In 1998 Mr Anwar's accusers failed to make the charges stick in the court of public opinion.
But Woodfox and Wallace's accusers have failed, over decades of legal scrutiny, to make their case without glaring flaws.
Finally, when attacks on the accusers' credibility fail, those accused of workplace improprieties downgrade the level of harm that may have occurred.
Here was a redhead who had seen off her Armada of diabolical accusers and what had failed to finish her had made her stronger.
The main accuser, the US businessman Mansoor Ijaz, failed to appear at a court hearing on Monday and is due to testify next week.
In that case, and in this, much of the outrage has been driven by social media, with the hacking collective Anonymous among the most vocal players, lashing out against people that it believes have failed or mistreated the accuser.
The accuser was absent during the proceeding and failed to respond to the lawsuit for defamation.
Initial DNA tests have failed to link any of the athletes to the accuser.
Nungesser is currently suing Columbia, alleging that the university failed to stop harassment directed at him while his accuser, Emma Sulkowicz, was participating in activism against sexual assault.
This week, the SJC posted on their government website a humiliating letter from a former weatherman and failed politician claiming intimate knowledge of Kavanaugh's third accuser, Julie Swetnick, and her sexual preferences and mental instability.
