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In the largest possible magnification of a poor image, it rather looks as if the metallic pattern on Guede’s T-shirt was printed on. One can easily find such T-shirts for men in Manhattan - and items for women that do contain sequins.

Here’s a tip about the images available for searching. Wiki managers have told us a users’ guide should be available in due course. Their present thrust is still toward completeness.

The guide will substitute for a search function, because the Wiki documents are almost all in PDF image format and thus not searchable.

Our new poster Before-The-Dawn (welcome!) was mostly combing the Wiki’s images area. While it is now much expanded, there are also many more images embedded in the investigator documents.

Hoaxers like Moore and Gladwell would have us believe that the investigators pretty well downed tools after Knox and Sollecito “confessed” under great pressure on 5-6 November 2007. 

BUT! The investigators’ documents were prepared over a period of about 8 months, starting early in November 2007 and mostly concluding in June 2008.

How are the hoaxers to explain that one?

And how are they to explain the precisely equal treatment of Sollecito?

Preston, Heavey, Moore and co wrote an ebook which they called The Forgotten Killer.

They were referring to Guede, although he was demonized by the defenses almost daily at the 2009 Knox-Sollecito trial.

Exactly how was he forgotten?

The only forgotten killer we can see is in fact Sollecito - forgotten very hard by Preston, Heavey, Moore and co because they have no possible explanation as to why he and Knox were treated exactly equally.

Netflix and Gladwell also tried this sleight of hand. Knox of course has tried it again and again also.

Sollecito has often shown himself miffed about being airbushed out. This post describes one of his reactions; he has also tweeted various others.

https://tinyurl.com/yaj34joh

We often talk here of the myriad omissions of Knox and her apologists. Sollecito has always been Omission #1 even though it’s through him and his family that Knox walked.

Good points, Peter.  And it seems that RG had a little cleaning help: since he managed to apparently close and lock Meredith’s door, leaving no bloodstains on the door or handle.  His bloody footprints simply lead straight out into the corridor, and out of the house.  There was clearly no turning around to secure Meredith’s door, or to leave that disputed bloody footprint on the bathmat.

Easy to overlook, I suppose when someone is busy cleaning so many other things overnight! RG was haunted by the sight of so much blood loss (he mentions it time and again during skype conversations and beyond).  And he had already decided to return back to Italy and account for himself when arrested by Police in Germany.  He has been called a killer; and yet he could not rid his mind of the trauma of Meredith’s death.  He would surely have known that copious blood would be lost if someone is struck hard twice in the neck.  Was it he, after all, with a fascination for very sharp knives and a need to constantly carry? 

RG is supposed to have lobbed a rock the size of a human head to break a window, and enter the flat in a way most exposed to the road.  Unlike the demonstrator in a YouTube video made some time later, RG was no experienced rock climber.  And there is no trace of him on the window sill or in Filomena’s room.

Also, he was apparently only interested in Meredith’s phones (so easily traceable); as opposed to the many items available in Filomena’s room, and even on the kitchen table.  In fact, the only thing taken was a box of make-up.  Now what could he do with that?  He seemed to have hardly spent any of the money he is alleged to have stolen.  I think that he was let in by someone that terrible night.  The only question is who?

It wasn’t Rudy Guede who had a fascination with very sharp knives - it was Raffaele Sollecito.

The rock climbing enthusiast didn’t actually climb through a broken window at night into Filomena’s room. He also used the security bars on the window to pull himself up. There were no security bars on Filomena’s windows on 1 November 2007.

The people who made the documentary that featured the rock climber were trying to discredit prosecution’s claim that the break-in was staged - a claim that was accepted by all courts, including the Italian Supreme Court.

If they wanted to replicate Rudy Guede’s alleged entry into the cottage via Filomen’a window as accurately as possible, they should have used someone who wasn’t a rock climbing enthusiast. The security bars should have been removed and the shutters should have been jammed shut as they were on the night of the murder.

The inexperienced climber then should have attempted to break the window by throwing a heavy rock at it before climbing up the wall and actually entering Filomena’s room over broken shards of glass without leaving one drop of blood.

Your points are, of course, spot on.  The YouTube video was an unfair piece of propaganda.  At a crucial point, the camera suddenly produces a long shot of the climber.  It is all made to look very easy; and was, as you so rightly point out, done in the daytime. Like many presentations by the deniers, it is slick but ultimately very flawed.  Also, no glass was found below from the broken window; and no trace of grass, leaves or dirt in Filomena’s bedroom, despite a Police Officer noticing that her shoes picked material up from beneath that window.  RG was supposed to be able to completely avoid catching his hands or clothing on the broken window pane and glass on the sill.  Again the deniers have an instant answer: they allege that the Police probably missed these things.  And yet we have many photos, including close-ups, that survey this particular part of the crime scene. 

