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Breaking news: In its August 9th report the Florence Court again explains why Knox is guilty of unprovoked calunnia against Patrick - and left him in prison for several weeks. Very hard line, hits back against the Supreme Court's overruling of Florence in 2015. We hope to have it up in English by month's end. So Knox's deeply dishonest smear of the investigators in court in June had zero effect.
Friday, November 01, 2019
RIP Meredith Susanna Cara Kercher 28 December 1985 - 1 November 2007
Posted by KrissyG
My tribute first posted here in 2015…
It was a gloriously sunny early summer’s day. I stepped out of the tube onto Tooting Broadway, with throngs of shoppers overflowing the pavements and schoolchildren milling around the bus stops in groups.
Now here at last, in Croydon Cemetery, fifteen bus stops later, I found Meredith’s grave, startling in its unexpectedness, after walking for quite a while, hopeless at following directions, having originally gone to the wrong graveyard altogether, the day before.
My heart pounded as her name suddenly leapt out at me.
The burial site is beautifully maintained, with miniature pink and red rose bushes and set in the peaceful landscaped grounds, with evergreens and lawns.
I stood for a while overcome with emotion, quite alone, with nobody in sight all around. I said a few prayers, including one pleading that Meredith’s murderers be brought to justice. I quietly sang Psalm 23 and pondered how this beautiful, funny, bright young student had lived a life that was all too short.
A feeling of pain - for her mother Arline and father John, and Stephanie, Lyle and John and for all her family and friends - contracted like a taut elastic band across my chest.
I recalled how at her funeral service at St John the Baptist Church many of the mourners, including sister Stephanie and friends from Leeds Uni had carried a single white rose each.
Stephanie read out a poem she wrote, ” Don’t Say Goodbye”. Her old school friends sang as a choir the requiem, In Paradisum. Two hymns sung at the service, on 14th December 2007, were “˜Abide with me” and “For the Beauty of the Earth”.
Meredith’s favourite record “With or without you” by U2 was played.
As I sat on a creaky bench nearby under the shade of a gnarled old tree, I scribbled down the following lines:
- I came to pay my respects
To Meredith Kercher so dear
To all who knew her.
Go gently into that night
Enforced on you by the evil,
Those who walk in the darkness,
And you were in their path.
Your light shines
And the dark has not overcome it.
I write this article to reflect that this is about Meredith Kercher and her family and friends, and to reclaim the memory of her purity from the soiled agenda of the ex-defendants and the cruel IIP and FOA stalkers.
Stephanie Kercher had said, in response to Knox’s demand, on the launch of her “memoir”, that she be taken to visit Meredith’s grave, that Stephanie and her family just want a safe place for Meredith to rest in peace.
I cast my mind back to the news reports that broke in November 2013 that Raffaele Sollecito had nevertheless paid a “secret visit” to the spot. He had been in London in March 2013. He had the grace not to include pictures of the grave on his “London” Facebook page that he may have taken.
Newspaper reports reveal he was taken there by an “English friend” and left no flowers. The “friend” who was quick to betray Sollecito’s “secret” is speculated to be one Nigel Scott, ex-Lib Dem Councillor in Haringey, and a purported member of the Injustice in Perugia advisory board, the rather grand name of a lobby of aggressive pro-Knox advocates.
Scott put up a picture of the grave in a tweet ““ hastily taken down ““ as the news broke. He disparagingly refers to the grave as being in “poor condition”, with a temporary headstone marker.
His co-campaigner, Karen Pruett, maintains a Find A Grave webpage for Meredith and was forced by demand from enraged supporters of Meredith Kercher’s family to take down the picture of Meredith’s grave, most probably taken from the Daily Mail.
Notorious FOA poster Lyn Duncan - who tweets under the name of @Annella - and others, left “tributes” after the acquittal, despite one of their party, Doug Bremner Jr, having referred to the Kerchers as “Nazis” and another mocking Meredith’s grave lacking a headstone as late as 2011, when Knox was first acquitted by Hellmann, as shown in the Daily Mail.
Time has shown how Scott’s, Pruett’s and other Knox chums’ characters speak for themselves.
Meredith’s final resting place is beautiful, in a quietly understated way. The grave adjacent is of a Liverpool supporter aged 22, who died around about the same time as Mez, who was 21. It is very poignant to see.
Meredith’s headstone is fashioned out of marble and reads, ” We will always love you MEREDITH SUSANNA CARA KERCHER 28th Dec. 1985 ““ 1st Nov. 2007 Forever in our thoughts, always in our hearts.”
The temporary marker, so much derided by Knox’ supporters, remains at the foot. I left some Sweet Williams in a flower container and slowly walked away, moved and changed by the visit.
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
The Best Alternative-Sources Series: Roberta Glass’s True Crime Reports
Posted by The Machine
1. Pro-Justice V Anti-Justice Media Trends
Increasingly common these days is for pro-truth, pro-victim and pro-justice sources to stake out the high ground.
Malcolm Gladwell, subject here of an ongoing series, really is a throwback, part of a trend that is losing traction and that may already have peaked.
Taking the side of the dwindling band of fabricators, inciters, stalkers, defamers, blood-money-grubbers, media-bashers, and foreigner-bashers, and the most unsavory crime elements seeking to undermine justice, now takes major chutzpah and unawareness.
Just before Gladwell’s rant against Italian justice surfaced, we had launched a new series to highlight the large number of objective sources on Meredith’s case and many others where justice is in question.
Documentaries, films and podcasts about people who have been convicted of murders they allegedly didn’t commit have been hugely popular.
TV documentaries such as American Girl, Italian Nightmare, Paradise Lost, West of Memphis, Making a Murderer and The Case Against Adnan Syed have all been watched by millions of people.
The Serial podcast about the Adnan Syed/Hae Min Lee case has been downloaded over 175 million times
When They See Us - the Netflix drama about the Central Park Five case - has been watched by 23 million Netflix accounts worldwide.
TV producers, filmmakers and podcast-makers know full well that a tale about a supposedly innocent person being railroaded by corrupt or incompetent cops and rogue prosecutors is a far more exciting and melodramatic story than cases where the juries convicted the right people.
They are not always concerned about truth and justice - they want a product that is a moneyspinner and will guarantee them an audience of millions, bucketloads of publicity, newspaper headlines and media interviews. Pesky facts that undermine their narrative that an innocent person was railroaded invariably get ignored.
They literally create fairytales where prosecutors and police officers are presented as evil villains intent on imprisoning innocent victims who are as pure and innocent as Snow White. Unfortunately, Joe Public and the likes of Kim Kardashian are stupid and they unquestiongly believe everything they see and read in the media without bothering to do any fact-checking.
Over 300 online reviewers gave the Netflix hoax Amanda Knox high marks. Gladwell quoted it. Celebrity Kim Kardashian watched the faux documentary on Netflix and said she thinks Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are innocent on Twitter.
“Just finished the Amanda Knox doc. I don’t think they did it. I really want a Natalie Halloway doc & they need to solve that crime. So sad!”
She recently tweeted her support for Netflix darling Brendan Dassey - who along with Steven Avery was convicted of raping and murdering Teresa Halbach.
Whenever a new true crime documentary or drama about alleged miscarriage of justice lands on Netflix, I immediately wonder what inconvenient facts have been brushed under the carpet and what lies and disinformation have been presented as fact.
I know I definitely can’t rely on The Guardian for reliable information because it has a long history of supporting people who have been convicted of murder or casting doubt on their convictions e.g. Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, the West Memphis Three, Adnan Syed, Jeremy Bamber, James Hanratty and Simon Hall.
2. Roberta Glass’s True Crime Reports
Roberta has the right approach to ascertaining the truth with regard to high-profile cases i.e. she relies on the official court documents - not on misinformation and propaganda. Her explanation of where she is coming from on her YouTube Channel:
”Tired of the misinformation and propaganda in current True Crime reporting, podcasts and documentaries; Roberta Glass set out in 2018 to create a True Crime Report sourced directly from the court records and case files. Her drive and curiosity to look deeper into the true crime stories she covers has also taken her to the courthouse where she has covered the NXIVM trial and Jeffrey Epstein related hearings. “
Roberta has interviewed Ken Kratz who prosecuted Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey and Lyn Hartman who was engaged to Steven Avery.
It’s fascinating to listen to the stories of people like Lyn Hartman and Alexa who were fooled by the PR campaigns to free convicted killers and how they eventually realised they had been manipulated and misinformed. They give the listener an insight to what Rabia Chaudry and Kathleen Zellner are really like and how they mislead people.
I also recommend listening to the interview with former policeman and author Martin Preib. He explains how innocence activists from Northwestern’s Innocence Project - who included Paul Ciolino - framed Alstory Simon.
3. Podcasts Recommended For First Listening
I’ve listed some of the most interesting podcasts below.
- What Amanda Knox Won’t Tell You
Central Park Five Myths
Making A Murderer: Ken Kratz - The Most Hated Man On The Internet Speaks!
Making A Murderer: Ken Kratz - The Most Hated Man on The Internet Part II
Steven Avery’s Former Fiancé Lynn Hartman Won’t Stop Talking!!!
The Wrongful Conviction of the West Memphis Three
HBO’s The Case FOR Adnan Syed
Roberta Glass True Crime Report can also be listened to on Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Spreaker and Castbo
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Powerful Evidence Of Sollecito’s Presence: HIS Footprint Is Proved
Posted by James Raper
Prosecutor Dr Manuela Comodi introduced this very tough evidence
Long post. Click here to go straight to Comments.
