There were what, some 13 or 17 unidentified fingerprints found in Meredith's flat.
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The problem is that there will always be things that seem strange. I specifically do not see multiple people engaging Meredeth in a fight without leaving bloody fingerprints and foot prints in the room.
Hi
Desert Fox and others.
Giacomo's fingerprints were found inside her flat.,
He is the guy from downstairs who had started datin' Meredith a few days before Raff and Amanda met at a classical music concert of all places and hooked up.
There are un-identified fingerprints found in Meredith's bedroom.
As I did not attend court that day when the fingerprint issue was brought up,
I'll refer to someone else who did, Mr. Frank Sfarzo.
Here are a couple of interesting bits from postings by him:
From April of 2009:
There are two ways to detect latent fingerprints. Warming super glue (cyanoacrylate) until a closed room is fulfilled with its fumes, or proceeding locally with magnetic powder.
The cyanoacrylate was used in Meredith's room and in the little toilet. In the rest of the house they applied the powder where they thought there should be fingerprints. (*)
Scientific police have the technician who makes the prints visible, the one who takes pictures of them, the one who chooses the readable ones (those that have at least 16 points at a fair distance) and the one who looks for matches comparing them with the suspects fingerprints or with the database.
At the end 108 pictures were taken, each one containing one to three signs. It would be too long to say what was found where. Also there's a bit of confusion with full or partial fingerprints or stains but at the end we may say that of these signs 97 could be said to be fingerprints. 47 belonged to Meredith Kercher, 17 to Rudy Guede, 5 to Raffaele Sollecito, 5 to Filomena Romanelli, 5 to Laura Mezzetti, 4 to Giacomo Silenzi, 1 to Amanda Knox, 13 were not attributed to anyone.
The experts were not surprised at all that there weren't fingerprints, for instance, on Amanda's guitar or on the knives lying on the kitchen sink. They explained that if you wash the cutlery and then you dry it with a dish cloth you don't leave any fingerprint (for not to speak if you use washing gloves).
Scientific police were not surprised at all that there was only one Amanda's fingerprint in the whole house. On a glass there were 3 signs, one of them was recognized as Amanda's fingerprint. The other 2 signs, unreadable, must be the other fingers she used to grab the glass.
We thought, for instance, that Meredith's cellphones were submerged with fingerprints since the many people who touched them before knowing they were so important. And instead only two prints were found on them and one inside one of them.
Now that we know that is so difficult to leave fingerprints, that it's so easy to cancel them, and that there were so many of them we can hardly maintain that a clean-up was performed, even just in the kitchen. The lack of Amanda's fingerprints can be more likely explained with the fact that she wasn't there the night of the crime and that when she came back she didn't have occasion to leave fingerprints having taken a shower and having not touched the right surfaces in the right way.
If we then start to finally consider those 13 unattributed fingerprints, together with the unknown DNA detected, and the other clues that we have seen (two male people running) we understand again that the scenario could be really different from the depicted one and insisting on Amanda and Raffaele maybe had the effect of misleading the investigation from the right direction.
From May 2009:
Knox and Sollecito
Raffaele's fingerprints were found on Laura's door, and nothing of him and Amanda was in Meredith's room. Amanda had only one, on a glass.
As we can see their fingerprints locations are perfectly compatible with the check of the apartment Amanda and Raffaele did when, in the morning after the crime, they found out there was something strange in the house.
Anyone else?
Among the 13 unattributed fingerprints only 4 were found in Meredith's room. 2 on a little calendar and 2 on the door. So not really central locations. But 4 is still an important number if we consider that the main actor left only one. Will they ever find an owner?
Just for your info,
JREF-ers!
Please keep an open mind!
There were unattributed fingerprints, and unidentifiable DNA found in Meredith's bedroom, along with 2 probable blonde hair strands, which were obviously seen before being photographed with flash, that caught Stefanoni and her assistants attention before she bagged and tagged the samples. At least 1, seen in Meredith's dying hand, is wavy and blonde.
Too bad Dr. Patricia Stefanoni,
1 of the Big Guns, ya might say,
who had to get special permission to travel all the way from Rome to collect and then work on her samples that she collected herself in this brutal murder in Perugia, apparently
lost them...
RW
PS -
(*) Hi
Grinder!
It's details like this, hilted above,
that help me to believe that FS did cover the scene very well and knows much more about this horrible murder case we discuss than you or I will ever know. Though I'm sure he got a few things wrong over the years, heck I believe most of his reporting, (especially as he is a native Italian speaker), than I do with most others reporting. And he too 1st thought
The Kids guilty. Please correct any info that I find and post from FS if wrong, ok?
Anyways, carry on and have a good one everyone!
