The Case Of Russell Williams: What a ‘‘Set-Up’’ Police Interview Really Looks Like

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You’re right on target, Chimera. This Air Force Colonel went completely mad from his bizarre lust for power both on and off the airbase, it’s unbelievable.

Secret lives will come to light. It irks me to hear Raffaele speak of his 8 years of hell and his utter innocence. In recent interviews he has the audacity to call for authorities to apologize to him or admit fault or better yet, receive punishment.

Yet it would seem Raffaele is the one who is ripe for a felony conspiracy charge.

In my opinion he did:

“unlawfully conspire together with Knox to pervert and obstruct justice and the due administration of the laws; to wit, by obstructing the investigation into the murder of Meredith Susanna Cara Kercher.”

IMO: Raf and Knox worked together to cover up the true circumstances surrounding the murder. This is the least of it. One of them or both used a knife which caused the demise of Miss Kercher.

Who will protect the law?

Other defendants would be serving life without parole but not these twerps.

Knox is an incredible liar.

But who is she really? She craves excitement. She stepped up her drug use in Italy. She’s impulsive, gutsy, and habitually seeks an adrenaline rush. She’s a risk taker. Her own boyfriend said she can’t tell fact from fiction and lived in a dreamworld.

PMF.net has link to her March 2016 Seattle newspaper story. It reflects the 2016 Knox as same old Knox of 2007. She writes about the netherworld between truth and imagination as it relates to fairies she thought were real as a child. She wants a ray of light (the story’s title) but lives in a fog of compromise and uncertainty. I wonder why.

She questions what is real, what is true. We’ve heard that song before that truth to her is simply the best truths one can think. In other words, truth is all in one’s mind or is simply opinion. In other words, there is no objective truth. She and Raffaele seem to share the same philosophy about relative truth as do many criminals. Strange, but mixed blood on a sink and bidet are not imagined or dreamed up.

On the night of Meredith’s stabbing probably Knox was high on substances. She was medicating her stress about her job, roommates, school, fatigue, money, and breakup with Johnsrud.

The combo of drugs and alcohol induced paranoia and clouded her judgment.

She and Sollecito are both heroes in their own minds. They are would-be overachievers who dreamed of big things like psychopaths do with grandiosity. Then they took a short cut.

When reality threw a monkeywrench into their escapism and blood fantasies, they lost it. They hit the self-destruct button and made a decision to detour to infamy. They focused their malice and failures on the true high achiever and a person of value: loving, generous, ambitious Meredith.

They might have been planning to drug Kercher with date rape drugs and toy with her without her knowledge. They wanted to bring her down. GHB is the drug of deniability.

Knox told Perugia court after first conviction: You got everything wrong. I believe her about that. Their original plans for Meredith may have been too scandalous to imagine.

Likely, their plans went haywire on the night of the crime.

Afterwards they agreed to share a horrible secret. They swore to each other to carry it to their graves. This is why Sollecito continues to focus on graves. Sanitize death? Monetize death?

Raffaele has no code but his own battle against shame.

He said in the police station he was lying to protect Knox at her request. So they are both liars. Big ones.

After lying to police for years to hide a crime, which Raffaele calls honor, he now thinks he deserves compensatory awards. Chutzpah indeed.

More possible is that Raf and his co-conspirator deserve to lose civil suit judgements against themselves to prevent them profiting from a crime.

Chimera points out the killer Colonel’s “fraudulent conversion” to hide his assets. Probably Knox’s advisors and family tried to work the same magic. Curt Knox isn’t a CPA for nothing. Marriott wasn’t called onboard for nothing.

Amanda Knox still owes Patrick for destroying his business. And what do she and Raffaele owe to the Kerchers?

Thanks Hopeful.

The O.P.P. are quite open about how they trapped Williams.  As for this case ....

(1) It was RS called, not AK.  They couldn’t have known she’d show up.

(2) When AK arrived, she was told to go home.

(3) There was no interpreter at the moment, and Anna Donnino was not ‘‘waiting in the wings’‘.

(4) They never bothered to tape record ‘‘any’’ of it.

(5) They get names of all 7 on that list, except for that ‘‘South African who plays basketball’‘.

Seems like the most incompetent sting in police history.  Kind of makes one wonder if AK made it all up.

Food-for-insightful-thought, emphasizing a dimension to Meredith’s murder, from Cyril Wecht MD,JD. (referring to the OJ Simpson case):

“My forty-plus years as a medicolegal investigator taught me that slayings involving a knife are much more intense and intimate than homicides involving a gun. It’s much easier to stand back at a distance and pull a trigger. In fact, the victim doesn’t even have to see the assailant in a shooting. But to commit a stabbing requires a perpetrator to stand extremely close, probably even face the victim. And the fact that the attacker’s hands are connected to the knife that is plunging into the victim, probably even touching the victim, makes stabbings more likely to be committed by someone who is extremely angry at the victim.”

A good point, well made, @Cardiol.