1. Series And Post Overviews
Previously in our hard-physical-evidence series we put Sollecito rock-solidly at the scene of the crime through his DNA in Meredith’s bedroom.
This post also puts him at the scene of the crime through a footprint unmistakably his. It was not Guede’s as one of the PR hoaxes has it - always a very weak claim, as there is no evidence that Guede ever took his shoes and socks off, and not even a compelling scenario.
Again, please bear in mind the trial circumstance. Read this trial report for a taste of how the footprint evidence sent the defenses into shrill disarray. Starkly obvious to the jury (panel of judges) but never without exception mentioned by the PR.
The purpose of this post is to explain exactly why the right sided footprint, as seen below in the bottom right hand corner of the bathroom mat, can be, indeed was, attributed to Raffaele Sollecito.
Saying that it was attributed to him is not to exclude any number of other people to whom it could also belong, but as we shall see we can, perfectly reasonably, exclude the two other suspects in the case, Amanda Knox and Rudy Guede.
2. Bathmat Footprint Evidence At Trial
In evidence was a forensic analysis of the footprint, undertaken by Dr Rinaldi and Chief Inspector Boemia, comparing the print to the reference prints, made on a flat surface, of each of the three suspects. After taking measurements it was clear that the print could not be attributed to Amanda Knox because her foot is smaller in size. That then leaves us with Sollecito and Guede.
The mat, of course, is not a flat surface. It contains the tufts of weave which form the pattern on the mat.
In this image below the colour has been enhanced, whereas the image above reflects the reality of a stain where the blood is clearly diluted, and this, in itself, is a matter which has a part to play in attributing the stain.
We can now consider what those comparative measurements were.
On the basis of the above measurements compiled from Rinaldi’s and Boemia’s Report, Sollecito’s foot is a far better fit for that on the mat than Guede‘s, and for this reason Rinaldi and Boemia came to the conclusion that the bathmat print belonged to Sollecito.
The trial judge, Massei, wrote -
“The analyses of the size of the big toe, Sollecito’s being absolutely the widest, led in itself to the conclusion of compatibility between the print on the mat and the right foot of the defendant, whereas the comparison between the sole print of Guede and that of Sollecito also demonstrated the different size of the plantar arch, with Guede’s narrower one attesting to the fact that the Ivory Coast national has an altogether narrower foot in comparison to Sollecito’s foot. The sole prints of the two defendants in question therefore present considerable differences in terms of :- (1) the big toe; (2) the width of the metatarsus; (3) the width of the plantar arch……”
Clearly the disparity in the width of Sollecito’s and Guede’s big toes is significant.
However Professor Vinci, Sollecito’s expert, disputed Rinaldi and Boemia‘s finding as to the width of the big toe on the mat. He noted that the big toe, as seen in Exhibit Two above, falls on elevated weave in the shape of a spiral. According to Vinci the flourishes of weave in this part of the curl of the spiral did not exactly match and the top right of the stain was not in fact part of the big toe, but attributable to the second toe. Once this was detached, the width of the big toe on the mat was more akin to the width of Guede’s big toe.
Furthermore, he argued, the detached stain could not belong to Sollecito because his second toe did not appear in his reference print - it did not touch the ground due to a case of valgus on the right of his big toe.
True, but the point is a non-sequitor as Sollecito’s second toe is not required for his big toe to match the width of the stain - indeed held back in a hammer position we should be even more confident of the width of the big toe - and, in any event, the mark to be detached could not belong to Guede’s second toe, as we shall see.
Massei was unable to agree with the operation of detaching the mark from the toe because it depended on an assumption that there was an interruption in continuity.
“The base of the material in the disputed point shows that the trace of blood is a single unit on all of the curl (flourish), and is uniformly linked, forming a single unit with all the other parts of the material on which the big toe was placed.”
Massei continued -
“Although it is possible to agree that in the calculation of the width of the big toe the point of measuring may fall in an unstained place, nevertheless a comprehensive view of the bathmat clearly shows why this was done. Considering that the small region under discussion is part of the tip of the big toe, the point on the right of the toe giving the 30 mm measurement lies along the line descending perpendicularly from that tip, without any widening……………..furthermore, the association of the bathmat footprint with Guede’s foot (see the CD ROM provided by Professor Vinci showing “the superimposition sequence” for Guede’s foot) appears, frankly, as strained, given that Guede’s footprint, apart from having a morphology which is generally longer and more tapered, also has a second toe print which unequivocally falls quite far from the big toe print, so that the small mark whose detachment from the big toe is in question here could hardly be attributed to the second toe of the defendant (Guede)”.
We can now move to how Hellmann considered the evidence when his appeal court acquitted Knox and Sollecito.
Noting that there is an unstained section of the bathmat print, where apparently Sollecito’s toe should be, were we to have a complete print of his big toe on the mat, Hellmann disparages what he considers is Massei’s assertion that one can simply draw a line down from the disputed mark of blood in accordance with the shape of Sollecito’s toe, hence arriving at a measurement for the width of the big toe coinciding with Sollecito’s.
Looking back I think that Massei did leave himself open to criticism with that remark, but more particularly because (unlike Guede) the vertical axis of Sollecito’s big toe (see below) does have a more obvious tilt to the left (which might be a consequence of the valgus and consequent “hammer position” of the second toe) and which, together with the blood on the flourish of the weave (on the right) would give a reading for the width of the big toe, without relying on part of that measurement falling in an unstained section.
However there are a number of other reasons which Massei believed were persuasive, and which Hellmann ignores. The first is a disparity in the length of the respective big toes, Guede having a longer toe than Sollecito. Secondly, the position of the left hand curve of the ball of the foot, and the lower section (the left side of the plantar arch – there can be a number of measurements here as the plantar arch tapers off significantly in width), on the bathmat is fairly clear and if one lines up the suspects’ curves with that on the bathmat, then the tip of Guede’s big toe is noticeably higher than the mark of the toe on the mat, whereas Sollecito’s coincides. In addition, the top of the ball of Guede’s foot is noticeably higher whereas Sollecito’s more or less coincides.
Below are the respective representative prints for Sollecito and Guede. Placing them side by side for comparison purposes is subject to formatting considerations. Superimposed upon them is an outline of the stain to illustrate the points made above. Of course, to some extent the outline of the stain is subject to one’s own interpretation, but I believe it is reasonably accurate.
Guede’s print has 7 points of disparity with the stain – Sollecito 1 as below.
Hellmann draws attention to the fact that the comparison print for Sollecito’s right foot shows that the distal phalange of the big toe (the part of the big toe which connects it to the ball of the foot) is absent on a flat surface, but is present on the bathmat, and that in Guede’s representative print the distal phalange is present.
Having criticised Massei for, he says, the subjective element of his interpretation, Hellmann then gives us his own subjective interpretation.
“Now, since the contact of the foot with blood took place on the floor of Meredith’s room, namely on a flat and rigid surface, the distal [phalange] would not have been able to have become stained, and thus it would not have been able to leave the very visible trace on the bathmat.”
Hellmann goes on to state that the print was left by Guede, in accordance with Professor Vinci’s contention.
But hold on! Why should we be required to accept that Sollecito would necessarily have stood in blood in Meredith’s room (and remember that the mark on the mat was diluted blood, which aspect modifies, if not negates, any direct correlation) or, if he did, that it was on a flat and rigid surface there, since there was blood on Meredith’s clothing on the floor, and indeed there were towels soaked in blood in her room, although it is not, at first sight, an unreasonable hypothesis? However, be it the assumption (which does not explain the diluted blood) is hypothetical given that Hellmann does not accept that the print on the bathmat is Sollecito’s, nevertheless Hellmann’s logic is circular and deficient given that there are no connecting bloody footprints between the blood in Meredith’s room and the bathmat print.
He could, of course, explain that, but not without giving credence to the removal of blood traces, which he ignores in his report.
Hellmann also ignores the pertinent and critical point made by Massei that the point of Guede’s second toe falls some distance from the big toe such that it is unlikely to be responsible for the width of the big toe on the mat.
Hellmann’s grasp of detail is poor, his attention is selective, and his grasp of context almost non-existent.
Cassation’s Fifth Chambers were worse, if that was possible -
“Finally, the footprints found at the murder scene can in no way be traced to the appellant.”(i.e Sollecito)
Yes, seriously, that’s all they had to say on the subject! They did not even give any reasons for the assertion.
But even if the bathmat print can “in no way” be traced to Sollecito, can it be traced to Guede? How did Guede get to the bathroom to leave his supposed print without leaving a trace on the way there?
It would appear, on the forensic evidence, that Guede left Meredith’s room and proceeded direct to the front door. Initially he left just- about -visible bloody left shoe prints. The blood trailed off but the shoe prints were picked up again by the application of luminol. He did not divert to the small bathroom, or for that matter to Filomena’s room to stage a break-in.
3. Defense’s Attempts To Nail Rudy Guede
Sollecito’s defence team had an improbable theory - that Guede, immediately after the murder and despite his homicidal rage, was smart enough to hop out of Meredith’s room on his left foot with a clean shoe on, and the other bare but covered in blood, and that having by this means entered the bathroom and washed his bloody right foot, disastrously leaving his (supposed) imprint there in the process.
He then returned to Meredith’s bedroom, inadvertently standing in blood again with his clean left shoe and leaving with a trail of bloody left shoe prints - in which case the exercise of washing his foot was entirely in vain, on two counts, after all that careful hopping around. Neither is it entirely clear why his right shoe came off in the first place. His shoes were foot-hugging Nike Outbreak 2. Improbable that one could have come off even in a struggle.
