Nobody pays me for anything I do in connection with this case. If I can help get these innocent young people out of prison, that will be enough.
Fiona writes:
I think the problem is that nothing is certain in this case.
Circumstantial cases never allow for certainty in a mathematical sense, but this one is as clear as they get. It's just that the evidence points to a theory that is 180 degrees from what the authorities announced to the public on November 6, 2007. So they have done their utmost to suggest that the evidence is less clear than it really is, and they have put an incriminating spin on certain forensic data, like luminol footprints and mixed DNA, that has no plausible connection to the crime.
The evidence shows that a single assailant grabbed Meredith from behind, clapped his left hand over her mouth and gripped her face so tightly his fingers left bruises on her jaw and neck. He threw her to the floor in front of her wardrobe, face down, and stabbed her in the right side of her neck with a knife held in his right hand. She twisted around to try to defend herself, at which point he inflicted a huge cutting wound in the left side of her neck. When she was unconscious or dead, he moved her a few feet to the spot where she was found.
Even Massei was forced to admit that the injuries and the crime scene were consistent with an attack by one person. In the crime scene photos from December 18, you can see numbers next to some of the blood drops. That means they used a well-known methodology to trace those blood drops back to a point of origin. They figured out what happened. But by the time they did, they had invested their reputation in a fable that never made any sense and is wholly inconsistent with the evidence.
Here is a quick overview of what the bloodstains and injuries show:
http://www.friendsofamanda.org/bloodstain_pattern_analysis.html