Murder in Perugia: The truth about Amanda Knox

March 27, 2015, and it’s over. Eight years have passed since Meredith's death, the judges reconstruct all the errors committed during the investigations, the findings of the scientific police that did not follow the guidelines of the international scientific community, the genetic analyses. And in the end, Raffaele and Amanda are acquitted; only Knox is sentenced to three years for slandering Patr...

The case is ultimately destined for the Court of “Cassazione,” located in Rome, Italy’s Supreme Court for last appeals. The acquittal obtained in the second degree gives hope to the defenders of Sollecito and Amanda – who followed the trial from the United States. The behavior of the Seattle native after the crime is back at the center of attention: why would she have accused Lumumba if not to def...

On a first appeal, the Amanda and Raffaele return to the courtroom — and this time, the opinions of DNA experts will take over. The incriminating evidence is dismantled, piece by piece; testimonies that had led to the convictions in the first degree were deemed invalid. In the end, the two young defendants are acquitted on appeal. Knox receives a hero’s welcome. She would not come back to Italy fo...

Amanda and Raffaele are tried before the court in Perugia, under Italian law that includes three levels of judgment. In the first instance, the court will conclude that Meredith was killed during a perverse sexual game that degenerated into violence: Raffaele and Amanda, in Rudy's presence, stabbed Meredith to death. The verdict enrages much of America. For the U.S. media and many notable public f...

During the investigations inside Meredith's room, the forensic police found a footprint: it belonged to a 21-year-old drifter originally from Ivory Coast who lives in Perugia. His name is Rudy Guede and he had been in Italy for five years. The police are hunting for him, but discover that he had left Italy immediately after the crime, and is now in Germany. With a trick and the help of Guede’s fri...

Amanda Knox tells investigators that Meredith's killer was Patrick Lumumba, the Congolese-born owner of the the Perugia pub Le Chic, where Knox works. The Seattle student recounts that on the night of the murder, Patrick had gone to the house on Via della Pergola and had sex with Meredith. Then Amanda had heard screams coming from her English friend's room. "He killed her," Knox tells police. Lumu...

It was November 2, 2007, when the lifeless body of a young woman was found with multiple stab wounds in Perugia, a charming city in central Italy renowned for its chocolate production. The victim is a 21-year-old from England named Meredith Kercher, who had come to study in Italy thanks to the Erasmus exchange program. In a small rented house, on Via della Pergola, she lived with three other women...

The 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, a British exchange student in Perugia, Italy, may be the most widely debated criminal case of the century. The victim’s American roommate, Amanda Knox, along with her Italian boyfriend and an Ivory Coast-born Perugia resident, were initially convicted of the murder. After serving four years in prison, Knox and her boyfriend were definitively acquitted on appeal...