Interesting things about the Oklahoma City Bombing.

Controlled Demolition, a company that removed the remains of the blast site rather quickly and certainly before extensive investigation of the crime scene could take place.
According to some researchers, the remains were taken to an unknown location, buried in the ground, and are still under guard. 

Many believe that the real reason for the Oklahoma City Bombing was to take the United States closer to implementing martial law.
After the Oklahoma City bombing, Bill Clinton rushed in measures to allow the US military to become involved in domestic law. 

This was normally handled by the police.

There is a theory that McVeigh was not alone that morning and instead had a second person with him in the truck-turned-bomb.
McVeigh’s “handler”, the person who gives the would-be assassin his “trigger” words to carry out a predetermined plan. 

The assassin is not aware of the plan until such a command is given.
This is supposed to explain why McVeigh stopped for directions to his well-researched target that morning. 

He had not yet received the trigger commands.
All CCTV footage of the events that morning was confiscated.

It was instantly made the property of the United States government.

McVeigh stated publicly that his reason for the Oklahoma City attack was retribution against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) for their handling of the Waco siege two years earlier. 

The truck was parked about as far away from the ATF officers as you could get.

The offices of the ATF suffered only minor damage by comparison.
We have been told that this “lone wolf” had spent two years meticulously planning the event with the sole purpose of targeting the ATF. 

The majority of ATF staff were not in the building at the time of the explosion.

Ninety minutes before the explosion that April morning in 1995, many people noticed and later reported the presence of emergency police responders in full combat attire in the vicinity of the Murrah Building.
The number of witnesses became so high that the authorities were forced to admit that they did have responders on the ground before the blast occurred.
Officials never offered an explanation for the early presence of the responders.

According to intelligence reports and information taken from the interrogation of McVeigh, the original time of the blast was planned for 11:00 AM. 

McVeigh thought that the building would be at its busiest then and so the death toll would be particularly high.
He changed his mind on the day of the bombing and opted to attack shortly after 9:00 AM instead. 

According to intelligence reports and briefings for the media, McVeigh had planned the operation for many months, even engaging in several scouting trips of the building. 

However, he stopped for directions.

McVeigh had spent time in the US military. 

His claimed of being “micro chipped” and “mind-controlled”.
Ted Gunderson already suspected that a high-level military bomb had been used rather than a crude homemade contraption.The official story was that McVeigh had constructed a bomb from fertilizer and standard fuel. 

Former high-ranking and experienced FBI agent Ted Gunderson conducted an independent investigation.
He believed and publicly stated that there was ample evidence of “advanced bomb-making skills” in the Oklahoma City tragedy. 

All indications were of a “barometric bomb”.
Construction of such a device required advanced bomb-making knowledge and access to specific materials. 

Traces of PETN were found on McVeigh’s clothing on the day of his arrest. 

This substance is one of the primary materials for a barometric bomb.

Even how the building crumpled, suggested that at least some of the explosions had occurred inside the building. 

McVeigh appeared to be an Oswald-type figure who conveniently took the blame. 

The blast was so powerful that it damaged over 300 buildings within a 16-block radius. 

An entire third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building simply fell away, leaving a crater that measured 30 ft in width and 8 ft in depth. 

Almost 100 cars in the immediate vicinity were incinerated beyond recognition.

Jacqueline Lee (Bouvier) Kennedy Onassis 

"One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness."

She was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and the First Lady of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.


She was born on July 28, 1929, at Southampton Hospital in Southampton, New York.
 Her parents were Wall Street stockbroker John Vernou
"Black Jack" Bouvier III and socialite Janet Norton Lee. 
She was an equestrienne.
Horse-riding would remain a lifelong passion.
She also took ballet lessons, was an avid reader, and excelled at learning languages.
It was said that she was a bright student but often misbehaved.
One of her teachers said she was "a darling child, the prettiest little girl, very clever, very artistic, and full of the devil".
Her mother said she thought that her daughter would finished her assignments in school and then get bored and act out.

Her father was a alcoholic and had extramarital affairs.
The family had also struggled with financial difficulties following the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
Her parents separated in 1936 and divorced four years later.
She was deeply affected by the divorce and had a "tendency to withdraw frequently into a private world of her own".
Her mother then married Standard Oil heir Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, Jr.
Jackie regarded her stepfather as a close paternal figure.

Her senior class year book described "her wit, her accomplishment as a horsewoman, and her unwillingness to become a housewife". She graduated among the top students of her class and received the Maria McKinney Memorial Award for Excellence in Literature.


