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The Evidence

The Evidence Collected against the pair (Knox and Sollecito) is quite Laughable when compared to the Evidence that the killer was Guede.

Evidence against Knox & Sollecito

A Knife found in Sollecito's Kitchen (Which, just as a Reminder, is NOT the scene of the crime. Knox and Meredith {and their other irrelevant-to-the-case roommate, Filomena Romanelli} lived in a cottage together. Sollecito did not live with them) which had Traces of Knox's DNA on the Handle and Kercher's DNA on the Blade

Sollecito claimed this was from when Kercher's finger had been nicked while the 3 of them were cooking together [10, 12]. This is a Knife. In A Kitchen. That is Not even Related to the Crime Scene by any means. Very "Book Found in Library" Energy here.

Traces of Sollecito's DNA on Kercher's Bra Clasp

Which had been left on the dirty floor of the crime scene for 46 Days [10, 12], and was thus inadmissible evidence since it was horribly cross-contaminated by that point.

Amongst all of this is Several Coerced Confessions of Guilt and Abuse at the hands of the police for Knox [9, 10, 12]

Evidence Against Rudy Guede

His Fingerprints were found at the Crime Scene, including Underneath her Body [10, 12, 13]

Claimed he was on a Date with Kercher, but Kercher had Dinner Plans with Friends [12]

Glass from the Broken Window was found in the Sole of Guede's Shoes [12]

DNA evidence was found all over (and within) Kercher's Body [10, 12, 13]

And yet he Claimed that they Did Not Have Sex [12, 13] or that it was Consensual [10]

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MILAN (AP) — Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander this week in Italy in a case that could remove the last legal stain against her, nine years after Italy’s highest court threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate.

Knox, who was a 20-year-old student when she was accused along with her then-boyfriend of murdering Meredith Kercher in 2007, has built a life back in the United States as an advocate, writer, podcaster and producer — with much of her work drawing on her experience.

Now 36 and the mother of two small children, Knox campaigns for criminal justice reform and to raise awareness about forced confessions. She has recorded a series on resilience for a meditation app and has a podcast with her husband, Christopher Robinson, and an upcoming limited series on her struggles within the Italian legal system for Hulu that has Monica Lewinsky as an executive producer.

Despite a definitive ruling by Italy’s Cassation Court in 2015 that Knox and then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito did not commit the crime, and the conviction of another man whose DNA was at the scene, doubts persist about Knox’s role with the victim’s family and the man she wrongly accused.

That is largely due to the slander conviction for wrongly accusing a Congolese bar owner in the killing, which was confirmed by the highest court in 2015. That conviction was only thrown out last November, based on a European Court of Human Rights ruling that found Knox’s rights had been violated in a long night of questioning without a lawyer and official translator.

Even now, Knox isn’t sure that a not guilty verdict in the new trial, which opens Wednesday in Florence, will persuade her detractors.

“On the one hand, I am glad I have this chance to clear my name, and hopefully that will take away the stigma that I have been living with,’’ Knox, who did not respond to an interview request, said on her podcast Labyrinths in December.

“On the other hand, I don’t know if it ever will, in the way I am still traumatized by it,” she said. “I am sure people will still hold it against me because they don’t want to understand what happened, and they don’t want to accept that an innocent person can be gaslit and coerced into what I went through.”

Knox said on her podcast that she expects to testify, but her lawyer said she is not expected in court for opening day.

The Kercher family lawyer, Francesco Maresca, said the high court’s exoneration did little in his mind to dispel doubts following Knox’s conviction by a trial court and two appeals courts, the first confirming her sentence of 26 years and the second raising it to 28 ½ years.

“This trial never ends,’’ Maresca told The Associated Press, obscuring “the memory of poor Meredith, who is always remembered for these procedural aspects and not as a student and young woman.”

Among his doubts, Maresca cited Knox’s confused retraction of her accusation against Patrick Lumumba, the owner of the bar where she worked part-time, and the verdict in Rudy Guede’s conviction for killing Kercher that maintains that the Ivorian man did not act alone.

Now 36, Guede was released from prison in 2021 after serving 13 years of a 16-year term handed down in a fast-track trial. Guede was recently ordered to wear a monitoring bracelet and not leave his home at night after an ex-girlfriend accused him of physical and sexual abuse. An investigation is ongoing.

