This assumption that at least part of the burglary/break in was staged seems to me entirely unjustified. The only thing I’ve heard offered to support it is that the broken glass was on top of the strewn clothes, but seriously that doesn’t prove anything… maybe the clothes were just strewn across the room innocently… maybe the glass just happened by chance to end up on top at the end of the clothes being mucked about with.… theres an infinite possible number of explanations that don’t involve anything being staged.
And as to the assertion that it was staged since it looked like a burglary but nothing was stolen, thats simply not true: kercher’s two cellphones were stolen, at a minimum (any number of other things might also have been stolen, but just not noticed missing, due to their owner not being around to point them out)
Sorry, the clothes were strewn across the room innocently? By whom? For what possible reason? If the girl who lived in the room hadn’t said anything about the matter I’d assume she was just messy. But that wasn’t her testimony. The matter of the glass on top of the clothes depends on how much glass was found on top of the clothes. But I agree that it could have happened even if the window was broken first.
The two cell phones weren’t being stolen isn’t evidence that someone broke to steal them since they ended up tossed in someone’s garden and not sold to someone. Something else might have been stolen but 1) the roommates and the family of the victim are probably capable of making a good accounting of Kercher’s valuable possessions. Presumably this was done by the police, though their competence is definitely suspect at this point. And 2) it is improbable that someone breaking in to steal things would only happen to steal those things which belonged to the person they also killed and only those things her family and friends wouldn’t notice missing.
The story that actually explains that a burglary without missing property is that the thief entered, was surprised by Kertcher, killed her (and raped her?) and then panicked and decided not to steal anything for fear it would implicate them.
“Sorry, the clothes were strewn across the room innocently? By whom? For what possible reason?”
I haven’t seen the crimescene, I’m only speculating of course. But does the fact that some friends describe her as a neat person really preclude any possibility whatsoever that she might have had some clothes strewn about? Maybe she was a neat person who cleaned up her room once a day or so, but just hadn’t gotten to her daily cleaning session yet that day when the crime occurred. Or maybe her friends were just being nice by describing her as neat. Or maybe any of a million other things. The point is that there are so many possible explanations for this that it has no evidentiary value—it’s just noise, to paraphrase OP
The clothing and room in question didn’t belong to Meredith Kercher. They belong to the other roommate Filomena Romanelli. The claim that someone had scattered her clothing about the room is based on her testimony about her clothing, in her room. The possibilities are 1) Someone strew her clothes across the room, 2) she is lying about the condition she left her room in, 3) she is seriously misremembering the condition she left her room in.
This assumption that at least part of the burglary/break in was staged seems to me entirely unjustified. The only thing I’ve heard offered to support it is that the broken glass was on top of the strewn clothes, but seriously that doesn’t prove anything… maybe the clothes were just strewn across the room innocently… maybe the glass just happened by chance to end up on top at the end of the clothes being mucked about with.… theres an infinite possible number of explanations that don’t involve anything being staged.
And as to the assertion that it was staged since it looked like a burglary but nothing was stolen, thats simply not true: kercher’s two cellphones were stolen, at a minimum (any number of other things might also have been stolen, but just not noticed missing, due to their owner not being around to point them out)
Sorry, the clothes were strewn across the room innocently? By whom? For what possible reason? If the girl who lived in the room hadn’t said anything about the matter I’d assume she was just messy. But that wasn’t her testimony. The matter of the glass on top of the clothes depends on how much glass was found on top of the clothes. But I agree that it could have happened even if the window was broken first.
The two cell phones weren’t being stolen isn’t evidence that someone broke to steal them since they ended up tossed in someone’s garden and not sold to someone. Something else might have been stolen but 1) the roommates and the family of the victim are probably capable of making a good accounting of Kercher’s valuable possessions. Presumably this was done by the police, though their competence is definitely suspect at this point. And 2) it is improbable that someone breaking in to steal things would only happen to steal those things which belonged to the person they also killed and only those things her family and friends wouldn’t notice missing.
The story that actually explains that a burglary without missing property is that the thief entered, was surprised by Kertcher, killed her (and raped her?) and then panicked and decided not to steal anything for fear it would implicate them.
And let’s not forget, that many stranger-on-stranger rapes are burglaries and crimes of opportunity.
“Sorry, the clothes were strewn across the room innocently? By whom? For what possible reason?”
I haven’t seen the crimescene, I’m only speculating of course. But does the fact that some friends describe her as a neat person really preclude any possibility whatsoever that she might have had some clothes strewn about? Maybe she was a neat person who cleaned up her room once a day or so, but just hadn’t gotten to her daily cleaning session yet that day when the crime occurred. Or maybe her friends were just being nice by describing her as neat. Or maybe any of a million other things. The point is that there are so many possible explanations for this that it has no evidentiary value—it’s just noise, to paraphrase OP
The clothing and room in question didn’t belong to Meredith Kercher. They belong to the other roommate Filomena Romanelli. The claim that someone had scattered her clothing about the room is based on her testimony about her clothing, in her room. The possibilities are 1) Someone strew her clothes across the room, 2) she is lying about the condition she left her room in, 3) she is seriously misremembering the condition she left her room in.