Monday, October 17, 2011
Science Boise State Professor Uses Science to Exonerate Amanda Knox
Posted by Andrew Crisp on Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:26 PM
Dr. Greg Hampikian, Boise State professor and director of the Idaho Innocence Project, took the stage at the university's Student Union Building today to speak about his organization's role in the acquittal of Amanda Knox. News outlets around the world reported on the Italian murder trial.
“My introduction to this case was through the British tabloids,” Hampikian told the audience. “I never expected to work on it for three and a half years.”
Italian prosecutors originally convicted Knox and boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, Knox’s then-roommate. The DNA evidence analyzed by IIP pointed to a different suspect: a drifter named Rudy Guede.
The IIP uses DNA, found in every human cell, to paint the picture of a crime scene. Using a component from toothpaste and another from a meat tenderizer, the bulk of cellular residue can be cut away to extract the DNA. With a small amount of DNA, a person can be linked to the evidence.
“We can amplify your entire genome from a single cell, and it takes about 90 minutes,” said Hampikian.
His lecture admits that science can do some wonderful things, but he also talked about how bad science can lead to the wrong conclusions.
“Truth comes from science, and the story of how this crime was committed does not fit the evidence,” said Hampikian.
He attributed it to an overzealous Italian prosecutor, anxious to link evidence from the Perugia apartment to Knox and Sollecito. Hampikian showed the audience readouts of the amount of DNA found on a knife from Sollecito’s apartment, where Kercher had allegedly never been. The prosecution claimed Kercher's DNA showed up on the knife.
“They go to Amanda Knox’s boyfriend’s house down the road. ... They open the kitchen drawer and take one kitchen knife,” said Hampikian of the prosecution. “They aren’t able to say why they took that.”
Hampikian said this wasn’t surprising. DNA residue isn’t like fingerprints. It doesn’t smudge, and it’s easy to transfer.
In a mock investigation of a Boise State office, Hampikian and his research team collected soda cans from five different employees—and with the same gloves—handled five different freshly unwrapped knives. They found that when they set their instruments to look for even trace amounts of DNA, they found a link.
In short, the Italian prosecutors drilled down the minutia of DNA residue for the goal they wanted.
Instead, Hampikian and the defense found DNA from Guede in massive quantities on Kercher’s personal possessions, inside her vagina, and in a bathroom of the apartment. No murder weapon was ever found.
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What we learn from this case is that you need integrity to be a DNA scientist.
The prosecution had nothing placing these innocent students at the crime scene, so they came up with the bogus knife and bra clasp, and used DNA science malevolently to obtain a conviction.
Thank you Dr Hampikian for bringing the truth at the forefront, and for your integrity.
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In order to understand why the Italian "justice" system allowed Mignini to put so many people through hell, and to waste so much time and money, you must recognize that "Satanic ritual abuse" is meant in the sense of being repetitious, like a morning ritual, not in the sense of being ceremonial. SRA can consist of ANY FORM OF GRATUITOUS CRUELTY, as long as it remains hidden or can be explained as something else, and it's most effective against KNOWN INNOCENT PEOPLE such as Knox, Sollecito, and Lumumba, for simply being human. Mignini himself said that Knox was unknowingly part of a Satanic ritual, referring to what HE (and his fellow Satanists within the Italian "justice" system, and organized Satanism all over the world) were doing to HER and her sympathizers. "Guilters" don't really believe she's guilty - they're lying in order to torment her.
Tellingly, Mignini did not try to suppress the orgies which reportedly take place in the Perugia area, even though he claimed to believe that they could involve murder. This is because his actual goal was to take murders (apparently committed by organized Satanism), and pin them on innocent people in order to destroy their lives and their minds. He does this by weaving lurid fantasy-versions of "Satanic ritual murder" which involve the murder victim and his (Mignini's) intended victims, and manufacturing evidence to link these fantasies to the real world. Then he and organized Satanism in general attack like piranhas, lying their butts off.
Kercher's killer Guede, I surmise, is also a Satanist. He probably murdered Kercher at the behest of organized Satanism, and possibly Mignini himself. This would explain Guede's immunity from prosecution for his crime spree leading up to the murder. After all, Mignini (an apparent figurehead for organized Satanism) needed a new murder, and new scapegoats, because his "Monster of Florence"-related "zealous prosecution" had been found to be "mistaken" and had been shut down. The "justice" system slapped him on the wrist for destroying so many lives and wasting vast amounts of time and money, but it actually did this to protect its image. In fact, the system was set up to serve as a playground for organized Satanism.
Kercher's murder was apparently also partly intended to serve as an advanced form of SRA for Guede, and to give him the impression that it was an initiation into black magic. Although Guede ended up in prison (not even the Italian police could ignore the massive amount of physical evidence against him), his sentence was dramatically reduced, supposedly "due to his age and his clean record" (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1339443/Amanda-Knoxs-killer-Rudy-Guede-serve-16-years-final-appeal-fails.html). If his record was clean, it was only because the authorities looked the other way while he went on a crime spree leading up to the murder. The real reason is probably that he's a member of organized Satanism, and of course, to torment Knox and her sympathizers. His lawyer is supposedly still trying to get him declared innocent, and if he actually does, I suppose the Italian government will buy him a luxury crib in some haven for Satanic fugitives from real justice. At least he's no longer homeless, and I haven't been able to find any indication that he is being subjected to SRA in prison, as were Knox, Sollecito, and Lumumba. (Sollecito recently claimed he was subjected to physical abuse during his initial "interrogation.") But Guede, the actual killer, is being treated with kid gloves and with SYMPATHY from the prosecutor!
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