In the fall of 1947, Jackie entered Vassar College in New York. 
Jackie was an accomplished student.
She participated in the school's art and drama clubs and wrote for its newspaper. 
She disliked college and didn't go to any social functions.
Jackie spent her junior year in France, at the University of Grenoble in Grenoble, and at the Sorbonne in Paris.
She transferred to George Washington University in Washington, D.C., graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French literature in 1951.
She took continuing education classes in American history at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. during the early years of her marriage to John F. Kennedy.
While attending George Washington, Jackie won a year junior editorship at Vogue magazine.
She had been selected over several hundred other women nationwide.
The position entailed working for six months in the magazine's New York City office and spending the remaining six months in Paris.
On her first day at Vogue, the editor advised her to quit and go back to Washington.  
Jackie quit and returned to Washington after only one day of work.

Jackie got a job as a part-time receptionist at the Washington Times-Herald. 

A week later, she was given the position of "Inquiring Camera Girl".

She sometimes sought interviews with people of interest, such as six-year-old Tricia Nixon. 

Jackie was  briefly engaged to a young stockbroker, John G. W. Husted, Jr. 

She called off the engagement after three months.

Jackie and U.S. Representative John F. Kennedy were formally introduced by a mutual friend, journalist Charles L. Bartlett, at a dinner party in May 1952.

Kennedy proposed to her after the November election.

She had been assigned to cover the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in London for The Washington Times-Herald. 

After a month in Europe, she returned to the United States and accepted Kennedy's marriage proposal. 

She then resigned from her position at the newspaper.

Their engagement was officially announced on June 25, 1953.

Jackie and Kennedy were married on September 12, 1953, at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island,

An estimated 700 guests at the ceremony and 1200 at the reception that followed at Hammersmith Farm.

Her wedding dress is now housed in the Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts.

Jackie suffered a miscarriage in 1955 and in August 1956 gave birth to a stillborn daughter, Arabella.

Jacqueline gave birth to a daughter Caroline on November 27, 1957.

John Kennedy noticed the value that his wife added to his congressional campaign. 

The size of the crowd was twice as big when she accompanied her husband.

In November 1958, when John Kennedy was reelected to a second term he called Jackie "simply invaluable".

On January 3, 1960, John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for the presidency and launched his campaign nationwide. 
Jackie accompanied her husband to campaign events. 
Shortly after the campaign began, she became pregnant and decided to stay at home in Georgetown.

Jackie became the subject of intense media attention with her fashion choices.
She was admired for her personal style and was frequently featured in women's magazines
She named as one of the 12 best-dressed women of the world.

On November 25, 1960, Jacqueline gave birth to the couple's first son, John F. Kennedy, Jr., via Caesarean section. 

Her husband was sworn in as president on January 20, 1961.

She became a trendsetter.
She was the first presidential wife to hire a press secretary. She usually would shy away from making public statements, and strictly controlled the extent to which her children were photographed.The First Lady attracted worldwide positive public attention and gained allies for the White House and international support for the Kennedy administration and its Cold War policies.

She also dedicated her time to the promotion of American arts and preservation of its history.
The restoration of the White House was her main contribution
One of her unrealized goals was to found a Department of the Arts. She did contribute to the establishment of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Furnishings and other items had been taken from the White House by presidents and their families when they departed. 
To track down these missing furnishings and other historical pieces, she personally wrote to possible donors.
She also initiated a Congressional bill establishing that White House furnishings would be the property of the Smithsonian Institution.
She founded the White House Historical Association, the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, the position of a permanent Curator of the White House, the White House Endowment Trust, and the White House Acquisition Trust.
She was the first presidential spouse to hire a White House curator.

She made more official visits to other countries than any of the preceding First Ladies.

She proved popular among international dignitaries.

After arriving in France in 1961, she impressed the public with her ability to speak French, as well as her extensive knowledge of French history. Time magazine seemed delighted with the First Lady and noted, "There was also that fellow who came with her." 
President Kennedy joked, "I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris – and I have enjoyed it!"

The Kennedys then traveled to Vienna, Austria.
When President Kennedy asked to shake the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's hand for a photo, Nikita stated, "I'd like to shake her hand first."Kikita later sent her a puppy, which was the offspring of the dog that had gone to space during a Soviet space mission.

Kennedy undertook a tour of India and Pakistan with her sister Lee Radziwill in 1962.
She was gifted with a horse called Sardar by the President of Pakistan, Ayub Khan.

Jackie was fluent in Spanish, which she used to address Latin American audiences.

In early 1963, Jackie was again pregnant. 
She spent most of the summer at a home she and the president had rented on Squaw Island.
On August 7, she went into premature labor and gave birth to a boy, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, via emergency Caesarean section at nearby Otis Air Force Base. 
The infant's lungs were not fully developed, and he died of hyaline membrane disease two days after birth.

The First Lady proceeded to enter a state of depression after losing her son.
The loss of their child brought the couple closer together in their shared grief.
Jacqueline's friend Aristotle Onassis invited her to his yacht to recuperate. 
President Kennedy initially had reservations, but relented because he believed that it would be "good for her." 
The First Lady returned to the United States on October 17, 1963. 