Knox’s new trial will admit just one piece of evidence: her four-page handwritten statement that the court will examine to see if it contains elements to support slander against Lumumba. Despite having an ironclad alibi, he was held in jail for some two weeks before police released him. Lumumba has since left Italy.

Two earlier statements typed up by police that Knox signed in the early hours of Nov. 6, 2007 that contained the accusation, and were considered the most incriminating, have been ruled inadmissible by Italy’s highest court.

The four-page letter, which she wrote in the same 53-hour span of questioning over four days starting Nov. 5, reflects someone in a state of confusion, trying to reconcile what police have told her with her own recollections.

“In regards to this ‘confession’ that I made last night, I want to make clear that I’m very doubtful of the verity of my statements because they were made under the pressures of stress, shock and extreme exhaustion,’’ Knox wrote.

She referred to police statements that she would be arrested and jailed for 30 years and that Sollecito was turning against her.

Lauria Baldassare, an Italian lawyer who founded the Innocents Project, said the topic of wrongful convictions in Italy is starting to “create social alarm as it assumes important dimensions.”

He cited 10 cases of defendants being paid damages for wrongful convictions over the last decade, but said they faced difficulty in escaping the stigma of their initial guilty verdict — much like Knox.

“There is still part of the public opinion that does not accept the Court of Cassation’s decision, and these debates become a sport,’' said Baldassare, whose organization is independent from the Innocence Project that Knox works with. ”Italy does not have the maturity to accept an exoneration, because social prejudices are stronger than the finding.”

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Interesting Case of Amanda Knox

From Jan 17, 2021 Related First Inductees to Auschwitz Amanda Knox <<<is a woman from Seattle, WA. While an exchange student studying in Italy she was arrested and convicted in connection with the death of Meredith Kercher<<<. Also convicted was her then boyfriend Raffaelle Sollecito and, in a separate trial, Rudy Guede. Guede’s fingerprints and bloody palm print had been found on sheets near…

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Amanda Knox e Raffaele Sollecito após o assassinato de Meredith Kercher/ Entre séries de TV e conferências: o que fazem agora #ÚltimasNotícias

Hot News Entre os oito assassinatos que chocaram a opinião pública e que são abordados por “Crimes italianos” no Nove hoje, sábado, 20 de julho de 2024, é o de Meredith Kercher, que foi encontrada morta em 2007 na casa de Perugia onde morava com outros estudantes. O único condenado pelo assassinato é Rudy Guedes, cuja sentença final foi de 16 anos de prisão por homicídio em colaboração com…

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American Amanda Knox

American Amanda Knox became well-known throughout the world after her participation in the widely reported trial for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, who was studying in Italy. Knox, who was studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, and was born in Seattle, Washington, on July 9, 1987, learned about Kercher's death in November 2007. In 2009, Knox and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty of killing Kercher; however, in 2011, their convictions were overturned.

With Knox being presented as a suspect in a vicious crime as well as a victim of an ineffective judicial system, the case garnered intense media attention and debate. The prosecution claimed that Kercher had been killed in an attack with a sexual motive by Knox, Sollecito, and an Ivory Coast native named Rudy Guede. Knox, however, insisted on her innocence the entire trial, saying that her statements to the police had been forced and that she had been falsely charged.

The convictions of Knox and Sollecito were overturned by the Italian Supreme Court in 2011, citing insufficient evidence and procedural mistakes in the investigation and prosecution. After coming back to the US, Knox started speaking out about her personal experience and supporting causes pertaining to criminal justice reform, eventually developing into an advocate for those who have been unfairly convicted.

Knox remains a divisive character even after she was cleared of all charges related to Kercher's murder; some people think she was innocent, while others don't think she was involved at all. The case has called into question the credibility of the Italian legal system as well as the influence of the media on public opinion on high-profile criminal cases.

Knox has been pursuing a career as a writer and journalist in recent years. She has contributed articles to multiple magazines and shared her viewpoint on a variety of themes, including her personal experiences and more general social issues. She has also developed into a strong voice for criminal justice reform and victims' rights, utilizing her position to spread the word about erroneous convictions and other shortcomings in the legal system.

Amanda Knox is still a strong and vocal supporter of justice and human rights in spite of the controversies and difficulties she has encountered. She will keep sharing her story and pushing for change.

