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Astonishing bias by American Subscribers


They totally seem to fail at any degree of balance, as though they take personally the fact that this American woman was charged with an horrendous crime, the evidence of which is extremely compelling.





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There are lots of Americans who I've known online who feel she's 100% guilty and have ripped her supporters to shreds during online debates. Pmf.org is an American forum dedicated to the memory of Meredith Kercher. This highly informative site was also set up by an American afaik. www.themurderofmeredithkercher.com
It's irrelevant now, she got away with murder. Hopefully she or her addled ex won't kill again. Time will tell.

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Perhaps, but Journalist1 is right. The majority just want Ak to be innocent because she's tried and convicted in another country. These majority wouldn't dare go to a site like what you wrote. They want to believe it's the fault of the Italian courts as if American courts aren't enough to talk about.


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I would agree with you that certainly some are like that, as I've debated the issue with people who wouldn't buy OJ or Casey's bs for a second, yet when it comes to Knox in a foreign country, a type of tribalism takes over, and they make the dumbest most illogical arguments imaginable, but otoh some of the most ardent detractors of Knox's supporters I've seen have been American and they've utterly shredded her groupies' arguments too.


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Here in the U.S, my spouse and I have long suspected that she is guilty. Many of our American friends do as well. Hopefully, the numbers aren't as bad as you think.

I think Amanda got away with murder.



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You are in the minority then. Just read the "tribal" comments on YouTube. It's as if she really is some saint that has been vilified. She's obviously complicit (at least)...not so sure about Sollecito. He had only just met AK the week prior and had everything going for him. It's possible, but not very probable. As an Italian citizen myself, I know how commonplace it is for Italian males to martyr themselves for the "damsel in distress". It's very old fashioned, but I think he may well have just been very naive to think this new girl really didn't know anything about the murder so he took her side in that old style honour way.

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I think Amanda got away with murder.
I still have no idea, but what's disappointing, is that this film, unlike a film such as Zodiac, did nothing more IMO, to shed any real light on the matter.🐭

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Meredith should be remembered. But this case was botched so badly by investigators and ALL signs pointed to Rudy Guede. I'm the type who judges people as guilty until proven innocent, but after reading up on nearly all the evidence on this case, it is clear to anyone who has actually looked at the documented evidence that Amanda Knox was the victim of a witch hunt. What they had against her was barely circumstantial - any legitimate prosecutor would never have charged her because there was no proof that she was involved. Add in the forensic mistakes - it was sickening to see them try to pin it on someone else.

Guede's DNA and bloody handprint were all over the room and the body, Meredith's blood was tracked into the bathroom and Guede's excrement was in the toilet. He was with the victim at her residence at the time of death and he lied multiple times. It wasn't until weeks later that he said, Oh, Amanda and her boyfriend were also there. This was after initially saying he saw a man speaking Italian standing over the body holding a knife before fleeing. This was also after he, himself, fled the country immediately after murdering her and being extradited back, after finding him with a knife matching the murder weapon.

Evidence against Amanda? They interrogated her for days, keeping her sleep deprived, and then asked her "hypothetically" what she would do if she'd been at the murder scene. She said she would have probably heard screams loud enough to make her cover her ears. Then they wrote up her statement as fact, in extremely sophisticated Italian with a lot of police language, and refuse to let her leave until she signs it. This is after approximately five days of exhaustion and having rotating interrogators coming in and out of the interrogation room. That and a tiny amount of DNA found on a bra clasp were the only links to her being a potential killer. This bra clasp that had DNA from three other people and was not collected from the scene until six weeks after the murder. The only other DNA trace was a kitchen knife at Raffael's that had trace amounts of blood on it and Amanda's DNA - a place where Amanda couldn't potentially cooked and used the knife. And the trace blood was proven by DNA experts that it was not Meredith's blood. And then they discovered that the knife didn't even match the knife wounds on the body or the bloody knife outline from the pillowcase! This is a woman who spent four years of her life in jail because of crooked lawyers, inept police, and such flimsy circumstantial evidence that it's sickening to think anyone could be convicted for it.

Their forensic people weren't all in forensic gear, they tracked blood and other evidence throughout the house. They could've opened it up to the public and not have had as much cross-contamination as they had.

Meredith never deserved what happened to her - and her killer deserves to rot in jail. Instead they tried so hard to pin it on two people who were not in the apartment at the time and let the real killer out of jail after a few years. He will kill again when he gets out. That type of homicide was so extreme, someone else will fall victim to him when he gets out soon. That's the truly terrifying thing.

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Meredith should be remembered

Yes she should and is by those who are interested in justice.

But this case was botched so badly by investigators


No it wasn't. Specify how it was and how the same team did such a great job on Guede.
ALL signs pointed to Rudy Guede.

Completely untrue ALL signs pointed to all three's involvement.
I'm the type who judges people as guilty until proven innocent, but after reading up on nearly all the evidence on this case, it is clear to anyone who has actually looked at the documented evidence that Amanda Knox was the victim of a witch hunt. What they had against her was barely circumstantial - any legitimate prosecutor would never have charged her because there was no proof that she was involved. Add in the forensic mistakes - it was sickening to see them try to pin it on someone else.

No she was convicted on more evidence than was used to Convict Scott Petersen and serial killer Rose West, on physical and circumstantial evidence and she was in no way the victim of anything.
http://themurderofmeredithkercher.com/The_Evidence


Guede's DNA and bloody handprint were all over the room and the body

No they weren't they found a single palm print of Guede and he was convicted on less DNA evidence (five samples) than Knox was. (Six samples)

Evidence against Amanda? They interrogated her for days, keeping her sleep deprived, and then asked her "hypothetically" what she would do if she'd been at the murder scene

Completely untrue, Knox arrived at the police station shortly before 11 pm, the interpreter arrived at 12:30 am and Knox's own signed statement was signed at 1.45 am, meaning she confessed after an hour and 15 minutes. Knox herself testified that she was fed and given camomile tea.

No the DNA was absolutely proven to be Meredith's nor was it blood DNA.

Seven courts in total including the acquitting court concluded that Guede had two accomplices.
Supreme court also states that Knox was 100% there when Meredith was murdered and that there's strong suspicion that Sollecito was there too. It really doesn't take a genius to figure out who Guede's two accomplices were.
All the court transcripts are available translated. There is no doubt that Knox and Sollecito got away with it.
http://themurderofmeredithkercher.com/Main_Page

The truth will never be silenced and will come to light in Meredith's case one day. She and her family are the only victims here, not Amanda Knox who remains a convicted criminal felon to this day.

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They interrogated her for days, keeping her sleep deprived,


No, they didn't. Before her arrest she wasn't questioned any more than Meredith Kercher's friend Sophie Purton. Sleep deprived? Who fed you that line of crap?

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Even with an acquittal they cannot justify the verdict, all they have is the same long debunked crap they've been spewing for years.

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