On November 21, 1963, the First Lady and the president left the White House for a political trip to Texas.
The First Lady was wearing a bright pink Chanel suit and a pillbox hat, which had been personally selected by President Kennedy.
A 9.5-mile motorcade was to take them to the Trade Mart, where the President was scheduled to speak at a lunch. 
The First Lady was seated to her husband's left in the third row of seats in the presidential limousine, with the Governor and his wife seated in front of them. 
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife followed in another car in the motorcade.

The motorcade turned the corner onto Elm Street in Dealey Plaza.
The First Lady heard what she thought to be a motorcycle backfiring.
She did not realize that it was a gunshot until she heard Governor Connally scream. 
Within 8.4 seconds, two more shots had rung out.
One of the shots struck her husband in the head. 

Immediately, she began to climb onto the back of the limousine ro grab a piece of her husband's skull.
Secret Service agent Clint Hill ran to the car and leapt onto it, directing her back to her seat. 
She would later testify that she saw pictures "of me climbing out the back. But I don't remember that at all".


The President was rushed to Dallas' Parkland Hospital. 
The First Lady was allowed to be present in the operating room.
After her husband was pronounced dead she refused to remove her blood-stained clothing.
She also regretted having washed the blood off her face and hands, explaining to Lady Bird Johnson that she wanted "them to see what they have done to Jack". 
She continued to wear the blood-stained pink suit as she boarded Air Force One and stood next to Johnson when he took the oath of office as President. 
The suit was donated to the National Archives and Records Administration in 1964 and, under the terms of an agreement with her daughter Caroline Kennedy, will not be placed on public display until 2103.

Jackie planned her husband's state funeral and modeled it after Abraham Lincoln's service.
She requested a closed casket.
The funeral service was held at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington D.C. and the burial took place at nearby Arlington National Cemetery. 
Jacqueline led the procession on foot and lit the eternal flame at the grave site.

"Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief, shining moment that was known as Camelot. There'll be great presidents again ... but there will never be another Camelot." Jackie stated about her husband's presidency.

Jackie and her children remained in the White House for two weeks following the assassination.

President Johnson offered an ambassadorship to France to her, but she turned the offer down, as well as follow-up offers of ambassadorships to Mexico and the United Kingdom.

At her request, Johnson renamed the Florida space center the John F. Kennedy Space Center a week after the assassination. 

She purchased a house for herself and her children in Georgetown but sold it later in 1964 and bought a 15th-floor penthouse apartment for $250,000 at 1040 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in the hopes of having more privacy.

She also oversaw the establishment of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

During the Vietnam War, Life magazine dubbed Kennedy "America's unofficial roving ambassador".

She and David Ormsby-Gore, former British ambassador to the United States during the Kennedy administration, traveled to Cambodia.

They visited the religious complex of Angkor Wat with Chief of State Norodom Sihanouk.

Her visit was the start of the repair to Cambodian-US relations.

She also attended the funeral services of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia, in April 1968.

Jackie relied heavily on her brother-in-law Robert F. Kennedy.

He had been a source of support after she had suffered a miscarriage early in her marriage, when he, not her husband, stayed with her in the hospital.

Bobby became a surrogate father for her children .

He credited Jackie with convincing him to stay in politics.

She supported his 1964 run for United States Senator from New York. 

The two became romantically involved after her husband's death.

Robert Kennedy's advisors urged him to enter the upcoming presidential race. When  asked  if he intended to run, he replied, "That depends on what Jackie wants me to do".

She encouraged him to run and advised him to not follow Jack, but to "be yourself". 

She worried about his safety.

She believed that Bobby was more disliked than her husband.

That there was "so much hatred" in the United States. 

She campaigned for her brother-in-law and supported him.

Just after midnight on June 5, 1968, Robert Kennedy was mortally wounded by gunfire by Sirhan Sirhan at a  celebration of his victory in the California Democratic presidential primary.

Jacqueline Kennedy rushed to Los Angeles from Manhattan.

Bobby Kennedy never regained consciousness and died 26 hours after the shooting.

Jackie suffered a relapse of the depression.

She came to fear for her life and those of her children, saying: "If they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets ... I want to get out of this country".

On October 20, 1968, Jackie married Aristotle Onassis, a wealthy Greek shipping magnate.

The wedding took place on Skorpios, Onassis's private Greek island in the Ionian Sea.

She took the legal name Jacqueline Onassis and  lost her right to Secret Service protection.

Aristotle Onassis' health deteriorated rapidly following the death of his son Alexander in a plane crash in 1973.

