Good article, Italy is a beautiful country and most of the people are wonderful too. But Italy deserves a better judicial system than what it has. Trials that progress at a snails pace. 2 days a week, summer off? The damn trial should have lasted at most 4 weeks tops, the first trial lasted over a year after the defendants already had spent a year in jail.

The investigators said "case closed" with dozen police officers sitting behind a desk before a single piece of "physical evidence was ever examined" locking themselves into the theory that AK and RS were involved. This left them cornered and in order to save face they ignored every single piece of contradicting fact and concocted, crazier and crazier scenarios that defy all common sense.

The interrogations of Raffaele, Patrick Lumumba and Amanda Knox were not video or audio recorded as required by law.

The "computer expert" mysteriously destroyed not 1, not 2, but 3 hard drives in 3 different computers. Two of which could have saved the Italy a lot of money and time because 2 of the computers were used by AK and RS during the time of the murder. ( As one who had spent 30+ years in the computer industry, this particularly disturbs me as impossible or at least beyond monumental stupidity)

The Crime Scene Technicians made more errors during the collection of the evidence than the Keystone cops. While 'some mistakes" are to be expected but they made an avalanche of errors and many "critical" errors including not changing gloves and boot covers when moving from room to room. They left not only the famous bra clasp in the flat for 46 days but a sweatshirt soaked in MK's blood as well.

They took one and only one knife amongst several from RS flat? Makes no sense at all and extremely suspicious.

Then in testing, the DNA experts ignored more than a dozen negative tests not showing any DNA on the bra clasp and the knife and continued until they find a result that satisfied them. This result was refuted by court appointed independent experts.

Actual evidence implicates 1 killer and 1 killer only, Rudy Guede, the suspect who had broken into 4 homes in the previous 5 weeks stealing laptops, watches a knife and who pulled a knife when confronted by a resident that discovered him during the break -in. The killer who left his DNA all over MK and inside MK as well as his fingerprints and shoeprints that matched to his shoes. Rudy Guede barely known by Meredith or Amanda and was never known to ever be in that apartment before.

Sadly instead, the prosecution came up with a crazy sex scenario which has no precedent in known criminal history where 3 people who barely knew each other, if at all, participated in a group rape of a 4th. Instead of accepting the more pedestrian and common type of crime where a known burglar was surprised by a female and was killed and sexually assaulted. Also it is the one type of crime that all the physical evidence pointed toward.

No, Meredith Kercher was killed by Rudy Guede and perhaps an unknown accomplice but even that seems to be very extreme, remote possibility. Sadly, for the Kerchers, were sold by the Italian police and prosecutors, they will most likely never feel at peace and will always feel that two totally innocent kids got away with murder.

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