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THE PERUGIA NIGHT RAPTOR -
Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

CBS TV has posted a preview of their investigation into the Meredith Kercher homicide, which will be carried on 48 Hours Saturday night. This series usually presents a very good quality program, which I sometimes watch, but ever since CBS merged their news and entertainment divisions, legitimate questions can be raised as to what their primary objectives are with these programs.

In this case, it does not auger well that the posted preview seems to contain some conspicuous inaccuracies even before they broadcast it.

First, Amanda Knox is NOT being held in "a maximum security Italian prison." Capanne, we have been led to believe, is a relatively low level security facility, more like a secure halfway house. She is there primarily because she gave conflicting stories accounting for her whereabouts.

Meredith Kercher's throat was not slashed; worse yet, it appears that she was stabbed through her neck, like from right to left, the path of the knife breaking her Adam's apple along the way - a particularly vicious manner of killing someone.

She may have been in a choke hold at the time, although there are reported indications that she was being tackled from behind, according to some of the forensic investigators. The description given seems reminiscent of the way a hawk or an eagle kills its prey.

Was she in a stupor? We don't have the toxicological results; someone may have slipped a "micky" into her beverage, perhaps to facilitate the robbery of the cottage. The murder may have occurred subsequent to the robbery and by an entirely different and separate culprit.

I hope they catch whoever committed this murder, because he is a dangerous homicidal psychopath; if he is not caught and put away, he will probably do it again. I wouldn't want any other young women to share Meredith Kercher's tortured death.

Despite my preliminary misgivings, I look forward to whatever 48 Hours can illuminate about this situation. It is an intriguing mystery, but very troubling, too.

And, by the way, CBS is usually very generous
about posting material from this series onto the Net.

:: A Long Way From Home ::

Saturday - April 12th at 10pm ET/PT.

Produced by Joe Halderman, Douglas Longhini, and Chris Young. Peter Van Sant is the reporter or presenter. He has been assisted by Private Investigator Paul Ciolino.

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