Continuation Part Eight: Discussion of the Amanda Knox/Raffaele Sollecito case

[Grinder]

He was caught at the nursery with a womans gold watch.

http://www.injusticeinperugia.org/2008-10-28_EngG.pdf

So what? He probably was fencing it.

 

[Dan O.]

Rudi was in Milan without a knife until he borrowed one from the nursery kitchen for protection that night. The only mention that he had a knife was the CT story. There is no report he had a knife at any other time.

A knife from the school's kitchen found in Rudy's backpack would be news and witnessed by someone who could relay the info to the press. A pocket knife in Rudy's pocket would not necessarily be known of except by the Milan police when he was arrested. have we seen the original police report for this incident?

 

[Grinder]

He was a 'loner' in his burglaries, so far as we know. But if you don't believe he can be pegged for those prior burglaries, then this point probably won't be convincing to you.

If one believes Rudy is a burglar, I don't think we seen any evidence he ever worked with accomplices. (Arguments that he's a fence, or worked with accomplices, or spotters, seem unsupported, INO).

But most all here accept that he broke into his neighbors house based solely on one true crime book and the fact that he a gold watch in his back pack.

We know he had stolen items from the lawyers' office. He was in the nursery but only had a kitchen knife and and some change from the place. There was a problem with the door lock but it was working if Prado's video demo is correct. I'm guessing that the earlier robbery was done with a key or picking of the lock rather than jimmying the door or breaking a window.

I try to treat all things in the same way. RW will recall that every time some PGP brought up the party or the prank there was a guy at Frank's that published the ticket itself, links to Seattle Muni Court and for the latter JoH's stupid posts at the Stranger.

I too have always been on the Rudi MO from the lawyers' office but RW's Spanish info of a laptops at his place made me rethink it. We really have very little on him being THE burglar.

To me CT is a little like the prosecution witnesses that came along AFTER his picture was in the paper. I don't give Quintavalle any credit nor do I give Curatolo any. Nara is totally worthless since she didn't hear anything.

If the Nina story was something against the kids no one here would put any credence in it. Just imagine that Raf had a gold watch and Nina Barbie or Vogt told the same story pointing at Raf and showing he was crazy. How about the scissors story - everybody here buy that one?

Sure Koko was just right there and knew Rudi was involved in the Perugian Albanian drug activities but it is outrageous of me to think they could have been together. And thinking Rudi might have been part of an organized theft ring is craaaazy.

Why would people accept that Rudi is a loner? Look at the recent RW post about Carlos and the Spanish girls. I'd say he was anything but a loner.

 

[Dan O.]

This is close to how I see it but I feel the 20 minutes is too long. One minute is enough. And Rudy himself tells us in his account that she called out when she entered, asking if anybody was home. This is another telling detail that goes with the keys. My guess is he had left the kitchen light on or something like that. He may have cut the light in the bathroom as he heard the key in the lock. Hearing no answer she went to her room and he followed right away.

Rudy tells it that there was a chase through the back hall. Papers were thrown from the book shelf and the drying rack was overturned. Of course, in Rudy's telling, he was the one being chased and his hand instinctively reached out to knock those things down. This is when Rudy is close enough to the assailant to have his hand cut by the knife and Rudy is running backwards with his pants falling to his ankles. This is clearly a fabrication on Rudy's part. But there is evidence that some of the parts may be true.

There are indeed some items in the hall that may have been dislodged from the shelf such as the pink bag, a clothes pin from the drying rack was spotted under the radiator. These obstacles in Rudy's path give Meredith a chance to escape into her room. But she is unable to lock the door. Perhaps the key is in her purse or in the lock on the outside

 

[carbonjam72]

The Cheese Stands Alone

But most all here accept that he broke into his neighbors house based solely on one true crime book and the fact that he a gold watch in his back pack.

We know he had stolen items from the lawyers' office. He was in the nursery but only had a kitchen knife and and some change from the place. There was a problem with the door lock but it was working if Prado's video demo is correct. I'm guessing that the earlier robbery was done with a key or picking of the lock rather than jimmying the door or breaking a window.

I try to treat all things in the same way. RW will recall that every time some PGP brought up the party or the prank there was a guy at Frank's that published the ticket itself, links to Seattle Muni Court and for the latter JoH's stupid posts at the Stranger.

I too have always been on the Rudi MO from the lawyers' office but RW's Spanish info of a laptops at his place made me rethink it. We really have very little on him being THE burglar.

