Josh Mankiewicz

They must have just all jumped on him, and I heard him grunting and groaning, and I didn't look back.

Hi everybody, it's Josh Mankiewicz, and we're talking Dateline. Today we're talking about an episode called The Watcher, and we're here with the correspondent who is, let me see, I have that here somewhere. Oh, it's Keith. Yeah, hi Keith. You know, that's a good title, don't you think? It is. It is a good title.

Hi everybody, it's Josh Mankiewicz, and we're talking Dateline. Today we're talking about an episode called The Watcher, and we're here with the correspondent who is, let me see, I have that here somewhere. Oh, it's Keith. Yeah, hi Keith. You know, that's a good title, don't you think? It is. It is a good title.

Although, although one could argue that it gives it away because when I, there were points in this where I thought like, oh yeah, it's called the watcher. So yeah.

Although, although one could argue that it gives it away because when I, there were points in this where I thought like, oh yeah, it's called the watcher. So yeah.

This is a very good episode. I thought now if you have not seen it, This is the episode right below this one on your Dateline podcast feed. So go there, listen to it, or you could stream it on Peacock and then come back here. So just to recap, in 2011, Georgia law student Lauren Giddings vanished. Investigators were pretty certain that this wasn't an ordinary missing persons case.

This is a very good episode. I thought now if you have not seen it, This is the episode right below this one on your Dateline podcast feed. So go there, listen to it, or you could stream it on Peacock and then come back here. So just to recap, in 2011, Georgia law student Lauren Giddings vanished. Investigators were pretty certain that this wasn't an ordinary missing persons case.

And then in what really amounted to some very lucky happenstance, investigators found some dismembered remains at Lauren's apartment, and then they knew what had happened. What they did not know was who had committed that crime. And it turned out that someone who was the watcher, her next door neighbor, had actually done it.

And then in what really amounted to some very lucky happenstance, investigators found some dismembered remains at Lauren's apartment, and then they knew what had happened. What they did not know was who had committed that crime. And it turned out that someone who was the watcher, her next door neighbor, had actually done it.

Now, for this Talking Dateline, we have the very latest developments in this case, because the man who ended up pleading guilty to the murder of Lauren Giddings tried to appeal his conviction. One of his defense attorneys revealed some significant details of the murder that his client may not have wanted to make public. So let's talk Dateline.

Now, for this Talking Dateline, we have the very latest developments in this case, because the man who ended up pleading guilty to the murder of Lauren Giddings tried to appeal his conviction. One of his defense attorneys revealed some significant details of the murder that his client may not have wanted to make public. So let's talk Dateline.

The sense that I get from Lauren Giddings is that she was a lot of fun. She was really smart. She was really interesting. And she was, you know, maybe the glue that held all her friends together. They all seemed to sort of coalesce around her.

The sense that I get from Lauren Giddings is that she was a lot of fun. She was really smart. She was really interesting. And she was, you know, maybe the glue that held all her friends together. They all seemed to sort of coalesce around her.

She was just that kind of person. I think that's probably unusual as people who come out of law school wanting to work for the PD's office. I mean, some people want to do defense work, but wanting to work for, you know, essentially people who can't afford lawyers is something else.

She was just that kind of person. I think that's probably unusual as people who come out of law school wanting to work for the PD's office. I mean, some people want to do defense work, but wanting to work for, you know, essentially people who can't afford lawyers is something else.

No, and it's underfunded, and every time you go to court, the deck is very heavily stacked in favor of the prosecution because they have the police department, and you have maybe an investigator who's working on a bunch of different cases. You're starting off behind the eight ball a lot of the time, and you're juggling a zillion cases. So you have to really want to do it.

No, and it's underfunded, and every time you go to court, the deck is very heavily stacked in favor of the prosecution because they have the police department, and you have maybe an investigator who's working on a bunch of different cases. You're starting off behind the eight ball a lot of the time, and you're juggling a zillion cases. So you have to really want to do it.

Yeah. And, like, literally, like, if the trash had been picked up a day sooner, if the police had gotten there three hours later, you know?

Yeah. And, like, literally, like, if the trash had been picked up a day sooner, if the police had gotten there three hours later, you know?

It's in the middle of that TV interview. Now, yes, you've got to be prepared if you're the killer or you would think you'd be prepared for, you know, when you're told that she is dead because you're the only person that knows that she is dead at that point. So when somebody says, hey, we found her and she's no longer with us, you should be. Well, I can't believe it. That's the worst news.