The Police found plenty of glass on top of the apparently strewn objects in Filomena’s room; but the deniers seize on a few bits found underneath because she briefly picked up her laptop.  And why would RG need to throw a rock into a window (requiring the shutters to be heaved open first) when all he needed to do was just ring the doorbell or bang on the door and wait to see if anyone answered?  After all, he wasn’t a stranger to the house, being friends with the guys downstairs, and known at least slightly to the girls upstairs.  Then, with nobody answering, he could have just forced the door; or used other much easier points of entry, out of the view of passing motorists and pedestrians.  All the supposed burglar apparently wanted to take were Meredith’s cell-phones (at least one of which was left switched on); not her laptop.  The same burglar famously also took Meredith’s rent money - but left behind Filomena’s cash, jewellery, designer sunglasses, CDs, laptop and camera.  But let’s not forget that missing make-up!  Got to look your best after a hard night’s work. 

I believe that the Police were thorough, and had many years of experience and instinct to draw on.  Nevertheless, the deniers’ PR campaign just had to roll on, muddying the waters and belittling the Police.  Thank goodness for TJMK.

Machine is as usual correct: that Sollecito was the one in love with knives is or at least was pretty well known. There’s a fine post by SomeAlibi on his collection here.

https://tinyurl.com/yydokx5h

The only known association between Guede and a knife was the one on him when he was encountered at the Milan pre-school. It belonged to the school.

Guede was sentenced in Milan for possession of stolen property for that and a computer, but not for breaking and entering, because someone at the school had loaned him a key.

It might be helpful to note that the arguments made above against Guede ever having climbed that wall are still only a fraction of the whole.

We carry dozens of posts in the Hoax 6 group. Two that really hammer home the sheer improbability are these:

https://tinyurl.com/y3utcebd

https://tinyurl.com/yx9jhux5

The second post, by Kermit, takes some close attention but in effect it shows that the hole in the glass was in the wrong place making it impossible to reach in and open the latch.

That window can easily be seen from the street above. At night it is intensely lit up, as there are both street lights and parking-facility lights above.

And at 8 o’clock drivers and pedestrians would be around. So Guede chose THAT time to break in? Having no idea who would be in the house? Gimme a break…

The 5th Chambers did not just acquit Knox and Sollecito of murder. They also acquitted them of the staging charge. Since they also accepted that the break-in was staged the question arises as to who did stage it. However they had nothing to say as to who was responsible and, more importantly, why.

That is a gaping black hole in the case. If they thought that it could have been Guede, or Joe Bloggs, then why not say so, with reasons of course? Since they said that Knox was present at the cottage at the time of the murder, and most probably Sollecito as well, then why not link her, and Sollecito, to the staging, or rule them out? Again, nothing.

They couldn’t do the former because they had no case that would stand up to scrutiny. They didn’t do the latter because the connection is just too obvious, at every level, and that would have marred their corrupt agenda.

As to the business of the sequins, I can’t, sadly, see this going anywhere. One would think the investigators would have given it some thought, and who is to say they didn’t? Sequins tend to be a female thing. Perhaps Meredith’s. Or Knox’s or an unknown assailant? Whatever.

With respect the alleged sequin on the scarf looks just a little bit too obvious. There are other pictures of the scarf without any sign of a sequin and anyway it’s not a scarf with sequins. It could have dropped off an item of her clothing when the investigators were going through the contents of Knox’s wardrobe, I suppose, but I would have thought that would surely be after the photographers had finished.

Welcome and Greetings, Before the Dawn. Your eagle eyes have spotted some very tiny sequins that might have been from Knox’s scarf. Amazing!

Thank you for your precision and care to analyze the sequins and to bring out this potential sign of Knox’s presence in the murder room.

Thank you for your fair-minded appraisal and honesty, as well, as we must agree with you that the source of the sequins might not be Knox or if so not easily proven.

There could be uncertainty when they were dropped onto or under the blue rug as they were later “unearthed” clean meaning after the blood had dried?

But it is so very possible the sequins are from Knox’s scarf! No, there is no proof of that yet. But if the sequins are Knox’s I bet her knees are knocking together as she reads this latest find.

I need to think more about the sequins on Meredith’s floor and wow, there were sequins on Meredith’s back??? as investigators observed her body? is that what I’m hearing?

This is all very interesting.

Of course since there is no clear proof yet that the sequins were from Knox’s scarf as James Raper rightly concludes, they may have no evidentiary value.

But if I were a betting man I’d bet twenty thousand dollars these sequins were dropped by Knox and lost in a scuffle with Meredith and fell into the rug, were hard to see, eluded the cleanup.

