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The wife of Baltimore Ravens safety Earl Thomas III was arrested last month in Texas after pointing a loaded gun at her husband’s head during an argument.

Nina Thomas was arrested on April 13 in Austin, Texas, and charged with first-degree felony burglary of a residence with intent to commit aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to a court document obtained Thursday by ESPN’s Jamison Hensley.

A team spokesman said the Ravens are aware of the situation but that Thomas did not notify the team of the incident.

Earl Thomas was not arrested, and an attorney representing Nina Thomas said Thursday that she “was wrongfully arrested.”

According to an arrest warrant from the Travis County magistrate court, Nina Thomas told police that she confronted her husband at a rental home because she believed he was cheating on her.

Nina Thomas told police she used Snapchat to track Earl to the rental home, brought two other women with her, and found her husband and his brother in separate bedrooms with two other women.

According to the document, an officer viewed cellphone video footage that shows Nina Thomas placing Earl’s 9 mm Beretta less than a foot away from her husband’s head, with the safety disengaged and her finger on the trigger.

Nina Thomas told police she had called the other women to help confront her husband and took his handgun with an intent to “scare him,” according to the document. She had taken the magazine out of the gun but was unaware of a round in the chamber.

According to the arrest warrant, Tiffany Loving, who was one of the women at the rental residence with the Thomas brothers, told police that Earl asked Nina to give him the gun, but Nina began hitting him with her free hand, striking him in the eye, arm and groin. Earl and Nina then fell on the ground and “tussled” for the gun, the warrant said.

The two women who arrived with Nina — Camisha Garlow and Kayla Baham-Heisser — were also arrested for burglary of a residence.

Earl Thomas, a seven-time Pro Bowler who turned 31 on Thursday, wrestled the gun away from Nina Thomas, according to the document. When police arrived at 3:41 a.m., they found Nina Thomas with a knife and chasing Earl, who had the gun.

Earl Thomas indicated in an Instagram post Wednesday night, which has since been deleted, that TMZ would be releasing details of the altercation and said he wanted to “get ahead” of the report.

“It’s not really anybody’s business,” he said in the since-deleted post. “It pisses me off that it got out, but it’s the world we live in today. But instead of talking about us, just keep us in y’all’s prayers. Stuff like this happens.”

Thomas said he is talking with his wife and is seeing their three children. Nina Thomas’ first court appearance is scheduled for June 8.

Thomas is entering the second year of a four-year, $55 million contract with the Ravens and is scheduled to make $10 million this season. In his first year with the Ravens, Thomas reached the Pro Bowl after making 49 tackles and intercepting two passes.

“We became aware of the situation when we read and saw it on the reports late last night and early this morning,” a Ravens spokesman told ESPN.

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Published 12:25 p.m. ET May 7, 2020 | Updated 12:59 p.m. ET May 7, 2020

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AUSTIN, Texas — Baltimore Ravens star Earl Thomas is listed as the victim in a domestic violence incident last month in Austin, where his wife was arrested after police say she told them she pointed a loaded weapon at her husband’s head when she found him in bed with another woman.

The incident, first reported by TMZ, happened in the early morning of April 13 at a rental home in East Austin in the 600 block of Brushy Street. Police say they responded to that location and found Thomas’ wife, Nina, chasing her husband in the parking lot with a knife, an arrest affidavit stated. Thomas, according to police, was carrying a pistol that they later determined he had taken away from Nina after she entered the home to confront her husband about cheating. Police ordered the Thomases to the ground and to drop their weapons, and the couple complied, the affidavit states.

Nina Thomas, 30, was arrested and charged with first-degree family violence for burglary of a residence with intent to commit aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Two women who police say accompanied Nina to the residence to confront her husband were charged with burglary of a residence.

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Court records show Nina Thomas was released from jail later in the day after posting $25,000 bail. An emergency protective order states she cannot have contact with Earl Thomas or the woman whom she found Earl in bed with for 60 days.

Houston lawyer Jonathan Goins, who is listed as the attorney of record for Nina Thomas, issued a statement Thursday saying his client was wrongfully arrested.

