Fiona posted all the things that she knows about this case. Fiona knows a lot of misinformation.
Fiona: I do not know if this crime was premeditated. I do not know if any crime was in contemplation.
Bruce: I do not know this either. It has no bearing on the innocence or guilt of Amanda and Raffaele.
Fiona: I do not know why they switched their phones off. I think only they know why they did that.
Bruce: Amanda was conserving her battery and Raffaele's phone was never proven to be turned off. Either way, the Judge claims that the murder wasn't premeditated so this is not incriminating in any way. I understand that you didn't have this information available when you wrote this.
Fiona: I do not know if Knox noticed that her lamp was missing. She knows.
And on and on.
Bruce: I am still trying to figure out how this lamp is incriminating.
Fiona: What I do know is that Meredith Kercher was brutally murdered.
Bruce: Meredith Kercher lost her life to an act of pure evil. We are in complete agreement here.
Fiona: I know that Guede was at the cottage and in Meredith's room
Bruce: Yes he was.
Fiona: I know that the forensics state he could not have killed her alone
Bruce: This depends on what expert you chose to believe. Amanda and Raffaele both had experts testify that one person could have killed Meredith.
Fiona: I know that there are eyewitnesses that AK and RS were in the area
Bruce: these witnesses were completely discredited during trial. You will not hear from them on appeal.
Fiona: I know that her body was moved after Guede had left
Bruce: This is not true. The evidence doesn't show that Meredith's body was moved hours after her death. I believe she was moved a few feet immediately after she was no longer able to fight. Guede moved her out of the pool of blood so he could sexually assault her. When she was still breathing, her bra was pulled up exposing her breasts. At this time blood was spraying into the air from the wound in her neck and falling back down onto the bra and her bare skin as Guede cut her bra off of her body and sexually assaulted her.
The photos of Meredith's body show small round droplets of blood on her bare breasts. She was on her back, with her bra pushed above her breasts. She had an aspirating wound in her neck causing her blood to spray into the air and fall back down onto her body. The blood droplets landed on her bra and on her bare breasts, proving that her bra was removed before she died.
Meredith's sexual assault was not staged by Amanda and Raffaele. Rudy Guede's DNA was found inside Meredith's body. That evidence would be impossible to stage.
Fiona: I know that Guede has an alibi for the time when Meredith's body was moved
Bruce: Meredith's body was not moved. See above.
Fiona: I know that RS did not tell the truth about where he was that night
Bruce: Raffaele made some boneheaded statements. He later admitted this and he has been very consistent ever since. If you feel that this is enough to put someone in prison for life, you and I will have to agree to disagree.
Fiona: I know that AK did not tell the truth about where she was that night
Bruce: Amanda Knox repeatedly told the truth about where she was that night. Her story only changed after an interrogation under extreme stress.
Fiona: I know that someone faked a break in
Bruce: You do? There is no evidence that anyone faked a break in. Please view the photographs of the room.
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Fiona: I know that someone cleaned up
Bruce: There is no evidence of any clean up. It was claimed by the prosecution that Amanda and Raffaele not only staged the crime scene as described above, they also made an effort to clean up the evidence that would point to them.
The prosecution claimed that the footprints detected with luminol proved there was a clean up effort. Luminol does not prove that there was any clean up effort. There was absolutely no proof presented in court showing any clean up. Luminol glows from many different substances other than blood. Luminol reacts with various household cleaners, different types of soil, rust in tap water, and many other substances. Luminol helps to find areas that may be blood. When the luminol glows, the area can then be tested to see if the stain is actually blood. None of the footprints detected with luminol were tested for blood. If they were tested, then the information was withheld by the prosecution because it did not show the result they wanted. Either way, the footprints detected with luminol were never proven to be blood. These footprints had nothing to do with the murder. They certainly do not prove that there was a clean up effort of any kind.
Prosecutor Mignini made the claim that Amanda attempted to clean up her finger prints from the crime scene. Mignini stated: "It is reasonable to hypothesize that she herself felt the need to eliminate the traces of her presence from an apartment in which she lived."
