Amanda Knox tried for the murder of Meredith Kercher in Italy *NEW TRIAL*#5
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She did lie, she lied multiple times, and she continues to lie. And what is the basis behind all of those lies, if someone were to examine all of them? The basis is self-serving, always to benefit Amanda in one way or another. Not saying the end result always benefitted her, but at the time she said them, she thought it was going to benefit her. Her state of mind in each lie was that it would end up benefitting her.
What is the big mystery behind all of this? Clearly a guilty person doing what guilty people do.
Exactly. She is trying to distance herself from the murder. At no time is she trying to clarify that she told a whopper lie implicating an innocent man of murder.
She did figure it out a day too late. It was after she was arrested, apparently, that she realized that providing eye witness testimony of a murder meant being a suspect. That inspired two letters attempting to clarify that she stood behind her statement about Patrick, but she wasn't actually there, but she didn't tell a lie.
When that didn't pan out, we got the "I was stoned" story. I don't know, I was imagining, I have flashbacks, I am a "kid" in a far away medieval town ruled by a corrupt judicial system ... what should we believe. She told her mother about the whopper lie on November 10 (meaning she kept it to herself for another three days) and then her mother told the world about the medieval town in Italy with the bewitched or confused Prosecutor's Office.
"Fleshing out more details" is exactly the opposite of what she wanted to do. She wanted to tell NO DETAILS about the murder. She wanted to go every which way except the murder.
Yes, she is faking it when she acts all hazy about Patrick. Read my post from above....I'm gonna term it being in the "neutral" zone.
No, blaming Patrick WAS due to stress - the stress of being guilty of a murder and being questioned about said murder!!! What is the big mystery , folks??????
Thanks for that. Clearly a hair, and what came of it is the question indeed.
It looks like Meredith had some highlights or lighter coloured hair not just black. Guede's attack was so violent he pulled her hair out at the roots. You can see more hair on the ground in the crime scene pics.
I see a blonde hair. The highlights in her hair are very different color from what was pictured. And the excuses start.......
Lighter coloured hair much more obvious in this photo.
The appropriate picture would be the one you posted before this, since that was the day before the murder. You cannot go back and post a picture of her which doesn't resemble what she looked like during the time of the murder, that is misleading, IMO.
And the hair in the picture of Meredith is obviously a blonde hair, and it is in her curled up hand which indicates she was grasping onto something and that's where the hair was pulled out. It is not a hair from a hair randomly landing in that exact spot.
As I said, and the excuses start.........
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By avoiding making a clear, unambiguous statement regarding Patrick Lumumba's innocence, yet declaring that she was not at the scene of the crime, it appears that Knox was attempting to obfuscate the facts. Both cannot be true. Knox could not declare that Patrick was guilty, or that she could imagine that Patrick was guilty, if she was not there. That bizarre claim obviously did not clear her of the murder. That lie made things worse, and it didn't look good that she'd been lying for days about her activities on the night of the murder.
That's also the basis for her conviction for slander that has been upheld by all courts.
She continues to lie. That liars cannot be trusted to give a true statement seems to elude many. Knox is a well documented liar, like Casey Anthony, but each time the lies are excused, like Casey Anthony.
JMO, too. A little like the Casey Anthony case, and all the information that was coming out from various sources, it all just in the end confused things for everyone. In that case, obviously it was high-profile and the time span between when the poor girl was missing and when her body found was large enough to cause all kinds of people to come out with various rumors and "information." There are so many cases with the same thing, high-profile and long time-span and it just gives a recipe for confusion.
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It was in their witness statements not testimony.
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No. Remember I said to re-read my post? I said Luca overheard Bastelli calling the police after he'd gone in the room and lifted the duvet. I never said Amanda overheard the call or even that Luca made a call.
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That part is just odd. Why would she not attend? If guilty, to dispel any suspicions that she didn't care about her friend. And if not guilt, well that just goes without saying?
There does appear to be a long blondish colored hair curled up in Meredith's hand. If it is a fibre, then it must be a strand of silk. If it is a hair, it could not have been secondary transfer and be caught in Meredith's fingers per the photo.
So Luca explained the murder scene, closet body location and murder location bleeding, and fatal wound with slowly bleeding to death in the car while dirivng Sollecito and Knox to the police station. Sollecito translated, Knox understood and she shared her knowledge with Meredith's friends at the police station, all the while wanting to kill for a pizza and canoodle with her most recent hook-up.
Especially since it seems Raffaelo did most of the cooking in that "relationship"? He supposedly cooked the fish for them that night. And he supposedly prepare his own pasta or whatever it was on the morning of the murder when they had the supposed converstaion with Meredith in the kitchen.
