CNN:

Kercher’s sister Stephanie said the family was feeling “great concern as the rumours surrounding the original DNA evidence findings are spreading.”

She said it was difficult for Kercher’s family to understand how the evidence, so carefully developed and presented at trial, could be deemed irrelevant, and also to understand how a small amount could be useless when there is no determination of how much should be present.

Knox’s defense seems “to focus and rely heavily on these two pieces of DNA evidence, but can we just remember for a moment what this case is actually about: my sister, a daughter brutally and selfishly taken from us nearing four years ago … not a single day goes by that we can grasp any peace or closure.”

…”Please do not let Meredith die in vain,” Stephanie Kercher said. “Her courage and strength fight on and we will seek justice so she can rest in peace.” Her sister, she said, put up a fight for her life and did not give up, “and we will not give up now.”

If Knox is plainly innocent, as her American fans, family, and PR firm insist, why are the Kerchers plainly convinced of her guilt? Are they simply malicious people? They just want to keep the Knox behind bars for no good reason? They are irrationally unsatisfied with the one (Rudy Guede’s) conviction? No amount of evidence could ever change their mean opinion? Why do the eyes of the Kerchers not see the Italians as a corrupt and incompetent race of human beings? Get real. There’s nothing new about this case. The case is closed.

EDITOR’S NOTE: On October 3, 2011, Amanda Knox was acquitted of the murder of Meredith Kercher and released from prison.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

55 replies on “Meredith Kercher’s Sister and Amanda Knox”

  1. Charles, the parents of victims are almost always convinced of the guilt of alleged perps, often even after incontrovertable evidence exonerates the alleged perps. Parents of victims don’t typically hold the scales of justice in balance.

  2. Are you suggesting that being closeley related to the victim of a crime necessarily makes one’s opinions on the matter closer to reality?

  3. It looks like he’s saying that the parents of the accused always believe in the innocence of their child and will grasp at anything to make that come about. And additionally, the parents of the victim will have a problem with trying to overturn the guilty verdict.

  4. I really don’t care one way or the other, but people convinced of her innocence tend to be pretty annoying. Like the Kurt Cobain was murdered people.

  6. I’m not “clearly convinced” that she’s innocent, but neither am I “clearly convinced” that she’s guilty. In a justice system that wasn’t designed by Mickey Mouse, she would have walked a long time ago.

  8. Families of the victim want “closure,” which is understandable. The system doesn’t need to be objectively right to give that to them. It just needs to convict somebody. But it can’t do so in a manner that blatantly undermines its own legitimacy. Criminal proceedings aren’t about wrongs against the victim’s family. They are about wrongs against the state (i.e., transgressing the rules of society as a whole). So it’s the legitimacy of the state itself that is always at issue in a criminal proceeding, and it’s that legitimacy first and foremost that the process must protect.

    I have no dog in this hunt as far as caring about the outcome. But from what little I have read about this case, I would say that it is far from over, because of the issues with how the evidence was kept (or not kept).

    Could this be enough to allow a guilty person go free? Yes. Could it be that the evidence wasn’t really good enough to charge in the first place? Yes. But at a certain point, the law enforcement has to be held accountable to play within the established procedural rules. If they didn’t do so, the conviction should not stand, even if that means a guilty person might go free.

    That seems to be where we are now. For this reason, I say it’s a good bet that Knox goes free in the end.

  10. From my reading of the case, the prosecution conclusively proved that Amanda shared an apartment with Meredith, had recently used the kitchen implements, and touched the poor dead girl’s clothing. The prosecution went on to prove somewhat less conclusively that Foxy Knoxy is a pretty weird chick. Grounds for suspicion? Sure. Proof beyond reasonable doubt? I just don’t see it. I hope she gets free and comes home.

  11. they don’t want to face the truth of the compounded tragedy: the injustice of amanda & rafaello’s convictions. it was enough to convict the clearly guilty party.

    and the case isn’t closed because the bribe hasn’t been paid by our government yet.

  13. @12, Thanks for that. I obviously haven’t read it all yet, but this cultural phenom that’s been erected around ‘closure’ and indeed, even the term itself give me the heebies.

