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Duke: Kroger Security Guard Says "Ain't No Way" There Was a Rape

By Jeralyn, Section Duke Lacrosse
Posted on Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 01:17:59 PM EST
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ABC has a tape recording of the Kroger security guard who made the second 911 call in the Duke case. It is a private investigator's interview made three weeks after the incident. Likely, this is a defense investigator. In it the guard says there is no way the woman had been raped.

The guard was on duty at the store on the night of March 13, when the two women pulled into the store's parking lot in a dark sedan. The alleged victim, who says three men held her down in a bathroom and kicked, strangled and raped her, was in the passenger seat.

On the tape, which was recorded April 3, three weeks after the lacrosse party, the guard can be heard saying, "There ain't no way she was raped -- ain't no way, no way that happened."

More inconsistencies by the second dancer:

On the tape, the guard recounts the conversation she had with the the dancer who came into the store: The woman told the guard she was driving down the street and heard people yelling racial slurs at a woman she had never met before, then, out of sympathy, she picked up the woman and brought her to the Kroger parking lot.

More:

The security guard says on the recording that she wondered why the driver didn't take the alleged victim to the hospital or to the police station, both of which are closer to the scene of the party than the Kroger store. She mentions calling 911 and recalls that three officers arrived to the scene.

How's this for a thorough police investigation?

At the end of the recording, the guard says that police had not returned to talk with her since the night of the incident.

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