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Fact Checker here. Yes the Chronicle has been doing a good job on this story, as more and more questions are coming into focus:

1) the suspect was on the Raleigh police force for a decade, achieving the rank of Master Officer. Why did he leave for a lower paying job at Duke a little over a year ago?

2) local media in Alabama have reported that the suspect had his Duke police uniform (no specific word if this included his badge) in his car. I have not seen that in the Durham media.

Why did he take this to Alabama, or is wearing that part of his "thing." We learned earlier that he had his Duke-issued gun in his car.

3) The list of items seized from the suspect's car -- handcuffs, whip etc. -- as carried in most news reports is incomplete. Please add: He had a high capacity enema bag colored pink, a wide size butt plug colored deep orange, and a bright blue device that looks like an upside down funnel about a foot high. Even Fact Checker does not know what that is about.

Hey, when the story gets colorful, go for it!!

4) I would like to see some specific information on the psychological profile used to hire an officer -- and issue a Duke gun.

I agree with you both. This is a highly disturbing case and we need to hear more from Duke about it. At another university, I had a campus police officer treat me like dirt when I reported something stolen once - he actually said something along the lines of, "You're a woman, you just forgot where you put it." Ideally, no cops would be like that anywhere but especially at a university the cops need to be not misogynists. Especially such an expensive university. Some parents need to be asking Duke some tough questions.