Knox’s hatred of Meredith, borne out of extreme jealousy, is there for all with eyes (and ears) to see (and hear) in her many appearances on a variety of videos on YouTube.

It’s hard to discern whether the fact that she knows that most normal people think she’s a cowardly, murdering lowlife (precisely as OJ knew) upsets her more than the fact that she can’t fully admit to and revel in the one act that has given her most pleasure in her tawdry life than anything else. Regardless of what one causes her most angst, neither one causes her enough.

She also must be aware that if she had taken Meredith on, on her own, with or without a knife, she would most likely have come a cropper and been left in an ignominious, crumpled heap, facing jail for assault.

Hence she employed the help of the two stooges using the only tool at her disposal; her over used and over abused body. Something she had shamelessly exploited to get free drugs from her dealer and cheap thrills from a variety of undesirables her whole adult life.

Now she’s left with her infantile “creative writing” as her only outlet to torture Meredith’s family further by leaving a trail of metaphorical breadcrumbs to make it obvious that she did the deed. There really is no need. They, and we, know what she did. Only a corrupt system saved her. Not, as she clearly would like to think, her own guile.

There is no hope of redemption for Knox and personally, that makes me happy. I look forward to the day I hear a news report of her inevitable, most likely self inflicted, demise.

A pox on her house and on all those who protected her or lied for her when they knew exactly what she was.

Hello David Yes of course. But Knox has not got away with it because the grim reaper will exact his revenge upon her and her entire family. There is no escape. In my experience sooner or later the scales are balanced because murderers reap their own demise. Slowly Knox will descend because she cannot escape. Her complete family will pay for who she is and who she has become, which is eventually just another bag lady wearing rags. Two years? perhaps. But it will happen and when it does I for one will be cheering on the sidelines.
Some people might call it revenge. OK I agree. I want her to pay for what she did.

@Cardiol MD, @davidmulhern, @Grahame Rhodes, great thoughts, inspiring comments. Cardiol’s knowledge that knife attack is more intense, personal, wrathful than a distant gunshot and requires the hands, is probably why Knox kept drawing her hands. Her hands left deep bruises along Meredith’s jaw.

@davidmulhern, I really enjoyed your comment which had the perfect follow-up thought to Cardiol, that Knox didn’t have the courage of a knife attack alone by herself so she influenced two males to help her do the damage, paying them in the coinage of sleaze because she needed their support. That’s why it’s probable Sollecito is much more involved than his hints of protecting a foolish girlfriend.

I love the visual of the trail of verbal breadcrumbs Knox now sprinkles out there in her creative writing as her only outlet to taunt the world with her deed, being unable to explicitly revel in it or state the obvious. I agree that she wants to believe it was her own powers that rescued herself with guile and stratagem and cunning when the truth is, a faulty system and its leaning toward mercy got her off the scaffold.

Grahame Rhodes echoes my own sentiments that she can run but she can’t hide and she will spiral down from the consequences of guilt. The truth will find her out in some form in this life or the next. She’ll live a lie for years but maybe that’s what she always wanted to do: to have a giant secret and a reason to play the conman that she inherently wanted to be and to get famous doing both, who knows? Maybe she wanted her family to be scared of her, in lieu of respect just fear me, wonder about me. She wanted to amaze Madison and Johnsrud and the UW admirers and Deanna and to impress Daddy with some unreachable audacity that he could never achieve. Her dash to Europe was just not enough by itself, it seems.

Back to Cardiol’s idea of the intimacy of a knife kill, the repurcussions of her violent act may still trouble her dreams both waking and sleeping, and Sollecito’s as well. Guede may have been able to shake off most of his guilt knowing he has truly paid for his act with prison time, or at least moreso than the devils who led him into insanity.

The saddest thing is they killed a person who, even with a good deal of provocation, would have forgiven Knox any social gaffe or outright insult most likely. Meredith had a good heart, and wasn’t a wreck of low self-esteem, envy and schizoid confusion like Knox.

And in the end it all comes down to the drugs, which took away natural affection, common sense, and even fear of committing crimes. Alcohol and drugs unleashed the monster within. Without inebriation and arrogance, Knox and Sollecito might right now be touring around in his Audi together to see the Pyrenees or the art museums of Munich, happy as clams while Meredith might be frolicking by the seaside reading the latest paperback and sipping coffee in Italian sun with a date planned for the evening.

There is such a thing as the term “Blood Simple” I believe there was even a movie by that name. If you examine Knox and Sollecito the following day it is clear that both these murderers were feeling (I won’t say suffering) form the same thing. People forget everything that went on that morning after they murdered Meredith. It is wise to remember how they appeared and how they acted. Never forget that. In spite of the famous dirty P/R game and David Marriot these two will never be free from that night. Remember the running on the steps, the scream and everything that went on. They will never be free because we won’t let them and we won’t let anybody else forget either.

Where next:

Or to next entry Justice Systems Comparisons #5: How Appeals Differ in Italy and Common Law Countries

Or to previous entry Knox’s Nasty-Prisons Hoax: NY Times Describes How Italy Leads The World In Rehabilitation