u/ArtichokeTraining688

Ahh the bus. The good old bus. Raffaelle never misses an opportunity to throw Amanda under it. Nor does Amanda miss an opportunity to throw Raffaelle under it. Just a few extracts from his book in which he reliably chucks her under the bus. (To throw someone under the bus is an idiomatic expression that means to betray, blame, or sacrifice a friend, colleague, or ally for personal gain or to avoid trouble)

Speaking about his family’s reaction to Amanda doing the bathmat sashay “most of my family could not fathom how she could go ahead with her shower after finding blood on the tap, much less put her feet on the wet bathmat, which was also stained with blood, and drag it across the floor”. Thank you Raffaelle’s family for acknowledging the ridiculousness of the bathmat sashay.

Speaking about Amanda’s behaviour in the station. “The English girls later said they were appalled by Amanda’s behaviour and I admit, it made me a little uneasy too.””She was acting like a little girl” Her “unrestrained behaviour” was “embarrassing” and “I can understand why Meredith’s friends were put off”

Speaking about Amanda’s behaviour in the station. “Three days after the murder- I realised I had not acknowledged my own discomfort with Amanda.” “I shouldn’t have allowed her to climb all over me in the Questura, and I shouldn’t have counseled her quietly not to complain so much.

Raffaelle’s statement to the police “In my last statement, I told you a lot of crap because she (Amanda) talked me in to her version of events, and I didn’t think about the inconsistencies”

From Honour Bound - asked if Amanda had gone out on the night of the murder, Raffaelle says “I can’t… I can’t” “I can’t remember exactly”

From Honour Bound, speaking about Amanda “I didn’t believe she was capable of murder, but I did have doubts about the crowd she ran in. Maybe she knew something. Maybe there was something she hadn’t told me.”

From Honour Bound, speaking about his computer evidence. “I’m convinced to this day that the computer could have exonerated me completely, and probably Amanda too.”

From Honour Bound, speaking about Amanda’s statement in the Questura “I was beginning to wonder if I could trust her on anything, including her sexual fidelity” “I even asked myself if she might have taken my pocketknife and given it to the son of a bitch who murdered Meredith.”

I’m sure there’s more… but enjoy these quotes!

So Amanda says she wakes up at 10am (a lie, Raffaele was listening to hardcore music at 5:30am on his laptop and said Amanda woke up before him.) But I digress.

She leaves at approximately 10:30am to go back to her house to take laundry in a plastic bag, get a mop, shower, and change her clothes to a dress (so much cleeaaaninggg, someone needed to cleaaan).

Anyway. Meredith’s house is a 5 min walk from Raffaele’s flat. So that leaves us with Amanda arriving at the house at approximately 10:35am. She goes in (leaves the door open and unlocked for Meredith to re-enter, but I digress again), she gets changed in her room, walks nekked to the shower, spots the blood. This can’t be much later than 10:45am.

After the bloody bathmat sashay, she must have discovered the faeces in the bathroom (the one she didn’t flush while drying her hair) at say 10:55 latest So right there, at 11:00am, she has discovered the blood, the ****, and the open door.

How long do you think it takes Amanda to call the police? Well, she never does. But ok, how long does it take Raffaele to call the police? And what does Amanda do in that time?

I will answer after this list.

In between the discovery at 11:00am and Raffaele calling the police, Amanda:

Walks back to Raffaele's flat (and doesn’t call the police)

Eats breakfast with Raffaele (and doesn’t call the police)

Mops up Raffaelle’s wet floor (and doesn’t call the police)

Tells Raffaelle about the blood, the faeces and the open door (and doesn’t call the police)

12:07 PM: Calls Meredith's English cell phone (and doesn’t call the police)

12:08 PM: Calls Filomena (and doesn’t call the police)

12:11 PM: Calls Meredith's Italian cell phone (and doesn’t call the police)

12:11 PM: Calls Meredith's English cell phone again (and doesn’t call the police)

Walks back to Meredith’s flat (and doesn’t call the police)

(Note: Filomena tries calling Amanda back twice at 12:12 PM and 12:20 PM, but Amanda doesn't answer either call).

12:47 PM: Calls her mum in Seattle (and doesn’t call the police)

12:52 PM: Raffaele finally calls the police (112).

There is a massive, unexplained one-hour gap between 11:00am and 12:07pm where she allegedly did nothing but eat breakfast and mop. It also highlights a 36-minute gap between her frantic calls to Meredith/Filomena (12:11) and her call to her mother (12:47) where, once again, no one bothered to dial the authorities.

1 hour 52 minutes after discovering the blood, the ****, and the unlocked open door, Amanda still doesn’t call the police. Raffaele does instead.

In mouth of the wolf, Amanda, instead of taking the opportunity to promote her friend who was brutally murdered, takes the opportunity to promote not one, but two of her new songs.

Amanda presents herself as some musical genius. A Mozart learning to play music in prison without a piano. Amanda makes her own paper keyboard to learn the notes and play.

Amanda makes out that the fact that she can’t have a piano in prison is a prosecution against her right for creative freedom. Really it’s probably just so that prisoners don’t make shanks out of the keys. But anyway.

Amanda’s musicality features heavily in the documentary. She tries to convince her pastor that she is innocent, incidentally with her music. Surely, if I can sing this good, I must be innocent!! Right pastor?

So the first song comes pretty much immediately after Amanda has finished speaking at the innocence project in Italy. The introduction of Amanda‘a own song in to the documentary was jarring. It hit me left of field. There is no explanation for it. It just feels like shameless promotion and commercialism.

Perhaps, if Amanda was a commercially successful musician, like Shakira or Beyonce, this would make sense. A musical documentary about a musician. Fine. But Amanda isn’t known for that. She’s known for being accused and imprisoned for the murder of Meredith Kercher. So why make the documentary about her music?

Why not make it about Meredith?

We know Amanda always wanted to write songs about the death of Meredith Kercher. She said so days after Kercher was killed in the police station.

So to me, this is Amanda fulfilling one of her life long objectives. To make creative content out of the death of Meredith.

The last song is the worst.

Amanda is there playing the same paper keyboard she learnt to play in prison. It feels so unbelievably arrogant, self centred and narcissistic. Really, it is Amanda just pretending again and that’s why it’s so jarring. Pretending to be playing a keyboard. Pretending to be a victim.

She identifies as some combination of Viktor Frankl and Mozart