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Giddings-case apartments come back to life after slaying

Even so, the setting bore the feel of sacred ground.

In many ways, it still does.

No matter that the flowers, plastic and real, adorning the fence by the sidewalk are gone. Or that the memorial wreath on the railing by the dead woman’s front door and the white ribbon dangling from her porch lamp have been taken down. Or that locals paying their respects and gawkers alike may not ride by as slowly as they once did.

Three weeks ago, as a mourning family was sifting through the personal effects of a slain daughter and sister whose life had been stolen in the cruelest of ways, the mystery surrounding her death was a swirl of speculation that lingers today.

Even among those who had never heard of a Maryland-raised woman named Lauren Teresa Giddings.

Her grieving mother had, on that second Friday of July, sat on her lost daughter’s balcony, one that peeks out at Macon and the clock-tower spire of the law school Giddings had just graduated from.

Eight mornings earlier, Karen Payne Giddings’ eldest daughter’s dismembered body had been found maybe 25 feet away. She spoke of how being there, so close to where her daughter had lived and studied and made so many friends, put her at ease.

Now, a month after the 27-year-old’s torso was found wrapped in plastic in a 95-gallon garbage cart just down a flight of stairs on the side of her residence, the police are gone, a slaying suspect has yet to be identified or charged, and repairmen are doing their best to make the place livable again.

In a hurry.

For while justice may be on hold, law school starts soon.

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The first wave of tenants moved in Saturday.

More will follow. The Barristers Hall complex at 1058 Georgia Ave. will again be home to attorneys in the making.

In all, 11 first-year Mercer University law students are scheduled to move in this semester.

Of the three streetside apartments where detectives have foraged for evidence that they hope will lead to Giddings’ killer, two of the apartments will belong to new residents -- the one below Giddings’ and the one next door to hers, where fellow 2011 law school graduating classmate Stephen Mark McDaniel lived.

Police have dubbed McDaniel, 25, a “person of interest” in Giddings’ death. He has been held in the Bibb County jail on unrelated burglary charges since the predawn hours of July 1, the night after Giddings’ friends, who hadn’t heard from her in a few days, called police and started searching for her.

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