“We have already gathered information which controverts every single allegation made on the night in question,” Goins said. “We have begun working with the Travis County District Attorney’s Office to ensure that these charges do not stick and Mrs. Thomas’s pristine name is cleared.”

The Ravens said Thursday in a statement: “We became aware of the situation when we read and saw it on the reports late last night and early this morning.”

Nina Thomas is set to appear in Travis County District Court on June 8 for an initial setting in the case.

Earl Thomas, who turned 31 Thursday, was not charged in the incident. He released a video Wednesday night on social media addressing the incident.

“Instead of talking about us, just keep us in your prayers,” Thomas said. “Stuff like this happens. We try to live the best lives we possibly can but sometimes it don’t go as planned. Just pray for us as we go through this stuff.”

Thomas told police that he left the home he shares with Nina in the afternoon before the incident after an argument about him drinking too much alcohol. He said he called his brother to pick him up and the two went to the downtown rental home to watch TV with two women — including one who Thomas told police he had been seeing for three or four months while he worked on his relationship with Nina.

Earl Thomas, according to his wife’s affidavit, was awoken in bed with the other woman at around 1 a.m. when Nina entered the room and pointed a black pistol at him. Nina largely corroborated the events, telling police she put the gun to her husband’s head to scare him. Police say Nina told them she removed the magazine thinking the gun could not fire but was unaware that the gun had a round in the chamber. Nina, according to police, admitted to disengaging the gun’s safety.

Nina told police, they say, that she tracked her husband’s whereabouts to the rental home through his Snapchat account, which showed several videos of Earl with the other woman. Two women who Nina brought to confront her husband were also taken into custody: her sister, Kayla Baham-Heisser, and her friend Camisha Garlow, the ex-spouse of Earl Thomas’ brother, Seth, who was with the football player at the rental home.

Baham-Heisser took footage of the incident with her phone that police reviewed. The video, according to police, shows Earl Thomas at the top of a staircase with Nina placing the gun within a foot of his head with her finger on the trigger. Nina struck Earl in the nose before the video ended, police said. The video also showed Garlow attempting to attack a woman who was in the home with Seth Thomas.

Thomas, a safety, is a seven-time Pro Bowl selection and considered one of the top defensive players in the NFL. He won a Super Bowl in the 2013 season with the Seattle Seahawks, who drafted him in the first round out of the University of Texas in 2010.

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AUSTIN, Texas – Details have surfaced of an incident in April involving former Texas Longhorns star and current Baltimore Ravens safety Earl Thomas and his wife, Nina Thomas.

According to Travis County court documents obtained by KSAT-12, Nina Thomas was arrested on April 13 in Austin after she confronted Earl Thomas with a gun and pointed the weapon at his head.

The arrest affidavit stated that Nina Thomas confronted Earl at a rental home because she suspected him of cheating on her.

Nina and two other women broke into the home and found Earl and his brother Seth Thomas in separate rooms, each with a woman, documents showed.

At one point, Nina had the loaded gun less than a foot away from her husband’s head, according to the affidavit.

Earl Thomas managed to wrestle the gun away from Nina and police were called.

Officers arrived around 3:41 a.m. and found Nina Thomas chasing Earl with a knife.

According to the document, Nina Thomas told police her intent was just to “scare” her husband, but she did not realize there was a round in the chamber even though she had taken the magazine out of the gun.

Nina Thomas was charged with first-degree felony burglary of a residence with intent to commit aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to the affidavit.

The other two women with Nina Thomas were arrested for burglary of a residence.

Earl Thomas was not arrested for the incident. The 7-time Pro Bowl player posted a since-deleted video on Instagram Wednesday saying he was notified the story was about to come out and he wanted to get ahead of the report.

The story was initially published by TMZ.

“It’s not really anybody’s business. It pisses me off that it got out, but it’s the world we live in today. But instead of talking about us, just keep us in your prayers. Stuff like this happens,” Thomas said in the deleted video. “We try to live the best lives we possibly can, but sometimes that doesn’t go as planned. Just pray for us as we go though this.”

(Image of since-deleted post on Earl Thomas's Instagram account.)
(Image of since-deleted post on Earl Thomas’s Instagram account.)

