Seldom does a more bald-faced display of confirmation bias slip past a poster.
Just stay with that highlighted part for a minute. <pause> C'mon, stay with it, don't rush it.
Let's now build a similar case against Filomena, another person completely and totally innocent of this horrible crime. And why not, there are those out there intent on building non-existent cases against Knox and Sollecito.
Fictional conversation back at the Questura, evening of Nov 5.
Memo from Napoleoni to PM Mignini:
We need to assemble an all night interrogation beginning tonight. I think I can close this case, based on what Giobbi says is keen observation of behaviour.
We need to summon Ms. Romanelli and her boyfriend to the Questura.
I strongly suspect that Filomena Romanelli is involved in this. Why? Well, Italian TV recorded Filomena's boyfriend rubbing her buttocks outside the cottage on the very afternoon that Ms. Kercher was found. Is this the behaviour of someone who is grieving the lass of a roommate?
Also, Ms. Romanelli gained access to the cottage twice. Quite suspiciously, she was the one who confided in the postal police that the burglar must be a stupid burglar. Why was Ms. Romanelli so intent on calling attention to her room? Could she be trying to control our interpretation of how the room got to be the way it did?
Further, Ms. Romanelli is a front-door key holder. So is the other flatmate, Ms. Knox, but Ms. Knox has a solid alibi - she was with her boyfriend all night, Mr Sollecito. Sollecito, rather than acting suspicious, was actually quite helpful in pointing out the pooh in the toilet to us. We have not, as yet, matched the pooh to anyone with DNA.
But Ms. Romanelli continued to display suspicious behaviour. First, she retained the services of a lawyer. When asked, she said she did that because she was concerned that she'd be on the hook for the damage to her room, as well as rent at the cottage while it was behind a police line.
Is this the act of a sympathetic roommate, or the cold calculation of a killer? Where's her sympathy to the victim? She also quickly returned to work. Why was she not home in bed crying?
Add to this two more things. One is that she actually did return to the cottage after the police tape was up. She retrieved her laptop, which we believe she thought would be damaging to her. Unfortunately our technician damaged part of her computer in trying to find information linking her to the crime.
Second - she did not go to the memorial for Meredith. True, Ms. Knox also did not go, but at least she was eating a pizza at the time so we can fully appreciate how these basic needs, plus the stresses of the week, might cause someone like Ms. Knox who is also so young to want to avoid the questions that others might have had if she'd attended.
Ms. Romanelli is older so should have been able to handle herself at such affairs, which makes it all the more suspicious that she did not attend. She very well could have appealed to her employer that she needed to attend after such a horrible event in her life, but our information is that she didn't even ask. That's a further clue to her unsympathetic attitude towards the murder.
I am recommending that we call in her boyfriend for questioning on the assumption that she will not want to be alone and she has nowhere else to go, really. If we can get Filomena's boyfriend to withdraw his alibi, maybe with a bit of pressure, we can get Ms. Romanelli to tell us what she is withholding about what she knows about Ms. Kercher's murder.
Sincerely,
Monica
