Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez Jr. has announced that the man Crystal Gail Mangum, 32, is charged with stabbing died on Wednesday evening.
On April 3, Mangum, 32, was arrested by Durham police for allegedly stabbing her live-in boyfriend, Reginald Daye, 46.
According to the arrest report, officers responded to a report of a stabbing at the couple’s apartment on Century Oaks Drive, and found Daye suffering from multiple stab wounds.
Mangum was arrested at a neighbor’s apartment and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury.
Daye was taken to Duke University Hospital.
Mangum is currently being held in the Durham County Jail, where she has remained on $300,000 bail since her arrest.
Aside from the false allegations she made against the Duke Lacrosse Team, Mangum actually has a long history of criminal behavior, and making allegations of rape.
-In December 2010, Mangum was found guilty of child abuse.
-In August 2010, Mangum landed in the Durham County Jail for violating a release agreement stemming from an arrest earlier in the year.
-In February 2010, Mangum was arrested for the assault and attempted murder of her boyfriend, Milton Walker, 33, among other charges.
According to police, Mangum set his clothes on fire, physically assaulted and attempted to stab him, all in view of her three children, ages 3, 9 and 10. The 911 call was actually placed by one of the children.
She initially gave the responding officers a false name, "Marella Mangum," and allegedly fought with the officers.
Mangum was charged with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.
-In 1996, two months after her graduation from Hillside High School in Durham, N.C., Mangum went to the police and claimed that she had been raped three years earlier and identified her attackers as her boyfriend and two of his friends. In 2006, CNN reported that the police interviewed Mangum and asked her "to write a chronological-order statement for investigative purposes."
She originally told police that her three alleged attackers had held her against her will, raped her, and threatened her life. However, she failed to follow up with police after the initial interview and simply dropped the charges.
Late in 1996, Mangum joined the U.S. Navy, signing on for an eight year enlistment. She began active duty in 1997. Though committed for eight years, the Navy discharged her in 1998.
In 1997 at age 19, she met and married a 33-year-old man named Kenneth Nathaniel McNeill. Under Navy orders, her and her new husband moved to California, where she was assigned to the USS Mount Hood. While aboard the Mount Hood, she reportedly began an affair with another sailor and became pregnant as a result
The U.S. Navy has refused to disclose the reason for Mangum's abrupt discharge.
Because of the extra-marital affair, Mangum and McNeill separated.
-On June 16, 1998, she filed charges against McNeill in which she claimed that he had taken her into the woods and threatened to kill her. A hearing on the matter was held on June 23, Mangum failed to appear in court to prove the charges and the complaint was dismissed.
-After a string of low-wage jobs, Mangum decided to become a stripper. She showed up one evening in 2002 at the Diamond Girls strip club in Durham. Club owner Larry Jones said that she was looking for a job and auditioned by giving lap dances to several men.
Jones decided not to hire Mangum because she was "acting funny."
One of the men she entertained with a lap dance was a taxi driver.
According to a Durham County Sheriff's report: "As she was feeling him up and putting her hands in his pockets she removed the keys to his taxi cab, without him knowing. He [the cabbie] told her he would drive her home but needed to go to the restroom first. While in the restroom he was advised that she was driving off in his taxi cab."
Durham County Deputies went looking for Mangum and when they tried to stop her, she sped away driving the wrong way on U.S. Highway 70. They quickly caught up with her in a wooded area, as deputies approached the vehicle she aimed the car at one of them and attempted to run him over. She was finally apprehended after hitting one of the sheriff's cars. Mangum passed out while being questioned by deputies and was transported to Duke University Medical Center. Her blood alcohol level was .19 (more than twice the N.C. legal limit).
That incident resulted in Mangum's conviction on the following charges: -larceny -speeding to elude arrest -assault on a government official -DUI
She received a sentence of three consecutive weekends in the Durham County Jail and two years probation.
Eventually, Mangum landed a job as a stripper at a club known as Platinum Pleasures. She was also working for an escort service called Bunny Hole Entertainment. After the Duke rape allegations, she told a reporter with The News and Observer that she went on dates with clients about three times a week.
The false rape accusations she leveled against the Duke Lacrosse team went forward despite the fact that the district attorney in the case, Mike Nifong sat on DNA evidence which would have actually cleared the players.
At the time, Nifong was in the midst of a re-election campaign and many felt his actions were purely politically motivated.
The case garnered a tremendous amount of national attention and stirred-up racial tensions in the Raliegh-Durham area.
Eventually, the truth prevailed, charges against the students were dropped, and Nifong was discredited and forced to step down. He was ultimately disbarred for his actions in the case and spent one night in jail for lying to a Superior Court judge.
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