Otto, I can cite other cases where relatives or close friends thought a suspect was guilty of a crime based on "suspicious behavior" that later tuned out to mean nothing when the actual culprit was found. It means very little in the long run.
Something I find curious though - if Meredith's friends thought Amanda knowing that Meredith "bled to death" was so suspicious, why on earth wouldn't their next question be "How do you know that?". It would be a natural, and easy question to ask.
Since you mention her testimony upthread, you probably know that she explains knowing this from everyone at the scene talking about it.
That article highlights what little evidence of Knox's "Bad behavior" was actually witnessed. From the way this friend phrased things, it would seem that MK was the one annoyed with AK, not the other way around. I find it worth noting that the friend never said AK did anything TO MK, only that MK was becoming annoyed by AK.
I hardly see guitar stumming, sloppiness, and vibrators as a reason to kill. This friend doesn't recall MK ever saying she confronted AK about it. It might have happened, but from what I've studied AK, seemed taken aback to learn that people where annoyed by her. I don't believe I recall anyone, not the roommates, not the boyfriends, not the friends, saying that MK vocalized her annoyance TO AK. I have yet to read testimony or statements that assert that AK did something mean or harmful to MK in the days leading up to the murder. I don't even recall hearing that the two had argued about anything.
If anyone knows of a specific argument or confrontation, school me. Otherwise, I can hardly imagine that MK picked that night (when she was tired from being out all night and going to her friends' house earlier, and having laundry and studying to do) to suddenly "go off" on AK about these things, and that AK in turn ordered two men to sexually assault and murder MK for it, then steal her money and phones, but nothing else to make it look like a break-in. Sounds illogical.
I think if the friends and family really think AK did it, then they need to talk about solid "circumstantial evidence." I'd be more likely to consider what they say if they could tell specficially what these ladies didn't get along about, and if there was an actual confrontation, etc. Then If I get confirmation of that from the actual people living in the building, I'd believe it.
In many crimes of passion cases i've read, usually, there are events leading up to the murder. I'm talking arguments witnessed by others, restraining orders, police reports, the victim mentioning feeling threatened, etc. So I'm asking what chain of events can we link to the murder? Right now, we just hear that MK was generally annoyed and probably slowly fading out of her friendship with AK because of it.
I'd completely understand MK's view, IF AK was indeed being annoying. AK's family and friends have said that she can be annoying and igorant of how others feel about her. So for me, putting together the knowledge from the British pack, and from AK's loved ones, I see a scenerio where MK readily befriended AK, but after making friends with the British pack, AK's quirkiness became more obviously annoying. As MK gravitated to her new friends and her boyfriend, she was distancing herself from AK. This is evident in the fact that AK wanted to hook up for Halloween, but MK wasn't responsive to it.
I don't believe, that if the girls, MK and AK, were fighting with each other, that AK would have sought to hook up on Halloween. What I can believe is that MK had told her friends how annoying AK was, and they had agreed, and the pack had been talking about AK's annoyances and concluded they didn't want to hang around AK. Even if MK still kind of liked AK, I could see how slight peer pressure might have caused her to pull away. And I can see how Ak's ignorance of knowing when people are doing that, coupled with MK probably trying to be nice about it, would have led AK to not realize MK didn't really want to spend time with her anymore.
I don't put MK at fault for her feelings changing about AK, if that in fact happened. But what I don't correlate is how that culminated in murder. I really need Mk's friends' statements to see if there was a history of arguments between MK and AK because it's hard to picture how a first-time arument among roommates would get so outrageously out of hand.