Amanda Knox: The Day Meredith Kercher's Body was Found; AKPart2

The news media crucified Amanda Knox. A jury convicted her of murder. Anything short of donning black mourning clothes, wailing bereavement, and showing a grim visage would have doomed the so-called she-devil with the face of an angel and ice-cold eyes to a murder conviction instigated by news media vilification of her as orchestrated by police under the sly tutelage of the corrupt Giuliano Mignini. As Prof. Francesco Bruno, a criminologist, said- 'I think if Amanda had been ugly, this [being accused] wouldn't have happened'.

Prosecutor Mignini early on devised a theory that had no basis in evidence. His theory was that three persons had tried to engage British student Meredith in a drugs-and-sex orgy. She refused; they killed her. However, Carlo Torre, a pathologist who has performed more than 6,000 post mortems, believes one person only committed the murder. And there was one man whose DNA was found inside Meredith's body as well within the crime scene- Rudy Guédé, who was convicted of Meredith's murder in December 2008 and was sentenced to thirty years.

Because Amanda's story is at best confusing, convoluted, and lengthy- and at worst, full of news media inaccuracies and police lies- this threadbare account of the activity surrounding Kercher's murder on November 1 2007 is based directly on Amanda's full account, which witnesses can corroborate.

Amanda was 20 when she came to the Umbrian hilltop town of Perugia, Italy in August 2009 for a three-month stay while she studied at the University for Foreigners. She rented a room in a cottage. Four Italian men (ages 22-26) rented the downstairs. Amanda, Meredith, and two other young women rented the upstairs. Amanda met Raffaele Sollecito, 23, at a classical-music concert in mid-October 2007. They began dating.

The murder of British student Meredith Kercher, 21, occurred on November 1 2007. Just two days before Amanda was arrested for the murder, November 4 2007, Amanda had written an e-mail directed to family and friends in a consolidated response to their questions. What you are about to read is a faithful representation of Amanda's e-mail in a concise form and written in the third person. Her e-mail of course was written in the first person. Anything in brackets is a note from the author.

Amanda and Raffaele last saw Meredith alive on the afternoon of November 1 2007 at the cottage. After lunch, Amanda played the guitar. Meredith left the cottage. After a while, Amanda and Raffaele went to his apartment, just five minutes away, to have dinner, smoke marijuana, watch movies, and spend the night. The next morning, after 10:30, Amanda went home to take a shower, pick up a change of clothes, and get a mop for cleaning up a large water spill at Raffaele's.

Upon reaching the cottage, Amanda saw the door was wide open. Because the door was broken and thus blew open easily, she and her seven roommates, also her friends, always locked it shut, unless taking out the trash or briefly talking to a neighbor. Thinking either was the case, even though she felt something was odd, Amanda entered the cottage and closed the door, without locking it. She went upstairs and called out. No one answered.

Two doors were open- her own and Laura's. Two doors were closed- Filomena's and Meredith's. As later found out, Filomena was not home. Nor were the four men downstairs. Amanda said she assumed Meredith was asleep. She went to her own room and undressed. In the closer of two bathrooms on her floor, she took a shower. After she stepped out and dried her feet on a mat, she noticed blood on the mat and then also in the sink and smeared on the faucet. She found the blood strange but thought Meredith might be having 'menstrual issues' and atypically had not yet cleaned up.

Amanda went to her room to dress. Then, she went to the other bathroom used by her other two roommates to use their hairdryer. She dried her hair. As she was putting away the dryer, she saw feces in the toilet. No one in her household had ever left a toilet unflushed. Feeling uncomfortable, Amanda grabbed a mop, walked outside the cottage, locked the door, and returned to Raffaele's place.

After mopping up the large water spill, Amanda and Raffaele ate breakfast as she told him what she had seen at home- the door wide open, the blood in the bathroom, the feces left in the toilet. Amanda then called her roommates. At 12:07pm [this time as with the other named times were verified by cell phone records], she called Meredith's UK cell phone. At 12:08pm, she called Filomena, who verified she had spent the night with her boyfriend and also that Laura was in Rome. Filomena seemed worried. Meredith was left unaccounted for.

