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Warrant: Lacrosse player threatened other strippers
Duke University/
Ryan McFadyen, Duke Lacrosse
From staff reports : The Herald-Sun
news@heraldsun.com
Apr 5, 2006 : 1:16 pm ET
DURHAM -- Less than an hour after a stripper said she was gang-raped by Duke lacrosse players, a lacrosse team member allegedly said in an e-mail that he planned to kill strippers the following night in his dorm building.
Documents released today also show the Durham Police Department as of March 27 had added conspiracy to commit murder to the list of possible crimes it was investigating in the lacrosse case.
The e-mail allegedly sent by player Ryan McFadyen, said (the typographical errors are in the e-mail):
"To whom it may concern
"tommrow night, after tonights show, ive decided to have some strippers over to edens 2c. all are welcome.. however there will be no nudity. I plan on killing the bitches as soon as the walk in and proceding to cut their skin off..."
The e-mail was signed "41," which is McFadyen's jersey number.
The e-mail was allegedly sent at 1:58 a.m. on March 14 from the e-mail address ryan.mcfadyen@duke.edu. The alleged rape victim first contacted police at 1:22 a.m.
The existence of the e-mail was revealed in the Police Department's application for a warrant to search McFadyen's room in Edens Dormitory.
The warrant and the application had been sealed from public view by Superior Court Judge Ron Stephens. On Tuesday, an attorney for The Herald-Sun questioned both Stephens and Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Orlando F. Hudson about the sealed warrant. The Herald-Sun's attorney prepared a motion asking Hudson to unseal the warrant, which are normally public record in North Carolina, and was set to file the motion this morning. But Stephens, who acted on his own to seal the warrant initially, unsealed it this morning.
Police obtained the alleged e-mail from a confidential source, according to the search warrant application.
The inventory from the search, which took place March 27, shows police seized a piece of paper "with Ryan McFadyen email" in addition to memory cards, a laptop computer, an external hard drive, a disposable camera, a backpack, handwritten papers and drawings, and cash, among other items.
McFadyen, 19, is listed on lacrosse team's roster as a 6 foot 6 inch, 225-pound sophomore from Mendham, N.J.
Court records also show that the day after the search of McFadyen's room, Stephens signed an order for Duke University to give police additional details about the e-mail address of ryan.mcfadyen@duke.edu.
The search warrant unsealed today also shows police searched a white GMC Yukon SUV on the Duke campus. It had New Jersey plates and was located near Edens Dormitory.
The warrant lists the crimes being investigated as first degree forcible rape, first degree kidnapping, first degree forcible sexual offense, common law robbery, felonious strangulation and conspiracy to commit murder. Court records from March 23, just four days earlier, did not list conspiracy to commit murder as a crime under investigation.
   4/5/2006 1:34:28 PM
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