To whom was he offering an explanation when he wrote the diary? IMO he was trying to grapple with a mystery, and he was doing so during a period in which he had extremely limited contact with his lawyers and family. He was speaking to himself, in other words.
Why people are concerned with what Raffaele said about the knife is a much bigger mystery. Why not examine the knife itself as evidence, which no words can change? The fact that it is low template DNA, the lack of an actual groove, and above all the lack of blood speak forcefully that Stefanoni's result was due to contamination.
Yes, as a result of the
CLEANING OF THE KNIFE WITH BLEACH. That would be the whole purpose of cleaning the knife, I presume.
Let's think about the knife for a sec. It's not like the phones where they could've just thrown it out and not lose much if someone happens to find it. If someone found the bloody knife, whoa, all bets stop there. They couldn't throw it is the trash somewhere, what if it was found? They absolutely had to clean off that knife. If it was found by anyone, it would have lead directly to them. They couldn't risk just throwing it off somewhere.
Now, think about the scene Rudy left in there. His poo was in the toilet, his handprint, his DNA, his footprints....he didn't try to clean any of it. He could've at least flushed the toilet, that would have been extremely easy. Flushed with the toilet paper, takes 1 second if he wanted to even attempt to disguise his presence in the villa and what he did. Washed his hands first so no fingerprints on the handle.
Wouldn't it make sense that he would just throw the knife out with the phones? Or throw the knife out somewhere, but seeing as he's not very bright, it probably would have been close to the walking streets and it hasn't been found in so many years?
I think we all agree that RG is not very smart. I can't see him hiding this knife(s) so well that no one has found any trace of it for years and years.
On the other hand, it would make sense that Amanda and RS would bring the knife back and clean it all off with bleach. Put it back in the drawer like nothing ever happened. They had to put it back in the drawer....where else would they put it? Remember they know this is the murder weapon. Yes, he had other knives in other places, but would they really take a chance of putting the murder weapon in a conspicuous place? No, the best place to keep it was in an ordinary place where it would not look out-of-place and would not raise any red flags.
Also, they couldn't throw away the clean knife either, what if someone (investigators) found it? A cleaned-off knife in the trash would look very strange after what they did. I'm coming at this from the viewpoint of, they committed it and they know they're guilty. When you look at it from that view, the things they do make a lot of sense in terms of
they never wanted to get caught.
