Thanks for posting about the 911 tape.
That's about the only record we're going to get of what's on it, because it has now been 'erased'.
I hope somebody can get a transcription of the entire thing,
from a broadcast. And also of the police calls.
FYI:
http://www.newsobserver.com/215/story/423125.html
Audio clip:
Security guard at Kroger on Hillsborough Road calls 911 at 1:22 a.m. on March 14 about a distraught woman. This is not the voice of the alleged victim.
Audio clip:
A woman calls 911 at 12:53 a.m. on March 14 about someone shouting a racial slur in front of 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. This is not the voice of the alleged victim.
http://www.wral.com/news/8674929/detail.html
Audio: Radio Traffic Recording
The conversation between the officer and a police dispatcher took place about 1:30 a.m. March 14, about five minutes after a grocery store security guard called 911 to report a woman in the parking lot who would not get out of someone else's car.
The officer gave the dispatcher the police code for an intoxicated person. When asked whether the woman needed medical help, the officer said: "She's breathing and appears to be fine. She's not in distress. She's just passed out drunk."
DPD:
http://www.nbc17.com/download/2006/0426/9016430.mp3
More here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1706546/posts?page=303#303
I don't think it is the 911 tapes that were erased. I think it was the tapes of the police chatter on their radios that night. That is the chatter where various police officers would have been expressing their view that Mangum was lying, changing her story, had a history of lying, was an informer, is a hooker etc.
It would have been powerful evidence of reasonable doubt in this case. You can imagine what that chatter was like because the police knew Mangum and the police behaved that early morning like they did not believe her. If the police can not produce this evidence, these charges should be tossed for this single reason.
NCCU review not getting to right desks
By Gregory Phillips : The Herald-Sun, Nov 23, 2006
DURHAM -- If any agencies decide to press criminal charges against the nine N.C. Central University employees found working with fake Social Security numbers, the suspects will have had plenty of time to disappear. This week, law enforcement still hadn't received the audit published last month that uncovered what was going on.
The review found nine NCCU employees who used fraudulent Social Security numbers -- seven that had never been issued and two that belonged to dead people. The five workers the auditors managed to find admitted they'd bought their cards illegally. The report, issued by state Auditor Les Merritt's office in October, stated the findings would be sent to Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong, state Attorney General Roy Cooper and U.S. Attorney Anna Mills Wagoner to determine which prosecutor, if any, should investigate.
Wagoner said Monday the report hadn't crossed her desk.
"If it went to me, I didn't get it," she said.
Follow-up enquiries with the auditor's office revealed it hadn't been sent. Chris Mears, Merritt's director of public affairs, said the mistake was discovered Monday after The Herald-Sun asked about it.
The failure occurred because the audit that uncovered the problems at NCCU was a new kind of review, according to Mears. He said that led to some administrative confusion as to whether it should be sent to law enforcement.
Most audits the office conducts are either information system reviews, which Mears called "performance checks on the way information is handled," or investigative reviews, which are usually spawned by specific complaints about state agencies from the public. The results of the first kind of review rarely uncover illegalities and aren't sent to law enforcement, while those from investigative reviews usually are, he said.
The NCCU report resulted from a new strategic review. Auditors used computerized "data mining" of the state payroll system to find employees with Social Security numbers that hadn't been issued or belonged to dead people.
"We just followed the trail to N.C. Central," Mears said. -cut-
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-791955.html
* Follow the trail . . .