  15. OMG Charles you are sooooo stupid. How are you a teacher in college? Your whole logic is: Family thinks guilty therefore guilty. Well I learned in philosophy 101 that that is retarded logic. What a joke. Here’s a syllogism. If people say really stupid and illogical shit, then they are stupid. Charles Mudede says stupid and illogical shit, therefor you are stupid.

    If you claim now there “nothing new” with this case, then if the verdicts are overturned, you need to man up and admit you were wrong.

    Dumb as a post, this Mudede.

  16. I just happened to watch the first two West Memphis Three documentaries over the weekend. It is interesting that families of murder victims latch their hatred so strongly onto whoever the authorities have deemed to be the guilty party, even in spite of a complete lack of evidence. In the case of the WM3, anyone with half a brain can tell they are innocent, and yet most of the parents are still 100% convinced of their guilt.

    I don’t think Amanda Knox is so obviously innocent, but neither do I think she is obviously guilty. So it does seem odd to me that the Kercher family could be so certain that she did it.

  17. And what would it do to the memory of Meredith if innocent people were imprisoned for her murder? Amanda is clumsy and unsophisticated but she is no murderer.

  18. I know, how terrible of Meredith’s family to want closure after a brutal murder, possibly at the hands of her own roommate. How dare they.

  19. Stephanie and her sisters should ask themselves whether the Knox and Sollecito defense teams had full access to the DNA data in the trial of first instance. They did not, but if they had, they would have found the same irregularities that Conti and Vecchiotti did. Charles, your eyes may be closed, but the case is not.

  20. Her stomach contents indicate that Meredith Kercher died between 9 and 9:30 PM, not 11:30 PM, or later. There simply was not enough time for Amanda and Raffaele to interact with his computer, get messed up, miraculously find and communicate with Rudy, and murder Meredith this time frame.

  23. @21, When you can explain why “If Amanda is so innocent why do Meredith’s family think she’s guilty” is a sound argument, then we’ll talk.

    Dumb as a post. That now goes for @21 and 22 too.

  27. @23 I’ll try to explain.
    #1 – Charles is a troll, and his is a trolling post.
    #2 – Charles is a black African man who has a thing for white coeds, especially cute ones with nice racks. This story is in his wheelhouse.
    #3 – Charles has posted hundreds of items about Foxy Knoxy over the past few years. Most of us Sloggers cannot think of the subject without thinking of Charles.

    It’s a reflex for him at this point. He doesn’t make much of an attempt to be consistent, he’s just stirring up shit. You are looking for something that isn’t there.

  29. And this guy calls himself a journalist? He should be driven from the profession in disgrace.

    Many good decent Americans feel that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are innocent. It is a grass roots movement — not fans or a PR campaign.

    Rudy Gude’s DNA indicated sexual penetration of the victim; he had no relationship with the victim, Amanda, or Raffaele — period. Just because he had seen them around doesn’t mean there was a relationship. There was no cell phone or internet contact between Guede and the others ever. He flees to Germany the next day; he has defensive wounds; he has a history of knife violence and armed break-ins exactly like what was observed at the crime scene. He has motive; he admits being there with a story that defies belief. Rudy Guede did it and it wasn’t because Amanda Knox was bossing him around.

    American experts are breathing fire. Seattle area Judge Michael Heavey has called it a witch trial and the prosecutor delusional. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.

    Charles Mudede is a fraud.

  30. And this guy calls himself a journalist? He should be driven from the profession in disgrace.

    Many good decent Americans feel that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are innocent. It is a grass roots movement — not fans or a PR campaign.

    Rudy Gude’s DNA indicated sexual penetration of the victim; he had no relationship with the victim, Amanda, or Raffaele — period. Just because he had seen them around doesn’t mean there was a relationship. There was no cell phone or internet contact between Guede and the others ever. He flees to Germany the next day; he has defensive wounds; his palm and foot prints are there; he has a history of knife violence and armed break-ins exactly like what was observed at the crime scene. He has motive; he admits being there with a story that defies belief. Rudy Guede did it and it wasn’t because Amanda Knox was bossing him around.

    There was no physical evidence of Amanda knox in the room where the murder occurred, none. The case is a joke. This type of crime is invariably committed by a troubled male just like Rudy Guede and never by the pretty roommate. The prosecution alleges a scenario that would have no parallel in the history of crime.

    American experts are breathing fire. Seattle area Judge Michael Heavey has called it a witch trial and the prosecutor delusional. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.

