Posted on 03/07/2010 1:17:56 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan
In a potentially stunning turn of events in the case of American student Amanda Knox, convicted of murdering her roommate in Perugia, Italy, a man also convicted of the crime is claimed to have said Knox was not there at the time of the grisly death, Italian newspapers reported Sunday.
Knox, a 22-year-old student from Seattle, and her ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, 25, were convicted in December of sexually assaulting and murdering Leeds University student Meredith Kercher in November 2007. Her semi-naked body was found in her bedroom at the house she shared with Knox, her throat slit.
Italian newspapers now report that a third man convicted in the death, Rudy Guede, told his cellmate in an Italian prison that Knox and Sollecito were not in the Perugia home when Kercher was killed.
Instead, the cellmate reportedly said that Guede told him there was another man with him at Kercher’s home that night and that man killed Kercher while Guede was out of the room.
The cellmate was identified as Mario Alessi, a convicted murderer, and the reports said he had made a formal videotaped statement submitted to the Perugia prosecutor’s office.
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Smells like BS to me.
HUMMMMMM
Unfortunately these inmate confessions seldom amount to much.
The killer may not have been present but the person he hired to kill that poor girl was.
The simplest, most logical explanation is a lone rapist/murderer.
The most convoluted, least logical explanation is some sort of satanic conspiracy among people of vastly different social backgrounds.
There were multiple confessions to the Sacco-Vanzetti murders -- every nut case around, plus the ex-cons and anarchists that tried to arrange confessions either to get off a charge or to clear S&V's names.
That was a much more politically 'hot' case than this one - it was the pet cause of every parlor pink and radical lib for 50 years. But the 'confessions' never went anywhere despite all the political pressure.
“There would be absolutely no reason for Ms. Knox to interact socially with this creep.”
She claims she had sex with a stranger on a train. She had ongoing conflict with that poor british girl. The Brit wasnt as steeped in Pacific Northwest liberal feminist sexual perversion as Knox.
And he attitude at the police station, doing cartwheels as she knew her roomate had been murdered, tells you almost all you need to know about Knox. The list of times a few people have conspired to murder someone is long. It is quite logical. She’s an icecold murderer.
Exactly, thank you for understanding the case and realizing that the kid from Africa, whose semen was in the deceased, killed the British girl after raping her.
I've been following this case, and as strange as Knox is and as bizarre as her behavior was, I don't think that she did it.
There is not a the tiniest bit of physical evidence linking her or her boyfriend to this grizzly, bloody murder- not one speck of Knoxx' or Sollecito's DNA in the murder room, in what was obviously a horrific vicious attack on Kercher. Also no evidence showing that she hired anyone to do it. That does not make sense.
Knox and Sollecito would never have been convicted in a US Court. The only reason that they were convicted in an Italian Court is because the Italian news media turned it into a soap opera melodrama of sex, drugs and American arrogance.
Exactly! Her boyfriend was Italian, he was offered a better deal if he testified against her, he wouldn’t do it. He was also convicted on zero evidence.
Being a whore does not make you a murderer. Ignorant people seem to link the two.
Are you for real???
Don’t know Ms. Knox. I’ve read that her behavior at the police station was a bit strange under the circumstances.
“There would be absolutely no reason for Ms. Knox to interact socially with this creep.”
Maybe Ms. Knox is a creep as well.
So, let me ask you a question: Do you think it's a good idea to convict a person of murder, based not on any physical evidence that they actually committed the crime, but because some police officers said their behavior was "a bit strange?"
Nope.
You seemed to approve.
“You seemed to approve”
No. Don’t disapprove, either. I haven’t enough info to make a rational decision one way or the other.
She lied and tried to frame an innocent man for the crime. That’s not indicative of innocence. Then there is her DNA on the knife.
The knife they got from the silverware drawer of her boyfriend's apartment.
The story of the bungling corrupt inept Italian prosecutor who is running the Knox case.
The latest print has an afterward that describes the evidence, or lack of, that places Knox at the scene a the time of the murder. Knox is a kook but there is no evidence that she murdered.
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