Okay Kevin...this is from an expert:
What comes four hours after 18:30? That being the time Meredith ate the meal of pizza which was still entirely in her stomach when she died? That would be 22:30.
That's one full hour before the Massei time of death. So even if we pretend for a minute that Derrick Pounder of the University of Dundee's unreferenced lecture notes trump the peer-reviewed scientific literature, which is an utterly absurd thing to pretend, you've still just shot a massive hole in your own foot. According to your own source, there is reasonable medical certainty Meredith was dead by 22:30 at the very latest.
Therefore Massei was wrong, and no matter whether you believe Curatolo or Amanda and Raffaele about their whereabouts before 22:30, either way they are innocent.
However, an academic's lecture notes aren't peer-reviewed scientific literature. The job of such notes is to conform to the literature. If the literature says one thing and Derrick Pounder of the University of Dundee's lecture notes say something else, that doesn't mean that the peer-reviewed scientific literature is wrong. It means that the lecture notes are wrong.
If we look at the actual scientific literature we see that an entire meal remaining in Meredith's stomach even two and a half hours after she ate it is rather unlikely. Not absolutely inconceivable, but an unexpected result. We also see that the later after that point you get, the less likely it is for her meal to still be in her stomach. We can conclude that the most likely time of death is the earliest possible one consistent with the statement of the girl who walked with her part of the way home, and any time after that is less likely.
That puts the most likely time of death as shortly after 21:05, very shortly after Meredith arrived home.
This also explains the unknown person fumbling with Meredith's phones around 22:00 and Meredith's phones pinging a novel tower shortly afterwards at 22:13, both events which are entirely inexplicable under the Massei narrative and which Massei conspicuously fails to plausibly explicate.
When I made a very similar post previously, your response was to highlight the words "at best" which followed "three or four hours", in the lecture notes of Derrick Pounder of the University of Dundee, and argue that this meant that absolutely any time of death is possible. Before you repost this argument you should consider the following:
Firstly, this response completely ignores the facts I have already explained to you regarding the relative significance of one guy's lecture notes and the peer-reviewed scientific literature, and the differences in factual claims between the two.
Secondly, you are cherry-picking the one phrase out of the lecture notes that suits you and ignoring the rest, which compounds the initial error of relying on someone's lecture notes rather than the peer-reviewed scientific literature.
Thirdly, you want us to believe a completely unknown and unspecified agency slowed Meredith's digestion, but you have absolutely no evidence any such agency exists. Do you have any evidence Meredith was in a coma, suffering from a gastric disorder, under the influence of large amounts (5+ standard drinks) of alcohol, on drugs, or subject to extreme stress in the period in which she was digesting her food? If you have no evidence that this was anything other than a normal, relaxed fun night for a normal, healthy young woman (up until she was attacked) you have absolutely no reason to believe that her digestion time should be wildly abnormal.
Fourthly, you're
still ignoring the apparently-infallible Massei report! Professor Ronchi was quite clear that some explanation was needed for the lack of food in Meredith's duodenum, and tried to provide one. That particular explanation turned out to be wrong, of course, but are you seriously arguing that Professor Ronchi was incompetent in thinking he needed such an explanation in the first place?
As I said before, when a guilter is suddenly arguing
against the Massei report or ignoring it completely, you've got to think that just maybe they've got a problem with their story.