Thomas added he is speaking with Nina and seeing his children.

Thomas played at Texas from 2007 to 2009 and was drafted in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft by the Seattle Seahawks.

Baltimore, his current team, has not announced whether any disciplinary action would be taken against Thomas.

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Published 12:25 p.m. ET May 7, 2020 | Updated 12:59 p.m. ET May 7, 2020

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AUSTIN, Texas — Baltimore Ravens star Earl Thomas is listed as the victim in a domestic violence incident last month in Austin, where his wife was arrested after police say she told them she pointed a loaded weapon at her husband’s head when she found him in bed with another woman.

The incident, first reported by TMZ, happened in the early morning of April 13 at a rental home in East Austin in the 600 block of Brushy Street. Police say they responded to that location and found Thomas’ wife, Nina, chasing her husband in the parking lot with a knife, an arrest affidavit stated. Thomas, according to police, was carrying a pistol that they later determined he had taken away from Nina after she entered the home to confront her husband about cheating. Police ordered the Thomases to the ground and to drop their weapons, and the couple complied, the affidavit states.

Nina Thomas, 30, was arrested and charged with first-degree family violence for burglary of a residence with intent to commit aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Two women who police say accompanied Nina to the residence to confront her husband were charged with burglary of a residence.

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Court records show Nina Thomas was released from jail later in the day after posting $25,000 bail. An emergency protective order states she cannot have contact with Earl Thomas or the woman whom she found Earl in bed with for 60 days.

Houston lawyer Jonathan Goins, who is listed as the attorney of record for Nina Thomas, issued a statement Thursday saying his client was wrongfully arrested.

“We have already gathered information which controverts every single allegation made on the night in question,” Goins said. “We have begun working with the Travis County District Attorney’s Office to ensure that these charges do not stick and Mrs. Thomas’s pristine name is cleared.”

The Ravens said Thursday in a statement: “We became aware of the situation when we read and saw it on the reports late last night and early this morning.”

Nina Thomas is set to appear in Travis County District Court on June 8 for an initial setting in the case.

Earl Thomas, who turned 31 Thursday, was not charged in the incident. He released a video Wednesday night on social media addressing the incident.

“Instead of talking about us, just keep us in your prayers,” Thomas said. “Stuff like this happens. We try to live the best lives we possibly can but sometimes it don’t go as planned. Just pray for us as we go through this stuff.”

Thomas told police that he left the home he shares with Nina in the afternoon before the incident after an argument about him drinking too much alcohol. He said he called his brother to pick him up and the two went to the downtown rental home to watch TV with two women — including one who Thomas told police he had been seeing for three or four months while he worked on his relationship with Nina.

Earl Thomas, according to his wife’s affidavit, was awoken in bed with the other woman at around 1 a.m. when Nina entered the room and pointed a black pistol at him. Nina largely corroborated the events, telling police she put the gun to her husband’s head to scare him. Police say Nina told them she removed the magazine thinking the gun could not fire but was unaware that the gun had a round in the chamber. Nina, according to police, admitted to disengaging the gun’s safety.

Nina told police, they say, that she tracked her husband’s whereabouts to the rental home through his Snapchat account, which showed several videos of Earl with the other woman. Two women who Nina brought to confront her husband were also taken into custody: her sister, Kayla Baham-Heisser, and her friend Camisha Garlow, the ex-spouse of Earl Thomas’ brother, Seth, who was with the football player at the rental home.

Baham-Heisser took footage of the incident with her phone that police reviewed. The video, according to police, shows Earl Thomas at the top of a staircase with Nina placing the gun within a foot of his head with her finger on the trigger. Nina struck Earl in the nose before the video ended, police said. The video also showed Garlow attempting to attack a woman who was in the home with Seth Thomas.

Thomas, a safety, is a seven-time Pro Bowl selection and considered one of the top defensive players in the NFL. He won a Super Bowl in the 2013 season with the Seattle Seahawks, who drafted him in the first round out of the University of Texas in 2010.

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NFL star and former University of Texas standout Earl Thomas is listed as the victim in a domestic violence incident last month in Austin where his wife was arrested after she told police she pointed a loaded weapon at her husband’s head when she found him in bed with another woman.