To me CT is a little like the prosecution witnesses that came along AFTER his picture was in the paper. I don't give Quintavalle any credit nor do I give Curatolo any. Nara is totally worthless since she didn't hear anything.

If the Nina story was something against the kids no one here would put any credence in it. Just imagine that Raf had a gold watch and Nina Barbie or Vogt told the same story pointing at Raf and showing he was crazy. How about the scissors story - everybody here buy that one?

Sure Koko was just right there and knew Rudi was involved in the Perugian Albanian drug activities but it is outrageous of me to think they could have been together. And thinking Rudi might have been part of an organized theft ring is craaaazy.

Why would people accept that Rudi is a loner? Look at the recent RW post about Carlos and the Spanish girls. I'd say he was anything but a loner.

A loner in his criminal life. In normal life he's the life of the party, and documented serial harasser of women. But by night, he's the second story man, the cat burglar who kills cats, the knife wielder who has prior body scars from knife fights, he's the serial dumper-non-flusher. He's the retarded Batman of Perugia, except no Alfred or Robin to keep him company. This 'cheese' stands alone.

 

[carbonjam72]

Indicates Guede Chased Meredith -

Rudy tells it that there was a chase through the back hall. Papers were thrown from the book shelf and the drying rack was overturned. Of course, in Rudy's telling, he was the one being chased and his hand instinctively reached out to knock those things down. This is when Rudy is close enough to the assailant to have his hand cut by the knife and Rudy is running backwards with his pants falling to his ankles. This is clearly a fabrication on Rudy's part. But there is evidence that some of the parts may be true.

There are indeed some items in the hall that may have been dislodged from the shelf such as the pink bag, a clothes pin from the drying rack was spotted under the radiator. These obstacles in Rudy's path give Meredith a chance to escape into her room. But she is unable to lock the door. Perhaps the key is in her purse or in the lock on the outside

Great post! Are these from IIP? The details of the chase, substantiated by real details of the crime scene, smacks of Rudy rewriting his crime to fit the evidence he knows is there, because he was there (a la Anglo).

Meredith's door was locked from the inside when they discovered her, so we know it locks. Trying to lock herself in her bedroom and call for help would have been a heads-up survival strategy, if she had been confronted and chased through the house by Rudy, knowing there's a problem with the front door lock. Makes me think Meredith almost survived, if she could only have locked Guede out of her bedroom, and called for help on her cell phone.

Another sad realization, but I really think this moves the narrative further along - in the micro sense.

 

[acbytesla]

You know Grinder, I'm really at a loss for the way in which you are defending Rudy..no excuse me, Rudi. We have two stories where Rudi has a knife. The first is the knife that he took from the kitchen of the nursery and put in his backpack. (Why would he do that?) And the second is the CT story..which you dismiss outright.

I guess if you don't think the CT event happened, you might totally dismiss the knife at the nursery.

But it is the nursery story that makes me believe in CT's story. I can't for any reason imagine why Rudy would steal that knife, unless it was for self defense/attack someone. While I carry a knife, I never think of it for those purposes. But of course it's a folding knife. Any knife that is always open has as much chance of hurting me as it does someone else...so carrying one without sheath of some kinds seems unreasonable.

But I guess the question, I have is do you think the bloody evidence in Meredith's bedroom demonstrates that Rudy is the killer? And if you believe that, wouldn't you then in turn believe that CT's story is true?

I don't see Amanda carrying Raffaele's cooking knife to the cottage. It's not needed for cooking and I don't buy it for protection purposes. The only reason, I can imagine is for a premeditated murder which seems highly unlikely, particularly when Raffaele has known Amanda for one week. Is it Amanda who says Let's go kill my roommate? Or does she unbeknownst to Raffaele, surreptitiously sliding the big knife into her purse? And the murder is a total surprise to Raffaele?

As I said, it seems crazy to me. It's a large knife without a sheath, which leaves an uncovered blade that can cut say Amanda's purse. (No cuts or blood was found inside it) A guy who carries a folding knife like Rudy knows that an uncovered knife is dangerous.

You may think there is nothing to Rudy taking the knife from the kitchen of nursery, but to me it is a little frightening and it lends credence to CT's story. It doesn't confirm it..but it lends credence.

 

[acbytesla]

Rudi was in Milan without a knife until he borrowed one from the nursery kitchen for protection that night. The only mention that he had a knife was the CT story. There is no report he had a knife at any other time.

