Rudy Guede, Amanda Knox, Raffaelo Sollecito
On Friday, News agencies reported that new evidence has surfaced that supports that Amanda Knox and Raffaelo Solecitto were not in her and Meredith Kercher’s Italian residence at the time of the murder of Ms. Kercher.
Rudy Guede, convicted of murdering Ms. Kercher, is said to have confided in his cellmate, Mario Alessi, allegedly stating that a second man was the murderer in this case and that neither Ms. Knox or Mr. Sollecito were in the home at the time.
While Ms. Knox’s case is under appeal and new evidence is not permissible in an appeal in Italy, this certainly adds a new twist to this already complicated case. The appeal will be based on a careful dissection of a recently released report that details the reasons for the guilty verdict. Ms. Knox’s attorney claims there are gross inconsistencies that will serve as grounds for the appeal. One example is that the court found that it was not a premeditated murder, but Ms. Knox’s father, Curt Knox, asks why his daughter would carry a kitchen knife with her from Ms. Sollecito’s house to her own? The court document references a second knife that was not raised in court, suggesting that perhaps the first knife was not used in the murder. More details on the inconsistencies can be found in this Seattle news video.
It will take at least 9 months before a new judge and jury will hear her case.
Missy Gluckmann is an international education consultant and founder of Melibee Global. Missy Gluckmann has administered Study Abroad at institutions such as New York University, Marymount College (Fordham University), the State University of NY and Western Connecticut State University. As founder of the Global Education Initiative, she led Cartus Corporation’s international employees into local primary and secondary school classrooms to share their cultures with youth and educators. This unique program won the State of Connecticut Gold Prize for Innovation. Having traveled extensively and lived abroad twice, Missy enjoys sharing her love for educational travel. As a strong believer in giving back to the field of international education and has presented/trained for NAFSA: Association of International Educators and serves on committees for the Forum on Education Abroad. She received her MA in International Administration, with a concentration in International Education, from the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont and a BA in Political Science from Binghamton University in New York State. Read more from this author
Will any sane human being put any store in what Guede’s baby killer cell mate says? YIKES!!!
all this news is coming from Seattle, no one else BBC, CNN reoprted it. can u pl stop the propaganda, i dont know if u also heard that came out yesterday only that rudy guede has not only denied saying such thing, but also he is sueing this jailmate for defaming him. this jailmate is a child killer serving life sentence looking for a plea deal. the reason why this case is complicated is becuz there are 3 compulisive liars invloved, amanda knox started the first lie ,then her boyfriend and this guy rudy. its lies after lies and people like u are just feeding lies to the public, becuz amanda’s family is paying lowlives and dumbases like u. if this is all true that they were not there at all, then why did amanda had to lie about not being there.? also whydid the boyfriend also contradicted her. most interesting part of all is that why didn’t guede tell about this mystery man to begin with at least to avoid the jail? even amanda falsely accused her black boss to save her ass, but ofcourse it was a lie as usual.
Thank you Teresa and Jim for your comments. Please know that I am not being paid by anyone to write this blog. I do not know the Knox or Kercher families and as I have stated before in other postings about this case, I have no idea if Amanda Knox is guilty. Certainly, from the comments today and the press coverage that this case has garnered, there are strong and emotional opinions about this case. As a professional in the field of international education, I write about this case because Amanda Knox and Meredith Kercher were both study abroad students.
ell missy gluckman, if u read the judge’s report h is only saying that motive wasn’t there but amanda and her boyfriend committed it accordingly. there are manymurdercases where motive is not there. . all circumstantial evidence is there. in USA there are many guilt found on circumstantial evidences. . what is the most convincing point is that why did the cops only suspected her and the boyfriend and not all other roomates living in that cottage? everyone gave corroborating accounts except these 2. becuz they were lying from the start and continue to do so even to this day. why lie if u are innocent /?why blame it on an another person if she is innocent?. there is only one answer tto this question: becuz she is guilty
Hi Jim – thank you for your comment. There are two sides to each story – the Knox family definitely believes that they have explained the inconsistencies. As I’ve stated, I have no idea what happened – I was not there. And I don’t know either family and am not being paid by anyone to comment on this case.
Giuliano Mignini, the prosecutor in Amanda’s case, who proved to be criminal himself, and was arrested could be the one who murdered the British girl (not himself, of course, it was ordered murder). Since he kept lists of all of his critics he called ‘Attackers” then it is characteristic to him to get back at such people with revenge. His revenge is, of course, very intricate, built around his experience with working with criminals, so he uses his knowledge to do criminal actions to get back at people who detects his wrong doings. He is mafia, may be even part of a large ring of mafia who work inside the law institutions and support each other. Amanda is just am innocent lamb that got into the situation accidentally, while the revenge of a crazy prosecutor was aimed at her boyfriend’s, perhaps, family member or relative. Amanda became victim of internal affairs of Italian people. That makes it even more necessary to actively fight for her freedom.
It is also possible that Meredith Kercher was killed instead of Amanda by mistake by the hired killer. Amanda is a victim of some mafia revenge to the family of Soleccito. Could Meredith be an innocent revenge object for her family’s actions towards Mignini? It is also possible. Was Amanda’s family or relatives on Mignini’s ‘Attacker’s”list? That is possible too. In either case, Amanda is innocent as well as her boyfriend.
Dear Miriam, There are certainly different, and strong, opinions about this case. Interesting theory that you present, indeed!