Let's stage a break in, and not steal anything...
Hi Grinder,
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As far as the staged break-in goes,
I can not seem to understand why Amanda nor Raffaele, after breaking Filomena's bedroom window with that 8.8lb rock and IIRC, stacking some of the broken glass shards to the side of the window sill, then did not even hide and discard or steal anything, like the laptop computer or any of her jewelry, just to further the ruse, and hopefully fool the cops...
I mean, who stages a break-in and doesn't steal anything?
More importantly, who stages a break-in only to inform the police that nothing was stolen before they even arrived at the scene).
RWVBWL - good point on the theft angle and since they had no trouble disposing of the bloody shoes and clothing getting rid of the jewelry or laptop would have been easy.
I would think that the majority of staged break ins would be from inside theft jobs, not rape murders.<snip>
Hi
Grinder, Ammonitida, and
others,
I've been wondering a bit about the break-in.
Why stage a break in anyways?
What good is it gonna do?
Why not just leave the front door wide open?
That way, the cops would just think that someone accosted Meredith when she arrived home and followed her into her apartment.
Allow me to try and visualize a staged break-in scenerio:
So let's see, say Raffaele went outside and got that rock. It's not a nice smooth, round rock such as the type I see near certain rocky beaches where creeks enter the ocean. It's jaggedy and did crumble after it was used. He brought it in the apartment without it leaving any crumbling trace of it when he came in. He broke the window. He smashed the rock into the wood of the shutter to make it look like it was thrown from outside. To make it appear that someone climbed in thru the now broken 2nd floor window, he then stacked some of the glass on the side of the window sill, and though stoned and/or wasted enough to commit rape+murder with a
new friend of an hour or so, did not even cut himself in the process, unlike that
clumsy new friend of his. He dropped that rock into a bag, toppling it. He must have then bent down and ripped the bag, for I doubt that the bag would have ripped from just having a rock dropped a foot or 2 above it. He then decides to toss Filomena's clothes around near the window.
Raffaele does all of this, but then strangely he does not take and hide nor steal anything to throw the cops off his trail, that yes, the someone did break in and murdered Meredith.
The break-in was real.
Gosh, it would have been so easy, after snagging some items, to then discard, as
Grinder mentioned, some pieces of jewelry, or a digital camera, or a laptop, as Raff must have done with his bloody shoes and clothing. Heck, Raffaele could have easily tossed the goods on the side of the road as he must have done with those cell phones of Meredith's. He stole her keys and her credit cards and cash didn't he? He must have discarded those keys and credit cards somewhere. For
we know that Amanda deposited Mez's cash into her own bank account shortly after the murder. Right...
So as I drink a cold cervza, a
Pacifico on a summer afternoon, I'll ponder a very simple thing once again:
Why didn't he steal anything from Filomena's bedroom after taking all of that time to think about and then actually set up the staged break-in?
And then afterwards, before the clean-up was even finished,
Raffaele, as
Ammonitida notes above, who went to the trouble of staging a break-in, then decides to the call the police and tell them that nothing was stolen, before the cops even arrived at the scene?
RAFFAELE SOLLECITO, PHONE CALL (Translation):
Hello, good morning, someone has broken into the house through the window. They didn’t take anything but a door is locked…. There are bloodstains. One of the flatmates is missing, we tried to call her but no one answered.
Translation quote link:
http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/transcript/id/601316/n/Justice-on-Trial
Something just doesn't jive, in my humble opinion...
See ya,
RW
