the death of the poor Meredith would have been caused by a meta-hemorrhagic shock from a vascular lesion of the neck from a puncture and sharp wound; the wounds did not permit to trace back to the wounding instrument, provided that such instrument must have had tip able to penetrate and blade sharp enough to excise the tissues: presumably the weapon should have been single-edged; from the thanatochronological data available and in relation to the digestive phase achieved (based on the assumption of a dinner consumed at 9 PM of 1- November -2007) it should have been possible to assert that the death would have been occurred - with a possible error of 1 hour - around 11 PM of that same first November; there were not unequivocal proofs of a sexual violence, even if should have been considered of some interest the anal expansion, the observation of light ecchymosis on the back of the anal sphincter [ end p 5] , moreover compatible with situations of constipation, and above all the purple spots on the inner side of the labia minora, evocative of a rapid sexual relationship, completed before the feminine subject had had the time to produce adequate lubrication, and happened in a period close to the observation but however before the death of the women, in accordance with the ecchymotic lesions and their color.

5 - The investigation was carried out in every direction aiming to reconstruct the social circle of the victim and to comprehend what could have happened the first November and the morning of the 2nd November, among other things marked by the recovery of the two cellular phones, both belonging to the victim. On a general level emerged that the victim attended the University for foreigners under the so called Erasmus project and she was resident in the apartment located in via della Pergola 7, together with the aforementioned Amanda Knox and the two Italians mentioned above. Once the hour of death was placed in the evening of the first November, it was assessed that Ms. Romanelli was outside Perugia from the previous day, and that Ms. Mezzetti had passed the day and the successive night with her fiancée and that, like stated before, also the four Italian boys, residents of the basement apartment, were absent for a couple of days in order to spend the All Saints' Day holidays in their homes. The fact results to be solidly proven by a congeries of matching probatory acquisitions and it does not deserve any further verification. Among the Italians it has to be considered Silenzi Giacomo that was recently maintaining a relationship, totally satisfactory for both, with the young victim. It is a fact that, according to every friend and acquaintances, in that period of time Meredith, even though she loved to go out and have fun, like she did on the occasion of the festivity of Halloween, she did not have romantic relations with no other than Giacomo (otherwise the fact would have been surely confided to her friends). It turned out also that the young woman had passed the afternoon of the first November with four friends in the house of two of them (Amy and Robin), where she had eaten and watched a movie, an then returned home in the evening around 9 PM, From the clarifications supplied by Purton Sophie emerged that the dinner had actually been consumed from 6 PM and that she went out from the house of Amy and Robin (located in Via Bontemponi) with Meredith and they rapidly reached, approximately at 8:55 PM, via del Lupo, where she resided. Meredith would have had therefore to cover alone an ulterior stretch of road, for which, like emerged from a dedicated experiment, would have been necessary a few minutes, less than ten.