Here are my issues with the 3 witnesses
1. No one can identify the individuals that made the " running footstep" sounds nor can they identify who screamed
2. None of these witnesses were found by ILE, they were instead found by journalists.
3. When a witness comes forward months to a year after a very well publicized murder which was in all the newspapers red flags are raised immediately
4. There are conflicting dates, times, in the statements, even to the point of one stating that she had read this in a newspaper prior to MK being found
5. 2 heard screams, 1 did not and 1 did not hear running footsteps
6. These statements are in direct contradiction of the witnesses whose car had broken down just outside the cottage in which they stated they did not hear any running or screams and they were there till 11:40 according to their testimony
ETA Her vocal chords where damaged and this is a critical fact
Capezzali gave conflicting statements about the dates and timelines, at one point saying she heard the scream the night of Halloween, which was the night before the slaying.
Maria Laria Dramis said she heard the sounds of someone running, while Antonella Manocchia said she heard a loud argument in Italian between a man and a woman, followed by a woman's scream
In both cases, the reporter sought them out to ask questions related to an investigation the paper was doing, then suggested they go to the police because the information they had might be useful.
Under cross-examination by Carlo Della Vedova, Manocchia said she would not have made the deposition on her own, but had felt "pushed" by the journalist, who later accompanied her to the police department
And all three witnesses didn't go to the police for months until journalists urged them to
Read more:
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/arti...he-heard-scream-but-1302897.php#ixzz1JdjLZsjW
Maria Dramis, who lived in the area testified that on the same night she heard the sound of running footsteps under her window, a sound that woke her up around 11 p.m. This was not an unusual occurrence, but it struck her in light of what she found out the next morning about the death of Kercher just down the road.
A peculiarity about the testimony of the Monacchia Dramis is that they did not report what they had heard to investigators until over a year after the fact. When they finally did explain what they heard, it was only after prompting from a journalist who accompanied them to the police station.
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=7189205&page=2