He fell asleep downstairs late at night and after drinking IIRC.

My bet is the knife came from the cottage.

Why would Rudi need a knife for protection? I carry one and it is NOT for protection. Rudy is inside a NURSERY and he was found in the middle of the DAY.

It is to protect him from being caught.. It allows him to escape.

That is the kind of protection.

As for the knife coming from the cottage itself. I have always thought that might be a possibility. But I doubt it was a large knife.

 

[Grinder]

A loner in his criminal life. In normal life he's the life of the party, and documented serial harasser of women. But by night, he's the second story man, the cat burglar who kills cats, the knife wielder who has prior body scars from knife fights, he's the serial dumper-non-flusher. He's the retarded Batman of Perugia, except no Alfred or Robin to keep him company. This 'cheese' stands alone.

I don't see that you or anyone here has any evidence or indication to say he was a loner at night when doing crime.

Even in the Nina fable no cat was killed it died of smoke inhalation IIRC.

Scars from a knife fight - I searched and this was all I found, note the source:

Michelle Moore says:
November 2, 2013 at 8:51 am
Rudy was known as a liar by just about everyone . He had a horrible upbringing that makes me truly feel badly for what he has endured and had to deal with growing up. However, many people have had difficult pasts who have made different decisions. Not everyone with a hard past turns into a burglar and a liar. Not everyone turns violent. Not everyone turns to petty crime and drugs. He had a scar in his stomach from a previous knife fight. In the burglary where he broke into the flat of the waiter, he had no qualms about pulling a knife out on the guy.The guy had a lot of potential. He was basically a star on a semi professional basketball team and look what he did with his life…​

This is the kind of unsubstantiated garbage I hate from either side.

Even using the Rudy spelling only two hits with scar and both were comments by FOA types.

Yes he didn't flush the toilet - but serial - he fell asleep the other toilet story.

 

[Grinder]

Great post! Are these from IIP? The details of the chase, substantiated by real details of the crime scene, smacks of Rudy rewriting his crime to fit the evidence he knows is there, because he was there (a la Anglo).

Everybody knows he was there. That isn't in dispute anywhere. He admits it.

Meredith's door was locked from the inside when they discovered her, so we know it locks. Trying to lock herself in her bedroom and call for help would have been a heads-up survival strategy, if she had been confronted and chased through the house by Rudy, knowing there's a problem with the front door lock. Makes me think Meredith almost survived, if she could only have locked Guede out of her bedroom, and called for help on her cell phone.

How do you know it was locked from the inside? They never found her keys.

Another sad realization, but I really think this moves the narrative further along - in the micro sense.

Whatever. If the crime happened like most here believe, she didn't almost survive. This is like reading a motivation report from an Italian court. She had a door that locked from the inside so clearly she almost survived....wow.

 

[Grinder]

You know Grinder, I'm really at a loss for the way in which you are defending Rudy..no excuse me, Rudi. We have two stories where Rudi has a knife. The first is the knife that he took from the kitchen of the nursery and put in his backpack. (Why would he do that?) And the second is the CT story..which you dismiss outright.

Please point to where I defended Rudi. He was sleeping in a place that the shady character let him in for 20 Euros and he just might have worried that the guy could show up later. Do you think the kitchen knife was a Miyabi Kaizen? The bigger question is why he didn't have HIS knife with him. Seems pretty clear he DIDN'T carry a knife regularly or he would have had it in Milan.

The CT story didn't come out until AFTER Rudi's picture was in the paper accused of murder. He didn't report his name to the police when he saw him at the club. I am skeptical of the story's detail because it seem very odd that after having someone break-in (which I totally believe) and threatened with a knife (not as sure) and then spotting the guy that the only action taken was to ban him from a club.

I guess if you don't think the CT event happened, you might totally dismiss the knife at the nursery.

Is this a 0 and 1 problem for you? He was caught at the nursery with a kitchen knife from the nursery which doesn't prove to me that he carried a knife, rather it shows he had to take one there. Do you think he lost his knife in Milan during a knife fight?

But it is the nursery story that makes me believe in CT's story. I can't for any reason imagine why Rudy would steal that knife, unless it was for self defense/attack someone. While I carry a knife, I never think of it for those purposes. But of course it's a folding knife. Any knife that is always open has as much chance of hurting me as it does someone else...so carrying one without sheath of some kinds seems unreasonable.

