Thanks for that, shuttlt. Wow, that's by far the most detailed description of the report I've seen so far, good for Frank - he must've been up all night! Random thoughts just based on the first blog entry (could be disproved by the second one, which he says is soon to be posted):
At the cottage, instead, the purpose wasn't stealing since there were many valuable things, and easily transportable, and they weren't stolen.
Once again, I'm stunned by this conclusion. I can understand the postal police having been surprised nothing was taken when they first arrived, since they didn't know about the murder at the time - but surely, only an idiot would try and sell stuff from the scene of a murder, especially someone whose alibi was that he was on a 'date' with the victim? The rejection of robbery as the primary motive on the grounds nothing was taken has never made any sense to me.
In his call to the Carabinieri Raffaele said that nothing was stolen. But only Filomena could have said that nothing was stolen from her room. Or the one who did the staging.
Later, indeed, when the postal police arrived, they will not make the same mistake. They will say they had just called the Carabinieri because there had been a theft.
Difficult to say with certainty, but if what Frank writes here is accurate, does that mean the debate over when Raffaele called the Carabinieri can be put to bed?
The first bit about Raffaele not knowing whether anything was stolen is, like a lot of the report if Frank's description is accurate, merely conjecture - Amanda told Filomena she didn't think anything had been stolen, based on the fact her laptop was still there. Presumably Raffaele was repeating what Amanda had already told him; I can't see any mystery there.
Amanda walked to her room with bare feet under which there was still some residual of Meredith's blood, that's why the luminol detected it. Indeed no presence or smell of other luminol-positive substance was detected.
So no clean-up? How then can they rule out the prints having been made by Amanda stepping on the bath-mat, then walking back to her room and leaving residual traces of Meredith's blood on the tiles? In fact, how else could those residual prints have been made, except by stepping on the bathmat, since there were no prints in the room itself?
The stains of presumed semen on the pillowcase are not that important since, even once the test confirms that it's sperm, it couldn't be dated.
What now? They think Rudy might've left his semen on the pillow some other night?
No mention anywhere so far of the body having been moved, though possibly that'll be mentioned in the second part of Frank's report. Also although they discuss the reliability of the knife DNA, so far there's no description of how they think the knife came to be involved, since they rule out premeditation. Overall, I'm actually sort of pleasantly surprised the jury rejected the prosecution's more ludicrous theories; it cuts out a lot of the irrelevant stuff about vibrators, cleaning, olive throwing and so on and puts the focus on the forensics, which for me is where it should be.
