1 00: 00: 14,389 -> 00: 00: 16,975 Perugia Police Department.
The address on Via della Pergola Number 7.
Listen, Marco.
Do you understand there is a girl dead here?
The report came from Amanda.
Amanda Knox.
Bra.
They cover him.
Damn.
Someone believes that I am innocent.
And some believe that I am guilty.
No one is in the middle.
And if I'm guilty...
indicates that I am the last figure to be feared.
Because I am not a clear guilty figure.
But on the other hand, if I'm innocent,
it indicates that all people are vulnerable to guilt.
And that's everyone's nightmare.
Whether I'm a psychopath sheep's hair,
or I am you.
You can see that this doesn't appear to be a regret,
unreadable as regret.
I think everyone's reaction to terrible things is different.
Your roommate, your lover, the police, they all say the same thing.
They think you respond oddly.
Odd. Strange. What makes you weird?
If you google "Amanda Knox," you will get 7.1 million findings.
You all know better than anyone
that hundreds of thousands of of these results are not good.
"He is an angel with an angel.
A heartless manipulator.
Focusing on sex."
Are you a deviant sex lover?
Insensitive questions, but we have to ask.
This spurred doubt.
Do you have any kind of experimental activity there? shame for you to say?
Did you kill Meredith Kercher?
No.
- Are you there that night? - No.
Do you know anything that you haven't said to the police?
- Do you know anything? - No.
Before going to Italy, my life was happy.
Alright, Amanda. Are you happy to meet David?
David? David?
David, statue of David.
Oh
- Damn. - Not bad.
I used to be unique and I didn't have a problem with that.
And I used to be silly and I didn't have a problem with that.
I consider myself like a fighting princess.
I'm like Xena!
I remember thinking, "Okay, I'm different.
I am myself, but I will find my place."
I know.
Entering campus,
I feel a little behind.
- One gulp, Amanda. - Do not even try.
- That's one and half gulps. - That's a gulp.
One and a half.
I used to not depend too much on myself.
I feel very important to me to get out of the comfort zone
and see if it can turn me into an adult.
Italy has a lot of history.
Ruins, paintings, vineyards.
I thought, "I will find my identity in this new place."
So you are happy to live in Italy?
Of course, bitch!
The first weeks, I tried to identify the city.
I live with an Italian woman
and a British girl of my age, who is very up-to-date.
And we have a house that passes through this valley,
as if I have it.
I expect to take part of this undergraduate program.
And I live it casually.
So I thought, "Okay, I'd better find a job."
Patrick Lumumba tries to start his bar business.
He hired me with hope I will invite customers.
I swear to God
I don't know what is in the minds of people
who considers men not attractive appearance, but...
In Seattle, I'm a cute girl.
In Italy, I'm a pretty blonde American girl.
I have never experienced this.
I go to a classical music concert
and there is a girl alone.
He is really beautiful.
When I look at it, he looks back at me.
I'm very embarrassed, even if his view is only possible,
he smiles at me,
I turn and say,
"Do you look at people behind me?"
No. He looked at me.
After I realized it, I said, "Why aren't you talking?"
He immediately realized from my accent that I was American or spoke English
so he started talking to me in English because he could.
Or at least pretty good.
I showed a beautiful view of Perugia to him,
which for me is very romantic.
My heart is beating very fast,
feels like, "Oh, there's love now."
And I kiss it.
Compared to many men
which automatically says immediately, "Hey, baby."
He is very kind and I am completely fascinated.
And yes...
We go home.
I started smoking
to try to prepare series or something,
but then we think about something different.
And the night closes with a happy ending.
Before I never fell in love.
From there when outside, as soon as possible I get out of class,
we walk together, and eat pizza,
and go to the open market.
He wants to buy me perfume, because all Italian women have perfume.
That only lasts a week,
but we spend every day by taking photos...
inhaling marijuana...
and make love.
Good night from TV news Umbria,
which is opened with grief news.
Meredith Kercher, an Englishman, 22 years old,
found dead in his house on Via della Pergola.
All findings so far indicate that he has been killed.
Crime scene.
That is a memory that I always remember.
There is blood everywhere.
The naked girl's body has been covered.
There are signs that he has been paralyzed by violence.
Mostly on his wrist.
There is a very deep wound in his throat.
That surprised me because of the wound in one.
I ask, "Is a monster doing this?"
Outside, I saw two young people.
They cheer each other up with affection.
Not appropriate at times like this.
Be sure to take pictures body bags if they come out.
Enough. Stop it.
For the sake of respect, please stop!
Murder always attracts people's attention.
Curiosity pieces. A mystery piece.
Who is the culprit.
Here we have a city on the top of a beautiful hill
in the middle of Italy.
This includes terrible murders. Throat is cut, half naked, blood everywhere.
I mean... what else do you want in a story?
