The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has released 56 DVDs worth of audio and video interviews from the closed investigation of Ben Roethlisberger’s alleged sexual misconduct at a Georgia bar last March.
Photos from the scene and surveillance tapes from the investigation were also released.
Included in those videos is the woman who accused Roethlisberger of sexual assault. TMZ.com has posted some of her interview online.
The PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW reports:
The interviews also include Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Ed Joyner, who was Roethlisberger’s bodyguard, and other members of his entourage.
Today’s release of recordings and documents is mandated under Georgia statute and follows the release of four volumes of paper files compiled by the joint Milledgeville Police Department and GBI investigation.
The PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE though noted today:
One interview conspicuously absent is that of Coraopolis police Officer Anthony J. Barravecchio, another friend of Mr. Roethlisberger who is alleged to have escorted the accuser to a back room at the nightclub to meet with the quarterback.
Officer Barravecchio refused to allow his interview to be recorded in any way. Coraopolis borough council is scrutinizing his conduct at Capital City.
Also absent is any interview with Mr. Roethlisberger. He spoke briefly with police as soon as the allegations came to light, but authorities were unable to secure a second meeting with him.
The Post-Gazette also noted of the videos:
There should be few, if any, surprises in the recordings. The essence of the information was previously available in reports compiled by the GBI and the Milledgeville Police Department that are also on the Post-Gazette’s website.
Unlike most states, Georgia’s “Sunshine Law” provides public access to investigative materials after a criminal case is resolved. Similar laws do not apply in Pennsylvania.
1:19 pm on June 9th, 2010
Absurd that this woman’s face is blurred by Roethlisberger’s identity is not. I understand the rationale for wanting to keep her anonymous, but someone not charged with a crime should be afforded the same treatment.
2:34 pm on June 9th, 2010
Sinse when is indecent exposure and corruption of a minor legal. Also not enough DNA is not acceptable.
4:52 pm on June 9th, 2010
no charge no crime just a girl trying 2 get paid.dave can not spell. since.
5:33 pm on June 9th, 2010
And Milledgeville Resident can’t use the shift key or proper punctuation.
She went to the police within an hour, which is when these tapes were recorded. There’s plenty of testimony regarding his behavior that night. She said no, he didn’t care.
But since he’s a big bad sports star he gets away with it and his fans accuse the girl of lying. Typical.
5:38 pm on June 9th, 2010
ben is a dirt bag.forceing himself on a 20 year old and to make things even worse the cops kiss his ass after they arrived to take down her complaint.then his body guards are cops and did nothing to stop it and allowed this dirt bag to sexually abuse her. then he gets suspended for 6 games.big deal.at the end of the day hes a sick dude that plays football and already got away with abuseing a young lady.and its not the first time hes done this.
7:33 pm on June 9th, 2010
Alright, I agree that Ben is not acting like a mature, adult, male but look at what is being said. Ben is a dirt bag, the cops that were his bodyguard was a dirtbag, the police that came in response to the crimes are dirtbags yet the woman is a poor angel and a victim? The woman is not as innocent as she is being portrayed and Ben is probably not the dirtbag that he seems to be.
8:01 pm on June 9th, 2010
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If you read the documents she said that she never did say no. She says that she thought he would be violent if she did so she never protested. If the word NO is not used then how is someone supposed to know it’s unwanted?
This is a horrible thing but all of the details sound sketchy and it’s very ignorant to judge someone when you don’t have all of the facts. Most of the people that write things about Ben have not read the facts of the case, they just don’t like him because of the team he plays for….completely ridiculous.
8:57 pm on June 9th, 2010
Ya’ll are full of yourselves. This is her side of the story. Not facts. No one knows what happened. Ben’s status as an elite NFL player has nothing to do with it. Mike Vick went to jail. The cops knew this broad was blitzed out of her mind. They dropped the case because her and her friends stories did not add up nor did they provide evidence he did anything to her against her will.
If she’s so sure she was raped why did she drop charges? Because Im sure her drunk ass couldn’t remember what really happened.
This happens on college campuses every year and will continue to do so.
Alcohol makes a fool of us all.
9:17 pm on June 9th, 2010
My entire friggin’ movie collection is less than 56 DVDs! How the hell do you get that much data on one event and NOT have enough to charge him with anything? WTF?
10:07 pm on June 9th, 2010
why would a girl go into a bar bathroom with a man unless she wanted sex wow she is so stupid
4:35 am on June 10th, 2010
Tyson went to prison for less.
6:53 am on June 10th, 2010
Ray Lewis got off on a murder charge.Don’t play the racist card here pal.
7:44 am on June 10th, 2010
The difference with Mike Tyson & Mike Vick going to jail vs. Big Ben is that those guys had friends & associates flip on them under pressure from the law. Big Ben, on the other hand, had the law as rent-a-cops for the evening in question….
9:08 am on June 10th, 2010
Ray Lewis was never up for murder charges. He was given 1 year probation for obstruction of justice.
2:30 pm on June 10th, 2010
If you look at all of the video and the evidence of what was found on her body after a rape kit test was conducted the conclusion was no sexual contact occured.
If the DNA was there he would be in jail now.
Why has no sports entity even hired a forensic pathologist like Dr. Baden or Dr Henry Lee on to explain this instead of listening to people rant about nonsense and innuendo. If he put any body part in her body DNA would have been left behind and enough to make a profile of the person who put it there.
The DA stated 2 months ago that the authorities did not request a sample from Roethlisberger after they found “male” DNA.
Why?
Because the male DNA was not Roethlisberger’s.
Yet no site,no ESPNs,Fox Sports,Sports Illustrated’s, or anyone explained this to the public.
IMO that makes this a smear campaign .
7:42 pm on June 13th, 2010
In all of my many years as a singly man, I never met or even heard of (from other single guys) a girl or woman who wanted to have sex in a dingy restroom in a bar with dozens of patrons nearby. It simply did not happen the way Pig Ben and Tony Barravecchio claim it happened. Use some common sense, people.
2:20 pm on June 14th, 2010
Only two people know the whole truth!!!
1:34 am on June 15th, 2010
“She went to the police within an hour, which is when these tapes were recorded.”
Wrong, these interviews with her were taped the next day about 12 hours later.
Go listen to her.
Then go listen to her friends.
The stories are inconsistent.
No DNA.
The ACCUSER said “Lets go to the bathroom”.
So much for being dragged there by a bodyguard like her friends said.
One friend said they heard Ben was going to be out that night.
But the accuser said they didn’t hear that at all.
The witnesses claimed the bathroom was locked.
But the club manager said the door does not lock and they don’t have a key for the door.
Too many inconsistencies people.
That’s why he was not charged.
1:36 am on June 15th, 2010
“It simply did not happen the way Pig Ben and Tony Barravecchio claim it happened”
Actually it did. Ben said they didn’t have intercourse.
The lack of physical evidence seems to back him up.
8:43 pm on June 19th, 2010
Are ya serious, we still on the Big Ben subject, K, Here we go, No evidence cause she swallowed it!!!!, and any girl that walks into a bar wearing DTF should get nailed by the whole D-Line…. There it is, and that it the End Of The Story……..
6:17 pm on March 19th, 2011
Ben isn’t that type of person to sexual assault anybody…
6:20 pm on March 19th, 2011
Ben woudn’t do that to anybody…