IMO, I think RS cooked their meals for them because Amanda seems like she would be too lazy to do that. NO, I don't have any links or anything, this is JMO! Also, I believe RS would be the type to do that.
I view their relationship as Raffaelo being amazed that he got such a pretty girl, or maybe any girl for that matter, and Amanda using that to her advantage.
It is very odd. As a roommate, even if she was unable to attend the Memorial Service due to "helping police", she should have made time to express condolances to the victim's family ... or was she too immature to do this too?
And honestly, what could the mother have done? She knew how guilty it would make Amanda look if they now came out and said oh, sorry, she actually lied about Patrick. She was caught in a tough spot. And she chose to keep her mouth shut to benefit her daughter.
Knox gave a statement claiming that a benefit of being with Sollecito was that "he cooked for her". It is documented that he cooked pasta lunch at the cottage on November 1 and he cooked fish dinner at his apartment that evening. On November 1, he cooked lunch and supper for Knox. On November 2, he prepared lunch for Knox, which she enjoyed after allegedly showering at the cottage on the morning of November 2 (in the crime scene). In the time period that we know, Sollecito cooked all meals, yet Knox's DNA was on his knife and his wasn't.
Apparently Knox played a game with men she didn't know where they made faces at each other. Pre-sportsex ice-breaker? Apparently that landed her in the sack three times not counting Sollecito. She was definitely experimenting with what she could use to her advantage, testing her boundaries.
After the pasta lunch on November 1, this is where Sollecito commented that Meredith looked cute in her boyfriend's jeans and Knox noticed that Meredith did something in the laundry area, although she cannot say whether Meredith started the laundry or picked up the laundry, even though the laundry is directly visible from the kitchen, where they were eating the November 1 lunch pasta. One might have to look at 2007 reports to find confirmation of the fact that Sollecito commented that Meredith looked cute in her boyfriend's jeans the day that she was murdered.
Regarding all meals that we are aware of, either Knox and Sollecito had meals with his friends, or he prepared meals. I believe the first meal he prepared was a mushroom risotto the night they met.
Knox cannot relay a romantic dinner that she prepared for Sollecito, or a non-romantic dinner that she prepared for him? Per her statement, he cooked for her.
Yes, exactly. And I loved your other post which explained the difference betwen False Accusation and False Confession. A false, or coerced, confession would have been something which was detrimental to her. As in, she was really innocent, but she claimed she was guilty and committed the murder, and thus she was charged for a crime she didn't commit.
The blaming of Patrick was actually beneficial to her at the time she was saying it, from her state of mind. Patrick took the heat off of her. Patrick led investigators away from her. The only reason she had to claim she was at the cottage, was to support her claim that Patrick did it. Because how else was she going to explain to prosecutors how she knew that Patrick did it? There was no other way. She would have to have been a witness to Patrick's crime, for her to even attempt to blame him. So he had to insert herself into the crime, but she did so in a very minimal way, by just being on the outside and "hearing" something. But yes, the important part in all of that is that she saw Patrick.
So how is that a forced confession?? Coming from her state of mind, that was not detrimental to her. That was beneficial to her, in that she could say she saw Patrick committing the murder.
It was not a forced confession, as in, "yes, it must have been me who did this to Meredith. Yes, I remember something vague, that I was there and I was holding the knife, and Meredith was screaming, and I did something to her. I can't recall exactly, but I know I did something to her." Did she say something along those lines? No, she said Patrick did something to Meredith.
How this accusation panned out is not the point. It didn't end up benefitting her, because Patrick was taken out of the picture with his alibi, and what was left was a lying Amanda. But at the time she said it, she thought it would be beneficial to her, her state of mind at the time of her statements regarding Patrick was that it would end up benefitting her.
There goes the "forced confession" theory.
It probably went something like this: RS would be preparing the food, cutting up the vegetables and meat, etc., and then cooking it, while Amanda would be laying on the sofa playing on the computer and sharing her infinite wisdom with him. All her deep thoughts and ramblings on which she likes to go into such detail about in her various statements. SHe probably blabbered on the whole time he was cooking. Then he probably brought the plate of food to her, put it in front of her, and they would eat while she continued her blabbering. Then he would take her plate to the kitchen and proceed to clean up and do the dishes, while she gave him a "back rub." And watched him washing the dishes, maybe sitting on the counter and blabbering on. Afterwards, meaning when he was done cleaning up the kitchen, they would both retreat to the sofa or to the bed where she would continue her blabbering.
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