I don't know. Maybe things are left behind like
Royal Family and Pope or something like that.
This is the first time I have ever covered a case in Perugia.
Obviously the first thing you need to do is find the main players.
Because of course to get the facts, you need to be in place.
You have to be Johnny-in-place.
The authorities in Perugia are under intense pressure.
As we say in Italy, there is this sentence,
"bella figura," a beautiful figure, beautiful impression.
Maintain appearance.
They find themselves on the international media map
and they want to show that they are able to deal with
something on a scale like this.
No one can prepare our for news
we received on Friday night.
There are no words that can explain our feelings now
besides being completely destroyed
for the tragic loss of the daughter of and our sister, Meredith.
We don't feel too much to say
that Meredith touched life the people he met
with a contagious, cheerful personality, smile, and sense of humor.
We used to love Meredith and now we still like that.
And he remains a part of our family forever.
Mrs. Meredith arrived.
He asks to see his daughter.
I remember he was absorbed in silence.
Then he makes a gesture.
He asks if he can kiss his daughter.
I have a family, I am the father of four daughters.
So, I understand the feeling of that is a huge pain.
I'm a Catholic.
I believe in two things that are difficult to harmonize.
That God runs the world.
But humans also have free will
and must be responsible for their actions.
Investigators work all the time
to find a motive,
people he knows, and possible romantic relationships.
Investigators do not eliminate any motives.
Tomorrow they will do an autopsy.
All places are flooded with journalists.
Every chunk, every piece, whatever is new,
You try to get it first than your competitors.
We all camp outside the morgue waiting for pathology to come out.
I am proficient in Italian and I think I also like the fact that,
"Wow, there are British journalists who speak to me.
Now I'm a big star."
I was allowed to come to report the facts.
Post-examination the body concludes that there are
sort of sexual intervention with Meredith's body.
There are traces of a man's DNA in his body.
I remember he told me that there were small scratches on his chin as if someone was criticizing him, sort of tortured him.
That was when the police and prosecutors began to say that it was a criminal act committed by the group.
Sexual desire that ends wrong.
We managed to report it to English media before anyone.
That is the scope we have, and that is the subject of news all over the world.
See your name on the
front page with a great story that everyone talks about...
it's really a fantastic rumor.
I mean, it feels like having sex or something.
Do you understand?
Meredith is my friend for a few weeks.
We are not good friends throughout life.
But I was really shocked with what happened to him,
That makes no sense at all.
It's brutal.
And that can happen to me.
But I was in the Raffaele apartment on the night of the murder.
We watch Amélie, and when doing it,
I got an SMS from Patrick saying that I didn't need to work,
and I like, "Hurray!"
We finished watching a movie. We have dinner.
And I read Raffaele the Harry Potter book in German.
After that we just stay in bed Raffaele, chat,
and each other put on a silly face.
It continues to be kissing
which continues to make love, then falls unconscious.
The next morning, I wake up,
I tell Raffaele that I want to go home,
So I go home. I walk away.
The first thing I saw was my front door was open.
The surrounding area is normal.
My room is normal, messy, but normal.
I take off my clothes and I walk to the bathroom.
I realized there was a drop of blood in the sink.
I think it's only a few blood drops.
Whatever.
I brush my teeth.
Then I take a shower.
When I came out of the shower room toward the bath mat,
I realized there were bigger blood stains there.
But it's only a few bloodstains.
Maybe someone accidentally hurt him. That kind of thing.
Right after I dry my hair,
I accidentally saw into the closet,
and see there are feces left in it.
That makes me shiver.
In an instant I feel scared
as if someone is being with me in the house.
I said, "Oh, damn it."
So I went to Raffaele 's apartment and told him all.
I go there.
I see all that mess.
The condition is really weird.
I'm a little surprised that Amanda is bathing in her house
without feeling uneasy about the condition.
We tried to open Meredith's room.
The door is locked. Very weird.
I tapped softly and called Meredith.
Then I knock harder and call Meredith.
Finally I said,
"Raffaele, can you try to force open this door?
I don't know whether Meredith is in the room or not."
Raffaele tried to break it twice, but his efforts were unsuccessful.
Hello, good morning, listen...
someone makes a mess and there is a locked door.
There are blood stains in the bathroom.
Which door is locked?
One of the occupants of the room. We don't know where he is.
I immediately sent a police car so we could check the situation.
The police drove us all out of the house.
Breaking down the door of Meredith's room.
And they say that Meredith...
There is blood everywhere and the throat has been slit.
That's how I was told that Mered had died.
I always have the burning spirit to investigate.
I really like detective movies.
Sherlock Holmes, for example.
He is always able to get instructions from events that seem insignificant.
Why is the girl covered with a blanket?
A woman who has killed
tends to cover the bodies of female victims.
A man will never be thought of doing it.
The thing that surprised me the most was the burglary.
Nothing was stolen.
