The women came to his poker room near the Southern Methodist University campus – sometimes with their boyfriends, sometimes by themselves.
Many of them found the atmosphere at his illicit poker games enticing, said James McDaniel, a self-described professional poker player known for hosting Texas Hold 'Em games four nights a week. Authorities say Mr. McDaniel preyed on at least four of these women, maybe many more, offering them free drugs and alcohol. But , prosecutors say he tricked the women with ground-up depressants instead of lines of cocaine, or slipped the date-rape drug GHB into their drinks.
When they woke up, they believed they had been raped.
Federal prosecutors have asked the women, most of them former SMU students, to testify anonymously at Mr. McDaniel's trial. They say he caused the 2007 death of Meaghan Bosch, the 21-year-old SMU student from McKinney whose fatal overdose prompted serious introspection at the university about students' abuse of drugs.
Ms. Bosch had cocaine, methamphetamine and the addictive pain pill and respiratory depressant oxycodone in her system when she died – the same drugs Mr. McDaniel is accused of supplying to her. Authorities say he also was a drug pipeline for other SMU students.
The rest of the Dallas Morning News article here.
- Poker Nights
- Some Admissions
- Third SMU Drug Death
- Date Rape Suspect
Here is another article in the DMN regarding another overdose a few weeks ago at SMU published on Dec. 7, 2008.
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