Thank you all for the warm welcome. The arguments for innoscence seem pretty cut adn dry, guilt is a little harder to wade though because it appears the forensic evidence is useless to me.... I'm tying to concentrate on the timeline to make sence on things. So here are some questions and thoughts I have:
Did MK have mushrooms in her digestive tract?
Seems like the forensics regarding the footprints, knife, dna show innocence as there was no MK dna on knife blade or proven blood, no MK dna in the bloody footprints, and the knife didn't even seem to be the murder weapon (no match for the print on the pillowcase). Soooo, AK and RS said they were home all night..... That seems to be untrue per computer records, phone calls, and eyewitnesses. I'm left with "why lie"?? Am I missing something? So if the store owner saw AK at 7:30 am the morning MK was found dead perhaps she could have cleaned up, but could she get rid of all DNA? Ditto on the wet mop bucket at RS house, could they have gotten it all up? Also, MK door was locked, I read the window had large shards of glass left in it, how did they all get out that window without leaving DNA or breaking the glass, was there a lot found outside? Whose fingerprints were found on MK phone from which the call was made for an account balance? I'm also foggy on the phone call made from MK to her mother, the time in Italy it was made and the relevence!!
Anyone out there that can clear any of this up??
This is what we know for sure:
Halloween night, Meredith and Amanda celebrated separetely. They texted each other friendly chats. Amanda slept at Sollecito's that night, then went to the cottage to shower the next morning. Sollecito came there with her. Meredith was asleep in her room that morning. Sollecito and Amanda ate breakfast in the cottage together.
Meredith came out, picked up her laundry, talked with the two of them.
Meredith went and ate with her friends. She had pizza and apple crumble at about 6pm and then watched a movie. Her friends SAID she did not eat after that. They said she did not consume alcohol.
Amanda was supposed to work that night. Her boss texted her not to come in, and she told him see you later and turned off her phone at a little past 8 pm.
Sollecito was supposed to bring a suitcase to the train station for someone late that night. That person dropped by at 8:40 pm to tell him he didn't need to help her. He turned his phone off after that. The suitcase girl said Amanda and he were at his place at 8:40 pm and Amanda was laughing.
Shortly after 9 pm, the movie Amelie stopped on Raffaelle's computer.
Shortly before 9pm, Meredith was seen for the last time, walking to the cottage alone.
If Meredith's friends memory of her dinner is accurate, Meredith likely died before 10pm. There was food still lodged in her esophagus, but no one knows for sure what it was because it wasn't analyzed. If Meredith snacked through the movie, then she could've died as late as 1 am.
At 9 pm, Meredith terminated a phone call to her mother, who was sick, before it connected.
At 10pm, Meredith's phone attempted to make a phone call to her bank. It was near or in the cottage at this time.
Shortly after midnight, Meredith's phone was in the garden, indicating she had been murdered by this time.
Sollecito made a playlist on his computer at around 6am.
At around 11 to noon the next day, Amanda called Filomena several times, explaning she had discovered a break in in the cottage.
Sollecito called his sister for advice on what to do, and then called the police.
The police showed up minutes later, because they were already on their way to the flat, having discovered Meredith's phones in the garden.
Amanda said Meredith usually locked her door, Filomena said that wasn't true.
The police broke down the door and found Meredith dead. (Around 1pm?)