It is patently obvious that his washing his foot was the most inept performance in all this given the mark the foot subsequently left on the mat. The same observation obviously applies to Sollecito as well but in his case, and not with Guede, or any other unknown male, it is far more credible to accept that he had diluted blood on the sole of his foot for a reason unconnected with his having just washed it.
All the above, as it pertains to Guede, or another unknown male assailant, is exceedingly unlikely and there is a far simpler explanation. Someone with more time to spare than Guede, or his unknown mate, and with less risk of discovery attached, was responsible for the diluted blood and had inadvertently stepped in it.
There had, undoubtedly, to be blood on the floor (and elsewhere) between Meredith’s room and the small bathroom, probably prints, and these and other such traces (bathroom door, Meredith’s door etc) were deliberately and carefully removed by wiping them away with wet towels, cloths etc. Probably whoever had done this had then stepped on one of the towels or cloths in question and then stepped onto the mat without thinking. Hence the diluted blood.
It is interesting to note that Guede, during his stay in jail in Germany, wrote (emphasis added) –
“I am asking myself how is it possible that Amanda could have slept in all that mess, and took a shower with all that blood in the bathroom and corridor.”
The reason for removing the blood was not just to conceal who would have made prints (the print on the bathmat was, after all, left in situ) but, from a visual perspective, to conceal any blood that might be noticeable and alarming to anyone approaching Meredith’s room. Guede’s bloody left shoeprints in the corridor, pointing to the exit, were visible but only on close inspection.
The prime stager, the person who would have had most interest in attending to a post murder manipulation of the crime scene by the removal of blood traces would, of course, have been Amanda Knox. It was a prerequisite if her account of having stopped by the cottage to have a shower, before the discovery of the body, was to work in the manner for which she hoped.
However, having attended to this she would then, from the position of her own narrative, be in a position to instigate and manage, entirely innocently from anyone’s perspective, the discovery of her flatmate’s murder. Visiting the cottage to have a shower and collect a mop, with no visible blood in unexplainable places to alarm her, was an indispensible opening sequence in the narrative.
She did, though, leave the mat in situ. This may simply have been because it never occurred to her that this could be used as evidence incriminating Sollecito and, of course, the absence of the mat would no doubt have been remarked on by her flatmates. Having eliminated other blood traces, removing the mat might have been conceived as being a step too far as it would have raised questions.
Finally Guede, for numerous reasons, is simply not a credible candidate for the clean up, particularly given the numerous and incriminating traces of himself that he did leave at the crime scene.
Given the comparative measurements, given the full context of the crime scene, including the removal of blood traces and the attribution of a luminol revealed footprint to Sollecito outside Meredith’s room, and given the fact that the murder weapon was in Sollecito’s kitchen drawer and that his DNA was on the bra clasp, there can be little doubt that the bathmat print belonged to him.
Monday, September 09, 2019
The Hachette Hoax: A Guide To Our Dozen Posts
Posted by Our Main Posters
All Posts So Far In Ongoing Series
1. Click for Post: How “Psychology Expert” Malcolm Gladwell Gets Every Single Claim On The Case Wrong
2. Click for Post: Gullible Gladwell Duped By “Strangers” In Reality Vigilantes & Anti Justice Trolls
3. Click for Post: Explaining To “No Physical Evidence” Gladwell Just How MUCH There Was: #1 Knife DNA
4. Click for Post: Explaining to “No Physical Evidence” Gladwell Just How MUCH There Was #2 Mixed Blood
5. Click for Post: Explaining to “No Physical Evidence” Gladwell Just How MUCH There Was #3 Footprints
6. Click for Post: Explaining to “No Physical Evidence” Gladwell Just How MUCH There Was #4 Faked Break-In
7. Click for Post: Explaining to “No Physical Evidence” Gladwell Just How MUCH There Was #5 Bra Clasp
8. Click for Post: There’s This Powerful Evidence Of Knox’s Crimescene Presence - Locked Right Inside Meredith’s Room
9. Click for Post: There’s This Powerful Evidence Of Sollecito’s Crimescene Presence: Unmistakably HIS Footprint
10. Click for Post: Gladwell’s Lone-Wolf-Killer Hoax Was Abandoned By DEFENSES 10 Years Ago
11. Click for Post: On Guede As Sole Attacker Gladwell Doesn’t Get Strong Backup - From Knox Or Sollecito
Do check back, there’s more to follow.
Thursday, September 05, 2019
The Pro Truth, Pro Justice, Pro Italy, Pro Meredith Reporting On The Case #1
Posted by Our Main Posters
Hall of Fame: 80 reporters & analysts channeled truth of case
1. Context Of The Post
This post and the next represent our “Hall of Fame” of the truthful reporting faction.
A third and fourth post will follow, our “Hall of Shame” of the biased, incompetent and corrupt reporting faction. That uniquely large faction includes way too many reporters, investigators, lawyers, bloggers, and book-writers.
All these four posts flow directly from our 8 August post on the English-language reporting vehicles. We separated out “the media” that Knox endemically demonizes into these three groups.
No media outlet demonized Knox. The reports on her drugs and sex and relationships and highly suspect behavior were all reality-based; in fact they could have gone even further.
And no reporter demonized her, either, as this and the next post will show.
The two next posts on the biased faction, however, will show how 70-80 percent of reporters did demonize Italy and many Italians, and misrepresent both the real case and the real Knox.
We have already noted just how especially undermining to Knox’s dishonest media-demonizing, in Italy, Ireland, and the US, was the pesky presence of Raffaele Sollecito.
He was treated identically to Knox from 2007 to 2015 in all possible ways. That was despite his being from an influential Italian family with “connections”. And he never blamed the media. In fact, he consistently blamed Knox for his predicament.
We have already noted also that Knox dropped her own self in it, with no help at all from the media, when she was on the witness stand in mid 2009.
Our next post on the truth faction will show how Knox has dropped her own self in it multiple times, as the truth media has each time accurately passed on.
2. To Whom Do We Offer Praise?
Please click to open the full “True” database in Acrobat PDF here or Word Doc here showing the 80 we want to recognise so far.
Despite some really tough reporting conditions, the masterlist currently includes EIGHTY professional reporters, lawyers, investigators and commentators who all went the extra mile in their reports.
Included are 36 professional journalists and reporters; the others mostly worked unpaid; 14 at least are lawyers; 7 have written books (one, James Raper, also posts on TJMK). At least 20 run websites. Around 60 have been quoted in our posts, some a number of times.
Excluded from this project are most of the reviewers of the 2012-2015 Sollecito and Knox books, the 2016 Netflix hoax documentary, and some recent Knox media events. This is because, though often strongly suspicious of what they heard and saw, they had not yet managed much depth. Thanks to them anyway.
Sub-table: Career reporters. Click for larger version.
3. A Tough Reporting Task In English
Despite some closed-court sessions, this wasn’t a tough case for the Italian media to report very accurately.
Various court sessions were broadcast live, the Italian law and process were well-known, Knox and Sollecito and their defenses leaked prolifically, and numerous talk-shows and interviews spread the details.
The Italian majority rejecting the final verdict do so because of the blatantly obvious breaking of Italian law.
The pro-truth foreign-reporters pool mostly working out of Rome could follow the case and the reporting in Italian. They could seek interviews and legal advice. They repeatedly for example received confirmation from the US Embassy that all was going well. An Italian MP repeatedly told them that Knox was doing just fine in Capanne.
The BBC, NBC and Sky News had camera teams on the ground and could send more teams from London and New York though that took time. Broadcasts except for the biased NBC morning shows were on a high plane
Their big difficulties were (1) in finding the time and funding to get to the Perugia court (two days travel, one day court; hotels do not come cheap) and (2) ensuring paying outlets for their intermittent bursts of reporting from 2007 to 2015 in the US or UK. And yet only two (see the forthcoming Bias posts) let that group down.
As tor the others on the main list of 80, they had to overcome not always speaking or reading Italian, not always being located in Italy or even able to visit Italy, not having any court documents, and not always on top of Italian law and court procedures.
And even if they did visit, who could they talk to? The police and prosecutors were circumspect, and the defense forces and Knox-Mellas family simply lied all the time. Most documents were neither put online (except by us) or readily available from the police or court officers. We offered the only reliable translations.
Finally, almost all of those listed here had to contend with the dangerous stalkers and character-assassins organized by Curt Knox, David Marriott and Bruce Fischer - all of whom could have been charged had this been a US case.
Sub-table: Book-writers. Click for larger version.
Sub-table: Investigators. Click for larger version.
4. Great Reporting, Reflected In Many TJMK Posts
Sixty of those 80 reporting and commenting truthfully have been quoted and credited in many hundreds of our posts (we’ll play catch-up on the other 20) as our left-column Search ap shows.
We’ll go into many of the telling points they made in the next post.
The remarkable Andrea Vogt and Barbie Nadeau, both Italy-based, and both carried by various media outlets, were credited in numerous posts.
Nick Pisa was widely presumed anti-Knox after he was entangled in the barbaric Netflix hoax. So we linked to some 50 posts where Nick Pisa had been our main source. Not even one misrepresented Knox.
Danielle Lenth, then a Sacramento law student, published a commendable academic study showing the case would have been handled similarly in any American court. We’ll post more on that soon.
