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

Key Highlights

• She was serving a 14- to 18-year sentence.
• Mangum previously made her confession about lying about being raped by the lacrosse players in an interview on the independent media outlet "Let's Talk With Kat" in December 2024.
• CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS. COM Crystal Mangum, who was at the center of the Duke University lacrosse scandal, was charged with stabbing a man, April 3, 2011, at a Durham, N. C., apartment.
• (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT) "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.
• "[I] made up a story that wasn't true because I wanted validation from people and not from God." Mangum thrust herself into the center of a massive national news story when she originally accused the three Duke students of raping her while she was performing as a stripper at a lacrosse team party in March 2006.