Charlie Wilkens,
I asked whether you read it entirely because right those pages don't contradict at all my ideas and do not support Kevin Lowes claims. For a paradox, that pathologist worked on stomah samples, ot on stomach emptying times (even less on the most aleatory and variable difference between time of beginning and finishing of the emptying of stomach, a time that can be extremely short).
That doesn't help your case at all, the opposite if anything.
Inspection of the plausible values for t(lag) alone (combined with the temperature evidence, witness statements etc) shows that Meredith died before 22:00.
However you can look at the state of the semi-digested matter in Meredith's stomach for additional confirmation. There were still identifiable chunks of cheese in her stomach, which as this letter states indicates that she was almost certainly
not alive five hours after her meal.
Put this in contrast with the findings decaring the advanced state of digestion in Meredith's stomach, with the main meal being already entirely dissolved.
Where do you get this stuff? Seriously, what is your source for these claims? There were still recognisable chunks of cheese in Meredith's stomach.
Moreover, the time of the last meal in your story is known.
Where do you get the idea that it is not known in this case? Meredith ate her pizza somewhere between 18:00 and 18:30, and some apple crumble a little later. All of it was still in her stomach when she died.
Moreover, the conditions of the kids after the meal were known, and the author is warning that in other cases, where intense stress or situations of fear are included, the time of digestion is slowed considerably, more than one hour.
Meredith was not under intense stress or fear until 21:05 or so at the earliest when she got home. If she was attacked then (and put in a state of intense stress and fear) then Amanda and Raffaele weren't there and can't have been the ones doing it.
Since someone was out of the house with her mobile phones by 22:13, she was certainly dead within an hour of being attacked, and once again this rules out Amanda and Raffaele as the attackers.
Moreover, the kids did not assume alchohol
Neither did Meredith... seriously, what on Earth have you been reading that you have these ideas?
and the mode of assumption of food was known (a single meal at once, relation of the kind of meal with their digestion issues known).
Same in this case, a known portion of pizza at a known time.
Moreover, in the specific case the stage of digestion was checked on multiple victims who had their meal at the same time. Moreover, a variation in time of digestion of less than one hour is considerd normal by the author.
The problem here is that Meredith is already well out into the long tail of the distribution with a t(lag) of 150 minutes or so. Meredith could, as far as the stomach evidence goes, have died anywhere between maybe 7:20 and maybe 22:00, depending on how far down the tail you are willing to suspend disbelief. However most of that window of variability is excluded by the testimony of her friends who were with her until 21:00.
And, not to be forgotten, the time of death shortly after death was sensitive to the case, in a way in which this case is not. The idea that 23:30 is needed to Massei is a definitive misleading mirage. The Massei reconstruction is not the same thing as the case angainst Amanda and Raffaele, and the appeal is not an assessment on Massei's narrative.
The problem Massei was at least smart enough to realise is that no earlier time of death makes sense of the various witness statements. If Curatolo, Nara, and the people in the broken-down car are all accurate then Meredith cannot have been murdered by Raffaele and Amanda at any earlier time, and even a 23:30 time of death has the serious problem that it would have the four of them in a drug-fuelled sex orgy at 23:00 or so when we know the house was dark and silent.
It's still a stupid theory, but it's the least stupid one Massei could find.
Kevin Lowe's idea rests ultimately on the introduction of other assumtions that he inserts on his own by his belief, like: that Curatolo could possibly provide an alibi for some time frame,
Actually that's me making fun of the guilters. Personally I think Curatolo is a police stooge who'd finger anyone for murder if he was told to, and I think his testimony is as valuable as a small pile of old fish entrails. However if you believe Curatolo is a good witness, and that's certainly part of PMF cult doctrine, then Amanda and Raffaele can't have murdered Meredith at 21:30 or earlier.
It just amuses me to point out that all the effort they have spent trying to reimagine Curatolo as a reliable witness bites them in the backside as soon as you look at the time of death evidence.
My view is that the computer evidence is reason enough to believe Amanda and Raffaele's claim that they were at home watching Naruto until 21:50 at the very earliest.
that at 21:30 both Amanda and Raffaele may have an alibi, that death occurred before 22:00, that Meredith was not in a frightening or stressful situation since before, that the time of death can be assessed with less than an hour error, that the time of the meal was known...
I think I've now shown that practically everything in your post is wrong. I've seen this referred to as fractal wrongness, where every individual part of your argument is just as wrong as the overall argument.
