http://www.newsobserver.com/122/story/443932.html
Accuser seemed OK early on, driver says
DURHAM - The man who drove the accuser in the Duke University lacrosse case to the team party said she did not seem intoxicated when he dropped her off that night.
Brian Taylor, who met the accuser at a Super Bowl party two years ago, said he spent an hour and a half with her before driving her to the party where she was hired to dance.
"She had called me a few hours earlier, asking me if she could use my place to get ready," Taylor said Friday.
Taylor said he did not know how the woman, a 27-year-old N.C. Central University student with two children, got to his home March 13. But he said that when she arrived about 9 p.m., he noticed nothing unusual about her demeanor. He did not say whether they consumed any alcohol.
Taylor had known for a while that his guest was a dancer. He and a male friend had watched her perform at clubs in Smithfield and Hillsborough.
As he sat in front of his PlayStation console March 13, the accuser showered behind a closed door and modeled at least two negligees for her host, he said.
"She asked my opinion," he said. "The first one was this black outfit, and I said, 'No.' When she came out in the red one I said, 'That's better.' "
It was 10:45 p.m., Taylor estimated, when they left for 610 N. Buchanan Blvd.
"The deal was for me to take her over there for about a two-hour show," he said. "She was supposed to call me to come pick her up."
Taylor did not hear from her again until 7 a.m. the next day. She was at Duke Hospital.
"She was distraught," he said. "I could tell that she was crying. She asked me to pick up her kids."
He said she didn't mention being attacked in that conversation or in a call more than a week later.
"She just told me her name would be in the news," Taylor said.
He said he did not check on the accuser's children or tell her parents where she was. "I told her I would, but I didn't," he said. "I don't know her that well."
Taylor said he has not seen the accuser since that night. Police came to his home weeks ago and asked him to make a statement.
He said that all he could tell investigators was about their visit and the drive to the house, which he had difficulty finding.
Taylor and his passenger were flagged down by a man outside 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. awaiting their arrival. "On our way there, she got two calls on her cell phone saying if you don't come soon, it's going to get canceled," Taylor said.
yeh, and there's a call to or from her daddy documented in her phone re directions, which terminated at some specific time with her telling daddy "never mind, we're here, now, bye". This call, if not gone to dead-battery heaveb will fix her arrival time
"He didn't know her that well" and she was modeling lingerie
for him?
I'm assuming he put down the play station at some point. He doesn't know this woman that well and he went to watch her dance at some point in the past, and now she's showering and modeling see-thru outfits for him at his place?
I think it's safe to say that this is one of the drivers that she said belatedly that could account for DNA insider her.
Also, from Maggie's article in the N&O, what was conspicuously absent was the time he dropper her off at 610 Buchanan. The article has times all through and then the Good old News and Observer leaves that out. It should've at least said he couldn't recall or he wouldn't answer - BUT it does NOT.
I think that's a bad sign for Nifong and the Baker Boys that the super liberal News and Observer left that out - can't be good news for them. If it was good news, it would be the headline on all the wires. DANCER's TIMELINE CORROBORATED!
How do you like the News and Observer calling him - her host?
She's so proper, you know
Call a man you haven't seen in a while and barely know and ask if you can shower at his place - and will you pick me up at 2:00 am after I'm done stripping?
She's a role model for all of us in the News and Observer's collective mind.
I am slow this morning---this is the "boyfriend" we have been hearing about? The one from the hood?
What a shocker ... the driver's and father's stories don't jive.
Question: Who are they protecting by claiming they both don't know how the AV got to the driver's house?
http://www.newsobserver.com/122/story/443932.html
Brian Taylor, who met the accuser at a Super Bowl party two years ago, said he spent an hour and a half with her before driving her to the party where she was hired to dance.
"She had called me a few hours earlier, asking me if she could use my place to get ready," Taylor said Friday.
Taylor said he did not know how the woman, a 27-year-old N.C. Central University student with two children, got to his home March 13. But he said that when she arrived about 9 p.m., he noticed nothing unusual about her demeanor. He did not say whether they consumed any alcohol.
Taylor had known for a while that his guest was a dancer. He and a male friend had watched her perform at clubs in Smithfield and Hillsborough.
As he sat in front of his PlayStation console March 13, the accuser showered behind a closed door and modeled at least two negligees for her host, he said.
"She asked my opinion," he said. "The first one was this black outfit, and I said, 'No.' When she came out in the red one I said, 'That's better.' "
It was 10:45 p.m., Taylor estimated, when they left for 610 N. Buchanan Blvd.
http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/441262.html
Where accuser went
On March 24, in her only interview with a reporter, the accuser said she was notified about 8:30 p.m. the night of the party that she was supposed to appear at the Buchanan Boulevard house about 11 p.m.
In an interview earlier this week, her father said he saw his daughter a few times March 13. That afternoon, he said, she picked up her two children from elementary school. About 9:30 p.m., he said, she brought the children to their grandparents' house for the evening.
"She was fine," he said.
After their arrival, he and his daughter took a short car ride about 10 p.m. to a neighborhood convenience store at Cornwallis Road and South Roxboro Street. He bought a pack of cigarettes but said he did not recall what his daughter purchased.
When the two returned to his house, the woman said she had to go out and wouldn't return until 1:30 a.m. He said he does not know whether she left in her own car or someone picked her up. He said she did call him to say she safely reached her destination -- about 11:30 p.m., about the start of a late-night talk show he was watching.
I wonder if the police already had the statement written for him. It's hard not to be cynical in this case considering the behavior of the DA.
The reporter did not ask him about the supposed bruises that both Dan Abrahams and Megyn Kendall have claimed to see in photos of her before she started dancing.