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Amanda Knox Is A Fake Advocate For The Wrongfully-Imprisoned

Fake hysterics Long post. Click here to go straight to Comments. 1. Lies Of Omission, Ignored Judicial Facts Amanda Knox is making a grim and despicable profession out of being a self-styled advocate for the “wrongfully imprisoned” while demonizing Italian justice and numerous Italians. That is seriously bizarre when you…

The Machine 12/10/20 22 12/18/20
Being Careful & Precise About The New Standing Of The Madeleine McCann Case

German Federal Police HQ Berlin; as always, click for larger image Long post. Click here to go straight to Comments. 1. Two Cases That Reverberate On Meredith’s death and Madeleine’s disappearance and probable death happened in the same year: 2007. They also have in common official investigations misrepresented with lurid…

The Machine 10/22/20 19 11/05/20
Hanover-Area Search: Possible Major Advance In Germany’s McCann-Brueckner Investigation

More breaking-news reports here and here. Judging from the scale of the operation - 100 police officers, including forensic police, sniffer dogs and observation technology - it seems the German prosecutors are acting on specific information and are looking for Madeleine’s remains. Julia Meyer from the prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig…

The Machine 07/29/20 7 08/07/20
Knox’s Damning Luminol-Revealed Footprints, In Her Own Room

Dr Stefanoni with Dr Comodi, main DNA prosecutorLong post. Click here to go straight to Comments. 1. Post Overview If you visit those few sites and twitter feeds still craven to Knox and her unsavory pals, you’ll see true desperation now. Ignoring the other vast swathes of evidence, they still…

The Machine 06/24/20 64 07/11/20
Yet More Evidence That Knox And Meredith Fought On Fatal Night

The excellent BBC report referred to below Long post. Click here to go straight to Comments. 1. Our New Translations Continue To Talk Hoax 4 “No firm DNA” in our right column actually consists of various sub-hoaxes, most of which I and many others here have demolished in the past.…

The Machine 06/01/20 47 06/16/20
Does This Knox DNA Evidence Add To The Proofs She Was Part Of The Pack Attack?

Professor Vinci 1. Context Within The Wider Case One aspect of the case that incessantly amuses Italians? Sollecito and Knox stabbing each other in the back again and again and again. More often the aggressor has been Sollecito, who angrily sold Knox down the river on the night they were…

The Machine 05/10/20 19 05/30/20
Why Did Judge Marasca Parrot The CSI Effect In The Supreme Court’s Final Report?

Judges Marasca and Bruno 1. This Post In Wider Context Judge Marasca was the lead judge of a Fifth Chambers panel of five judges. Judge Bruno was the rapporteur and he drafted the report. On 7 September 2015 they signed off on the final report published a full three months…

The Machine 04/27/20 12 05/09/20
Video Analyses Of The Case Against Knox #1: Why We Recommend Those By Liz Houle

Knox volunteers for questioning 6 weeks after arrest - and fails 1. Sorry State Of Crime Reporting In an ideal world, mainstream media organisations would provide balanced and factually accurate reports when covering high-profile murder cases. Journalists would rely on the official court documents and courtroom testimonies for their information…

The Machine 01/03/20 33 01/19/20
The Best Alternative-Sources Series: Roberta Glass’s True Crime Reports

1. Pro-Justice V Anti-Justice Media Trends Increasingly common these days is for pro-truth, pro-victim and pro-justice sources to stake out the high ground. Malcolm Gladwell, subject here of an ongoing series, really is a throwback, part of a trend that is losing traction and that may already have peaked. Taking…

The Machine 10/29/19 7 11/01/19
7. The Hachette Hoax: Explaining How MUCH Evidence There Was #5 Bra Clasp

Dr Stefanoni with Dr Mignini, two world-class professionals Long post. Click here to go straight to Comments. 1. This Evidence Series Overview In 35 paragraphs Malcolm Gladwell made 35 false claims in his angry diatribe pro-Knox. We have seen before - mostly long ago and now long gone - numerous…

The Machine 10/01/19 12 10/14/19
6. The Hachette Hoax: Explaining How MUCH Evidence There Was #4 Faked Break-In

