The thing is you can't just take the psychic's word for it. You must get some other evidence or testimony, and make your case from that. . . .
. . . All they could come up with is she acted like she had recently killed someone and did cartwheels in the police station, when she should have been making a proper grief reaction.
The police
knew they needed to get evidence or testimony. They were trying. They were very active.
We know the police listened to the cell phones of many people related to the case and checked alibis of many including the Italian guys who lived downstairs (all 4 travelled home for the long weekend and this was apparently verified by the police.) They probably were surveiling Knox and Sollecito in the days following the murder, and observed Patrick Lumumba walk up to and talk with Knox in the street near her school. The police apparently assumed it was suspicious contact. The police may have surreptitiously entered Sollecito's apartment to look at his laptop before that fateful night interrogation at night on Nov 5/6.
The police were in a great hurry to make an arrest to close the case because of all the media - Italian, UK, other European, and US - whose stringers or staff reporters descended on Perugia filing alarming stories about the gory murder. People needed to be reassured. Women wanted to know it was safe, and the city leaders had to be concerned that the media coverage would alarm visitors and foreign students. The police chief undoubtedly got that message from other city leaders. Rome sent police investigator Giobbi to help (he revealed himself not to be such a
crack detective, but more of a
crackpot detective.)
Knox's mother was to arrive in Perugia on Nov. 6 to be with her daughter, so the police were rushed to get Raffaele and then Amanda in for nighttime interrogation. Judge Massei told Knox that she was arrested when she was because her mother was about to arrive.
I reject your view that Knox acted like she had recently killed someone and failed to make a proper grief reaction. I find that very extreme and incorrect. Knox was in shock and grieving, as were the other housemates.
Knox was standing in the kitchen area and was talking on the phone with her mother in Seattle when the door was broken open. Knox did not see in the room, but heard the shouts and screams in Italian. Those standing in the hallway outside of Meredith's room saw the gore. Knox's view was obscured by about 6 people in the bedroom hallway or sitting area - the two postal police, Filomena and her boyfriend, Filomena's Italian girlfriend and the girlfriend's boyfriend. Raffaele was there somewhere, too. Knox was sheltered from seeing the gory murder scene and missed that additional trauma.
Knox was in shock and grief. Videos of her and Raffaele standing in the garden have been plucked to show dramatic facial views. That is what makes the news shows. Derogatory portions have been shown on video loop to repeat over and over to grab the viewers' attention. There are plenty of frames that show Knox's face in shock.
Knox grieved as others did. She cried. She choked up. She slumped. She teetered. She turned her head down. She looked distant. Some of it in the car on the way to the station when all parties were asked to come in to tell everything they could about Meredith and who and what they might know.
Knox is 6-7 years younger than Laura and Filomena, was closer to Meredith than they were, did not have the strong support of friends and colleagues that they have, and had difficulty communicating. She was shivering in light clothes without a coat in her front yard while the police were in the house investigated the crime. Raffaele offered her his jacket. He put his arms around her and kissed her on the forehead. That momentary footage is misused by the media to portray it as something different than him consoling her.
Please note that Filomena who was with friends at a market fair called a lawyer-colleague to help her the moment she learned that her room had been broken into. Her lawyer arrived at the house even before Filomena got back to her house. After the discovery of the body Filomena, too, stood in the front yard with her boyfriend embracing her and standing by her side offering support. One photo shows Filomena with her right arm around her boyfriend's waist with her hand in his back pocket. Nobody plays that to imply a negative connotation. Nobody sensationalizes that photo. Double standards are at play.
The account by the police that Knox did cartwheels while at the station appears false. It is a sensational claim to make, but apparently false. Knox had studied yoga and practiced yoga as exercise and to relax from tension (commonly referred to as
stress in yoga parlance). She was in the hallway of a waiting area in the police station at night on Nov 5/6 when a male police officer came by and sat down to keep her company, commented on her exercises which she was doing when he came by, and asked her how agile she is. She showed him a stretch, like a splitz on the floor. Just then a female police offer came out of the elevator and mistook it for something it was not. I don't know what the original Italian word for the stretch was, but it has become
cartwheel in English because it sensationalizes it and portrays Knox in a negative light. From that point on, it was useful to the police and prosecution to portray it as a cartwheel. You have fallen for it, too.