    Charles Mudede is a fraud.

  31. @29. If I’m a fraud, so are the Kerchers. Everyone but Knox’s fans and fam are frauds. On top of all that, you act as if frauds like me made their decision in the darkness of these facts you find to be so illuminating.

  33. There are a ton of cognitive biases in play in this case. On LessWrong.com, a site full of geeks dedicated to reducing cognitive biases, someone posted “You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Eve…“, which asked people on the site who’d never heard any details of the trial to read the evidence presented by two websites, one pro-Knox, the other anti-Knox, each agreed by many on their respective side to make the strongest, most persuasive case for their own side. The result: estimated probabilities of guilt varied widely, but on average memembers of the site found it more likely she was not guilty than guilty.

    In particular, anchoring was clearly at play (once you hear another person’s opinion, your own opinion is skewed toward theirs — Republicans love this one), as was the conjunction fallacy (when asked to rank A “Bill is an accountant”, B “Bill plays jazz for a hobby”, and C “Bill is an accountant who plays jazz for a hobby”, people often rank C above B because C sounds more plausible than B, even though it is mathematically impossible that C could be more likely than B).

    When the police proposed to the jury the theory of “Knox was into kinky orgies AND helped kill Kercher”, that should have made their case much harder: they had to prove Knox helped kill Kercher AND they SEPARATELY had to prove Knox was into kinky orgies. Instead, the jury was swayed because “Knox was into kinky orgies” sounded like the start of a good story that could plausibly end with “Knox helped kill Kercher”. Nevermind that no more than trace amounts of Knox’s and Sollecito’s DNA were found on or near Kercher, amounts that would be more easily explained by “Knox and Sollecito lived there” than “Knox and Sollecito helped Guédé murder Kercher then managed to meticulously remove all but trace amounts of her own DNA from Kercher’s body and room, even though Guédé had raped Kercher before killing her and his own DNA was… found in copious amounts on and inside Kercher herself and were definitely not cleaned up”.

  34. It’s also worth noting that CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) patients have been issuing death threats to scientists investigating CFS. Why? The patients latched on to one hypothetical explanation (a mouse virus found in human cultures), the hypothesis didn’t pan out (mouse viruses are a common lab contaminant, the particular mouse virus found can’t reproduce in human cells), and now that faction of CFS patients are angry that the scientists are “turning away from the truth” and “trying to keep them sick”.

    Except for people with an exceptionally strong science training (one most scientists never get), once a person has made up their mind as to what “truth” is, no appeals to empiricism or piles of real-world evidence are enough to return that person to a neutral “I don’t know” state. “Angry” doesn’t mean “right” — the Tea Party proves that, doesn’t it?

  36. Charles,

    Do you accept the time of death put forward by Massei? If so, how do you square that with Meredith’s stomach contents? If not, how do you imagine that Amanda, Raffaele, and Rudi got together while someone was interacting with Raffaele’s computer at the same time? Do you accept the Conti-Vecchiotti report? If so, what evidence against Knox and Sollecito still stands?

  37. Charles, you need to read up on the trial(s) of Darryl Hunt.

    No one on earth is more resistant to the exonerating truth than the relative of a victim, except perhaps the prosecutor who put an innocent away. Neither will ever admit they stole a life for no reason.

  39. @31

    Like 5280 @6 I don’t know that Ms. Knox is guilty or that she’s innocent. I wasn’t there. But the Keystone Cops investigation and Kangaroo Court prosecution that resulted in her conviction aren’t helping the Italians in the eyes of any rational observer. If she truly did murder her room-mate in the macabre way described, surely the case would have nearly proven itself without the many abuses of authority, twists of truth to the breaking point and outright fantasies the police and prosecution required.

    And the prosecutor has problems of his own. It isn’t that many years since he concocted a similarly fantastical story regarding a serial murderer in Florence, abused his authority there in jailing journalists for daring to criticize him, and ultimately never successfully prosecuted anyone on the 12 or so murders. In an exceedingly rare move for Italians, who value saving face highly, he was directly rebuked by an appellate court with regard to his conduct in Florence.

    You can feel sorry for the family of the murdered young woman without feeling like any random person being convicted will heal their wounds, whether the person convicted did the crime or not.

    You don’t have to be a fan, or family, to believe that an American citizen was railroaded by the Italian judicial system here.

