Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. – Leo Tolstoy By the morning of Tuesday November 6th 2007, the Perugian police led by public prosecutor Giuliano Mignini had made three arrests. Seattle student Amanda Knox, her Italian boyfriend Raffaele […]
Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and the forgotten murderer
“Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt” – Francois La Rochefoucauld The real forgotten man of the Meredith Kercher murder case is Rudy Guede – the lone killer who has been allowed to get away with a reduced sentence and is likely to be out […]
Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and the Chamber of Horrors
How and why the Italian Supreme Court got it wrong “It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.” – J K Rowling Trial of the century On September 30th the eyes of the world will be on Florence for round four of the trial of the century following […]
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito through the looking glass – The DNA Story
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” – Lewis Carroll 2008 Stefanoni: Here are the DNA results. I believe that they show that Meredith’s DNA was on the blade of the knife that was taken […]
Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito, Wikipedia and Gaming the System
A simple, tragic murder is made complicated When British student Meredith Kercher was murdered in Perugia, Italy in 2007, the local police and prosecutor swiftly arrested three people and declared, ‘case closed’. Two weeks later, local small time crook Rudy Guede was also arrested. Evidence of his presence littered the room where Meredith died; his […]
Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and the Curse of the Zombie Haters
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” – Daniel Patrick Moynihan On March 29th, Nina Burleigh, author of “The Fatal Gift of Beauty”, a book about Amanda Knox, placed a story on the Time magazine website. It was entitled, “The Amanda Knox Haters Society: How They Learned to Hate […]