At the trial, the prosecutor's own fingerprint expert, Giuseppe Privitera, flatly refuted this hypothesis. He said fingerprints tend to get smudged, often it is hard to find good ones even of someone who lives at the scene of an investigation, and nothing he found at the cottage suggested that any effort had been made to remove fingerprints intentionally.
The prosecution presented no evidence whatsoever that proved that any clean up effort took place. Bloody shoe prints from Rudy Guede's shoes are seen going down the hall and right out the front door. How could Amanda and Raffaele clean the floor, removing all of the evidence that pointed at them, while leaving all of the evidence that pointed to Rudy completely untouched? There is no credible evidence putting Amanda or Raffaele in Meredith's room at the time of the murder. This type of clean up effort would simply be impossible. There is no credible evidence putting them in the room because they were not there. The prosecution's theory is simply nonsense.
Fiona: I know that RS and AK did not tell the truth about the time they woke up the next morning
Bruce: they didn't lie about when they woke up. Amanda woke up for a few minutes and went back to bed. She went on the computer and turned on her phone. She then went back to bed.
Fiona: I know that AK did not tell the truth about what she did that morning
Bruce: Amanda Knox stated clearly what she did that morning. There is no proof showing other wise. Unless of course you have found those lost receipts.
Fiona: I know that AK lied to Romanelli
Bruce: Please explain.
Fiona: I know that RS did not tell the truth about when he phoned the police
Bruce: I believe that you are mistaken. The Postal Police were the first police to arrive at the cottage on November 2, 2007. They arrived to investigate two cell phones that were found in a nearby garden. The Postal Police handle this type of incident. The Carabinieri (Italian Police) arrived shortly after the Postal Police. The prosecution claimed that Amanda and Raffaele were surprised by the arrival of the Postal Police. Raffaele stated that he had already phoned his sister and the Carabinieri before the Postal Police arrived. Raffaele's sister was a police officer at the time. Amanda and Raffaele were not surprised at all. They actually assumed the Postal Police were the Carabinieri responding to Raffaele's call. The prosecution claimed that Raffaele went and hid in Amanda's room and called the Carabinieri after the Postal Police arrived. The prosecution was attempting to catch Raffaele in a lie. This was simply not the case. The video taken from a camera located in the parking garage across the street from the cottage supports Raffaele's claim.
The clock on the garage camera was ten to twelve minutes slow, not fast. The prosecution has totally misled and confused the public on this point. The prosecution repeatedly stated the camera timer was fast. The prosecution was wrong.
The reason we know the clock is slow is because the camera shows a picture of a Carabinieri (Italian Police) car, and a Carabinieri officer with the distinctive stripe running down his trouser leg, in a clip time-stamped 1:22 pm on the day Meredith's body was discovered. However, at 1:22 pm, the Carabinieri were driving around, unable to find the place. They called Amanda's cell phone at 1:29 pm to ask for directions. Amanda handed the phone to Raffaele who handed it to one of the Postal Police, who explained how to get there. That call lasted four minutes and fifty seven seconds, meaning it did not end until 1:34 pm. Therefore, even if one assumes the call did not end until after the car appeared in the video, the clock had to have been at least ten to twelve minutes slow.
This is significant, because it means the camera footage shows the Postal Police arriving after Raffaele called the emergency number. The claim that he went and hid in Amanda's room, called his sister, and then called the emergency number twice, a series of calls that took about five minutes, is nonsense.
Raffaele was being completely honest with the Postal Police when they arrived. This is just another example of how the prosecution released completely misleading information to the media.
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Fiona: I know that AK did not tell the truth about when she phoned her mother
Bruce: She forgot about the call. I know all of you are so shocked that Amanda forgot about one phone call at a time of unbelievable stress. Are you aware that Filomema forgot the times of 2 of her phone calls? It is very normal during times of stress to forget details. this is not incriminating in any way.
