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Excerpts from The Forgotten Killer
While more than a dozen books have been written about the death of Meredith Kercher, nearly all of them have paid scant attention to the certain perpetrator whose DNA was found in, on, and around the victim in multiple locations at the crime scene. No viable DNA evidence was ever detected at the crime scene indicating the presence of anyone else. The absolute impossibility of selectively removing DNA of two out of three murderers from a bloody crime scene has not stopped a cottage industry of obsessed conspiracy theorists from ignoring the sole perpetrator in this horrific tragedy.
Preston, Douglas; Douglas, John; Olshaker, Mark; Moore, Steve; Heavey, Judge Michael; Lovering, Jim; Wright, Thomas Lee (2014-01-27). The Forgotten Killer: Rudy Guede and the Murder of Meredith Kercher (Kindle Locations 42-46). . Kindle Edition.
Steve Moore on the investigation:
Because of all this, I feel that I say authoritatively that what passed for an investigation, interrogation, and forensics in Perugia was nothing more than going through the motions to make people believe that the police, forensic investigators, and prosecutors knew what they were doing.
The conclusions and prosecutions in the Kercher murder investigation were based solely on (flawed) intuition, profound ignorance about the science of investigation, social and religious bias, superstition, corruption, and self-preservation.
As I began to delve into the case, I learned to my dismay that the investigation was botched at a level I have rarely seen outside of totalitarian or Third World countries. The forensics, interrogation, and conclusions of the detectives were at best completely and nightmarishly wrong, and at worst, intentionally corrupted. As a result, several innocent people had been caught up in the investigation like dolphins in a tuna net.
Preston, Douglas; Douglas, John; Olshaker, Mark; Moore, Steve; Heavey, Judge Michael; Lovering, Jim; Wright, Thomas Lee (2014-01-27). The Forgotten Killer: Rudy Guede and the Murder of Meredith Kercher (Kindle Locations 589-592). . Kindle Edition.
Junk Profiling
For reasons steeped in flawed intuition, differing cultural norms, and superstition, detectives in Perugia almost immediately focused on Amanda Knox as the target of their investigation. It was this junk profiling that caused them to believe that because she didnt weep for the victim in public, she didnt weep in private. This lack of public display of grief caused them to falsely believe she killed her friend. The fact that different cultures, and even different people within those cultures, deal with shock and grief in different ways apparently did not occur to them.
Preston, Douglas; Douglas, John; Olshaker, Mark; Moore, Steve; Heavey, Judge Michael; Lovering, Jim; Wright, Thomas Lee (2014-01-27). The Forgotten Killer: Rudy Guede and the Murder of Meredith Kercher (Kindle Locations 623-624). . Kindle Edition.
While more than a dozen books have been written about the death of Meredith Kercher, nearly all of them have paid scant attention to the certain perpetrator whose DNA was found in, on, and around the victim in multiple locations at the crime scene. No viable DNA evidence was ever detected at the crime scene indicating the presence of anyone else. The absolute impossibility of selectively removing DNA of two out of three murderers from a bloody crime scene has not stopped a cottage industry of obsessed conspiracy theorists from ignoring the sole perpetrator in this horrific tragedy.
Preston, Douglas; Douglas, John; Olshaker, Mark; Moore, Steve; Heavey, Judge Michael; Lovering, Jim; Wright, Thomas Lee (2014-01-27). The Forgotten Killer: Rudy Guede and the Murder of Meredith Kercher (Kindle Locations 42-46). . Kindle Edition.
Steve Moore on the investigation:
Because of all this, I feel that I say authoritatively that what passed for an investigation, interrogation, and forensics in Perugia was nothing more than going through the motions to make people believe that the police, forensic investigators, and prosecutors knew what they were doing.
The conclusions and prosecutions in the Kercher murder investigation were based solely on (flawed) intuition, profound ignorance about the science of investigation, social and religious bias, superstition, corruption, and self-preservation.
As I began to delve into the case, I learned to my dismay that the investigation was botched at a level I have rarely seen outside of totalitarian or Third World countries. The forensics, interrogation, and conclusions of the detectives were at best completely and nightmarishly wrong, and at worst, intentionally corrupted. As a result, several innocent people had been caught up in the investigation like dolphins in a tuna net.
Preston, Douglas; Douglas, John; Olshaker, Mark; Moore, Steve; Heavey, Judge Michael; Lovering, Jim; Wright, Thomas Lee (2014-01-27). The Forgotten Killer: Rudy Guede and the Murder of Meredith Kercher (Kindle Locations 589-592). . Kindle Edition.
Junk Profiling
For reasons steeped in flawed intuition, differing cultural norms, and superstition, detectives in Perugia almost immediately focused on Amanda Knox as the target of their investigation. It was this junk profiling that caused them to believe that because she didnt weep for the victim in public, she didnt weep in private. This lack of public display of grief caused them to falsely believe she killed her friend. The fact that different cultures, and even different people within those cultures, deal with shock and grief in different ways apparently did not occur to them.
Preston, Douglas; Douglas, John; Olshaker, Mark; Moore, Steve; Heavey, Judge Michael; Lovering, Jim; Wright, Thomas Lee (2014-01-27). The Forgotten Killer: Rudy Guede and the Murder of Meredith Kercher (Kindle Locations 623-624). . Kindle Edition.
