Updated Floorplan

This floorplan updates the first floorplan posted on the Giallo di Perugia thread on Steve Huff’s
True Crime Weblog: http://www.truecrimeweblog.com/.
This is the next in the open work-in-progress of presentations concerning the Giallo di Perugia.
All the presentations are fed by the excellent multi-point-of-view, multi-timezone, and multi-
cultural discussion resulting from the comments posted on the blog.
Since the victim has no means to reply to any comments herein or scenarios described in other
presentations, and the repeated use of her name in this context would only further hurt anyone
close to her, I refer to her simply as “the victim”. This is not meant by any means to trivialise the
pain and suffering, and butal senseless murder she experienced, nor to reduce her memory.
The first floorplan, posted in early December, was required to understand the internal relation of
rooms, fixtures, access points, and evidence points in the house. For example, it helped us to
understand the circumstances of the crime to know that the victim’s bedroom was at the far end
of the house, facing away from town, that AK’s bedroom was next door, that the Italian
housemates’ bathroom which RGH used was at the other end of the house, etc. However, while
the basic dimensions of the house and internal walls in the first floorplan were correct, the
internal layout and furnishing was left to suppositions in many cases.
Since then, new graphic information has been made available of the interior of the cottage, and
with that we update the floorplan in this presentation. I have limited or excluded detailed forensic
images (all of which have already been posted and commented on in the thread).
That was Meryl Streep on the cover slide, in the movie “A French Lieutenant’s Woman”. In the
book by John Fowles (better than the movie) there are 3 forks / endings to the story. In the
Giallo di Perugia, as we go through the scenarios of what may have happened in the crime, I
can only hope that there will be one single ending, that justice is served to those responsible for
each of the crimes which may be determined by the ILE. I am buoyed by the fact that the
victim’s family has expressed confidence in the Italian justice system.
- Kermit email: krmt123@gmail.com
Updated floorplan
January 29, 2008
“ We run into a very skinny girl who looks a little older
than me putting up a page with her number on the outer
wall of the unviersity. i chat it up with her, she speaks
english really well, and we go immediately to her place,
literally 2 minntes walk from my university. it's a cute
house that is right in the middle of this random garden in
the middle of perugia. around us are apartment buildings,
but we enter through a gate and there it is. im in love. i
meet her roommate molly. the house has a kitchen, 2
bathrooms, and four bathrooms. not to mention a washing
maschine, and internet access. not to mention, she owns
two guitars and wants to play with me. not to mention the
view is amazing. not to mention i have a terrace that looks
over the perugian city/countryside . . . . she offers me one
of the open rooms after we hang out for a bit. we
exchange numbers. i put down a down payment. im feeling
sky high. these girls are awesome. really sweet, really
down to earth, funny as hell. neither are students, they
actually both work int he same law office, and they are
desperate for roommates because the two they had
decided they wanted to disappear all of a sudden. My
house is awesome, we just got a washing machine the
other day, though it was broken.”Amanda in her blog –
Sept. 2, 2007
Let’s accompany Perugia Chief Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini in a
visual inspection of Via Pergola 7 ...
Chief Prosecutor
Giuliano Mignini
ENTRANCE
San Tommaso convent is high and
off to the east of the carpark, on the
other side of Via Sant’Antonio.

The house entrance in better times.

Note the cut-stone bricks (I believe),
which form the wall of the girls’ floor
on this side of the house (for further
discussion of the structure of the
house, see the prior presentation on
the True Crime Weblog)
This virtual visit has been put together with
images which are:
• pre-crime (smiling faces and nice views),
• initial ILE documentation of evidence
(markers, everything is more or less tidy
– thanks in part to the thorough cleaning
on the night of the crime), and
• second level forensics (house taken
apart, ILE in space-suits).
I think you’ll be able to figure it out.
The cottage is a very small abode:
according to the ILE plan (or municipal
records which provided the basis for the
ILE plan), what I called the “central core” in
the prior presentation is just 3,33 metres
across.
3.33 metres
LIVING ROOM
AND KITCHEN
This composition of
images is from ILE videos;
in other words, this is what
the Postal Police would
have seen on the morning
of Nov. 2.
 Turning right ... note the
thickness of the old stone
walls in this east half of the
upper “central core.”
(image from AK’s MySpace site)
And even further right ... we
see again, the thickness of
the old stone walls in the
eastern part of the cottage.
(cables – external power
supply? – for forensic work
hanging through house,
kitchen a little topsy-turvy)
Looking back at entrance from
middle of living-room
(more ILE hanging cables ...)
FILOMENA’S
ROOM
Filomena’s room. ILE marker “1” on the floor refers to rock
under chair (just to the upper left of the ILE marker), which
was supposedly used for the supposed break-in. (We’ll see
later that even if there had been no break-in, but someone
had just thrown the rock through the window glass, it would
have been thrown from a few meters away, shot-put style,
with enough force to have necessarily crossed the room.)
Similar view, no rock, you get a feel
for the width of the room.
ILE marker “O” (I assume for
broken window pane), visible from
inside and outside.
(not really important: bed
orientation is a guess)
Let’s turn around and proceed into
the new wing of the house.
THE NORTH WING
HALLWAY AND
BATHROOM
ILE marker “3” intrigues me. If
it refers to the electrical cable
and plug on the floor, we’ll
see further on that the cable is
for the (reading?) lamp which
is on the floor behind the
victim’s door. Would the cable
have come out under the
locked door before the Postal
Police broke it down?
 The Sun’s bathroom photo, sans the
colour and distraction of the pink ILE fluid
on fixtures and floor. The toilet seems to
have been removed, perhaps to access
evidence in the evacuation pipe.

