I've
been asking people around here what they thought of this story. The
response was unanimous, Amanda Knox was innocent! But, I wasn't so
sure. So, I decided to take a closer look at the Amanda Knox story.
In
the first article that I pulled up, I found out a cat got killed too!!
"There was blood on a wall in the downstairs apartment, determined to
be that of a black cat.” Wow, never heard that in the mainstream news
reports. I found that on a pro-Knox site, by the way.
That
same article points out that there are 24 Masonic Lodges in Perugia
Italy, the town where this murder took place. It is a well known fact
in Italy that some Satanic-Masonic rituals include removing one shoe and
leaving feces behind (sorry) and are generally performed on Thursdays.
The crime scene had bloody left shoe prints and one bloody bare
right foot print, and “there were un-flushed feces in the toilet (sorry
again), and there was blood on a wall in the downstairs apartment,
determined to be that of a black cat.” 1 Also, this crime was
committed, not just on a Thursday, but on the Thursday immediately
following Halloween, a day of special significance to Satanic-Masonics.
All
of that is interesting and gross, but it doesn't really speak to the
guilt or innocence of Amanda Knox. What it does do is explain why the
press in this country was so quick to run to the defense of Knox and how
she was able to effectively discredit the prosecution and police.
Apparently,
Italy has something in its history similar to the Salem witch trials
about which Italians are still very sensitive and defensive. The chief
prosecutor, therefore, was advised not to mention anything about the
Masonic witchcraft thing, however, he talked about the possibility of a
ritualistic “game” anyway. This played right into the hands of the
defense by incurring the self-righteous disdain of the all-seeing
press. There is nothing the press loves more than the opportunity to
oppose a “witch-hunt,” all the better if the defendant really is a
witch.
After the cat blood, the
next thing to catch my attention was the absence of any sympathy for the
victim or the victim's family in any of Knox's comments. Yes, she
mentioned the victim, but only incidentally as she cried about how
traumatic the whole thing was to her, “She was killed in our house, and
if I was there that night I could have been killed,” and "I've lost a
friend in the worst, most brutal, most inexplicable way possible, I'm
paying with my life for things that I didn't do." She talked about her
and the victim being friends in a carefully worded way so as to remove
questions about motive. Everything was about how Knox suffered and
worded to imply that Knox didn't do it. I did not see any comments by
Amanda Knox that were pure expressions of concern or sympathy for the
victim or the victim's family.
Speaking of the victim's family, THEY think that Knox is GUILTY: “The victim' family
had pressed for the court to uphold the guilty verdicts passed two
years ago, and resisted theories that a third man convicted in the
case.., had acted alone”2 ...and so do a lot of the residents of
Perugia, Italy: “At 5pm , armed with a new passport, Knox and her
family walked out of the jailhouse and into the street -- to a mob
chanting, 'Murderers!' and 'Shame!"3
Also,
the way she went about claiming that she was innocent didn't sound
quite right to me. “I am not what they say I am. I am not perverse,
violent, disrespectful toward life (or) people -- these things do not
apply to me, and I have not done the things that have been suggested,’’
said Knox What about, "I didn't do it! ?" Maybe it was in there
somewhere but, you know what, if I had been falsely accused of slashing
someone's throat, I'd be saying “I didn't do it!” every other sentence.
I wouldn't be going on about how I was a good person. Who cares if I'm
a good person or not? And what about the other accusations
that, even if she didn't slash the victim's throat herself, she was
involved in the murder or, at least, knew more than she was saying? So,
what about, “I didn't have anything to do with it and I don't know
anything about it?” That's what an innocent person who hadn't even been
in her apartment on the night of the murder would have said. I sure
didn't hear anything like that.
Now, about the facts of the case: Following is a quote from Amanda Knox to police about the night of the crime:
"...I
went into another room and then I heard screams. ... Patrick and
Meredith (the victim) were in Meredith's bedroom while I think I stayed
in the kitchen. ... I can't remember how long they were together in the
bedroom, but the only thing I can say is that at a certain point I
remember hearing Meredith's screams and I covered my ears. ... I can't
remember if Meredith was screaming and if I heard thuds but I could
imagine what was going on."