Jury in 2009: “How did huge rock fit through tiny crack?” Long post. Click here to go straight to Comments. 1. Series Overview This is the fourth in my series de-hoaxing the Gladwell claim of “no evidence”. The zombie “there is no evidence” hoax that Gladwell bizarrely revives was never…

The Machine 09/28/19 14 10/02/19
5. The Hachette Hoax: Explaining How MUCH Evidence There Was #3 Footprints

Bare footprint in corridor matching Sollecito in EXACT dimensions Long post. Click here to go straight to Comments. 1. Series Overview This is the third in my evidence series of posts, a main part of our de-hoaxing of Malcolm Gladwell.. This post responds further to Gladwell’s bizarre “no evidence” claim…

The Machine 09/26/19 5 09/28/19
4. The Hachette Hoax: Explaining How MUCH Evidence There Was #2 Mixed Blood

Meredith’s blood mixed with Knox DNA in five places 1. The Evidence Series This is the second post in my series responding to Gladwell’s “no evidence” claim We’ve already summarised what seems to be Gladwell’s position in the polemical “Knox chapter” in Talking To Strangers thus: Gladwell has chosen sides…

The Machine 09/20/19 12 09/26/19
3. The Hachette Hoax: Explaining How MUCH Evidence There Was #1 Knife DNA

Carabinieri labs court exhibit 2013; 2007 charts at bottom Long post. Click here to go straight to Comments. 1. Series Overview This is the first in a series of short posts rebutting this claim Malcolm Gladwell made: There was never any physical evidence linking either Knox or her boyfriend to…

The Machine 09/17/19 13 09/20/19
Netflix’s Endemic Omissions: What It Still Omits In Its Avery-Case Conspiracy Mongering

Murder Victim Teresa Halbach [Long post. Click here to go straight to Comments] 1. Summary Of The Crime Teresa Halbach’s murder took place on 31 October 2005 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, a short distance from Lake Michigan. Teresa has been described as artistic, adventurous and open-hearted; a day-brightening presence in…

The Machine 11/04/18 17 09/10/19
More False Claims Of Plot To Frame “An Innocent”, Again Zero Motive Or Confirming Hard Fact

We posted on the dishonesties of Making a Murderer 1 here. Making a Murderer 2 has again brought out countless conspiracy nuts on Twitter who believe there was a dastardly plot to frame Steven Avery. I’ve repeatedly asked them to provide some exculpatory evidence that proves he is innocent and…

The Machine 10/26/18 3 10/29/18
How With Myriad False Claims John Douglas Pushes To Forefront Of Pro-Knox Crackpots #4

Muddled mindhunters Mark Olshaker, John Douglas, and Jim Clemente [Long post. Click here to go straight to Comments] 1. Post And Series Overview In the previous posts, I used the official court reports and court testimonies to prove John Douglas has made numerous demonstrably false claims. They addressed false claims…

The Machine 09/10/18 6 09/18/18
How With Myriad False Claims John Douglas Pushes To Forefront Of Pro-Knox Crackpots #3

[Long post. Click here to go straight to Comments] 1. Post And Series Overview My previous posts exposed John Douglas’s misrepresenation of the Amanda Knox “interrogation” and the personas of Knox and Sollecito. This post exposes Douglas’s misrepresentation of Rudy Guede, and the next post will expose Douglas’s misrepresentation of…

The Machine 08/29/18 14 09/07/18
How With Myriad False Claims John Douglas Pushes To Forefront Of Pro-Knox Crackpots #2

[Long post. Click here to go straight to Comments] 1. Post & Series Overview In Part One I used the official courts reports and court testimonies to show how John Douglas made at least a dozen demonstrably false claims about Knox’s and Sollecito’s questioning on 5-6 November 2007. It is…

The Machine 08/22/18 7 08/27/18
How With Myriad False Claims John Douglas Pushes To Forefront Of Pro-Knox Crackpots #1

Muddled mindhunters Mark Olshaker, John Douglas, and Jim Clemente [Long post. Click here to go straight to Comments] 1. Overview Of This Series This is the first in a series on the myriad claims John Douglas has made about Meredith’s case starting early in 2013. That was from after the…

The Machine 08/16/18 17 08/22/18
The DNA Hoax: Ways To Rebut The Drive-By Critics Of The Case On The DNA Dimension

