Bedroom Murder Investigation

Throughout the murder investigation, numerous failures were presented. The first failure was the crime scene becoming contaminated from the moment investigators entered the room that Meredith Kercher’s body was found, without wearing appropriate protective clothing (Contamination, 2016). Professors Carla Vecchiotti and Stefano Conti were appointed by the independent court of appeal to give their expert opinion on the DNA evidence, in which they explain, “Every protocol in the book was broken by the crime scene investigators” (Contamination, 2016). Referring to the fact that the crime scene, including all evidence collected becoming contaminated, thus becoming inadmissible in court (Contamination, 2016). Vecchiotti and Conti also indicate that …show more content…
Dr Mark Waterbury conducted an analysis of a knife print that was located on the bed in Kercher’s room, in which he concluded “Raffaele's kitchen knife was much too large to make the imprint on the bed (Perugia, 2016). The prosecution’s case was set solely on the evidence collected at the crime scene but with this evidence becoming contaminated, it was classed as “not reliable” in the courtroom. As mentioned above, Amanda Knox was asked to attend the police station shortly after Kercher’s death in order to talk to police investigators about the events that took place leading up to the murder. For several days, Knox was subject to several hours of interrogations. During these investigations it is evident that police bullied Knox by yelling at her (in a language she hardly understood), physically hitting her on the back of the head, depriving her of water and legal representation, this commenced for up to 53 hours before Knox falsely implicated Diya Lumumba (her boss) in the murder of Meredith Kercher (Interrogation, n.d.). This false confession is known as a “Stress-compliant false