2 - On the morning of 2 November 2007 around 9:00 AM Biscarini Alessandro, resident with his mother and sister in via Sperandio 5 bis, discovered, in his garden, a MOTOROLA cellular telephone, which did not belong to anyone of his family [end p 1] It was assumed that it could have been lost by one of the agents who intervened the previous evening, as a result of an anonymous telephone call received on the cellular phone of his mother, Lana Elisabetta (telephone call that would have been subsequently assessed to be fruit of an inconsiderate joke). Thus, the decision of Ms. Lana to carry the cellular phone to the Local Police (fraud department). The telephone turned out to be corresponding to a number assigned to Romanelli Filomena, resident in Perugia, via della Pergola 7, near via Sperandio. During the same morning, around 12:00 PM, Ms. Lana's daughter discovered in same garden, in the vicinity of the point of retrieval of the first on, another cellular phone, this time branded Ericsson. The cellular phone, hidden under the leaves, was noticed only because it was heard ringing. This second cellular phone was also carried to the Fraud Police and taken into custody by the police commissioner Bartolozzi. It is a fact that in that same period of time a patrol of the same police force was sent in via della Pergola 7. Inspector Battistelli had to attest of being arrived on-spot at 12:35 PM where was detected the presence of Knox Amanda Marie, who resulted to be resident there with her boyfriend Sollecito Raffaele. They reported of being waiting for a patrol of the Carabinieri, having called the 112, after noticing that a window of a room had a smashed glass. It is a fact that, shortly thereafter Altieri Luca and Zaroli Marco arrived on the spot, followed some minutes later by their girlfriends, Grande Paola e Romanelli Filomena. The apartment turned out to be situated inside a two story building: the ground floor was occupied by Romanelli, a certain Mezzetti Laura, absent in that moment, the aforementioned Amanda and the young English Kercher Meredith Susanna Cara; the basement was occupied by four Italian boys, all absent. From a first examination it turned out that in Romanelli's room, although it was cluttered, actually nothing was missing, even if the glass of the window, found open, turned out to be smashed with a stone retrieved inside the room along with the shards of glass. It was considered most significant the fact that the two recently retrieved cellular phones belonged both to the young housemate Kercher Meredith Susanna Cara and that the door of her room turned out to be locked. For this reason, after some uncertainty, it was decided to knock down the door. The task was carried out by Altieri Luca, which, however, pulled back immediately, after noticing blood and devastation inside the room and above all a foot, protruding from under a blanket. In such way the corpse of the poor Meredith was uncovered. [end p 2]

3 - It followed, since the 2 of November, all the appropriate evaluations carried out by the forensic department of Rome's police, the forensic investigation lasted several days and was aimed to locate biological material, palm prints and fingerprints.