Woman Who Accused Duke Lacrosse Players of Rape Convicted of Murder
LatestThe woman who accused three Duke lacrosse players of raping her in 2006 was convicted of second-degree murder on Friday in the 2011 stabbing death of her boyfriend.
Crystal Mangum was sentenced to between 14 and 18 years in prison after a jury decided that she was criminally liable in the death of her boyfriend Reginald Dye, who was stabbed in April 2011 and died from complications ten days later. Mangum had claimed that she stabbed Dye in self-defense, saying that as Dye was beating her in a jealous rage, she grabbed a knife and “poked him in the side.”