***Updated April 10, 6:45 p.m.***
The other shoe has dropped. Here’s the headline from WRAL: “DNA Testing Finds No Match In Duke Lacrosse Case.” Jon Ham provides the update for the LR.

From WRAL tonight:

Attorney Bill Thomas, who declined to identify the player he represents, said photos taken by a student at the party the night in question prove the rape never happened. They show the woman, an exotic dancer hired to dance at the party, had extensive cuts and bruises on her body when she arrived to the house.

Other photos showed the woman lying on the ground as if she were asleep or intoxicated, and another photo showed the woman smiling and banging on a door at the house trying to get back inside, Thomas said. All of the photos are time-stamped before the rape reportedly occurred.

“All of these statements you’ve heard … about this brutal assault, rape, kidnapping and robbery which occurred, I believe that the public will soon be able to learn the truth, and that these allegations are totally false and without merit,” Thomas said.

From the LR last Tuesday: “A trusted source close to the investigation has told me that the DNA test results will come back negative and that other evidence exists that will exonerate the players.”

I thought the following information from WRAL was also worth passing along:

Defense attorney Kerry Sutton, who represents team co-captain Matt Zash, said she believed the woman fabricated her story and “quickly got in over her head with the story she’s telling.”

Joe Cheshire, who represents co-captain Dave Evans, told reporters last Thursday that the unidentified woman who made the 911 call was actually the second dancer, whose identity has not yet surfaced publicly. The caller alternatively told a police dispatcher the pair were driving and walking past the house.

… the woman making the accusations also has a criminal past. In June 2002, police records show, she stole the taxi of a man to whom she was giving a lap dance at a Durham strip club. The records say she led a sheriff’s deputy on a winding chase at speeds of up to 70 mph, and tried to run him down as he approached the cab on foot.

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