Crystal Gail Mangum (born July 18, 1978) is an American former stripper from Durham, North Carolina, who has been incarcerated for murder since 2013. In 2006, she came to attention in national news reports for having made false allegations of rape against lacrosse players in the Duke lacrosse case. Mangum's work in the sex industry as a black woman, while the young men she accused were white, generated extensive media interest and academic debate about race, class, gender, and the politicization of the justice system. In December 2024, Mangum admitted to fabricating the assault.
In February 2010, she was charged with the attempted murder of her then live-in partner, Milton Walker, but was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile, injury to personal property and resisting a public officer.
In November 2013, she was found guilty of second-degree murder after she stabbed boyfriend Reginald Daye, who died 10 days after. She argued that she acted in self-defense, saying that she feared Daye would kill her. She was sentenced to 14 to 18 years in prison.
Read more...The July 18, 1978 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 198 day of the year. President of the United States was Jimmy Carter.
If you were born on this day, you are 47 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, July 18, 2025, 58 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, July 18, 2026, in 306 days. You have lived for 17,225 days, or about 413,423 hours, or about 24,805,428 minutes, or about 1,488,325,680 seconds.
Date: 18 July 1978
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
T Wicker comment on recent Sup Ct rulings including 1 in which Ct ruled that press has no greater right of access than gen public to such govt facilities as jails and prisons; holds that in practice press does usually have more access to govt activities than gen public; holds access is needed so that public may be informed about what Govt is doing (M)
Date: 19 July 1978
By JOSEPH B. TREASTER
protesting off-duty policemen block delivery of early edition of July 19 Daily News for nearly 1 hr, giving way only after repeated appeals from PBA pres Samuel DeMilia and Chief William J Devine; assn selected News as protest site because of its reptd anti-police stance; publisher W H James denies charges illus (M)
Date: 19 July 1978
By LESLEY OELSNER Special to The New York Times
Lesley Special
Farber refuses to yield his notes for use in Jascalevich trial; ordered by trial Judge William J Arnold to appear in ct on July 19 for hearing on criminal-contempt citation and on July 21 on possibility of civil-contempt citation; posts $5,000 bond at each of proceedings to remain at liberty; illus (M)
Date: 19 July 1978
says Times will not print retraction of Whitney's May 24 dispatch, as was ordered by Soviet ct
Date: 19 July 1978
By DAVID K. SHIPLER Special to The New York Times
David SHIPLER
Soviet ct rules that Amer correspondents Craig R Whitney (NY Times) and Harold D Piper (Baltimore Sun) have libeled Soviet TV employees; reporters are ordered to publish retraction, either in Soviet or Amer press, and to pay equivalent of $1,647 each in ct costs; ruling follows testimony by convicted dissident, Zviad K Gamsakhurdia, that a televised confession attributed to him in May was genuine; case revd; illus (M)
Date: 18 July 1978
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
NYS Sup Ct Justice Harold J Rothwax orders NY Times reporter M A Farber to appear in ct for hearing on whether he should be required to go to NJ and comply with subpoena demanding that his news file on Dr Mario E Jascalevich be submitted to judge presiding at dr's murder trial in Hackensack (S)
Date: 19 July 1978
By RICHARD BURT Special to The New York Times
Richard Special
White House officials rept Pres Carter has decided to cancel sale of Sperry Univac computer to USSR for use by press agency Tass; say decision is response to conviction and sentencing of Soviet dissidents Anatoly Shcharansky and Aleksandr Ginzburg (S)