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Blaming the Black Man: Patrick Diya Lumumba — Murder in Umbria: The Murder of Meredith Kercher — Crime Library

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Rudy Guede, l'ex che lo ha denunciato per maltrattamenti: "È un manipolatore narcisista, non sapevo chi fosse quando l'ho conosciuto"

Tgcom24 “Non lo conoscevo come il Rudy del caso Meredith”  La storia tra Guede e la ragazza era iniziata quando il 36enne si trovava ancora in semilibertà. Si erano incontrati nella biblioteca in cui l’ivoriano lavorava. “Non lo conoscevo come il Rudy del caso Meredith, non sapevo che la sera rientrasse in carcere. Nel 2008 avevo 8 anni”. Guede le aveva accennato di essere finito in una brutta…

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Avvocato Mezzetti all'Adnkronos: "Nessuna reticenza, ha risposto in modo approfondito e preciso" Rudy Guede - Fotogramma "Non ho mai violentato la mia ex compagna". Lo ha detto Rudy Guede al giudice nell'interrogatorio di garanzia oggi dopo la misura del divieto di avvicinamento alla ex fidanzata con braccialetto elettronico. Accusato di maltrattamenti, violenza sessuale e lesioni, l'ivoriano 36enne già condannato per l'omicidio di Meredith Kercher a Perugia nel 2007, non si è sottratto alle domande del magistrato. "Durante l'interrogatorio, molto lungo, durato 2 ore, Rudy - spiega all'Adnkronos l'avvocato difensore Carlo Mezzetti - ha risposto in modo molto approfondito e preciso su tutto, indicando anche persone informate sui fatti a suo favore. Nessuna reticenza dunque, ma anzi nuovo materiale utile alle indagini". Intanto, annuncia ancora l'avvocato "ho chiesto la revoca della misura al mio assistito, che non solo ha negato la violenza ma anche alcune ricostruzioni fattuali del rapporto, rispondendo rispetto ai singoli punti". {} #_intcss0{display: none;} #U11616327HTH { font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; } Fonte

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Creating a timeline

Amanda Knox

November 2nd, 2007

Meredith Kercher (21 British Student) is found dead in the house in Perugia, Italy, that she shared with American student Amanda Knox.

Police say her body is partially clothed, with her throat cut.

November 6th, 2007

Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are detained for questioning.

Knox allegedly confesses to being at her home when Kercher was killed and implicates Patrick Lumumba (the owner of a bar where she worked).

Lumumba also is detained.

November 19th 2007

Police name Rudy Hermann Guede as fourth suspect and arrest him the following day in Mainz, Germany.

November 20th, 2007

Lumumba is released after two weeks in prison when his alibi is corroborated.

He later sued Knox for libel, winning 40,000 euros ($54,000) in damages.

November 22nd, 2007

The text of a note Knox wrote on November 6, while in police custody, is published by CNN and other media outlets. Knox addresses an alleged confession, saying: “In regards to this ‘confession’ that I made last night, I want to make clear that I’m very doubtful of the verity of my statements because they were made under the pressures of stress, shock and extreme exhaustion. Not only was I told I would be arrested and put in jail for 30 years, but I was also hit in the head when I didn’t remember a fact correctly.”

December, 2007

Rudy Hermann Guede is arrested. His fingerprints were found at the murder scene. A vaginal swab taken from Kercher matches DNA from Guede. Guede admits to police that he had sexual relations with Kercher but says another man killed her while he was in the bathroom.

July 11th, 2008

Italian prosecutors formally charge Knox, Guede and Sollecito with murder.

September 6th, 2008

Rudy Guede asks for a separate fast-track trial, fearing that Knox and Sollecito had formed a pact against him. His defense attorney says, “In recent weeks a lot of poison has been spread by the defense teams, and we feel the necessity to find some form of serenity in a separate hearing.”

October 28th, 2008

Knox and Sollecito are indicted on murder charges.

Guede is found guilty of murder in his fast-track trial and sentenced to 30 years. (The sentence is reduced to 16 years on appeal in December 2009.)

January 16th 2009

Knox and Solle cito’s murder trial begins. Reporters from all over the world attend, and some sit at the defense table because of limited space in the courtroom.

Prosecutors told the court that Knox had plunged the knife into exchange student Meredith's throat. Meredith’s DNA was found of the point of the knife and Knox’s on the handle.

June 12th 2009

Knox testifies that during police interrogations she was confused and that interrogators pressured her, called her a “stupid liar” and hit her in the head.

Officials have denied beating Knox.