He died of respiratory failure at age 69 in Paris on March 15, 1975. After two years of legal wrangling, Jackie eventually accepted a settlement of $26 million from Christina Onassis—Aristotle's daughter and sole heir.

Jackie returned permanently to the United States, splitting her time between Manhattan, Martha's Vineyard, and the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

In 1975, she became a consulting editor at Viking Press.

She attended the 1976 Democratic National Convention.

She resigned from Viking Press in 1977.

Two years later, she appeared alongside her mother-in-law Rose Kennedy at Faneuil Hall in Boston when Ted Kennedy announced that he was going to challenge incumbent President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination for president.

She participated in his campaign.

She was then hired by Doubleday, where she worked as an associate editor.

In the 1970s, she led a historic preservation campaign to save from demolition and renovate Grand Central Terminal in New York.

In the 1980s, she was a major figure in protests against a planned skyscraper at Columbus Circle that would have cast large shadows on Central Park.

From 1980 until her death, Jackie had a close relationship with Maurice Tempelsman, who was her companion and personal financial adviser.

She supported Bill Clinton and contributed money to his presidential campaign.

She met with First Lady Hillary Clinton and advised her on raising Clinton wrote that Jackie was "a source of inspiration and advice for me".

In November 1993, Jackie was thrown from her horse while participating in a fox hunt in Middleburg, Virginia.

She was taken to the hospital.

A swollen lymph node was discovered in her groin.

It was initially diagnosed by the doctor to be caused by an infection.

In December, Onassis developed new symptoms, including a stomach ache and swollen lymph nodes in her neck, and was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

She began chemotherapy in January 1994.

She continued to work at Doubleday, but by March the cancer had spread to her spinal cord and brain, and by May to her liver. 

Jackie made her last trip home from New York Hospital–Cornell Medical Center on May 18, 1994.

The following night at 10:15 p.m., she died in her sleep at age 64.

John F. Kennedy, Jr. stated she had been "surrounded by her friends and her family and her books, and the people and the things that she loved." 

"She did it in her very own way, and on her own terms, and we all feel lucky for that."

On May 23, 1994, her funeral at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola. 

She was interred at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, alongside President Kennedy, their son Patrick, and their stillborn daughter Arabella.

President Bill Clinton delivered a eulogy at her graveside service. She left an estate that its executors valued at $43.7 million.

Did Amanda Knox Kill Meredith Kercher?

Meredith "Mez" Susanna Cara Kercher 

She was born on December 28, 1985 in Southwark, South London.
Her parents are John, a freelance journalist, and Arline, a housewife. 

She was a British student on exchange from the University of Leeds.
She was murdered at the age of 21 in Perugia, Italy, on 1 November 2007.
Rudy Guede was convicted for his part in the murder in October 2008.

Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty in December 2009 but were acquitted on March 27, 2015.

Three weeks after Knox and Sollecito were convicted, Guede had his prison term cut from 30 to 24 years.
Resulting in a final sentence of 16 years. 
Guede had his first 36-hours release on June 2016, after nine years of prison.

A Little Background

To support herself she worked as a barmaid and a tour guide 
She aspired to work for the European Union or as a journalist. 
In October 2007, she attended the University of Perugia.
She began courses in modern history, political theory, and the history of cinema. 
She was described her as caring, intelligent, witty, and popular.

Last Sightings

November 1, 2007 was a public holiday in Italy.
Kercher's Italian flatmates were out of town, and so were the occupants of the downstairs flat.
That evening, she had dinner with three English women at one of their homes. 
She parted company with a friend at around 8:45 p.m., about 500 yards from Via della Pergola 7.

The Discovery

November 2 2007 a mobile phone was discovered in the backyard of a house and turned over to the Communications Police.

Around 12:30pm two officers of the Communications Police presented themselves at the cottage.

They discovered Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito at the doorway.

The couple told the police that there had been a burglary and there was some blood.
They claim that they had called the emergency number of the Carabinieri and were waiting for them.

The Communications Police asked about the phone.

Amanda Knox said the phone belonged to her roommate Meredith.

Knox explained that Meredith had two mobile phones: an Italian phone that had been given to Meredith by Filomena, and a UK phone that Meredith used to communicate with her family.

Knox and Sollecito. now inside with the two officers of the Communications Police and show shows them Filomena's room and the bathroom where the blood was found.

The Communications Police inquired about Meredith's locked door.

Amanda had called Filomena and told her about the burglary.
After receiving a phone call from Amanda Knox, Romanelli arrived at the flat. 
Romanelli inadvertently disturbed the crime scene.
Romanelli had discovered that the two phones Kercher typically carried with her had been found in a nearby garden.
Romanelli became concerned and requested that the police force open the door to Kercher's bedroom.
The police declined. 
Romanelli's male friend forced the door open, around 1:15 p.m.
The body of Kercher was found inside, lying on the floor, covered by a duvet.

Autopsy

Pathologist Luca Lalli, performed the autopsy on Kercher's body. Her injuries consisted of sixteen bruises and seven cuts. 
Several bruises and a couple of insubstantial cuts were on the palm of her hand. 
Bruises on her nose, nostrils, mouth, and underneath her jaw.
Three pathologists from Perugia's forensic science institute interpreted the injuries, including some to the genital region, as indicating an attempt to immobilize Kercher during sexual violence.

The Case

Perugia Reparto volanti (Flying Squad) Detective Superintendent Monica Napoleoni said that the murderer was definitely not a burglar and that apparent signs of a break-in were staged as a deliberate deception.

The glass distribution made a proposed entry through the window impossible.

The presence of glass on top of the clothing strewn over the floor indicated that the room was ransacked before the window was broken. 

Massei concluded that, based on Meredith's wounds and injuries there were two or more assailants.

A witness saw the three accused together on the night of the murder, meters from the cottage where the murder happened.
A witness testified that she heard a scream at a time compatible with Meredith being attacked. 

This scream was followed by the sound of footsteps running in different directions.
Some bloody footprints were cleaned while others were left untouched.

The door to Meredith's room was locked. 

This would have required that Rudy turn and face the door to lock it. 

Rudy had blood on his shoes but his tracks lead directly out of the cottage.

Some time after she died, Meredith's body was moved and arranged to make it more obvious that she had been sexually assaulted.  

All this happened a considerable time after her death.

The evidence shows that Rudy left the cottage soon after the attack and never returned.

Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito

Amanda was arrested and charged with murder on November 6, 2007.

Knox and Sollecito were held in prison. 

Their trial began on 16 January 2009.

The charges were that Knox, Sollecito, and Guede had murdered Kercher in her bedroom.

Knox and Sollecito both pleaded not guilty.

The prosecution said, Knox had attacked Kercher in her bedroom, repeatedly banged her head against a wall, forcefully held her face, and tried to strangle her.

The prosecution theorized that Guede, Knox, and Sollecito had removed Kercher's jeans, and held her on her hands and knees while Guede sexually abused her.

Knox had cut Kercher with a knife before inflicting the fatal stab wound.

She had then stolen Kercher's mobile phones and money to fake a burglary.

Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito said that they were at Sollecito's apartment on his computer. 

They said they had dinner, smoked some weed, maybe had sex and then went to bed. 

They said they slept until about 10:30 am the following morning.

Examination of Raffaele's computer and internet traffic shows no activity at all for the night of the murder. 

Two different witnesses claim to have seen them in the vicinity of the murder scene.

At 5:32 am Raffaele's computer was used to listen to an MP3 file for roughly 30 minutes.

Amanda and Raffaele turned off their mobile phones the night of the murder, but at 6:02 am Raffaele's phone was turned on.

At 7:45 am that morning, a shop owner claims he saw Amanda Knox waiting for his store to open.

She headed directly to the cleaning supplies section when he opened the store.

Knox and Sollecito claim that they needed a mop to clean up a water spill from the night before.

The water spill was mentioned in Raffaele's 8:42pm phone conversation with his father the previous night. 

There was no water to clean up in the morning so no need for a mop.
The mop was tested and nothing related to the murder was found. 

Amanda said she arrived at the cottage to find her front door wide open. 

She claims that this did not alarm her since the door had issues.

The parking lot next to the house is often used for drug deals and needles and other drug paraphernalia are just discarded.

Her three roommates are away for the holiday so she and Meredith were the only two people who could have left the door improperly closed. 

Amanda Knox's room was the smallest of all the rooms, and had no ceiling light. 

A black lamp on Knox's night table is her only source of light. 

On the morning of November 2nd that lamp was missing. 

The lamp was found on the floor of Meredith's locked bedroom. 

Amanda explained that the light from her window was sufficient so she had no need to use the lamp and did not notice it was missing. 

Amanda said enters her room at least three times that morning. 

Meredith had her own lamp and her room had fixed lighting as well. 

The position of the lamp when it was found in Meredith's room  implies that it was used to illuminate the floor. 

Knox goes to the bathroom where there is a considerable amount of blood on the bathmat in the shape of a foot and some blood on the faucet of the sink. 

Blood that by Knox's own testimony she knows was not there the previous day.

Knox not only ignores the blood, at the conclusion of her shower, but she realizes that all the towels are missing she decides to use a bathmat that is soiled with someone else's blood to stand on and slide back to her room. 

The Luminol applied to the hallway and revealed both Knox and Sollecito's footprints.

Amanda and Meredith's DNA in a mixed sample in one of the footprints.

The police claimed that Knox had body odor which led to them questioning the her claim that she had just recently showered. 

