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Old 19th June 2019, 12:39 AM   #219
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Originally Posted by Numbers View Post
Mignini (who believes he is a real-life Sherlock Holmes) and the police wanted to solve the case quickly. While I can't prove that they didn't want to protect Guede, it's just as likely that they didn't want to chase all over Italy or Europe to find some random guy who had broken the window by throwing a rock at it and then climbed through the broken window (removing some of the glass to prevent injury).

Therefore, assume that the break-in was staged and therefore narrow the focus of the investigation to the persons at hand, primarily the residents of the cottage. Who has a weak alibi? That obviously naive American girl, Amanda; only her new Italian boyfriend can vouch for her location at the relevant time. So he must be a suspect in order to make her a suspect. Now, because those two don't seem that murderous, there needs to be a heavy, someone who Amanda can be coerced into naming. Case closed. No need to search for an unknown burglar/rapist/murderer.
If you hypothesise that Mignini and the cops quite legitimately didn't know that Rudy was involved on Nov. 2nd, then you head into the interrogations of 5th-6th Nov with the same hypothesis, you then end up with a scenario that negates the argument that the calunnia was contrived by Mignini, since it implies that the cops didn't really know who the killer was, and were actually misled when Amanda implicated Lumumba. My argument has always been that Mignini and the cops knew that Rudy was involved by the night of the interrogations and they ushered in Lumumba on the strength of the text messages in order to protect Rudy. If you take the protection of Rudy out of the equation during the interrogation then the did she or didn't she argument becomes much more evenly contested.

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