I'm sick of being misrepresented. I didn't come up with the idea of a conspiracy. People here who insist on deliberate misconduct by police and forensic scientists are the ones who are proposing a conspiracy of silence (at least), whether they like it or not. Some have been honest enough to say that two dozen would be involved in this conspiracy. I don't buy it, sorry.
My guess is they don't come forward because it would be irrational from their standpoint to do so.
Why should they betray the men and women they work with just about every day? Some might have saved their lives, some might have covered their asses when they needed it, everyone makes mistakes. No one's going to find out as long as no one tells, hell they can make money off the deal for just staying silent!
Lionking, your argument is irrational. They have nothing to gain but widespread scorn for coming forward, and everything to lose if they do. How do you suppose cops fare in prison in Italy?
You want them to risk
that to tell the truth when it may not even be believed, all for the sake of someone that they're either convinced is a murderess, or at least probably is, or even if she's not they've been told and have been telling people she's worthless scum for more than three years now. Raffaele, the smart computer guy, with money? From the generally impoverished place where they talk funny? They've been telling people he's a real sicko too, they're two true degenerates, you might have seen in the Mail, they weren't shy about it.
This wasn't any type of
frame up Lionking, they didn't screw up this badly on
purpose either. They made mistakes, minor things perhaps to them, and some of them might have helped things along a little, but it's not like any of them deliberately set out to ruin Raffaele and Amanda's life, it just kinda worked out that way.
Here's something I wrote elsewhere on what I suspect might have happened to begin this tragic sequence of events. At the beginning I bet they thought they were doing everything right, they'd found their murderers! It's just everything they were basing it on was bogus, misinterpreted or simply coincidence.
As badly as they bungled it I do believe they thought they had legitimate reasons to be suspicious. I can't help but think this starts out as a tragedy of circumstance and error. Go through the sequence of events and consider what they might have been thinking:
First that statistics suggest that in Italy if someone is murdered it is someone they know, and oftentimes lives with them. Mind you that usually means it's someone that they can't just escape from by moving out like a roommate, but a family member that they can't just 'leave behind.' However as we've learned these aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, odds are they'd just go with that without taking into account what those statistics generally mean.
Thus that, and as I recall there were two recent crimes that were staged break-ins to cover it up, means they look at Rudy's break-in suspiciously, coming to the early assumption that it's probably 'staged.' They've been with Amanda the rest of the week, and Giobbi starts to get his moronic assumptions about her behavior. They start keying in on her, the wiretaps etc.
At the same time they've indications Patrick might have been involved, one of the first things they did was have the girls give lists of all the men who might have known Meredith. At this point they've had time to go through that list, and they have that 'woolly black hair' they found, they probably can figure Patrick should be working the night of the murder, but instead if they've gotten the phone records it looks like he's not at Le Chic but the vicinity of the cottage, as early press reports indicate they'd say.
They find out Amanda hasn't told them about the test message with Patrick! It implies a definite future meeting, which just so happens to be right before the real time of death about 9:00PM, shortly after Meredith is seen alive for the last time. Adding it all up, it does sound suspicious, doesn't it?
So they set up a breaking party, they've twelve extra cops on duty, they summon Raffaele and Amanda. They know her mother is coming in the next day because of the wiretaps. They put it to the stoned Raffaele and they 'drop him like third period French' and he gives them what they want, an 'admission' that Amanda wasn't with him from 9-1 AM, even if it doesn't square with everything else--which might be even more reason to be suspicious. Plus they get him to say he called the caribinieri after the postal police arrive.
Thus they go into that room with Amanda, and they think she's a liar for numerous reasons. That she 'left' Raffaele right about the time of the murder, that she's been 'hiding' the text message indicating a definite future meeting with Patrick, and they know the both of them were playing with mops the morning/afternoon of the murder discovery, and she's saying was at the crime scene taking a shower and not noticing the murder
That's why they don't let up, why they just keep after her, they really think she's the murderer and they treat her like one, even though it's mainly just incompetence and misunderstandings behind it. So they put the screws to her until she starts babbling about flashes and freaks out when they start whupping her. It doesn't make any sense, it doesn't match anything, but with all this 'evidence' they think they have their murderers!
Even better, Raffaele's shoe treads seem to match the ones at the scene, everything is just falling perfectly into place! They go after her again to try to get more later on once Mignini is called down. It's all nonsense, but they must figure they'll get something out of Patrick , and even if not the forensics will back their brilliant capture of these diabolical murderers!
However, they'll eventually realize their 'confession' really is garbage, they went and arrested Patrick on nonsense, and the tapes will obviously show them pushing Amanda for who she texted back to, thus they can never be seen. Amanda is writing her note recanting her 'confession,' as well, so naturally they think she's just 'lying' some more. Therefore they go for the 'greater good' argument to save their own meaty backsides and defame her publicly as they think she is privately. They can't really produce their reasons for thinking she's a liar being as it will make them look stupid, so they just blame it all on her, being as to them she must have manipulated the whole thing to make them look bad!
) is exemplary of the Foaker arguments as a whole.
