Danceme,
No reference prints were taken from Laura or Filomena, so they might have a similar foot size to Amanda, for all we know.
This is said over and over on this forum with no proof that it is at all true. In Darkness Descending it says footprints and fingerprints were taken from all roommates and the investigators. Who is correct?
The bloodstains show that she was still wearing the bra when the mortal wound was inflicted, but the bloodstains also show that it was removed or at least pushed above her breasts while blood was still spraying from the wound in her throat. Removing the bra, even after she had ceased to struggle, would not have been as simple as unhooking it, because he never completely removed the two shirts she was wearing. To get the bra completely off without removing the shirts, he had to sever the shoulder straps, as indeed he did, and the photos show that these were torn rather than cut with a knife.
I thought only one shoulder strap was cut. Were both straps cut? Also, were Meredith's arms still inside the pushed up t-shirt or were they out of the armholes? If her arms were still inside, the bra cannot be removed unless he cuts both straps, unless, from behind, he yanks very hard at the strap but the clasp doesn't give way so he cuts it at this area. Then he has to cut one shoulder strap and pull the bra off her body by pulling it through the other armhole.
Okay .. I think I found it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tH-klo4nGQ
If that is really Meredith and Guede that is frightening and damning.
I always found it curious "Rudy" is walking from within the parking garage.
Does anyone know where the entry point is for him to be able to access this garage and walk through it to arrive at the gate opposite the cottage?
I think it is pretty simple Matthew Best,the police collected a knife from Raffaele house took it to the police station,took it out of whatever container it was in rubbed the blade on something belonging to Meredith and the handle on something belonging to Amanda then repackaged it and sent it to Stefanoni to test,the blood that would have soaked into the handle if it was involved in a murder,if the outburst of Camodi and the Kerchers lawyer was not just an act,was not taken care of at the time and has not been possible since
Words fail!
Was there really an objection with any kind of merit or did the prosecution just object that retesting the knife would be a waste of the courts time? I'm worried that they already know what the results are going to be and the objection was just for show. The prosecution has had that knife in their possession for 3 years and we already know that certain police officers are willing to open sealed evidence bags containing knives for no justifiable reason.
Dan, we do not know a "sealed evidence bag" was opened. IIRC, we know that the knife was taken from an envelope and placed in a box for shipment to Rome. It says nothing about it also being removed from it's "sealed evidence bag", which it was supposedly in before putting it in the envelope, and then the box.
Must admit that I'm not quite convinced on this one. The strap at the back is the strongest part of a bra, where all the support comes from - I think it would be very difficult to tear it. Those things are feats of engineering. If someone tried to tear it (even more difficult if it was being worn at the time) it would most likely just stretch, not tear. It may have been cut, then torn off completely perhaps.
The bra clasp is clearly cut from the strap. As katy-did noted, this is a very strong area of a bra. It's constantly under tension, and it won't just rip without a lot of force which would also shred the fabric, not make a clean line as shown in the pdf of Hendry's report. The clasp area is not added to a bra, it is an integral part of the material. The backstrap material is inside the clasp area with reinforcing fabric sewn over it to make it strong and to hold the hooks, also sewn in.
The way the metal hook is bent out of shape looks to me like it was pulled with great force. Or stepped on. Or both.
Stepping on it won't bend it out of shape, especially with a sneaker. Pulled with great force seems the most likely.
Look at the photos here:
http://www.injusticeinperugia.org/Meredith_Kercher_murder_reconstruction_graphic_-_Ron_Hendry.pdf
You can zoom in because the resolution embedded in the pdf is almost as good as the original photos.
Zooming in is what convinced me Hendry is completely and utterly wrong on the clasp being torn and not cut. How can he possibly say he believes it was torn! Look at the picture yourself and compare it to a bra's actual construction. That nice straight line is a cut mark. These things are near if not impossible to tear.
For the record I also think he's wrong on the boots under the bed as I posted before.
What is his motivation for making these conclusions which clearly defy all logic? Is it incompetence perhaps? After all, lots of other experts have been accused of such.
The point I am trying to make, but losing, is how easily everyone on here believes this Ron Hendry guy because he is spouting what you guys (and girls) wants to hear. To say how inept the investigators in Perugia were concerning the bra strap because 'Ron Hendry' say's something different, just isn't right because he was not there, he did not have a chance to hold or look at it under a microscope or test it any way he may have wanted to, instead he looked at pictures like the ones we can all see. His view should be worth about the same as any of ours, but sadly, it is not so.
Ron Hendry is not correct on several things I've already noted. I agree, his view is worth no more than one of ours. I see several things very differently than he does and in my opinion it is Ron Hendry who is wrong.
