# Duke's Lacrosse Team Rape Accuser indicted for Murder **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 18, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dukes-lacrosse-team-rape-accuser-indicted-for-murder/578888 "2011-04-18T22:26:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dukes-lacrosse-team-rape-accuser-indicted-for-murder/578888/1 "2011-04-18T22:26:51Z")
[Story Here](http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/lacrosse/2011-04-18-duke-accuser-crystal-mangum-murder-charge_N.htm). The bizarre story gets stranger. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dukes-lacrosse-team-rape-accuser-indicted-for-murder/578888/2 "2011-04-18T23:14:10Z")
I’m going to give her the benefit of the doubt…just don’t want to rush to judgement…yet. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dukes-lacrosse-team-rape-accuser-indicted-for-murder/578888/3 "2011-04-18T23:32:47Z")
> [@Yeticus\_Rex](#): > > I’m going to give her the benefit of the doubt…just don’t want to rush to judgement…yet. and Yeti is red-lining the irony tachometer. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dukes-lacrosse-team-rape-accuser-indicted-for-murder/578888/4 "2011-04-18T23:34:21Z")
The ALLEGED victim has a history of faking his own death, so I’m not going to assume anything yet. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dukes-lacrosse-team-rape-accuser-indicted-for-murder/578888/5 "2011-04-19T16:52:58Z")
Shouldn’t “accuser” be “complainant”? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dukes-lacrosse-team-rape-accuser-indicted-for-murder/578888/6 "2011-04-19T17:04:37Z")
[Also arrested for arson and child abuse; found guilty of the latter](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=604875). ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dukes-lacrosse-team-rape-accuser-indicted-for-murder/578888/7 "2011-04-19T19:36:19Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > [Also arrested for arson and child abuse; found guilty of the latter](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=604875). I seldom go to the pit. I didn’t see that thread. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dukes-lacrosse-team-rape-accuser-indicted-for-murder/578888/8 "2011-04-26T22:11:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Last year, she was convicted on misdemeanor charges after setting a fire that nearly torched her home with her three children inside. What a peach. Methinks those kids should be with their fathers. > [@](#): > > Friends said Mangum has never recovered from the stigma brought by the lacrosse case and has been involved in a string of questionable relationships in an attempt to provide stability for her children. Talk about trying to put out a fire with gasoline. > [@](#): > > Vincent Clark, a friend who co-authored Mangum’s self-published memoir, said he hopes people don’t rush to judgment — echoing one of the oft-cited lessons of the lacrosse case itself. > Clark said Mangum realizes she has mental health problems. > “I’m sad for her. I hope people realize how difficult it is being her,” Clark said. Murderess she may possibly be, and bearer of false witness to boot, but let’s see who’s the _real_ victim here. :rolleyes: