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Murder in PerugiaMurder in Perugia

Friends Of Amanda Associates Internal Memo

To: David Marriott

From: C

Dear Mr. Marriott, I Shrunk the Black Kid!

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PROLOGUEPROLOGUE

As we discuss the brutal murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, and follow the trial of Amanda Knox andRaffaele Sollecito, I find it distressing that certain purposefully ill-defined groups of persons try to swaypublic opinion with information which is often at best only partially true or at worst a crude attempt to convincethe public with conscious falsehoods.

This strange Friends of Amanda group makes for morbid fascination and raises some questions:

1) What do the more prominent members (or closely related associates) get out of their participation? A fastreply might include: book deals, international travel and media coverage, professional projection,public image for the next judiciary election, emotional retaliation for perceived prior humiliations,etc. . I honestly dont know why each one signs up, although I personally suspect it has something to dowith that expression He who has a different God, climbs a different mountain.

2) Why do they litter their website with errors and enhanced interpretive techniques (ie. spin, also, half-truths or half-lies)?

Just a fast example: they were able to update quickly their index page a few days ago with circular-feedingquotes from Timothy Egan, but they maintain text like this: nor is there evidence of a relationship between them[Amanda and Raffaele] and Guede.

Well just a couple of weeks ago, Amanda testified that she knew Rudy, that they and the boys downstairs hadmet downtown, then partied in the boys flat and smoked marijuana!!! Click on icon to listen to her own voice!

(and click to stop listening to Amanda)

FOA event phone-in-celebrity Paul Mr. Acoustics Ciolino should really admit that he was wrong when he said

"Amanda and Raffaelenever laid eyes on Rudy, never met with him and never hung out with him... didn't know him. "

Likewise, FOA should modify their page to not mislead readers into thinking that Amanda had never evermet nor smoked marijuana with Rudy. The party Amanda refers to in the sound bite link was not in a bigdiscotheque, but in the boys flat downstairs; in fact, one of Raffaeles expert witnesses has just testified that therooms were too small for three persons to attack someone while I dont agree with this Sollecito witness, itsclear that Amanda didnt get separated from Rudy amongst the crowd.

Today, were going to look at a new page which has recently appeared on the FOA site:http://www.friendsofamanda.org/footprint.html, their latest spin offensive. (continued .)

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In the recent update to the Friends of Amanda page, they (whoever they are I understand that theyinclude Anne Bremner, and she has stated that Judge Heavey CLICK HERE - is with them too) have givenus a lesson in the dangers of letting an unscrupulous person make use of Photoshop.

In order to try to convince the readers of their website that Rudy Guede could have made the visible bloodybarefoot footprint on the bathmat, one of the computer-savvy, although perhaps less-than-honest FOAmembers has compressed an image of Rudys footprint, so that could supposedly fit the big toe and the ball

of the foot which can be seen on the bathmat print.However, they forgot to considerthat perhaps the most significant characteristic of a foot is its length, andthat by adjusting Rudys footprint to adapt it to the bathmat, they also shortened it to being the equivalent ofAmandas foot (or even smaller).

Months ago, in the Updated These Boots Were Made for Walking presentation, we analysed thesefootprints. We were able to conclude that whoever caused the barefoot footprints, some were compatible inlength with Knox's and Raffaele Sollecito's feet (we didn't study characteristics other than length), and none

were compatible in length with Rudy Guede's giant basketball player's feet (Rudy left his own, Nike shoeprints). This presentation sets straight the FOA spin on the bathmat footprint.

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I recommend the following two sites which have resulted from Steve Huffs True Crime Weblog on thistragedy:

Perugia Murder File - True Justice For Meredith Kercher

(also, visit Steves current blog published by Village Voice Media: http://www.truecrimereport.com/)

And be sure to check out the excellent analysis on this case on Miss Representeds blog.

Any irony or sarcasm which may be encountered in the presentation or our discussions is not meant by anymeans to trivialise the pain and suffering, and brutal senseless murder that Meredith experienced, nor toreduce her memory.

