NOTE: The trial transcript is the Halsey case is 2,034 pages. "The Legend of Robert Halsey" was based on an examination of the trial transcript. The police reports were not introduced at trial, nor were materials from the civil suit that Ms. Manning could only have obtained through the defense. After further review, three statements in the original article require correction:

1. The police chief did not testify that the girl could do ten years. (The defense would not let him testify about that.) Instead, the bus company owner, while testifying on the same issue quoted the chief's exact words, which are reflected in the transcript in quotes: "He could have got ten years for what he did to her." How much does it matter that the chief's words came from the bus company owner's testimony and not from the chief's? Not at all-for two reasons. First, the incentives for the bus company were clearly in the direction of minimizing that incident. If anything, he would lessen the strength of what the chief said. Second, the chief has not and apparently never will deny the statement attributed to him. The relevant transcript pages responding to Ms. Manning's unbounded claims about this matter are included at Ms. Manning's Wildest Claim.

2. One—not both—of the boys was able to describe how to get to Halsey’s house and what the house looked like from the outside. The enormous significance of either boy being able to locate and describe Halsey’s house is discussed in the section on "Other Child-Hostile Techniques"

3. Lauren C., interviewed in Florida, did not bring "tape" up in the interview first. What she brought up first was being taped on the mouth. Indeed, that was her response to a completely unstructured question about whether there was any tape on the bus. This also remains a highly significant statement. It is discussed in the section on "Other Child-Hostile Techniques."

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