User:Wikid77/Evidence MK

This is a deleted section from "Murder of Meredith Kercher", removed on 1 May 2010.

Detailed forensics

Kercher was murdered on the evening of 1 November 2007. The pathologists put her time of death at around 23:00.

The Italian forensic police (Servizio di Polizia Scientifica), from Rome (100 miles or 160 km south of Perugia), were immediately contacted to process the crime scene on 2 November 2007. They also processed evidence seized from other sites. The various investigations included:

• Kercher-Knox house on Via della Pergola (the downstairs was also searched; see above)

• 1st visit: 2–3 November 2007 (body examined 1am, 3 November)
• 2nd visit: 18 December 2007 (bra clasp re-found under Kercher desk)

• Sollecito's flat (apartment) on Via Garibaldi, purchased by parents
• Guede's flat (found empty package for Nike Outbreak 2 shoes)
• Sollecito's automobile (found no evidence of blood or knives)
• Lumumba's pub Le Chic (closed November-December 2007)

Each site was closed for a different length of time. Intruders broke into the main crime scene multiple times, such as in February 2009, when they ransacked the upstairs and left 4 kitchen knives and candles in various rooms.

Detailed timeline

The following is a list of events that occurred on 1–2 November 2007, with each event documented by a footnote to the source:

• 20:18:12 Amanda Knox receives a text message (sms) from manager Lumumba telling her not to come to work that night
• 20:35:48 Amanda sends text message (sms) reply to Patrick Lumumba, turns off phone a bit later.
• 20:42:56 (221 seconds) Sollecito receives phone call from his father.
• 20:55 Kercher friend Sophie arrives home after leaving Kercher walking along street
• 21:15 Kercher returns to flat after seeing DVD film with friends (estimated time)
• 22:00 Kercher UK mobile phone dials her London bank but wrong prefix code prevents call
• 22:13 Kercher's UK mobile phone receives call (unanswered) through another mobile station
• 22:25 Rudy Guede claims he left Meredith dying around this time & went home along backstreets
• 22:30–23:00 Kercher killed by Knox and Sollecito about this time (according to result of the trial)
• 06:02:59 Sollecito mobile phone receives text msg (sms) sent by his father at 23:41
• 11:38 Phone brought to Postal Police is traced to Filomena R.
• 11:50 Postal police record that Lana B. & daughter (called) say they do not know this Filomena
• 12:00? Postal police are called by Lana's daughter about finding phone #2 (UK) in garden
• 12:07:12 (duration 16 seconds) Amanda calls English number of Kercher
• 12:08:44 (68 seconds) Amanda calls Filomena (about door open & blood spots)
• 12:11:02 (3 seconds) Amanda calls Italian phone of Kercher, call forwarded to voicemail.
• 12:11:54 (4 seconds) Amanda calls Kercher UK phone again
• 12:12:35 (36 seconds) Filomena R. calls Amanda
• 12:20:44 (65 seconds) Filomena R. calls Amanda again
• 12:34:56 (48 seconds) Filomena R. calls Amanda.
• 12:35 2 Postal police claim they arrive outside flat, meet Knox/Sollecito who talk of broken glass & blood
• 12:40 (67 seconds) Sollicito receives call from his father.
• 12:46 Postal police station logs receipt of mobile phone #2 delivered by neighbor's daughter
• 12:47:23 (88 seconds) Amanda call's mother in Seattle.
• 12:50:34 (39 seconds) Sollecito calls his sister in the Carabinieri, a different branch of the Italian police
• 12:51:40 (169 seconds) Sollecito calls "112" to report theft
• 12:54 (57 seconds) Sollecito calls "112" again,
• 13:00 Filomena R. and her friends arrive at the flat. Kercher's door is forced open.
• 13:15 Victim's body discovered lying under blood-soaked duvet.

Details of Kercher's room

As the main crime scene, the bedroom of Meredith Kercher was extensively analyzed on 2–3 November (with the body) and six weeks later, on 18 December 2007.

In Kercher's bedroom, the body had been found on the floor, lying on the back, with head towards the front wall and left foot towards the back wall (along the doorway). Blood was found on numerous items in the room, including:

some white tennis shoes, blue jeans and a white severed bra on the floor, a zippered blue shirt, and two towels partially or totally soaked in blood. On the bed there was a book with blood at the corner plus two blood patches on the mattress sheet, between a white terrycloth towel with blood smears and a beige woman's handbag of imitation leather (Italian: una borsa da donna in similpelle). Around the floor were patches of blood (some with the imprints of "hair formations") and 3 floormarks with blood "signs of concentric circles" (Italian: segni circolari concentrici) considered to be a foot trail of three bloody shoeprints. Underneath the body was a white pillow, containing a blood handprint. Dried blood pools were found around the wardrobe case in the outside corner of the room, with leather boots standing in the blood.

The DNA of Rudy Guede was matched at many locations in the bedroom. His DNA was matched on and inside Kercher's body, on her shirt, her bra (left side and severed bra clasp), on the zipper of her handbag (purse) and mixed with Kercher's blood spatter. His partial palm print in Kercher's blood was found on a pillow under the body, matched from the 27 October 2007 booking, when Guede had been fingerprinted and charged with carrying a concealed weapon (large kitchen knife) and the stolen PC/phone from the Perugia law office.

The shoe-prints on the floor were matched to the pattern of Nike Outbreak 2 shoes, and an empty package of that Nike pattern had been found at Guede's residence. The shoe-print on the pillow also matched the Nike Outbreak 2 pattern, with the pilowcase folded, but that shoe-print did not match any of the shoes sequestered from Knox's room in the house.

After the house was visited by the judges and lawyers of the Knox-Sollecito trial, the house was released, back to the owners, in mid-April 2009.

References

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