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Crystal Mangum and Murder - April 18 2020 - Today in True Crime History

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com INFORMATION UPDATE: Recently I was contacted with more information regarding the above case and I wanted to share this information with you: "The State officials and media have hidden the real cause and manner of Daye's death... which had no nexus to the non-fatal stab wound that Mangum inflicted.  The wound was successfully treated surgically, but on the third postoperative day, Mr. Daye, an alcoholic, went into delirium tremens.  In treating this situation Duke University Hospital staff intubated Mr. Daye in his esophagus instead of trachea which led to his brain death.  Following a week of observation without neurologic improvement he was electively removed from life-support and he died.  He did not die of a complication as the media would have the general public believe.  The media is aware that Duke University medical staff was responsible for Daye's brain-death and actual death.  I notified legislators about this in an e-mail dated February 11, 2015. LINK to e-mail to legislators about Mangum's wrongful conviction On October 25, 2019, world-renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril H. Wecht issued a report on Crystal Mangum's case in which he determined that the manner of death was an accident due to malpractice by Duke University Hospital staff and not a homicide secondary to complications of a stab wound inflicted by Mangum.  The last paragraph of his eight page report stated that the opinion of the medical examiner regarding the manner and cause of death were not credible because his autopsy report had significant discrepancies with the medical records. LINK to Dr. Cyril Wecht's October 25, 2019 report Since I began notifying the media on October 31, 2019, there's been only one media source to discuss Dr. Wecht's exonerative report about Crystal Mangum and that was a "Women & Crime" podcast, Episode 30 posted on November 3, 2020. Dr.s Meghan Sacks and Amy Shlosberg, two criminology professors discussed Mangum's case and both concluded that she shoud not have been prosecuted for murder.   A link to it can be found on my blog site: LINK to my blog site Sid Sidney B. Harr, M.D., Lay Advocate Committee on Justice for Mike Nifong." April 18th: Crystal Mangum Indicted (2011) The little boy that cried wolf. It’s a nursery rhyme our parents read to us to teach us the value of always telling the truth. That we would be pre-judged and not taken at our word if we lived a less than truthful life. On April 18th 2011 a woman was indicted for the murder of her live-in boyfriend. This was a woman that everyone knew. Because, just years before her name was in every newspaper and on every newscaster’s lips for an accusation that was later deemed as her crying wolf. This story isn’t like our typical daily murder story. But, it’s one worth knowing. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-racement-upon-

0:04.7

The weird...

0:06.0

...theirondescribed by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

0:09.0

The little boy that cried Wolf.

0:13.0

It's a nursery rhyme our parents bred to us to teach us the value of only telling the truth,

0:18.0

that we would be prejudged and not taken at our word if we lived a less

0:22.9

than truthful life. On April 18, 2011, a woman was indicted for the murder of her living boyfriend.

0:31.3

This was a woman that everyone knew. Because just years before, her name was in every newspaper and on every newscaster's lips

0:40.4

for an accusation that was later deemed as her crying wolf.

0:44.8

This story isn't like our typical daily murder story, but it's one worth knowing.

0:50.5

So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

1:00.6

Crystal Gail Mangum, born July 18, 1978, grew up in Durham, North Carolina.

1:07.9

In 1996, Crystal filed a report with police stating that, three years earlier when she was 14,

1:13.6

she was kidnapped by five men and raped. One of these men was her boyfriend, who was 21 at the time.

1:21.6

As the investigation began, Crystal quickly backed away from the charges out of, according to relatives, fear for her life.

1:30.2

After graduating that same year, she joined the U.S. Navy, where she met and married Kenneth

1:35.3

Nathaniel McNeil. The marriage quickly soured due to, according to, Crystal, her husband's

1:41.7

threats on her life. She served in the Navy for less than two years before she got pregnant by a fellow soldier

1:48.0

and was discharged.

1:50.0

By 2002, Crystal was back in Durham and working as an exotic dancer.

1:55.0

That same year, she was arrested on 10 charges of stealing a taxi cab from a customer.

2:01.2

There was a police pursuit that ended only when Crystal hit a patrol car.

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