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.
Did the tests identify 3 separate sources of DNA or is there one DNA source and 3 possible sources?