Originally Posted by Bruce Fisher
Okay, I am rushed today so I am only posting a few videos. I will organize a section for this topic on the Injustice site soon. These are short clips. You can download them and watch them in a bigger format. I was careful not to show anything disrespectful in the clips. These are short clips but it doesn't take long to show someone walking from one room to the next. Most clips involve the hall. We all know how important this area was.
The investigators did not change shoe covers as they walked around the cottage.
The first three videos show a cameraman walking around the cottage.
The fourth video show investigators walking from the hall into Meredith's room. Notice how many people were in Meredith's room. Also notice that the doors from Meredith's wardrobe are leaning up in front of the bathroom in the hall.
The last video shows how many people are walking around in the hall. The view is from Meredith's room. They actually take a mop out of the closet and wrap it in what appears to be wrapping paper from that same closet. I am not exactly sure why.
After watching the fourth and fifth videos you will see that the hall was heavily contaminated long before any luminol testing was ever done.
http://www.injusticeinperugia.org/test.html
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Originally Posted by LondonJohn,
Verrrrry interesting. I wonder why others claimed with seeming certainty that inter-room contamination by the forensics team didn't occur...?
And, to expand on your point, WHY THE HECK were there so many forensics people crammed into the murder room / hallway? This absolutely cannot be "best practice", surely. Would the Perugia police normally send this many people to forensically analyse such a small and cramped crime scene? Or could this possibly have been a case of every available forensics officer inserting themselves into the situation - on account of this being a major, high-profile murder?
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Hi LondonJohn,
I totally agree with your posting.
The photographer even appeared to shuffle/drag his feet as he went thru the doorway in 1 video. Contamination must be considered a possibility, but on which pieces of evidence, I don't know.
Kind of off-thread, but I wonder why police force's world wide, when investigating murders and such, do not place something like lightweight stepping stones/tiles with a lightweight sticky adhesive on the bottom, onto the floor where they work. That way you could reduce police investigatory contamination immensely. When done, simply pull them up, bag them and run testing on them, for they would have also transferred and collected any evidence underneath. You know, like when the police recover fingerprints with adhessive. That way you might lessen inner-room contamination, since everyone is only on the steps. If it's not available, someone should develop it, I bet that they could make some $$$. Something has got to be better than what I just watched on Bruce Fisher's video's...
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