WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:03.359 I thought of one journal. 2 00:00:06.200 --> 00:00:13.240 Pretty young in Catosms, not Dica. 3 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:18.320 On November two, two thousand and seven, police in Perusia 4 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:21.600 receive a phone call there's been a break in. When 5 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:25.079 police arrive, they discover a young woman has been stabbed 6 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:29.879 to death. She's Meredith Kircher, a British student, a girl 7 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:38.520 with everything to live for. For seven years, her American flatmate, 8 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:43.399 Amanda Knox, was the center of a media and judicial storm, 9 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:48.520 accused of Meredith's murder. In twenty fifteen, the murder convictions 10 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:53.399 of Amanda Knox and Rafael Solechito were overturned once and 11 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:53.799 for all. 12 00:00:54.479 --> 00:01:07.280 It's she deserved so much in this I I'm the 13 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:07.840 lucky one. 14 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:11.439 The family of Meredith Kirture feels let down by the 15 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:16.280 Italian judiciary for the contradictory verdicts it has produced over 16 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:35.640 nearly eight years. Meredith Kircher grew up in Croydon, South London. 17 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:40.319 In August two thousand and seven, a new university year 18 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:45.319 is about to start. Meredith, now twenty one, prepares to 19 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:50.560 leave for the ancient and peaceful hilltop city of Perugia, Italy. 20 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:54.120 He was very excited about coming to Italy, looking forward 21 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:58.760 to learning more about Italian culture, seeing the city of Perugia, 22 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:03.359 and making new friends, and she really thought to come here. 23 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:05.000 She really wanted to be here. 24 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:13.479 Mez, as everyone calls her, is studying European politics and 25 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:22.319 Italian at Leeds. Now she has an exchange year in Italy, 26 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:25.759 a country she's been in love with since a school trip. 27 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:30.240 But saying goodbye to her sister, Stephanie isn't easy. 28 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:35.520 We were just talking on the sofa and having a 29 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:38.879 little cudog goodbye, and then I just remember her suddenly 30 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:41.199 crying and saying that she was going to be sad 31 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:44.199 to go, but she was excited to come. And I 32 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:48.360 remember being quite taken aback, thought, don't make me sad. 33 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:50.800 I'll miss you, but you're going to have fun. 34 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:59.520 She leaves on September the first, and quickly afterwards moves 35 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:03.319 into the upstairs flat of this cottage with three housemates, 36 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:07.439 two young Italian trainee lawyers and a student on exchange 37 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:15.560 from the United States, twenty year old Amanda Knox. Amanda 38 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:18.960 has traveled almost six thousand miles from Seattle on the 39 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:26.400 Northwest coast to study Italian in Perusia, Photogenic outgoing and 40 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:30.960 describing herself as quirky Amanda Knox loves the Beatles and 41 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:35.599 Harry Potter. She's been studying at university and has worked 42 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:40.400 three jobs to pay for her Italian adventure. She is 43 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:46.479 very different from the quiet and studious Meredith. While housemates, 44 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:50.840 there is said to be tension over Amanda's supposedly casual 45 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:58.719 attitude to sex, money, and housework. Within weeks, Amanda Knox 46 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:02.000 lands a job in proof, working as a waitress at 47 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:05.439 La Chique, a pub owned by a popular musician from 48 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:09.960 the Congo, Patrick Lumumbambracio. 49 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:13.439 She gave me the impression of a good person. If 50 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:16.079 she wasn't a good person, she wouldn't have worked here. 51 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:19.560 That doesn't mean that her relationship with clients pleased me, 52 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:22.480 because she often talked to the clients and I had 53 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:30.120 to tell her to get back to work. 54 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:37.720 On October the twenty fifth, Amanda and Meredith go to 55 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:42.240 a classical music concert together, where Amanda meets Italian student 56 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:47.639 Rafaele Solechito. He looks like her favorite Harry Potter, and 57 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:52.079 the two begin a whirlwind romance. Described by friends as 58 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:57.199 intelligent and sensitive, the handsome Rafaele has come to Perusia 59 00:04:57.279 --> 00:05:03.680 to study information technology. A week later, October thirty first, 60 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:08.839 it is Halloween, and in Perusia, like every other university town, 61 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:14.319 it's party time. It is one of Meredith's favorite nights out, 62 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:19.279 and she is dressed as a vampire. These will turn 63 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:23.600 out to be among the last photographs of her alive, happy, 64 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:27.600 full of life, and completely at home with her new friends. 