Fiona: I know that AK misled the police in to thinking it was normal for Meredith's door to be locked
Bruce: I believe that you are mistaken. This was a misunderstanding due to Amanda's limited grasp of the language. Such a big deal made about nothing.
Fiona: I know that it was only after hearing from Romanelli that the police were truly concerned.
Bruce: You do? Is that when they decided to refuse to break down the door? The police weren't alarmed at all.
Fiona: I know that it is impossible to say where AK was when she phoned Meredith but on the account she gave in court she did not do so after she returned to the cottage with RS: though they did try to break down the door, it seems
Bruce: Please explain how this phone call relates to Raffaele's attempt to break the door down. They had other reasons to be concerned.
Fiona: I know that both AK and RS made calls after the police arrived which did not mention them being there
Bruce: I believe that you are mistaken. See above about Raffaele's calls to the police.
Fiona: I know that AK seemed to know more than she should have about how Meredith was killed.
Bruce: She only knew what she overheard from the other people at the cottage.
Fiona: I know that RS changed his second account of where they were
Bruce: We agree that Raffaele made some boneheaded statements.
Fiona: I know that shortly after he did this AK changed her own account and accused Patrick Lumumba
Bruce: Amanda Knox did not suggest Patrick Lumumba. She signed a document that was prepared by the police.
Fiona: I know that when she did so she placed herself at the scene
Bruce: She was imagining what the police told her to imagine.
Fiona: I know that she reiterated this when not under pressure
Bruce: No actually she didn't. When she was no longer under pressure she made this statement: "If there are still parts that don't make sense, please ask me. I'm doing the best I can, just like you are. Please believe me at least in that, although I understand if you don't. All I know is that I didn't kill Meredith, and so I have nothing but lies to be afraid of."
Read her entire hand written note here: http://www.injusticeinperugia.com/TheInterrogation.html
Fiona: I know that both she and her mother knew Patrick was innocent, but did nothing about it
Bruce: This is a disturbing lie that has been spread all over the internet. How did Amanda and Her mom know that Patrick was innocent? Amanda wasn't at the cottage that night. She had no idea what happened. The police told her that Patrick was involved. The police are to blame for Patrick's incarceration, not Amanda or her mom.
Amanda wrote in her diary that she was upset with the police for lying to her about Patrick. She was happy when he was released. She said that finally something was going right.
Fiona: I know that forensic evidence places RS at the scene
Bruce: There is no credible evidence whatsoever placing Raffaele at the scene. The bra clasp is a joke. I am supposed to believe that the investigators didn't neglect to collect the the clasp during the first search. They simply decided not to seal it in the standard evidence collection bag.
The investigators decided it would be better to seal the bra clap in the cottage instead of an evidence collection bag. I have been told repeatedly that the cottage was sealed and there is no way the clasp could have been contaminated.
If that was the case, why collect any evidence at all? Just seal it all in the cottage!
Read all about the clap here: http://www.injusticeinperugia.com/TheBraClasp.html
Fiona: I know that forensic evidence shows AK's DNA was mixed with Kercher's blood in several locations, which places her at the scene
Bruce: Amanda's blood wasn't mixed with anyone's blood at the cottage. There was one drop of blood that was attributed to Amanda in the bathroom. It was mixed with nothing.
Investigators found the mixed DNA of Meredith and Amanda in a total of six samples among dozens that were taken. Three of these samples were from the bathroom that was shared by Amanda and Meredith. The other two housemates used a different bathroom. Mixed DNA was also found on swabs taken from Amanda's room and a latent shoe print in the hallway. A swab from Filomena's room revealed Meredith's DNA with what appears to be a very weak profile for Amanda.
All of the mixed DNA samples from the bathroom were visible bloodstains. Most likely they were composed of Meredith's blood mixed with an organic residue containing Amanda's DNA. No test was performed to determine if any of these samples contained the blood of both Meredith and Amanda, and there is no evidence that any of them did.
The other three mixed DNA samples were taken from latent stains revealed with luminol. No test was performed to confirm the presence of blood in any of these samples.
