BUFFALO — A lawyer for the woman who has accused the Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane of rape announced at a news conference Wednesday that a rape-kit evidence bag was left on the doorstep of the accuser’s mother Tuesday afternoon. But police officials quickly dismissed the claim as untrue, even as it raised new questions about the investigation in the increasingly bizarre case.
The rape kit was not inside the brown paper evidence bag when it was found, said the lawyer, Thomas Eoannou, but the bag contained identifying information, including his client’s name and birth date and the name of the hospital where the rape kit was collected, Erie County Medical Center.