The more you read Gottlieb's NOVEL, the worse it gets.
Now, Durham has more than it's share of crime - does anyone believe a Policemen trying to write while someone talked (trying to keep up), would write this :
The woman spoke for an hour. She talked about her life — joining the Navy and moving to California shortly after finishing high school, marrying a man 14 years her senior, becoming pregnant by a sailor, returning home to North Carolina and getting divorced — and gave a detailed account of the lacrosse party. “Tears ran down her face freely," the Sergeant wrote.
She's 27 and the NYT is telling us that Gottlieb's notes describe her talking about High School, previous marriages, a man 14 years her senior, becoming pregnant by a sailor, returning home, her divorce -- and he notes "Tears falling freely."
This is not writing from a busy police detective in a high crime area - this is a transcript from an Oprah interview !
This belies reality, I'm sorry. Count me out of the fantasy - NYT.
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** JUXTAPOSE THIS **
Look at the contrasting treatment by the NYT.
First in regard to her having sex during her hotel visits with multiple paying clients:
"The woman denied engaging in sexual activity with those clients, and no evidence has been offered to contradict her."
Then FOUR PARAGRAPHS are written describing how she MAY have been drugged by the players and they print that the "Durham Police have speculated that the test might have found a date-rape drug."
WHY WASN'T THE DRUGGING HANDLED SIMILARLY ?
Instead of the Four paragraphs, they could've just wrote:
The players' lawyers say the woman was NOT drugged, and no evidence has been offered to contradict them.
But, they spend FOUR paragraphs discussing Drugging and the issues surrounding it.
NYT = Hatchet Job