-scratchy in that last one, except that I sure wish we could get a better idea of where that key originated.

First, for once and for all, was it a "true" official master key, or a "counterfeit" of some kind ...

Way back (during civil suit threat against apartments), pretty sure BB said she did not know of any master key being lost.

At one of the early hearings (maybe commitment hearing?) Det. Patterson, pressed by Buford, said DD -- maintenance man/resident contact (and, I think at one point in SM's interrogation interview, he calls DD the "property manager") -- did not have a master key, but had "multiple keys". I keep wondering if the master key that SM ended up with was one originally entrusted to DD -- and even if the key to Lauren's door found in SM's apartment might have originally belonged to DD's set of "multiple keys". Was DD the same "David" who was one of the apartment residents whose apartments Stephen confessed to taking a condom from, anybody know?

I would really like a chance to look through the documents from the case -- investigative reports, witness statements, forensic reports, etc. Apparently there is a BIG old pile of them.

1. Underwear -- Reporter error IMO

Winters, the district attorney, reviewed details of the case previously disclosed to support the higher bond request: women's underpants with Giddings' DNA were found in McDaniel's bedroom along with a key to Giddings' apartment.http://www.13wmaz.com/story/local/2012/04/02/3355731/

Per SW return, July 21, 2011, p.186:

One pair of women's underwear, green in color with white dots. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/540762-mcdaniel-defense-motions-351-pages.html#wgt=rcntnews

http://www.macon.com/2014/04/27/3067328/mcdaniel-apartment-search.html

2. Keys - That question sticks in my craw, too. How the heck did he come into possession of them?

3. DD - I'm not certain, but I don't think he's the same David who McD stole a condom from. When talking with McD about the condom incident, at one point the detective inquires about the location of "G's" apartment ("G" being the last name of one of the two guys). I got the impression "G" is "David". pp. 60-63 - http://media.macon.com/smedia/2014/04/26/15/25/15uCFn.So.71.pdf#storylink=relast

I'm with you. I'd love to spend a weekend poring that big ole pile of docs.

 

[Backwoods]

A June 30, 2011, search warrant return lists a "White, cotton 'V-shaped' cloth". Is that what you mean?

p.55 https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/540762-mcdaniel-defense-motions-351-pages.html#wgt=rcntnews

Oy! That interview. :facepalm: Now I really understand Chief Burns' expression when asked if McD was cooperating, right before he said, "no comment".

Yes, that's what I was thinking of. There's also a picture of something --maybe even two somethings -- pretty much matching that description either in the videos or pics recently released. If I happen across it, I'll post the link.* I could see how something like that might be implemented as sort of a simple tie-on mask, or why Patterson might have thought it was a possibilty anyway. When I read the allocution -- I first envisioned a ski mask kind of thing, then I thought well, maybe a scary mask. I guess it could have been one of several types, actually (if it existed).

Yeah, that interview!

Now I don't know if he was faking a la Westboro Baptist Church musings or actually was in some kind of impaired state or a combination of those -- but I'll hand it to him, if it was all faked -- he's pretty accomplished at it, IMO.

Once Patterson tells him something kind of like "look me in the eyes, son" -- whoa, he maintains pretty much strangely steady eye contact (or appears to, from what I could see -- can't really see his face/eyes all that well) with both investigators, through all sorts of tactics. Except when he's fixated on examining and showing the items in his wallet. Not much flinching, not much moving away from being touched.

I didn't start watching for it until a ways in, but I really didn't detect a nervous fidget, a restless toe-tap. Like edging into catatonia. I think --JMO -- the investigators had their moments of really wondering... those questions about medications, etc., mental problem, etc. -- I realize that would be pretty standard, under the circumstances, but gosh. I would have sure been wondering.

Wonder what was up with insistent questioning about him having another vehicle? I mean, I understand WHY they wanted to know -- but they were working that angle pretty hard. I would like to know if anything ever developed from that -- whether they were mostly blufffing with saying all his school acquaintances, his granddaddy, etc. all said he had access to another vehicle. If they WERE bluffing, and he really didn't have such access, he'd have known it -- I'd think they dropped a little at that point in his estimation of their immediate threat level if that is the case. I guess sometimes you have to take that kind of risk in an interrogation.

*Photo at link, #115 of 163: http://www.macon.com/2014/04/27/3067328/mcdaniel-apartment-search.html#wgt=rcntmulti

Also have a look at #119.

 

[Backwoods]

bbm:

...Many of the hairs sent off for testing, including those found on Giddings’ dismembered torso, couldn’t be tested for one reason or another. The others didn’t yield a match....

http://www.macon.com/2014/04/28/3071070/mcdaniel-had-been-inside-giddings.html

OK, another thing I wish I knew is what reasons!

I know some of them (maybe many) probably had no root, but what about the mitochondrial approach?

Would decomp fluids make some untestable?

