Level of Concern?
I believe Mach addressed this at one point, but I've been reading Amanda's November 4 email and I have a few questions. This is not a "gotcha," and in no way proves guilt. I just want to know the opinion (or facts) of the innocence side.
In the email, Knox describes the blood in the bathroom as "strange" and, before leaving, feeling "uncomfortable." She calls Meredith's two phones at 12:07 (from other documentation). On one phone, "no one answered," and the other "just kept ringing" (calls which, also from other documentation, lasted 3 and 4 seconds.) AK and RS return to the cottage where a burglary is discovered and, combined with the blood, AK's alarm escalates to "banging on (Meredith's) door, "shouting her name," "panicking," an attempt to look through her window, question the downstairs neighbors, and ultimately a failed attempt to break down the door before police arrive.
1. With this level of concern, why were followup phone calls to Meredith not made? I find it even more surprising given that the first calls were made from RS' apartment. Calling the phones from the cottage would been logical to hear if they rang from behind the door.
2. Why didn't AK leave a message? I'll ignore the 3 and 4 second phone calls, but if she's concerned enough at 12:07, before the burglary is discovered, to call Filomena, then why not simply ask Meredith to call her back? Is she alledging that neither call went to voice mail? And even in the unlikely event they didn't, why not send a text?
3. Has Amanda ever explained this? Did it come up in testimony? (I sincerely don't know.)
Again, I'm not pretending that her behavior, or mistakes made, is conclusive of anything. I just find it hard to believe, no matter the level of panic, that subsequent phone calls and/or texts weren't made to Meredith, and that no message was left asking her to call.
Regarding the level of concern:
Today a surfer died at Sunset Beach here in Pacific Palisades, California
where I do shark research observation. The full details are not known yet.
There is local surf camera footage of the surf break, and this sad incident today.
He paddled for and rode 1 last wave at 12:24:19pm, kicked out, complained to a nearby local surfer gal that he was felling very tired, and headed in. He didn't make it all the way back to shore. He disappears under water.
Another surfer heading out saw this surfer in distress and went forward into the water to help him out.
A friend, a bro named Al,
who was parked along Pacific Coast Highway saw some problem with this surfer and then walked down,
he did not RUN, to tell the lifeguard of a possible problem.
My friend then walked, he did not RUN,
back and then down the stairs leading to the beach,
but when he reached the surfer, he did then start CPR until the lifeguard arrived a minute or so later.
Gosh, if Al watches the video from today, he might wonder,
WHY the heck didn't I RUN for help???
WHY didn't I RUN to give CPR???
The surfer is dying!!!
A lotta surfers and beach goers were upset this early afternoon.
I shot a few photo's of the scene, you can not see them.
Griffinmill,
my friend Al,
like Amanda,
had no way of knowing how the end result was coming about.
His
level of concern was apparently not too worried, as the video shows.
But the surfer died.
Meredith is lying dead in her bedroom?
The blood drops in the bathroom, the poo in the other girlz toilet, the broken window show no apparent major clues that a woman had been raped and brutally knifed to her death, with blood all over the floor of her bedroom, right next to Amanda's own room.
Would you have thought that a roommate was knifed to her death in such a horrible, bloody way
just from seeing what AK reported in her email to friends back home?
Of course,
it always looks soooo much clearer afterwards when trying to understand everything,
as I just watched when I saw the archived video footage and saw the surfer today ride his last wave ever,
come in past a surfer girl pal, and then disappear underwater, whereupon Al and others tried to save him, without success...
RW