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Let's try a different narrative: an intruder broke a window at the cottage and climbed through, looking for money to steal. He was surprised by Meredith coming home, and then sexually molested and killed her. This is a case where the straightforward reading of the crime scene makes perfect sense, and actually fits all of the facts without difficulty.
The confusion, and your difficulty in finding a rational way to conceive of the case, only arise when the Perugia police become involved.
No.
Let me explain you how I really see it. I think I’ve read this argument from the innocentisti a thousand times now. This idea is repeated all the time, I wish I could just state once for all I disagree with this argument.
It was in fact my earliest feeling or thought about this case, as I approached it, having yet no opinion about Amanda and Raffaele’s guilt yet, and having not read their diaries and cofession/statements, and having not seen luminol footprints and other evidence yet. The first thing I felt was a narrative based on the scenario like
one intruder entered the window and climbed through and killed Meredith was
not straightforward.
I make clear again one separate thought: the act of assaulting and killing Meredith is anyway not rational in any case, for a normal human perspective, not even if committed by Rudy Guede as a lone assaulter or by any person acting on somewhat rational motives. But this is not the main aspect: also, the scenario of a lone assaulter is in its peculiarlity not straightforward here, not explaining and not fitting the data, and illogical, in the building of an explanation with the evidence of this case.
This is the very first perception that I had on the case, before any in depth analysis of possible evidence against Knox and Sollecito.
The reading of the crime scene with a lone assaulter does
not make perfect sense. Nor do the actions of the alleged perpetrator.
The point of entry for burglary is illogic. And dangerous especially because of the glass and the intruder’s balance. The evidence of burglary inside is inconsistent. The sexual assault is inconsistent with being caught by surprise. A murder with no sexual violence would be definitely more consistent with being caught by surprise and discovery would constitute the motive for murder. In this case, instead, the sexual violence – and the possible discovery of this – was the reason and the motive for murder. This sexual violence on Meredith is utterly illogic, and also inconsistent with Rudy’s personality. The faeces in the toilet are inconsistent even with interrupted burglary and with burglary itself, and interrupted burglary is anyway too unlikely on the too limited searching for values around the house. The sexual assault had a kind of staging occurring after, a movement of the body and partial undressing of victim: taking away her sweater after her stabbing is inconsistent, unexplained, not straightforward. Moving her without dropping her blood, using towels: unexplained/illogic, too. The sexual violence is also physically extremely moderate, aborted, contrasting with the extreme and decided violence of the killing action. And her scream, which was actually hared and reported by all witnesses including Rudy, should have started on her discovery of an intruder, even before the sexual violence, not on her killing. And Rudy Guede’s shoe-prints, instead, do show a straightforward scenario. So why a bloody bare foot? Not consistent with his being wearing shoes, and with traces of his movements in the house pointing elsewhere. And the cleanup of the floor in the bathroom is
certain: somebody cleaned the floor around the bathmat and left a 26 centimetre long bloody swiping on the door side. This is inconsistent with a burglar too. And the duvet to cover the dead body: the covering is made usually when the murderer is close to the victim, here it is another useless, unmotivated, not straightforward element for a burglar, nor for a violent rapist. Further alteration of the room – that was slightly “tidied up” – is visible. Shoeprints from unknown shoes by more than one person are visible in the victim’s room and in different locations of the house.
Nothing is straightforward in a lone-perpetrator scenario.
By the way, in city of Perugia, at least
two other cases of murder with a staged burglary occurred during the last four years.
