Update: Police meeting with DA in Giddings case next week

In the aftermath of the Lauren Giddings slaying, Macon police have been overrun with rumors about other deaths, and Police Chief Mike Burns sought to quell that speculation Wednesday during a news conference.

Burns also said police plan to meet with the district attorney’s office early next week. Police have met with prosecutors throughout the Giddings investigation, but Burns said this meeting will be “to discuss everything we know.”

Police don’t anticipate receiving results of lab tests performed by the FBI on evidence in the case before that meeting.

Burns declined to say how many “persons of interest” remain in the case or whether there are any besides Giddings’ neighbor, 25-year-old Stephen Mark McDaniel.

During the news conference, Burns dispelled the following rumors: reports of a black woman’s body being found at the Ocmulgee River; that a postal carrier had been telling people that there have been other homicides in the city that police weren’t acknowledging, and that there is a serial killer on the loose.

And there are others.

“Rumors are running rampant,” Burns said. “We’re not hiding bodies.”

Burns also said that his department has had e-mail correspondence with the FBI, but that he could not divulge details of those messages.

For more on this story, check back at Macon.com and read Thursday’s Telegraph.

This story was originally published July 27, 2011 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Update: Police meeting with DA in Giddings case next week."