Woman at Center of 2006 Duke Lacrosse Case Admits Entire Story Was a Fabrication

Crystal Mangum, who falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of raping her in 2006, confessed that she lied and asked for the men’s forgiveness.
Mangum made the admission to podcast host Katerena DePasquale in an interview published on Thursday.
DePasquale conducted the sit-down at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women where Mangum is serving a sentence for a 2013 second-degree murder conviction of her then-boyfriend, Duke University’s student news outlet The Chronicle reported.

“I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn’t, and that was wrong, and I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me,” Mangum said on the “Let’s Talk with Kat” podcast.
“[I] made up a story that wasn’t true because I wanted validation from people and not from God,” she added.

More than 18 years after the Duke lacrosse allegations, Crystal Mangum admits that she made it all up.“I testified falsely against [the lacrosse players] by saying that …