Bad police techniques and incompetent witnesses were the topic of discussion Monday night as Seattle University hosted a panel on making the case for the innocence of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito.
One of the guest speakers, Paul Ciolinio, is a well-known private investigator, based in Chicago, who works frequently with CBS’s well known show 48 Hours. In late 2007, Ciolino and the 48 hours crew flew to Perugia to investigate the death of Meredith Kercher.
The last to speak at the event, Ciolino revealed surprising details that raise serious doubts over the competency of the police and prosecutors who investigated the murder of Meredith Kercher and the reliability of their witnesses.
Shocking statements like Giobbi’s illuminate the incompetent and preconceived judgments made by the Italian police before the forensics came in. But according to Paul Ciolino’s recollections of his encounter with Giobbi while he was in Italy, Giobbi’s methods for determining guilt were even more absurd and egregious than previously thought.
During the panel discussion, Ciolino retold the story of his meeting with Giobbi during his investigation, “Guy who arrested Amanda ‘I said to him, ‘you don’t have any physical evidence, you don’t have eyewitnesses, you don’t have a murder weapon, what do you got?’ Tell me…convince my why this girl did this?”
According to Ciolino, officer Giobbi only needed to know one thing to determine guilt, “He says, ‘I’ll tell you why…….she was eating pizza!”.
Ciolino elaborated, “A week after they initially made contact with Amanda, he’s looking for Amanda and Raffaele, and he’s got Raffaele’s cell phone, and he calls Raffaele up, and he says ‘I want to see you and Amanda’ and Raffaele says ‘ok’. And he says ‘where are you?’ and he says ‘we’re getting a pizza, we’re right by the university’. He says ‘come on over’”.