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What do I think? I have no idea. I will let others tackle the morass of conflicting evidence and
speculation and ambiguity that is the Sandusky case. My interest is simply this: if the case is such a
mess, how on earth can you put Spanier, Curley, and Schultz behind bars?
the “graduate assistant…reported what he had seen”: Sandusky Grand Jury Presentment,
November 5, 2011, https://cbsboston.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/sandusky-grand-jury-
presentment.pdf, pp. 6–7.
McQueary’s email to Jonelle Eshbach was obtained by Ray Blehar, a blogger in the Penn State
area. Ray Blehar, “Correcting the Record: Part 1: McQueary’s 2001 Eye-witness Report,” Second
Mile – Sandusky Scandal (SMSS): Searching for the Truth through a Fog of Deception (Blog),
October 9, 2017, https://notpsu.blogspot.com/2017/10/correcting-record-part-1-mcquearys-
2001.html#more.

Rachael Denhollander’s statement: “Rachael Denhollander delivers powerful final victim speech
to Larry Nassar,” YouTube, January 24, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=7CjVOLToRJk&t=616s.

“And unfortunately, I was right…deepest, darkest hole and hide”: “Survivor reported sexual
assault in 1997, MSU did nothing,” YouTube, January 19, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=OYJIx_3hbRA.
“This just goes to show…patients lie to get doctors in trouble”: Melissa Korn, “Larry Nassar’s
Boss at Michigan State Said in 2016 That He Didn’t Believe Sex Abuse Claims,” Wall Street
Journal, March 19, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/deans-comments-shed-light-on-culture-at-
michigan-state-during-nassars-tenure-1521453600.
Quotes from Believed podcast: Kate Wells and Lindsey Smith, “The Parents,” Believed,
NPR/Michigan Radio, Podcast audio, November 26, 2018,
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=669669746.

“He does that to me all the time!”: Kerry Howley, “Everyone Believed Larry Nassar,” New York
Magazine/The Cut, November 19, 2018, https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/how-did-larry-nassar-
deceive-so-many-for-so-long.html.

“I had to make an extremely hard choice…your dark, broken soul”: “Lifelong friend, longtime
defender speaks against Larry Nassar,” YouTube, January 19, 2018,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Aa2MQORd4.
“I asked the specific question…as far away from him as possible”: Allan Myers interview with
Curtis Everhart (Criminal Defense Investigator), November 9, 2011.
The only time Myers ever appeared…he didn’t recall thirty-four times: Commonwealth v.
Gerald A. Sandusky (Appeal), November 4, 2016, p. 10.
“Are you sure…like that before” and “Every one of you…would back them up”: Jeffrey
Toobin, “Former Penn State President Graham Spanier Speaks,” The New Yorker, August 21, 2012,
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/former-penn-state-president-graham-spanier-speaks.