Hi, shuttlt! I think a better qualifier would be "the last one". Amanda's kitchen was full of large, pointy knives.
Was it? I haven't seen pictures. Presumably there are some knives. I've no idea what they look like in order to make a judgement. For all I know the sharp knives were dirty from use and clearly hadn't been used in the murder. Can you offer more information?
Were any of those tested repeatedly by overriding and cranking up the machine?
No, but then again I don't know why no knives were taken from Amanda's, if indeed that it the case. Steffanoni claimed that their appeared to be a smear of material in the scratch she tested, hence her testing it. Perhaps on the other knives there was no item of interest that seemed particularly worth testing. In any case, it was Amanda and Meredith's kitchen and Raffaele had been in the kitchen... finding their DNA on one of the knives wouldn't have been as significant, so perhaps they didn't pursue it quite so far for that reason.
Raffaele had a "collection" of knives much more suitable for that crime. Those tested all negative, and were tested in a standard way. His kitchen knife was the last one and not exactly fit for the murder. After all it didn't match the wounds or the imprint.
The policeman who collected the knife had seen the body and thought it looked plausible. The experts clearly disagree with one another about how correct he was. Again, Steffanoni says she saw something in the scratch on the knife, maybe she didn't see anything like that on the other knives.
The fact that it was the last interestingly coincidences with the unusual testing methods. Of course they could simply "retest" one of his "collectibles", but I think it would be even more suspicious.
I can't unpack these sentences. Anyway, why retest the other knives. What do you expect to find?
Stafanoni didn't release her logs and data. We don't know what really were the other results and how many there were before she came up with something satisfactory.
The judge seemed happy with what was released. If data is still lacking the defence can request it, as they seem to have done. If the court decides the request has merit then what ever material is released will either show something, or it will not.
2. The odds of the contamination coming from Meredith's DNA are still quite good. The cops that handled the knife were investigating the crime scene.
How many days previously? None of their DNA turned up, but some of Meredith's did that they had carried about all that time?
Stefanoni's lab tested lots of her items.
Sure, and lots of other stuff too no doubt. In order for this to be likely, surely we need to show that right before the knife something else relating to Meredith got tested in the same machine.
Amanda, who lived with her, frequented Raffaele's kitchen. Even after the crime she was at the crime scene many times, and spent a few days at Raffaele's before their arrest (That would be intermediary transfer, but still possible).
Quite unlikely though I think.
I think it is important there were no blood on that knife.
Picky, I know, but we don't know that there was no blood, only no detectable quantity. Whether it is significant or not, I don't know. How hard is it to clean away blood so it can't be detected? I can't remember which test was used, it's one that detects the iron in the haemoglobin, isn't it?
Do you know what time they contacted the network again?
Around 6am, which doesn't sit altogether comfortably with when they said they slept until, but it's a minor enough thing to get wrong I suppose.