I wonder about bleach, too. One thing the autopsy report we saw didn't mention, and I don't remember hearing/reading elsewhere, is whether Lauren's remains seemed to have been "cleaned" with bleach or some other chemical.

And I wonder whose hairs those from the fridge were? (Likely they may not know, just know they didn't match Stephen.)

 

[bessie]

I saw those pictures the other day. It didn't dawn on me that might be what he used for a mask. It makes sense now. But why a mask if he intended to kill LG? Part of his twisted fantasy?

I "got" #163 right away. Pretty stupid to leave fingernail clippings lying around on the floor, not to mention gross. :shudder:

I thought he was faking the first time I heard him speak in the parking lot interview, and there's not a doubt in my mind he was faking in the police interview. You're right about the detectives, though. They had a few moments of doubt. He didn't seem to have any problem talking about his guns?

ETA: Regarding hair analysis, this might shed some light on the subject.

Success Rate of Hair Samples
The success rate in terms of extraction of DNA from any samples is dependent on a number of factors:

Chemical treatment using dyes can alter the cuticle. Dyes can easily penetrate the spaces between the scaly cells forming the hair cuticle or even raise them in order to be better absorbed by the hair. Peroxides, one of the main constituent chemicals in hair dyes, heavily contribute to the degradation of DNA in hair. Peroxides act by specifically breaking the phosphodiester bonds in DNA. Once the hair is exposed to water on washing, the DNA is easily washed out of the hair fibers. The higher the number of washes, the more DNA is lost from the hairs. This loss of DNA is not only due to the degradation and breaking down of the phosphodiester bonds in DNA but also to the damage caused to the hair by simply washing it.

We cannot discount the importance and possible effects of other factors which would affect any type of DNA samples: the age of the sample, the way the sample has been collected and stored, and any external forces that may have altered the state of the DNA (for example, exposure to very high temperatures, soaps and cleaning agents, or to corrosive substances).
http://www.forensicmag.com/articles...na-testing-and-forensic-analysis-hair-samples

 

[Backwoods]

I saw those pictures the other day. It didn't dawn on me that might be what he used for a mask. It makes sense now. But why a mask if he intended to kill LG? Part of his twisted fantasy?

I "got" #163 right away. Pretty stupid to leave fingernail clippings lying around on the floor, not to mention gross. :shudder:

I thought he was faking the first time I heard him speak in the parking lot interview, and there's not a doubt in my mind he was faking in the police interview. You're right about the detectives, though. They had a few moments of doubt. He didn't seem to have any problem talking about his guns?

I'd think gag or blindfold at first look, before I'd think mask, I believe, but it could have been a mask. Though he says he cut up and flushed his mask.

Yes, the fingernail clippings are weird. But I guess forensics didn't pick anything up from them...?

I have some doubts about what his real mental state was -- as everybody pretty much knows, I guess. I'll probably never know for sure. But he could have been faking the whole thing, for sure. Just saying -- lots of folks couldn't pull off some of the stuff he did in that situation, for that long, IMO.

Yes, he talks more about some things. Hard, concrete kinds of concepts, mostly, I'd say. He knows those guns, yep! Wonder if it's true he'd never shot them -- or did he really go on to folks during his internship at the DA's office about shooting ranges, etc.

ETA: Thanks for adding the info about DNA and hair!

 

[Backwoods]

I don't know why a mask -- if he did wear a mask.

I also don't know whether I WANT to believe -- if he did wear a mask -- that Lauren was able to pull it off and recognize him. I guess maybe so -- she deserved to know. I hope he didn't do a self-reveal, I'd sure rather she yanked it off.

I also don't know if I "WANT" what he said about her saying, "Stephen? Please stop." to be true -- because I hope that didn't fulfill his reported perfect-murder-musings wish to have someone beg him to spare their life.

In my mind, it's not begging -- it's a smart, gentle attempt in a horrible situation to try to get through to some humanity in someone known to you who's trying to kill you. But I'm just worried about whether he would have considered it begging...

 

[Sonya610]

McDanielFirstInterview - YouTube

Watching the interrogation videos is fascinating.

His behavior had to completely frustrate the police! Notice they are pushing his boundaries constantly and testing how "compliant" he is constantly, and he complies with everything.

They physically crowd him in a corner. They tell him to "put your hands on the table". They tell him "look at me when I am talking to you, boy" and he does ALL of it like an obedient well trained puppy! Even keeping eye contact obediently when the detective is on his cell phone!

Later they are asking very personal questions like "how often do you change your underwear" and "how often do you bathe" and he again answers without hesitation. No personal boundaries and very compliant yet he won't budge on his "I don't know".

It is obvious that interrogation was not something that McDaniel studied. One of the most obvious "tells" of guilt is stonewalling and continuing to flatly deny any involvement. Innocent people don't keep saying "I don't know" in a flat tone of voice they get irritated and emotional if they are asked too many times.