ILE marker “C” must refer to the mixed spot of

AK’s and the victim’s blood on the faucet
 Turning around, the
chesterfield in the living-room,
from the north hallway
AK’s BEDROOM
Mea culpa. The first version of the floorplan offered this tidy image
of AK’s room. I was convinced it reflected the degree to which
parts of the house had been cleaned and bleached.
(In my defence, I did post at some point that her room appeared
empty, like a summer camp cottage between camping groups)
((BTW, this bedlamp ends up as the victim’s bedlamp))
In fact, while this IS AK’s room, it is not her room when she lived in
it at any point. (This is taken from one of the early TV programs on
the case, and the video was actually just video of a still photo)
This is AK’s bedroom as
video-taped by the ILE ...
This is AK’s bedroom as video-taped
by the ILE ... and turning further to
the left we have her guitar (not
allowed in prison) and wardrobe.
This clearly contrasts with the
erroneous “summer camp” tidy
image. I assume that most of the
supposed clean-up here was more on
a bleach / DNA level.
THE VICTIM’S
BEDROOM
On the discussion thread we have gone over
many of the evidence items, with
technicolour images (bra, bluejeans, Nike
prints, wardrobe closeup, handprint on wall,
pointed objects and other items on bed, etc.)
so let’s not relive those discussions in this
presentation.
In addition to all those previously discussed
points, just a couple of additional
observations: the head of the reading lamp
on the floor between the head of the bed and
the set of drawers (to the left of marker “N”)
is the lamp that used to be in AK’s room.
Of more interest, is the other lamp (which
justifies marker “4”?), and whose electrical
cable leads out the door ... Does anybody
have an idea if that could be some sort of
lamp for viewing the results of the clean-up
 Full-length mirror. It is only
Wardrobe. ILE R A D I A T OR visible from within the room,
believe that the and the only position from which
victim was you can see reflections other
assaulted from than the wall or window is from
behind, with her directly in front of it)
head forced into
the open
wardrobe. If AK
actually said in
R A D I A T OR

the police station

in front of several
witnesses that
she saw the
victim reflected in
the mirror, the
only position from R A D I A T OR

where she could

have seen the
dying body of the
victim (or perhaps
already, her
corpse) reflected Fridge

in the mirror, is to Shelves

have been next to

the victim, by the
wardrobe.
THE BALCONY
Note the transition from rough stone, to cut-
stone bricks, from the older eastern part of
the upper floor, to the newer (or, possibly,
reconstructed) western part of the “central
core”.
One of AK’s MySpace snaps, looking
out over the Fosso del Bulagaio ravine
and the stream which starts in the
dense, lush vegetation just below the
house.
 LAURA’S
BEDROOM
 This is the closest we get to
Laura’s bedroom, which in any
case is not central to the Giallo.
(Bed orientation is a guess)
 WASHING
ROOM
(Location of washing
machine – the one that was
running when the Postal
Police arrived - is a guess)
(Location of washing machine – the
one that was running when the
Postal Police arrived - is a guess)
 MAIN
BATHROOM
 This is where RHG left his
tale-telling evidence. As I
mentioned on the thread, I’ll
spare you the image of the
evidence – you can’t really
make out anything, except
for the abundant use of
toilet paper ... In other
words, RHG had ample time
to finish his job in a very
leisurely manner, there’s no
question of circumstances
requiring him to jump up
and run out just at that point.
Another photo, same scene.
Note the pink toilet seat.
OUTSIDE
OF THE
HOUSE
 Here’s chief prosecutor
Giuliano Mignini again ... I
hope he doesn’t try to test
the supposed break-in
explanation, as he’ll break a
leg if he tries to jump to and
through Filomena’s window.
The famous “butter” knife found
when the Smiling Men (RS’s
lawyers) accompanied Prosecutor
Mignini for the December house
inspection ... Found right where
they said it would be!
Soiled (bloodied?) tissue found
near the “butter” knife.
These are Nov. 2 markers and an
inspection being carried on the
external stairs leading down to the
boys’ floor. We have very little
information on that floor from a
layout point of view and also what
evidence may be there (early
reporting commented on blood
smeared on the wall).
Bloodied tissue found on
the road just above the
cottage, on Nov. 2.