Interesting. Is this woman going to be called as a witness in the appeal? Why wasn't she called as a witness during the original trial?
Hi Alt+F4,
I believe that this Frank Sfarzo wrote of this from Miss Formica's trial testimony, but I guess it did not have much weight. Please corect me if I am wrong. In case you did not read the post on Perugia Shock, here it is:
Date: 3/26/2009 Title: "He wasn't Rudy."
See lynk:
http://perugia-shock.blogspot.com/2009/03/new-scenario-for-murder-of-meredith.html
I quote:
"I left behind a story, from last hearing, since before reporting it I wanted to know how it affected the opinion of those who are in charge. Let's see it before the trial starts again with new witnesses.
In the meanwhile Raffaele went to Verona (not just by himself...) to take his first two exams of computer science. He returned in time for celebrating, today, his 25th birthday, the second in jail, where he received a greeting card from Amanda: 'Buon Compleanno Raffaele'. His lawyer's firm brought him a pen and his father send him a little statue of Padre Pio, a saint venerated in Puglia. Amen."
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"It was an instant for Alessandra Formica and her boyfriend.
At about 22:30 of November 1, they are descending the stairs of via della Pergola that lead to viale S.Antonio, where their car is parked and where the cottage is. Suddenly a guy who walks in the rush, coming up, bumps into them and runs away. They wouldn't know in that moment but that man could be a murderer.
A few days later Alessandra will hear of what happened in that cottage and will go to the police. That's how people become witnesses, real witnesses, not buffoons seduced by unscrupulous provincial scribblers.
But one thing is a deposition in front of the Pm and another thing is releasing it in a trial.
If previously from Formica's deposition it looked like that running guy could be Rudy today she's positive: I can rule out that that guy could be Rudy Guede. Another unexpected element. That's what trials are for.
So, if that guy wasn't Rudy, if he was not someone who was late for the bus, we finally start to understand what happened while Amanda and Raffaele were on bed.
According to the UACV analysis more people committed the crime. Theirs is just an opinion, a probabilistic reconstruction, but I've never seen them getting it wrong. There's always a first time, true, but, as a matter of fact, we start to have more than one clue for a crime committed by more people. Nara could have really heard well, at least two people running away. I always pointed at the legion of criminals who surround the house and if that running guy was not Rudy, we finally have a confirmation that other people played a role, probably the main role, a role perfectly fit for that kind of gentlemen.
Rudy is certainly not an angel but he doesn't really look like someone who could kill a girl. Everything is possible, thought. But now that we have indications for a changed scenario we have the duty, in homage to the presumption of innocence, to try imagine that he may have had a minor role in the event, at least that he took part in it but he didn't stab Meredith.
We may imagine, for instance, that that evening Rudy went to visit the boys downstairs, uninvited, as he used to do. There was nobody there and he noticed that in the girls' apartment there was no one as well. So he returned towards the town. By the basketball court he maybe met two delinquents, those who are dangerous, those who have a knife in their jacket ready to use.
Maybe these people wanted him to return some money, and wanted them immediately. He wouldn't have them and to save himself he maybe proposed to go look in that isolated cottage, a place easy to break-in unseen, a place where he knew there was no one and certainly there had to be something of value.
In the meanwhile probably Meredith came back home.
Maybe they went to the house and Rudy buzzed, just to be sure there was no one in.
But Meredith was in (a little piece of mushroom was found in her esophagus so maybe she was in the kitchen where she had tasted something that was in the fridge). Maybe she went to the door and asked who was. Rudy made recognize himself, I'm Rudy the friend of Giacomo and Stefano, remember?
Maybe Meredith opened the door to that gentle voice and the two junkies entered together with Rudy.
At that point we can't know what happened, we would need more information, that information which wasn't really searched since they would only focus on the presence of Amanda and Raffaele, there.
Maybe at one point Rudy went to the bathroom, maybe Meredith, left alone with those junkies was scared and tried to call someone with her cellphone, tried to lock herself in her room but they would assail her. Maybe she gave them the money she had in the drawer.
From Meredith's cellphone a call to her bank started at 22:00, and at 22:13 an attempt to an internet connection with her bank account.
Maybe they weren't happy with the money she gave them and she wanted to show them she could get more. But how to get those money? Maybe they became angrier, maybe they took her cellphones but they wanted more and started putting the knife at her throat. She would scream and one of them would push the knife inside. They would run away immediately, as Nara heard. Maybe Rudy, coming out of the bathroom would aid Meredith with the towels. But Meredith died.
Maybe when he realized she was dead he would cancel the fingerprints from the kitchen, then he would stage the sexual violence, he would lock the room and take the key, he would go to Filomena's room, make a mess and open the shutters. Outside the house he would pick a rock and throw it to the window. And he would also runaway.
Just a fantasy, but this is the direction we should look into.
Rudy accused Raffaele and Amanda because they were already accused by the prosecutor. He caught the occasion. Believing to that false accusation had the power of misleading the investigation, addressing it to the wrong way.
Mignini has been great. A great lawyer, able to convince Gip, Gup, Court of Freedom, General Prosecutor, Supreme Court, another Pm and some lawyers. And even Massei seems to believe him. For not to speak of the public opinion, which actually is always easy to be convinced of someone's guilt.
But now is the time for him to show to be also a great Pm, a great judge. There's always a second chance. Even a third if you are lucky. And he has luck. Thanks to the intrusion into the house the investigation was reopened and he may now look in the right way.
Now is the time to have the truth from Rudy and to put under pressure the environment of immigrants and of the drug dealers of the town.
As long as Amanda and Raffaele are under accusation Rudy is going to use their position.
Rudy has to see Amanda and Raffaele in freedom. Only at that point he may finally say who was in that house with him. If he really had a minor role he will speak."
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Now, to me this testimony of Alessandra Formica was another significent clue that was not examined better. The same goes with the apartment keys, another clue. As was the time of the sexual assault. As was the possibility that it is a semen stain on the pillowcase. If Miss Kercher was alive when the sexual assault happened, wouldn't the blood around her throat have been different? Her body position suggests that she was dead when she had the pilllow placed under her buttocks. Due to the bloodstains, it is a lot easier to believe that the sexual assault happened later, than when she was first stabbed.
For me at least, it is a lot easier to visualise Guede, with or without this unknown person, panicking as Miss Kercher must have screamed/squealed in pain and fright when her throat was stabbed, and the guys left must have pretty FAST. It is pretty easy to visualize that Guede came back after leaving the bars/clubs, probably drunk, and when he did not see a huge police investigation going on, he broke the window in the early morning darkness, and then entered the apartment thru the front door with the never found keys apartment to see if Miss Kercher was dead.
RWVBWL
PS-Congrats Mary H on graduating to becoming a "Scholar" and having the 10,000th post here!
The JREF as a whole certainly doesn't have a position on Amanda Knox. For myself, you are perfectly welcome to believe as you please. 
