Comment by Kalagenesis on December 6, 2009 at 2:34pm

Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Excellent post.I had no idea about the racist overtones of this White girl I think I should do a show on this.

Comment by Marcia L. McNair on December 8, 2009 at 11:00pm

Here's another update: Amanda was not considered a suspect until police saw surveillance video of her and her boyfriend acting the fool as they bought lingerie in an adult store. They were so raucous that the store owner had to ask the couple to leave, and that's when he recognized Amanda. He thought the police might be interested in their apparent celebration. The police thought it mighty strange that anyone whose roommate was found murdered would be in such a celebratory mood.

Comment by missy on December 9, 2009 at 7:16pm

Hey good to be able to join in your discussion. I happen to live in Italia and have quite a bit of information about this case. However, let me start out by saying, all three parties are somehow connected in the killing of Meredith. I don't know them personally, but here are my reasons.

Background on Amanda Knox and her boyfriend;
Prior to Amanda's arrival, she wrote a fictional story about the brutal rape of a woman who was held down by one brother and raped by the other. It was on her myspace profile. It has since been removed but of course the Italians found it and like myself, found it odd. Her boyfriend Rafaelle also had a strange proclamation on his myspace page. He stated that he had an obsession with serial killers. The police also seized a ton of Manga cartoons depicting sexual violence. So, it seems as if they had quite a bit in common. They also had a penchant for getting high on hashish, which is how they met Guede-a known drug dealer.

That said, consider this if you were in a foreign country, living with roomates and you came home and noticed a break-in with blood stains on the floor, what would you do? Call the police? check the rest of the house? Make sure your roommate is ok? Most of us would have done any number of those things. Nooooo, not Amanda. She was too smart, she took a shower and supposedly called her boyfriend. They just happily sat on the front porch together. Now, to quote my grandmother, "ain't that much love in the world!"

Sometime later, the cops arrived. Merediths two cellphones were found and they came to return them to her. Upon further inspection, they decided to break down her locked bedroom door, where they found her partially clothed body covered by a blanket. Of course they notified Amanda and her friend but they didn't seem to excited. Instead, they were outside hugging and kissing. Wow, I didn't know that someone could fall so deeply in love after only 4 days.

Well, after the evidence was gathered, there was a "brown fishy" left in the commode. The DNA from the crime scene linked and the commode was apparently from an unknown source at the time. Because she was raped, the police decided to question Raffaelle. He was called down to the station for interrogation. However, Amanda was too afraid to be alone, so she went with him. Hmmm, she wasn't afraid to take a shower in a house with a broken window and blood stains, why the new found fear? ehh? This is where she decided to do cartwheels and splits at the station. In the meantime, Raffaelle was busy throwing her under the bus. That was when they brought her in for interrogation and she decided to lie and say her boss did it. She changed her story more than a few times after that as well. She and Raffaelle maintain that they were so high until they are unsure of all of the events.

Guede claims that he met Meredith and she invited him over for "consensual" sex. He changed his story a few times as well. He claimed that after having sex, he had to go to the bathroom because of a bad kebab. He said he heard Meredith screaming and saw some Italian guy jump out of the window. He later said that while he was there, Amanda arrived and she and Meredith started arguing about some money. In order to be polite, he say's he turned up his ipod so as not to overhear their personal affairs. He later skipped town the next day. He was caught in Germany.

The lingerie deal occurred a couple of days after the murder but I believed it was before the cartwheels.

On a personal note, being a woman of color and an American makes me walk circumspectly while in another country. Because American women are stereotyped as being "easy", I closely watch the way I present myself. Everything from my style of dress, to my mannerisms are self-scrutinized daily. Grant it, I often have the problem of being misidentified as Brazillian, Morroccan or Ethiopian-who have their own set of stereotypes-but I realize that I must be careful. Most women realize this but I guess Amanda felt more that sense of white privilege that I am not afforded. She wrote a journal entry while in prison in which she describes herself as feeling "special" and mentioned that the police won't be able to "prove" that she was in the house. No innocent person would use the word "prove." Sorry for the long post.

Comment by Harry Rag on September 4, 2010 at 5:46am

Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were unanimously found guilty of the murder of Meredith Kercher because the evidence against them was overwhelming.

They repeatedly told the police a pack of lies in the days after Meredith's murder.

On 5 November 2007, Knox and Sollecito were confronted with proof that they had lied and were given another opportunity to tell the truth. However, they both chose to tell the police even more lies.

Sollecito's new alibi was shattered by computer forensic evidence and his mobile phone records.

Knox accused an innocent man, Diya Lumumba, of murdering Meredith despite knowing full well that he was completely innocent. She didn't recant her false and malicious allegation against Lumumba the whole time he was in prison. She admitted that it was her fault that Lumumba was in prison in an intercepted conversation with her mother.

Knox's account of what happened on 2 November 2007 is contradicted by her mobile phone records.

Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito both gave multiple conflicting alibis. Neither Knox nor Sollecito have credible alibis for the night of the murder despite three attempt each. At the trial, Sollecito refused to corroborate Knox's alibi that she was at his apartment.

Rudy Guede's bloody footprints led straight out of Meredith's room and out of the house. He didn't lock Meredith's door, remove his trainers, go into Filomena's room or the bathroom that Meredith and Knox shared.

He didn't scale the vertical wall outside Filomena's room or gain access through the window. The break-in was clearly staged. This indicates that somebody who lived at the cottage was trying to deflect attention away from themselves and give the impression that a stranger had broken in and killed Meredith.

Guede had no reason to stage the break-in and there was no physical evidence that he went into Filomena's room.

The scientific police found a mixture of Amanda Knox's DNA and Meredith's blood on the floor.

There was no physical evidence that Rudy Guede went into the blood-spattered bathroom. However, the scientific police found irrefutable proof that Knox and Sollecito tracked Meredith's blood into this bathroom.

Amanda Knox’s DNA was found mingled with Meredith’s blood in three different places in the bathroom: on the ledge of the basin, on the bidet, and on a box of Q Tips cotton swabs. Knox's DNA and Meredith's blood had united into one single streak on the basin and bidet which means they were deposited simultaneously.

Sollecito left a visible bloody footprint on the blue bathmat.

According to two imprint experts, the woman's bloody shoeprint on the pillow under Meredith's body matched Knox's foot size. The bloody shoeprint was incompatible with Meredith's shoe size.

Knox's and Sollecito's bare bloody footprints were revealed by luminol in the hallway. Knox’s DNA and Meredith’s DNA was found mixed together in one of the bloody footprints.

An abundant amount of Raffaele Sollecito's DNA was found on Meredith's bra clasp. Sollecito must have applied considerable pressure to the clasp in order to have left so much DNA. The hooks on the clasp were damaged which confirms that Sollecito had gripped them tightly.

Amanda Knox's DNA was found on the handle of the double DNA knife and a number of independent forensic experts - Dr. Patrizia Stefanoni, Dr. Renato Biondo and Professor Francesca Torricelli - categorically stated that Meredith’s DNA was on the blade.

Sollecito knew that Meredith's DNA was on the blade which is why he twice lied about accidentally pricking her hand whilst cooking.

The defence experts were unable to prove that there had been any contamination. Alberto Intini, head of the Italian police forensic science unit, pointed out that unless contamination has been proved, it does not exist.

Amanda Knox voluntarily admitted that she involved in Meredith's murder in her handwritten note to the police on 6 November 2007. She stated on at least four separate occasions that she was at the cottage when Meredith was killed.

The English translation of Judge Massei's sentencing report can be downloaded from here:

http://www.perugiamurderfile.org/viewtopic.php?p=53735

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