Victoria Brownworth and Selene Nelson nailed the faux-feminist group that blamed all men (really) for Knox’s plight - while ignoring the inconvenient RS!
The actress Hayden Panettiere is on the list, because to our surprise - we thought the PR had headed this off - she studied Knox, and in the Lifetime movie really brought out her petulant, narcissistic, uncaring side.
And of course John Kercher is on the list, as he wrote a brilliant, heartbreaking book, about the very talented daughter he lost.
Sub-table: Career lawyers. Click for larger version.
Monday, August 26, 2019
Re The Seriously Bizarre Lovefest Between Knox And Theo Von
Posted by Our Main Posters
Theo Von enabled dangerous Italy-trasher Amanda Knox
Enough of the mis-education acts please.
Instead, actually educate. Demand the truth. Here’s a tip to future Knox interviewers, those who are not mere PR shills and wish to avoid looking lifelong fools:
DO YOUR HOMEWORK PLEASE?!!
A very good place to start would be here. See the previous mentions of the interview on TJMK here and here.
By the way, did Theo Von pay Knox a fee to pull the wool over his many fans’ eyes? Does anyone know?
Thursday, August 08, 2019
How Amanda Knox Lied About “The Media” Which Had Long Lied Profusely For Her
Posted by Peter Quennell
Long post. Click here to go straight to Comments.
1. How Knox Demonizes “The Media”
Here we go again, with three pro-Knox lackeys of the US and UK media.
Click for Post: Amanda Knox blasts media coverage of trial
Click for Post: Knox accuses media of depicting her falsely as ‘man-eating murderer’
Click for Post: Amanda Knox accuses media of portraying her as guilty over 2007 death.
Amazingly, they are quite incuriously reporting a Knox rant against themselves this time (actually a standard inclusion in all her paid talks). Not even that provoked any actual checking of her “facts”.
Not so reported (or ever even much questioned) is that Knox and her shadow writers took shots in her 2013-15 book at “the media” approximately every ten pages.
Media frenzy… dishonest and unprofessional… horrible things… awful things… misread my rape story… prosecution leaked… sex charged… evil media… Meredith a saint and myself a monster… whore… liar… convicted in media… incomprehensible… prosecution leaked… too simple [on blood evidence]... misread my Beatles t-shirt… purposely did not report this… prosecution leaked… just let false claims hang out… no attention to Raffaele.
All imaginary, and as good reporters who were in court will tell you, it was the defenses, not the prosecutions, that prolifically leaked. This strident I’m-the-real-victim rant is part of the scams that are paying Knox’s bills, and up to now plenty of suckers still bite.
2. The Specific Context Addressed Here
We’ll concentrate here on exposing the biased print media and online news sources, and in the next post on exposing individual reporters and commentators who blatantly pushed a pro-Knox, anti-Italy bias.
Print media may represent half of all the case sources for Brits and Americans, the other sources being TV and YouTube, books, blogs and forums - typically more tilted Knox-wise, though there were some excellent neutral books (James Raper) and TV reports (BBC and NBC Dateline).
Knox herself never names any of the print media that she claims were relentlessly against her, and in fact there were none. No mention of her massive and brutal PR. No proof that “the media” twisted even one judge’s or jury member’s minds. The big turn against her was this, and Knox caused it, all by herself:
Click for Post: Knox Testimony Does Not Seem To Have Gained Much Traction Here In Italy
Click for Post: Italy Shrugs: Why Amanda Knox’s Testimony Seems To Have Been A Real Flop
As our lists in Part 4 below show, print media and online news sources tilted thus: roughly 1/3 always pro-Knox, another 1/3 often pro-Knox, and another 1/3 neutral, professional, and objective.
Our Wiki remains vastly better than any media for original official documents, and the only source for accurate translations, many of them professional. They overwhelmingly reflect a careful, cut-and-dried case for the guilt of all three, with Knox as the instigator with strong motives. The Wiki’s readership has been growing consistently.
3. Pro-Guilt Bias In The Italian Reporting?
Actually there was zero bias that we could see. This did not remotely resemble all too many US trials where suspects really can be demonized nation-wide with impunity.
Italian media in contrast were cool, dispassionate, and even-handed. They have strong anti-libel laws to worry about. Mostly they reported court events which Italians could see played out live on their TVs in any case.
We took note of that in for example these posts.
Click for Post: Trial: Italian-Language Reporting Now Faster And More Objective Than English-Language
Click for Post: Italian Media Reporting Impartially On Prosecution Appeal Filed For Increased Sentences
Click for Post: Tenth Appeal Court Session: Italian Reporting So Far Good, First English-Language Reports Misleading
There was little or no difference between the Knox reporting and the Sollecito reporting - how does Knox explain THAT one? Both wanted the media to notice them. Both they and their families worked hard at that and it became pretty competitive. You can see that brought out strongly in this couple of posts.
Click for Post: Seeds Of Betrayal: Multiple Examples Of How RS And AK Have Stabbed Each Other In The Back
Click for Post: How Each of The Three Subtly But Surely Pushed The Other Two Closer to The Fire
Only two Italian outlets tried a strong pro-Knox pro-RS anti-justice bias. They were the weekly pro-mafia Oggi, and a TV station in the Sollecito hometown of Bari. Both have unsavory anti-justice links, and both were charged with diffamazione.
4. Pro-Guilt Bias In The US & UK Reporting?
With one big qualifier, this is how we see the US and UK print media positioned themselves for much or most of the time from 2007 to the end of 2015 (after which we had the pro-Knox Netflix, VICE Media, Innocence Project, and other propagandists).
The qualifier is that the Associated Press is not merely another outlet on a par with the others; it is a New-York-based news co-operative which channels reports from Italy to its 2000 or so owner/clients. So a single biased AP report (and there were many) could reach Americans up in the many millions.
So, quite contrary to the Knox claims, the pro-Knox-bias across US print media outlets was really enormous. Part 7 below highlights the bias of a dozen major outlets.
5. Did Italy React To The US/UK Media Bias?
Well, the Knox-Marriott PR campaign (which was aimed specifically at poisoning US and UK politics) went to great lengths to ensure that the biased pro-Knox reporting and commentary (and her book) remained only in English and under the Italian radar.
But yes, quite a few Italians did realize and take notice, usually with understandable anger. We posted on many of the negative reactions on these lines.
Click for Post: “Million Dollar Campaign” To Try To Influence The Jury Is Being Widely Reported To A Startled Italy
Click for Post: Amazingly, Wrong Facts And Defamations Of Italian Officialdom Show NO Sign Of Being Reigned In
Click for Post: Demonizations By Knox: OGGI Charged For Article Conveying False Claims To Italy #1
Click for Post: Epidemic Of Anti-Italy Fake News She Generates Bites Knox In The Tail
Click for Post: Prominent Political Commentator Takes Strong Exception To American Reporting
Click for Post: Most Important Italian Paper Balks At The Attempts In US At Intimidation
6. Our Generic Exposures Of Biased Media
This is bait-and-switch on an extreme scale. Both the Knox PR campaign and Knox herself, and thus the beholden part of the US and UK media, focus fiercely on a very few points, such as the DNA and the “interrogation hoax”, and then misrepresent them.
They purposely omit maybe 95% of the damning hard facts, such as (1) the 2007-08 appeal failures, (2) the huge body of evidence at trial, (3) the prosecution’s major success resulting in a unanimous verdict, (4) the defense’s very obvious failures such as Knox’s disastrous stint on the witness stand, (5) the demolished interrogation hoax and (6) the 34 other hoaxes.
Also (7) the bending and then annulling of the Hellman appeal court, (8) Knox being found guilty of criminal defamation by ALL courts, (9) even a bent Supreme Court chamber confirming strong proof of Knox at the murder scene, and (10) Knox not being exonerated - though she claimed in 2019 on a panel in Modena that she was.
These are some of our takes on overall US and UK media performance “complete with omissions” starting from when the strong bias was first becoming blatant.
Click for Post: How The Media Should Approach The Case If Justice Is To Be Done And SEEN To Be Done
Click for Post: How The Strongarm Public Relations Resulted in Most Of The Media Getting It Wrong
Click for Post: Why UK Media Deniers Like The Independent’s Amy Jenkins Come Across As Bigoted And Nasty
Click for Post: Why The Media Are Wrong To Rely On Amanda Knox’s Family For Impartial and Accurate Information
Click for Post: The Toxic Pro-Knox PR Campaign And Media Circus That John Kercher So Rightly Complained About
Click for Post: Why Much Of US Main Media Is Disbelieved And Ignored Now
Click for Post: Now France Is Ticked At The American Main Media For Mindless Assumptions About Another Case
Click for Post: Million Dollar Campaign And American Media Come Under Intense Ridicule By An Influential Italian
Click for Post: US And UK Media: Make RS & AK Answer The HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS Of Open Questions
Click for Post: Tip For The Media: Getting Up To Speed With The Hard Facts Of This Complex Case
Click for Post: The Defenses’ Dishonest, Distinctly Ill-Conceived War Of Aggression Against Perugia
Click for Post: Admired Feminist On Knox As Ice-Cold And Media’s Hit & Miss Performance On The Case
Click for Post: Why Did The Mainstream Media Enable A Takeover By The Conspiracy Nuts?
Click for Post: Knox’s War Of Aggression Against Italy: Questions For Media To Nail Her Once And For All
7. Our Pinpointed Exposures Of Biased Outlets
These are our posts on a dozen of the main US and UK media outlets. Some carried very good reports; but all twelve carried bad reports which the posts took to task.
