Media Three on Amanda
posted by on February 11 at 15:52 PM
From the Times Online:
Cellmates of Amanda Knox, the American student suspected of involvement in the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia last November, have pleaded with prison authorities to stop her repeatedly singing the Beatles’ classic “Let it Be” at the top of her voice.Father Scarabattoli, the prison chaplain at Perugia, said Ms Knox, 20, from Seattle, had asked for a guitar so she could play the song as well a sing it, but this had been refused. Inmates have complained that Ms Knox sings the song all day long, with one jailer reported as agreeing with them that it “drives you mad”.
However Father Scarabattoli said she only sang the song at exercise time, in the open air, and he insisted it had a “spiritual dimension” since it referred to the intercession of the Virgin Mary. Ms Knox, who attended a Jesuit school, has been receiving religious instruction from the chaplain and reading the Bible.
The lyrics to “Let It Be” run: “When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be. And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be.”
As for the PI’s interview with crime writer Doug Preston?
[The PI:] What about Raffaele Sollecito, the other suspect? [Is he the killer?]Preston bends over backwards to reject the evidence against Amanda and Raffaele but makes no effort to question the evidence against Rudy Guede (the African). For him, Rudy is guilty because he looks guilty.[Preston:] I looked at him and said right away, “This guy is not a killer. Are you kidding me?”
I think he is just as innocent as Amanda is. They are not protecting each other. They are innocent.
He seems like a perfectly normal nice Italian boy. He has not ever shown any sign of deviancy. He comes from a good family. He had a normal upbringing. He looks like a fine upstanding Italian ragazzo.
People like that very seldom kill people.
Preston also says nothing about why Amanda fingered Patrick Lumumba (who was arrested, held for two weeks, and released due to a complete lack of evidence). Why did Amanda finger a completely innocent person?
About Rudy’s certain guilt, Preston states:
This is a very simple rape and murder, to me obviously committed by this fellow Rudy Guede. All of the forensic evidence points toward him. He’s a man with a history of petty crime, a known drug dealer. I believe he is the culprit.Yet the picture he paints of Judge Giuliano Mignini (the prosecutor in the case) is totally out of a sensational crime novel.[The PI:] But the prosecution has claimed this was a “group action” with the three suspects engaged in an elaborate sex game, resisted by the victim.
Look, I write thrillers for a living. And in my thrillers the person you least expect is the guilty party. But in real life, it doesn’t work like that. There is no conspiracy here. In real life, murders are banal and obvious.
Judge Giuliano Mignini is a maestro caettini (sinister master), a regular Count Fosco.
He believes the Monster killings were the work not of a lone killer but a satanic sect dating back to the Middle Ages. His theory, based on nonexistent evidence, supposition and conspiracy logic, was that this sect was operating in high places in government and they needed female body parts to perform Black Masses.
My problem is Preston’s certainty. The truth is somewhere in the haze, but no one really knows it. That is the best we can say at this moment.
As for the Oregonian: Thanks!
EDITOR'S NOTE: On October 3, 2011, Amanda Knox was acquitted of the murder of Meredith Kercher and released from prison.
She did it even if she didn't.
She was for doing it before she was against doing it.
Nice post.
dumb fucks. Mother Mary refers to Paul's mother not 'the' Mary.
The song was inspired by McCartney's mother, Mary McCartney, after he dreamt about her saying the words, "Let It Be".
Good post, Charles. Overall I've really enjoyed your coverage of this case.
I suppose I'm curious as to why you've taken this on so passionately. Is it that she's a university student, and you teach university students at PLU? Is it that she originally--and wrongly--accused a fellow African man of the act? Shed some light on yourself for us, if it's not too personal.
what draws me to this subject is its global nature. all that is global is of great interest to me.
The people who do things are usually the ones you think won't do them.
But ... she could easily be innocent.
I savored your Amanda Knox article at Bauhaus on Saturday morning, just as I'd planned.
That poor Amanda. If only she hadn't got mixed up in the wrong crowd, been shacking up, having sex out of wedlock, and experimenting in perverse sex.
So, a young black man is just as violent in Italy as a young black man is in the US? Is Charles asserting that it is racist to suppose that the culprit is of African descent? Why? They do tend to be.
And no, I am not maligning ALL black people, so call the dogs off, Stranger censors...
You know where else criminals tend to be of African descent? Africa!
It would be funnier if she sang "Run For Your Life" instead.
Or what if she suddenly started "singing" Daft Punk?
Now that would be cool ...
I've worked with her mother for eight years, and her mother's the same damn way - they're bubbly happy morning people, who SING and CHIRP at you first thing in the morning. It's awful and there oughta be a law.
#4 beat me to it.
What #1 said. Plus, she's got that special NW flavor of nutballs, the type that does it, whatever it is.
Does anyone else think Amanda is going to go for an insanity defense?
did anyone see the overly biased 20/20 report that completely (whoops) forgot to mention amanda knox's anti-semetic strak, her journal of incest, rape and murder and made her out to be a saint living abroad?
bitch please, everone knows as soon as people go to another country, they turn into huge partying sluts. except the mormons.
oh, and the lack of respect by knox's parents towards the girl amanda knox murdered.
out-fucking-standing model shitizens.
I'm really beginning to appreciate Mr. Mudede's readings. He scratches at the facts and lets the pus drip on to the page.
Robert Orsi writes about Marianism and Catholic saints worship as "stories that can't be told without blood." He talks of "companionship on a bitter journey" in which "meaning making begins in wounding." Instrumental suffering dissolves the distance between the devoted and god.
Mary is the mother who saw her son nailed to a cross, she's a victim for all sinners and a sacrificed virgin. "By imagining Mary's history with the emotional discernment born of their own experience, her devout understood and affirmed that Mary recognized the anxiety, loss, and PROMISE of what was happening to them." - Robert Orsi.
@4
"The image on the wall is inevitably viewed through the lens of the image within."
I'm just amazed that they asked Doug Preston for his opinion. Have they even read his books? I wouldn't trust the man to investigate a dirty diaper without help.
He writes pretty good fiction though.
That PI blogger (Candace Dempsey) who interviewed Preston has gone from asking the question "How does this story affect Seattle?" to rabidly proclaiming Knox's innocence as if she were on the Knox family payroll.
She has utterly run the full spectrum of inanity.
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