RoseMontague
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I've not heard one report that she cried. IIRC quite the contrary, people remarked that she did not.
So why the puffy exhausted looking eyes?
HotNostril,
Paola and Filomena reported that she cried (see Murder in Italy, pp. 77-78), and there is a photograph of Amanda where she appears to be wiping a tear away with Raffaele nearby. A link was posted at Websleuths and perhaps here also a few months ago.
From the testimony Luca Altieri (human translations)
Altieri: Yes, yes, yes, after a while, you know, after the Red Cross car arrived, the Scientific Police and the Carabinieri arrived, all of them, after a while one of the two medics, I believe, the driver of the Red Cross, it wasn’t an ambulance, he came out of the crime scene, let’s say, from inside the house, speaking to one of the Carabinieri that was there outside and he described a bit about what had happened, saying… referring to the both the fact the her throat had been cut and that she had also fought back, let’s say, and from this I understood this thing.
Mignini: OK, do you remembe if Sollecito spoke to you in the Police Station, did he speak of this fact? What did he say to you?
Altieri: look, the only exchange of words was while we were going to the Police station in the car, let’s say, where he asked me if she was dead. I was a bit shocked at the question, I responded “yes”. And then after he asked me, if I remember correctly, how she died, something of this sort, and so I explained to him this thing that I’d heard outside.
Mignini: Listen, when… do you remember if you saw Amanda cry in the Police Station?
Altieri: Amanda had already cried outside the house, also going to the Police Station in the car, yes, at a certain point…
Mignini: when did she cry?
Altieri: Now, after I… she asked me this… I don’t remember well if she asked how, with what she had been killed, basically, how they had cut her throat, and when I gave her the answer to this question she burst out crying.
Carlo Della Vedova: however earlier you said that Amanda cried the first time when you were outside the house, then also in the car.
Luca Altieri: Yes, it’s there that… its there that I saw him [Raffaele] console her, outside the house when she was crying.
Carlo Della Vedova: and did it seem right that she behaved that way or did it seem strange?
Luca Altieri: no, it seemed normal
The claim that Amanda showed no emotion or did not cry is a guilter myth. This testimony also shows how Amanda found out what was seen in the murder room.
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