I think the best explanation is that the two women were at the party, heard some racial slurs and decided to stop the show and leave.
The boys complained they didn't get their money's worth. They heard more slurs on the way out but at least one returned inside (whether it was to get her shoes or the rest of the money owed or something else yet undetermined). The first 911 phone call was probably placed at that time and the only thing the women had assaulted at this point were their ears.
After the accuser went back in was when she either was raped *or* she decided the way to get back at these angry white boys making racial taunts at her was to stage a rape scene. Would the girl be clever enough (if you even want to call it that) to fake a rape?
My gut says "no". If she had, why wouldn't she come front and center to the media and repeat her side of the story (perhaps she did to the RN&O and it didn't go well). What good is a false cry of rape if nobody will listen, and for a week or so, it appeared nobody was listening?
It's possible, too, that she was roughed up a bit and, in a Cynthia McKinney-type use of logic, decided it was rape.
I point back to the DNA evidence. The police have to find a match or the whole case goes nowhere.
4/6/2006 10:13 AM By: Associated Press
(DURHAM) - Durham's city manager is scheduled to be briefed Thursday on the Duke lacrosse scandal.
Police are investigating allegations that a stripper was raped at a lacrosse team party.
Meanwhile, the coach has quit and a player's e-mail suggested killing a stripper.
Duke President Richard Brodhead says he has established five groups to study campus culture at Duke, student behavior and the lacrosse program. Brodhead called the latest revelations in the student e-mail by player Ryan McFadyen "sickening." McFadyen is a sophomore and has been suspended.
Presumably there was sex involved, willing or not, otherwise there would be nothing for the police to test the players' DNA against.
A DNA match would devestate the defense since they contend no sexual contact occurred with the accuser. Even without a match, the second woman, aka "Kim", could make or break the case, depending on her reliability imo.
My gut says "no". If she had, why wouldn't she come front and center to the media and repeat her side of the story (perhaps she did to the RN&O and it didn't go well). What good is a false cry of rape if nobody will listen, and for a week or so, it appeared nobody was listening?
Nobody was listening? The police and the DA took her claim of rape seriously from the start. If she did falsely claim to police that she was raped in order to get back at the partygoers, I very much doubt she had any inkling there would be a media circus and a national firestorm when she did so. Her idea was probably to sic the cops on them, not the media.
Here's another version of what might have happened that appears to making the rounds on campus, which someone who claims to be a junior at Duke posted at realclearpolitics.com:
I would also like to relay a rumor that I have heard from a number of people who know members of the lacrosse team. I have no way of proving it, but it seems like a plausible possibility. A member of the team solicited sex from the alleged victim for $300. She agreed, but later backed out for some reason.
When the team member demanded his money back, she declined, and then requested $1500 or else she would claim she was raped. This would fit with the fact that she left the party, but was then convinced come back in the house.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/blog/2006/04/more_on_dukes_culture_of_rape.html
NEW YORK, April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- As the case of several Duke University lacrosse team members accused of rape drags on, the players' camp has an obvious interest in courting public opinion, report Senior Writer Susannah Meadows and Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas in the April 17 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, April 10). The latest example: an individual on the defense team claims to have photographic evidence he believes will help the team's case-by showing that the woman was already cut and bruised when she arrived at the party