The Illinois State Police investigated Dugan's admissions about the Nicarico murder and accumulated a mass of corroborating detail.
Back in June, a legal challenge to the U.K. government by a group of privacy rights organisations yielded corroborating detail, from a witness statement made by Charles Blandford Farr, Director General of the UK Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism.
The claim was made by the Communist Party Secretary of Xinjiang in a meeting with foreign journalists, but he offered no corroborating details.
At every stage, editors and reporters knew what they should do: Talk to the accused rapists, confirm the identities and testimony of alleged witnesses, give the University of Virginia and the leadership of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, where the rape allegedly occurred, a fair opportunity to rebut the charges, nail down corroborating details, etc.
Ahead of Friday's voting, Republicans emerged confident that an FBI investigation into the allegations unearthed no new corroborating details, they said.
The CNN report gave no corroborating details.
She gave no sources for her account, and no corroborating details.
Lt. Mark Slater, acting captain for the Crescenta Valley Sheriff's Station, said Thursday detectives reviewed footage from a surveillance camera located near the intersection that failed to corroborate details of the youth's report.
HuffPost spoke to a friend of Sivan's who was with her that night who corroborated details of Sivan's story prior to and after the incident in the restaurant hallway, and shared additional details about that evening.
The Washington Post published a corroborating report Monday.
On land, Mohamed learned from the coast guard that they had been blown north of Chios, a detail corroborated by At and the final set of coordinates Mohamed beamed out.
