SOME THOUGHTS AND QUESTIONS...
I've been scanning the comments and especially noting yours.
You've mentioned (early on) how the timeline has been changed to account for RS's alibi that he was on the phone, and then he left, during the original timeline. At first I wondered if you knew that she had basically exonerated him by saying he stood by and didn't participate. Finally, I saw where you mentioned this as well (later on), and realized that you understood both things. Timeline change to negate his alibi, while at the same time exonerating him. You even mentioned the bizarre fact that even with her statement about that, Nifong kept sexual assault charges (and I guess kidnapping charges) in place even though she said he did nothing. (Is it possible he could remain charged because as someone there who did nothing to stop the "crime", he is equally chargeable?)
You said maybe they hope to turn him to testify against the others. But she knows nothing happened to her. By now, I would say Nifong knows it, too. So how does RS "turn" on the others and make up a story against them?? And come to court and tell that false story?? Could never happen.
I think Crystal is caught in her lies and she realizes it. She's got a court date to supposedly ID the alleged perps. She's trying to salvage something, even if this case never comes to trial. Either to publish a book, or hoping to get an out-of-court settlement from the families when she files a civil suit.
I'm not sure Nifong is leading her through these machinations. Not that he isn't crazy and sleazy enough to do it. I just don't see where that fits. I think Nifong knows this case will not come to trial, one way or another, whatever the "out" is. It does fit, though, for Mangum to desperately flail around and try to find some credible piece of her original claims of assault to hang on to.
Sooooo...perhaps her own attorney, (I've no idea who it is) who hopes to help her profit from this in the long run, has gone over the contradictions in the case and has guided her to try salvaging some little something from this, for later use.
What do you think about that possibility?
I doubt it is Mangums attorney, if she has one, that made up that pack of lies. It is just tries to explaim away too many of Nifong's problems to be from Manugm's attorney in my view.
Also Nifong is the one already facing Bar charges. I doubt any other attorneys in NC want to join him.
Now I guess some non-attorney handler of hers might be stupid enough to try this. But the problem is Nifong and company handle what she says that makes it into discovery. They could have just ignored this statement. They went to her a few days after the 15 December hearing to get her to make a statement so they could drop the rape charges. They were hoping that by dropping the rape charges they could make the DNA less important. So they had control of what she said. They determine what part of what she said made it on the record.