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Amanda Knox’s Trial Started Today
/in murder/by Eyes for LiesAmanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito’s murder trial for Meredith Kercher began today in a Perugia courtroom. New reports are saying that the media has descended upon the beautiful, picturesque town in droves to cover a trial that could last for up to a year.
I read the news and found some interesting tidbits. I never knew that Knox had been arrested before. Did you?
[BBC.com] Reporters descended on Amanda’s home city of Seattle in search of more details of her private life.
They discovered that the Washington University student had been arrested and fined in 2007 for her role in a drunken party that police were called to.
A picture began to be painted of a “party girl” who abused drink and drugs and had an active sex life.
The Guardian.co.uk displays a photo of Knox in the courtroom earlier today, and I find that photo as well as the one of Knox with Sollecito the day of Kercher’s body discovery fascinating.
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If you were facing trial for murder, for a murder you did not commit, and it was the first day you appeared in court as the world peered on with countless reporters all glaring at you, would you be relaxed and comfortable enough to smile casually? Knox’s face in this photo looks notably relaxed to me.
[Guardian.co.uk] A smiling Amanda Knox walked into a frescoed underground Italian courtroom this morning at the start of her trial for the murder of her British fellow-student Meredith Kercher.
Dressed in jeans, a grey, black and white striped top and grey hooded tracksuit jacket, she chatted in a seemingly relaxed way with her lawyers.
Is Knox that naive to believe she will walk free without a worry? Her character, her behavior and her actions to date certainly don’t support she is a person who is naive. She certainly didn’t live a sheltered existance — especially after spending a year in a foreign prison.
Why doesn’t she have an ounce of worry? Most innocent people in her shoes would be shaking in their boots, panicked, worried, or fearful of what the outcome will be. Is Knox arrogant enough to think she will get off without a hitch, is she that emotionally detached, or self-delusional? This photo begs us to ask why.
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Also, the day that Meredith Kercher’s body was found, I found Knox’s behavior interesting as well. If you are completely innocent and uninvolved in the murder of your flatmate, wouldn’t you be rattled to the core that a murderer came within footsteps of where you co-habitated?
Wouldn’t you feel fear that this murderer is still lurking out there that morning when the body was found, and that they could still be watching you? Wouldn’t you fear that you could be the next victim?
Yet when we watch Knox and Sollecito kiss and interact that day, we see none of these emotions. It’s absolutely perplexing! They seem to have no fear, which is very abnormal. There seems to be no stress in their faces whatsoever. Did they know they didn’t have to worry?
Ever since I heard that Knox said that she was in the flat that night [my post November 9, 2007], and that she heard a scream, but was scared so she covered her ears, my alarm bells went off on high.
No one hears a blood curdling scream, and doesn’t know the source, but covers their ears. As humans, when we hear a threatening noise, albeit a scream, a loud bang or thud, we don’t just decide to cover our ears without knowing what is going on. Our natural, biological response is to investigate the noise. It’s a protective measure we all have within us, an instinct for survival, because that noise could ultimately be warning that we, too, are in danger.
We only cover our ears when we know what is going on, but don’t want to listen to the wretched noise before us. This statement shows that Amanda had some awareness of what was going on when Kercher screamed. To me, that is bone-chilling. I don’t think Knox lied about this bit of information. I suspect she was there and she did hear a scream, and perhaps she did cover her ears, but I believe she knew what was going on. It’s too strange of a lie to come up with if she wasn’t there or wasn’t in some way involved. She just changed the details, and those details give her away.
Do I think Knox killed Kercher? I have no clue, but I do see enough that makes me question that Knox has not been honest with us, and at a minimum she didn’t help a roommate who she knew was being violated in one form or another. Instead, it appears from what she says, she stood by and listened, and turned her cold back to a person in desperate need of help.
New Witness in Amanda Knox-Kercher Case
/in murder/by Eyes for LiesSky News is reporting that a new witness has come forward saying that he saw Knox on the morning after the murder of Meredith Kercher, which if his statement can be verified, would be damning for Amanda Knox.
He says he say her at 7:45 a.m. at the store in the cleaning supply section, which if I understand it right, Amanda has never admitted to. That morning, the morning Kercher’s body was discovered, Knox said she was with her Italian boyfriend at his house before going home to a troubled scene.
This will be interesting to watch materialize. I’m just curious why it took this man an entire year to come forward.
New Witness in Kercher Case
/in murder, unsolved crime/by Eyes for LiesA new Albanian witness has come forward nearly three months from the horrific murder of Meredith Kercher to say that he saw the three suspects (Knox, Sollecito, and Guede) together at the cottage the night before the murder.
The new witness, an Albanian who lives in Perugia, told police that about 8 o’clock on the night before Ms Kercher was killed he parked his car near the cottage, but in doing so scraped the rubbish bins at the gates. He told investigators: “It was dark and pouring with rain, but I stopped the car, put the hazard lights on and got out to see if I had damaged the car. Suddenly two young people came out. It was them, Raffaele and Amanda. They seemed as if they were looking for a quarrel, they were shouting.
“We began arguing and at a certain point Amanda pulled out a knife and started waving it around in an aggressive way. She was shouting and pointing the knife at me.
“I’m quite certain it was her, and the guy with her was Raffaele Sollecito.”
