[darbymcgill]

My guess is it was later in the morning which means her statement was over 50 hours later!

You are spot on Neverforget01... The more I read the city manager's statement, the more unbelievable it becomes...

It is so odd that you can't read a single article or statement in this case without completely parsing each word against 10 other contradictory items...

[Neverforget01]

Police did not search the house where the party took place for two days after the party. Baker has said the delay occurred because it took 31 hours for police to get the accuser to give a statement of what happened at the party

News and Observer

[JLS]

Exactly the delay in the search certainly looks to match a confused, unreliable witness.

The police are acting defensively about this because they don't want said to not have taken her seriously. I think they did take her seriously, but just found her not believeable.