Brilliant. He said it was for self defense and I don't see what else it would be for.

But I guess the question, I have is do you think the bloody evidence in Meredith's bedroom demonstrates that Rudy is the killer? And if you believe that, wouldn't you then in turn believe that CT's story is true?

Let's see. He is caught in someone's place and supposedly pulls a jack knife (where was it in Milan?) and that translates into stabbing Meredith to death. I'm convinced that Rudi was there and part of the murder. I'm not sure that he wasn't with another and if so almost for sure something to do with Koko.

I don't see Amanda carrying Raffaele's cooking knife to the cottage. It's not needed for cooking and I don't buy it for protection purposes. The only reason, I can imagine is for a premeditated murder which seems highly unlikely, particularly when Raffaele has known Amanda for one week. Is it Amanda who says Let's go kill my roommate? Or does she unbeknownst to Raffaele, surreptitiously sliding the big knife into her purse? And the murder is a total surprise to Raffaele?

The kitchen knife had nothing to do with the murder. Why would you even put that out there. If Raf was involved he would have used one of his flick knives. The kitchen knife is ridiculous. Please stop with the straw man arguments. You just make stuff up all the time.

If I don't agree that Rudi carried a knife all the time (or only when you want him to be carrying it) then I must think the kids are both guilty of murder. Idiotic.

As I said, it seems crazy to me. It's a large knife without a sheath, which leaves an uncovered blade that can cut say Amanda's purse. (No cuts or blood was found inside it) A guy who carries a folding knife like Rudy knows that an uncovered knife is dangerous.

You may think there is nothing to Rudy taking the knife from the kitchen of nursery, but to me it is a little frightening and it lends credence to CT's story. It doesn't confirm it..but it lends credence.

He didn't take a knife at CT's if you believe the account. HE HAD ONE IN HIS POCKET. He didn't have one in his pocket in Milan as per Prado's account. If CT said he grabbed a kitchen knife AND a kitchen knife had something to do with Meredith's murder that would be interesting but neither is true.

 

[codyjuneau]

Great post! Are these from IIP? The details of the chase, substantiated by real details of the crime scene, smacks of Rudy rewriting his crime to fit the evidence he knows is there, because he was there (a la Anglo).

Meredith's door was locked from the inside when they discovered her, so we know it locks. Trying to lock herself in her bedroom and call for help would have been a heads-up survival strategy, if she had been confronted and chased through the house by Rudy, knowing there's a problem with the front door lock. Makes me think Meredith almost survived, if she could only have locked Guede out of her bedroom, and called for help on her cell phone.

Another sad realization, but I really think this moves the narrative further along - in the micro sense.

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I totally agree with most of this. Either Rudy is completely innocent and Raffaele and Amanda are guilty, or his lies are self serving, designed to be as close as possible to the truth, while representing himself as innocent.

I think it is very possible the person that cut Rudy, was Meredith. She may have grabbed a small kitchen knife when she sensed there was someone else in the cottage, then found Rudy sneaking out of the bathroom with his pants half down, and slashed at him in a defensive reaction when he came too close. Then like you say, she ran to the bedroom to try and lock herself in. This scenario would explain the evident rage and brutality in Rudy's attack, which is difficult to explain in other scenarios.

Before locking Meredith's bedroom door in order to delay discovery of his crime, I think he did a rushed and rudimentary clean outside the bedroom which included righting a kitchen chair, then righting the clothes drying rack and haphazardly putting clothes back on it.

Here are photos of the two clothes pins under radiator, and jumbled up stuff on top of the clothes hanger. Click for a larger view.



Cody
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[codyjuneau]

It was well planned out and this was the first of several places the gang planned to hit that night when so many Italians go home for the holiday.

What percentage of burglars work with accomplices?




Rudi was in Milan without a knife until he borrowed one from the nursery kitchen for protection that night. The only mention that he had a knife was the CT story. There is no report he had a knife at any other time.

He fell asleep downstairs late at night and after drinking IIRC.

My bet is the knife came from the cottage.

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Yeah, you have to watch out for those nursery school kids. They can be brutal.
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[Desert Fox]

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Before locking Meredith's bedroom door in order to delay discovery of his crime, I think he did a rushed and rudimentary clean outside the bedroom which included righting a kitchen chair, then righting the clothes drying rack and haphazardly putting clothes back on it.