Amy Frost testified that hours after the body was discovered Amanda Knox told her that she never took a shower.

She told Amy that she had noticed the blood and this stopped her from showering.

After Amanda makes it to her room, she gets dressed and returns the bloody bathmat to the bathroom. 

Knox then claims she went to the bathroom that was shared by the other two roommates, to use their hairdryer. 

In this bathroom she notices that there is feces in the toilet.

Amanda Knox claims that she wasn't concerned.

She also doesn't flush the toilet. 

She repeatedly mentions the feces to the police.

Amanda Knox's said she left the cottage and returned to Raffaele's where they prepared breakfast.

It was while having breakfast that she recounted the strange things she had seen at the cottage and then she became concerned. 

In Raffaele's version Amanda Knox is already panicked when she returns to his apartment. 

According to Raffaele Knox came running back to get him. 

Raffaele eventually changes his story to he can't remember if they had breakfast or not.

Knox calls Filomena Romanelli at 12:08pm to report what she had discovered at the cottage. 

This phone call was routed through a cell tower that covers Sollecito's apartment but not the cottage. 

According to both Knox and Sollecito they did not discover the break-in until after they left Sollecito's and returned to the cottage.

Amanda called her roommate Filomena to discuss the break-in while still at Sollecito's. 

Knox told Filomena that she was at the cottage.

During the 12:08pm call to Filomena Knox explains that Meredith is unaccounted for. 

Filomena asks Knox to call Meredith.

Amanda had just called Meredith at 12:07pm and failed to reach her. 

Knox makes a 3 second and 4 second call to each of Meredith's phones. 

Knox later described this in her e-mail home as the phone kept ringing and ringing and that her concern increased with every ring.
According to Knox's version of events she got really concerned about Meredith after these phone calls.

Raffaele attempted to force open Meredith's door. 

Knox ran to the neighbors who were not home to get help. 

Knox tried to climb over the balcony to look into Meredith's window. 

Sollecito then called the emergency response number. 

Forty minutes pass between the two short calls to Meredith and Sollecito calling the emergency response number. 

Evidence strongly suggests that Sollecito called the emergency number after the Communications Police had already arrived.
Sollecito gets questioned by the emergency operator and hangs up.

Knox never calls Meredith again.

Knox calls her mother at 3 am Seattle time, 12:47 pm in Italy.

In a recorded jail visit she denies making this call to her mother.

All that had happened is that someone had broken a window and according to Raffaele taken nothing. 

Edda also changes her account of the contents of that phone call after this conversation. 

The prosecution strongly implied to the jury that Edda was perjuring herself when she testified.

On the stand Knox had trouble explaining the phone pre-dawn phone call home.

Amanda: "Yes. Well, since I don’t remember this phone call, although I do remember the one I made later, ah. But. Obviously I made that phone call. So, if I made that phone call, it’s because I had, or thought that I had, something I had to tell her. Maybe I thought even then that there was something strange, because at that moment, when I’d gone to Raffaele’s place, I did think there was something strange, but I didn’t know what to think. But I really don’t remember this phone call, so I can’t say for sure why. But I suppose it was because I came home and the door was open, and so for me."

Knox wrote the following in an e-mail outlining what happened on November 2.
"i ran outside and down to our neighbors door. the lights were out but i banged ont he door anyway. i wanted to ask them if they had heard anything the night before but no one was home. i ran back into the house. in the living room raffael told me he wanted to see if he could break down merediths door. he tried, and cracked the door, but we couldnt open it. it was then that we decided to call the cops"

November 5th the police requested that Raffaele come to the police station to address some inconsistencies in his story. 

He arrived at the police station shortly after 10 pm. 

He was confronted with phone records that showed he had called the police emergency number after the postal police had already arrived.

Raffaele changed his story and said that he had lied at Amanda Knox's request. 

He was at home alone.

Amanda had gone out and not returned until 1 am.

He said that she needed to borrow plastic bags in the morning when she left to do laundry. 

He made a statement confirming her alibi late in the Hellmann trial.

For four years Raffaele refused to explicitly confirm that Amanda was with him on the night of the murder.

Even though the police didn't ask her to come, Amanda Knox accompanied Sollecito to the police station.

After Sollecito changed his story and left Amanda without an alibi, the police then asked if she would be willing to answer some questions. 

Amanda Knox changed her story, saying that she was at the cottage when the murder happened.

She said that the murderer was her employer Patrick Lumumba. 

He was arrested and spent two weeks in jail, before his alibi was confirmed.
Knox had an interpreter named Anna Donnino for her interigation.

She was offered tea, and since the interrogation took place from about 11 pm to 1:45 am, and Knox had arrived straight after eating a meal, it is unclear why food was needed. 

Amanda Knox was described as kissing and hugging Raffaele, and at times laughing. 

