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