Duke lacrosse false rape accuser Crystal Mangum released from prison after murder conviction: reports

The pistillate who falsely accused 3 Duke lacrosse players of rape and past murdered her fellow was released from situation successful North Carolina connected Friday, according to aggregate reports.

Crystal Mangum, who has been successful situation since 2013 connected charges of murdering Reginald Daye successful 2011, near the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women successful Raleigh connected Friday morning. She was serving a 14- to 18-year sentence. 

Mangum antecedently made her confession astir lying astir being raped by the lacrosse players successful an interrogation connected the autarkic media outlet "Let's Talk With Kat" successful December 2024. 

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Crystal Mangum, who was astatine the halfway of the Duke University lacrosse scandal, was charged with stabbing a man, April 3, 2011, astatine a Durham, N.C., apartment.  (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT)

"I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped maine erstwhile they didn't and that was wrong, and I betrayed the spot of a batch of different radical who believed successful me," Mangum said. "[I] made up a communicative that wasn't existent due to the fact that I wanted validation from radical and not from God."

Mangum thrust herself into the halfway of a monolithic nationalist quality communicative erstwhile she primitively accused the 3 Duke students of raping her portion she was performing arsenic a stripper astatine a lacrosse squad enactment successful March 2006. 

The players she accused were past arrested, and the allegations adjacent resulted successful the squad having to cancel its season.

The players, David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, were yet recovered innocent. Still, Mangum was not prosecuted for perjury owed to questions astir her intelligence health. 

But Mangum tin not beryllium prosecuted for perjury present due to the fact that the statute of limitations connected perjury charges successful North Carolina lone lasts astir 2 years. 

The pb authoritative successful the case, Mike Nifong, was the Durham County territory lawyer astatine the clip of the proceedings and was yet disbarred successful 2007, aft it was revealed that helium failed to crook implicit DNA grounds that would person been adjuvant to the defense's case. 

The Associated Press reported astatine the clip that Nifong said helium was unaware that important grounds hadn’t been handed implicit to the defense.

Crystal Gail Mangum appears astatine a quality conference, Oct. 23, 2008, to beforehand a publication astir her beingness successful Durham, N.C. Mangum continued to accidental that she was assaulted successful March 2006 astatine a Duke lacrosse squad enactment wherever she had been hired to dance.  (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News Observer/MCT)

Mangum was indicted connected a complaint of first-degree execution and 2 counts of larceny successful March 2011. A twelvemonth earlier that, she was convicted connected misdemeanor charges aft mounting a occurrence that astir torched her location with her 3 children inside. 

In a videotaped constabulary interrogation, she told officers she got into a confrontation with her fellow astatine the time, not Daye, and burned his clothes, smashed his car windshield and threatened to stab him.

According to North Carolina Department of Corrections records, she was calved connected July 18, 1978, to a motortruck driver. She grew up the youngest of 3 children, not acold from the location wherever she claimed she was assaulted successful 2006. 

In 1993, erstwhile she was 14 years old, Mangum claimed to person been kidnapped by 3 men, driven to a location successful Creedmoor, North Carolina, 15 miles distant from Durham, and raped. She said 1 of the men was her fellow astatine the clip and was a physically and emotionally abusive antheral 7 years older than she was.

Pictured successful this record photograph from August 2010, Crystal Mangum, who was astatine the halfway of the Duke University lacrosse scandal, was charged with stabbing a man, April 3, 2011, astatine a Durham, N.C., apartment.  (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT)

Creedmoor Police Chief Ted Pollard said Mangum filed a study connected the incidental connected Aug. 18, 1996, 3 years aft the rapes allegedly took place. The case, however, was not pursued, due to the fact that the accuser backed distant from the charges retired of fearfulness for her life, according to her relatives.

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Vincent Clark, a person who co-authored Mangum's self-published memoir, said helium hopes radical don't unreserved to judgement – echoing 1 of the oft-cited lessons of the lacrosse lawsuit itself.

Clark said Mangum realizes she has intelligence wellness problems.

"I'm bittersweet for her. I anticipation radical recognize however hard it is being her," Clark said.

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