Really, FOAkers have repeated this mantra in the media (as you just did here). So where did you get your ? .....
Revelation ??
And do you still hold to this 'no evidence' ?
No mainstream media source has ever said there is no evidence against Amanda and Raffaele, except in op-ed pieces and in personal interviews with commentators like Steve Moore. The conclusions the
innocentisti promote are the result of a lot of research and analysis.
For example, on evidence like the knife, we might learn from the first week of coverage by The London Times that Raffaele's flick knife was originally named as the murder weapon, but that it tested clean for DNA. During the trial, we might find out from the Seattle P-I the circumstances under which the kitchen knife was found, and that the detective testified that he picked it out of the drawer because it was "clean, shiny and on top."
From Perugia Shock we could learn about how far out of bounds Patrizia Stefanoni went when she tested the DNA sample, and that she destroyed it so it could not be tested again. From another source, we see a picture of the kitchen knife, and reflect on how much better it would work in Mignini's image of Amanda standing in front of Meredith poking her with a knife than it would actually work for the purpose of slashing someone's throat.
We take the pieces and put them together, further informed by what we have learned about Mignini's proclivities and the many other suspicious events in the case. We may be skeptics, but we're not habitual doubters, cynics or paranoiacs. All of the facts listed above should raise questions in any intelligent person's mind.
There we have it in a nutshell .. You seem to want to acquit AK on the basis of her background & ignore all the evidence, post crime.
If there
were any evidence, I wouldn't ignore it.
Is that what 'criminal profiling' means ?
Is it all white women or just white women from Seattle or do they also have to go to certain schools to receive this get out of jail card ?
I don't know from schools. The craigslist killer was a medical student at Boston University. Bill Gates could have graduated from Harvard but he had better things to do.
Macht nichts.
It might be 'statistically improbable' that I will fill an inside straight but if I do you lose your money.
Complaining afterwards on the basis of probability [or that it was a jack of spades I drew ] wont cut it.
And what happened to your ......"because truth is often stranger than fiction and people are unpredictable."
does this not throw the stats off ??
It can, and at times it does, but not this time.
I could be wrong, but I suspect that anyone who is guided by the mantra that a good little white girl couldn't have done this would have stopped there, and not be bothered to do any further research or analysis; they wouldn't be here, armed with citations and skills. Look at all the posters on all the blogs who write, "She's guilty," and leave it at that, because they are not interested in thinking any more deeply than that.
Tell me this -- on the off chance, in your eyes, that Amanda turned out to be innocent, and a bunch of people recognized that and worked for her acquittal and release, what do you think that movement would look like?