At 12:11pm, Amanda called Meredith's Italian phone. At 12:11pm still, she called Meredith's UK phone again- this time, a voice said the phone was out of service. Amanda was unaware that a woman had found Meredith's two cell phones this morning in a garden about a hundred yards from the cottage and had called the Postal Police (aka The Flying Squad), who are in charge of Communications.

Amanda returned to her cottage with Raffaele. She unlocked the door. The living room/ kitchen seemed okay. She opened Filomena's door and saw the room was a mess and a window was broken. She was surprised Filomena's computer was untouched. Certain that theft had occurred, she entered Laura's room. All was in order.

Amanda went to the area of house that she shared with Meredith. She checked her own room for theft but nothing was missing. She then rapped on Meredith's door. When there was no response, she knocked louder and then louder until she was banging on the door and shouting Meredith's name.

In a panic, Amanda dashed to the terrace but could not see over the ledge and into Meredith's room. She rushed into Filomena's bathroom. The feces were gone from the toilet, which caused Amanda to suppose someone had flushed the toilet while she herself was at the cottage alone earlier this morning. She would later find out from police that the feces were still there but had sunk.

Amanda ran outside to neighbors and banged on their door. No one was there. Amanda returned home. Raffaele told her that he wanted to break down Meredith's door. He tried but couldn't. He and Amanda decided to call the police but were unsure of which branch to call- Carabinieri (regular police) or the investigators. Raffaele called his sister, who advised him to call the Carabinieri. He did so. Amanda called Filomena.

The Postal police arrived and asked Amanda and Raffaele about the two phones found in a garden. Amanda showed the police around and told them in broken Italian what she could. Filomena arrived with her boyfriend and two friends. They all inspected the house and talked to the police. Then, while Amanda was in the kitchen, the police broke open Meredith's door and Filomena screamed in Italian, "A foot! A foot!" As Amanda moved toward Meredith's room Raffaele grabbed her and walked her out of the house.

The Postal police ousted everyone outside. Soon, the Carabinieri arrived. And then investigators came. They took the personal information of Amanda's party and asked questions, the same ones repeatedly. Amanda was 'freezing'. She had no jacket. Locked out of her house, she was glad she had her bag with her passport and wallet inside. The police sent everyone to the station.

Amanda was yet unaware of the condition of Meredith Kercher's body. The police had found Kercher's semi-nude body underneath a duvet on the floor- a foot had been poking out, as Filomena had seen. One side of Kercher's neck was severely bruised, the other side had been stabbed a few times with a knife.

For an overview- Amanda Knox Convicted of Murder of Kercher AK Part 1- click here.

Amanda Knox: Inept Italian Prosecutor Used Random Knife As Phony Murder Weapon; AKPart3

Source: Amanda Knox e-mails. The exceptions are the times of the phone calls, which are from archived records.

Amanda and Raffaele are innocent.

Timeline of Meredith's last call home: 8:56 pm,

The call was interrupted by Guede's attack before her mother could answer the call.

Nov. 1, 2007 pm

~06:00 Meredith ate dinner at friends home Via Bontempi

~08:30 Guede captured on the parking garage CCTV cam

~8:40 Amanda answered the door at Raffaele's flat.

~08:45 Meredith & Sophie start walking home together

~08:40 Guede busted the window and enters the apartment

~08:55 She got home, went straight to her room and placed a phone call to her mom, *8:56 pm, police testimony

*08:56 Meredith's call to mom is interrupted,GUEDE ATTACK

>8:56 She put up one hell of a fight so Guede stabbed her soon after he attack.

* 9:10, 9:26 - 9:46 The scientific police determined Raffaele was active on his PC, watching a cartoon.

~10:00 Guede used her UK phone and the wrong area code to call her UK bank.The call connects to a cell tower that services Ponte Rio, Montelaguardia

*10:13 Her phone receives pic. message from same cell tower