65 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:32.040 What Happens on the night of November first, two thousand 66 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:36.160 and seven has been the subject of three trials, three appeals, 67 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:41.800 and three Supreme Court rulings. The story has more twists 68 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:47.879 and turns than the medieval streets of Perusia itself. The 69 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:50.360 story starts at nine o'clock in the morning on the 70 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:54.439 second of November, when a local woman finds two mobile 71 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:58.759 phones in her garden. She takes them to the Postal police, 72 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:04.519 which handles crimes involving communication devices. They quickly discover one 73 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:08.360 of the phones is registered to Via de la Pergola seven, 74 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:14.360 a small cottage just five hundred meters away. When police 75 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:20.399 arrive here, they see two students in the driveway, Amanda 76 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:27.519 Knox and Rafaele Solechito. They tell the police the front 77 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:35.360 door is open and one room has been ransacked. Police 78 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:39.399 go into the house. One bedroom's a mess, Clothes are 79 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:42.240 all over the floor and a large rock is lying 80 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:47.000 near the window. Shortly after the postal police arrive around 81 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:52.279 twelve fifty one, Rafaele Solechito calls the elite police force, 82 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:56.800 the Carabinieri. He doesn't mention that the postal police are 83 00:06:56.839 --> 00:07:02.399 already there and says nothing's been stolen, details prosecutors would 84 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:34.839 later claim are significant Producer. Meanwhile, Amanda says she's worried 85 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:39.920 about her friend Meredith, her doors locked, she's not answering 86 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:45.360 the phone. When the door is broken down, they discover 87 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:50.279 a beige duvet on the floor. Beneath it the battered 88 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:59.560 and bloody body of Meredith Kercher. Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini arrives 89 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:05.560 just after two pm. He finds Meredith is partially naked, 90 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:09.439 her brass being cut off and her t shirt rolled 91 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:13.560 up above her breasts. It looks like a sexual assault. 92 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:17.040 When you start an investigation, you don't know what happens. 93 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:19.480 You have to slowly reconstruct the situation. 94 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:28.639 Forensics teams work inside and outside the cottage right away. 95 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:32.480 They think it's a staged break in. Glass shards are 96 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:36.159 on top rather than underneath the scattered clothes. The large 97 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:38.960 rock seems too heavy to be thrown from the ground 98 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:42.200 to the first floor window and too big to go 99 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:49.519 through the small crack between the shutters. A handbag, jewelry case, camera, 100 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:55.080 and laptop computer are lying in full view. There's a 101 00:08:55.120 --> 00:08:58.639 line of bloody shoeprints from Meredith's room to the front door, 102 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:04.519 and in the bathroom a bloody, bare footprint is on 103 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:13.519 the bath mat. Over four days, investigators collect more than 104 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:18.600 four hundred items from the apartment, photographing and filming their work. 105 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:25.039 Merediths bra has been sliced off, but when police bag 106 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:49.639 it for evidence, they notice something is missing. Somehow, the 107 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:54.399 investigators leave without it, a critical error that will haunt 108 00:09:54.440 --> 00:10:03.240 the prosecution case. The autopsy shows Meredith has been strangled 109 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:06.279 and stabbed on two sides of the neck, possibly with 110 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:12.000 two different knives. The second fatal stab severed her thyroid artery. 111 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:18.600 There are forty wounds too many, police believe for one 112 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:24.320 assailant to have inflicted alone. The prosecution's view of what happened, 113 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:28.840 later disputed by the defense, is shown in this reconstruction. 114 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:34.759 Meredith was trained in karate and must have encountered overwhelming force. 115 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:37.039 A person contemp. 116 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:42.600 One person couldn't all at the same time. Hold Meredith 117 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:46.080 still and hold back her hands because there are very 118 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:50.279 few defensive wounds, inflict those wounds with a smaller knife, 119 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:53.320 and then give her the fatal blow with the larger knife. 120 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:58.120 It is impossible. Not even Superman could do it and 121 00:10:58.200 --> 00:10:59.639 possibi Nike Superman. 122 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:07.879 The behavior of Amanda Knox and her boyfriend attracts attention. 123 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:13.639 Meredith's friends tell police that far from appearing distraught, Amanda 124 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:18.720 and Raphaele have been seen laughing and joking. A vigil 125 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:22.840 is held for Meredith, but Amanda and Raphaela don't attend. 126 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:27.440 They go for dinner at a friend's instead, and the 127 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:32.039 prosecutor recalls why he was concerned by Amanda's behavior. 