Reply #14: I just explained to you that she didn't accuse him. She always [View All]

[pnwmom]

said that she didn't know what happened. The most she did, after breaking down during an exhausting overnight interrogation, was agree to a statement pushed on her by the police in which she envisioned Patrick in another room with Meredith while Amanda was off in the kitchen, covering her ears. A few hours later, she wrote another statement saying that that "vision" didn't seem real to her; that what seemed real to her was her initial belief that she had been with Raffaele at his apartment the whole time.

And she had never had any serious conflict with her roommate. There wasn't one piece of evidence introduced in the first trial or the second showing any conflict. That's why the prosecutor MIgnini just said in his summation that she had NO MOTIVE for the crime. If you think they had serious conflict, you're getting your ideas from the tabloids.

And as you perfectly well know, but for some reason want to pretend you don't, the Massei report you cite was written by the first judge at the end of the initial trial. Since that time, there has been a long appeals trial that has undermined all the key points of that report. Judge Massei himself said, in that report you claim to have read, that the whole case rests on the DNA results. But in the appeals case, the experts appointed by the new judge demolished the report done by the police lab and said that the DNA results linking Meredith to a kitchen knife (that never fit the wounds) and Raffaele to the bra clasp are invalid. No DNA results means there is NOTHING that puts either student in the room where the murder occurred. The room, however, was full of evidence that was traced to the third defendant. It is impossible that Amanda and Raffaele joined in the vicious attack and left not a single piece of physical evidence behind, while the third party left dozens of pieces of evidence, including DNA in and on the victim, hair, fingerprints, and footprints.

The luminol footprints in the hall could have equally belonged to one of the other roommates, since neither of them ever had their feet measured for a match. And the luminol footprints could have been many things -- except forblood, because they specifically tested negative for blood (a fact the police lab withheld till near the end of the first trial).

There were no witnesses, unless you count a heroin addict who could only testify to Amanda's presence on Halloween, not on the night of the murder; and a deaf woman who claimed to have heard footsteps, but not to have seen who they belonged to.

The fake burglary idea was nothing but an attempt to rationalize why it looked so much like a burglary -- including missing money and finding Guede's DNA in the victim's purse (Guede being the real murderer, in case you never heard of him, either.) The crime did begin as a burglary, by a man with a history of carrying knives while burglarizing properties. And the real travesty is he might be out of prison in only a few years, while all this attention has been on two innocent students.

As to the Knoxes mortgaging their homes in order to pay for attorneys, travel, and P.R. costs, if I had a loved one falsely accused of murder and being smeared every day by the tabloids -- and their millions of drooling followers -- I hope I would work as hard to free him or her as Amanda's and Raffaele's families have done.