I can only hope that there will be one single ending to this crime, that justice is served to those responsiblefor each of the crimes which have been determined by the Italian judiciary. I am buoyed by the fact that the

victims family has continued to express confidence in the Italian justice system.- Kermit (21 June 2009) email: [email protected]

Screen shot made on 21 June 2009

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The first thing that strikes me

about this new page on the

FOA site is that they

dedicate time, space and

reader patience to evidence

against Raffaele, not

Amanda. Not even Luciano

Ghirga (Amandas Italianlawyer) is dedicating much

time to this.Secondly, they say that the

compatibility of the bathmat

print to Raffaele is

obviously not true. I guess

they mean as obvious as

Amanda never having

partied and smoked dope

with Rudy.Finally, they say that what follows is a good yardstick for measuring the overall quality of the case against

Amanda and Raffaele. If FOA really supports Amanda, Im surprised they give up so easily.

Lets scroll down on that same page ..

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Now we see three footprints

lined up side by side:

- Raffaeles (from prison)

- the bathmat

- Rudys (from prison)

Whats wrong with this

photomontage? ..

First and most importantly,

the complete LACK of

measurement or scale, even

though that is readily

available.

Secondly, we already have

seen in prior presentations

that the apparent narrow

big toe on the bathmat is in

fact due to the raised tufts,

and a more detailed look at

the lower stain shows a wide

big toe like Raffaeles.

(see Annex to this ppt.)

Up until now, the FOA Photoshop operator hasnt done anything really bad, other than not reading other

presentations out there which - surprisingly? - seem to have better resolution images of the bathmat, with the

detail of the wide big toe. It should be pointed out that those images were obtained from public news webs

(should FOA read more news to get more precise information on Amanda?).

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THIS IS THE MAGIC

MOMENT FOA HAS BEEN

WAITING FOR ..

And now, lets introduce some metrics into the FOA graffiti, to reveal the true implications of their Photoshop fun,

implications which even they didnt have the common sense to consider before posting this new page on their

website.

Hey, for someone doing the

Photoshop tutorial, that bit of

digital manipulation wasnt

bad (that is, turning Rudysprint pink, squashing it until it

fits the bathmat print, and

overlaying it on the bathmat).

But for a group under the

watchful leadership of one of

the 25 most intelligent

persons in WashingtonState, herself supposedly a

hot-shot lawyer, NO ONE is

impressed with this digital

graffiti.

Like I said, check out the

annex to this powerpoint,

and youll see detail from thebig toe print on the bathmat

which shows it is much wider

than the washed out FOA

version.

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All we have to do is to rotate it and extend it proportionally, in order to obtain a

measuring ruler in centimeters. We see that the floortiles used in the north wing ofthe cottage are 16 cm. in width.

Some of this most of us have already seen. FOA - it seems - has neither

seen it nor considered it. Lets pull out ourprecision measuring instrument

from last autumns presentation on the 6 Luminol prints. The ruler is based on

ILE marker C for one of the visible shoeprints in the victims room.

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Lets confirm the tile width and calibrate our ruler on this grid, at 16cm. per tile width, on the bathroom footprint photo.

6 cm

12cm

18 cm

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Lets move the image down thescreen a little, to give us room towork (FOA has forgotten that Rudys

foot is really BIG!)

6 cm

12cm

18cm

24cm

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6cm

12cm

18cm

24cmNow well place our ruler

over here on the side whilewe work.

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6cm

12cm

18cm

24cm

Lets place the FOA bathmat image over the larger, calibrated imageof the bathmat. (Some FOA stomachs are starting to sink as they readthis.)

I personally dont like the image, but its the one they used, and wesee that there is no difficulty in lining up the two photos.

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6cm

12cm

18cm

24cm

Now we copy on top, the FOA Photoshop commonsense adjusted image of Rudys footprint.

Any questions or problems with what we have doneso far? I hope not. That is FOAs photomontage, Ihave not changed its perspective in any way, I have

simply fitted it to a larger, calibrated photo of thebathmat

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And now we take our ruler from the right andmeasure the FOA footprint and we get 23 cm.!!!!!!!!!!

