The Washington Post has a rather incredible article they posted yesterday that seemed to read as a frivolous smear, until you see they verified actual evidence. (Which I'm sure they quadruple checked as the Washington Post's series of articles on this have been acting as a criticism of shoddy journalism)
The article doesn't have a conclusion, but the timeline of events they lay out is absolutely brutal
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Here the timeline the article lays out:
-Jackie comes to UVA and befriends Randall, and subsequently Jackie showed interest in dating Randall but he told her he just wanted to be friends
-Soon afterwards Jackie tells her friends (Andy, Cindy, Randall) that an upperclassman at UVA is pursuing her. Andy/Cindy/Randall think the upperclassman is a made up person.
-Jackie shows her friends (Randall) images of the UVA upperclassman the friends suspected is not real, along with messages about how much he likes Jackie and how hot she is (The images turn out to be public social media photos of a person living in another state in a different college who says he never really spoke to Jackie in all of high school)
-The suspected pretend guy then starts sending messages (which the WP verified) about how Jackie really wants Randall, and that Randall is "funny and smart and worth it"
-On September 28th when Jackie calls her friends to report she was just assaulted, she says the man in the images forced her to perform oral sex on a group of guys. The man from the images attended a different college, never belonged to any fraternity even at the out of state college and was in another state at a public athletic event on September 28th.
-After Jackie told them of the attack, a few days later Randall then received an email from the guy they suspected wasn't real, and the email is full of praise of what a great guy Jackie thinks Randall is.
-Randall said he would have given the different series of archived messages and his story to Rolling Stone, but they never contacted him (In the Rollling Stone article, the RS reporter claimed Randall wouldn't comment. When the Washington Post tried to contact the RS reporter about whether she actually ever attempted to contact Randall, the reporter did not respond)
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You have to feel for Jackie, she asked that she be left out of the story (She obviously knew what would happen if someone started digging) but Sabrina Erdely was all about exploiting Jackie and seems to be an all around awful human being. I also feel really bad about Andy and Cindy, who were pretty much made out to be monsters just to make the Rolling Stone article more "believable".
8:32 AM PT: Hanna Rosin at Slate just wrote a piece saying: When confronted with what appear to be so many orchestrated lies, it's getting harder to see Jackie as a person whose memory may have been shaken by traum