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What happened that night?

Contents:
Meeting each other
The phone call
In the limo
In the hotel downstairs
In the hotel room upstairs
After the rape
Using the expression "at that time"
Conclusion
  
Meeting each other

1.  The subject said:

1)  "He pointed to me and said, 'You're a nice Christian girl.'"

2)  "...and he came up to me and hugged me and said, 'Would you like to go out on a date with me?' and I just said, 'Sure.'"

2.  At this point the subject was asked:

"Did you feel romantic towards him?" and she answered with, "No, no. I didn't find him attractive..."

Please note that the subject didn't answer the question she was asked. She answered a different question: "Did you find him attractive?"

According to the rule, "If the subject didn't answer the question, the subject did" we can conclude that the subject felt romantic towards him.

At this point the subject was asked about a testimony that she had "made remarks about Mike Tyson's physique", and that she had "specifically... talked about his butt." The subject's initial response was:

"Yeah, I did know about that."

Barbara Walters, noticing her lack of denial, insisted by asking, "Did you ever say anything about his physique?" for which she answered with:

"No, I didn't... I know for a fact that I never said the things that this person is saying that I said."

Please notice the following:

a.   "Never" is not as strong as "didn't". This is to say that the subject's denial in regard to this point is a weak denial.

b.   The subject only denied saying "the things that this person is saying that I said." However, she didn't deny saying something similar or a little bit different.
  
The phone call

Mike Tyson phoned the subject at 1:30 at night inviting her to come down to the hotel lobby. He said, "...I just want to talk to you, I just want to talk to you."

The subject said:

"At that point I'm thinking we could go to these after-parties, we can go around Indianapolis and everything, and I just - you know, I wasn't really thinking anything bad."

Please notice the following:

1.  The subject said:

"...we can go around Indianapolis and everything..."

The subject should be asked to clarify what she means by "...and everything..."

2.  The subject said:

"I wasn't really thinking anything bad."

a.   The word "really" reduces commitment.

b.   The subject should be asked to clarify what she means by "bad".
  
In the limo

The subject said:

"I went down to the limo and got in, and the next thing I knew, I was at the Canterbury Hotel."

"The next thing I knew" is an "unnecessary connection", indicating some "missing time", some sensitivity, and that some information might be missing at that point in the statement.
  
In the hotel downstairs

The subject continued by saying, "He just said, 'I have to stop up and get something,'... and I didn't think anything of it..." which brought the two to Mike Tyson's room upstairs.
  
In the hotel room upstairs

The subject didn't give any account as to what happened from the time the two entered the room until Mike Tyson "...completely changed. The look on his face completely changed, everything about him completely changed."
  
After the rape

Desiree described her conversation with Mike Tyson after the rape:

"He said, 'Don't you love me now?' and then, when I was leaving, and he asked me to stay, I said, 'Why, so you can do this to me again?' And he said - he said, 'You're just a baby, you're just a crybaby, that's all. You're just a baby, that's why you're crying, 'cause you're just a crybaby, that's all.' And then he said, 'Well, then it's a long walk back,' like almost trying to force me to stay, and I was throwing my clothes on as fast as I could at that time, and he just picked up the phone, and I assume he called the limo, but I was out of there."

It would be easier to follow the course of the conversation if we write it as a dialogue:

1)  He said: "Don't you love me now?"

2)  ...and then, when I was leaving he asked me to stay.

3)  I said: "Why, so you can do this to me again?"

4)  He said - he said: "You're just a baby, you're just a crybaby, that's all. You're just a baby, that's why you're crying, 'cause you're just a crybaby, that's all."

5)  He said: "Well, then it's a long walk back,"

Please notice the following:

a.   The description of the conversation started with Tyson asking the subject a question.
Question: Did she say/do anything before that to prompt him to ask this specific question?
b.   It seems that the subject's response was the following:
"and then, when I was leaving..."
"Left" is an "unnecessary connection", indicating some sensitivity and that some information might be missing at that point in the statement.
c.   Generally speaking, a conversation between two people is a two-sided event. One participant says something and the other one responds.
This is evident in the exchange of (2) through (4).
d.   The conversation is described as a very one-sided conversation, while logic tells us that this is impossible. This is to say that the subject omitted her part, reporting only fragments of the conversation - no answer to (4).
e.   In (4) the subject said "he said - he said" saying the words twice. This could indicate that something might be missing from the conversation at this point of time.
f.   The sequence of events inside the statement should reflect the sequence of events in reality. In a rape case we should note the location of the resistance in the sequence of events.
Please notice that the subject mentioned, "...and I was throwing my clothes on as fast as I could at that time..." quite a time after (4).
Therefore, it is quite safe to say that the subject didn't put her clothes on during (1) through (4).
By referring to her "clothes" instead of specific articles of clothing, the subject implies that she needed to put on all of her clothes, and not just some of them.
She doesn't mention how her clothes came to be off, and whether she exhibited any resistance to her clothes being taken off.
  
Using the expression "at that time"

There are several points during the interview where the subject uses the expression "at that time".

1)  "I said something to that effect, something in her defense... and for them to put her down I thought was wrong at the time."

2)  "And he said that he just wanted to talk to me, and at that time, one of my roommates interrupted and said, 'Well, there's all those after-parties and everything.'"

3)  "Maybe now I look back on it and I say, 'Wow, I was set up the whole time,' you know, this had to have been a set-up, he had it all planned that he was going to do this to me, but at the time... I had no intention of doing anything with him and I didn't think that he had any intention of doing anything with me."

4)  "...so many people don't remember... what they would have done if a celebrity called them at that time and said that he was leaving the next day, this is the only opportunity to get pictures of my father's hero, as I was thinking at the time."

5)  "I was throwing my clothes on as fast as I could at that time..."

In (1), referring to her defense of Robin Givens, the subject says, "for them to put her down I thought was wrong at the time." This implies that at another time she would not have thought it wrong for the girls to criticize Robin Givens and "put her down".

In (2) and (4) the subject is specifically referring to things that happened at a certain time.

In (3) the subject says that "at the time... I had no intention of doing anything with him..." This implies that at another time she might have had that intention.

Also in (3), the subject says, "Maybe now I look back on it and I say, 'Wow, I was set up the whole time.'" The subject is not sure that she was "set up"; she only says that "maybe" she now thinks so.

In (5) the subject says, "I was throwing my clothes on as fast as I could at that time..." This implies that at another time she was not "throwing on [her] clothes as fast as [she] could."
  
Conclusion:

The subject's description of what happened is incomplete, showing signals of concealing information in some areas. The subject's background should be checked as it might have something to do with the events of that night.