6cm

12cm

18cm

24cm

FRIENDS OF AMANDA HAVE JUST SHRANK RUDY FOOT TO AMANDA SIZE!!!!!

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FRIENDS OF AMANDA HAVE JUST SHRANK RUDYs FOOT TO AMANDAs SIZE!!!!!

LOGICAL RESULTS:

F.O.A. RESULTS:

Our proportional analysis last autumn put the bathmat footprint at about26 cm., which is Raffaeles size. Dr. Rinaldi has similar and probablymuch more precise results. Friends of Amanda have taken Rudysfootprint, and Photoshopped it to fit the bathmat ball of foot and big toe however the resulting footlength is 23 cm., which corresponds to .

Amandas size (or even smaller) !!!!

6cm

12cm

18cm

24cm

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Someone from the peanut gallery didnt like my 23 cm measurement of FOAsPhotoshop Fun shrunken footprint which makes Rudy shorter than Amanda. So, I have

redone the measurement with the police marker, and get the same result: 23 cm.: thisartificial FOA Hobbit foot is smaller than Amandas. These people are getting desperate.

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Rudys foot in real life (not in Hobbit-land) measures about 28.5 cm.Lets place his footprint at its real proportions over the bathmat

6cm

12cm

18cm

24cm

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Now we clean out the FOA junk and if you click back andforth to the nextslide, youll see that Rudys foot clearly doesnt

fit the bathmat print.

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EPILOGUEEPILOGUE (1 of 2)(1 of 2)

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EPILOGUEEPILOGUE(1 of 2)(1 of 2)

The first version of thispresentation (three days ago) musthave hurt some feelings in theFriends of Amanda group.

In the last day, they have added an

explanatory note at the bottom ofthe Rudys Hobbit Foot page:

The above image of the bathmatis from an official source.

Okay, I assume they really meanwe got these images fromAmandas family, who in turnobtained them as part of theinvestigation file.

In that sense, these are second-hand images, as official as theimages I may get from La Nazionenewspaper, whose reporter mighthave a contact with one of thelegal teams.

The note continues:

They did the color enhancement. Why are they telling us this? If the image is official or if they (whoeverthey are) did the color enhancement, that has nothing to do with what FOA had actually done: they took thebasic investigation images, squashed up Rudys footprint, and squeezed it like a Chinese emperors concubinesbound foot onto the smaller visible bathmat print.

SPIN SPIN SPIN. Reminds me of the food blogger who was seen at one of the FOA fundraisers, and to denyhaving been there, shrilly and vehemently announced that she had notarrived in a police car (even though noone had ever said she did).

EPILOGUEEPILOGUE (2 of 2)(2 of 2)

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EPILOGUEEPILOGUE(2 of 2)(2 of 2)

The Friends of Amanda group defines itself in the following, vague manner: Who we are: Friends of Amanda isa group of people who recognize that Amanda is innocent. We are not affiliated with her family, and no one ispaying us. We simply want to see justice.

If they want to provide the public with a maximum of explanatory information concerning the case in general,and about specific items of evidence, I would have thought that they would refrain from doing the Hobbit Foot.

The last part of the newly added note at the bottom of the Hobbit Foot pagesays: The image has been croppedand enlarged but otherwise has notbeen modified for this presentation.

And I ask: if you want to provide a maximum of explanatory information, whyonly give readers the Hobbit Foot, and not the full, uncropped image?

Ah . I see. If FOA had left the police measurement marker, then a FOA web page reader would quickly

realise that the Hobbit Foot at 23 cm is only a little longer than the width of the floor tiles in the northwing of the cottage (16 cm), and that this foot length is either a young girls or a Hobbits.

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ANNEX 1

(These are the slides from the last presentation, the

Bathmat Footprint Study. If you have that

presentation, then youve seen these slides,

although its worth it to click through to the very last

slide with the updated Bongiorno vignette!)

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This recent graphic spread

is thanks to Il Messaggero.

In addition to bringing new

images into our analysis,

there is a key element

which these photos

contribute, which is

metrics. I was happy to see

the measurements on thefootprints and the

defendants should be

happy too, as it will allow

them to pursue their own

defence strategies

concerning this key

evidence.