The incident, first reported by TMZ, happened in the early morning of April 13 at a rental home in East Austin in the 600 block of Brushy Street. Police say they responded to that location and found Thomas’ wife, Nina, chasing her husband in the parking lot with a knife, an arrest affidavit stated. Thomas, according to police, was carrying a pistol that they later determined he had taken away from Nina after she entered the home to confront her husband about cheating. Police ordered the Thomases to the ground and to drop their weapons, and the couple complied, the affidavit states.

Nina Thomas, 30, was arrested and charged with first-degree family violence for burglary of a residence with intent to commit aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Two women who police say accompanied Nina to the residence to confront her husband were charged with burglary of a residence.

Court records show Nina Thomas was released from jail later in the day after posting $25,000 bail. An emergency protective order states she cannot have contact with Earl Thomas or the woman who she found Earl in bed with for 60 days. Nina Thomas in bail paperwork listed her address in Austin as 3900 Pearce Rd, which property records show is a $3.5 million appraised estate in the western part of the city that she and Earl purchased in 2018.

Houston lawyer Jonathan Goins, who is listed as the attorney of record for Nina Thomas, did not return a message Thursday. He previously told TMZ Sports that Nina denies the allegations.

“I am here to declare that my client unequivocally and categorically denies these allegations and we look forward to our day in court where we can clear her good name.”

Nina Thomas is set to appear in Travis County District Court on June 8 for an initial setting in the case.

Earl Thomas, who turned 31 Thursday, was not charged in the incident. He released a video Wednesday night on Twitter addressing the incident.

“Instead of talking about us, just keep us in your prayers,” Thomas said. “Stuff like this happens. We try to live the best lives we possibly can but sometimes it don’t go as planned. Just pray for us as we go through this stuff.”

Thomas, a safety with the Baltimore Ravens, is a seven-time Pro Bowl selection and considered one of the top defensive players in the NFL. He won a Super Bowl after the 2014 season with the Seattle Seahawks, which drafted him in the first round out of the University of Texas in 2010.

Thomas told police that he left the home he shares with Nina in the afternoon before the incident after an argument about him drinking too much alcohol. He said he called his brother to pick him up and the two went to the downtown rental home to watch TV with two women — including one who Thomas told police he had been seeing for three or four months while he worked on his relationship with Nina.

Earl Thomas, according to his wife’s affidavit, was awoken in bed with the other woman at around 1 a.m. when Nina entered the room and pointed a black pistol at him. Nina largely corroborated the events, telling police she put the gun to her husband’s head to scare him. Police say Nina told them she removed the magazine thinking the gun could not fire but was unaware that the gun had a round in the chamber. Nina, according to police, admitted to disengaging the gun’s safety.

Nina told police she tracked her husband’s whereabouts to the rental home through his Snapchat account, which showed several videos of Earl with the other woman. Two women who Nina brought to confront her husband were also taken into custody: her sister, Kayla Baham-Heisser, and her friend Camisha Garlow, the ex-spouse of Earl Thomas’ brother, Seth, who was with the football player at the rental home.

Baham-Heisser took footage of the incident with her phone that police reviewed. The video, according to police, shows Earl Thomas at the top of a staircase with Nina placing the gun within a foot of his head with her finger on the trigger. Nina struck Earl in the nose before the video ended, police said. The video also showed Garlow attempting to attack a woman who was in the home with Seth Thomas.

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Baltimore Ravens safety Earl Thomas took to IG to announce that he’ll join TMZ to discuss an altercation that occurred between himself and his wife, Nina. 

Shortly after Thomas posted the message, TMZ published a report that detailed the situation. According to police reports, Earl left their home after getting into an argument with Nina and was picked up but his brother, Seth. Later in the day, Nina checked into Earl’s Snapchat and saw that he was with another woman. She was also able to find out his location, an Airbnb rental in Austin, Texas. Once she pinpointed where Earl was at, she took his 9mm Berreta and called up two women to accompany her to confront her husband. Nina said she brought the gun to “scare him.”

When they arrived at the Airbnb, they “discovered Earl and Seth naked in bed with other women.”  

