Stilicho writes:Why the big mystery about their origins?
Nadeau mis-quoted Amanda's diary, and I don't think the blame rests with Amanda's lawyers. When she was asked about it a year ago, she said the quote was from a different diary also written by Amanda. But she couldn't produce it.
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But, again Charlie, why all the fuss about Nadeau's Feb 2008 article, when a year earlier in Feb 2009, Nick Pisa had the exact same words - word for word - and much more extensive quoting from the prison diaries (albeit the words were double translated).
What appears to be your intended reply to my post below seems to be inadvertantly be a repost of a prior post of yours. I'm interested to know if the FOA approach now on their "fairness.html" page will change, given Pisa's more extensive and earlier use of the double translation diary. Thanks.
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Hi Charlie.
I find it hard to believe that it was only in February 2009 (the timing of Nadeau's Daily Beast article) that FOA heard about the (supposed) entry in Amanda's prison diary stating that Raffaele could have done it, sneaking off to the cottage with the Double DNA Knife in hand.
That version of her dairy had been talked about for many months (a year) before that on all the sites.
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Actually, I'm more interested to know if FOA will pursue Nick Pisa as diligently as Nadeau, because he seems to have been one of the first purveyors of this version of Amanda's diary to the English speaking world.
Will FOA update the
http://www.friendsofamanda.org/fairness.html page? Actually, Nick's version of the diary is much more extensive than Nadeau's. It's a better and more complete example of the fairness issue, from the FOA point of view.
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I've done some further googling. In fact, prior to Nick Pisa's article in February 2008, the first reference to the Amanda's diary as referring to the possibility of Raffaele going to kill Meredith while Amanda slept seems to have appeared in La Repubblica, on 30 November 2007, less than a month after the killing.
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The next day, 1 December 2007, The Telegraph covered Repubblica's article
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1571166/Tape-puts-Knox-at-Meredith-murder-scene.html
Both of these media references were discussed at length on the discussion boards at the moment.
By the time that Chris Mellas had joined Steve Huff's Haloscan thread (the precursor to PerugiaMurderFile), he was making these sorts of comments concerning Amanda's prison diary:
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But if Chris Mellas knew about the diary being leaked back then, why didn't he / the Knox-Mellas clan / the FOA when FOA was set up, go after the original leakers and translators and publicisers of the double-translated text?
Why all the emphasis on only dragging Barbie Nadeau through the mud about this for using this words a year after they first appeared in different media channels, were debated about extensively, and were also commented upon by the Knox-Mellas clan (as per Chris Mellas' own posts on Internet boards)?
BTW, Chris Mellas asked at that time if we "kneel and pray" for honesty in the presentation of evidence. The evidence was presented. Now I'm waiting for the judge's report to see the logic behind the decision. Everyone seemed to agree with Micheli's logic in his report for finding Rudy guilty.
