Appeals court Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellmann, is speaking out once again about the Italian Supreme Court’s decision to overturn his ruling in 2011 that declared Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito innocent for the murder of Meredith Kercher in 2007. The Italian Supreme Court overturned the acquittals of Knox and Sollecito in March of this year and ordered a new trial. …
Read More »TARGET AMANDA KNOX: THE SMEAR CAMPAIGN THAT RUINED HER LIFE
Meredith Kercher’s murder was very easy to solve; she was killed in Perugia, Italy, during a violent home invasion on All Saint’s Day in 2007. It was the Smear Campaign mounted against her innocent roommate, Amanda Knox, that made her case “complicated.” Rudy Guede killed Meredith when she had the ill fortune to arrive home while he was in the …
Read More »THE SEX FRAME GONE WRONG
On June 18, 2013, the Italian Court of Cassation (Supreme Court) in Rome released its 74-page Motivation report to the public. The headlines on two continents screamed “Sex Game Gone Wrong” and I was shocked to see that specter once again raise its ugly head. There has never been any proof whatsoever that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were involved …
Read More »Amanda Knox reporter Andrea Vogt continues to go to bat for prosecutor Giuliano Mignini
In 2011, I wrote an article entitled: “Amanda Knox and the Architects of the Foxy Knoxy Myth,” that discussed a trio of journalists: Nick Pisa, Barbie Nadeau and Andrea Vogt. All three have often reported in favor of Giuliano Mignini, the prosecutor that secured the wrongful convictions of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in 2009, for the murder of Meredith …
Read More »THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE CLAIMS NEW VICTIMS
The Monster of Florence was a heinous serial killer who mutilated his female victims and terrified Tuscany from 1968 to 1985; it is now the most famous cold case in Italy. Here in the Greater Seattle Area, we knew this fear from the 70’s to the 90’s as two serial killers left their mark upon our lives, but we never …
Read More »THE VICTIMS OF PERUGIA’S MONSTER
When Rudy Guede murdered Meredith Kercher, November 1, 2007, in Perugia, Italy, her family had a reasonable expectation of justice for her and a satisfactory investigation into her death. By June 2013 they have neither. The amateurish investigation was twisted to implicate her innocent roommate, Amanda Knox, Amanda’s friend, Raffaele Sollecito and, briefly, Amanda’s employer, Patrick Lumumba. The Perugian Public …
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