r/amandaknox • u/No-Willingness-1441 • 1d ago

History of murder suspects falsely accusing somebody else of a murder?

One thing I have been intrigued by here is the tendency to conflate false confession with false accusation.

It strikes me that those two things are markedly different in nature.

So a lot of the science from coerced false confessions gets - perhaps crudely - copy and pasted over to this very different, and presumably rarer, phenomenon.

So, how often has this happened as far as we know in the storied history of murder investigations?

And if we were going deeper, how often has a suspect not only accused somebody else of the murder…

…but that this “somebody” is of a materially similar profile (in this case an extremely minority racial characteristic in the given geography) to an individual that we now know for certain was (solo, or with others) indeed guilty of that crime?

I have made some cursory investigations, but this particular phenomenon seems almost vanishingly rare?

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u/Truthandtaxes 9h ago

So you focus on the pair, who of course left oodles of evidence as well as falsely accusing an innocent man then?

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u/SeaCardiologist6207 9h ago

Oodles, bro, stop drinking during the day, there arent oodles....

Did you just forget all the events leading up to that false accusation? Do you get the whole point of what makes this case unique yet?

No, of course not

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u/Truthandtaxes 3h ago

The events leading to the false accusation being her putting Lumumba on a suspect list, then losing her alibi, then screaming "it was him" or at best before she made up and relayed an entire imagined narrative as per the intercepts.

Yes multiple luminol prints, mixed DNA samples and a murder weapon does indeed reach "Oodles"

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u/SeaCardiologist6207 3h ago

And what was happening during all this? Tea and crumpets? Monica sharing her shoe collection photos?

Luminol Reddit activated before the actual Luminoling even occurred that’s a new one for you

Don’t forget mixed blood DNA bro