14 DAY TRIAL // An SMS message linking a suspect to another, the cell-phone of the same suspect emitting a signal from the zone of the murder scene although an "I wasn't there" was declared to the police, a picture of yet another suspect using a machinegun while laughing posted on MySpace and a few more such clues make it all sound like a sci-fi futuristic novel.
Unfortunately for Meredith Kercher, aged 21, it was not the case. She was murdered on the 1st of November and the police have many leads and a number of suspects to match those leads.
First off, there's Amanda Knox, 20, a flatmate of Meredith that sent a message to Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba Diya on the night of the murder saying "See you later." Diya, released from custody on Tuesday, claims to have been pulling pints at his pub and that the message shouldn't be taken literally. The flaw in this simple statement is that his cell phone emitted a signal from the zone of the murder and with him not saying anything about it being stolen or anything at the sort? suspicion still surrounds him.
The glue that seems to hold the case together and the suspects closely related is Knox, who reportedly spent the evening of the "sexually motivated" murder smoking hash with her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. She is the one with the footage of the machinegun being used but the profile has been since removed from the web. She also has reportedly posted a short story that referred to a woman's rape. Her boyfriend, though, posted a photo of himself wearing something like a hazardous material suit, brandishing a cleaver and holding a container of pink liquid in his other hand.
Another suspect, Rudy Hermann Guede was arrested in Germany after a Skype conversation that pinpointed his location. A lot of high-tech methods and clues for a quintessentially low-tech murder, wouldn't you agree?