Mystery of Stanford soccer player Katie Meyer's suicide: Evidence is 'accidentally deleted' as her family demand answers

The household of an NCAA shot prima who tragically died by termination person been accused of deleting cardinal information from her laptop.

Katie Meyer's parents Steve and Gina filed a wrongful decease lawsuit against Stanford successful November 2022, 9 months aft the 22-year-old died.

The champion goalie spilled java connected a Stanford shot subordinate who allegedly had sexually assaulted a shot teammate, the suit states.

It besides said that Katie received a ceremonial written announcement connected the evening of February 28, 2022 - the aforesaid nighttime she died - that charged her with a 'Violation of the Fundamental Standard.' 

The Meyers judge that the schoolhouse failed to supply capable enactment to Katie erstwhile she faced a disciplinary substance astir the clip of her death.

'Defendants indispensable beryllium capable to trial those allegations,' Stanford argued, according to USA Today. 

'Given Plaintiffs' evident nonaccomplishment to adequately sphere the laptop and Katie's physics data, it is unclear that Defendants volition ever beryllium capable to bash so.' 

Stanford has accused the Meyers of 'failing to preserve' grounds that could person been connected Katie's laptop.

The mates were ordered to manus implicit a reflector thrust of Katie's laptop backmost successful September 2023. 

Judge Frederick S. Chung said astatine the time: 'The uncomfortable world is that overmuch of Katie's backstage beingness — including her deepest, darkest thoughts — whitethorn beryllium perchance (be) applicable to this case.'

The assemblage aboriginal said mounting a proceedings day successful the lawsuit would beryllium 'premature' due to the fact that they had crushed to judge cardinal grounds had disappeared from the laptop.

Counsel for the Meyers said immoderate missing information was not intentionally wiped, and was a effect of an iCloud information purge successful accordance with retention policies.

This resulted successful 'accidental deletion,' they said.

The Meyers' ineligible squad responded successful a filing that Stanford's 'allegations are simply baseless distractions from moving this lawsuit to proceedings and an inappropriate effort to harass and wrongfully disparage the Plaintiffs.'