feces in the toilet. although that degrades dna very rapidly, there was dna out there as well. his blood and fingerprints are on her purse. and there are bloody hand prints and blood down the walls of her bedroom. he may have been surprised i don t know why he left. he didn t complete the act of rape. she had a tampon in at the time. maybe that s why. guede left for germany. he admitted to a friend he had been with meredith that night but claimed he didn t kill her. his connection with amanda, raffaele and meredith was thin at best. there s a question about whether amanda and meredith knew him. amanda said i had seen him, but i didn t know his name. raffaele had never met rudy guede. never set eyes on him. didn t know anything about him. within days guede was picked up by police in germany. the initial assumption when rudy guede was extradited back to italy, it was always going to be over. everything pointed to him. he even had a motive. he had stated in a conversation
trial. with rudy guede they had strong evidence. they had his dna not only on her body, but actually inside of her. so this was a slam dunk case against rudy guede, and if this case were brought to justice in america, it s my suspicion that we would never be hearing about amanda or raffaele. the investigation would have begun and ended with rudy guede. but there may have been other reasons for granting rudy guede a quick trial. the prosecutor was convinced that this wasn t just rudy. that once rudy was found guilty, rudy would come and cooperate, especially if he was offered certain reductions in his sentence. in the end, rudy guede s trial was simply a warm-up. the real show was the prosecution of amanda knox.
bills, dna. i had all of it. went through all of it and was convinced she was innocent. with the evidence pointing at rudy guede as the lone killer, would the prosecution actually put amanda knox on trial for a murder she didn t commit? if the amanda knox case were to have been tried in america, it would have been the rudy guede case, period. hi, i m terry and i have diabetic nerve pain. it s hard to describe, because you have a numbness, but yet you have the pain like thousands of needles sticking in your foot. it was progressively getting worse, and at that point i knew i had to do something. once i started taking the lyrica the pain started subsiding. [ male announcer ] it s known that diabetes damages nerves. lyrica is fda approved to treat diabetic nerve pain. lyrica is not for everyone. it may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worsening depression, or unusual changes in mood or behavior. or
he was in the bathroom. he left his own dna in the bathroom. meredith may have come home and surprised him. maybe he was lying in wait. i hate to say it, but it s kind of the garden variety one guy kills tries to rape and rob girl case. in contrast to rudy guede s incriminating dna, amanda s defense team also set out to prove that the dna found on the knife, allegedly meredith s, did not implicate amanda or raffaele. they actually had independent experts come in, and they were absolutely appalled by the way the dna was collected and tested. those independent experts said the evidence is contaminated. it s not admissible. it s compromised. what they thought was meredith s dna was not dna at all. it was nothing. it didn t match her in any way, shape, or form. the prosecutor trying to rebut that suggests somehow amanda went back and cleaned up
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