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that couldn't be bothered with stuff like evidence and actually often used Knox's parents as sources. You know, evidence that was a big part of the case and was presented in court and that the American media found inconvenient to mention once they jumped on Knox's parents' PR campaign, and that most people here don't know jack shit about, like...
Meredith received three stab wounds in her neck from two entirely different knives indicating there was more than one killer as well as other injuries indicating more than one killer. The Italian court has always believed and still believes that physical evidence points to more than one killer.
The broken window in her bedroom was staging as the broken glass landed on top of the stuff of the trashed bedroom (including the covered body) and not under it, it was a second floor window with no way to get to it without a ladder, and no one could have gotten through it without either getting cut by the glass remaining in the frame or knocking it out.
There was a blood footprint belonging to Sollecito on the bathroom bathmat.
There were barefoot blood footprints belonging to Knox in Knox's bedroom, the corridor and Filomena's room.
In one of the phone calls Knox and another roommate (Filomena) exchanged around noon the day after the murder Knox told Filomena that Meredith's bedroom window had been broken and her room was trashed yet the bedroom door was locked from the inside and had to be broken down later that afternoon... Knox could not have known what condition Meredith's bedroom was in due to the locked door and the inability to see through the window without a ladder. In an early call to Filomena around noon Knox told her that when she got to the apartment she discovered the front door open and blood in the bathroom yet she later told police that she took a shower in that bathroom when she got home and at a time when she claimed she was alone in the apartment.
Sollecito claimed that he was at his home using his computer, but computer analysis showed that he did not use his computer between 9:10 PM the night of the murder and 5:32 AM the next morning (the hours during which Meredith was murdered).
Sollecito initially told police his father had called him at home around 11 PM the night of the murder but phone records show no such call occurred that night.
When police show up at the house because Meredith's phones were found in some lady's garden, Sollecito and Knox are standing outside the house and Sollecito tells them that they had a break-in and he had already called the Italian 911 except phone records showed that he hadn't yet done so.
When Sollecito does call about the break-in he tells police that nothing was stolen though no one was able to get into Meredith's locked bedroom and thus wouldn't have known if anything was taken from her room.
Sollecito purchased bleach the morning after the murder twice: once at 8:30 AM and again 45 minutes later. The kitchen knife and his Nike sneakers showed evidence of having been cleaned with bleach. Register receipts for the bleach purchases were found in Sollecito's home, and he had claimed to have been asleep that morning until 10 AM. Bleach was used to clean the apartment where Meredith was killed, and a strong odor of bleach was noted in the apartment when both the initial police coming to return Meredith's recovered phones from a neighbor's garden and the police that came in response to the break-in. Sollecito's home also smelled of bleach the day after the murder and his cleaning woman testified that she never used bleach to clean the home and that she had cleaned the home the day of the murder without using bleach as usual and the apartment did not smell of bleach then.
Sollecito's own father, Francesco, said his son had never been violent in his life yet he also said that his son liked to carry and collect knives and had one on his person when he was first questioned by police.
Phone records showed that both Knox and Sollecito's phones were were turned off almost simultaneously (Sollecito's phone was inactive from 8:42 PM the night of the murder until 6:52 AM the next day, while Knox's phone was off from 8:35 PM until 12:07 PM the next day, (immediately after turning her phone back on the next day at noon she tried to call Kercher and hung up after 16 seconds). Testimony revealed that no such "blackout" of their phones had ever occurred the month preceding the murder (all the time the phone records covered), and that normally both Knox's and Sollecito's phones were on until late at night when they would be turned off and would come back on again in the late morning the next day.
A shopkeeper testified that at 7:45 AM the morning after the murder Knox was in his grocery store and he saw her go to the cleaning products area (though did not see her purchase bleach as he was not working the register and no receipt of her having purchased bleach or anything else that day was found). At this time of the morning Knox maintained that she was still at Sollecito's home.
