GB [Bongiorno] But I wanted to understand, other than this ...
EG:
No, there were other [blood]stains even. I, the ones that I remember, see, there were a pair over the light switch, I don’t know if you can remember what the apartment below was like? Going in, instead of on the right, on the left as you go in – you enter, there’s the kitchen, going to the left, then, at the back on the left, there’s a sort of long rectangular room, that then leads to a bathroom, a bathroom where there’s a shower without the shower-tray. At the beginning of this room, at the level of the light switch, and this aggravated even further my initial conditions [sic], above there were some blood stains.
GB:
But a what height/
EG:
Over the light switch, the standard position of switches for turning on the light of the room, over that switch it seems to me it was, but they were small stains, I mean to say, small, visible to the naked eye, but small. Carrying on, and going then into the bathroom, it seems to me there were [blood]stains on the flooring in the area of the shower, that the window of the bathroom, which is a small window, and that it was open. It was open.
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GB:
This quantity of blood, was it a quantity of blood compatible with the blood coming from the ear of a cat?
EG:
On the moment, look, I could think of anything except that. I immediately though, I tell you the truth, but I had to check it whether it was the victim’s blood. Naturally I thought that, because I mean to say, there was so much.
GB:
So much. Do you mean to say that one could actually see large patches?
EG:
There were big patches on the [bed]cover.
GB:
Afterwards, on all these patches of blood, according to you, do you know what type of checks were carried out?
EG:
I immediately asked Dr Stefanoni to bring forward the checks on the blood from downstairs, because obviously it changed the whole aspect of my approach to the case if, as I said to you earlier, if I had had, that is to say, I had to wait for confirmations on the blood group of the blood, or at least on the compatibility of the blood group with that of the victim. Because if the criminal action, that is the action of the murder, had taken place downstairs, in short, it changed several things for me. And I remember that then later, hearing the young men, I said: “look, there’s blood down there”, I was told about the cat, that had a wounded ear.
GB:
Just to understand: a wound on the ear?
EG:
What I remember was said to me was that for many days there had been this cat that usually visited the house, and that they even left the window of the small bathroom open on purpose to allow it to enter, that it had a wound on its ear that was being treated and it seems to me that I remember that Meredith’s boyfriend at the time also said to me that he had given Meredith the task of treating that wound during the day when he was not there. Now, objectively, I said to myself, “but how could it lose all that blood”.
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