As we wait to watch the first on-camera TV interview (not to be confused with the first off-camera TV interview) of linebacker Manti Te’o, Katie Couric has released some of the voice messages that Te’o received from Lennay Kekua, who according to the lawyer for Ronaiah Tuiasosopo was actually Ronaiah Tuiasosopo.
Deadspin has a couple of them. The link to the full collection on Couric’s website currently is deader than a fake dead girlfriend.
It definitely sounds like a woman -- and if Te’o had no other suspicions about the situation he definitely wouldn’t have suspected that he was possibly talking to a man.
“I think he’s a very naive, very young 21-year old,” Couric told Dan Patrick earlier today. “The person behind this was extraordinarily manipulative and incredibly, really almost weirdly intelligent about the way this was conducted.”
Weird is the word.