A further puzzling post, but I'll give it a go. Today is a slow day.
I don't think whether they actually said "caso chiuso" is important but I am interested in how it became part of the narrative. Clear?
"Clear?" Not really.
It would be highly interesting, to Kercher murder historians like yourself, if the Cased Closed meme somehow became part of the narrative, but was not actually said by anyone.
The point being - just so that I, too, do not participate in the topic drift too much - Barbie Nadeau in 2016 is crediting Profazio as the author of "Case Closed" back in Novemebr 2007, a case then involving Knox, Sollecito and Lumumba. Nadeau, in 2016, is citing that as part of the current Olsen tragedy, as a cautionary tale. This cautionary tale is aimed straight at Profazio - involved as lead detective (acc. to Nadeau) in the Olsen case, a caution that he not go off the rails like he did 8 years ago.
Eight years.
Can you expand on who Callan is/was and why his/her opinion is of significance?
Callan was one of the last of the reputable CNN-legal-analysts who variously:
1) expressed doubt that Knox was wholey innocent
2) suggested that Knox could have been both charged and convicted in the U.S. on the similar facts.
The one appearance on CNN I remember particularly was on Erin Burnett, when Steve Moore was also on. This was just after the Nencini conviction, but before the Nencini motivations report.
Both Callan and Moore had to rein in Burnett, who non sequitorially was particularly obsessed with "Amanda's behaviour" (as if cartwheels had had anything to do with this). Both Moore and Callan were guessing as to why a second appeals' level court would convict - Steve Moore said predictable things, because we know his point of view. Moore kept repeating things like, "I can't see how the court could convict the pair, the evidence doesn't sustain it, and the actual new evidence the Nencini court heard all went Amanda'sway."
Callan was more than just contrary for contrary's sake. He cited the DNA evidence as conclusive. Unless I'm conflating things with other Callan pieces I saw, he also cited changing stories and lack of alibis. He seemed to be saying that without getting deep into the case, it was easy to see why a prosecutor would charge her, and a court would convict her.
Then comes the Olsen case. Marriott must have bought off Callan in the meantime, because Callan did not appear terriblyfrightened by Steve Moore. Callan's now calling Knox a victim of Italian police incompetence, which Erin Burnett (and Anderson Cooper) is pairing with Nadeau in the same 2016 newspiece about Olsen where Case Closer Profazio is lead detective.
I don't think you read and listened to Barbie years ago. She was always wishy washy stating after the first trial that the defense could have done much better. She also reported mixed blood.
I love it when you try to pull rank like this. It's as if you're unaware that things like Google-search and YouTube don't exist!
Hoots!
It isn't ancient history and much is coming out now. You have little interest in how the narrative developed except the negative to the kids side.
You're certainly entitled to your opinion. I now know not to include you as a reference in a job search.
I think (in broad terms) it is clear how the narrative developed. There were days when cops were falling all over themselves trying to take credit for "case closed" or "Knox buckled and told us what we already knew"....
...... now its up to erstwhile historians named Grinder to sort that out, because all those people are running in the opposite direction. Vogt has moved from, "Knox is guilty as per what Mignini said, and as I have passed to Peggy Ganong," to, "now we'll never know what happened."
The very first YouTube video I saw of Nadeau, when I thought she had the hermeneutical keys to unlock this, mentioned the drugged-up and sexed-up student scene of Perugia into which Knox and Kercher landed in 2007. Then she started saying things like (heavy paraphrase alert!): "How could these naive sweet-waifs NOT resist a threesome under those conditions?"
Fast forward to 2016. That's the point.
There has been a verdict of not guilty. Nadeau along with many people think authority has great value. There are all sorts of false narratives associated with this case and at this point it appears "caso chiusa" is one of them along with who allegedly spoke the words.
Nadeau has put her finger in the air and wonders how she can monetize this new scene. She fears having Winterbottom make another film about her. She does not come off very well in that film.