In this presentation well

make use of the images

associated with Raffaele

Sollecito.

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Lets keep in mind as we advance the importance of the texture of the bathmat, andits 3 dimensional impact on the footprint.

Lets zoom in on the bathmat photos and the detailed

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Let s zoom in on the bathmat photos, and the detailedscale of our ruler.

6 cm

12cm

18 cm

Now well try and compare

specific measurementsbetween the bathmatfootprint and Raffaelesfootprint as taken in custody.

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The first line we will draw will be the one from behind the ball of the foot to the pointbetween the big toe and the second toe.

I suggest we draw the line fromthe clearest end-point, whichwould be behind the ball of thefoot.

Lets the mark the line and stopwhen we get to the end point atthe front of the ball of the foot.

18 cm

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Now lets measure this line and we get

6 cm

12 cm

8 c

55 mm. Mmmmmmmmokay, thats fairly near the

police custody ball-of-the-foot

measurement of 57 mm.

Now, Ill accept it if someonesays that while the starting pointof the line is quite obvious, the

end point isnt necessarily clear.More on that later.

N l t d th h i t l li i hi h l k f d ll

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6cm

12c

m

18

cm

24

cm

Now lets draw the horizontal line in a manner which looks for concordance youllsee, it makes sense.

First of all, like with the other line,we start from the clearest end

point.

Concordance? Since the extremeend of the bathmat line is ill-defined, lets draw the line with

exactly Raffaeles measurement:95 mm.

I ll thi fi t t t th t f R ff l li t d

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I guess you call this our first test: are the measurements from Raffaeles police custodyfootprint approximately compatible with the bathmat footprint?

I think it would be imprudent toexclude the possibility.

Now, what about that big toe?

Last week I was thinking that itwas a crooked, elongated toe

Spend a few seconds

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Spend a few seconds

looking at this zoom of

the unenhanced bathmat

photo.

Specifically, try to follow

the limit of the footprintfrom behind the ball of

the foot, around to where

the big toe joins the foot,

then try to identify

exactly where the print of

the big toe reaches.Thats enough for now.

This isnt a trick request,

in fact its quite the

opposite. In my case Im

surprised with myself,

that until now, I hadnt

tried such a simple

exercise on a zoom of

the photo.

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?

?

Ive marked with green

arrows where I think its

quite obvious that the

bloody footprint is in that

point.

Ive marked with pink

arrows where its clear

that the bloody footprint

doesnt reach.

Ive put a couple ofquestion marks on the

inside of the big toe,

where the limits of the

big toe are not exactly

clear.

Click back and forth a

few times between this

screen and the previous

one. Do we all agree on

these limits to this part ofthe footprint?

Now lets trace that limit

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Now let s trace that limit

to the footprint.

This leaves a somewhat

different impression than

the crooked, elongatedtoe.

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Lets combine all three of the lines we have drawn:

And now, the spooky part.

Lets overlay a semi-

transparent copy of

Raffaeles police custody

footprint over the bathmat

print.

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Now lets apply the bathmat imagewhich Rinaldi used for his

measurements.

Unfortunately, on the copy which we

have available from Il Messaggero,

only one of the measurements is

readable 50 mm from behind the

ball of the foot to the end of the

bloodstain between the big toe and

the 2nd toe. Rinaldi was more honest

than I (55 mm), as he stops his line

where the blood visibly ends.

(our photo wasnt as defined there)

6 cm

12cm

Lets summarise and click through the images:

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Let s summarise and click through the images:Rinaldis measurements on the bathmat

Lets summarise and click through the images:

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Let s summarise and click through the images:Raffaeles police custody footprint

Lets summarise and click through the images:

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Let s summarise and click through the images:Our lines and delimitation of big toe (its not crooked!)

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I jokingly put this tag to this image in a prior presentation: Ms Bongiorno can I call

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I jokingly put this tag to this image in a prior presentation: Ms. Bongiorno - can I callyou Giulia? - I assume you have a plan for this

And thanks to FOA, we have Bongiornos reply: Dont worry, Raffaele, well letA d t t k f it