It’s possible Knox might have left the room to remove the troublesome scarf after the fight ended or during it when Meredith was held still by the wrists of Guede and perhaps held immobile by Raffaele. It wouldn’t take Knox a minute to dash into her next door bedroom, take off her scarf and toss it there seeing it was a nuisance during a fight? This is strictly surmise.

Sequins on women’s clothes were all the fashion at the time of the crime: 2007 and for several years thereafter. Small purses were embellished, clothes and tee shirts, blouses were embellished with sequins. It was a major fashion trend especially for young women.

Even little girls wore them on their shoes.

It’s possible the sequins came from Meredith’s own clothes but how suspicious to find a scarf with sequins on it in Knox’s own bedroom so near the crime scene where sequins were found. Very suspicious. At this point, not provable but I hope Knox knows that truth will yet rise to the surface to bring full justice to Meredith.

Thank you Before the Dawn for sharing this incredible new information about the crime scene. Speculation runs rife, and rightly so.

Truth is the daughter of time. If Knox knows these sequins fell off her scarf during the conflict with Meredith, you have just ruined her day, you have sent a whole lotta panic her direction. Good.

Also,  OT but Raffaele got engaged about a year or so ago, is there any news of his relationship or marriage? They’ve been engaged a long time.

Bruno and Marasca’s report is contradictory and manifestly illogical. The only person who had a motive to a stage a break-in at the cottage was Amanda Knox and the fact her blood is mixed with Meredith’s blood on the floor of Filomena’s room is proof she tracked Meredith’s blood into the room.

Francesca Maresca highlighted the mixed DNA sample in Filomena’s room in his closing arguments and he regards as an extremely damning piece of evidence against Knox.

Bruno and Marasca also completely ignore the significance of the bloody footprint on the bathmat. They point out that it can’t be definitively attributed to Sollecito, but they’re missing the bigger point i.e. it definitely didn’t belong to Guede because his bloody footprints led straight out of Meredith’s room and out of the cottage and there were irreconcilable differences between Guede’s foot and the bloody footprint - none of the 12 individual measurements had a 100% correlation to his foot.

A man other than Guede was walking around the cottage with his bare feet covered in Meredith’s blood and left a bloody footprint on the bathmat in the small bathroom. The same bathroom where Amanda Knox had tracked Meredith’s blood into. The bloody footprint on the blue bathmat is a near-perfect match for Sollecito’s foot with seven out of twelve individual measurements having a 100% correlation to his foot.

Any doubts that the bloody footprint on the bathmat could have belonged to someone else other than Sollecito should have been dispelled by the fact his DNA on Meredith’s bra clasp was identified by two separate DNA tests, Meredith’s DNA was found on the blade of his kitchen knife and he had repeatedly told the police a pack of lies.

@The Machine, it is incontrovertible reasoning like yours in the comment above that convinced me of Knox and Sollecito’s guilt.

I am, for a while at least, making the latest version of my book, Justice On Trial, available free in PDF format. It can be downloaded by clicking on the following link.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/u378tglf9gpdt9x/Justice_On_Trial.pdf/file

Hi James,

Have you considered recording your book for Audible?

Hi Machine and James R

And/or sign up with a speakers’ bureau, I foresee quite some demand for speakers who really know the case ahead. In the US the forthcoming election and COVID are sucking all the oxygen out of the air and have set our timeline back, but in several months the audience should be less preoccupied with those.

@Before the Dawn, your reasoning is right: Why would Rudy need to throw a rock through a window and make a tall climb when he could have simply tampered with the lock or forced the door open if nobody answered his knock? It wouldn’t be suspicious to see him outside the door because he was known to visit the cottage.

Also I like your reflection on Raffaele’s psychology. If he had really been with Knox at the time of the crime and they had been innocent, as his first precious lover who was already practically living with him he would have supported his dear one whom he knew to be innocent against all accusations with great force and for a long long time.  Instead he buckled immediately, then distanced himself from Knox by saying she had left his apartment and he wasn’t sure of her whereabouts.

If they’d been innocently together that night,  he would have been extremely eager to support Knox. She would have been his own alibi of innocence.

He ditched her pronto and somewhat tried to pin the crime on her rather than himself! I think in his prison diary he was soon admiring a staff member who was female with long curly blonde hair. His attachment to Knox was much shallower than his blind infatuation made him first think.

@DavidB, you’re right, a book by Mignini would be eye opening if he could tell all his honest opinions without fear. I respect that he has to practice intense restraint in his position. He would need a good interpreter for the book. His U.S. tv interviews lost something due to language barrier, he would try to emphasize a point but it would get lost in poor word choice. And maybe the interview was edited and cropped as well, that didn’t help.

I’ll now go to your link.

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