There is no evidence that someone has climbed a wall.
Immediately, I can say that is a falsified burglary.
There are no other functions
besides eliminating someone's suspicion
who has a relationship with home.
The next day, they took me back home.
That was the first time I returned to my apartment
after being closed as a crime scene.
They took me to the knife drawer
to see if there is a missing blade.
Basically they ask me see if there are
Killer weapons that disappear from the drawer.
In an instant everything happened to me, and I became hysterical.
He starts covering the ears with his palms.
As if there are memories
in the form of noise, voices, shouts.
Meredith's shout.
Without a doubt, I start
suspect Amanda.
Pronto.
Amanda, this is Brett. What are you doing?
I just wanted to go to the house from one of his friends Raffaele.
So, is Raffaele like your girlfriend?
Yes.
Is he so handsome?
I will send a photo for you.
Do it now.
Amanda, I miss you so much.
Yes, I know...
Today is really bad. Damn.
Like being in a police station, I'm really worried,
and I feel like I will explode in tears,
because I'm really angry, but...
Now I feel improve talking to you.
Oh dear...
Don't worry.
When that happens, remember, "Wait,
I'm in Italy and I'm with Raffaele.
I'm 20, and I will remember back this year as
the best year of my life."
The fifth night,
we got progress in the investigation.
Sollecito was summoned to the police station.
Amanda was not called, but she followed Raffaele to come.
He waits in the corridor of the police station
and the police are getting very rude to me
and ask questions like,
"What happened that night?"
I know I was in my apartment that night.
I know I spent that night with Amanda. I know he sleeps with me.
But the police are not satisfied.
They are pushy, and aggressive, and they become the worst of the worst.
This police told me that Amanda is lying all the time,
he's a stupid whore who doesn't care about me.
"Your condition is very, very bad."
After a long time,
reality around you
turns into confusing and is not very clear.
Then Sollecito changes its version of events.
He accused Amanda.
He said, "I've been lying
because he told me to say it.
I honestly was at home that night.
Amanda wasn't with me and didn't return until 1:00 a.m."
Let's position ourselves as Amanda.
You go to the police station with your boyfriend.
You are in a different room and don't know what he is saying.
Then at some point they come to tell you,
"Your boyfriend... he accused you."
They want to prove that I left.
They want my cellphone.
And I said, "Yes, just check my cellphone.
I don't go. I don't need to work that night.
I should work, but I don't go to work.
I don't go. "
They play my phone and take this SMS
which I send to Patrick, which contains...
Which means, literally, word for word,
" We will meet again next time. Good night. "
I told them that
he sent me this SMS that said, " Don't come to work. "
So I said," Okay, until meet next time. Good night. "
And they say, " No, the real meaning is
You plan to meet someone.
You make an appointment with someone, and you don't remember.
Obviously, your mind is chaotic.
I don't know if you will be by our side,
or on the side of the killer.
Which side are you on? "
I'm tired of it, and I say, " I don & t know what the fuck is going on. " [I don't know what happened.]
A person other police said, "& apos; Fuck! & apos; I understand the word "fuck." Fuck you! "
He thinks I'm screaming " Fuck you "to him.
I cry,
then at some point,
a policeman slaps the head behind me,
and says," Remember! "
Then he slapped me again and said," Remember,
Clear your mind. "
I am destroyed.
What started to appear in my mind was
the street in front of the apartment Raffaele...
the front door of my room was open...
Patrick was wearing jacket brown skin...
and Meredith shout.
I think that means
I remember that Patrick had killed Meredith.
I'm surprised.
Because his words made him at least become an accomplice in murder.
And why is Sollecito lying?
So I decided to catch the three of them.
We are very sorry for the girl who died,
but there is also a great satisfaction _ for the Perugia police
because it managed to find the answer and a short time.
The press puts pressure on us,
and the result we feel responsible for cities that want definite answers immediately.
I can't thank enough for everyone in this entire investigation
for professionalism and their moral commitment.
"Caso chiuso." Case is closed.
You think they have crippled sort of a Godfather
mafia member of their reaction.
Lawyers are key figures.
I will approach a lawyer.
He will give me a statement.
I thought the photocopy place in Perugia would be lucky in those days.
We got the following details out.
Meredith friends tell us
how is Amanda's behavior in the waiting room.
One of my friends said to Amanda,
"Yes, I hope Meredith doesn't suffer too badly."
Amanda said,
"Of course he suffered, his neck was slit like that!"
This police officer, in his statement, said,
"Amanda and Raffaele kiss each other.
He sports a somersault and stretches the body."
"Of course he did that. He's crazy. He's a completely stupid person.
I mean, who is acting like that?"
Please, there are no comments.
Do you still believe that Amanda is innocent?
There are no comments.
The guard visits the door of my room and says, "There are visitors to you."
They put me in a special small office space.
There is my mother. And he cried.
He expects me and...
