A simple, tragic murder is made complicated When British student Meredith Kercher was murdered in Perugia, Italy in 2007, the local police and prosecutor swiftly arrested three people and declared, ‘case closed’.  Two weeks later, local small time crook Rudy Guede was also arrested.  Evidence of his presence littered the room where Meredith died; his DNA was even found in …

 “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” – Daniel Patrick Moynihan On March 29th, Nina Burleigh, author of “The Fatal Gift of Beauty”, a book about Amanda Knox, placed a story on the Time magazine website.  It was entitled, “The Amanda Knox Haters Society: How They Learned to Hate Me Too” and was an expose …

“Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt”  – Francois La Rochefoucauld In May this year, Google introduced a new feature. It is called the Knowledge Graph. It’s not a graph and it doesn’t always impart knowledge, but never mind. You can read about it here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/05/16/google-revamps-search-results-pages-with-knowledge-graph/ Knowledge Graph is a summary box that appears at the top right of the …

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy Part Three – Myths twentyone to forty Myth 21 – Amanda is sex crazed because she owned a sex toy Amanda had been given a joke going away present.  It was a novelty …

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy Part Two – Myths one to twenty Myth 1 – The Confession that was not a confession There never was a confession, though this is not what the Rag inspired trolls would have …

  “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy                                                                                                              Part One – Setting the scene   Introduction – there are none so blind as those who will not see   In my other articles about this case I have explained the circumstances in …