Do we know how messy or neat the girls were in general?
For example, I just vacuumed my car (which I try to keep clean) and did find two USB charging cables for my phone under the seat.

 

[acbytesla]

Please point to where I defended Rudi. He was sleeping in a place that the shady character let him in for 20 Euros and he just might have worried that the guy could show up later. Do you think the kitchen knife was a Miyabi Kaizen? The bigger question is why he didn't have HIS knife with him. Seems pretty clear he DIDN'T carry a knife regularly or he would have had it in Milan.

There you go again. BELIEVING RUDY. Rudy pays a shady character to stay in a NURSERY? Seriously? And have you ever seen the very beautiful Milan train Station and the VERY beautiful neighborhood around it? Why would he trust a stranger...a person you are describing as a shady character and leave the well lighted train station? He never even tells the police the name of the person who supposedly let him in. This is the same nursery that was burglarized and had 2000 Euros stolen from it on October 6 and 7th.

There are far too many coincidences that add up to Rudy.

Let's start on

1. September 27th Cristian Tremantano says he was burglarized by RUDY
GUEDE. (only a few blocks from his home in Perugia)

2 Weekend of October 6-7 Milan. Maria Del Prato's nursery is broken into and the burglar steals 2000 Euros and cooks a large meal of Pasta and spinach.

3.Weekend of October 13-14 Someone throws a rock through a second floor window and burglarizes the law offices of Paolo Brocchi on Via Del Roscetto about 4 blocks from Rudy's in Perugia
4. October 23rd. Someone breaks in the apartment next door to Rudy Guede's eats a lot of food, starts a fire and steals Ms Maria Mandu Diaz's gold watch.

5. October 27 Rudy Guede is caught red handed inside the nursery of Maria Del Prato. The same nursery that was burglarized a month before. Rudy is caught with knife, a laptop stolen from the law office and a ladies gold watch. Rudy says that he bought the laptop from someone at the train station in Milan..(an obvious lie).. So why believe another word that Rudy says?

Personally these are far too many coincidence to ignore and in every one there is a a connection to Rudy Guede.

You can believe Rudy Guede's stories, but you'll excuse me if I think they are bs. Of course, no one can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Rudy had anything to do with these crimes with the exception of the break in at the nursery. But I think there are more than enough links to Rudy to give seriousconsideration to the idea that the cottage was in fact another burglary for Rudy Guede.

You can discount these incidents as mere embellishment, but I don't buy it. If I had to bet on Rudy's involvement in each and everyone of them, I'd bet on that involvement.

 

[carbonjam72]

Closer Look at CCTV - shows women is OBESE, i.e. Not Amanda

Here's a link of the video clip with the 20:53 time stamp (from Quarto Grado via Sky News).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH-5f8lJjCY

Hi All,
I took a closer look at the CCTV imagery, and I believe the CCTV footage is not "unusable", rather, it can be clearly be shown to be not Amanda Knox.
I did a frame count of the CCTV images available in the above link, and what I found is that the image used by SKY TV is a side-view shot, which tends to conceal a person's girth. The selection of this frame by SKY TV is intentionally deceptive.

An earlier frame of the CCTV has more of a frontal shot, although from a greater distance. While facial detail are blurred, the body type is perfectly clear (IMO). The lady is clearly obese. And in this frame, it's obvious that its not Amanda.

The frame chosen by SKY TV to emphasize shows a desire to create controversy, where none legitimately exists, and its obviously for the purpose of generating sales of their news product. I wonder if this is pointed out to them, will they have the decency and integrity to call out the Italian TV program to withdraw their claim, and admit its not Amanda? I doubt it, but who knows?

I count 9 distinct frame images, here are the time codes below: all begin with 20.53., so I'll only include "seconds.hundredths"

CCTV frames:
1 - .46.11
2 - .46.96
3 - .47.01
4 - .48.59 (best frame for frontal view and comparison to Amanda Knox body type)
5 - .49.36
6 - .50.71
7 - .51.18
8 - .51.47
9 - .51.77 (frame used by SKY TV, for comparison & close up)

Below is the full shot and close up of .48.59 (frame 4 in the sky news clip). I think its the best for size and frontal shot view, to see the best view of this woman's body type. Does anyone think this looks like Amanda? (Lower shot is SKY TV close up of frame showing lady in sideview).

