I heard him say it once; musta missed the second time. It was Rod Wheeler. The question is, was DPD just using him, or is it legit? The thing is, I still wonder how the cops and DA knew to check McFayden's computer. Who snitched McFayden off? It had to either be a roommate in the dorm or one of the players he wrote to that night.
This has always bothered me, and I have never been convinced that Nifong doesn't have a player that puts sounds coming from the bathroom or something that somehow corroborates part of Mangum's story, even if nobody was named.
Has the defense actually ever said definitively that every single player is on board with the defense that NOTHING was done to Mangum by those players that njight?
I don't have any direct statements from the defense. But I think they have said that they have talked to every player on the team and have gotten them "on record" of what happened that night.
I don't know. I do know Rod Wheeler said it two different times. Thanks for his name.
I do know that it's the most common tactic in law enforcement, it's old as the hills and it's usually used when they need to produce some evidence (because there's a lack of it).
I can think of alternative ways that McFayden was turned in.
1) Someone working on Duke's Computer infrastructure. They can look at mail all day long. They would have access.
2) There are 47 players. Some of them, maybe most of them, dorm with students other than lacrosse players. The e-mail is sent to all 47. Someone that receives it (on the team), prints it off. It is the hot-topic on campus. Someone sees it and reads its - pockets it. OR a player shows it to a student (non-player).
I don't think any player is cooperating, probably because nothing happened, but even if someone under pressure agreed (like someone pressured into a false confession) - then you'd think Nifong would've known about the Defense photos.
You'd think he'd want to see them before signing any indictments. And if they had someone on the inside, why the 3 week wait (unheard of) for the lineup. Why the desperate attempt to question players without their legal representation AFTER The indictments are signed and immediately after a defense attorney tells the DA some of the players he's indicting weren't at that the party at that time. There are alibis, time-stamped pictures and proof Nifong is told, then within hours, Patrick Baker dispathces Police investigators to question the players without their legal representatives. The players reported that the Police were asking them about whom was at the Party.