According to the warrant, which was unsealed today, a confidential source sent investigators a copy of the e-mail, which they believe originated from McFadyen's Duke University e-mail address. It was sent at 1:58 a.m. on March 14, about a half hour after the woman, an employee of an escort service, told police she had been raped at the party where she had been hired to perform.
"Tomorrow night, after tonights show, ive decided to have some strippers over," the message read. "However there will be no nudity. i plan on killing bitches as soon as the walk in and proceeding to cut their skin off."
The message goes on to read that he would find the act sexually gratifying.
McFadyen's attorney could not be reached this morning. Joe Cheshire, a lawyer representing one of the team captains, said the e-mail helps support the team's story. Team members told police, according to Cheshire, that they hired women to dance and those women left the party early.
"This e-mail, while the wording of it is, at best, unfortunate, if you read this e-mail and you also are aware of other e-mails that exist contemporaneous with these events, it's quite clear that no rape happened in that house," Cheshire said. "These boys were frustrated because they, as is already been reported, they thought these women had come and taken a bunch of money and started dancing and just decided to leave."
"If you see this case with things the police have not released, you see this case in a different light than the prosecutor going out there and saying, ‘they're guilty,'" Cheshire said. "Is it a horrible e-mail? Yes. Does it make the writer look good as a human being? Are there all kinds of moral and social issues that can be discussed about what went on that night? This e-mail does not in any way shape or form show that there was a violent sexual act that went on in that house. I would tell you that it in fact shows the opposite."
4/5/2006 10:21 AM By: Associated Press
(DURHAM) - North Carolina's NAACP chapter plans to keep watch on the investigation into allegations an exotic dancer was raped and beaten at a party hosted by members of Duke University's lacrosse team.
The Reverend William Barber II is the state conference president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He says as part of the scrutiny, the chapter has asked to meet with the district attorney.
No one has been charged in the case, but university president Richard Brodhead suspended the highly ranked team from play until the school learns more about what happened.
The lacrosse team's co-captains have denied that anyone was sexually assaulted or raped at the March 13th party.
District Attorney Mike Nifong has said he believes the woman was raped, based in part on a medical examination hours after she reported the alleged attack.