“‘Most of the officers…qualified staff’” and “‘The division…shrank dramatically’”: The account and quotes in the footnote about Angleton’s search for a mole in the CIA are from Tom Mangold, Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton—The CIA’s Master Spy Hunter (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), pp. 263–264.
Chapter Five: Case Study: The Boy in the Shower
The source of the following material is Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. Graham Basil Spanier vol. 1 (March 21, 2017): McQueary transcript through “P: Stomach to back? McQueary: Yes,” pp. 105–8; McQueary’s father’s testimony, pp. 141–42; McQueary transcript through “just kind of went sad,” pp. 115–16; prosecution’s closing statement, pp. 86–87; Dranov questioning by defense counsel, pp. 155, 163–65; Wendell Courtney testimony, pp. 174–75, 189; Tim Curley and John Raykovitz quotes (in footnote), pp. 381, 203; Gary Schultz testimony, p. 442.
Sandusky interview with Costas: “Sandusky addresses sex abuse allegations in 2011 interview,” NBC News, June 21, 2012, https://www.nbcnews.com/video/sandusky-addresses-sex-abuse-allegations-in-2011-interview-44570179907, accessed March 12, 2019.
“Dad would get every single kid…could not keep track of them all”: Malcolm Gladwell, “In Plain View,” The New Yorker, September 24, 2012, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/24/in-plain-view.
“They took in so many…part of his persona”: Joe Posnanski, Paterno (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012), p. 251.
“Wherever I went…part of me”: Jerry Sandusky, Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story (Champaign, Ill.: Sports Publishing Inc., 2000), pp. 33, 210.
“If Sandusky…canonize him”: Jack McCallum, “Last Call: Jerry Sandusky, the Dean of Linebacker U, is leaving Penn State after 32 years to devote himself to a different kind of coaching,” Sports Illustrated, December 20, 1999, https://www.si.com/vault/1999/12/20/271564/last-call-jerry-sandusky-the-dean-of-linebacker-u-is-leaving-penn-state-after-32-years-to-devote-himself-to-a-different-kind-of-coaching.
“In more than one motel hallway…done without public notice”: Bill Lyon, “Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky is the Pied Piper of his time,” Philadelphia Inquirer, December 27, 1999.
This was not unusual for Sandusky (in footnote): Commonwealth v. Gerald A. Sandusky, June 11, 2012, p. 53; Brett Swisher Houtz testimony, June 11, 2012, p. 70; Dorothy Sandusky testimony, June 19, 2012, p. 257.
The mother told her son’s psychologist…“luckiest boy in the world”: According to one of the numerous postmortems on the case, “The boy said that he did not want to get Sandusky in ‘trouble’ and that Sandusky must not have meant anything by his actions. The boy did not want anyone to talk to Sandusky because he might not invite him to any more games.” Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan, LLP, Report of the Special Investigative Counsel Regarding the Actions of the Pennsylvania State University Related to the Child Sexual Abuse Committed by Gerald A. Sandusky, July 12, 2012, https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/396512/report-final-071212.pdf, p. 42; “wasn’t anything sexual about it” and “Honest to God, nothing happened,” pp. 43–46.
Aaron Fisher biographical info and felt uneasy about some of Sandusky’s behavior: Aaron Fisher, Michael Gillum, and Dawn Daniels, Silent No More: Victim 1’s Fight for Justice Against Jerry Sandusky (New York: Ballantine Books, 2012).
Fisher met with his therapist repeatedly: Mark Pendergrast, The Most Hated Man in America: Jerry Sandusky and the Rush to Judgment (Mechanicsburg, Penn.: Sunbury Press, 2017), pp. 90, 52, 55; Fisher changes story, p. 59; “Myers said…get some money,” quoted from Pennsylvania State Police interview with Allan Myers, September 2011, p. 147; footnote regarding the prosecution’s report on Allan Myers is from Anthony Sassano, Supplemental Report on Allan Myers, April 11, 2012, Penn State Police, quoted on p. 168 of Pendergrast’s book. The full passage in The Most Hated Man in America reads as follows:
“Corricelli indicated that Attorney Shubin advised him that Myers had related to him incidents of oral, anal, and digital penetration by Sandusky,” Sassano wrote in his report. “Shubin showed Corricelli a three page document purported to be Myers’s recollection of his sexual contact with Sandusky. Corricelli examined the document and indicated to me that he suspected the document was written by Anthony Shubin. I advised that I did not want a copy of a document that was suspected to be written by Attorney Shubin.” Sassano concluded: “At this time, I don't anticipate further investigation concerning Allan Myers.”
For more on the controversy over repressed traumatic memories (in footnote), see, for example, C. J. Brainerd and V. F. Reyna, The Science of False Memory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005); E. F. Loftus and K. Ketcham, The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1994); R. J. McNally, Remembering Trauma (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003); R. Ofshe and E. Watters, Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria (New York: Scribner, 1994); D. L. Schacter, The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001).
“I am contacting you…Jerry Sandusky and a child”: Geoffrey Moulton, Jr., Report to the Attorney General of the Investigation of Gerald A. Sandusky, May 30, 2014, Appendix J, http://filesource.abacast.com/commonwealthofpa/mp4_podcast/2014_06_23_REPORT_to_AG_ON_THE_SANDUSKY_INVESTIGATION.pdf.
Let’s be clear. The Sandusky case is weird. Ever since Sandusky’s arrest and conviction, a small group of people have insisted that he is innocent. The most outspoken is the radio talk-show host John Ziegler, a conservative-leaning journalist. Ziegler is involved with three others in the website www.framingpaterno.com, which is devoted to poking holes in the prosecution’s case against Sandusky.
As I mention in my discussion of the Sandusky case, Ziegler is the one who persuasively argues that there was at least a five-week lag between McQueary’s spotting Sandusky in the shower and his telling anyone in the Penn State leadership about it. See John Ziegler, “New Proof that December 29, 2000, Not February 9, 2001, was the Real Date of the McQueary Episode,” The Framing of Joe Paterno (blog), February 9, 2018, http://www.framingpaterno.com/new-proof-december-29-2000-not-february-9th-2001-was-real-date-mcqueary-episode. Ziegler thinks this is evidence that McQueary didn’t see what he thought he saw. I think it suggests—in the context of default to truth—that McQueary had doubts about what he saw. Needless to say, there is a big difference between those two interpretations.