Regarding luminol footprints, I’ve seen statements that essentially if the blood is so week that its only revealed by luminol, the its highly feasible that there won’t be enough material to test for blood. Yes, the luminol can’t prove the prints are blood. But they’re there, only a few of them, in the immediate vicinity of the crime. As I posted in another post, what prompted police to look for them was the half-print in blood on the bath mat. Were were the rest of the bare foot-prints leading up to that bath mat? There weren’t any visible in the bedroom, but smears could have wiped them away.
Applying rationality-
If the footprints in the hall are Knox’s from the shower that morning, then there must have been enough blood for knox to make 2 full left foot prints, yet so little blood that it wasn’t visible to knox taking her shower, nor was there any sufficient amount to test for blood. Does that seem a rational argument?
If its some other substance, then the situation is that there just happens to be three bare foot prints limited to the area outside the door that are revealed in luminol, that are compatible with both Knox and Sollecito, but none other. That doesn’t seem a rational argument either.
And regarding the floating DNA; there’s sufficient Sollecito DNA floating around the house to be transferred to the bra clasp to be found “in abundant” measures, yet none really revealed elsewhere; yet the limited amounts congealed like a star being born to be found on the clasp. There’s sufficient DNA of Knox to be found in multiple blood drops, including the bedroom with the breakin, yet we accept at face value the “no DNA in the bedroom” argument heard round the world.
As for the footprint comparison between Sollecito, Guede, and the Luminol print found at the friends of amanda knox website, I knew upon looking at it immediately that they were a little ‘free’ with resizing the prints of the defendants to fit the print on the mat. Knox and Sollecito have different sized feet, but they present them as the same.
Regarding luminol footprints, I’ve seen statements that essentially if the blood is so week that its only revealed by luminol, the its highly feasible that there won’t be enough material to test for blood. Yes, the luminol can’t prove the prints are blood. But they’re there, only a few of them, in the immediate vicinity of the crime. As I posted in another post, what prompted police to look for them was the half-print in blood on the bath mat. Were were the rest of the bare foot-prints leading up to that bath mat? There weren’t any visible in the bedroom, but smears could have wiped them away.
Applying rationality- If the footprints in the hall are Knox’s from the shower that morning, then there must have been enough blood for knox to make 2 full left foot prints, yet so little blood that it wasn’t visible to knox taking her shower, nor was there any sufficient amount to test for blood. Does that seem a rational argument?
If its some other substance, then the situation is that there just happens to be three bare foot prints limited to the area outside the door that are revealed in luminol, that are compatible with both Knox and Sollecito, but none other. That doesn’t seem a rational argument either.
And regarding the floating DNA; there’s sufficient Sollecito DNA floating around the house to be transferred to the bra clasp to be found “in abundant” measures, yet none really revealed elsewhere; yet the limited amounts congealed like a star being born to be found on the clasp. There’s sufficient DNA of Knox to be found in multiple blood drops, including the bedroom with the breakin, yet we accept at face value the “no DNA in the bedroom” argument heard round the world.
As for the footprint comparison between Sollecito, Guede, and the Luminol print found at the friends of amanda knox website, I knew upon looking at it immediately that they were a little ‘free’ with resizing the prints of the defendants to fit the print on the mat. Knox and Sollecito have different sized feet, but they present them as the same.