Mother!
- Fine. - I know it's scary. Are you alright?
- Yes, I'm fine. - Okay.
Amanda, sit down. Take a seat here.
I know and feel that I've messed up,
and I don't know what I should do.
I feel like a child again.
And I know... I'm a child.
What have I fake?
I need my mother.
And...
The lawyers say...
anything if you have involved in it, and do it,
they only need to know the truth for sure.
- So they can --- - Yes, and I tell you ---
So you don't know who killed ---
I don't know. At all.
Because I'm with Raffaele at his house.
One thing that really bothered me was why Raffaele was lying.
Yes, hopefully, he is in the same position as you that he is depressed.
Yes, I feel that
they hit him or something.
Lawyers say something interesting.
They say, "Amanda has been caught in something bigger than her."
Because this has changed to big international nonsense stories.
- Are you serious? - Oh, yes.
All family members have been attacked by the media.
This is already crazy.
We have got a good photo of Meredith.
He is really an attractive woman.
And now we find Amanda Knox is involved too.
A beautiful blonde girl, around the age of twenty.
This has sexual deception.
If you like, "crime girl over girl".
The mob is in their hotel room,
and everyone does, "Amanda Knox," tap, tap, tap, on his computer. "
This photo appears on MySpace, Amanda Knox with a machine gun,
laughs hysterically when shooting him.
We thought, "Wow, great. He's really a crazy job."
We put Raffaele Sollecito, into the computer,
and find him dressed like a mummy, with a large butcher knife.
I mean, you can't ask for better material to describe a story.
Raffaele collects knives.
He drives a luxury car. He has a mechanical engineering degree.
This man doesn't have too much sexual experience.
Amanda might just be the second person who made love to her.
And Amanda like... controls Raffaele.
Amanda was seen mocking his girlfriend at a local shop
when they buy underwear for the woman.
The shop owner hears them laughing if they will make hot love that night
only a day after his housemate was found dead.
"La Femme Fatale," "La Dominatrice,"
"Amanda Mangiatrice in Uomini," Amanda the human predator.
In the end, you find the nickname for Amanda. "Foxy Knoxy."
That is the perfect headline. Really, a perfect name.
I mean, basically it's a frenzy everyone's meal.
I mean, you get a home page.
I thought I never got so many front pages.
Home page by page, the main page for the main page in the newspaper.
Story after story.
Three weeks after his arrest, Patrick Lumumba gave alibi and was released.
Patrick! How are you, Patrick?
I'm fine.
Praise God I can go home.
Patrick! Why is Amanda suing you?
What do you think about Amanda?
Why did Amanda say those things?
Why did Amanda wrongly sue Patrick?
Can you give me an answer?
I think it's a bit difficult, huh?
The only reason might be
to divert the investigation from him.
Then comes Giuliano Mignini.
I only remember he was a big man, very serious.
I asked him, "Why did you sue Patrick?"
Why? I'm depressed. I'm afraid.
That's after a long hour. In the middle of the night.
I am innocent, and they give know that I am guilty.
For the record, he cried.
I told him that because they said I had met him.
They showed him texting me and said I had met him.
and I certainly don't remember it because it's very traumatic.
He continues to insist,
"They told me to name Lumumba.
They told me." I don't understand this.
Previously he said it might be true.
At that time, I thought it might be true.
Usually someone says, "That's right" or "That's not true."
But Amanda has an unusual way to .
He continues to walk between dreams and reality.
He keeps asking.
Again and again and again.
"No, why are you... Why are you saying, & apos; Patrick Lumumba?"
You make me believe that I met Patrick Lumumba.
It makes me say Patrick Lumumba.
That's not the answer he wants, and I realize that, and...
I was crushed.
Like when it happened,
I realized that they would never hear me again.
This is Amanda's weakness.
He can't stand asking questions.
He also has an hostile attitude and defies authority.
Somewhat anarchic.
I don't know whether in Seattle has such an attitude.
For this, I don't know.
Of course there is a possibility to speculate,
but I still choose to stick to the facts.
I always aspire to be a journalist since childhood.
I mean, everyone knows Woodward and Bernstein.
I mean, I don't dream of positioning myself with them or something,
but naturally I always want to know too,
which is a good talent to have,
if you can think of it as a talent, to become a journalist.
Amanda is in a detention cell in Capanne prison with two other roommates.
Obviously he is through a medical examination.
He did a blood test,
and they tell that he is positive for HIV,
and he will develop AIDS.
I remember he wrote on his diary if he was very scared.
He said that he wanted to have a family,
and the idea is now destroyed.
Then he wrote down the list of all his lovers and said,
oh, he remembered using condoms with that man,
and not with this man.
This is all on the diary which is again leaked.
I managed to get the diary.
Maybe I'm the first person who managed to get it.
How can the diary be in the hands of the press?
Yes, we never divulge our source.
