RWVBWL writes:
Since this is probably the first murder Guede was involved in, and a bloody one at that also, it is much easier to visualize Guede panicking after he/his unknown aquaintance stabbed Meredith, and they split FAST. Hours later, if/when Guede came back, after breaking Filomena's window, and then entering with the apartment keys, he might have then creepily removed her pants, placed a pillow under her buttocks, digitally assaulted her, and with her scent on his hands, masturbated to climax. I believe I have seen, I think it was on Perugia Shock, photo's of what appears to be a dried semen stain on a pillow in the room. If I recall correctly, for some reason, this stain was never tested.
Guede did not return to the crime scene. He went out to a disco.
Judge Micheli tried to say that the evidence shows that Meredith's bra was removed several hours after her murder. His argument is that the bra was found in a place where there was no blood on the floor, and yet one of the straps was soaked through with blood. This would have taken a long time to occur, according to Micheli. But why would it take more than a few seconds for a piece of porous fabric to soak up blood?
The truth is crystal-clear, despite strenuous efforts to submerge it in a swamp of rhetoric and speculation. Here is what happened:
Guede smashed Filomena's window with a rock and crawled through it, using a planter next to the window and the bars on the lower window for footholds. He was using the toilet when Meredith arrived home. He surprised her and chased her into a corner of her room, in front of her wardrobe, where he grabbed her from behind. He clapped his left hand over her face to silence her screams, hard enough so he left bruises on her jaw that show where his fingertips were. He pushed her to the floor, and he stabbed her in the right side of her neck with a small knife held in his right hand. At some point, she twisted around so she was on her back facing him. That is when he inflicted a large cutting wound in the left side of her neck.
It was a blitz attack that lasted just a few minutes. When the struggle was over, he moved her a few feet, put a pillow under her buttocks, removed her pants and underwear and sexually assaulted her in some manner. Then he went in the bathroom where he cleaned up. He removed his right shoe and rinsed it under the bidet, leaving a streak of blood around the drain of the bidet and drops of blood on the side of the basin. While his shoe was off, he made a footprint on the bathmat with diluted blood or bloody water.
He put his shoe back on and returned to Meredith's room, where he removed the quilt from her bed and threw it over her body. Then he sat on the bed with the bloody knife at his side while he went through her purse. He tossed a receipt from a movie theater on top of the quilt. He took her money and her cell phones. Then he exited the room, stepping in blood just before he did so, and thus leaving a trail of bloody shoe prints that starts in her room, extends into the corridor, shows where he stood when he locked the door behind him, and then runs down the corridor toward the exit, with each successive shoe print becoming fainter.
That's it. The rest is fantasy. There was no sex game, no staging, no cleanup except Guede cleaning himself in the bathroom. This was a sexual homicide which, like the overwhelming majority of similar crimes, was committed by a disturbed young man acting alone.