The witness said that he was scared. “I was ready to run back to my car when out of nowhere in the dark another guy turned up, a black man. It was the Ivory Coast guy, Rudy.” He said that he did not know any of the three at the time, “but I recognised them afterwards when I saw their photographs in all the newspapers.” Source: Times Online
It doesn’t look good for the three suspects, nor does it bode well for Knox’s version of events, which from what news reports have said, has changed several times.
Read moreI originally wrote about Amanda Knox back on November 9th, eight days after the murder. When I did, someone rightly pointed out that Knox’s statements could have been translated from English to Italian to English again, and with that, I couldn’t depend on the actual verbiage to guide me in spotting deception. They were correct.
But even if there was a translation, one event that Knox described that night, of being in the kitchen and hearing Kercher scream from behind closed doors, and covering her ears because of it (if that is the end message before and after translation), makes absolutely no sense. It defies logic and honesty.
When we are startled by a loud noise, a scream, our natural instinct when we are in our own home (or in a place where we feel safe) is to go running toward the noise, to ask if everyone is okay, to see what happened.
We only cover our ears when we know what is going on, and we can’t stop it, nor can we bear to hear it anymore. When we are startled, no one goes, “Oh my” and covers their ears in ignorance…not knowing the cause or reasoning. It’s unheard of…
It makes you wonder if, at one point, Knox was in the kitchen, and Kercher was crying out, and Knox heard it, knew Kercher was dying, and just covered her ears so she didn’t have to endure it. Reports say they believe Kercher died slowly by bleeding to death. Then again, the whole story could be completely made up. I’m just speculating because sometimes in lies there are pieces of the truth.
The only thing we can say with some certainty from this statement by Knox about covering her ears in ignorance, if that is the gist of what she is saying, is that Knox is not telling the truth. It doesn’t tell us anything more than that.
This new Albanian witness only seems to support that Knox hasn’t been honest and forthright, again.
Amanda Knox
/7 Comments/in murder, statement analysis, unsolved crime/by Eyes for LiesYou’ve probably heard the story that is breaking out of Italy this week. A British Exchange student, Meredith Kercher, 20, was found murdered in her bedroom, and one of the accused is American-born, University of Washington student, Amanda Knox, also 20. Both girls shared a house with other students while living abroad.
Reports are saying “Extreme Sex Game killed Meredith.”
Steve Huff over at True Crime Weblog details the story here, if you want to get into all the details.
Several papers have printed a statement made by Knox to police, and if this statement is true, I find it quite interesting and telling that perhaps Ms. Knox is not being forthright with us.
Read more Knox says:
“Patrick and Meredith were in Meredith’s room while I stayed in the kitchen. I can’t remember how long they were together in the room, but I can only say that at a certain point I heard Meredith screaming and I was scared so I covered my ears. After that, I don’t remember everything, my head is very confused.” (source)
Furthermore, there is this report:
Ms Knox made her “confession” to police when she was taken in for questioning at dawn yesterday. She had claimed earlier to have left the cottage at 5pm on Thursday and returned only the next morning when Ms Kercher’s body was discovered. She now admits that she was at the house. She said that on the evening of November 1 she had met Mr Lumumba, who owned the Le Chic pub where she sometimes worked, at about 9pm after they had exchanged texts. She told police they had gone to the cottage. “I don’t remember if my friend Meredith was already there or whether she came later. What I can say is that [Meredith and Patrick] went off together.” (source)
It has been pointed out to me that Knox’s statement may have been translated from English to Italian to English again. If this is the case, I withdraw any and all conclusions, as it is ESSENTIAL for me to have Knox’s words VERBATIM to make a determination (see comment section below).
If these are Knox’s words verbatim, the four-sentence statement (above) gives us many red flags that are hard to ignore.
- The choice of words “while I stayed in the kitchen” is indicative that Knox was somehow doing something with Patrick and Meredith…yet in the report above, she does not say she is. This is contradictory. “To stay” is indicative of “staying behind” as if to break away from the group.
- The words “I can only say” and “at a certain point” are unique as well. When we recollect a story, we don’t talk like this. When we are controlling facts and being deceptive, however, we do. We only remember details that are important to us, and forget the rest. Knox really wants us to know that she wasn’t in the room, but doesn’t remember anything else. How interesting is that?
- “I was scared so I covered my ears.” When people are afraid because someone is screaming, they typically react by (A) running away for help, or (B) running to the aid of the screamer. Fear evokes a response.You don’t ignore a fearful/terrifying scream from someone, and hope it goes away by covering your ears when you or they could be in danger…unless, of course you know the reason behind the screams — and know you are not in danger.
- “After that, I don’t remember everything” When people are deceptive, the often have a selective memory — remembering “only” what they want us to know and forgetting everything else. It’s so convenient. Too convenient — especially considering strong emotions should have been elicited by the screams — which in turn should have burned searing memories that can’t be purged, no matter how hard she tries. Yet Knox seems to only remember one selective thing. I’m not buying it.
If Knox wasn’t in the room participating in the killing, then her words (if they are indeed hers) certainly hint that she knew what was going on behind those closed doors. It hints she was involved with Patrick and Meredith, yet her story is leaving out any involvement with Meredith.
Each of these four sentences has a red flag in it. That’s a strong indication of deception. I don’t believe Knox is being honest with us –if these do in fact prove to be her words verbatim. That is now the question.
* Modification added 11/10/07 4:14 PM
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