She also says some of her actions that made her look bad when described by the press were taken the wrong way. She adds that she was in shock after the murder, and that caused her strange behavior.

December 4th, 2009

The jury finds Knox and Sollecito guilty on all counts in the stabbing death of Kercher. Knox gets a 26-year sentence; Sollecito gets 25 years.

November 24th 2010,

Knox and Sollecito’s murder appeal process begins. Knox’s lawyer Luciano Ghirga tells reporters that rather than prosecutors having to prove she is guilty, “we have to prove her innocence, which is more difficult to do.”

December 11th 2010

Knox speaks for about 15 minutes and breaks down in tears. She says that she and Sollecito are innocent and unjustly accused. “I’ve been condemned for the crime I did not commit,” Knox says, adding that the court has made “a huge mistake.”

September 26th 2011

Lumumba’s lawyer, Carlo Pacelli, accuses Knox of having two sides one of which is “angelic, good, compassionate” and the other “Lucifer-like, demonic, satanic.”

Patrick Lumumba's lawyer Carlo Pacelli tells the appeals court that Knox's lies destroyed his reputation and calls Knox a "she-devil." 

September 27th 2011

Sollecito lawyer Giulia Bongiorno attacks media portrayals of Knox as a femme fatale, comparing her to the cartoon character Jessica Rabbit, who protests, “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way,” in the movie “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” She says there is no physical evidence placing Knox and Sollecito at the scene of the crime, attacks the credibility of DNA evidence and says Knox’s statements to police the night of the murder should be discounted because of hostile questioning by police.

October 3rd 2011

An Italian jury overturns the 2009 murder conviction of Knox and Sollecito. 

September 30th, 2013

Retrial begins

December 17th 2013

“I must repeat to you. I’m innocent. I did not rape, I did not steal … I did not kill Meredith,” she says in a lengthy email, written in Italian.

January 30th 2014

Knox and Sollecito are again convicted of killing Kercher. Knox is sentenced to 28 and a half years. 

May 1st 2014

 “I did not kill my friend. I did not wield a knife. I had no reason to,” Knox said.

March 27th 2015

Italy’s Supreme Court overturns the murder convictions of Knox and Sollecito. The case is now closed, the court says, and the two are free to go.

Thus ends an eight-year legal saga that gripped the United States, Britain and Italy.

Richard Jewell

July 27th 1996

Jewell discovered a bag and alerted Georgia Bureau Investigation officers

9 minutes later Rudolph (the actual terrorist) called 911 delivering a warning

Jewell and other security began clearing the area immediately so a bomb squad could investigate.

The bomb exploded 13 minutes later killing Alice Hawthorne and injuring over 100 others. A camera man also died of a heart attack running to cover the incident.

Early news reports celebrated Jewell as a hero helping spot the bag and evacuating the area.

For the next several weeks, the news media focused aggressively on him as the presumed culprit, labelling him as a "person of interest", matching him to a leaked "lone bomber" profile that the FBI had used.

July 28th 1996

Jewell was first referenced as ‘an AT&T security guard’ in the Times.

30th July 1996

Three days later, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed that the FBI was treating him as a possible suspect, based largely on a "lone bomber" criminal profile.

The special edition of The Atlanta Journal had the headline “F.B.I. Suspects ‘Hero’ Guard May Have Planted Bomb.”

Before the report came out in the paper

Before the report came out in the paper, now named The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, officials had used eyewitness accounts to compile a sketch of a man believed to have planted the pipe bomb in the park. But the F.B.I. wouldn’t release the sketch, and it wouldn’t yet name any suspects. A photo of a man near the blast site was too grainy for officials to make out any facial features.

The media, to varying degrees, portrayed Jewell as a failed law enforcement officer who may have planted the bomb so he could "find" it and be a hero.

Jewell’s life was turned upside down – journalists descended on his apartment

A Journal Article quoted acquaintances of Jewell’s, who recalled him owning a backpack similar to the one that held the bomb.

Officials at Piedmont College, a small Georgia school where Jewell had been a security guard, had called the F.B.I. the day of the explosion with concerns that Jewell was “overly zealous.”

If The Times’s reporting showed restraint, focusing more on the local frenzy than the man himself, it was thanks to hard-won lessons in sourcing, Max Frankel wrote in the paper’s magazine. “The Times had learned from its own sad transgressions over the years that whispered accusations against named individuals must not be trusted.”

