Hello Everyone....I'm new here but I hope I have a pretty good understanding of the debacle but forgive me if I introduce stuff already covered. Hopefully I add a slightly different slant.
The "staged break in" has always troubled me. Surely Mignini and the overruled Judges are not so stupid that they believe staged break ins are always evidence of inside jobs. Of course they may be but the quickness to this conclusion by the prosecution has hints of Inspector Clouseau at work. If this is the extent of the Italian police work it is worrying to say the least. A message to burglars to stage a staged break after their break in thereby deflecting suspicion to the inhabitants and rendering themselves immune from being caught. I'm not suggesting anything by bringing this up other than ineptness by the Italian authorities by jumping to conclusions before proper investigation takes place.
I'm not averse to a little gambling from time to time but if you offered me a bet on the chances of murder accomplices unknowingly faking one of their colleague's favourite break in methods at a crime scene I'd expect to see odds in the tens of thousands to one. It's just too ridiculous for words to believe that K&S unwittingly happened to emulate Guede's previously used methods of breaking and entering. Sorry...just NO.
The "clean up" suggestion is absurd. Mignini (and possibly some of the overruled Judges) suggest Knox is cunning. However it's not cunning to attempt a cleanup of your own presence at a crime scene. It's stupid because it cannot be done and that is all the proof you need to prove it wasn't done. You can alter evidence of one's presence at a crime scene but you cannot remove it. The longer you stay and clean the more new evidence you leave to be found by police (if they do their work properly). If K&S had entered Kercher's room to "clean up" they would certainly have brought into the room new evidence of their presence. Whether they could remove more of "themselves" than they introduce is academic but to think anybody is capable of "overseeing the removal of their presence" is just plain deluded. ...or does Mignini and company think those fellows wear their white suits just for the fun of it.
There is only one way for K&S to have an absence of presence in the murder room and that's for them to be have been absent from the murder room.....or to wear a forensic experts white outfit. .....oh and try working with household cleaners and see how the stench follows you around for those around you to smell....for hours.
In fact were K&S guilty (hypothetically let's just assume this) AND cunning surely the cunning thing to do is the simplest. "Break in" through the front door after Rudy leaves then break into Meredith's room. Then "investigate" what's under the blanket and tramp your evidence all around the room and then the apartment. Then call the police. Job done.
...but a staged break in with a rock fetched from outside (in full view to inquisitive passers by) to then go inside to smash windows (which might alert neighbours) is just inconceivably stupid. So stupid that I would suggest that no such complete idiot exists that would attempt such folly. (In fact some would suggest that K&S are that stupid as to select a rock barely able to be tossed more than few metres). But it requires an even bigger idiot to conceive this type of "staging" to be a remotely plausible scenario (..and I haven't even broached the stupidity of "staging" a break in through a window too high off the ground to climb into as suggested by some of those so blinded).
I live in a country with one of the highest murder rates in the entire world...South Africa. It is absolutely common for a single attacker to inflict multiple wounds on multiple victims at a single murder scene. One person can murder an entire family (google farm murders in South Africa) in the most vicious and torturing way without any sign of resistance from the victims. Multiple attackers it may have been but to rule out a single attacker is utterly idiotic.
Hi Mike1711, welcome to the list and I hope you'll continue to contribute.
A few comments. As you know South Africa has a long history of a 9% European minority who brought in draconian apartheid laws to keep the native African population away from them. This created enormous political strife, and large social inequality. Consequently, when the poor Blacks from the townships went out to rob the heavily armed rich - for example, we saw how Oscar Pistorius kept loaded guns by his bedside - they, too, were heavily armed.
Whilst white South Africans are intensely race conscious - in my psychology studies, experiments found that white South Africans notice racial features, before anything else, when they meet someone, whereas other nationalities notice gender, as the first thing - we have to be careful juxtaposing stereotypes of Blacks in South Africa to Rudy in Italy.
Rudy grew up in a wealthy Italian family, he did not live in a black township. He was in between jobs as of the time of the murder, and like many people of his age - 20 - I dare say he was very hard up. Thus when he went to a party in Milan he found himself with nowhere to stay the night. Many a young partygoer ends up sleeping on a floor after missing the last train home.
Some woman Rudy met in Milan in the nighclub and employee of a nursery, gave him the key so he could crash there for the night. She was sacked shortly after. Rudy was caught with a stolen laptop and a knife in his rucksack.
He was charged and convicted - four years later, whilst in jail for the Kercher murder, as an accessory to the murder - of being in possession of a stolen laptop. He was also in possession of a black skin, but outside of apartheid South Africa, that was not a crime.
You'll find all the posters here - apart from me - make the leap of logic that being in possession of stolen property means, "Rudy's MO was as a cat burglar", when all it means is he had a stolen laptop.
Rudy claimed he bought it cheap. Burglars target laptops as they are easy to carry and highly saleable. It follows there is a market for stolen laptops, as there is for stolen mobile phones.
So, whilst Blacks in South Africa are responsible for most violent crime, it is poor logic to conclude, "Rudy is the sole perpetrator based on my knowledge of South African crime."
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