That is the key.
If you leak it,
You will betray all of your journalistic principles, right?
Then, it turns out he is not infected with HIV.
It's all just a psychological trick that is played with
by police and prosecutors.
At that time, people said,
"Oh, how can you do that? How can you cover stories like that?"
And how can you be involved in it? "
access the Internet first time in the morning,
try to find the latest details.
Enough. You've recorded a lot.
Hello? Come here. We are at Sollecito's house.
The blades used to kill are still not found.
They did a search at Sollecito's house.
They go to the kitchen and find a number of knives.
And they find a knife that matches the characteristics of the murder.
It is a kitchen knife found in Sollecito's house,
which he used with Amanda Knox.
The knife. The knife is the most basic element.
Amanda's DNA was found on the handle.
Meredith's DNA is found at the end.
The knife was found after the investigation ordered by me.
I can't explain the knife.
There is no reason for my DNA to be on the handle,
and Meredith's DNA exists in the knife bar.
That's impossible.
The bra is covered in blood.
Meredith uses that bra when he is killed.
The cut is already cut.
The pin section is missing.
Here it is.
After a while, we found Meredith's bra clip,
which contains Sollecito's DNA traces.
This is a very significant fact.
I remember my co-worker praising me and saying,
"At this point, there is no hope left for both of them."
I grew up in the southern part of Italy, close to the ocean.
I used to be shy.
I don't date girls.
Who cares when you have a new Sega Mega Drive or PlayStation?
So, when I was with Amanda,
I'm really happy to enjoy my life and my new relationship.
Why do I need to go to kill a girl?
For me this is madness.
Now I take part in this nightmare, above this tragedy,
and my life will be destroyed
by all of this forever...
if nothing has changed.
I remember that we were close to Sollecito's house.
Lumumba no longer becomes a suspect.
But the police told me that they had found evidence
if Meredith must have been killed by three people.
For a strange case
with very many twists, let's start with the latest news.
The police are unable to identify
a number of fingerprints where Meredith died.
And they say that they also find feces in the bathroom.
They find traces of in Meredith
vagina and then there are traces.
They believe that people are
has left traces
is Rudy Herman Guede.
Rudy Guede has a habit of breaking and stealing.
Local people tell us that he is a cunning person.
People who are accustomed to avoid responsibility.
But at that time, he had left Italy.
Police are able to trace one of his best friends
to chat via Skype with him.
Are you there?
- Can you hear me? - Yes.
Women who have been killed... I met him the night before.
The next day, I came to his house,
but we don't do anything because we both don't have condoms.
So I go to the bathroom.
After that, I heard and I quickly came out of the bathroom.
I saw this man. I don't see his face because it's dark.
Then he ran away from the front door.
I saw Meredith bleeding.
There is an incision in his neck.
He holds on tight to me.
I'm scared. I'm completely covered in blood.
Damn, I'm scared. I'd better kill myself.
Rudy: There is one thing.
Rudy: Amanda doesn't exist it has anything to do with this.
Rudy: He wasn't there at that time.
An international arrest warrant is issued.
And he was arrested.
Gosh!
Only ideas about who has done it.
Like, more or less, I know him.
I've seen it with neighbors.
Like, we met him and we talked to him. Whatever.
I think I saw it playing basketball with them once.
Then, I think I saw him once in my workplace.
However, I don't even know his name.
Rudy always insisted that he did not kill anyone.
But every good lawyer must know the facts
that the judge may not trust your client.
The presence of Rudy at home is indisputable.
But if we run an court with two other defendants,
Rudy will risk being blamed for everything
and Rudy might be the only one blamed.
So I decided we would do a quick trial
to separate two other courts.
When the Rudy court begins,
there is the following interesting lighting.
So, in the Skype conversation first
Rudy told his friend that Amanda was not near the scene.
He said that they had nothing to do with it.
But then he changed the story.
Through a window,
I see the shadow
Amanda Knox who left home.
Rudy Guede was found guilty and sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for his participation in the murder.
On appeal, Guede's sentence is reduced to 16 years.
No one really cares about Rudy.
I mean, obviously we are just a cursory covering Rudy.
We have covered the court and its statement.
But in the end, no one is interested in him.
Who is more interesting?
Amanda.
Faithful fans of a girl known as "Foxy Knoxy"
is the reason Italian people call it court this decade.
You talk about it, everyone talks about it.
Sex.
A drug-driven sex game.
Drug-driven sex games.
A sex game that is encouraged drugs that end wrong.
Calm down, calm down! There is enough space for everyone!
You have to go back to your place.
Please stay away!
Madame, you can't push like that!
I don't do anything to you.
When the court begins, I think that everything will be easy.
There is direct evidence, like DNA evidence,
but not only DNA.
Amanda is a girl who is very uninhibited.
He will bring the man home.
Hear Meredith's friends...