1. Associated Press
Reporting by Trisha Thomas was excellent back in 2009 but all the other AP reporters and especially Colleen Barry were wildly pro-Knox. The damage Colleen Barry caused with her huge platform as described in Part 4 above was enormous.
Click for Post: Slanted Associated Press Paroting Of Knox PR Campaign Release Achieves Over 800 Google Hits
Click for Post: Perhaps Associated Press Should Try Reporting The Odds?!
Click for Post: Inaccurate Report By The Associated Press Carried By Over 2,000 Media Sites
Click for Post: Dear CEO Gary Pruitt: Could The Associated Press Please Report Much More Accurately?
Click for Post: Another Highly Misleading Associated Press Report By Colleen Barry Shows Up On 700 Media Websites
2. CBS News/48 Hours
This group aired some of the worst reports and featured a very self-serving Doug Preston. The producer headed off to prison for a blackmail attempt, which is pretty telling.
Click for Post: Why CBS Should Report Better - Way Better - On This Case
Click for Post: Rumors In Manhattan About Ludicrously Bad CBS Report
Click for Post: CBS Reporter’s Bizarre Claims About Prosecutor And Reporters
Click for Post: CBS Report Sets New Record For Trashing Of Meredith, Xenophobia, Multi-Inaccuracies, Libels
Click for Post: Producer Of CBS Reports On The Case “Crazy, Desperate, Stupid, And/Or Unscrupulous” ?
3. CNN News
Paul Callan, Nancy Grace, Wendy Murphy, Andrew Cuomo, Lisa Bloom, and Hada Messia were all well-informed and impartial. But Jane Velez-Mitchell, Ann Bremner, Joey Jackson, and Drew Griffin were truly terrible.
Click for Post: Now CNN Gets It All Wrong - What Will They Make of THIS In Italy?
Click for Post: The Summations: Perenially Fact-Challenged CNN Reports Correctly For Once
Click for Post: Drew Griffin Report This Sunday At 8:00 Intent On Sustaining CNN’s Extreme Bias
Click for Post: Explaining Why CNN Is So Desperate For A Hit And Quaint Niceties Like “Truth” Be Damned
Click for Post: Questions For Knox: 15 Questions That Drew Griffin On CNN Tonight SHOULD Have Asked
Click for Post: Open Letter To CNN Head Ken Jautz: Reports As Terrible As Drew Griffin’s Risks All CNN’s Credibility
Click for Post: Knox-Mellases And Candace Dempsey Display Extreme Contempt Of Court On CNN
4. Daily Express
The Express did little of its own reporting, but it ran a sleazy, abusive and dishonest “gotcha” interview by Bob Graham with Dr Mignini.
Click for Post: Report By Bob Graham In The Daily Express Close To Breaking New Record For Inaccuracy
5. Fox News
Business reporter Lis Wiehl made some callous remarks, and after we posted she next showed up nervous. Geraldo Rivera was deeply in the tank for Knox and in many segments came across as stridently anti-Italy.
Click for Post: Fox News Analyst Lis Wiehl Seems to Think Meredith’s Murder Is One Terrific Great Joke
Click for Post: Respected Journalist Carl Bernstein Criticizes “Murdochism” For Debasing News Reporting
6. The Guardian
Perugia reporter Tom Kington could be okay but… Simon Hattenstone??? It seems David Marriott had a very strong connection to the editor there and for year the Guardian stridently bashed Italy and its justice officials.
Click for Post: Did The State Department Offer Assurances To Knox She Never Would Be Extradited?
Click for Post: Did The Bungling Guardian Check Sollecito Enabler Andrew Gumbel’s Myriad False Claims?
Click for Post: Obstruction Of Justice? How The Guardian Poisons Public Opinion Against The Italian Courts
Click for Post: The Guardian Publishes A Negative Take On Italian Justice Rather Poorly Researched
7. Huffpost
The Huffpost ran the ludicrous takes of the crackpot feminist Linda Marie Basile who seemed unaware that Sollecito even existed.
Click for Post: Explaining Why Smart Feminists Have Rightly Been Extremely Wary Of Amanda Knox
Click for Post: Why Smart Feminists Much Prefer To Keep Amanda Knox At Arms Length
8. The Independent
Rome-based reporter Peter Popham had an enormous chip on his shoulder about Italy. So apparently did Amy Jenkins.
Click for Post: Peter Popham Of The UK “Independent” Sure Has Drunk The Knox PR Kool-Aid
Click for Post: Why UK Media Deniers Like The Independent’s Amy Jenkins Come Across As Bigoted And Nasty
9. New York Times
The New York Times was actually chastised by Italian media for some stridently anti-prosecution reporting. It never once did a good report on any aspect of the case. A reviewer burbled about Knox’s book. Unrelated takes on Italian justice though were some of the best.
Click for Post: The New York Times FINALLY Awakes To The Case
Click for Post: How The New York Times Caused Unneccesary And Unhelpful Anger In Italy
Click for Post: The Second Misleading New York Times Commentary On The Case
Click for Post: Today’s New York Times Headline: Why Much Of US Main Media Is Disbelieved And Ignored Now
Click for Post: Italy’s Advanced, Effective, Humane Law & Order System Also Adopted By City Of New York
Click for Post: NY Times Describes How Italy Leads The World In Rehabilitation
10. Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone twice carried seething anti-Italy commentary by Nathaniel Rich. Later its reputation crashed when it very damagingly reported a fake rape claim as genuine.
Click for Post: A Deeply Ugly, Inaccurate And Callous Piece Of Junk By Nathaniel Rich In “Rolling Stone”
11. Seattle PI
The extensive reporting by Andrea Vogt was the very best. We quoted from it dozens of times. But it also carried inflammatory prejudice in an unpaid blog by the dumb-as-a-rock amateur Candace Dempsey.
Click for Post: Hearst’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Is The Editor Banning Truthseekers From Website?
Click for Post: Hearst’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Now On The Defensive?
Click for Post: Looks Like Seattle Post Intelligencer Could Be On The Rocks
Click for Post: Is Seattle Case Coverage STILL In Cloud-Cuckooland?
12. Time Weekly
“Reporter” Nine Burleigh’s posts from Italy (she spoke no Italian and had zero expertise) became pure poison against Italy, the prosecution, and the Catholic church, as she fell for Knox and sought to wedge Edda Mellas away.
Click for Post: Knox Groupie Nina Burleigh Posting The Nastiest And Least Accurate Reports
Click for Post: Nina Burleigh: View From A Broad Who Doesn’t Seem To Like Broads Or Being Abroad
Click for Post: Media Starting To Take A Closer Look At The Knox PR Shills With Nina Burleigh Exhibit One
Click for Post: What’s Nina Burleigh Got Against Women? A Bizarre Time Report Suggests Deep Problems In Her Psyche
Click for Post: How With Myriad False Claims Nina Burleigh Pushes To Forefront Of Pro-Knox Crackpots
8. Finally In This Series On Knox’s Lie-A-Thon
A couple more posts should do it, as two of Knox’s scams - the Modena scam and wedding scam - are in the news and driving our audience.
The posts will cover how Knox was dishonest to her audience about some of the best reporters, she smeared the prosecution and police repeatedly, and she blamed Meredith’s death solely on Rudy Guede.
Nothing suggests such a lone-wolf attack was feasible - even the defense lawyers turned to other theories.
Friday, July 26, 2019
Knox’s Fake Wedding Exposed, Yet Another Fraudulent Scam For Yet More Bloodmoney
Posted by KrissyG
Long Post. Click here to go straight to Comments
1. Previous Nine Knox Scams
As far as we can tell, these scams have represented the unemployable Knox’s sole income streams.
- 1. 2008 onward, incessant fundraising by Knox-Mellas family in Seattle, on provably false grounds.
2. 2008 onward, fraud of various US media entities for exclusive access, on provably false grounds.
3. 2009-11-13-15 $100,000 award to Patrick still not paid despite guilt finding by all courts
4. 2012 HarperCollins publishers paid Knox up to $4 million for her remarkably dishonest book.
5. 2012 Robert Barnett paid est $400,000 for marketing Knox’s book understanding Knox told the truth.
6. 2013 onward fees and costs paid by US Innocence Project for annual talks on provably false grounds.
7. 2013 onward: hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, who trustingly bought Knox’s dishonest book.
8. 2013-2019: All groups on this list and some others which paid $10,000 per provably false talk.
9. 2019 Italian Innocence Project pays fee & travel for dishonest and defamatory talk by Knox.
2. Scam Ten: The Million Dollar Fake Wedding
Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris once famously sang:
‘Was a thousand dollar wedding
Supposed to be held, the other day’
Thousand Dollar Wedding on the gorgeous Grievous Angel album.
Resonant of a typical news headline over recent days, focussed on Knox’ wedding party crowdfunding page, in which she asks the public to donate sums between $10 up to $10,000, themed around space-age food, entertainment, child care, wedding dress and music. For example German newspaper Gala subheader screams:
Amanda Knox wants to get married, but the “angel with the ice-eyes” is missing the necessary cash for it. That’s why she and her fiancé are asking for donations.
Several newspapers quote Knox’ crowdfunding site as explaining that she and her partner, Chris Robinson recently attended the Modena Innocence Project Conference in Italy, and they claim to have used up their wedding funds on that. Gala writes:
The couple explains that their savings have been used up when traveling to Italy. There Amanda Knox was the guest of the “festivalgiustiziapenale” in Modena, with which the city’s judicial authorities and the “Italy Innocence Project” of the University of Rome want to help innocent convicts. Despite lack of money, they do not want to wait with their wedding.
