unfortunately senseless murders happen every day
Yes they do. But senseless does not mean without reason or logic. I study these cases and the patterns of criminal behavior, as many do here on websleuths. You have predatory murders, revenge killings, killings for financial gain, killing to get out of trouble or to be free of something or someone, psychotic killings, rage killings etc. All have reasons behind them.
In this case, Meredith was raped and murdered. So sex was a component. In the cases where more than one person has been involved in such a murder, it is usually two men who have known each other for awhile and have come to realize they share the same, sadistic proclivities.
Much rarer, there is a woman involved with a man in the rape-murder of another person. That is a completely different dynamic. In such cases, the woman has usually been with the guy for a long period, is obsessed with him and willing to do whatever he wants, or is the victim of domestic violence. The woman usually is not the ringleader in such cases but on rare occasions, gets off just as much and slowly begins adding suggestions as to what new, fresh horror they can inflict.
But there are usually deep problems with such women and the men leading them. In fact, I don't know of one such case where there wasn't such a history - divorce, child abuse, drug or alcohol problems, mental illness, domestic violence, etc. And the jump from relationship to accomplice takes time- usually a lot of time.
I see none of that in this case. It is agreed that neither Knox nor Sollecito had any kind of criminal or mental health history. They both came from normal families with no reported dysfunction.
And they just met seven days before the day Meredith was brutally murdered.
Logic dictates that that is simply not enough time for to people who have shown no criminal proclivities before, to create the kind of environment in which they feel more free, more safe to express criminal behaviors or a criminal mindset.
It's different when two scuzzy ex convict drifters meet at a truck stop and recognize the inherent evil in each other's souls. Or a group of disturbed and delinquent teens who have been friends for a long time and plot the killing of a girl who "dissed them" or whatever. But we're talking about two young, fresh faced college kids with zero signs of dysfunction, raping and murdering a girl seven days after they met each other.
Now add Guede to the mix. No proof they ever met each other. It was suggested maybe Knox used him as a pot connection, though there was no proof. So how does that conversation happen? "Let's get high. Now we are high. Let's fool around. Now we are fooling around. Hey Meredith, you should join in. No? Let's kill Meredith."
I'm sorry, it defies logic. Criminal teams develop over time as they recognize each other's souls for what they are. They don't develop quickly because even a sociopath knows what the reaction from possibly "normal" people could be if criminal activity was suggested.
IMO, every murder is senseless. But there is always a method to the madness, a reason why things developed the way they did. The prosecution's theory in this case defies reason and fits no known parameter for murder.
Add to that the lack of credible forensics, etc., and that's why I feel the way I do.
