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The Disgrace of Italian Justice

By Mark Olshaker On January 31, 2014 · 12 Comments

Amanda Knox & Raffaele Sollecito

Now is not the time to present all of the evidence proving that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are completely innocent in the brutal murder of Meredith Kercher and that Rudy Guede is the sole killer. Now is not the time to use logic and reason to convince the “guilters.” Now is not the time to give the police, investigators, prosecutors, judges and juries the benefit of the doubt as to motives and methods. We’ve tried all of that and it hasn’t worked.

Now is the time to tell it like it is, straight and unvarnished by niceties:

The conviction of Amanda and Raffaele at their retrial in Florence is a scandalous corruption of justice that should wrap the Italian nation in shame.

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Anyone Care About Evidence?

By Mark Olshaker On January 14, 2014 · 11 Comments

Gerald Posner

I have tremendous admiration and respect for Gerald Posner, the attorney, investigative reporter and author of such books as Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, Mengele: The Complete Story, and Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Apparently, not everyone agrees with me.

The other day, Posner posted an interesting Twitter comment on his Facebook page:

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Amanda’s Unending Punishment

By John Douglas and Mark Olshaker On January 6, 2014 · 5 Comments

Amanda Knox

When we look back over the topics we’ve covered in the past year, the ongoing murder trials in Italy of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito take the prize for the greatest number of posts. And there is a good reason for that: No other case has provided such a glaring example of what can go wrong with a prosecution, and the horrifying repercussions when it does.

We have reviewed and detailed the seemingly endless mistakes and miscarriages of justice promulgated by the investigators, prosecutors and judges: police assumption of the killer(s) and type of crime before any evidence had been collected; Amanda’s coerced “confession;” nonsensical and changing theories of the case; unprofessional evidence collection; flagrant misinterpretation of the crime scene; complete lack of DNA and other evidence of Amanda and Raffaele’s presence coupled with overwhelming evidence of the actual killer’s; false statements to the media; the so-called murder weapon not fitting the wounds on Meredith Kercher’s body, and on and on and on.

And now one more has surfaced. There are several ways to state it, but essentially, Amanda has been denied the right to mourn.

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When Is a Murder Not a Murder?

By Mark Olshaker On January 2, 2014 · 4 Comments

Corey D. Stoddard

Yesterday, January 1, 2014, Cory D. Stoddard, 35, of Washington, D.C., was arraigned in District of Columbia Superior Court on a charge of second-degree murder while armed, in the death of Kevin Lewis Crouch, 22, also of Washington, the day before. On the official tally of murders in the District of Columbia, this was the 104th – the last homicide of 2013.

I sincerely hope Mr. Stoddard beats the charge and is found innocent.

Before you accuse me of going soft on crime in the new year, consider the facts of the case and decide for yourself.

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Best Wishes for the New Year

By mindhunters On January 1, 2014 · 2 Comments

Mark Olshaker & John Douglas

We thank all of our readers and contributors for their interest, passion and commitment to www.mindhuntersinc.com over the past year. Your comments and reactions have been an education and inspiration to us. We hope you and yours all have a happy, healthy, productive and safe 2014.

With all best wishes,

John and Mark