    You just have to actually know something about the case.

    But then, knowing anything about what you’re writing about really isn’t what you do, is it?

  40. Evidently, most posters here don’t realize that Charles Mudede actually investigated this case, and went to Italy to do so. Those of us who believe Knox and Sollecito guilty have actually read the reams of evidence, beyond merely soundbites and media hams’ posturing. If a miscarriage of justice does occur at this late stage, and these two deviants are released, it will only mean that the general american public may wait a few more years to learn that stereotypes and spin doctors have little to do with the truth, as I am sure that the truth will triumph in the end.

  42. @40

    Charles Mudede is an idiot who couldn’t find his own rear end with both hands, a flashlight and a good anatomical diagram. That students are defrauded by having him as a professor is a shame and outright robbery of their parents hard earned tuition money.

    If indeed he did, I could care less that he went to Italy and was convinced by smooth talkers of what he wanted to believe anyway, that a white girl incited a wholesome young black man to a murder he NEVER would have comitted without her. He should have saved the plane fare, and the negative impression he made on Italians of what Americans are like, and mouthed off without the sham of the ‘investigation.’ It’s what he does with regard to everything else.

    And out of curiousity, is being a professor of literature now considered a qualification for investigations of legal systems in other countries? Is he fluent in Italian all of a sudden and able to decipher the differences between a common law system and a civil law judicial system? And all the technical jargon, in Italian, that goes with the sham of forensic work done in the Kircher case or any of the other investigative work, he’s fluent enough to read and understand this as well?

    I take it all back. Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Charles Mudede, polymath extraordinaire!

  43. @12, 13: That article is complete nonsense… it’s based in ‘Gestalt’ therapy and postmodernism, and completely misstates, for instance, relativity and quantum mechanics.

  44. How could they clean up their DNA but not Guedes? That has always been what has made me think they were innocent. Such trace amounts of their DNA were found that they couldn’t be tested twice, so they somehow managed to clean it up? I don’t buy it.

  47. The whole notion that Knox suddenly decided to force her rommate into a sex orgy with a butt ugly stranger is a sexist fantasy that some men would like to be true. Knox is not a likeable character and Meredith Kercher is. All of the above is what is driving this case. As for the “evidence”. Rick Perry would probably be convinced by it too.

  50. @49: I would love it if judges would tell jurors to imagine they’d get a bullet in the head if they found an innocent person guilty, to get them to actually enforce the “reasonable doubt” burden of proof.

  51. The opinions of the victim’s family are irrelevant to the case. We have, time after time, seen how grief and anger can produce irrational thought processes and a need to demonize a particular person or group of people throughout history. I don’t know if Amanda Knox is guilty or innocent, though I lean toward innocent. But long before I read about her case, I had read enough about the Italian justice system to know how inefficient, corrupt and unreliable it is. I love Italy as a country, but its government is terrifying.

  52. Families of murder victims and people who have themselves been victimized by violent crime tend to attach to the police and prosecutors, who come into that awful mess and bring order and some semblance of safety. This is not so hard to understand, is it? Re-read the amazing piece by the survivor of the South Park rape/murder and you will see how close she is to the law enforcement officers who saved her from that hell.

    So it is not unreasonable for them to believe whatever their saviors say. And it would be very hard for them to believe that those who restored order for them would be doing something as hideous as wrongfully prosecuting someone else.

  53. You’re still on that train are you? Wow. Let’s just say I also thought her guilty at first due to the mostly yellow press til I read Timothy Egan’s piece in the NY Times.

    “Timothy Egan worked for 18 years as a writer for The New York Times, first as the Pacific Northwest correspondent, then as a national enterprise reporter.”

    “In 2006, Mr. Egan won the National Book Award, considered the nation’s highest literary honor, for his history of people who lived through the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time. The book also became a New York Times Bestseller.”

    “In 2001, he won the Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of reporters who wrote the series How Race Is Lived in America. He has done special projects on the West and the decline of rural America, and he has followed the entire length of the Lewis and Clark Trail.”

    “Mr. Egan is the author of five books, including “The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest,” and “Lasso the Wind, Away to the New West.” He lives in Seattle.”

