Knox PR Puppet Dan Norder “Crime Historian” Makes A Dozen Mistakes In A Short Piece


Click above for all of Dan Norder’s offensive and wildly misleading post. Some excerpts below.

The commenters below his absurd piece pretty well nail him to the wall. He makes a couple of flustered responses that only dig him in deeper, and then he goes (hopefully forever) silent.

And so yet another knox PR puppet bites the dust. Where does Preston FIND these suckers?!

Italian investigators formed a rather unusual theory to explain the murder. Amanda Knox “” Kercher’s American roommate, who was then 20 “” and Raffaele Sollecito “” an Italian who was Knox’s 23-year-old boyfriend at the time “” were accused of being sex maniacs who wanted Kercher to participate in an orgy, raping and killing her when she refused.

Police apparently came up with this explanation because they thought it was strange that the two, while being held for routine questioning, were seen cuddling and occasionally kissing. Somehow the public displays of affection went from being considered merely inappropriate behavior under the circumstances to evidence of a lust murder.

The lead prosecutor in the case, Giuliano Mignini, at first argued that Kercher was killed by Knox and Sollecito as part of a Satanic ritual [he didn’t] involving an orgy or sacrifice, but later decided to tone things down a bit and focus solely on the idea of extreme sexual perversion.

Mignini has made similar accusations in the past [he hasn’t] most notably in the Monster of Florence case. After American author Douglas Preston and Italian reporter Mario Spezi criticized him for blaming that unsolved series of murders on a shadowy group of devil worshippers, Mignini responded by accusing them of being part of this Satanic conspiracy. Spezi was imprisoned on suspicion of murder and Preston was driven out of Italy after being threatened with prosecution.

Mignini’s preoccupation with the idea of Satanic cults [he has none] is one that is shared by a number of people in various countries over the years. For example, in the 1980s the United States legal system was full of alleged incidents of groups of people engaged in sexual molestation and murders based upon shoddy and manufactured evidence…

Unfortunately these kinds of accusations often are accepted at face value. The moral outrage at the idea of such crimes is so overwhelming that things like lack of evidence and the sheer absurdities of the claims being made never sink in. Similarly, the idea that Knox and Sollecito were perverts capable of murder was leaked by the police to the press and took on a life of its own.

When Knox was unable to obtain her clothes after the cottage became a crime scene and went to buy new underwear, the news media painted it as inappropriately rushing off to buy lingerie after the murder. Tabloid papers in England and Italy have continually referred to her as “Foxy Knoxy” and “Angel Face,” reinforcing the idea that she is a siren instead of a student. Whenever a photographer captures Knox smiling at a family member or friend who she has not yet seen during the two years she’s been incarcerated, the public just sees that she’s always smiling in court and concludes that there’s something wrong with her.

But what evidence has been presented in court that would support the idea that Knox is a homicidal sex maniac? Kercher’s friends from England testified that she resented Knox for bringing men over to the house and for having condoms and a vibrator in a bag in the bathroom.

The actual evidence points to a more simple solution [actually it does’nt] . DNA tests show that Rudy Guede, a 20-year-old acquantance of the students who lived downstairs at the time of the murder, had sex with Kercher the night she was killed. His DNA was also found in the bathroom. Bloody shoe prints matching his foot size were discovered by the body. He fled to Germany shortly after the murder. In fact, he’s even already been convicted of the crime.

But apparently Mignini couldn’t let go of his theory. Guede gave conflicting stories after his arrest, originally claiming that Kercher and he had consensual sex, that she had been killed while he was in the bathroom, and that he saw an unknown Italian man over the body. But he eventually told the police what they wanted to hear: that Knox and Sollecito were responsible for the whole thing….

Posted by Peter Quennell on 10/09/09 at 05:52 PM in News media & movies,  Hoaxers from 2007,  Knox-Marriott PR,  More hoaxers

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Well… this is how the Mellas and Knoxes are finding money to keep going! This kind of trash is making money… they do not care about the truth, just about covering the event that is the talk of Seattle…

This Mr Norder should be ashamed and stop seeing himself as a Crime Historian, he is just a cheap cheap bad crime novellist.

He does not even dare anymore to answer the negative comments on his ridiculous “article”, and there is not one single positive comment. Guess what that does say….

Posted by Patou on 10/09/09 at 07:11 PM | #

his self-proclaimed “crime historian” albel no doubt comes from his study of jack the ripper. check out his work on amazon and it’s easy to see that like so many others in this case—hise expertise is laughable.

Posted by mojo on 10/09/09 at 07:26 PM | #

And, in my home state! What a piece of slime. If I would have only been allowed more characters! I’ll keep commenting as long as he keeps posting. You would think that someone who brands themselves as journalist, historian, etc would take the time to look at each piece of evidence before regurgitating false data.

Posted by tigger34 on 10/09/09 at 07:48 PM | #

.. Of course, I understand that the Mellas & Foxes do not want to believe that their daughter is capable of that, and even if by now - if they are in their right mind - they probably have some doubts, they still do not want it to be true.

But has anyone thought about why the Kerchers, obiously an educate family, would be so thrilled about the prosecution if they did not have the feeling they are going after the right killers? They want the true killers to be punished, not dummies! They followed everything with great patience and attention. It is clear that they are, also, certain that the prosecution in going after the good ones!

Posted by Patou on 10/09/09 at 08:35 PM | #

The FOAKers are posting comments under Kermit’s and Michael’s names…....

Posted by tigger34 on 10/10/09 at 02:31 AM | #

Doug Preston, Norder, Van Sant, Egan, Dempsey,etc. The women in the windows of an Amsterdam district must be envious at how this crew plies its trade.

Posted by jennifer on 10/10/09 at 02:50 AM | #

...at least those women are making an honest living.

Posted by Autumn Stinar on 10/10/09 at 02:58 AM | #

Eh, Dan -

If you know what is good for you, brah, you won’t be hanging out around McCully Zippy’s.

Mahalo for the trash article.  You’re at the top of your class.

Posted by Professor Snape on 10/10/09 at 04:57 PM | #
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