I think that many of us jumped the gun in the beginning.... myself included.
Hmmm...I dont recall any gun jumping from YOU...from day one, weren't you squarely in the "not so fast y'all' corner?
Anywho..I've finally read the whole article, and as always I'm left with more questions that before. Until a year or two when the victim is able to do a Barbara Walters or Oprah interview...we wont know her true story.
These are some of the parts that jump out at me....
The subject had no identification.
Why didn't she have any ID?...did she have a purse/wallet at all?
She was wearing a see-through red garment (with no underwear) and one white high-heeled shoe.
Where was the other shoe? Was it ever found...she is said to have gone back to the house for it?
Shelton conferred with Officer Willie Barfield, who had just arrived. Without an address, the men couldn’t take the woman home,
And what, she couldn't or was too drunk to REMEMBER her own address? And if that is the case, why would they then consider her in any condition to hold her to whatever she said happened to ther that night? Should she ONLY be held to what she reports when she sobered up...instead of using the fact that there were some differences in the story she told when she was too drunk/drugged to even remember her own address, compared to the story she told when she sobered up?
Shelton had gone to the site, a modest white clapboard house with empty cups and beer cans strewn about inside, but when he knocked on the door no one responded.
Here was the "heads up" the Duke men needed...from then on, they had ample opportunity to start cleaning that house of any an all inanimate objects evidence that might have been used in the assualt.
She said that she had been groped, but that no one forced her to have sex. She’d had an argument with the other stripper, she said, and someone had taken her money.
See, the above is the parts of the story that I'd like to hear from the stripper herself, b/c there should IMMEDIATELY have been a follow up question(with answer recorded) asking why did she earlier claimed to have been raped.
Shelton stepped outside and called the police station. He told his watch commander that the alleged rape victim had recanted. But within moments he got word that the woman was again claiming rape,
:confused: So, was it a semantics issue, or was the stripper really changing her story from MOMENT to moment? That makes no sense.
They were also known as enthusiastically social creatures, partyers of the very highest order, and prodigious drinkers, even within a culture inclined to intemperance....Their effort at last season’s final Tailgate was widely deemed their best, as it featured a foam pit that facilitated a measure of “Girls Gone Wild” abandon.
Yep..this is the life the poor innocent little angels need to get back to so their suffering can end...
Flannery, a senior, had made the call (using the name Adam) to an escort service. He now told Wasiolek that he and his roommates had given a party, that there had been a good deal of drinking, and that they’d ordered two strippers for entertainment. When the women arrived, he said, one of them was incapacitated, and he supposed that she was on drugs. The students paid the women, and asked them to leave early. The woozy woman, Flannery said, eventually passed out, and had to be assisted to her car, at which point both women drove away.
Indigo, I take it, this is the 'version' of the story that you have chosen to believe. When in the history of this planet, has a bunch of young horny drunk males ever been TURNED OFF at the sight of drunk naked females? They f'ing specialize in getting females in their circles drunk at any and every given opportunity! And if they were so amicable with the women "leaving early"...what prompted the spewing of racial slurs...which was heard by others? And why didn't Flannery mention anything about THAT to the Dean? And why didn't he tell the dean that he had tricked the women into coming to dance for over FORTY of them, by claiming there'd be only four men? LIAR!!!!
By the end of the search, the police had seized evidence including four laptop computers, three digital cameras, a bathmat, a bath rug, five artificial fingernails, a bottle of K-Y jelly, and a stack of twenty-dollar bills.
Interesting. FIVE finger nails?...sound like someone was in a physical struggle to me. And WHOSE bottle of K-Y Jelly was that?...was it perhaps used to lube up a dildo?...and is it possible for a dildo to be rammed up into a stripper's orifice w/o leaving any of the rammers' DNA?
And the stack of $20...to whom did they belong?...where were they found?
At the police station, the three young men offered to take a polygraph test. The police declined the offer,
WTF? Now, thats the kind of ish I'd like to hear the cops explanation for? I know those tests are not admittable in court, BUT they are administered often enough...so why not then?
On the day that the Durham police searched the Buchanan house, March 16th, the investigators Himan and Gottlieb drove to the accuser’s home and heard her version of events.
march 16th is what, THREE days after the incident. The house should now be clear of any incriminating evidence, and ole stripper gurl, should be sober enough to give the most clear account of the event...no?
Her account this time was more explicit: she had been attacked by three of the men at the party, who had held her in a bathroom and raped her orally, vaginally, and anally, she told the investigators. And she knew her attackers’ names—Adam, Matt, and Bret.
Hmmmm.
hat evening, two other investigators gave the woman a chance to identify the men she was accusing and showed her a photographic lineup, using pictures of the players taken from the team’s Web page.[/quote]
Stupid! Tho the stripper did NOT pickout anyone then.
On Tuesday, March 21st, police prepared a second photographic lineup for the accuser. She remarked that they all looked alike.
LOL. Guess that work both ways.
He also noted that the woman did say that she had drunk a twenty-four-ounce beer before arriving at the party, and that she had performed for a couple in a hotel room using a vibrator
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Hmmm...How early in the night did she drink the beer and was it before of after her "performance" in the hotel room?..and is 2-3 beers enough to drunk someone to he point where they cant remember where they live?
...media speculation on the team members’ “wall of silence.”
Yes...I would've like to see the INDIVIDUAL versions of the story from EACH of the men who were present...to see any differences in their versions. If the stripper had a "dream team" representing her...thats the types of shyt that they would have wanted.
an e-mail sent by a player named Ryan McFadyen in the hours just after the party.
To whom it may concern
tommrow night, after tonights show, ive decided to have some strippers over to edens 2c. all are welcome.. however there will be no nudity. i plan on killing the bitches as soon as the walk in and proceeding to cut their skin off while cumming in my duke issue spandex.. all in besides arch and tack please respond
Indigo...take a look at the psyche of one of the sweet little angels that you like to defend so passionately. How charming.
So, this article goes from day one to a few weeks after the incident. I'm still left with the feeling that this case still can not make full sense to anyone w/o hearing from the victim herself. The English language leaves far too much room open to interpretation and speculation, for so many hard and fast conclusions to have been formed with ALL of her statements having been deliveded to the public via second, third, and fourth hand repeating.