Based on Amanda
Knox's statement, "Patrick Lumumba, 38, ...spent two weeks in prison
before being able to prove that he spent the night of the murder talking
to a customer in his pub...."4 Amanda Knox remained silent while
Lumuba sat in jail for two weeks.
So, Amanda
Knox initially said that she was in the apartment and that Patrick did
it. It later turned out that Patrick had an airtight alibi. Again, she
remained silent for two weeks while Patrick sat in jail.
Amanda
Knox eventually settled on the story that she was never in her
apartment that night and that she spent the night with her boyfriend,
getting up around 10:30am. She says that they downloaded and watched
cartoons and a movie. “But computer experts told the court that there
was no activity on his laptop between 9.10pm on Nov 1, and 5.32am the
next morning — the time frame in which the murder took place.”4 Anyway,
“Records on her cellphone indicated she was elsewhere, and she was
caught on a closed-circuit security camera entering her own apartment
that night.”6
Then
there was the staged break-in: Knox & her boyfriend called police
to report a burglary the morning after the murder. When police arrived
they found a broken window and a room that appeared to have been
burglarized with clothes and personal belongings dumped all over the
floor consistent with a burglary. Problem was, the broken glass was on
top of the items that were on the floor indicating that the window was
broken after the items were dumped onto the floor. The bigger problem
was that most of the glass was outside rather than inside, consistent
with the window being broken from the inside. Also, no hair, no fibers,
no blood, no DNA on the jagged alleged entry point.
“It
is especially telling that when Knox's boyfriend called the police to
report the "burglary" in two separate, recorded phone calls, he said
nothing had been stolen -- despite the fact that (the other roommate
who's room it was) had not yet come home. The only way (the boyfriend)
would know nothing was stolen was if he had helped stage the burglary
himself.”7
There were also
inconsistencies and suspicious behavior associated with how Knox and her
boyfriend behaved when the police came to investigate the staged
break-in. Knox's boyfriend tried to break through the victim's door
prior to the arrival of the police but then, once the police arrived, he
& Knox played down the issue of the locked door saying that the
victim always kept her door locked. Then the third roommate showed up
and told police that the victim never locked her door. Not, “didn't
always lock her door” but “never locked her door,” whereupon the
police immediately broke the door down and discovered the body.
But, here's what finally made me conclude that Amanda Knox is guilty:
“The
owner of a supermarket, said Miss Knox had been in his (store) at 7.45
the morning (that Knox's roommate's) body was found. (The store owner)
told the court he had seen her in the cleaning section of his...store
just hours before (the body) was discovered...Police who searched
(Knox's boyfriend's) house...days after the murder found a receipt for
(bleach) from the shop where Miss Knox was allegedly seen. “8
This
tells me two things: Amanda Knox was lying about the details of the
night in question (but we already knew that) and she was cleaning
something.
I found it telling,
not to mention deliciously ironic, that Knox actually remarked about
how naturally sloppy she was during her acquittal remarks. A 20 year
old who is naturally sloppy doesn't usually show up at a grocery store
at 7:45am to buy cleaning products. And, what are the odds, that, if
she did, it would just happen to be on the very morning that her
roommate is found dead? And then “Police found Amanda’s prints in one
place only, on a water glass in the kitchen.” 1
That means that somebody must have recently scrubbed every inch of that apartment!
The
victim's mother said, after the trial, “...we do not understand how the
decision of the first trial could be so radically overturned,”
“Radically” because the DNA evidence, on which the acqittal was based,
was just one part of the evidence against Amanda Knox. There remains a
very clear picture of an obviously guilty individual getting away with
murder- Nina Burleigh, New York Post 2 Oct 2011
- Amanda Knox thanks supporters, heads for home CBS/AP 4 Oct 2011
- Jury’s verdict unlocks Knox, BOB GRAHAM in Perugia, Italy, and JEANE MACINTOSH in New York, New York Post
- Nick Squires in Rome 12:52PM GMT 06 Mar 2009 The Telegraph - UK
- Rik Merchant http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2728107 amanda_knox_convicted_in_murder_of.html?cat=9
- A DREAM ENDS IN NIGHTMARE, ANDY SOLTIS New York Post 16 Nov 2007
- Ann Coulter, Amanda Knox: The New Mumia 7 Sep 2011
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