Originally Posted by
TomG
The way I see it is that Mignini and the cops made a decision on the discovery of break-in that the act had been staged they therefore didn't treat Filomena's room as a bona-fide crime scene. We've all seen Ron Hendry's analysis and evaluated it for ourselves, and there's no reason whatsoever to conclude that the break-in was staged, it's so freaking obviously authentic. Why would Mignini come to such a bizarre conclusion if it wasn't to protect Rudy?
Because they immediately made incorrect assumptions and judgments. Follain wrote:
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He looked into Filomena’s room and like Napoleoni before him, he noticed the shards of glass on top of the piles of clothes and the large stone on the floor; it was obvious to him too that it could never have come through the window without shattering the shutters. He thought immediately that the window must have been broken by someone standing inside the room. ‘There’s a traitor in this house, someone who participated in the crime or helped to cover it up or who did both,’ Mignini thought to himself. Perhaps the killer had entered through the front door, and staged a fake burglary to throw suspicion on an outsider, assisted by someone living in the cottage – in either of the two flats – who at the very least, acted as an accomplice to the murder.
That 'traitor' was a female since only a woman would cover the body according to Mignini.
Mignini, with Holmes-like observation skills noted that Amanda would
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occasionally put both hands up to press her temples and then shake her head. It was as if, he thought, she wanted to empty her mind of something.
And don't forget that he also became suspicious of Knox because she was 'canoodling' with Raff.