1. Post Overview There were two starkly contrasting takes on the DNA evidence in Italy. The zombie hoax version still somewhat persists in the US and UK. In fact, Dr Stefanoni’s team in 2007-2008 and the Carabinieri labs in 2013 did absolutely impeccable work - with defense observers always looking…

The Machine 08/02/18 10 08/09/18
Knox & ECHR: How Abysmal Researcher Avrom Brendzel Raises False Hope In The Knox Sheep

1. The Real ECHR Context Our previous post explained Knox’s slim-to-zero chances of winning at the ECHR. Her lawyers, knowing how much and how inconsistently Knox lies, and with zero paper trail in support of her claim that she was forced to frame an innocent man, had really only pulled…

The Machine 05/30/18 11 06/05/18
Good Balanced Debate On A Controversial Case, No Too-Frequent Victim Stance For Accused

Above, the trailer for the crime debate program discussed here I have previously written a post about the Adnan Syed/Hae Min Lee case and Sarah Koenig’s biased and one-sided Serial podcasts. She presented the case primarily from the defence’s perspecitve. She didn’t interview the prosecutor or any of the police…

The Machine 05/02/18 9 05/05/18
Bizarrely Jubilant And Way Too Exposed Amanda Knox Again Fails Liar-Analysis Tests

Pamela Meyer, a highly respected liar spotter and fraud spotter, explains how she knows if someone is lying. TED Talks applies the telltale signs to Amanda Knox. This brilliant video needs to be promoted as much as possible on social media websites. Most people can’t be bothered to read the…

The Machine 03/29/18 13 04/01/18
Why Did The Mainstream Media Enable A Takeover By The Conspiracy Nuts?

How Seattle is misinformed. Exoneration? Riiiight…. Rampant Conspiracies This condemnation is written in light of the ever-growing wave of translated transcripts. They show how extremely good the investigation and case at trial really were. And how extremely wrong were too much of the press. Why did mainstream media organisations allow…

The Machine 12/30/17 1 03/20/22
Why Did The Mainstream Media Enable A Takeover By The Conspiracy Nuts?

How Seattle is misinformed. Exoneration? Riiiight…. Rampant Conspiracies This condemnation is written in light of the ever-growing wave of translated transcripts. They show how extremely good the investigation and case at trial really were. And how extremely wrong were too much of the press. Why did mainstream media organisations allow…

The Machine 12/30/17 17 01/05/18
Exoneration Hoax: Murder Apologists Should READ The Supreme Court’s Final Words

Emory Law Dean Schapiro; Martha Grace Duncan; Harvard Law Dean Manning 1. Overview Of This Post This flows from our first post ten days ago. Martha Grace Duncan credits many dozens for their research help. Really? For precisely what? This is more about the research that Martha Grace Duncan and…

The Machine 12/09/17 18 12/30/17
Exposing Peter Gill #2: Nailing His “Proven Miscarriage Of Justice” False Claim

This article is the second in a series of posts about Peter Gill. The first can be read here. I want to expose some of the claims Gill noisily made only a year ago in an academic paper The Meredith Kercher case for Forensic Science Genetics: Analysis and Implications of…

The Machine 03/06/17 11 03/12/17
Exposing Peter Gill: An Opportunistic Expert Never At Trial and Never At Either Rome Police Lab

Peter Gill seen indoctrinating non-expert viewers on Italian TV Follow the money trail… So many of Amanda Knox’s high-profile supporters such as Frank Sforza, Candace Dempsey, Doug Preston, Bruce Fischer, Nina Burleigh and Steve Moore have something in common - they have cynically tried to make a profit from Meredith’s…

The Machine 02/22/17 38 03/05/17
Correcting Netflix 15: Omitted - Amanda Knox’s Incriminating Lies To The Police, Prosecution And Courts

In 2008 Knox lawyers publicly ask that she stop lying publicly; one resigned earlier over lies. Netflix’s Amanda Knox is an extreme example of misleading bias by cherrypicking. This post is another in our ongoing series, the mothership for material for this media-friendly page online soon. Overview Of This Post…

