Originally Posted by timthegem

lol good to see Mr. B has an assistant in the OT library.

my minions are many and their knowledge of OT history is vast

 

Originally Posted by cizastro

I bet OP's favorite article of clothing is flip flops.

Girls have cute feet and both me and Mrs. Slippy think it was the black guy. (obv.)

She is an innocent as Van der Sloot.

 

Originally Posted by AZlady

Guilty

http://www.injusticeinperugia.org/

i thought so too... but after u read this you'll pry change your mind. alot of the things like the bleach, the knife, her demeanor, her changing of storys is defended here well.

I don't know why I care about this but...that site is incredibly biased and just straight up lies about some shit. The reason why the Patrick guy was a suspect was not because of some scenario concocted by the prosecutor, but because one of Knox's stories was that she was at the apartment with Patrick while he killed the girl. He later won a civil suit against her for this.

I can understand thinking she should not have been convicted because other than a questionable murder weapon with her DNA and the victim's, there isn't really any physical evidence. But to think that she is definitely innocent or even that she is probably innocent is just crazy.

One of the suspected murder weapons was a knife from the boyfriends apartment which has Knox's DNA on the handle and meredith's DNA on the blade. When confronted with this evidence the boyfriend said that meredith had been over his apartment and that they were cooking when he accidentally pricked her finger. This was an unnecessary explanation as the knife, which had recently been scrubbed with bleach that the 2 were seen buying the morning after the murder, only held trace amounts of meredith's DNA and there was no blood. It wasn't much evidence at all. What's so incriminating about that is that the story is fairly far-fetched on it's own, but also friends of the victim said that she had never been to his apartment as she didn't like him or Knox and that she had only known him for a few weeks.

There are several examples like that of the 2 changing their stories (I think at one point they both even speculated that the other might have done it) or telling stories that seem unlikely before they both just stopped talking. Add that to the circumstantial evidence against them and I think it's likely that they did it. Maybe not beyond a reasonable doubt, but probably close enough that there shouldn't be as much outrage. The West Memphis 3 case happened in America and is much more deserving of that. No semi-attractive girls or opportunities for nationalism in that one, though.

The DNA on the knife is highly disputed. It was a very small sample that was not conclusively link to Amanda. Plus, even if it was her DNA, the knife could have been from her apartment which would explain her DNA. Also the knife is likely not the murder weapon as the victims wounds were inconsistent with that knife.

She made those incriminating statements to the police after hours of questioning. She was being questioned in Italian. Althought she is fluent in Italian now she was not fluent then. She was reportedly hit on the head several times during questioning. She was asked to give hypotheticals about how the murder might have occurred. After more than 12 hour of questioning she said her boss did it as a hypothetical answer. It is not uncommon for people to make false confession or make up stories when questioned under these conditions. There have been several cases in the U.S. where people were convicted after confession only to be vindicated years later by DNA evidence.

To me there does not seem like there is enough evidence to convict her. More importantly, however, is that there is one important element that tends to prove she was not the murderer. THEY ALREADY FOUND AND CONVICTED THE MURDERER!!!

The real murderer was conviceted two years ago. His DNA was all over the victim and the room. He fled the country shortly after the murder and was found in Germany. This is a guy that Amanda had only seen twice before and did not know him.

According to the prosecutor, Amanda and her boyfriend of two weeks met up with this stranger and the three of them tried to force Meridith into some kind of sex game. Meridith did not want to participate so they killed her. Do you know how the prosecutor know this? Becuase a pyschic told him. The pyschic initially told him the were all participating in a satanic ritual but the prosecutor decided not to use that theory in trial.

So according to the prosecutor, Amanda meets up with a guy she does now know. Her and her boyfriend of two weeks decide that they will take this guy back to their apartment and have a 4-way with Meridith. Meridith does not want to participate so they kill her, and Amanda is the one who slits her throat. The murder scene is brutal. Despite 3 people struggling to have sex with a 4th person and one of them being brutally murder by the other 3, there is no DNA evidence of Amanda or her boyfriend at the scene.

Yep, 100% guilty.