If you can imagine a girl who is different from Amanda from every conceivable way,
Meredith is the person.
Let's imagine what Meredith found that night.
Suddenly he found Amanda at his house. There is no problem with that.
But there are Sollecito and Rudy.
And Meredith like, "What?"
Meredith can't accept it anymore.
Meredith must have scolded Amanda
because he doesn't have morals.
What happened today?
Amanda must feel insulted and annoyed.
"So, you judge my morale very roughly?
Now I will show to you what will happen."
He is a very arrogant girl.
This is the first clash.
Then there is an increase in the intensity of the attack.
I'm sure that Sollecito and Rudy
try to satisfy Amanda's heart in various possibilities that night.
Satisfaction regardless of the consequences. This is the essence of all evil.
After almost a year of testimony,
Today's courts in Italy are nearing an end.
Amanda Knox might know her fate as soon as tomorrow.
There may have been a judge's decision.
Amanda! Amanda!
Before the judge read the decision
is one of the most thrilling moments that a person can experience in his life especially for defendants because that is about his fate.
Submitting severe penalties
for two young people, at the level of humanity, the impact is extraordinary.
I stare at my face in the mirror and I'm lucky not to be ashamed of myself,
there is no doubt for the sins committed by the couple.
Please, too many cameras.
Please.
No one is allowed to enter.
Citing Articles 533 and 535 from the Code of Work of the Penal Code...
we announce Knox, Amanda Marie, and Sollecito, Raffaele
guilty of crimes committed.
They were sentenced to 26 years imprisonment for Knox
and a 25-year sentence for Sollecito.
With dazzling light
from reporters and cameras,
Amanda was herded into a black van, some time after the sentence was read.
He is a murderer. He is a liar.
Unexpected punishment confused the Knox family.
They are very sure his daughter is innocent.
They bring their younger daughter to court.
Move aside.
When do you hope for to appeal, sir?
When we can.
Everyone in this room clearly associates Meredith with a tragic event,
but we prefer don't remember him in that way.
That brings a little justice for us, for him.
In the end, we are satisfied with that decision,
but this is not the time for to celebrate at the end of the day.
Normally, people say,
"There is no prophet in his own country,"
but that is not what I experienced.
Unknown people come to me and ask to shake hands.
They congratulate me.
That makes me satisfied.
Because Perugia is my little hometown.
Suddenly, I found that I was thrown into this dark place.
I'm very scared.
To whom do you turn? What are you doing?
I'm thinking of suicide.
I think of all ways that I can do it.
I did not return home to my age 50,
until a member of my family has died.
I am poisoned.
I don't know what else to say.
I spent almost six months in the isolation room.
I...
I began to feel depressed.
Who can help me? Who can get me out of here?
I think of Amanda.
I want to send flowers to her for her birthday.
To say, "I'm here. I'm by your side. I still have feelings for you."
But he clearly said that his feelings had totally changed.
This moment feels bitter...
although I know I know him only for five days.
Five days is everything.
The convicted murderer, Amanda Knox, returns to court today.
They call it "Foxy Knoxy."
Today he looks paler, thinner than before.
Maybe he can arrange hair and make up, but I guess you don't get it in jail.
In a request that is not unexpected to the court,
Knox delivers innocent announcements filled with tears.
I never thought to find myself here,
punished for crimes I did not commit.
To the Meredith family,
I'm so sad Meredith isn't here anymore.
I can't possibly understand your feelings, but I also have younger sisters.
The idea of their suffering...
and never met they again scared me.
A legal victory for Americans, Amanda Knox,
who request an appeal against the murder sentence in Italy.
The court appeals to give permission
for independent review on DNA evidence that is very important.
The pieces of evidence that will be reviewed by foreign experts are
a knife and bra clip. Both are considered very important for Knox's sentence.
Let's clarify everything,
how easy it is to leave traces of DNA.
You move your arm from your wrist, there is a small amount of fine dust,
they are all traces of the DNA we spread around the area where we are in that particular moment.
Therefore, a crime scene must be kept completely sterile.
That doesn't happen in this case.
In the video taken by the forensic police, there is a lot of chaos.
You can clearly see people in and out without a safety suit.
The boots are not replaced.
And they rarely replace gloves.
In other words, total chaos.
Chaos.
Forensic police admit it.
This is ridiculous. Very silly.
I criticize him harshly.
There are irregularities is absurd in every respect.
Contamination is one of the issues raised by the court.
Is there possible contamination?
Bra clasps are found under a small rug.
46 days after murder.
After 46 days,
there is a possibility that someone else might have carried DNA traces
from the hallway, bathroom, kitchen or other room,
into Meredith's room.
The fact is in bra clasps. There is a DNA history of Sollecito,
but there are also at least two other histories.
But the police never pay attention to it as evidence.
DNA must be objective.
You can't interpret it as you want.