Knox fingered her boss, Lumumba, on November 5 when she was voluntarily going to the police station to answer questions over a period of days. On November 5 only Sollecito was asked to go in to answer questions and Knox completely voluntarily accompanied him. While she was there she voluntarily was questioned again at which time the gave the false Lumumba story that placed herself in the apartment at the time of the murder claiming she could hear Meredith being killed and screaming. Lumumba was arrested the next day (November 6) very early in the morning based solely on this false accusation and when the police had no damn idea who the hell he was. Knox was also arrested on November 6 later in the day and on her own wrote a note (not a police statement) to the police saying that she may have been "confused" about Lumumba ever being there at all the night of the murder (apparently at this point she wasn't yet denying she herself was never there). She has never apologized to Lumumba or anyone else for falsely accusing him.
Both Knox and Sollecito gave police a number of conflicting stories concerning where they were at what times and whether or not they were together the night of the murder and the morning after. At first Sollecito claimed Knox was with him all night but then said that she may not have been there while he slept. At other times he said he couldn't remember if she was ever there at all that night. Knox at first claimed she was with Sollecito at his apartment all night and that he was with her all night, then claimed she was at her apartment as a witness to Lumumba killing Meredith, then claimed she was at Sollecito's home all night but that he might not have been there while she was asleep, then went back to the original story of both her and Sollecito being at his apartment all night. Both have been proved to have lied about a number of things concerning where they were at certain times, what they were doing and who they were with.
Contrary to popular belief, Knox early on admitted to knowing Guede though only admitted to having met him twice. The young men that lived in the first floor apartment - Giacomo Silenzi (Meredith's boyfriend), Stafano Bonassi, Marco Marzan and Riccardo Luciani - all testified that Guede visited them and that Knox knew Guede. Guede was a well known drug dealer in the area.
Because there was no transfer of Meredith's blood on the comforter that was thrown over her body it was not put there until the blood had mostly dried, which means whoever killed her was in the apartment for a long time and had no fear that they would be caught by anyone who lived there coming home at any time during the night.
No fingerprints of Knox were found in Meredith's room yet there were also no fingerprints found on anything in her OWN room which means her room was wiped of prints for some inexplicable reason. Evidence of recent cleaning with bleach was all over the apartment as well as areas in Sollecito's apartment. Knox and Sollecito tried to explain it away as someone having knocked over a bottle of bleach in the kitchen and they cleaned it up, but they couldn't keep their stories straight on that either... it was Knox, it was Sollecito, they don't know who it was, it happened when they weren't there and they found it that way, etc.
Knox's story that the police abused her in order to make her say that Lumumba killed Meredith and she was there and an eyewitness to it was flat out BS. The police didn't even know who the hell Lumumba WAS when she fingered him on November 5, and she at first claimed the police BEAT her. She had to back off the beating lie because the police and court took the allegation VERY seriously and investigated and quickly discovered that she was physically fine with no evidence of physical abuse in any way. So then she changed that story to the BS that she was smacked on the back of the head "once or twice" and that it "didn't hurt". Then she later added some more crap about being deprived of food or the ability to use the bathroom. ALL of it bullshit to try to explain why she fingered her boss AND try to cover up the further lie that the police beat her. Both her and Sollecito lied about everything, changed their various stories numerous times as they got caught out in their lies which only served to make them more obviously guilty. The only thing they did with any consistency other than breathing was lie, and they did it extraordinarily badly.
But extraordinarily little of this appeared in the American press except in the beginning. Once Knox's parents went on a full tilt PR campaign the American media stopped reporting on ANY of this evidence or ever mentioning it again and even went so far as to use her parents as evidentiary sources. The claim that she was interrogated for 14 hours straight and that she was doing yoga and not cartwheels and splits came straight from her mother's mouth and reported perpetually as fact. Both of those claims are BS. She was not interrogated for 14 hours straight, she was AT the police station for 14 hours straight most of that time she spent in the waiting area with several other people waiting to be questioned and was where she was witnessed by those people to the odd behavior of cartwheels and splits and a lack of any interest in what was going on. She was even at the police station totally voluntarily that day as she was not called in by police to be questioned and was only there to accompany Sollecito. She volunteered to be questioned by police that day as well as several times in the four days previous and could have left at any time or never gone that day at all.
ALL of this was part of her and Sollecito's trial, but because of the usual and expected abysmal reporting by American media pretty much nobody here knows anything at all about it.
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