Stephen McDaniel

yeah lauren was my neighbor um we're just trying to find out where she is at this point i mean no one has seen her since saturday i mean the last time anyone heard from her was an email that she sent out and No one's heard from her since.

I think I need to sit down.

I don't know anyone that would want to hurt her.

I think I scratched myself in my sleep.

Yeah.

The last time you've seen Lauren was? Either last week or the week before. But it's been a few days. Yeah.

With bar prep, we just work on it and work on it.

We found a body. We don't know if it's her or not. I just heard that. Okay. So I need your help. You've got it. Well, somebody knows something.

So you're telling me the whole time you were going to California, you didn't call her, check in with her, nothing? No. Then you landed in Atlanta. Yeah. and just go back to your apartment or house and you didn't even call her and tell her you were home or anything? Really?

People that she goes to school with says that y'all have had problems recently.

Was you friends with Lauren? Yes. Look at me when you talk to me, son, okay? Was you friends with her? Yes.

I just asked him what he was doing with her, and I made her get out of the vehicle and told him to stay away from her.

Yes.

As far as my knowledge, yes.

Seemed like it did. Nothing was getting done to me.

I would stop everybody that drove by the house. I was out there from morning to dark trying to find out answers. I caused a lot of problems out there. I wanted to know.

It's been hard. Because I figured if I wouldn't have went to work that weekend, I should still be here.

And I blame myself every day.

He was there, standing next to me, shook my hand.

Yes, ma'am. Today we buried my daughter.

It was. How could anybody do that? I mean, I just didn't understand. And I was mad just because he was there the whole time and I couldn't see it. And he was right there. After 18 months of hard work,

She'd always make you laugh. She'd always do something or say something.

Funny. Loved music.

Would you rather talk to somebody else?

You had a weird look on your face when I said where, why?

Did she go by the name Kayla?

No, she told me her name was Kayla.

So her, her, her, right?

You strangled her?

Would you rather talk to somebody else?

Okay.

Probably not. I just didn't want to say it, what I really think.

It's beyond evil what happened. What me and him did was beyond evil.

There's a difference.

No, I didn't say they let us do a bad thing. I said they let us sleep and hang out at the same spot. And they did. Beside what anybody believes.

Until the day I die, because I know for a fact it's true.

I don't think there was a thrill.

There's no thrill in watching women die like that. But I'm going to go back to it again and again. It was my anger issues that I have from everything that happened while we were on parole and probation.