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She named three men - the boyfriend and the two drivers - and DNA samples were taken from them. This is why the second DNA test took so much longer than the first.

Do we know they took samples from the "drivers"? I hadn't heard that..

2) if so whether there was a match to the drivers

If they did sample the "drivers" and the defense announced that they found a match to a "single male source" then that tells me that there was not a match on the "drivers". If there was no match to the "drivers" and there is more DNA than just the BF's match.... Then she must have lied about only 3 that could have made the deposit...

Does that sound right?

If she had recent sex with three men, then there should be three separate DNA's. If two were protected, which they obviously were, then she knew all along which one it was.

So why did she even admit to 3 possibilities. Something isn't quite right.

" Do we know they took samples from the "drivers"? I hadn't heard that.. "

I am vague on that also.
I assumed that CM named her "drivers " as the donors, rather than those she entertained at the motels.
Because that way, it would make the driver/ CM sex voluntary- while the CM / motel client sex would be prostitution.

Do we know they took samples from the "drivers"? I hadn't heard that..

There was a report that they had collected DNA from 3 additional males...the boyfriend and two others who were not players. At the time I thought they meant guests at the party. I'll see if I can find anything.

I think there was one, not three, semen deposits discovered in swabbing for the rape kit. There was no match to the lax players, so Mangum was questioned again as to whom all she had sex with within five days prior to the alleged rape. She gave three names as possibilities. All three gave a sample. One was a match. That concluded the question. When the rape kit is administered, alleged victims are asked who all they had sex with during the five days prior to the alleged incident. In order for Nifong to have been so confident that he would get a match to one or more lax players, Mangum would have to have said there was no sex with anyone else, and I recall it being reported early on that she said she did not have sex for three weeks prior, but I don't know how solid a fact that is. At any rate, when semen was found that didn't come from any of the lax players, she was re-contacted and asked who all it might have come from.

What's really important about this at this particualr time is not so much that she had sex with her boyfriend closely prior to the alleged incident, but that she had sex with at least three, if not eight, other men and, most importantly, that Nifong knew this when he sought the indictments.