[cherry]

I don't know what to believe about this case, except I heard that her bloody footprints were found at the scene and the knife used, which was found at the boyfriends house, had sweet Amanda's dna on it....

who to believe?

mostly, we better think twice before we send our snotty elitist American priviledged young people to foreign countries ....the locals don't like it..

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I don't know what to believe about this case, except I heard that her bloody footprints were found at the scene and the knife used, which was found at the boyfriends house, had sweet Amanda's dna on it...

All proven in the appeal process to be false statements by police and prosecutors. The knife found in Sollectito's apartment didn't match any of the wounds on Kercher or the bloody print of a knife on Kercher's sheets. Here's how a retired FBI agent summed up the alleged DNA test:

What was left of the sample from the blade was tested for DNA.. The results were negative.There was no DNA on the blade. This is when all guidelines for testing DNA were thrown out the window. Stefanoni used a very new, unproven technique called low copy number DNA profiling. Patrizia Stefanoni had neither the proper equipment nor the proper laboratory to perform low copy number DNA profiling, but she did it anyway. There are only a few such laboratories in the world. Her own lab was not even certified to perform ordinary DNA profiling at the time these tests were performed. Stefanoni performed tests that do not conform to any standard, anywhere.

Even with the low copy number method, Stefanoni was still not getting the desired result. The tests kept coming back "too low." She took even more drastic measures. The machine parameters were over-ridden. The machine parameters were pushed far past the level of reliability finally producing the result she needed. Keep in mind, the test was done in a lab using large amounts of Meredith's DNA. No negative controls were used. The alleged match to Meredith’s DNA is completely unreliable because the result was so infinitesimally small (less than 100 picograms, with a picogram being a trillionth of a gram, or 0.000000000001 gram). The procedures used to get the result Stefanoni needed were deeply flawed. The DNA found on the knife came from the lab. The knife had no DNA from Meredith Kercher on the blade when it arrived for testing. The DNA sample was so small that only one test could be performed. No additional testing will ever be available.

And while chemical testing showed footprints throughout the apartment, the only ones that showed positive for blood were Guede's.

[rogue yam]

Amanda’s footprints were not found at the scene and the knife in question was not the murder weapon.