And I have to say
there are problems too with contamination in the laboratory.
Forensic police certainly identify Amanda's history.
You can see it very well. That is a good history.
But related to Meredith's DNA found,
the numbers are very small, very rare.
When you get very rare amounts of DNA,
the possibility of contamination is very high.
So we ask the forensic police,
"When you analyze the knife, do you analyze it by yourself,
without any other evidence?"
And he replied, "No, we checked 50 Kercher's samples together.
The laboratory can't be closed just because Kercher died."
When he reports these things,
I'm sure the results are because of contamination.
When the results come out, is really crazy.
Chaotic investigation and haphazard forensic work,
I remembered the breath that was heard from the press and everyone in the court.
As a journalist, we all see this extraordinary angle or statement.
And when you see something extraordinary like that, you just think,
"Scintillating. It's really food from heaven."
Amanda Knox's hand & apos; said was on the knife.
The knife is said to have killed the victim in this case.
There is no DNA.
What?
This is Italy, Shepard. This is crazy.
This is a little different than we used to.
Flower interest.
One of... One person...
One thing that can't envelop my mind is
If DNA evidence is untrustworthy, how can it all end like this?
Do you really believe
that Americans should intervene at the highest level in our government?
I think the president must be involved.
I think people should boycott Italy. They should not visit Italy.
I feel annoyed with American media that teaches us about the law.
Year 1308, this courthouse
being home to the first legal faculty in Europe.
In 1308 in America, they drew bulls in caves.
I'm annoyed with all rows of attacks
especially those directed to me and the police.
American media only focuses on DNA.
All pieces of evidence have uncertainty aspects.
That is why evidence must be evaluated overall.
I hear talk...
"For me, Amanda is guilty because she said too many lies."
I must remind you that behavior cannot be fully understood.
Very absurd.
There is no doubt about this.
There's no trace of me in the room where Meredith was killed,
and there are no reliable Raffaele traces in the room where Meredith was killed.
But you tried to find the answer in my eyes,
when the answer is clearly in the room.
Why did you see me?
This is my eyes.
They are not objective evidence.
Which is more likely to occur?
That I...
to be in a relationship with a girlfriend I have ever, and this man,
which I don't even know his name,
ordered them to rape my housemate,
and then let me stab him to death?
Or...
that a man, is doing a robbery regularly...
breaking into my house...
find Meredith...
make use of him...
kill him...
and run away?
A robbery that ends wrong.
Once someone told me that the culprit had nothing but Rudy.
The culprit is him, and only him.
Yes, I don't think if it's very fair.
We can't speak at all about the figure of a Rudy Guede.
What happened in the room between poor Guede and Meredith
is not part of the work charged to me by the Court of Appeal of Perugia.
I really feel compelled to say something that Cicero said,
"It's possible for all humans to make mistakes...
but only fools
who insist on mistakes"
Do you feel that you have done a good job in defending Rudy?
Ask other people.
I don't understand.
Ask other people who have a better defense regarding whether Rudy's defense of is a good defense.
Rudy will be out soon in the near future.
Others still have to face the trial.
The decision is yours,
to try to bring justice
and defend the honor of this country,
who is a sovereign country.
Four years after the brutal murder
from an English housemate, Meredith Kercher,
all go to this point.
Outside the courthouse, the world is waiting.
Frenzied journalists from all over the world,
everything counts back moments until the fate of Amanda Knox is revealed.
Amanda is in the courthouse.
and will immediately be brought in into the courtroom,
where he will hear the reading of the judge's decision.
In the name of an Italian,
in the review of first court decision,
This Court of Appeal,
free both defendants because they have not committed a crime,
and ordered to immediately release Knox, Amanda and Sollecito, Raffaele.
Seattle native citizens 24 years old
fainting on the wrist of his lawyer,
when his family, all gathered in the courtroom,
sweep each other into their arms.
However, outside the court building, the reaction is different.
The people here are very disappointed
that Amanda Knox has been considered innocent in the murder of Meredith Kercher.
This is an insult! Shut up
The court has said that they were released,
but there is still the Supreme Court!
Don't give up! This is an insult!
Insult!
And tonight's news, finally Amanda Knox came home.
That is the plane that transports him and his family.
This is a real picture now.
Squeeze the media and congratulations
waiting for him at Seattle-Tacoma Airport.
That's him, there he is, it's him, that's it, that's it.
- He is here. - He's here.
He descends the stairs.
- He descends the stairs. - Get off the stairs.
The important thing for me to say is just thanks to everyone
who trust me... who has defended me...
who has supported my family.
I just want...
My family is the most important thing for me right now,
and I just want to go and be with them.
So, thank you for being with me there.
When I go back home, the first thing I do
is staring into the refrigerator.
I looked at him as if it was something very new,
as if I were a primitive person.
I'm free. I am very happy.
But suddenly, I feel depressed again,
because I don't know how how to start my life again.