    “Mr. Egan’s column appears every Friday in Opinionator.” http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/…

    Then I went to the slide show at Seattle University of esteemed forensics experts, scientists, authors, etc. http://www.westseattleherald.com/2011/04…

    I changed my mind & have been following this case closely. Having lost a brother who was 16 in a motorcycle accident due to a teenage girl being chased in her car by a car full of teen boys out of a high school Drive-In hangout, he never even had time to see her. He sustained mid-brain damage and was comatose for 18 yrs before he died. I can tell you that my parents were so profoundly grieved and coping with it all, the state of mind over losing your child, does not mesh w/ being a pit bull to pursue convicting two innocent people & $12 million dollar civil suits as the Kercher’s attorney & the mad Prosecutor Mignini are doing in this case.

    Meredith’s mother is a housewife, albeit divorced, and I don’t think educated. Mr. Kercher writes for the tabloids. His buddies rose to the occasion, allegedly and jumped on the bandwagon to crucify Amanda, a white, pretty, wholesome, in Italian standards of women as per presentation, dress, interests, who was middle-class & American. They didn’t go after the Italian male Raffaele Sollecito. It’s sexism, classism (thought you were up on Marx), and yes anti-Americanism. It was wrongly thought her family had money, Raffaele’s family is wealthy, Rudy Guede has no money to collect on a civil suit.

    All of the DNA evidence points to one man as does his history, his M.O., even his confession via a Skype call after he fled to Germany. Amanda naively stayed to help the police, not exactly the behavior of a murderer, no matter how crazy they say she is. All night interrogation by cops & a prosecutor known to break Mafioso. She caved as would you have. She has paid for that, apologized for that. There is no recording of that, though it is Italian law to record. Amanda & Raffaele’s computers were fried by “computer experts” thus making sure they could not use as per alibi, as Raffaele was on his computer. The list goes on and on as per the horrendous mistakes, laws broken, International standards in collection of evidence, forensics testing, etc.

    Rudy Guede, whose DNA is all over the crime scene, incl. inside the victim, was fast tracked and had his sentence halved after fingering Amanda & Raffaele. He has been purposely kept out of the spotlight, as has Meredith who was allegedly more sexually experienced than Amanda, she slept w/ the boy downstairs from the crime scene, who grew pot, who Guede visited more than once. The police in Milan & Perugia let him go again & again after a string of similar crimes, rock through a high window, cell phones stolen, caught w/ a large kitchen knife in a childrens’ school he had broken into, threatening a bar owner w/ a knife, harassing women who had no interest in him. People who knew of him, steered clear, his father abandoned him, his wealthy Italian “foster” father abandoned him, a known drug dealer & a police informant. He is being protected for some reason.

    To railroad two innocent people to somehow pay for the murder of Meredith is not justice for Meredith. Their is no DNA, ZERO of Amanda & Raffaele attached to this crime. The bleach clean up is a lie, and if you do your homework you will find that to be true. Yeah right, one can clean their DNA up but leave someone else’s. How pray tell? Maybe they are psychic like the woman the Prosecutor took his cues from which she got from “the other side” or the cop who picked the alleged murder weapon (though it doesn’t match the cuts & was found to have only rye starch on it, not Meredith’s DNA) through “instinct.” Lots of Fellini-esque, gothic tales, prime tabloid fodder, millions made by the media in Italy & Britain, & ad revenue, and distraction from all the shenanigans of the PM and the caving Italian economy.

    It is about the career of Mignini who was charged w/ abuse of office in the Monster Of Florence case, on appeal w/ time to serve & his very strange Italian Catholic perverted ideas on sex, satan, cults, and women. He has to save face along w/ his handmaidens & henchmen in that cozy, close network in Perugia. It is about a very large civil settlement, and it is tabloid fodder for $ & distraction.

    To watch or cause other parents to lose their children too, is just…well I have no words for that. They have been misled, misdirected, and as far there not being enough in the papers about Meredith, perhaps Mr. Kercher’s tabloid buddies could remedy that. It must be very hard to accept that your lovely daughter died in a banal burglary gone wrong. It is tragic all around but the facts are what they are despite the misogyny, anti-Americanism, motives for monetary compensation, career plans, book & movie deals to be had, etc., etc. is not enough to keep two people in prison where there is no DNA evidence attaching them to this crime.