The pressure began to ease only after Jewell's attorneys hired an ex-FBI agent to administer a polygraph, which Jewell passed.

Jewell was never officially charged, but the FBI thoroughly and publicly searched his home twice, questioned his associates, investigated his background, and maintained 24-hour surveillance of him.

After his exoneration, Jewell filed lawsuits against the media outlets which he said had labelled him, primarily NBC News and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and insisted on a formal apology from them.

In July 1997, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, prompted by a reporter's question at her weekly news conference, expressed regret over the FBI's leak to the news media that led to the widespread presumption of his guilt, and apologized outright, saying, "I'm very sorry it happened. I think we owe him an apology. I regret the leak.".

October 26th 1996

The investigating US Attorney (Kent Alexander) sent Jewell a letter formally clearing him - "based on the evidence developed to date ... Richard Jewell is not considered a target of the federal criminal investigation into the bombing on July 27, 1996, at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta".

July 23rd, 1997

Jewell sued the New York Post for $15 million in damages, contending that the paper portrayed him in articles, photographs and an editorial cartoon as an "aberrant" person with a "bizarre employment history" who was probably guilty of the bombing.

A year after the bombings Kevin Sack wrote “He feels the stares of strangers in restaurants knowing they still wonder if he is the one.”

It had been nine months since the Justice Department cleared Jewell of any involvement. Still, the constant media attention he received at the height of the investigation had turned him into a public figure. Children asked for autographs. A woman he took on a date published a written account of the evening in a city magazine.

“I’m a lot more cynical than I used to be,” Jewell said in Sack’s story. “I’m not as trusting as I once was. And I don’t think I’m as outgoing as I used to be.”

April 13th, 2005

Jewell was exonerated completely when Eric Rudolph, as part of a plea deal, pled guilty to carrying out the bombing attack at the Centennial Olympic Park, as well as three other attacks across southern parts of the US.

2019

Although CNN settled with Jewell for an undisclosed monetary amount, CNN maintained that its coverage had been "fair and accurate".

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Rudy Guede e la vita in cella: “Picchiato da altri detenuti, mi svegliavo nel cuore della notte”

DIRETTA TV L’omicidio Meredith Kercher 11 Giugno 2023 Nonostante la condanna, l’ivoriano continua a professarsi innocente: “Se le mie mani sono macchiate di sangue è perché ho tentato di salvare Meredith Kercher”. 1.266 CONDIVISIONI Attiva le notifiche per ricevere gli aggiornamenti su L’omicidio Meredith Kercher ATTIVA GLI AGGIORNAMENTI “Una volta venni picchiato dai compagni di cella. Mi…

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Important Players In the Case

In the Middle is Meredith Kercher. She’s the Victim in the Murder Not-Really Mystery. She was Amanda’s Roommate.

On the Left is Amanda Knox. She’s the Accused/Suspect/Supposed Killer. She was Meredith’s Roommate.

On the Right is Raffaele Sollecito. He’s Amanda’s Supposed Co-conspirator to the Murder of Meredith. He was Amanda’s Boyfriend at the time (they have long since gone their separate ways).

This is Rudy Guede. Spoilers: He's the Actual Criminal in this case. Very obviously so once the DNA Evidence was Processed.

This smarmy looking dude is Giuliano Mignini. He was a Prosecutor on the case, One that was Absolutely Convinced, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that Knox and Sollecito were guilty.

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The Man Who K!lled Meredith Kercher is "Out of Prison" in Italy

After serving 13 years of a 16-year sentence, Rudy Guede, the sole person convicted of the mu*rder of British student Meredith Kercher, was released from prison. Due to Guede’s excellent behavior, a judge in Viterbo, Italy, agreed to shorten further his sentence, which was initially scheduled to expire on January 4—by an extra 45 days. Francesco Maresca, the lawyer representing the Kercher…

[captmccoy]

Interesting Case of Amanda Knox

From Jan 17, 2021 Related First Inductees to Auschwitz Amanda Knox <<<is a woman from Seattle, WA. While an exchange student studying in Italy she was arrested and convicted in connection with the death of Meredith Kercher<<<. Also convicted was her then boyfriend Raffaelle Sollecito and, in a separate trial, Rudy Guede. Guede’s fingerprints and bloody palm print had been found on sheets near…

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Just read your post about Amanda Knox and I love how the courts acquitted the two white people based on insufficient evidence but let the black man stay in jail :T maybe there’s more evidence I don’t know about but it’s just really telling how the judicial system treats black people

Without a doubt, there are inherently racial injustices in the criminal justice system and serious progress needs to be made in regards to racial profiling.