It is standard police procedure to fingerprint those who have access to a crime scene, to exclude the ones expected to be found and focus on those that shouldn't be there. 

As Knox was escorted to have her fingerprints taken, she became agitated and started hitting herself on the head with her fists.

Meredith was murdered beside her closet, but sometime later her body was moved to the middle of the room. 

At the police station, and before this had been discovered, Knox said that Meredith had been killed by the closet. 

She said that Raffaele told her that is where she was killed.

Raffaele never testified, so he was never asked about that.

It was announced that the victim's DNA had been discovered on a knife recovered from Sollecito's apartment.

It also had Amanda's DNA on the handle.

Sollecito claimed that Meredith had come over to his apartment, and that while he was preparing dinner he accidentally pricked Meredith with the knife. 

Meredith had never been to Raffaele's apartment, and he had never cooked her dinner.

The DNA of Raffaele Sollecito was found on the bra hook of the victim. 

It was collected during the second search of the crime scene, six weeks after the first.

The defense alleged that the DNA arrived there by nonspecific contamination.

In the small bathroom immediately adjacent to Meredith's bedroom four drops of Meredith blood were found.

And a drop of Amanda's blood was found.

Also, three sample of Amanda's blood mixed with Meredith's blood were discovered. 

She claims this was due to the several ear piercings she had made in the days prior to the murder, the blood having dripped from one or more of these piercings.

A bathmat with a bloody, barefoot print was discovered in the bathroom shared adjoining Meredith's room. 

Police experts determined that the footprint was compatible with Raffaele Sollecito's.

A shoe print made in blood was discovered on the pillow found under Meredith's body. 

Two police experts testified that this print was made by a woman's shoe of the same size as Amanda Knox's. 

Amanda Knox had a scratch on her neck that was present on the day after the murder.
Knox claims that the neck injury was a hickey.

When Raffaele Sollecito's apartment was searched, the police reported that it smelled strongly of bleach.

During the search two bottles of bleach were found under the kitchen sink. The police interviewed Natalia, who started cleaning the apartment in September and said she had never seen the bleach.

Rudy Guede 

Rudy Hermann Guede was 20 years old at the time of the murder.

He had lived in Perugia since the age of five.

In Italy, Guede was raised with the help of his school teachers, a local priest.

Guede, at age 17, was adopted by a wealthy Perugia family.

In mid-2007, his adoptive family asked him to leave their home.

Guede said he met a couple of the Italian men from the lower level of Via della Pergola 7 while spending evenings at the basketball court in the Piazza Grimana. 

The men who lived in the downstairs flat at Via della Pergola 7 were unable to recall how Guede had met them.

They did recall how, after his first visit to their home, they had found him later in the bathroom, sitting asleep on the unflushed toilet.

Guede allegedly committed break-ins, one during which he burgled a flat and brandished a jackknife when confronted.

October 27, 2007, Guede was arrested in Milan after breaking into a nursery school.

He was reportedly found by police with an 11-inch knife that had been taken from the school kitchen.

Guede went to a friend's house at about 11:30 pm on November 1, 2007.
He later went to a nightclub where he stayed until 4:30 a.m.
On November 2, 2007, he went to the same nightclub with three American female students he had met in a bar.
He then left Italy for Germany.

His fingerprints were found at the crime scene.
He was extradited from Germany.
He knew he was a suspect and wanted to clear his name.
He opted for a fast-track trial, held in closed session with no reporters present.
He told the court that he had gone to Via della Pergola 7 on a date arranged with Kercher, after meeting her the night before.
Two neighbours of Guede's, who were with him at a nightclub on that evening, told police the only girl they saw him talking to had long blonde hair.
Guede said Kercher had let him in the cottage around 9 pm.

Guede said that he and Kercher had fooled around, but did not have sex because they did not have condoms.
He claimed that he then developed stomach pains and went to the bathroom on the other side of the apartment.
Guede said he heard Kercher scream while he was in the bathroom.
Upon emerging, he saw a shadowy figure holding a knife and standing over her as she lay bleeding on the floor.
Guede further stated that the man fled, while saying in perfect Italian, "Trovato negro, trovato colpevole; andiamo" ("Found black man, found culprit; let's go")

The court found that his version of events did not match the forensic evidence.
He could not explain why one of his palm prints, stained with Kercher's blood, had been found on the pillow of the bed, under the disrobed body, since he had said he had left Kercher fully dressed.

Guede originally said that Knox had not been at the scene of the crime.
He later changed his story.
He claimed that he had heard her arguing with Kercher, and that, glancing out of a window, he had seen Knox's silhouette outside the house.


Who do you think killed Meredith?
Was it Amanda, her boyfriend or Guede?
Was it all three? 
Was it someone else?
They did live in a sketchy neighborhood.
There was a serial killer in the area.
What about all the evidence?

