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16,761. On the night of November 1st 2007 a British student – Meredith Kercher – was killed in her bedroom in the Italian city of Perugia. Within days the investigation took a chilling turn. The finger of suspicion was pointed at Meredith’s flatmate – an American student – Amanda Knox. Two years later Amanda Know would be convicted of Meredith’s murder, along with her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and a second man, Herman Rudy Guede... Is Amanda Knox a killer? (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) Who Killed Meredith Kercher? Discovery Channel 2010
16,762. At 12:30 the postal police who had done the phone-trace arrived at the flats to return the phones to their owners. They noticed a young woman and man already there. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,763. She had died from multiple stab wounds. There was evidence of profuse bleeding. Already at the flat was Meredith’s flatmate, Amanda Knox, and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. From the outset police carefully observed their behaviour. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,764. There was a trail of blood leading from Meredith’s upper floor flat to the flat below. This was also lived in by students. Among them Meredith’s boyfriend ... Police video showed many more bloodstains inside. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,765. In all there were thirty-seven wounds. Knife stabbings, cuts and bruises. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,766. Over the three days in Meredith’s flat four hundred items of evidence were collected. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,767. No video or audio recordings were ever released. But, though she would later dispute the police version, she had placed herself at the scene of the crime. Next, she would put an accusation against Patrick Lumumba in writing. But Amanda Knox was beginning to spin a web of invention that would lead to her downfall. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid
16,768. On the night of the 6th Amanda Knox retracted the written and oral statements she had made only hours before. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,769. Amanda remained deeply confused about the night of the murder. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,770. The role that drink and drugs might have played in this confusion is unknown. No test were done on Knox or Sollecito were done in the days after the murder. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,771. In February 2009 the full trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaela Sollecito began. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,772. Whoever killed Meredith Kercher stole her cell-phone and threw it not far from the villa where she lived. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) Andrea Vogt, freelance journalist
16,773. They didn’t have any hard evidence. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) Andrea Vogt
16,774. Raffaele was not supporting Amanda’s alibi. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) Andrea Vogt
16,775. That five-page statement became a major piece of evidence against her. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) Andrea Vogt
16,776. American Amanda Knox received the one verdict that has set her free to go home with her family to Washington state, but mental health experts say the 24-year-old's traumatic journey is far from over.
Since her conviction in the murder of British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007, Knox has said that she longs to go home and daydreams of catching up on Harry Potter movies and lying in the grass of her Seattle back yard.
After spending four years in a cramped cell in an Italian prison, Knox appeared elated but emotional as an appeals court in Perugia overturned her 26-year sentence.
But her pale face and thinning hair show the toll prison life has taken on the young woman psychologically. Even before her fate was sealed, cameras showed her nervous breathing and a face buried in hands, ready for the heaving tears that would follow. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ABC News online 4th October 2010
16,777. It took two years to convict Amanda Knox of murdering Meredith Kercher. Two years in which coverage of the American girl’s character overwhelming the memory of her victim. With Knox’s image itself becoming a battleground. And a jury found itself having to choose between at least three Amandas. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) The Trials of Amanda Knox, 2011
16,778. And Foxy Knoxy the media creation. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,779. With highly disputed forensic evidence against Knox and even fewer agreed facts. The battle to establish which Amanda Knox was the real one would become central to winning the case in the court of public opinion and in the court of law. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,780. Her new American housemate, Amanda Knox, had been expecting to work at her bar job that night. But her boss Partick Lumumba texted that it was quiet and he didn’t need her. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,781. In the eyes of the prosecution Amanda Knox was about to lead Sollecito, her boyfriend of less than a week, and Rudy Guede, a man she hardly knew, into an explosion of sex and violence. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,782. At some time before midnight someone sexually assaulted Meredith and put a knife in her throat. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,783. What followed was a frenzy of police activity. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,784. She had posted holiday pictures of herself in an Austrian Museum posing with a gun; she had held a leaving party in Seattle and was fined for playing loud music. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,785. Sollecito ... One site pictured him dressed like a surgeon and holding a meat cleaver. An equally disturbing online image was that of Rudy Guede. Born in the Ivory Coast ... ‘I’m a Vampire. I’m Dracula. I’m going to suck your blood’. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,786. Over several nights in the police station Knox’s behaviour began to raise questions. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,787. Sollecito originally told the police that Knox had spent the night with him. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,788. She told the police she had actually been present during the murder. And she named the man she worked for – the bar owner Patrick Lumumba – as the murderer. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,789. The media went after Amanda Knox. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,790. By the time Patrick Lumumba was released the police had fingerprint evidence – proving that a petty criminal Rudy Guede had been involved in the murder. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,791. The prosecution said that having murdered Meredith, Knox and her boyfriend then covered up their crime. They faked a break-in, ransacking the bedroom of one the Italian flatmates before breaking a window outside. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,792. In jail Knox was receiving hate mail. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,793. Knox said that she spent the whole night at her boyfriend’s flat and could not have murdered Meredith. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,794. The other problem was the knife couldn’t have inflicted all the wounds on Meredith’s body. The Prosecution never produced a second knife. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,795. The prosecution claimed there were five different places where Meredith’s blood or DNA or Knox were mixed. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,796. The trial finally came to an end on December 4th 2009. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,797. On 3rd October 2011 Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito won their appeal against their murder convictions. Both have been released from prison. (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) ibid.
16,798. November 2007 Parugia Italy: a twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher is sexually assaulted and stabbed to death. Could Meredith’s own housemate Amanda Knox be one of those to blame for her brutal murder? (Murder Cases: Kercher & Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito) Great Crimes & Trials/Killer Trials: Meredith Kercher Murder