Everything is new.
I spent four years in prison, six months in the isolation room.
How can I get used to living a life that I don't want?
I used to be a simple computer enthusiast. Now everyone knows me.
They see me on the street, they ask me questions.
They treat me like a movie star, even though I'm not.
And I remain in a tragedy.
Congratulations. Congratulations, Amanda.
- Please leave me alone. Please. - Welcome home.
Welcome home, Amanda.
Does it taste good to go home?
What do you like most about Miss Seattle?
This is just a problem about what he did for this sudden fame?
Does he write books and continue to live his life?
Will he try to follow Dancing with the Stars competition?
That's where we will see his true motivation.
What movie offer do you accept?
That is not our focus at this time.
Our focus is welfare.
Do you realize that
the longer you leave it, in common sense,
the less money you will get in the end?
What do you mean?
Yes, you are not a person...
He is not a warm treasure in the subject of an interview if you wait a month.
I don't look at my child as a warm treasure.
I really think if I will be fine.
But I am not the same person to go back to Seattle.
The whole world knows who the people who have made love to me.
Seven men.
Still, I am a vicious prostitute.
I like animals and are obsessed with sex and unusual.
I enter the queue at the food store and the people behind me like,
"Whoa!
That's you!
I know you!"
And I really want to turn the body to them and say, "Fuck. Who are you?
You don't know me."
You need to wonder actually what does everyone care about?
A very pleasant entertainment.
Six years after the murder, the Italian trial canceled the release of Knox and Sollecito and the couple was found guilty again.
The guilty verdict focuses on indirect evidence, including Knox's behavior and relationships.
A new guilty verdict was submitted to the Italian Supreme Mahmakah.
Today the Supreme Court Rises in Italy will regulate
about whether to enforce punishment for Americans, Amanda Knox,
and his ex-girlfriend, Raffaele Sollecito,
for the murder of an English student , Meredith Kercher.
This morning an Italian lawyer Amanda Knox said,
"Amanda is worried and cannot sleep at night.
The Meredith Kercher family has made their request clearly.
They are convinced that Amanda is guilty of
and want to see him imprisoned again where all this started, in Italy. "
This is a countdown from to when the sentence will be read out.
The telephone must be turned off in the courtroom. immediately turned on so the judge finished reading
and we will immediately know the statement.
Caution!
It is reported that Raffaele Sollecito
and Amanda Knox have been released from accusations. - Damn!
I know! This is crazy!
Raffaele?
We are free!
How are you doing?
I am really happy for you. I am truly happy for us. and we will immediately chat again.
See you later.
- Oh, my God. - Oh, my God!
In September 2015, the Italian Supreme Court issued their reason for freeing Knox and Sollecito from murder.
The court blames "astonishing defects" in investigations and increases media attention in creating "unsettling searches" for the guilty parties.
The judges found "the complete absence of biological traces" which connected Knox and Sollecito to the crime.
The judge said that the evidence remains shows that Rudy is guilty.
The first reaction is a surprise.
They have two penalties...
and now they have two deliverances.
It feels like a terrible long time to get a strange judge's decision.
Eight years.
It feels like driving away everything to humiliation.
I think in the end, you have to point
police, really, and prosecutors.
They make a very cruel mistake
and they are fixated on careless theories which is really their obsession.
I know people keep saying, "Try it out by the media, try it out by the media," but...
I don't agree with that.
Maybe because I'm a journalist. so I don't agree with that, but...
now I think, look back, some information coming out
really crazy, and completely made up.
But what should we do?
We are journalists and we report what we have been told.
I can't say, "Right, wait a minute.
I want to check it again myself in some other way."
I mean, who can do it.
Then I let my board go ahead of me,
then I have lost the headlines.
The way it works is not so.
Not in the news game.
During the trial there were a woman who...
say I'm a devil.
"You are evil."
I can say that I made a mistake,
there are even things I need to admit,
but we are all between good and evil.
It is in our nature.
Amanda and Sollecito, if you are innocent,
I hope they are able to forget the suffering they have endured.
If they are guilty, if they don't get world justice,
I hope they bear their guilt,
because I know that life ends with the final judgment.
A court without appeal, no second chance, and no revisions.
I think people like monsters.
So when they get a chance, they want to see the monsters.
That is the way people project their fear.
They want comfort that...
they know who are bad people, and that is not them.
Maybe so.
We are all scared.
And fear makes people go crazy.
Amanda Knox graduated from college in 2014. He is now a lawyer for the wrongly convicted party.
Raffaele Sollecito runs his internet company in Bari, Italy. He also acts as an expert on crime which is true for Italian television.
Giuliano Mignini has risen to the rank of general attorney.
Nick Pisa still works in the journalistic world.
Recently Rudy Guede was given a temporary holiday from prison. He maintains that he is innocent.
Translated by Alexander Erick.