Nina admits that she then pointed the gun at her husband’s head, thinking “she took out the magazine thinking that the gun could not fire.” Police later found out that there was a bullet in the chamber. Footage that was shot by one of the women that accompanied Nina was reviewed by cops, who said that the gun was “less than a foot away” from Earl’s head. They added, “it can clearly be seen that Nina’s finger was on the trigger and the safety is disengaged.”

Police say that Earl was able to get the gun away from Nina, who was later arrested. She was charged with burglary of a residence with intent to commit aggravated assault with a deadly weapon but was freed on bond, TMZ reports. The two other women were also arrested. The Ravens player told cops that his wife struck him multiple times as he attempted to get the gun away from her. A woman that was at the house with Earl and his brother Seth alleged that Nina threatened her and the others with the gun and told them that she had “something for all you hoes.”

Thomas didn’t provide his side of the story but will presumably get into it all during his interview with the publication. “Obviously this is not how I wanted my birthday breakfast to start out or my birthday but it is what it is,” Thomas, who’s turning 32 on Thursday, May 7, wrote of the April 13 incident.

“I just wanted to get ahead of it,” Thomas said in a video that accompanied the post. “I mean, it’s really not anybody’s business. It pisses me off that it got out, but it’s the world we live in today. But instead of talking about us, just keep us in y’all prayers. Stuff like this happens, bro. We try to live the best life we possibly can but sometimes it don’t go as planned. Just pray for us as we go through this stuff. We’ve been talking. I’m seeing my kids, so just keep us in your prayers.”


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King County prosecutors have filed a second-degree rape charge against onetime Seattle professional indoor-soccer team owner and player Dion Earl in a decade-old case initially closed by Kirkland police for insufficient evidence.

The case was reopened in November 2017 and assigned to a different Kirkland detective after Earl, 47, was arrested the previous month in Arizona on sexual-assault charges connected to separate incidents involving two female babysitters, ages 18 and 21, who looked after his children. Earl has long maintained residences in Mesa, Arizona, and Kent and frequently traveled between both on business.

The rape charge, filed Monday in King County Superior Court, stems from an alleged September 2009 attack on a massage-parlor worker in Kirkland. Earl is to be arraigned June 24 but is not expected to attend the hearing as he remains jailed in Arizona.

His 2017 arrest in Arizona raised lingering questions about authorities’ failure to charge Earl in King County, where the former Seattle Pacific University soccer star and Seattle Sea Dogs indoor player had been the subject of two sexual-assault probes and myriad police calls, protection orders and investigations.

O.D. Harris, father of the 18-year-old babysitter in the Arizona case, said last year his daughter might never have been abused had Earl been prosecuted in Washington.

“It really makes me sad that our justice system has failed all these people all of these years,’’ Harris said.

Earl had owned the Kent-based Impact expansion team in the fledgling Major Arena Soccer League (MASL) in 2014, but 22 of his players walked out on him shortly after two members of the squad’s all-female dance team complained to police Earl had sexually assaulted them.

That case was also dropped by the King County Sheriff’s Office for a lack of evidence, though the two dancers and four other former team staffers later won nearly $1 million in damages and court fees from Earl in a lawsuit alleging sexual assault, harassment and unfair treatment by him.

Former Impact office manager Amy David, one of the plaintiffs in the case, has said Earl took an uncanny interest in the squad’s dance team. She’s long insisted the sexual-assault allegations by the two dance-team members should have been investigated more aggressively given Earl’s history with women and the earlier rape investigation.

Since David’s 2014 ordeal, in which she says she resigned from the Impact following “hostile’’ treatment by Earl when she tried to confront him about his behavior toward staffers and the dancers, she has been in contact with the alleged victim in the 2009 Kirkland rape case and tried to support her.

She’s thankful Kirkland police and prosecutors took a second look.

“His victim finally has a voice and can hopefully begin to move forward in her healing process after waiting almost a decade for this to come,’’ David said Monday.

But David added: “If he had been charged in 2009, maybe there would not have been so many more victims and I would never have gone to work for him.’’