For this case in particular, I do believe there is more leverage for Rudy’s conviction than Amanda’s and Raffaele’s, the key factor for this being the amount of physical evidence tying each person to the crime scene. DNA evidence which tied Knox and Sollecito to Meredith was minimal, and this evidence was eventually dismissed as a result of forensic contamination. Also, although this minimal evidence linked them to Meredith, it did not place either of them at the crime scene before, during or after the murder.

In comparison, there is an abundance of DNA and circumstantial evidence which clearly indicates that Rudy Guede was present during and/or after Meredith’s murder.

Rudy admitted he was with her the night she was murdered and was actually at her home when the murder took place. He claimed that he was seeing Meredith romantically, although her friends and acquaintances maintained that the two of them had never even met. In fact, it is known that Guede only encountered Knox and Kercher once when they returned home at 2am and he was visiting their neighbour’s apartment. This was around two weeks before Meredith’s death.

He claimed to have been on the toilet when he heard her screaming and came out quickly to see an unknown male fleeing the scene. He also said he hadn’t even had time to pull his pants up, which caused him to fall over and enable the attacker to get away. This account does add up, considering that Rudy’s unflushed excrement was later found in the toilet by police – almost as though he’d got off the toilet in a rush. However, it is also somewhat common practice for burglars to poop in residences that they are targeting, usually resulting from a combination of fear and nervousness at the prospect of getting caught. This is a weird one.

Rudy’s DNA was found on Meredith’s jacket and bra, as well as on her purse.

His palm print was found in her blood and on the pillow case underneath her body.

Bloody shoe prints matching Rudy’s size were found in the room of the murder and through the hallway leading to the front door.

Witnesses claimed to have seen Rudy at a nightclub in the hours following Meredith’s death. These are not normal actions for somebody who has just witnessed another innocent person being murdered.

He fled to Germany two days after Meredith’s death, although he claimed he did this out of fear of not being believed and therefore wanted to evade arrest.

After Rudy was arrested in Germany, he had healing cuts on his right hand which were consistent with injuries sustained from a blade. A knife had been involved in Meredith’s murder, as she’d had her throat cut.

Rudy had a history of burglary and stealing credit cards and phones, and Meredith’s phones and credit cards were missing.

Guede’s DNA was extracted from inside Meredith’s body via the use of vaginal swabs, but it was not concluded to be semen. This is consistent with Guede’s claims that they did not have intercourse that night due to a lack of condoms. However, it indicates that other sexual acts took place.

There was also seminal fluid present on the pillow that Meredith’s body had been placed upon, but to my knowledge this was never tested (complete failure!) and therefore it was not known if the sample belonged to Guede.

After his conviction, he became adamant that Amanda Knox was “100%” present when the murder took place, but he had previously told a friend via a Skype call that she was definitely not there.

The evidence listed above shows that Guede was definitely present at the scene of the crime at some point. Some aspects of his behaviour also definitely do not do his case any favours (changing his story about Knox’s presence, fleeing to Germany, attending parties after Meredith’s death). However, whether his presence in the apartment was innocent or not, I personally still am not certain. From everything I have researched, there has been no other trace of an unknown assailant who broke in and murdered Meredith while Rudy was there, and so I don’t trust the legitimacy of this argument. Based on the evidence we have, I do believe whoever did it acted alone, and the most likely culprit we have to date is Rudy Guede.

In the eyes of law enforcement, his criminal past also did not put him in a positive light to begin with, although it would be completely unjust to assume someone is capable of murder because they have a history of robbery. They should’ve tested the semen on the pillow and I’m not sure why this wasn’t done. It doesn’t make sense to omit what may have been a crucial piece of DNA evidence. Apparently, Raffaele Sollecito was consumed with fear at the idea of this stain being tested, in case it implicated him. This seems pretty bizarre to me. It may have been an older stain, but its placement on the pillow between Meredith’s legs seems very suspect, and there’s every chance it was left there by the perpetrator. It may have been something or it may have been nothing, but they should’ve tested the damn stain.

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Convicted murderer Rudy Guede says he believes Amanda Knox is guilty - CBS News

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Maltrattamenti alla ex, divieto di avvicinamento per Rudy Guede

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