A woman who claimed she was stabbed by a man on campus Saturday confessed to fabricating a story about the incident, the LSU Police Department said Tuesday.Dale M. Noel, a 47-year-old Baton Rouge woman and security guard, was taken to the hospital Saturday after she claimed she was stabbed by a Middle Eastern man following an argument when she denied him entry into the Paul M. Hebert Law Center. But after additional interviews, Noel revealed the wounds were self-inflicted.”Detectives also began to observe a lack of physical evidence to support the story given by the victim, such as fingerprints and DNA work conducted by the crime lab,” according to a Nov. 17 LSUPD news release.Police interviewed Noel several times following the incident because of her “hysterical nature,” said Sgt. Blake Tabor, LSUPD spokesman. But the lack of evidence led to another interview with Noel on Monday, in which she changed her story several times and eventually confessed.LSUPD obtained a warrant for the woman’s arrest for charges of criminal mischief and terrorizing and is “in the process of attempting to execute the warrant,” the release said.—-Contact Ryan Buxton at [email protected]
Woman stabs self; lies to cops
November 18, 2009