Well it is of course not my theory, but Michaels from dotnet. I thought it seemed to match Vixen's thoughts so I dragged it from the archives. I am spending a great deal of time trying to comprehend the willingness of the crowd to espouse the impossible crime theories prosecution hoaxes get by the masses. There is more to Michael from the same series.
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Sollecito's role certainly wasn't limited to after the fact. Far too much time would have passed for Knox to get herself sorted out, cleaned up, got back to his apartment, spent the time offering her explanation of what had happened, then convincing him to help her clean-up/stage the crime scene, then come to a plan of action of how they were going to do it, then get themselves over to the cottage most likely by a circuitous dark route so they were seen by as few people as possible, then case the scene to make sure nobody has stumbled on to what had happened, then examine the scene to finalise ideas about what they needed to do and anything else you can think of. By all this time, the blood would have been dry, too dry for Sollecito to get so much blood on his foot to leave that print on the mat. That print was left during or immediately following the murder when the blood was wet, which places Sollecito there during the murder. Moreover, at least three people were heard running from the scene. Finally, at least two people would have been holding Meredith while someone (I'm guessing Knox) was standing in front of her teasing/torturing her with the knife (when the victim received the very shallow knife defensive wounds to her hands).
I also don't think Sollecito was a passive follower, I think he was more keen then that. I believe the murder to have been premeditated, one of the key things demonstrating that for me is the fact they went there with knives and in addition, why did Sollecito need to get his knife out when one was enough? It wasn't necessary. It was overkill. Meredith could have been threatened with the one knife, tortured with the one knife, murdered with the one knife. Since when are two knives needed for one person, especially when the victim is unarmed and there are three of you there to restrain them and one of you has a bloody great kitchen knife? It speaks to me of Sollecito being an active and eager participant from the get-go, not a passive follower. And the usage of the two knives tells me that from the very beginning of the attack, the intent was for Meredith to be dead by the end of it.
The two knives also suggest to me a prearranged "pact" for a perverse shared intimate experience between Knox and Sollecito, that they would both land the final blows together, upheld by the fact of the deep wound on one side of the victim's neck from Sollecito's knife and a much deeper wound still on the other side from the Knox wielded kitchen knife, Knox being the one that wanted to give the coup de grace. Importantly, Guede was clearly not part of this pact since he did not have a knife. And that fact is very telling about the dynamic of what went down.
Consider...if one knife was considered not to be enough and you're going to use two knives, why not then therefore use three knives? One knife would make sense. Three knives would make sense - three attackers, one knife each. Two knives, when looked at from a purely practical perspective, do not make sense. That's because the two knives were not used out of any practical need. Neither does it make sense if the intent was only ever to scare Meredith. Certainly, having three people with three knives would have a scarier effect then three people with two knives between them. If you want to scare, why go up to two knives but not go up to three, especially if there's three of you to wield them?
Two knives do make sense, when one considers that they were used as part a pact for a special, intimate shared thrill between two lovers. Guede sexually assaulted the victim, but the pact between Knox and Sollecito forbade each other from directly sexually interacting with their victim (they would have considered it cheating on each other). But, they did perform a sexual act, psychologically. Their (permissible between them) sexual act was to symbolically rape their victim by penetrating her with their knives. The ancient Roman short sword used by the Roman legionaries was called the gladius. It was the same word for penis. The Romans saw them as symbolically being the same thing, only one penetrates for love and the other for war. Or consider the not unsubtle sexual symbolism of the vampire who orgiastically penetrates their victim's neck with their fangs. After all, and it's an important point, if the intent was simply to kill her alone, why then not dispense with knives and use a far less bloody and more practical method, especially when you're killing your victim in your own home...a cord for strangulation? It would have been more practical and far less mess would have been made, with far less evidence to manipulate or get incriminated by. The choosing of the knives was deliberate, considered, and tells me they didn't simply want it to be terrifying and brutal, this wasn't just about getting rid of someone one of them didn't like (although, it was also that, it's why Meredith was chosen). It was also a psycho-sexual thrill kill between lovers who wanted to symbolically sexually penetrate (rape) her together in the final moments, their sexual climax.
This narrative tells us something else important. Guede was very deliberately not given a knife before the attack. This tells us that Rudy wasn't simply excluded directly after the attack. He was excluded, by design, before the attack even began. Although, he almost certainly didn't realise this. This pact and exclusion was worked out before even reaching the cottage and that pact was only ever designed to end in one thing...Meredith's murder. This was a planned premeditated murder by Knox and Sollecito.
An extra: Also consider this. Knox and Sollecito both performed the clean-up/staging while barefooted. This was so as not to leave shoe prints and to not get evidence on their shoes that would be extremely difficult to remove. NOW, here's the kicker...they also launched their attack on Meredith while both barefooted. They prepared, before the attack, by taking their shoes off. This was done for exactly the same reasons they took their shoes off for the cleaning/staging hours after the murder. Meredith's death was planned before the attack even began and the only reason for them to take off their shoes was to avoid the copious amount of blood they knew was going to end up on the floor. Note: And again, Rudy was excluded from this. He was shod. They were quite happy for him to keep his shoes on.
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I am dealing with a similar situation in New Zealand at the moment, where a man who led a blameless life is accused by a public and high profile psychologist, indeed a television star, Nigel Latta, of slaughtering his wife and child. He has predated the man's psychology to make sense of a calculated plan to kill his wife and 7 year old daughter, in order to find a young woman to share a dream life on a vineyard.
Needless to say, his involvement was less likely than Knox/Sollecito in this crime, yet he is the most hated man in New Zealand, and reconsigned to a 22 year lag, from which he will not escape, because he must show remorse.
Mark Edward Lundy.
If it was your own belief, I could not understand why such a perceptive thinker was expelled from .org . They should have invited you to be on their editorial board.
