Amanda Knox: Corrupt Italian Prosecutor Mignini Used Random Knife as Phony Murder Weapon; AKPart3

Update 2/27/10. British Meredith Kercher, 21, was murdered on the night of November 1 2007 in Perugia, Italy. Three persons were ultimately blamed- her roommate American Amanda Knox, 20; Amanda's then-boyfriend, Italian Rafaelle Sollecito, 23; Ivorian Rudy Hermann Guédé, 20. Although Chief Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini fabricated a sordid story of a drug-infested sex orgy for four forced on Meredith whose refusal cost her life, there is a true story with just one murderer.

This third article in a series that will show Amanda Knox is innocent is devoted to the supposed murder weapon.

Chief Prosecutor Mignini has no murder weapon, unless one counts the random knife collected by police from Raffaele Sollecito's apartment five days after the murder. They found a few knives and several other types of utensils in a kitchen drawer and picked out the shiniest and cleanest one to use for DNA lab tests. They did not pick out any utensils to use as controls in the DNA testing.

The Polizia Scientifica found Amanda's DNA on the knife handle. Considering that Amanda frequently stayed the night at Raffaele's and cooked in his kitchen, the result is expected. However, Dr. Patrizia Stefanoni claimed to have found the DNA of murder victim Meredith in a scratch at the tip of the blade. There was no blood, just a Low Copy Number (LCN) of DNA- which typically means 15 to 20 cells. However, in this case, the Low Copy Number was six. Just 6 DNA cells were found on the one knife blade.

Because there are so few cells in LCN DNA to replicate in the process of identifying them with their owner, there is an error percentage that increases exponentially with every replication. It cannot be accurately pinned to a particular person. Per the FBI forensic science department, a mixed sample can produce as many as 60,000 profiles.

Another point to consider is that a person has not necessarily been to the location where his LCN DNA is found. For example, when Bill and Ann touch hands, they exchange DNA. Suppose Bill goes to a bar for a drink. As he holds a glass, a High Copy Number of his DNA transfers to it- and a Low Copy Number from Ann, still on his fingers, also transfers to the glass. This trace of Ann's LCN DNA, if stringently tested by a trained scientist, could place Ann at the bar, even though she was never there. As such, LCN DNA is inadmissible in a U.S. court. Several countries that were allowing LCN DNA as court evidence have discontinued its use.

If Meredith's LCN DNA was on Sollecito's kitchen knife, it could have been transferred there from Amanda, who shared an apartment with Meredith and a bathroom. Yet, the knife as well as other evidential items were contaminated before reaching the lab. Further contamination may have occurred in the lab where large quantities of Meredith's DNA were on hand. In fact, Dr. Patrizia Stefanoni's attributing the 6 LCN DNA cells on the knife blade to Meredith rose out her incompetent negligent lab work in testing the cells.

The prosecution claimed Meredith was stabbed in the neck with two knives because one neck wound was larger than the two others. However, the same knife could have made the different-size wounds. "It is simple for a small knife to make either a small, or a large wound. It is nearly impossible for a large knife to make a small wound. So the prosecution had to come up with the two-knife theory to include Raff's [Raffaele's] kitchen knife," states businessman and meticulous researcher Mark C. Waterbury, Ph.D. on his Website Freeaman. Another point of interest regarding Raffaele's kitchen knife is that it does not match the blood outline of a knife at the crime scene.

At some point, the prosecution leaked the news of a murder suspect- Raffaele- of having a knife collection to the Italian media. For many people, the idea of a knife collection typically conjures up images of sharp gleaming knives neatly laid out either under a glass case or inside a wood box- or mounted behind glass on a wall. The idea of a knife collection belonging to a murderer conjures up horror. However, Raffaelle's 'knife collection' consisted simply of two folding pocket knives.

Amanda's DNA is in the apartment that she shared with three other girls, including Meredith, and it is in the bathroom that she shared with Meredith alone. The DNA is from her normal use of the apartment and bathroom. Her DNA was not found in the elements of the actual murder crime. However, the person whose DNA infiltrates the crime scene is that of Rudy Guédé.

Guédé was an acquaintance of one or two of the four young Italian men who shared the downstairs apartment in Amanda's cottage. He knew that all four men would be away for the long weekend of All Saints Day. Amanda's roommates Laura and Filomena were also away. Amanda was at Raffaele's- there is proof of this and will be shown in a later article. Meredith was the only one who was expected to spend the night after All Hallow's Eve, November 1, in a cottage usually occupied by eight persons. And Guédé, a known thief and knife-wielder (this will be shown in a later article), intended to break in. His DNA was found throughout the crime scene- and inside Meredith's body. His DNA inside her body was said to be from saliva.

Meredith's bra clasp, cut from her bra, supposedly has a small amount of Raffaele's DNA, thus implicating Amanda in the prosecution's eyes. However, the bra clasp sat in the cottage for forty-seven days after the murder and before the police remembered to collect it for evidence. By then, the bra clasp, although still there, lay a short distance away in a new spot.

The bra clasp, shown in a photo taken on November 3, was in a distinctly-different location of the room when it was photographed on December 18. This variation and 47-day time lapse indicate gross contamination of evidence. Anyone's DNA could have found its way onto the bra clasp during the lapse and as well as onto the other debris in the room. DNA floats in the air as dust does. Or picture how readily the dandelion puff with its individual parachutes- seeds crowned with plumose hairs- drift away with the least-provocative air current .

To see the collapse of the prosecution's so-called bra-clasp evidence and other evidence, visit here. You will also see a video in which the police further contaminate the bra clasp by handling it repeatedly until finally dropping it on the floor. Their gloves were likely contaminated before they even handled the bra clasp.

This series of articles, based on my research and the extensive research of reputable experts, will show why Amanda Knox is innocent. They will show she did not kill Meredith Kercher. She did not abet in a killing. She did not try to engage Meredith in a drug-infested sex orgy for four. She did not have a murder motive. She was not the shadowy figure in a grainy film. She was not kissing her boyfriend while Meredith's body was still in the house. She did not do cartwheels in the police station. She bought underwear out of necessity, not frivolity- the police had locked her out of her home. Amanda Knox was not at the crime scene.

Amanda Knox is innocent. In the course of learning this fact, you will also learn that corrupt Chief Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini is a persecutor with ridiculous delusions and that the evidence against Amanda Knox is nonexistent. Read 'Why "The Knife" Was NOT The Knife' by Mark C. Waterbury, Ph.D.

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