Loose Ends...
Are there any cases where a convicted murderer and rapist is allowed to continue roaming the streets after a conviction? I have a feeling that this is all show and they are looking for a way to shut this off that makes the prosecution still look good.
My understanding is the conviction isn't final until it has been confirmed at the final level, the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation. But the fact that he is not being held in custody, only having his passport taken away, as others have noted in legal blogs, is a marked change from how he was originally treated. and may be an indication that the case is indeed headed for dismissal.
From AbcyTesla, answering Grinder;
It is also possible that while he was on a date with this new girl, 30 minutes after his arrival, he excused himself to take a dump in the bathroom farthest away from Meredith's room, fell asleep on the toilet and then someone knocked on the door and Meredith let that person in and the stranger killed Meredith and Rudy came out and fought with him and the guy left.
I don't buy that Meredith was dating Rudy. She was dating the guy downstairs and was bummed out that she couldn't trust him not to cheat on her. She was adamant in that position about "loyalty & trust" with both Amanda and Lauren, when Amanda had asked her advice on dating Raf at a kitchen table conversation, while she was not quite broken up with her boyfriend from Seattle. This, in combination with Rudy's reputation as a frequent persistent creepy harasser of women, does not suggest he is telling the truth about having scored a date with the bright, pretty, talented Erasmus Scholar. She isn't likely to cheat, and certainly not with unemployed certifiably creepy drifter Rudy. Rather, it sounds like the lie Rudy tells himself that his seduction technique is irresistible, and its not his fault Meredith got hurt.
I am recalling the final
scenes of the film "North by Northwest." In any case I agree with Bill Williams: it would not matter if it did happen, but I strongly doubt that it did.
Amanda's book WTBH explains the incident in full, there was no sex on a train. She met the guy, and they (Amanda, Sister, and guy) all got off on the same train stop. Amanda wrote went to his room and fooled around, but she got cold feet and left - no sex with him. I see no reason to doubt.
From JS202
RW, you always write great, provocative posts which I enjoy reading. The main problem I have with this particular theory of yours is that it unnecessarily complicates what otherwise is a very straightforward scenario: by piecing together Guede's MO, the evidence left at the scene, and the tragic fate of Meredith Kercher, the most straightforward conclusion is that Meredith Kercher walked in on Guede's burglary in progress, and he murdered and then sexually violated her.
I guess my main question to you regarding your Kokomani theory is the following: where does it get you that the simpler explanation fails to do? Based on what we know about Guede's history, we do not know him to have worked with a partner. For example, surely Kokomani was not lingering in the shadows somewhere up at the nursery in Milan.
With respect to Koko, wasn't the cottage next to the basketball court and drug park? Couldn't Koko have been there on some separate drug business, as previous tenants had complained of various druggies hanging out and leaving paraphernalia around their driveway in the past? Main point though is Guede's MO, as JS202 points out. There's no indication Guede ever worked with anyone else, just goes in and makes himself at home, and makes a mess of other people's things. Steals what he can. Likes cash and electronics, i.e. computers and cell phones like he took from the lawyers office in Perugia (I take this back, KESTREL pointed out that the car was a friend of the couple who had car trouble. No need to explain it as far as I can tell - CJ72).
From Grinder:
Originally Posted by Grinder
Tesla RW has brought us new information If he had many stolen items it points to him being a fence as thieves get rid of stuff quickly to...drum-roll...fences. Others like to believe as much of Rudi's stories as possible and I don't think it is a stretch to believe he did fence stuff. This makes him going to the lawyers' office make far more sense.
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Just pure speculation to make the logical leap from, having a few computers in his room, to becoming a financially successful "fence". What we do know is that Rudy was getting evicted, and skipped out on his rent when he fled to Germany after the crime. Also, he stole 2,000 euros from the Nursery, no? Not much of a houseguest. Though the owner speculated an employee may have let him in, still a B&E though.
(its unreasonable to suggest Rudy didn't steal from the law office, and the break-in style was a rock through window, second floor climb up, with a metal grating directly under the window of entry - a dead match for the break-in at the cottage. Pulled a knife on CT, had a filched 11 inch knife from the nursery when caught, had knife fighting scars on his body, and knife cuts on his hand in Germany consistent with a killing by knife).
Rudy owns this crime, all by himself, and there's nothing anywhere to suggest otherwise. IMO -
TO SUM IT UP FOR ME AT THIS POINT:
I'm for the simplest version, expressed so many times before by so many; Meredith came home and interrupted Rudy's burglary, and accidentally locks herself inside with him, because the
malfunctioning door only opens and locks with a key. Rudy surprises her from behind or not, but either way tries to rape her, she fights, then he panics & kills her. The only thing I go further on, is Rudy goes downstairs to the guys' flat, uses the keys he got from Meredith who had them to water the pot plants of her boyfriend. Rudy gets a change of clothes so he can get home without looking like he came from a butcher's shop. Then goes dancing to create a fake alibi. (Still trying to find the translated testimony from the guys downstairs, I'm pretty sure the defense pursued this line of questioning as I think I remember seeing it somewhere). That's all I got.
