Here's an indication of just how little "Kermit" knows about the case:
In a TJMK comment below his often-incorrect slide pack, he states the following, when trying to analyse the calls to Meredith's two mobile phones on November 2nd:
We know that Meredith’s Italian phone rang audibly earlier in the morning, around 9 a.m. in Signora Elisabetta Lana’s garden, so it wasn’t turned off, nor did it have an answering machine service activated that would route automatically all calls to the answering machine without audibly ringing.
This statement is wrong on almost every level. Meredith's Italian phone was indeed switched off - almost certainly by the killer on the night of the 1st before the two phones were dumped in Sig.ra Lana's garden. It did not ring at 9am on the 2nd: it was found because it was lying in plain view in the middle of the lawn, where it had landed after being thrown. And its voicemail service was set up to kick in immediately if the phone was either turned off or not connected to the network. Incidentally, the proof of this last point is right before "Kermit's" eyes: the evidence shows that when Knox tried calling Meredith's Italian mobile at 12.11:02, the call duration was only 3 seconds and the voicemail service was activated. The phone was at the police station by that time, still switched off, and the call clearly diverted straight to voicemail. It did not ring.
And here's what "Kermit" has to say about the short second call from Knox to Meredith's UK phone:
2) Amanda’s 12:11:54 call (from her Italian phone) to Meredith’s English phone.
Here, according to the Massei report quoted above, it is quite possible that the 4 second duration of the call record does not relate to an automatic response, but simply a short amount of ringing (one ring ...?) before hanging up, since the call record to the foreign telephone *did* leave call record data.
The Massei report unfortunately doesn’t go into much detail: “− 12:11:54 (4 seconds): another call is made towards Meredith’s English mobile phone number (the cell used is the one in Via dell’Aquila 5-Torre dell’Acquedotto sector 3, thus compatible with Sollecito’s house)”
However, this phone number was called less than 5 minutes beforehand, with a call duration (ringing, or with answering machine?) of 16 seconds.
We also know that this telephone also rang audibly in Signora Lana’s garden.
In this case (because the call record to a foreign number includes ringing) we can assume that Amanda didn’t make much effort to get through to Meredith.
As I pointed out in an earlier post on this subject, there are some important factors about this call that "Kermit" doesn't seem to comprehend. Firstly, this call - made at 12.11:54 - was made while the phone itself was almost certainly en route to the postal police offices. The evidence suggests that this phone was found in Sig.ra Lana's garden some time between 11.45am and 12.00pm, and that it arrived at the police station at around 12.15pm. So if the phone had been turned on and receiving network signal at the time of this second Knox call, it a) would have audibly rung while it was being transported to the police station*, and b) would have left a second "missed call" alert on the handset display.
There's no evidence that either of these things happened. Therefore, there's every reason to suppose that this second Knox call to the UK phone never connected - either because the handset was turned off by that time, or because it had fallen out of network coverage on its way to the police station. It's therefore highly likely that this 4-second call consisted of an immediate automatic divert to Meredith's UK voicemail. This in turn would explain the brevity of the call (i.e.Knox heard the start of Meredith's voicemail welcome message, then disconnected). It's very, very unlikely that this 4-second call ever connected to the handset (for the resons given above), and that Knox then let the phone ring for only a few seconds before disconnecting. This would indeed have been strange behaviour from Knox . But the evidence suggests it never happened like that.
In short, "Kermit" is woefully uniformed and ignorant when it comes to the matter of the calls to Meredith's two phones on the 2nd November. (S)he has got basic facts wrong, and coloured his/her whole "interpretation" with an unhealthy dose of confirmation bias and poor logic. Very poor work indeed. And that's only in one small area of the "devastating powerpoint presentation": I can be pretty sure that most of the rest can be just as easily picked apart.
* Remember that the UK phone must have had a pretty loud and noticeable incoming-call ring tone: after all, it was just such ringing that caused the handset to be discovered in the undergrowth of Sig.ra Lana's garden at 11.45am-12.00pm. It's therefore hard to imagine that the phone would have similarly rung while being transported by Sig.ra Lana to the police station at 12.11, yet not have been noticed. And incidentally, as I pointed out before, it's highly unlikely that the incoming call that caused the UK phone to be discovered was made by Knox: her first call to this phone was made at 12.07pm, but the UK phone was discovered between 11.45am and 12.00pm. Instead, the first (12.07) call by Knox to the UK phone was almost certainly the one that was witnessed by the Lana family after they had brought the handset back into the house and placed it on the kitchen table.