After criticism for demanding money for their own wedding party, Modena Innocence Project were forced to issue a statement that it paid Knox’ travel, accommodation and other expenses in full as its guest.
Whilst the Innocence Projects have to suspend credulity when persons convicted of serious crimes claim innocence, and take their word largely on trust but maybe backed up with DNA evidence if possible, it must surely cut to the quick to discover that they themselves have been hoaxed by their own ‘innocence guest’.
And it wasn’t Knox herself who came clean. Barbie Nadeau writing in the Daily Beast states it was solely her initiative to contact the Modena Innocence Project for their comment.
...with scant time to plan, and no financial backing, we had to spend our wedding funds on this challenging and important journey.” [Knox] The Italy Innocence Project has since confirmed to The Daily Beast and others that they did pay Knox’s airfare and lodging for the conference, as they did for all the guest speakers.
So Knox initially made zero effort to correct the record. Knox has hastily removed the Modena lie from the website. But Knox’s scam actually consists of FOUR new hoaxes.
Hoax #1
Knox had to use their wedding money to go to Modena, Italy.
Knox’s victim, Modena Innocence Project, has now issued a statement denying they made their own guest pay their own way.
Not to mention ‘supporters’ who felt sorry for her and may have forked out to get the trio there.
Hoax #2
There is no wedding pending. AMANDA KNOX AND CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON ARE ALREADY MARRIED.
Online public records from King County, Washington USA shows Knox and Robinson made an application for marriage 21 November 2018, married 1st December 2018 and the marriage certificate issued 7th December 2018.
This is a public legal document. So why did Knox lie that the wedding would not be ‘until 29 February in leap year 2020’ and even cheekily gave a number countdown of the days?
This makes the appeal for wedding donations and a failure to mention they were already married worse.
But wait! It gets even worser…
Hoax #3
Knox claims on the crowdfund page to have been left broke by her trip to Italy, kindly paid for by the Modena Innocence Project.
But how hard up are they really?
In March this year, Knox and ‘Party Rock’ moved into a $700K property on Vashon Island in Wa. USA.
Nice, huh? According to public tax records it has been bought under a trust of deed together with Christopher Robinson’s co-author, Gavin Kovite and his wife, Molly. Interestingly, in the Warranty Deed Robinson and Knox are described as ‘a married couple’.
The records show the details of the Deed of Trust between the two couples:
A Deed of Trust is commonly brought out when persons share a property or one party pays a different share than the others. It means in the event of a sale or bankruptcy, the other parties’ fiscal share is protected.
However, some have less than honest intention and it is a popular way for persons who want to hide their assets from creditors to ‘ring fence’ their property in a deed of trust.
And of course, the Kovites are protecting themselves.
Knox might believe having a deed of trust instead of a straight mortgage will protect her from Patrick Lumumba issuing her with a bankruptcy petition for failing to pay his damages, as ordered by a court of law.
However, if a trust is taken out with this purpose in mind, courts are able to declare the deed of trust a sham.
This is a list of what’s on the public records. Normally this would be of no interest to anybody. However, it is surely in the public interest if a person is claiming to be in need of financial help when, in fact, public records appear to indicate otherwise.
Hoax #4
Amanda Knox lists in one of her webpages all of the places the couple have extensively traveled to: France, Sweden, Germany, Italy, etcetera, etcetera.
Karen Matthews famously spent a few years in jail for claiming her young daughter Shannon had been kidnapped in order to claim a £50K reward for her return.
How different is Knox’ begging for financial support based on misleading claims of being out of pocket, yet buys a share in a $718K house? Yet fails to mention she married eight months ago and the ‘countdown’ to the big wedding on 29 Feb 2020?
In Conclusion
This is without question just another of Knox’s money-making scams. Most people would expect to have their collar seized by the fraud squad.
In The Stranger Knox as usual doesn’t take responsibility for her own actions in misleading readers. She tells the Seattle newspaper:
Since this story started making the rounds, both Knox and Robinson say they’ve received a flood of hatemail, including from people telling Knox she deserves to die.
According to Knox, anyone who disagrees with her behaviour is a ‘hater’ or a dupe of the ‘outrage machine’. Really.
Of course, the very dangerous Knox has stirred massive hate toward Italy and Italians, and there have been a number of incidents in Perugia.
Saturday, July 20, 2019
Wedding Of The Ghouls
Posted by Hopeful
The gruesome news in the online Daily Mail for July 22 2019:
Amanda Knox and her fiance launch crowd-funding appeal to make their wedding the “best party ever”—and promise donors a book of love poems in return
Knox, 32 and Christopher Robinson, 37 have asked for donations towards their wedding. AK said she had to use her wedding funds to pay for the trip to Modena in June.
Donations may cover food, decor and puzzles. The wedding will be space themed.
Galactic donors ($1,000) and temporal patrons ($2,000-$10,000) will receive a special video from the future, with reading of an excerpt from the Encyclopedia Galactica.
Other donors $25 and up will receive a copy of love poems entitled, “The Cardio Tesseract”.
Stellar patrons who donate $500 will get a shout out on the dance floor “when Madonna’s ‘Lucky Star’ comes on.”
Knox said, “I am getting married! How? Oh so weirdly! Time travel and so forth. Check out our wedding story at knoxrobinson.com/coalescence.
The Daily Mail story includes a photo of Knox in light pink dress leaning sadly on her mother’s shoulder as Edda puts an arm around her daughter in the seating at the Criminal Justice Festival of University of Modena.
Seems Edda was there, along with Chris, to support the fragile Knox who seemed to have a very very hard time coping with a return to Italy now that she has wised up.
At the Modena Justice event, Knox said she still fears further criminal charges against her despite the 2015 acquittal.
I’m afraid today, now, I’m afraid of being harassed, mocked, stuck and I’m afraid that new accusations will be addressed to me just because I come here (Modena) to say my version of the facts. But above all, I fear I will lack the courage.
I know that despite my acquittal by Court of Cassation I remain a controversial figure…above all and especially here in Italy.
Knox’s fiance Chris Robinson was in evidence at the Modena conference wearing a loud patterned shirt of yellow and black, and in one photo with his beloved Knox, wearing a grey felt hat, large sunglasses, and displaying a tattoo of a sword along what appears to be his left forearm, from elbow to wrist, an arm he has wrapped warmly around his fiancee Amanda.
On her June 13, 2019 arrival in Milan, Knox was swarmed by media, held her head down and wore an off-white jacket and hair in topknot bun.
Story in Mail says “Earlier this year a European court awarded Knox $20,000 in damages after finding that Italy had “violated her human rights.”
Photos of her at the justice conference where she represented the Innocence Project, show Knox dismal and unnerved, in my opinion.
Whether the tormented waif appearance was all a cunning act, or real, one can only guess, with the known liar and consummate actress and mask wearer.
It seems there will also be “costumes” at the wedding—no doubt a wild Mardi Gras affair. Let’s hope the confetti is not rocks or broken glass.
Frankly, Knox is looking unhinged these days and under the sway of the strange Mr. Robinson who appears quite kooky to say the least. imho….
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Knox’s Modena Catastrophe: Explaining Some Major Threats That Knox’s Foolish Rant Has Fired Up
Posted by KrissyG
Sarcastic graphic; Italian media is now negative toward Knox
Long Post. Click here to go straight to Comments
1. How Knox “Onshored” The PR’s Greatest Lies
David Marriott must be rolling over in his grave.
Remember what we said about his barbaric “public relations” in Post #1 below?
This case is riddled with dogs-that-didnt-bark examples. It was the core modus operandi of the scorched-earth public relations campaign run by Curt Knox and David Marriott. Ignore the damning 95 percent of the facts that can’t easily be explained away. Instead concentrate on misrepresenting the other 5 percent.
Given what we explained about live TV and documents in the first part, this would not have worked at all in Italy.
But it was never meant to. It was not beamed at Italy - it was beamed at British and Americans who (1) could not observe Knox for days and days on TV and (2) could not read court documents readily available online in Italian. Then hopefully they would react politically, as in the US they did of course.
So to Marriott it was vital to success that the PR’s myriad lies and defamations beamed at Americans and Brits REMAIN OFFSHORE!
The last thing Knox or anyone was meant to do was go half way round the world to Italy and ONSHORE the attacks.
But this is what Knox just did.
And she attacked two of Italy’s most liked and trusted institutions: (1) the world-class law-enforcement and justice system, and (2) the mostly restrained, quite elegant media.
Why Knox did this is not (or not only) the me-me-me obsession of a pathological narcissist at work. We’ll explain why in Post #3.
Here we explain which major risks for herself Knox may have set in motion, which to any smart mind would say at minimum “Imperious trips to Italy are at an end.”
2. Ten Of The Many Threats Knox May Have Fired Up
1. Guede Could Rebut Her All Over Italian Media
Guede is due to be released any day now. He will be free to give interviews, write his memoirs, point the finger at Sollecito or (more likely now) Knox. Knox obviously will not be in Italy and unable to respond.
In his televised interview with RAI in April 2017 and described by the DAILY BEAST as presenting himself as ‘extremely cultured if not intellectual’ he:
“[Guede] maintained his innocence, pointed the finger at Seattle native Amanda Knox, and refused to name her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito.”
