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Originally Posted by PFUNK
I don't understand the footprints as being you alls biggest claim of guilt.
Of course there are footprints from her room to Merediths/bathroom etc., she took a shower and apparently has to walk right by it no? Has also mentioned knocking on her door, no?
It's also likely assuming any innocent person who was Amanda or not, walking barefoot into that bathroom, then out could have stepped in any of the small droplets.
Is the guilty assertion here that she walked around the crime scene and made bloody footprints then cleaned them? I'm not sure I understand the evidence of that.
239 has claimed vehemently dozens of times that these footprints are not blood. To the point where he doesn't admit the smallest possibility and won't even consider the footprints as evidence at all, because they're not blood. So what you describe is not possible if he is correct. He's checkmated himself there.
If you admit that the footprints are likely blood, then what you say sounds reasonable. It was the kind of explanation I was looking for and one I hadn't considered. But like the staging, 239 can't admit the possibility of that, because it opens the door to guilt. PR 101 is to deny, deny, deny and keep the message simple.
The other problem with your theory is that the footprints go quite clearly from Meredith's room to Amanda's. There are none in the bathroom, none leading from the bathroom through the hallway into Amanda's room, and none elsewhere of the many areas they tested. They go from outside Meredith's into Amanda's room. This is what I'm talking about with the improbability of those particular footprints. Logically, if nothing is cleaned up, footprints should be strongest where a person first steps in blood. Barring a cleanup, they're aren't suddenly going to start appearing outside the murder room if her foot got coated by wet diluted blood in the bathroom. In the innocence narrative, none of these places were cleaned after Amanda came home and showered on the day of discovery. So where are the prints coming to/from the bathroom?
Regarding spots of blood, spots of blood on the foot do not cause full footprints in blood including all the base and toes. They produce, unsurprisingly, spots. You'd have to argue there were diluted blood traces in the bathroom, enough to coat a foot. But only on the day after Meredith died, or footprints would be everywhere and there'd be many sets (say, if there was sometimes menstrual blood).
So murder blood would have to have been cleaned up and diluted in the bathroom. Which is pretty much nearly certain what happened if you look at the very visible bloody footprint matching Sollecito on the mat and no other footprints or blood on the floor. But why on Earth is Rudy cleaning up weak footprints in the bathroom and leading to/from the bathroom, when his sneakers go straight for the door in actual visible blood? You would have to argue he doubled back. But there are no prints of that, visible or luminol.
You would also have to argue that Rudy managed to leave no prints - even luminol - exiting the bathroom in freshly cleaned up blood, but that Amanda somehow managed to get that same blood on her and start depositing it only outside Meredith's door.
It's worth noting that 239 also downplays this possibility (the bathroom cleanup) and gets pissed off that the pink bathroom photo.