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disturbance’, the details of which were not revealed. She also wrote on her MySpace page of her German ancestry on her mother’s side of the family in which she jokingly inferred that she was secretly a Nazi. The social networking site also showed a photo of Amanda holding an old machine gun during an apparent visit to Germany with a caption that read, The Nazi on the inside . Her friends, however, also stuck by her, insisting that she was not like the person being portrayed. One friend stated that she would be the last person anyone ‘would have thought would get involved in something like this. She wasn’t at all wild or promiscuous.’
    Yet, by her own later admission in a diary she kept in jail but which was at one point leaked to the press, Amanda would purportedly mention in her Spiderman  2 notebook that she had a sexual history that involved five men. Two men, besides Raffaele, reportedly would tell authorities that they’d had sex with her during the short time that she had been in Italy, but it would be stated later in the London media that they admitted knowing Amanda but denied ever having sex with her. One of the two men, known as Juve, said that he had worked at Le Chic with Lumumba.
    ‘We were friends,’ Juve said. ‘We met because she also worked at Le Chic. We sometimes danced salsa, but I have a girlfriend and nothing ever happened. I walked her home sometimes at night, but I didn’t have sex with her.’
    It was not clear whether the five men mentioned in her diary included the other two men that came forward with the information and Raffaele or whether they were in addition to the other two men and Raffaele.
    Stefano Bonassi, a student who resided in the flat below Amanda and Meredith, told investigators that Amanda had sex with one of his friends. Aside from bolstering their theory regarding Amanda’s purported sexual promiscuity and how that aspect of her life could be related to the case, Bonassi’s statement did not seem to carry much weight with the detectives.
    Had the combined fascination of sex between Amanda and Raffaele been the impetus that had propelled forward a sexually-motivated attack against Meredith? Many people, both from within andwithout the judicial system, pondered that and a number of other questions needed to be answered.
    Her diary also purportedly placed additional suspicion onto Raffaele. In her writings, she questioned whether Raffaele may have crept out during the night and gone to the cottage to rape and kill Meredith and, upon his return, brought the murder weapon into contact with Amanda while she was sleeping.
    Another question needing an answer focused on why Amanda had brought Lumumba home to the cottage with her if he ‘scared’ her, as she had claimed. It just did not seem to add up. And if she had in fact been scared of Lumumba, why hadn’t others been? Nearly everyone who spoke to the police or the media portrayed him as a gentle person with a friendly personality. Had she merely made the claim to try to avert suspicion from her and Raffaele? And if so, how much of her statement implicating Lumumba could even be believed?
    Later that same day, November 8, Judge Claudia Matteini, after reviewing the details of the case as they were so far known, ruled that there was ‘sufficient evidence’ to keep Amanda, Raffaele, and Patrick Lumumba in custody while the investigation continued. The judge’s decision was based, at least in part, on her being told that Amanda ‘has shown an unscrupulous tendency to lie constantly to investigators,’ and that the police ‘believe the attacklast Thursday night may have followed a session of drug taking.’ The prosecution also brought to the judge’s attention the fact that ‘toxicology tests are not yet complete but they [investigators] have found marijuana plants in the garden of the house.’
    Matteini, in deciding which charges to level against the suspects, reportedly also considered the two differing