It was obvious he was frustrating the heck out of the police and I don't think they were acting!

 

[Sonya610]

He knows those guns, yep! Wonder if it's true he'd never shot them -- or did he really go on to folks during his internship at the DA's office about shooting ranges, etc.

It does seem odd that he bought them but never fired them, but then again SMD is more than a bit odd.

If he did fire the handguns at a range he would have almost certainly gone to the Eagle Gun Range, it is only about 5 miles from Mercer law and the only indoor range in this whole area. That would be the place to go to practice with handguns but they don't let folks target practice with rifles there (the noise). If he went at all regularly those guys would remember him, the owner is always there, they also keep records.

I bet he really didn't fire them which does seem a bit odd, though if he bought them new it does preserve their value.

 

[Backwoods]

How Lauren Giddings&#8217; killer could have slipped away

...Had prosecutorial and investigative missteps not been remedied or overcome, and were it not for the eleventh-hour discovery of deleted evidence on his computer and camera, there may have been a different ending.

Stephen Mark McDaniel might have walked. ...

...In recent days, The Telegraph has combed the now-closed McDaniel case file to examine and report the lengths her killer went to cover his tracks and to search for some semblance of an explanation. ...

more at: http://www.macon.com/2014/05/03/3079983/how-lauren-giddings-killer-could.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1


bbm: Now closed...?? ETA: OK -- I'm hoping they mean this in the sense of "the file of the now-closed case", not "the file now has been closed and sealed", which is how I was reading it.

 

[Backwoods]

Ran across this fairly recent interview article featuring the warden of the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, where SM was sent after his plea. Interesting in itself (to me anyhow), the article contained a brief description/timeline of the diagnostic/classification process, so thought I'd post it:

...Every man who enters Georgia prison system has to pass through Jackson to get a full diagnostic workup, so it&#8217;s a major hub that sees about 125 prisoners arrive per day at least four days out of the week. More than 18,000 prisoners arrived in 2012 and more than 16,000 came to Jackson in 2013. The prison has 1,723 diagnostic beds to house those going through the seven to 10-day diagnostic process that involves a medical examination, psychological examination, education testing and a security review to determine which permanent institution a prisoner will be assigned to. ...

more at: http://www.covnews.com/section/1/article/51228/


Georgia's execution facility and Death Row for males is also located at Jackson.

 

[al66pine]

Re McDanielFirstInterview - YouTube
Snipping post for focus and BBM:
Sonya610;10506551
Watching the interrogation videos is fascinating.
His behavior had to completely frustrate the police! Notice they are pushing his boundaries constantly and testing how "compliant" he is constantly, and he complies with everything.
...yet he won't budge on his "I don't know".
... interrogation was not something that McDaniel studied. One of the most obvious "tells" of guilt is stonewalling and continuing to flatly deny any involvement. Innocent people don't keep saying "I don't know" in a flat tone of voice they get irritated and emotional if they are asked too many times....

Just watched above. Wowee
Sonya, you nailed it - his flat tone of voice, "I don't know."
Repeated it dozens of times over 2 hours.
No emotion.

Contrast that w the 12 min vid clip compilation on news here.
Emotional, voice breaking, hand at face, speaking quickly, variable speed, facial expressions changing, sometimes breathless.
McDaniel&#39;s first media interview - YouTube

JM2cts.

 

[Backwoods]

I guess it will be 13WMAZ's turn to take flack from vocal locals now -- having gotten started later than The Telegraph/macon.com, they are continuing their coverage as they comb through the case file.

This evening's report was largely about the letter SM handed to the judge, but, when it aired, there was also some interrogation video shown that I didn't remember seeing in the macon.com offerings -- a part where Patterson first discovers the scratches on Stephen's torso. Not sure it is included in the online version, but looks as if maybe it is.

McDaniel: 'Who watches the watchmen?'

...McDaniel says an E.M.T. diagnosed him as having a seizure, but he was later denied any further medical treatment by police, though he felt "disoriented, had severe head pain, had lost sensation in my extremities, could barely breathe, and was suffering from impaired vision."

Sergeant Scott Chapman told 13WMAZ they did try to care for McDaniel by putting him inside their Mobile Command Center to stay out of the heat.

"He just stayed there looking straight ahead. Even when we offered him food and water, he didn't want to take the food. He didn't want to take the water. He was worried. That's what we saw, he was worried," says Chapman. ...

more at: http://www.13wmaz.com/story/news/crime/giddings-case/2014/05/06/mcdaniel-mistreated/8780387/


ETA: The interrogation clip IS included, but when I tried to watch from the page I linked above, it seemed the newscast video (which includes a brief clip) and a longer video with more of the same part of the interrogation were trying to play all at once and all went kaflooey. The videos might be easier to access, right now anyhow, from the "Right Now" links that are currently to the right of the page here:

http://www.13wmaz.com/local/crime-news