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My guess is it is a formality, though I've not yet seen the 112 page appeal document translated. Even if it is overturned, the new trial would be an acquittal, Amanda (at least) being tried in absentia. They cannot re-create the conditions of 2009 when they convicted them both off the...

It's extraordinarily interesting considering the lack of evidence that it could have happened, there being no motive being as she had plenty of money, and the evidence on the purse that the broke and jobless Rudy left there. It kind of gives you a taste of what really happened in the case: they...

I think it was simply because she withdrew the money to pay rent, but it turned out the cottage became a crime scene and they'd have to move so she didn't have to pay the rest and put it back in the bank. She was talking about where she was going to move with Filomena in that 10:29 call which...

She'd been there two months and she'd seen him around sometimes because he hung out with the boys downstairs occasionally. She knew everyone in her classes better by that standard, and all of the boys downstairs as well as the English girls and friends of their friends too if she'd ever been...

Precisely what I said, isn't it? Note there's another portion of her testimony in which she says she also saw him around a few times. In the space of a couple months, a brief introduction and her eyeballs crossed his path a few times. Again they don't ask her whether she smoked with Rudy, but...

Amanda's testimony indicates she was introduced to him once, may have seen him at Le Chic once, might have seen him around the neighborhood a few times. She also testified that a spinello was smoked there the night she was introduced to him, she did not testify that she smoked it with Rudy. If...

Do you wonder why they put burglar bars over the window sometime after the murder? My guess is they thought that window was vulnerable to burglars. I think the break in is meaningless, it didn't even get its own chapter heading in Massei. It based on claims they never presented proof of...

One thing to consider is that if the police arrested three people on a vague and confused 'confession' after an all-night interrogation session on no evidence that would stand up, then when the forensics were complete found traces of only one man, who happens to be a burglar, then odds are the...

It makes me wonder if there's anything that could be done by an independent lab after the acquittal on pieces of evidence like this and the putative seminal stain. If there's roots in that hair they might just find DNA if they employ proper LT-DNA protocols.

John Douglas? You're going to have to accept something here you might not want to, and embarrassed the hell out of me when I realized it myself, but to a professional investigator with the data now available it's so obvious Amanda and Raffaele are innocent, they don't have to memorize all the...

But that doesn't make it probable without evidence and rational argument. Let me put my bunny suit on and I'll give you a theory of how you're potentially involved in this murder. Nothing personal, I've done it for myself as well, it just illustrates what one can do with a nasty suspicious...

Heh. Then what do they use them for, Fulcanelli? The FBI agent ought to know, violent crimes unit and anti-terrorism, which for the FBI amounts to walking into a mess and trying to figure out what happened. Plus what he says makes sense. You've still not explained why the FBI and ILE would...

They only get luminol hits where they spray luminol. Is there any evidence whatsoever that Laura's room was sprayed down on the return trip to the crime scene? The large bathroom? Why would they? They'd just been wedgied on Italian TV by the noble and valiant Sollecitos exposing their mindless...

Fulcanelli, that's what TMB does! If you don't get a positive you don't have blood! Why else would they use it, as you note it's a presumptive test. It can't confirm blood, and they already have a luminol hit, so why on earth would they use it then? Both ILE and the FBI? <modsnip>: luminol is...

Heh, Massei alludes to the possibility the bathmat print could have been left by Amanda, without ever directly saying so, of course, 'cuz that would be silly. Here it is: One of Massei's 'finer moments' as he 'hypothesizes' that whoever left the traces in the bathroom probably left the one...

The negative TMB test makes it extremely difficult to find any alternative besides they weren't blood. You can't ignore that falsifier, I can just about guarantee you Hellmann won't. That overrides just about everything, because nothing else has had such a definitive test disqualifying it...

OK, then they didn't do a confirmation test so they're not blood. You need to prove guilt, not try to knit it together with sophistry. You have to prove it's blood, and they knew after the failed TMB tests they couldn't do that, but they took samples for DNA, and those failed too. Then they...

No, they couldn't be from Raffaele and Amanda unless they were wearing Rudy's shoes. Not even Massei bought the smeared print being Amanda's and he was looking for ways to put them in there. *sigh* One more time before I have to go, using real words this time. Blood has cute little...

Seeing as there's none of these footprints in 'blood' in the murder room, and there's no source for that kind of blood outside it, then the idea they're actually bare footprints in Meredith's blood is marginal to begin with. You'll recall even Massei punted on that one. You've got it...

How come those pictures were so chemiluminescent if the blood was so diluted that a TMB test failed? Explain how that one works. Use words like reagent, oxidize, catalyze and pseudoperoxidase and hemoglobin. ;) Why would they even check there? If they were checking there, what would that...