This could be read as either he didn’t know or recognise Sollecito well enough to name him; or that as a captive prisoner he was afraid of retribution by Sollecito’s unsavory clan.
In his description of the ‘man in the doorway’ of Meredith’s room as of the time of his arrest he claims the hall light had been switched off and the intruder’s face was backlit (in other words in the dark), but that he had light brown hair, was shorter than him and spoke native fluent Italian.
In addition, he wore a Napapirri type jacket, a white beanie, with a red band, and held a stiletto blade in his left hand.
This would certainly count out an Albanian as suggested by Sollecito’s star witness Alessi whom nobody took seriously, anyway.
However, Knox does give Alessi great credence, at p 418, Waiting to be Heard speculating that she wondered who Guede’s friend was in Alessi’s version of events, which involved a graphic threesome.
In WTBH p 220 Knox claims when she saw Guede’s photo on tv for the first time after he was arrested she thought, ‘Oh my God, it’s him.’ She goes on to claim this was the guy she was referring to when she told police of a South African ’who played basketball with the guys downstairs’.
She claims she had only seen him one time after that, at Le Chic when she had ‘taken his drink order’. She omits to mention joining him for a joint with the guys in the downstairs house.
Guede himself claims he referred to himself as South African when chatting to Meredith during the England vs South Africa rugby cup final.
So, how did Knox ‘know’ he was ‘South African’ if she had never spoken to him, bearing in mind South Africans in Europe aren’t generally assumed to be black?
Guede, in his Prison Diary, claimed there had been a spark between him and Knox when they were smoking a joint (there are solid witnesses to the fact this gathering did take place).
Given Knox’s multiple falsely claims in her book WTBH, which she would have had a chance to review and edit, that she only met Guede ‘vaguely’ twice and we know that to be factually untrue. We have to suspect that actually she did know him as an acquaintance at least.
With Sollecito and Knox both ganging up on Guede, not to mention the widespread PR naming him as the ‘local burglar’ who left his DNA ‘all over the murder scene’, we can expect Guede to be keen to set the story straight from his POV once he is released.
2. Police Forensic Scientists Knox PR Abused
They know objective scientific tests do not lie: they know what the luminol, shoeprints and DNA means.
According to Nick Richardson of the London Review Of Books (LROB) in an excellent review of WTBH which I shall quote a lot (there are also numerous posts on TJMK which correspond):
“The Esperti Ricerca Tracce – the state police’s crime scene investigation unit – found bloody shoe prints and a handprint on a pillow that had been placed under Kercher’s hips.
On the sheet on her bed they found the outline of a knife.
One of the ERT’s scientists, Patrizia Stefanoni, examined Kercher’s vagina and found a long blonde hair.
They swabbed the bathroom, sprayed the apartment with luminol, a chemical used to reveal traces of blood that has been wiped away, and found footprints the size of Knox’s and Sollecito’s feet in the corridor outside Kercher’s room.
Also a drop of blood in Romanelli’s room that was later shown, as was the blood on the tap, to contain both Knox’s and Kercher’s DNA.”
The invisible bloody footprint directly facing Meredith’s door has been identified by forensic experts as Sollecito’s.
Add to the mixes of Knox’s and Meredith’s blood and/or DNA in the bathroom sink, bidet, cotton bud box and light switch, it is hardly accurate to say ‘there is no sign of Knox (or Sollecito) at the crime scene’, especially if one considers that the footprint/shoeprint expert further positively identified a ladies size 37 trainer shoe print underneath the body.
There was also shards of glass trailed in from Filomena’s room, where there is no sign of Guede at all, bearing in mind he is supposed to be the burglar who entered that way.
A quote from LROB:
The investigators never believed that Guede was Kercher’s sole killer. The state autopsy results suggested that there had been more than one assailant.
She had dozens of cuts and bruises: finger bruises round her neck, a bruise on her chin and over her mouth, identical bruises on her inner elbows compatible with her being held back.
It would have been extremely difficult to pin her down and inflict so much damage without being wounded too, especially as Kercher practised karate – but Guede only had the cuts on his hand.
Plus there were the bloody footprints shown up by the luminol and the mixed-DNA bloodstains in Romanelli’s room and the bathroom.
At Guede’s trial Judge Micheli declared that he believed Guede had acted with Knox and Sollecito.
His confidence was shored up by two pieces of DNA evidence that the prosecution would rely on heavily in court.
In November 2007 investigators found a knife at Sollecito’s apartment with Knox’s DNA on the handle and Kercher’s on the blade.’
3. Police Telecomms Experts The PR Abused
technical forensic experts: they know the truth about Sollecito’s claim he didn’t turn off his phone, he just didn’t have a signal.
Sollecito’s phone providers gave the forensic communications technicians clear evidence there had not been anything wrong with the phone signals hat night, nor were the walls ‘too thick’ and nor was Raff’s apartment in a blind area for signals.
Residents in the neighbouring apartments and buildings experienced no problems with their phone signals.
Yet Sollecito denies he switched off his phone just before 21:00.
So the communications guys know for definite Knox and Sollecito both switched off their phones within minutes of each other, between 20:45 and 21:00.
After 21:20 there is no further recorded electronic activity in the flat for the rest of the night.
4. Police Telecomms Experts The PR Abused (2)
They know the truth about the trashed laptops.
Sollecito and Knox’ lawyers claim his was fried by the police via the wrong current plugged in.
Notwithstanding power portals are designed to only allow fit of the right size cable, this argument doesn’t work because it was only the cottage laptops that ‘fried’, and not Patrick Lumumba’s, which was tested at the same time.
CDV: Are you aware of the possibility of an electric shock?
MG: We are aware of the possibility of an electric shock [power surge], I can not exclude it with certainty, but at the same time the fact that it has worked in other hard disks always with the same instrument, always in that same place connected to the same electric network, is however an indicator that it cannot be that in one moment it worked and in another, not.’
‘CDV: However, are you aware that there is a different voltage between a portable PC and a desktop?
MG: Yes.’
In other words, the laptops were fried before the police sequestered them.
Filomena Romanelli rescued her laptop at the scene. When she attended the Questura the next day to hand it in, it would not start.
Sure proof together with the dead laptops of Knox, Kercher and Sollecito that it was not the police who ‘fried’ them.
Sollecito claims in Honor Bound that his laptop was damaged by the police pulling the socket out of the wall before logging out.
Non-IT folk might be dumb, but not so dumb to believe it is a coincidence that all four laptops were kaput, whereas Patrick’s was not, and which was never anywhere near IT-boffin Sollecito, and all tested by the police at the same time.
5. Investigators Can Prove Knox Was Not Abused
The police know the truth about Knox’ claims of having been unethically treated. Knox claims in WTBH according to the LROB:
“ They gave her a confession to sign. It said that she’d met up with Lumumba after leaving Sollecito’s flat at 8.30 p.m. and that they’d gone to the villa together; that Patrick had had sex with Meredith; and that she remembered ‘confusedly’ – confusedly because she’d earlier smoked a joint with Sollecito – that he killed her.
Once she’d signed it, Knox says, the police officers ‘whooped and high-fived each other’.
The public prosecutor later bullied her into making a second ‘spontaneous declaration’ in which she added that she had been in the kitchen when the murder took place, and that ‘at one point I heard Meredith screaming and I was scared and covered my ears.’
A classic case of ‘shoot the messenger’. It was Mignini what done it, according to Knox (see Point 10 below) as he made her blurt this out by some kind of special psychic power.
We proved this was not so.
6. Prison Officers Abused By PR Know Prison Truths
They know the truth about Knox’ claims of being suicidal in prison: by all accounts she fit in well and was as happy as a lark, performing, writing stories and scripting videos.
In her application to the ECHR, Knox claims she was tricked into revealing her list of sexual partners, which she listed in her Prison Diary and which was then leaked to the press.
We proved this was not so. Also the ECHR recently did not find Knox had been mistreated by the prison doctors or staff, nor was she abused by the police as she claims.
Fact is, Knox won a prize for essay writing (about a man at a party who finds his half-naked girlfriend lying on the floor at a party with stab wounds [‘piercings’]) and scripting a video featuring a young girl strapped to a chair being tortured by three people including Knox as the star character and the three seen running down a stairwell fleeing.
The Knox character is pictured in prison writing at a table and in the next she is seen raving at a prison party waving her arms in the air.
The message does not escape anybody. There are photos of her just like that.
7. What The Judges The PR Abused Saw
Some thirty-five to forty judges - both presiding or as in a jurors’ panel - all could not help but conclude the pair were guilty as charged (Marasca-Bruno never had the pair before them)
Whilst the criminal courts were dealing in criminal law:
“Meanwhile, Knox’s mother was appearing regularly on American TV shows, proclaiming her daughter’s innocence over home video footage of Knox as a child.
A Seattle-based group called Friends of Amanda was formed by Anne Bremner, a criminal lawyer who set herself up as a spokesperson for the Knox family.
The Knoxes also hired a PR guru called David Marriott to prepare press releases for the American media.
An American author called Douglas Preston, who had written a book about the serial killer known as the Monster of Florence – a case that had also been investigated by Justice Mignini, the chief prosecutor in Knox and Sollecito’s trial – discovered that Mignini had once wire-tapped a journalist.
This served to back up the Knox camp’s claim that improper interrogation techniques had been used (even though Mignini had hardly been present at the interrogation).
It also came out that when Mignini was investigating the Monster of Florence case he had called in a ‘witch’ to advise him on satanism.”