The Machine 10/28/16 11 11/05/16
How Bob Woffinden, Aggrandizing Investigative Journalist, Attempts To Perpetrate Innocence Fraud

Said to be Bob Woffinden - as a pop music reporter, some years ago Added in 2018. Bob Woffinden died on 1 May. He never reversed his false claims about Guede. His website was later taken down. 1. Woffinden and innocence fraud These days innocence fraud is a very real…

The Machine 09/01/16 10 09/03/16
The West Memphis Three: Another Instance Where A Strong Pro-Guilt Case Is Being Garbled For Profit

Above: Still under a cloud: Jessie Misskelley, Jason Baldwin, and Damien Echols 1. Overview of the series In my last post on how media hype can badly tangle crime cases, I examined Sarah Koenig’s biased coverage of the Adnan Syed case for the Serial podcasts and her flawed approach to…

The Machine 08/25/16 19 09/03/16
Artificially Controversial Adnan Syed Case Adds To Tilt Against Victims Worldwide

Victim Hae Min Lee; bottom, podcaster Sarah Koenig basking in celebrity 1. The Media Overview Doug Preston, John Douglas, Steve Moore and Bruce Fischer are by no means the only crackpots in America perpetrating innocence fraud. Their main distinction was to perpetrate it in English against a victim and a…

The Machine 07/27/16 38 08/27/16
Fifty Of The Most Common Myths Still Promoted Without Restraint By The Knox PR Campaign

Fooled ya! Knox’s parents have the mythmaking machine’s pedal to the floor, and arent slowing it Introduction I’ve listed the 50 most common myths circulating in the media with regard to the Amanda Knox/Meredith Kercher case and refuted them using as far as possible the official court documents and court…

The Machine 06/12/14 61 06/18/14
Questions For Knox: Ten Hard Questions That Knox Should Be Asked Monday On ITV’s Daybreak

Amanda Knox will be interviewed for the first time in Britain on ITV’s Daybreak programme tomorrow. No interviewer should unquestioningly accept everything Knox says as the gospel truth. Remember Knox served three years in prison and is labeled a convicted felon for life for malicious lying. So let’s hope tomorrow’s…

The Machine 09/22/13 70 09/26/13
How Greg Hampikian Abuses Two Positions of Trust In Serially Misrepresenting The Hard Evidence

Overview Greg Hampikian holds two positions of trust: he is a teacher of biology at Boise State University in Idaho (population 1.6 million) and he is the local representative for Idaho of the Innocence Project, His use or misuse of his Innocence Project mantle via a case way outside his…

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A New DNA Analysis Strongly Implicating Sollecito Seems to Have The Defense Forces Rattled

F [Above: DNA professional Professor David Balding; at bottom, DNA amateurs Barras and Halkides] The Supreme Court has already shown strong disdain for the myriad dirty tricks of the defense forces, and legal action is building against them (see our post next week). That the defense forces in this context…

The Machine 08/05/13 34 08/10/13
One Final Word On Nina Burleigh In Response To Those Still Hoaxed By Her

Actually Burleigh didnt get very much right. Many of the pro-Burleigh commenters on the Time website and also many reviewers on Amazon dont seem to realise just how hard-and-fast Burleigh played with the facts. I’ve dipped into the book and read various articles and they all stray far from the…

The Machine 04/01/13 2 04/04/13
Family Of Reeva Steenkamp Find A Big-Bucks PR Campaign Seeking To Drown Them Out

On Valentine’s Day, Reeva Steenkamp, a law graduate and model, was shot three times by boyfriend Oscar Pistorius while she was in the en-suite toilet. She died shortly after the emergency services arrived at the scene. There are a number of parallels between the Reeva Steenkamp case and the Meredith…

The Machine 03/07/13 18 03/11/13
Disarray And Decay In The Pro-Knox Parade: Bruce Fischer’s Epidemic Of Malicious Claims

The Knox supporters’ leader-of-the-parade spirals up Back in October 2008, in our first long post ever on Meredith’s case, Skeptical Bystander highlighted the crazed pro-Knox attack sharks that were starting to appear on Candace Dempsey’s blog. Psychologists warned us that a competitive leader-of-the-parade spiral was wittingly or unwittingly being encouraged…

