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pnwmom

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7. It was bizarre. They settled on her as the chief murderess only a few days after the murder --
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 05:07 PM
Jul 2015

before they had the results of the tests of any of the physical evidence. They announced "case closed" and paraded them through town. Afterwards, the results came back from the fingerprints, DNA, etc, and it all pointed to a known burglar, who had a history of breaking in with a rock and carrying a knife.

But by then they had already blamed Amanda (and her boyfriend and her boss). The boss turned out to have an unimpeachable alibi, so they simply swapped in Rudy Guede, the burglar, into the boss's place in the orgy. It didn't matter to them that Guede had never even met Amanda's boyfriend, had only met her in passing at a party, that he didn't speak English, and she had only had a college term of Italian. Or that there wasn't a single piece of evidence that placed Amanda in the murder room -- and a mountain of evidence connected with Guede, the burglar. And Guede admitted being there -- he claimed that he had consensual sex with her and some stranger murdered her and then ran out.

But they were so attached to their juicy Amanda-the-diabolical-female-leading-a-murderous-orgy story that they just couldn't give it up.

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