LROB
In other words, there was a concerted US campaign to outwit the courts, battling a ‘persuasion techniques’ advertising campaign, their motto being, ‘attack is the best form of defence’, trying to dig up the dirt on the Italian Roman Catholic prosecutor with his ‘medieval religious beliefs’ whilst exaggerating Knox as Miss American Pie.
On their side was journalist and failing crime novelist Douglas Preston, with a score to settle against Italy and Mignini, having been forced to get out of the country or face prosecution for trying to pervert the course of justice in the MOF case.
‘The American novelist Nathaniel Rich wrote a long piece for Rolling Stone in June 2011 entitled: ‘The Never-Ending Nightmare of Amanda Knox’. [See our post here.]
It opened with a gory re-enactment of Kercher’s murder: ‘On the third try, the killer found a soft spot …’ The killer; one killer.’
LROB
We know that Nathaniel Rich was fed this story by Knox’s best friend of the time, Madison Paxton, on whom he had a crush.
Paxton was busy sending out PR and writing her own copy starting off the popular story ‘Knox was railroaded by the police’.
It was Nina Burleigh who started the ‘Guede was a drifter’ meme.
Whilst the PR has been very successful in the USA, the UK and Italian press focused more on the facts of the trial, with libel laws being much stricter and reporting standards high, although they nearly all describe Guede as the ‘drifter’
‘Rich followed his piece with a review of Waiting to Be Heard in the New York Review in which not only are the Italian police bungling idiots, the Italian journalists immoral dogs, the Italian legal professionals superstitious fools, but Perugia itself is portrayed as a vortex of evil and chicanery’
LROB
‘The managers of Knox’s downfall came in for savage caricature, though they were respected professionals with long careers behind them: Mignini was a senile fuddy-duddy, Napoleoni a vindictive bully; Stefanoni incompetent, though she was an internationally reputed forensics expert who had been entrusted with the identification of bodies after the 2004 tsunami.
[Senator] Cantwell stated that she had ‘serious questions about the Italian justice system’; the state for which she is senator, Washington, currently has eight people on death row.
In The Fatal Gift of Beauty, Burleigh, one of the most vocal Italy-haters, wrote that at the trial Knox’s family radiated ‘that quality that so differentiates the American from the European – enthusiasm’. ‘
LROB
The PR which Knox touts to this day makes out Knox to be the victim of a sexist salacious press determined to paint her as the drug-taking ‘slut’ and this is the story-telling Knox took to Modena.
No questions are allowed of her ever about the evidence at the trial itself.
8. What DNA Expert Dr Francesco Vinci Saw In The DNA
Dr Vinci saw data that made him back off the case. Vinci was one of the defence forensic DNA experts.
He discovered DNA fragments of both Knox and Guede on Meredith’s bra fabric. These, however, were below the legal standard of needing at least ten alleles.
He walked off the case or was pushed, nonetheless.
What does Vinci know that made him no longer able to continue defending the pair on the DNA?
9. What Goods Sollecito Has On Knox (A Lot)
‘A short story by Knox surfaced, in which one of the male characters tells his friend: ‘A thing you have to know about chicks is that they don’t know what they want … You have to show it to them.’ This was taken by the colpevolisti as evidence that she had fantasised about rape.
In another story fragment that Knox posted on her Myspace page a couple of weeks before the murder the narrator has an obsessive crush on her female housemate.
Sollecito, the son of a wealthy Pugliese doctor, also had his character picked over.
He’d been into drugs when he was younger, and still smoked copious amounts of hash: in one post on a social networking site he bragged about spending ‘80 per cent of my waking hours high’.
He was a porn addict, and owned a collection of swords and knives. He liked vampire comics. He had written on his blog that he craved ‘new sensations’.
Perhaps the most damaging thing to turn up was a picture he once posted of himself wearing surgical bandages and posing with a meat cleaver and a jug of cleaning fluid.’
LROB
So, the American PR campaign that ensured Guede was constantly referred to as a ‘drifter’, ‘petty thief’, burglar’ and ‘drug dealer’ didn’t translate into Knox or Sollecito being similarly branded.
This was despite Knox getting a police caution and fine for riotous behavior at a party and Sollecito likewise in possession of drugs, both before the Kercher murder.
Guede was just as middle-class as either of them and had no police record at all.
The PR relies on racist stereotyping based on the US version of the ‘poor unemployable Black on welfare and in and out of prison’.
‘Sollecito told the police that she had left him in town, saying she was going to meet friends at Le Chic at 9 p.m., and he had gone home alone and surfed the internet until she came back at one.
(In Honour Bound, Sollecito’s new book, he says he was so stoned that he can’t be sure Knox didn’t leave him alone for some time that night.1) Computer experts who testified at the trial said that Sollecito’s laptop had not been used between 9.30 p.m. and 5.30 a.m. on the morning after the murder.
Knox and Sollecito said that they had slept in on the morning of 2 November, but phone records showed that they had both switched their mobiles on at six, having turned them off for the night.’
LROB
Forensic IT experts very clearly testified that there had been no computer activity on Sollecito’s laptop after 21:20, when the film Amelie finished until next day.
This was backed up by unequivocal data from Raff’s IT provider.
Sollecito in effect like Baby Jane knows ‘secrets about you’.
10. What Mignini knows but hasn’t revealed.
Dr Mignini has an enormous choice of means to clear his name and punish Knox and the mafia poodles when he takes retirement early next year.
He will really be liberated then and he does excellent speeches and TV. He will be in enormous demand for sure. He will come to the United States.
Our Italian lawyers tell us this malicious invention below in Knox’s 2013 book WTBH is diffamazione (criminal slander) for sure.
Knox was clearly trying to end Dr Mignini’s career, and see him sent to prison as well. The statute of limitations on this has years to go before it tuns out.
In other words he CAN sue in Italy and the UK and maybe even the US.
Amazingly, it is very much along the lines of the calunnia against Patrick Lumumba for which Knox served three years and it was without any provocation or pressure at all, as she was sitting in Seattle when she wrote her book.
The big problem for Knox? When this lurid claim of an illegal interrogation took place Dr Mignini was not even there.
He was asleep in bed.
[From pages 90-92 of the weirdly titled “Waiting To Be Heard”. The date is 7 November 2007. This is the 1.45 am session with Rita Ficarra which in fact was devoted merely to building a list of visitors to the house.]
Eventually they told me the pubblico ministero [prosecutor] would be coming in.
I didn’t know this translated as prosecutor, or that this was the magistrate that Rita Ficarra had been referring to a few days earlier when she said they’d have to wait to see what he said, to see if I could go to Germany.
I thought the “public minister” was the mayor or someone in a similarly high “public” position in the town and that somehow he would help me.
[One of numerous lies in the book. Knox had been with Dr Mignini three times already: on the morning after Meredith was killed and when he twice took her back to her house.]
They said, “You need to talk to the pubblico ministero about what you remember.”
I told them, “I don’t feel like this is remembering. I’m really confused right now.” I even told them, “I don’t remember this. I can imagine this happening, and I’m not sure if it’s a memory or if I’m making this up, but this is what’s coming to mind and I don’t know. I just don’t know.”
They said, “Your memories will come back. It’s the truth. Just wait and your memories will come back.”
The pubblico ministero [Dr Mignini] came in.
Before he started questioning me, I said, “Look, I’m really confused, and I don’t know what I’m remembering, and it doesn’t seem right.”
One of the other police officers said, “We’ll work through it.”
Despite the emotional sieve I’d just been squeezed through, it occurred to me that I was a witness and this was official testimony, that maybe I should have a lawyer. “Do I need a lawyer?” I asked.
He said, “No, no, that will only make it worse. It will make it seem like you don’t want to help us.”
It was a much more solemn, official affair than my earlier questioning had been, though the pubblico ministero was asking me the same questions as before: “What happened? What did you see?”
I said, “I didn’t see anything.”
“What do you mean you didn’t see anything? When did you meet him?”
“I don’t know,” I said.
“Where did you meet him?”
“I think by the basketball court.” I had imagined the basketball court in Piazza Grimana, just across the street from the University for Foreigners.
“I have an image of the basketball court in Piazza Grimana near my house.”
“What was he wearing?”
“I don’t know.”
“Was he wearing a jacket?”
“I think so.”
“What color was it?”
“I think it was brown.”
“What did he do?”
“I don’t know.”
“What do you mean you don’t know?”
“I’m confused!”
“Are you scared of him?”
“I guess.”I felt as if I were almost in a trance. The pubblico ministero led me through the scenario, and I meekly agreed to his suggestions.
“This is what happened, right? You met him?”
“I guess so.”
“Where did you meet?”
“I don’t know. I guess at the basketball court.”
“You went to the house?”
“I guess so.”
“Was Meredith in the house?”
“I don’t remember.”
“Did Patrick go in there?”
“I don’t know, I guess so.”
“Where were you?”
“I don’t know. I guess in the kitchen.”
“Did you hear Meredith screaming?”
“I don’t know.”
“How could you not hear Meredith screaming?”
“I don’t know. Maybe I covered my ears. I don’t know, I don’t know if I’m just imagining this. I’m trying to remember, and you’re telling me I need to remember, but I don’t know. This doesn’t feel right.”
He said, “No, remember. Remember what happened.”
“I don’t know.”At that moment, with the pubblico ministero raining questions down on me, I covered my ears so I could drown him out.
He said, “Did you hear her scream?”
I said, “I think so.”My account was written up in Italian and he said, “This is what we wrote down. Sign it.”