Whoa! There would not be blood dripping into the handle at the hilt, because, if you recall, this was an 18 inch knife which was only plunged in to a depth of circa eight inches.
Yes I'm well aware that Amanda, when stabbing in the giant kitchen knife with enough force and ferociousness to deliver a fatal blow, somehow managed to only deliver a wound small enough to be consistent with the other two wounds from the smaller knife. Of course the police weren't fooled by this deception, and very fortunately for them the knife which could prove their arrests were justified turned out to do just that.
Sure, the opportunity to carry out their fantasy killing happened at short notice. However, that's not to say it was not planned before that. After all, Amanda ripped out the October pages in her diary, presumably because they were incriminating.
The pair synchonised turning off their phones together, and later lied through their teeth about it to cops.
All the elements of premeditation are there.
Yes but a premeditation theory requires the inclusion of Rudy Guede. Now you have three murder conspirators - who don't speak in any mutually proficient languages, two of which have never been known to have laid eyes on each other, and two of which have only been known to be in physical proximity of each other due to a mutual acquaintance at the cottage, and two of which have only known each other for five days - planning and carrying out a rape murder, on 20 minutes notice, without any ability to coordinate with each other by any known means such as cell phones, e-mail, etc.
That's a really crazy idea that doesn't make any sense, which is why no prosecutor or court ever proposed it.
I agree that there are a lot of conflicts and constraints that make a workable theory against the students elusive and difficult. The prosecution and PGP have proposed all sorts of contortions trying to get everything to fit, but it never quite works. There is a very good reason for this. The prosecution is constrained by their actions 8 years ago when they cemented a crime theory that they came up with before they knew the facts of the case. They arrested Amanda and Raffaele and declared case closed having absolutely no idea that their evening wasn't free until much later. They had absolutely no idea the results of their forensic investigation would turn up this random burglar who wasn't in any contact with their suspects. They thought the crime was something much different, and they've had to bend themselves out of shape trying to work what actually happened with what they backed themselves into a corner to keep insisting happened.
The police arrived at a gruesome apparent sex murder with a sloppy and implausible break-in. Since burglaries and thefts happen often, and murders hardly happen at all, and since the break-in seemed so implausible, and the crime so dramatic, they assumed the break-in was staged. This lead them to investigate the occupants of the cottage, and the only one that was available at the time of the murder was Amanda Knox. Their starting assumption constrained their entire investigation to be incapable of ever focusing on anybody else. The icing on the cake was on the night of the murder, around the time of the murder, she texted a black African immigrant a phrase which essentially translated in Italian to "we'll meet later tonight." But she had previously told the police she was staying with her boyfriend all night. So the break-in is staged by one of the occupants, only one occupant was available to stage it, and on then night it was staged she was texting a black immigrant about a secret meeting she later lied to the police about. They realized the crime was the simple domestic murder they thought it was, and interrogated her until they did exactly what they said they did to her, which was get her to buckle and confirm what they knew to be correct, and then declared case closed in their public press conference.
Now the police have made three murderers out of three people. One is an honors exchange student from the University of Washington. Another is the son of a respected well-to-do family and doctor. Can you imagine if they had made a mistake with their three rushed arrests and illegal interrogations, and all three were totally innocent? I wonder how much trouble the prosecutor, who was already in hot water, would have been in? It would have been tremendously problematic for them if their investigation had turned up nothing.
Unfortunately for them none of their initial assumptions or theories of the crime turned out to be in any way correct. Amanda wasn't texting anybody about secret rendezvous before the murder, she thought she would be called into work. The implausible and sloppy break-in looked a lot less implausible and sloppy when the results of their forensic investigation revealed the overwhelming presence of a known burglar who just two weeks prior to the murder made an equally implausible and sloppy break-in at a law office, that almost verbatim resembled the break-in at the cottage. This burglar had no real connection to their suspects so it was looking pretty desperate for the prosecution. This is why their crime theory was contorted. This is why they have Amanda and Raffaele spontaneously deciding to leave their cozy apartment to return to the cottage in the middle of the night for no reason. This is why they have them inviting a random burglar along the way for no reason. This is why they have Amanda and Raffaele and Rudy spontaneously deciding to murder and sexually assault Meredith for no reason. This is why they have Amanda pulling out a kitchen knife she happened to be carrying across town for no reason by spontaneous chance to deliver the fatal blow. This insanity is what idiot judge Massei sent the two students to prison for 30 years on. It's what the clown court Chieffi agreed should be considered as plausible, and it's what king moron Nencini confirmed. To a neutral and rational observer, it is readily apparent what happened (or didn't happen) within 5 minutes of study. And yet, the PGP have latched on to this, with a vivaciousness and dedication I continue to find surprising.
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