    Finally, a 20 yr old honor student, on the Dean’s list at UW, works 3 jobs to go to Perguia to study, hardly knew Italian (though fluent now, in fact she probably knows more philosophy than you, do you read it in German & Italian as she does?), that would orchestrate a murder of her roommate who she liked, w/ a man, she is deep into in a new romantic/sexual relationship with (they met at a classical music concert) and a man from the Ivory Coast known to be one to steer clear of? Because why? Because she thought her too chaste, uptight? Bullshit. Because they fought over household chores? Right. I got a bridge to sell ya Mudede. Some more facts can be found here.
    http://www.google.com/search?q=injustice…

    Oh yes, and this from a Professor w/ a Doctorate from UCLA, of history & gender studies, gay and lesbian history, speaker, author, etc., & “In 2008, Schwyzer was named the “hottest professor in America” by the MTV-owned site, Ratemyprofessors.com” http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2009/12/04/t…

  54. You’re still on that train are you? Wow. Let’s just say I also thought her guilty at first due to the mostly yellow press til I read Timothy Egan’s piece in the NY Times.

    “Timothy Egan worked for 18 years as a writer for The New York Times, first as the Pacific Northwest correspondent, then as a national enterprise reporter.”

    “In 2006, Mr. Egan won the National Book Award, considered the nation’s highest literary honor, for his history of people who lived through the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time. The book also became a New York Times Bestseller.”

    “In 2001, he won the Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of reporters who wrote the series How Race Is Lived in America. He has done special projects on the West and the decline of rural America, and he has followed the entire length of the Lewis and Clark Trail.”

    “Mr. Egan is the author of five books, including “The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest,” and “Lasso the Wind, Away to the New West.” He lives in Seattle.”

    “Mr. Egan’s column appears every Friday in Opinionator.” http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/…

    Then I went to the slide show at Seattle University of esteemed forensics experts, scientists, authors, etc. http://www.westseattleherald.com/2011/04…

    I changed my mind & have been following this case closely. Having lost a brother who was 16 in a motorcycle accident due to a teenage girl being chased in her car by a car full of teen boys out of a high school Drive-In hangout, he never even had time to see her. He sustained mid-brain damage and was comatose for 18 yrs before he died. I can tell you that my parents were so profoundly grieved and coping with it all, the state of mind over losing your child, does not mesh w/ being a pit bull to pursue convicting two innocent people & $12 million dollar civil suits as the Kercher’s attorney & the mad Prosecutor Mignini are doing in this case.

    Meredith’s mother is a housewife, albeit divorced, and I don’t think educated. Mr. Kercher writes for the tabloids. His buddies rose to the occasion, allegedly and jumped on the bandwagon to crucify Amanda, a white, pretty, wholesome, in Italian standards of women as per presentation, dress, interests, who was middle-class & American. They didn’t go after the Italian male Raffaele Sollecito. It’s sexism, classism (thought you were up on Marx), and yes anti-Americanism. It was wrongly thought her family had money, Raffaele’s family is wealthy, Rudy Guede has no money to collect on a civil suit.

    All of the DNA evidence points to one man as does his history, his M.O., even his confession via a Skype call after he fled to Germany. Amanda naively stayed to help the police, not exactly the behavior of a murderer, no matter how crazy they say she is. All night interrogation by cops & a prosecutor known to break Mafioso. She caved as would you have. She has paid for that, apologized for that. There is no recording of that, though it is Italian law to record. Amanda & Raffaele’s computers were fried by “computer experts” thus making sure they could not use as per alibi, as Raffaele was on his computer. The list goes on and on as per the horrendous mistakes, laws broken, International standards in collection of evidence, forensics testing, etc.

    Rudy Guede, whose DNA is all over the crime scene, incl. inside the victim, was fast tracked and had his sentence halved after fingering Amanda & Raffaele. He has been purposely kept out of the spotlight, as has Meredith who was allegedly more sexually experienced than Amanda, she slept w/ the boy downstairs from the crime scene, who grew pot, who Guede visited more than once. The police in Milan & Perugia let him go again & again after a string of similar crimes, rock through a high window, cell phones stolen, caught w/ a large kitchen knife in a childrens’ school he had broken into, threatening a bar owner w/ a knife, harassing women who had no interest in him. People who knew of him, steered clear, his father abandoned him, his wealthy Italian “foster” father abandoned him, a known drug dealer & a police informant. He is being protected for some reason.