I think all three were involved somehow.
Who actually murdered her and who were just the accomplices i don't know.
I think that Meredith's family didn't get the justice for her that they deserved.
I think all three should still be rotting in jail.
I think they should be there for the rest of their lives.

Was Jimmy Hoffa killed by the mob with the help of Nixon?

James Riddle Hoffa

He was former Teamster's president.
1941 Hoffa and the teamsters were in a turf battle with rivals in Detroit.
This is when Hoffa got involved with the mob.
He hired the mob to get rid of the rivals.
After this the mob basically owned Hoffa.
The mob took loans out of the teamster's pension fund.
They funneled this funds into the financing into Las Vegas casinos.
Hoffa and the teamster's got a benificail return on the loans.
The union workers loved him.
The relationship with the mob was great until he went to prison.
He went to prison for 13 years, for bribery, jury tampering and mail fraud in 1967.
Richard Nixon pardoned him , in 1971, if he didn't have any involvement with the teamsters until 1980.
Federal investigators, four years later, found that the teamster's largest pension fund had been robbed of 100's of millions of dollars.
Hoffa then disappeared.
Some people say he ratted out the mob.

July 30, 1975 he was seen outside the Machus Red Fox resturant.
He was going to meet Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone and  Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano, at 2 pm.
Both were members of the Mafia and Tony Pro was also a member of the teamsters.
Neither showed up to the meeting.
When questioned by the FBI they stated that there was no meeting organized.
They both seemingly had allibies.

Hoffa then called his wife around 2:30 pm from a nearby payphone.
There were five witnesses that said they saw Hoffa in the parking lot of the restaurant.
They said he looked like he was waiting for someone.
Other witnesses said that a burgundy Mercury Marquis, with three men inside, picked up Hoffa.
The following morning on July 31, 1975, Hoffa's car was found in the restaurant's parking lot.
DNA evidence, hair sample, found in the Marqui proved that Hoffa probably did get picked up like the witnesses claimed.
Witnesses claimed that the driver of the vehicle looked like Charles "Chuckie" O'Brien.
He was a protege and like a son to Hoffa.
Hoffa's daughter, Barbra, said that "was driving the car my father disappeared in the vicinity of the Red Fox."
The car was recently  cleaned.
German Shepherds found Hoffa's scent in the backseat and the trunk.
When Hoffa's son, James, asked O'Brien if he was involved in the disappearance of Hoffa, O'Brien fled the room.
Hoffa's body was never found.

The Hofex MEMO, written in January 1976, by Federal investigators, says that the authorities suspected the Mafia in his death.
Hoffa wanted back in the teamster game and wanted the mob out of the teamster's affairs.
In 1974, Hoffa said that Provenzano threatened his family.
He told Hoffa that if he tried to become head of the teamsters again, Provenzano would kidnap his family or pull Hoffa's guts out.

Richard Kuklinski "the Iceman" was a hit man and serial killer.
He claimed to have been paid $40,000 by the mob to kill Hoffa by Russell Bufileno.
He said that him and some other members of the mob drove to the diner and picked Hoffa up.
They then knocked him out, stabbed him in the head with a hunting knife and transported his body in the trunk of a car to  New Jersey.
Then the car was crushed and used as scrap metal.

The Mob killer Frank "the Irishman" Sheerdan, said that after they picked up Hoffa at the restaurant they drove him to an empty home and shot Hoffa in the back of the head as he walked inside.
Sheerdan left and the body was taken to a funeral home controlled by the mob and cremated.
Sheerdan felt guilty for betraying Hoffa and tried to send him subtle warnings.
If Sheerdan didn't kill Hoffa he would have been killed himself.
Sheerdan named the place that Hoffa was killed.
No blood evidence was found.
He said Ruffle co ordered the hit.

Frank Fitzimmons, Hoffa's successor, worked with president Nixon to pardon Hoffa and get him out of prison.
Also that Frank played a role in the ban of Hoffa with the teamsters.
Members of the Provenzano mob sent a group to Vegas to deliver $500,000 to Charles Colson, who was special council to Nixon.
After than more money was sent to Nixon for the restriction places on Hoffa.
This was around the time of the Watergate scandal.
Some say that Hoffa knew all of this and was preparing to go public with his info on the mob and Nixon.
In 1975, Time magazine published an article that linked Bufalino to the CIA in Cuba.
Supposedly Hoffa and mobsters, Sam "Momo" Giancana and John Roselli, were going to meet with the Church Committee.
The Committee was looking into the CIA and the Mob in Cuba.
Besides Hoffa, John and Sam were also killed.
The case is till opened but is inactive.

HIS FORMER DRIVER HAS HIS OWN THEORY

What do you think happened to Jimmy Hoffa?