The Machine 02/27/13 24 03/04/13
DNA Proof 40 Years After A Cowardly Murder Shuts Down A Fact-Fogging Campaign For The Murderer

[Above: the murder victim Michael Gregsten and Valerie Storie who survived] Relevance to Meredith’s case You maybe thought journalists, politicians, human rights campaigners, lawyers, writers, filmmakers and celebrities campaigning on behalf of someone who evidence strongly suggested was guilty was peculiar to Meredith’s case? Think again. Exactly the same thing…

The Machine 08/23/12 9 08/24/12
Ominous Development For Sollecito And Knox: A DNA Conviction Based On A Tiny Sample Of DNA

(2) Here are the implications for RS and AK It puts the 46-day delay (caused by the defenses) in retrieving the bra clasp into perspective. It’s not the first case of somebody being convicted of murder decades after the crime took place on the strength of DNA evidence. Ronald Castree…

The Machine 07/21/12 35 07/24/12
Saul Kassin: An Example Of How The Knox Campaign Is Misleading American Experts And Audiences

It has happened again and again. Seemingly good, well-qualified lawyers and experts in police science have repeatedly been made to surface to spout inanities and wrong “facts” put out courtesy of Curt Knox’s “public relations” campaign. It seems that Dr Saul Kassin is yet another of these naive dupes. Who…

The Machine 07/10/12 41 07/18/12
A Smug Killer Who Thought Perhaps He’d Escaped Justice Was Brought Down In The UK Today

[Above and below: Arlene Fraser and husband Nat who today was again convicted for her murder] Today at the High Court in Edinburgh Nat Fraser has been been found guilty for the second time of murdering his estranged wife Arlene in 1998. He was originally was found guilty in 2003…

The Machine 05/31/12 4 06/03/12
UK High Court Convicts Two After 18 Years When Defense DNA Contamination Claims Lose Traction

Gary Dobson and David Norris have been found guilty of murdering Stephen Lawrence in 1993 by a jury at the Old Bailey. There are some parallels between this case and the Meredith Kercher case: the police were accused of making a catalogue of errors and the defence lawyers claim forensic…

The Machine 01/03/12 35 01/07/12
A Deeply Ugly, Inaccurate And Callous Piece Of Junk By Nathaniel Rich In “Rolling Stone”

Who is Nathaniel Rich? According to Wikipedia, Nathanial Rich is an American author and essayist. He is also the son of the New York Times columnist Frank Rich, and various online commentaries about him credit that.and not talent or ethics or hard work for any success he might have had.…

The Machine 07/03/11 58 07/06/11
It Seems Mignini Demonizer + Knox Fawner Judy Bachrach Learned Nothing In The Past Year

Bachrach again. She never learns. Here is my post of a year ago showing how she misleads Hmmm. Isn’t Mr Mignini already suing people for hurtful claims about him not unlike those made very dogmatically in the video above? And the similar hurtful claims made very dogmatically in the two…

The Machine 06/08/11 18 06/11/11
Beyond Massei: On The Seemingly Insuperable Mixed Blood Evidence By All The Expert Witnesses

Above: the Scientific Police headquarters and laboratories in Rome Two DNA Specks Not Everything The recent headlines have been dominated by the knife and bra-clasp evidence currently being reviewed by Stefano Conti and Carla Vecchiotti at La Sapienza University in Rome. Knox and Sollecito campaign spinners have tried to sell…

The Machine 06/04/11 24 10/03/13
Michael Wiesner: Ten Major Mistakes In His Ill-Researched And Malicious Claims

1. Who is Michael Wiesner? Michael Wiesner is a social studies teacher, at the Mid-Pacific Institute High School in Honolulu in Hawaii. Principal Grace Cruz (image at bottom here) is the supervisor of the staff of the school who presumably supervises Michael Wiesner and makes sure that her students are…

The Machine 06/01/11 30 06/13/11
Questions For Knox: 15 Questions That Drew Griffin On CNN Tonight SHOULD Have Asked

Drew Griffin’s CNN report on Amanda Knox (replete with dozens of basic errors) can be read in transcript here. Welcome to migrants from CNN. If you want to form a seriously fact-based opinion, please read this group of posts and especially the one by the very smart lawyer SomeAlbi at…

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