    To railroad two innocent people to somehow pay for the murder of Meredith is not justice for Meredith. Their is no DNA, ZERO of Amanda & Raffaele attached to this crime. The bleach clean up is a lie, and if you do your homework you will find that to be true. Yeah right, one can clean their DNA up but leave someone else’s. How pray tell? Maybe they are psychic like the woman the Prosecutor took his cues from which she got from “the other side” or the cop who picked the alleged murder weapon (though it doesn’t match the cuts & was found to have only rye starch on it, not Meredith’s DNA) through “instinct.” Lots of Fellini-esque, gothic tales, prime tabloid fodder, millions made by the media in Italy & Britain, & ad revenue, and distraction from all the shenanigans of the PM and the caving Italian economy.

    It is about the career of Mignini who was charged w/ abuse of office in the Monster Of Florence case, on appeal w/ time to serve & his very strange Italian Catholic perverted ideas on sex, satan, cults, and women. He has to save face along w/ his handmaidens & henchmen in that cozy, close network in Perugia. It is about a very large civil settlement, and it is tabloid fodder for $ & distraction.

    To watch or cause other parents to lose their children too, is just…well I have no words for that. They have been misled, misdirected, and as far there not being enough in the papers about Meredith, perhaps Mr. Kercher’s tabloid buddies could remedy that. It must be very hard to accept that your lovely daughter died in a banal burglary gone wrong. It is tragic all around but the facts are what they are despite the misogyny, anti-Americanism, motives for monetary compensation, career plans, book & movie deals to be had, etc., etc. is not enough to keep two people in prison where there is no DNA evidence attaching them to this crime.

    Finally, a 20 yr old honor student, on the Dean’s list at UW, works 3 jobs to go to Perguia to study, hardly knew Italian (though fluent now, in fact she probably knows more philosophy than you, do you read it in German & Italian as she does?), that would orchestrate a murder of her roommate who she liked, w/ a man, she is deep into in a new romantic/sexual relationship with (they met at a classical music concert) and a man from the Ivory Coast known to be one to steer clear of? Because why? Because she thought her too chaste, uptight? Bullshit. Because they fought over household chores? Right. I got a bridge to sell ya Mudede. Some more facts can be found here.
    http://www.google.com/search?q=injustice…

    Oh yes, and this from a Professor w/ a Doctorate from UCLA, of history & gender studies, gay and lesbian history, speaker, author, etc., & “In 2008, Schwyzer was named the “hottest professor in America” by the MTV-owned site, Ratemyprofessors.com” http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2009/12/04/t…

  55. You’re still on that train are you? Wow. Let’s just say I also thought her guilty at first due to the mostly yellow press til I read Timothy Egan’s piece in the NY Times.

    “Timothy Egan worked for 18 years as a writer for The New York Times, first as the Pacific Northwest correspondent, then as a national enterprise reporter.”

    “In 2006, Mr. Egan won the National Book Award, considered the nation’s highest literary honor, for his history of people who lived through the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time. The book also became a New York Times Bestseller.”

    “In 2001, he won the Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of reporters who wrote the series How Race Is Lived in America. He has done special projects on the West and the decline of rural America, and he has followed the entire length of the Lewis and Clark Trail.”

    “Mr. Egan is the author of five books, including “The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest,” and “Lasso the Wind, Away to the New West.” He lives in Seattle.”

    “Mr. Egan’s column appears every Friday in Opinionator.” http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/…

    Then I went to the slide show at Seattle University of esteemed forensics experts, scientists, authors, etc. http://www.westseattleherald.com/2011/04…

    I changed my mind & have been following this case closely. Having lost a brother who was 16 in a motorcycle accident due to a teenage girl being chased in her car by a car full of teen boys out of a high school Drive-In hangout, he never even had time to see her. He sustained mid-brain damage and was comatose for 18 yrs before he died. I can tell you that my parents were so profoundly grieved and coping with it all, the state of mind over losing your child, does not mesh w/ being a pit bull to pursue convicting two innocent people & $12 million dollar civil suits as the Kercher’s attorney & the mad Prosecutor Mignini are doing in this case.

