Original Story posted on Mobile Broadcast News on 3/17/13
My full Steubenville coverage from this case can be read HERE
The following is a transcript of text-messages retrieved from individuals involved in the Steubenville case. This transcript was made using the notes of Don Carpenter and Amanda Blackburn, transcribing while listening to testimony in the courtroom as best they could. This is an excerpt from over 3,000 text messages read in court. Out of respect for the victim in this case, we will not transcribe messages sent between Jane Doe and the others involved in this case.
The testimony has been transcribed using the Notes from Don Carpenter(@nunyaman) with the help of Amanda Blackburn (@amandablackbrn)
Additional Texts transcribed by Don Carpenter may be read here.
August 12, 2012
1:19 am
Anthony Craig to Trent Mays:
I’m comin with where u at?
1:21 am
Trent Mays:
Mark, we’re hittin it for real
Anthony Craig to Trent Mays:
Wait for me lol
Anthony Craig to Trent Mays:
Where u at? Where’s she?
Trent Mays:
Still at Mark’s but why?
Anthony Craig:
How dead is she?
Trent Mays:
Not at all. She’s lookin for her phone.
Anthony Craig to Trent Mays:
That shits probably long gone in the streets by now. What did u do with her?
Trent Mays:
Nothin lol. She couldn’t even move.
Cody Saltsman to Trent Mays:
Did u do it?
Trent Mays:
No lol. She could barely move.
Cody Saltsman:
I wanna see the vid of u hitting her with your weiner.
Trent Mays:
I don’t know who took it lol.
Brad Newburn to Trent Mays:
What was the deal with (Jane)?
Trent Mays:
What you mean lol
Bradley Newburn:
What did u guys do lol
Trent Mays:
Nothing. It was just me, Mark and Farrah.
Bradly Newburn:
Did u fuck her?
Trent Mays:
Yes.
Bradley Newburn:
Yeah boy!
(Group text message between Trent Mays, Bradley Newburn, Zach Birch and Lucas Herrington)
Zach Birch:
I had fun also
Lucas Herrington:
Was that on the couch downstairs lmao
Trent Mays:
Yes
Bradley Newburn:
I got a good 20 min of sleep in
Lucas Herrington:
She looks dead lmao
Unknown Party:
Lmao
Trent Mays:
She is
Bradley Newburn:
Shoulda moved her around and got a better angle
Trent Mays to Mark Cole:
What pics?
Mark Cole:
Why are you sending pics around?
Trent Mays:
Nodi just sent them to Ann
Mark Cole:
Quit sending that around
Trent Mays:
Just sent it to Nodi so Ann could have it
Mark Cole:
Don’t send it to anyone else
Mark Cole:
No really u can’t be doing that, is that your jizz on her stomach?
Trent Mays:
Yeah, hahaha
Mark Cole:
Did u fuck her?
Trent Mays:
No
Trent Mays to Anthony Craig:
She came thru, brought food, got fucked. She knew whats up.
Anthony Craig:
U a felon.
Trent Mays:
Not really
Anthony Craig:
(unknown message)
Trent Mays (best interpretation of testimony we could come up with):
See your fat p*ssy. I’ll stick it with a big f*** that I give
Sean McGee to Trent Mays:
U shouldn’t have did it if she was that hammered
Trent Mays:
Only a hand-job
Sean McGee:
I saw the pics, bro. Don’t lie.
Trent Mays:
She was naked the whole time but she was like dead
Sean McGee:
If she tells someone, it could get back to her parents and then back on u
Trent Mays:
She knows what happened
Sean McGee:
No, she don’t
Trent Mays to Cody Saltsman:
I’m pissed all I got was a handjob. I shoulda raped her since everyone thinks I did.
Cody Saltsman:
You shoulda lol
Trent Mays:
She was awake the whole time lol
Cody Saltsman:
She’s gross lmao
Trent Mays:
I’d hit it
Multi-media picture message from Trent Mays sent to Anthony Craig and Mark Cole:
(picture is that of a naked Jane Doe; has a caption)
Bitches is bitches. Fuck ‘em.
Trent Mays to Evan Westlake:
I’m pissed we didn’t even fuck
Evan Westlake:
Handy-dandy
Evan Westlake:
How’d you get a handy from a dead body?
Trent Mays:
She woke up at 3
Anthony Craig:
U wanna be real with me for a sec?
Trent Mays:
Fo sho no doubt
Anthony Craig:
U have sex with that dead body?
Trent Mays:
No, but she fine lol
August 13, 2013
Anthony Craig to Trent Mays:
Dude, your jizz was on her chest lol. Tell me what happened.
Trent Mays:
I talked her into a handy cause if she moved, she’d get sick
Anthony Craig:
I don’t see how that dead body could give you a handy
Trent Mays:
She rolled over and faced me. I put her hand on my weiner and we started making out.
Anthony Craig:
So u eat ass?
Trent Mays:
Fuck no. I lick the cat lol
Trent Mays to Nick Mazer:
Just got a handy dandy lol
Nick Mazer:
Do anything with Jane Doe?
Trent Mays:
She was a deady, and I needed sexual attention just like u lol. I shoulda f*cked her.
Nick Mazer:
Why no head?
Trent Mays:
She woulda thrown up
Trent Mays:
Yeah dude it was bad, but she was naked so It was all good.
Trent Mays:
I fingered her before you asked though