The prosecutor has tried to insinuate that these findings are incriminating. The most plausible explanation is that the mixed DNA is simply a result of cohabitation. As an example for the sake of comparison, investigators used luminol in Raffaele's apartment and found a latent stain with the mixed DNA of him and Amanda. Here is an example that you can relate to in your own home. If you cut your finger and your blood lands on a sink in a bathroom shared by other person in your house, you will get the exact same result. Your DNA will be mixed with the DNA from the other person that also used the bathroom. All it means is that two people have been sharing the same space.
Fiona: I know that the knife had Meredith's DNA on it and also Knox's
Bruce: The knife was a common kitchen knife. The knife was retrieved from the kitchen of Raffaele Sollecito. The knife was chosen from the drawer because it looked clean. No other knives were taken to be tested. Was this an extraordinary case of good luck by the detectives or was this knife not the murder weapon after all?
The prosecution claimed that Amanda's DNA was on the handle and Meredith's DNA was on the blade.
When the knife was tested, Amanda's DNA was found on the handle. This was expected because Amanda often prepared meals and Raffaele's apartment. She used the knife for cooking. A sample was taken from the knife blade and was tested for blood. The result was negative. There was no blood on the knife. This needs to be repeated, THERE WAS NO BLOOD ON THE KNIFE.
What was left of the sample from the blade was tested for DNA. The results were negative.There was no DNA on the blade. This is when all guidelines for testing DNA were thrown out the window. The machine parameters were over-ridden. The tests kept coming back "too low." Then machine parameters were pushed far past the level of reliability finally producing the result they needed. Keep in mind, the test was done in a lab using large amounts of Meredith's DNA. No negative controls were used. The result was extremely low, measuring in trillionths of a gram of DNA. The procedures used to get the result they needed were deeply flawed. The DNA found on the knife came from the lab. The knife had no DNA from Meredith Kercher on the blade when it arrived for testing. The DNA sample was so small that only one test could be performed. No additional testing will ever be available.
Read a full scientific analysis here: http://www.injusticeinperugia.com/TheKnife.html
Fiona: I know that AK lied to her friends and family in her e-mail in several ways
Bruce: I read that email many times. I see no lies. Her phone calls were recorded. She made or received over 60 phone calls. She had no idea that she was being recorded and she said absolutely nothing incriminating.
Fiona: I know that the "interrogation" lasted no more than 3 hours at the very maximum, and that she was offered food, water and toilet breaks.
Bruce: We will never know the details of the interrogation because it wasn't recorded. I know that I believe Amanda Knox. I do not expect you to do the same. How long do you think it should take for 30 officers to scare the hell out of a 20 year old student visiting a foreign country with a very limited grasp on the language? Even if you are correct with the 3 hours, isn't 3 hours enough to scare the hell out of her?
Fiona: I know that her lawyer denies that the police assaulted her
Bruce: You do? That's news to me. I know what her lawyers think about this case and about Amanda's statements. Please tell me how you know this.
Fiona: I know that there is no evidence whatsoever that any one other than these three were there that night.
Bruce: there is no credible evidence that Amanda or Raffaele were at the cottage on the night of the murder. Nothing at all. The only possible thing that you can mention is the bra clasp. I think we both know how I feel about that.
Fiona: On the basis of these and other facts I conclude that Meredith was murdered by more than one person and that there is no other candidate who could have been involved.
Bruce: Many people that are currently following this case never had the opportunity to meet Meredith Kercher. We have all learned from her family and friends just how special Meredith was. No matter what conclusions you draw from this case, one thing is certain, Meredith's family, her friends and the world, lost a beautiful young woman, to a senseless act of inhumanity.
There is simply no evidence connecting Amanda or Raffaele to Meredith's Murder. Meredith and her family deserve justice. Imprisoning two innocent people will bring no justice for Meredith Kercher.
Fiona: I have no idea why they did it. It is interesting but rather futile to speculate. But on the basis of the facts that I have I would have convicted them.
Bruce: When you write it out as you have, it really highlights all of the weaknesses in this case.