 

[Planigale]

Re bruising. This happens prior to death and is usually easily distinguishable from post mortem lividity (positional), but may be more difficult in the neck where extravasation can occur. Essentially post mortem lividity is intravascular whilst bruising is extravascular blood. It is difficult to identify if bruising occurred shortly before or immediately after death. Ideally the bruise should have been sectioned and slides taken for microscopic study to give some idea of age. Although bruises can not be timed exactly, one can distinguish between those occurring immediately perimortem, hours, and days old. The visual appearance can be fairly reliable especially if photometry is used but there is no excuse for not doing histology if a post mortem is performed.

Anyway just knowing the shape or even shape and colour is unhelpful we need to know if it is perimortem, and for that we really need histology.

 

[Planigale]

duplicate

 

[carbonjam72]

Rudy's hands are cut from wielding the knife -

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I totally agree with most of this. Either Rudy is completely innocent and Raffaele and Amanda are guilty, or his lies are self serving, designed to be as close as possible to the truth, while representing himself as innocent.

I think it is very possible the person that cut Rudy, was Meredith. She may have grabbed a small kitchen knife when she sensed there was someone else in the cottage, then found Rudy sneaking out of the bathroom with his pants half down, and slashed at him in a defensive reaction when he came too close. Then like you say, she ran to the bedroom to try and lock herself in. This scenario would explain the evident rage and brutality in Rudy's attack, which is difficult to explain in other scenarios.

Before locking Meredith's bedroom door in order to delay discovery of his crime, I think he did a rushed and rudimentary clean outside the bedroom which included righting a kitchen chair, then righting the clothes drying rack and haphazardly putting clothes back on it.

Here are photos of the two clothes pins under radiator, and jumbled up stuff on top of the clothes hanger. Click for a larger view.

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Cody
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Hi Cody, the forensic experts I've read, Steve Moore, John Douglas, (& others I think) are all in agreement that knife killers often have cuts across their own hands (fingers) where the knife slips during a bloody assault. Rudy's cuts are totally consistent with this phenomena. So the idea of Meredith having a knife doesn't help explain anything, and is contrary to the expectation of what the cuts on Rudy's hand would normally be interpreted as being by experienced professionals. So, personally, I don't buy Meredith was holding a knife.

Any Clean-up of blood would have been revealed by luminol as cloudy swirls on the floor, and it wasn't. There was no "clean-up", at least of blood on the floor. He could have set chairs upright though, I guess, and makes sense he would make a quick effort at it.

(By the way, are you from the great state of AK?)

 

[acbytesla]

Hi Cody, the forensic experts I've read, Steve Moore, John Douglas, (& others I think) are all in agreement that knife killers often have cuts across their own hands (fingers) where the knife slips during a bloody assault. Rudy's cuts are totally consistent with this phenomena. So the idea of Meredith having a knife doesn't help explain anything, and is contrary to the expectation of what the cuts on Rudy's hand would normally be interpreted as being by experienced professionals. So, personally, I don't buy Meredith was holding a knife.

Any Clean-up of blood would have been revealed by luminol as cloudy swirls on the floor, and it wasn't. There was no "clean-up", at least of blood on the floor. He could have set chairs upright though, I guess, and makes sense he would make a quick effort at it.

(By the way, are you from the great state of AK?)

Of course they are. Even OJ had a cut on his fingers. I've cut my hands lots of times but still it would be very very small minority that I would have a cut on my fingers. This is the point that so many people are willing to ignore.

1. Rudy's shoe prints in Meredith's blood.
2. Rudy's palm print in Meredith's blood.
3. Rudy's DNA in a bedroom that he has NO HISTORY of ever being in.
4. Rudy's DNA inside the vagina of a woman that no one has ever seen him with alone with and who is in a relationship with another man.
5. Rudy' DNA inside the purse of Meredith.
6. Rudy's fantastic and very unbelievable stories.
7. Cuts on Rudy's hands indicative of someone wielding a knife.
8. Rudy fleeing Italy.
9. The lack of identifiable shoe prints to anyone else in that bedroom other than the victim.
10. Rudy's ties to other burglaries including another second story burglary.

While it is possible that Rudy had an accomplice who was there in that bedroom killing Meredith, there is no evidence that really suggests it. If Rudy had an accomplice, you would think that there would be another obvious shoe print from someone else in Rudy's blood. There isn't.

From my perspective there is more than enough evidence that Rudy killed Meredith ALONE in the act of committing ANOTHER burglary.