While in custody in Arizona, Earl was also indicted in April 2018 on federal charges of orchestrating a $1.1 million tax fraud scheme by overstating mortgage-interest payments and his income from various business operations — including the Impact — between 2008 and 2014. Federal prosecutors have stayed proceedings in that case pending the outcome of Earl’s sexual-assault case in Arizona.

Earl was stripped of his soccer franchise by the MASL shortly after a Seattle Times story in December 2014 reported the league’s background checks had failed to turn up red flags, including five restraining orders taken out against him by Seattle-area women for various forms of harassment from 1998 through 2014.

An ex-girlfriend claimed Earl stalked her and broke into her home, standing over her while she and her children slept. Another, who had dated Earl at SPU, claimed he had sent threatening emails to her and her family.

In 1999, Earl was convicted of nonfelony assault in an argument with his sister, but the conviction was dismissed after court-ordered counseling. And a 2003 series in The Seattle Times, “Coaches who Prey,’’ also detailed how Earl lost a high-school coaching job in Bellevue in 1998 after allegedly asking a 17-year-old cheerleader on a date.

After the 2009 Kirkland case was reopened and assigned to Detective Mark Brown, he obtained a search warrant for Earl’s DNA, which was executed by Mesa police while he remained in their custody. Swabs of the DNA were sent to the Washington State Police Crime Laboratory for comparison with fluid initially discovered on underwear submitted by the alleged massage-parlor victim in 2009 that she said she was wearing that night.

Based on the results, court documents state there is probable cause to criminally charge Earl with rape.

The court documents do not address why Earl is being charged now, when Kirkland police had that evidence more than nine years ago and declined to seek a DNA match.

At the time, the first Kirkland police detective, Cristina Gilland, spoke to Earl by phone. She said Earl initially denied any sexual contact with the massage-parlor worker other than letting her fondle him. Then, she added, he later provided a written statement in which he claimed they’d had consensual intercourse for money and she’d tried to extort him for more than the agreed-upon price.

Gilland said Earl told her he was embarrassed about the situation because he had a girlfriend and they were expecting a child together. Though he’d initially agreed to give his DNA, Gilland said, Earl offered only the written statement and had hired an attorney.

A police report shows she did not make any further attempts to acquire Earl’s DNA, figuring it would only prove intercourse and not rape. The case then sat dormant for more than four years, until The Seattle Times story published in 2014 mentioned the unsolved rape investigation as part of a broader story outlining Earl’s history with women.

Kirkland police were asked at the time about their investigation of Earl and the fact it lacked any official conclusion. They cited a routine shift rotation by officers as a reason for the oversight. Gilland was subsequently asked to provide a conclusion and did, stating there wasn’t enough evidence to obtain a conviction.

But then, court documents now show, the case was reopened after the alleged 2009 victim went to Kirkland police in November 2017 — three weeks after Earl’s arrest in Arizona — asking them to take another look.

She told police, as she had in 2009, that she had been raped by a client during an after-hours appointment at a Kirkland establishment raided by police for prostitution earlier that year. The woman said she did not know the name of her alleged assailant because the massage parlor’s owner had booked the appointment and would not divulge it to her.

She alleged that her assailant claimed to be a police officer and said that he would have her arrested for prostitution if she did not grant him sexual favors.

The case was somewhat complicated when rape kit evidence taken from the woman at Valley Medical Center a day after the alleged assault was discarded. The woman had waited two weeks before reporting the rape to police, by which time the rape kit was discarded per hospital policy for evidence not collected within 72 hours.

That policy was changed to a 90-day window in 2015.

But a sketch, that current court documents state “very strongly resembled Earl,” was drawn in November 2009, based on a description given by the woman.

She also at that time provided Gilland two pairs of underwear and cotton athletic pants worn by her that night as well as a washcloth she’d used after the alleged assault and towels used by her assailant.

A few months later, in February 2010, the woman told Gilland some acquaintances in the soccer community suggested Earl might be her assailant. She identified Earl in a subsequent photo lineup assembled by Gilland that included Earl’s drivers-license picture.

In March 2010, the state crime lab identified semen on one of the pairs of underwear and stated: “If references are submitted, comparisons can be made to this profile.”

But another 7 1/2  years would go by before that comparison was attempted.

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