    Meredith’s mother is a housewife, albeit divorced, and I don’t think educated. Mr. Kercher writes for the tabloids. His buddies rose to the occasion, allegedly and jumped on the bandwagon to crucify Amanda, a white, pretty, wholesome, in Italian standards of women as per presentation, dress, interests, who was middle-class & American. They didn’t go after the Italian male Raffaele Sollecito. It’s sexism, classism (thought you were up on Marx), and yes anti-Americanism. It was wrongly thought her family had money, Raffaele’s family is wealthy, Rudy Guede has no money to collect on a civil suit.

    All of the DNA evidence points to one man as does his history, his M.O., even his confession via a Skype call after he fled to Germany. Amanda naively stayed to help the police, not exactly the behavior of a murderer, no matter how crazy they say she is. All night interrogation by cops & a prosecutor known to break Mafioso. She caved as would you have. She has paid for that, apologized for that. There is no recording of that, though it is Italian law to record. Amanda & Raffaele’s computers were fried by “computer experts” thus making sure they could not use as per alibi, as Raffaele was on his computer. The list goes on and on as per the horrendous mistakes, laws broken, International standards in collection of evidence, forensics testing, etc.

    Rudy Guede, whose DNA is all over the crime scene, incl. inside the victim, was fast tracked and had his sentence halved after fingering Amanda & Raffaele. He has been purposely kept out of the spotlight, as has Meredith who was allegedly more sexually experienced than Amanda, she slept w/ the boy downstairs from the crime scene, who grew pot, who Guede visited more than once. The police in Milan & Perugia let him go again & again after a string of similar crimes, rock through a high window, cell phones stolen, caught w/ a large kitchen knife in a childrens’ school he had broken into, threatening a bar owner w/ a knife, harassing women who had no interest in him. People who knew of him, steered clear, his father abandoned him, his wealthy Italian “foster” father abandoned him, a known drug dealer & a police informant. He is being protected for some reason.

    To railroad two innocent people to somehow pay for the murder of Meredith is not justice for Meredith. Their is no DNA, ZERO of Amanda & Raffaele attached to this crime. The bleach clean up is a lie, and if you do your homework you will find that to be true. Yeah right, one can clean their DNA up but leave someone else’s. How pray tell? Maybe they are psychic like the woman the Prosecutor took his cues from which she got from “the other side” or the cop who picked the alleged murder weapon (though it doesn’t match the cuts & was found to have only rye starch on it, not Meredith’s DNA) through “instinct.” Lots of Fellini-esque, gothic tales, prime tabloid fodder, millions made by the media in Italy & Britain, & ad revenue, and distraction from all the shenanigans of the PM and the caving Italian economy.

    It is about the career of Mignini who was charged w/ abuse of office in the Monster Of Florence case, on appeal w/ time to serve & his very strange Italian Catholic perverted ideas on sex, satan, cults, and women. He has to save face along w/ his handmaidens & henchmen in that cozy, close network in Perugia. It is about a very large civil settlement, and it is tabloid fodder for $ & distraction.

    To watch or cause other parents to lose their children too, is just…well I have no words for that. They have been misled, misdirected, and as far there not being enough in the papers about Meredith, perhaps Mr. Kercher’s tabloid buddies could remedy that. It must be very hard to accept that your lovely daughter died in a banal burglary gone wrong. It is tragic all around but the facts are what they are despite the misogyny, anti-Americanism, motives for monetary compensation, career plans, book & movie deals to be had, etc., etc. is not enough to keep two people in prison where there is no DNA evidence attaching them to this crime.

    Finally, a 20 yr old honor student, on the Dean’s list at UW, works 3 jobs to go to Perguia to study, hardly knew Italian (though fluent now, in fact she probably knows more philosophy than you, do you read it in German & Italian as she does?), that would orchestrate a murder of her roommate who she liked, w/ a man, she is deep into in a new romantic/sexual relationship with (they met at a classical music concert) and a man from the Ivory Coast known to be one to steer clear of? Because why? Because she thought her too chaste, uptight? Bullshit. Because they fought over household chores? Right. I got a bridge to sell ya Mudede. Some more facts can be found here.
    http://www.google.com/search?q=injustice…

    Oh yes, and this from a Professor w/ a Doctorate from UCLA, of history & gender studies, gay and lesbian history, speaker, author, etc., & “In 2008, Schwyzer was named the “hottest professor in America” by the MTV-owned site, http://ratemyprofessors.com/Ratemyprofes…” http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2009/12/04/t…

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