Sorry, but I have been out of the loop several days.
I thought that Grinder had just spent the last few days contending that there was nothing to support the contention that the cops targeted 11/5 because Edda was arriving the next day and the whole "cops interrogation conspiracy" was nothing but an FOA myth.
Ken
Are you saying that the cops said these actual words in this interview?
They actually said "From tapping Amanda’s phone the police knew that Amanda’s mother was arriving the next morning."????
The cops admitted this????????????
We seem to have FOUR different sources that say that AK was arrested because her mom would arrive the next day; Frank, the judges mysteriously missing edicts, Amanda herself, and now the cops themselves!!!!!
How this be an FOA Myth?????
The police had Amanda's phone tapped since shortly after the murder, so all I'm saying is that the police must have known Edda would be in Perugia on Nov 6th, and that Edda would likely try to rush Amanda out of Italy.
If the police had hoped to force a confession from a lawyerless Amanda in the wee-hours of Nov 6th before mom arrived, then they had to do it that night, and they had many detectives on hand that night to do the job (12?), and even Mignini was still there. Something out of the ordinary was surely in the works that night.
Since they had found 5 African hairs in Meredith bedroom, the police also knew one of the murderers was an African man, and Lumumba was the only African man they would have known Amanda had a relationship with, so the police focused in on making Amanda admit Lumumba was at the cottage that night.
PROOF?
The police likely already had Amanda's text-message exchanges with Lumumba on Nov 1st since they had obtained a court order to tap her phone.
That the police were putting the screws on Amanda that night is further proved by the fact that Amanda knew all about Anna Doninno's (the supposed interpreter) traumatically injured leg, which Doninno obviously had related to Amanda in her attempt to get Amanda to 'imagine' she was at the cottage since Doninno told Amanda she was surely repressing a traumatic memory, just as happened to Doninno when she seriously injured her leg.
Amanda also claimed the police had threatened her with 30 years in jail, and why would Amanda claim that if it wasn't true? After all, Amanda had no way of knowing that the police were going to suppress the recording of her interview, so it's doubtful that Amanda would risk lying about what happened during her interrogation since the police would have recorded it.
Clearly, they weren't giving Amanda tea & cookies as the police later claimed. Even Giobbi admitted to hearing Amanda screaming that night, as did Raffaele.
Another factor that played a huge role that night, was that Raffaele showed up for his interview wearing shoes which had soles with a circular pattern, similar to Guede's soles which had left circular patterns in Meredith's blood on the floor (Raffaele also stupidly took a pen-knife to the station).
You can bet that when the cops noticed Raffaele's circular sole pattern that night, that they quickly became convinced they had just cracked the case, and if Raffaele had been there along with Lumumba (based upon the 5 found African hairs), then Amanda must have been at the cottage that night, too!
The police must have felt they had Raffaele nailed thru his shoes, and according to Amanda, the police kept hammering on her to admit that Lumumba was also at the cottage that night. Why would Amanda lie about that since she wouldn't know until much later that the police would suppress the interrogation recordings?
What happened that night isn't very hard to reconstruct, and it was clearly a brutal interrogation, which is why the police had to suppress the recordings.