128 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:39.879 Guando when the girls were brought to see the knives 129 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:41.720 that were in the kitchen, the. 130 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:45.320 Reaction of Amanda, it was a reaction. She put her 131 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:48.360 hands on her ears, as if she were trying to 132 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:51.480 block out a terrible sound she was hearing in her ears. 133 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:54.159 It was like she was having a nervous. 134 00:11:53.759 --> 00:12:00.879 Breakdown, probably own minto. 135 00:12:02.440 --> 00:12:05.960 And then there was this one of the defining images 136 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:11.000 of the case, Amanda and Rafael kissing outside the cottage 137 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:15.600 where Meredith was murdered. Her supporters say this was only natural. 138 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:18.279 Did they comfort each other? We've seen that famous footage 139 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:21.559 of the two of them together. They did. What's wrong 140 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:24.759 with any of that? Nothing? It did appear to be 141 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:26.399 wrong to some authorities. 142 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:35.039 November fifth, four days after the murder, RAFAELI Sulechito is 143 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:38.759 called in for questioning. Amanda goes with him, and once 144 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:43.600 again her behavior seems odd. She does yoga and the 145 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:48.399 splits in the waiting room. At this point, the couple's 146 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:54.279 alibi appears to fall apart. Amanda had told police she'd 147 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:59.759 spent the night of the murder at Rafael's apartment. They cooked, 148 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:05.120 watched a film Made Love, smoked marijuana, and went to bed. 149 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:11.679 But separately that our failest story begins to change. He's 150 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:14.519 no longer sure if Amanda was with him all night. 151 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:19.840 Amanda's called in for more questioning, as she is only 152 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:23.480 a witness. At this stage, an interpreter is present, but 153 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:29.039 she has no legal representation. What happens next is crucial 154 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:32.759 and one of the most controversial twists in the story. 155 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:37.240 Police ask Amanda Knox about text messages on her phone, 156 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:44.080 in particular, a message from her boss, Patrick Lumumba. 157 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.080 Don't come to work to night because there aren't enough clients. 158 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:49.840 It's like Sunday I sent that message not to come 159 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:50.960 for Bavin. 160 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:58.039 Amanda had texted back, see you later, she says. She 161 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:02.039 just meant to see you around. But police now want 162 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:06.000 to know. Had Amanda arranged to meet Lumumba later that 163 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:09.720 evening and taken him to her house at one forty 164 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:12.720 five in the morning. Amanda breaks down. 165 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:18.120 She says she had entered the house with him because 166 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:21.679 he was attracted to Meredith and wanted to be with Meredith, 167 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:25.600 and she stayed in the kitchen and heard Meredith screams, 168 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:28.759 and he was the assassin. That's what she says. 169 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:30.360 I'm in did he sip? 170 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:38.679 Police believe Amanda Knox's story. They raid Patrick Lumumba's home 171 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:43.720 and take him in Within hours, his photo flashes around 172 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:47.639 the world as one of the murder suspects. But for 173 00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:52.759 the police, Amanda Knox has now gone from witness to suspect. 174 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:57.039 If she's taken Lumumba to Meredith, she must have been 175 00:14:57.080 --> 00:14:57.399 at the. 176 00:14:57.399 --> 00:15:01.679 House lay a post. 177 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:05.120 She put herself at the scene of the crime. She 178 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:08.720 admitted to accompanying Lumumba as if she were an accomplice 179 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:11.919 in his project. She was in the room next door 180 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:16.360 when the crime happened, and her version this fact pushed 181 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:19.559 the police to suspend the audition in order to protect 182 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:22.440 her rights. 183 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:25.679 Garancia suspend. 184 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:31.720 November sixth, two thousand and seven, Amanda, k Oxandrafaeli so 185 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:37.279 Lechito are arrested waiting to be taken to jail. Amando 186 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:41.200 makes another attempt to tell police what happened with Lumumba 187 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:46.120 by writing out an explanation in English. She tells the police, 188 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:47.840 it's a present. 189 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:52.799 In my mind. I saw Patrick in flashes of blurred images. 190 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:57.200 I saw him near the basketball court. I saw him 191 00:15:57.240 --> 00:16:01.000 at my front door. I saw myself cowering in the 192 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:04.159 kitchen with my hands over my ears because in my 193 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:07.440 head I could hear Meredith screaming. But I have said 194 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:12.159 this many times so as to make myself clear these 195 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:16.320 things seem unreal to me, like a dream. I want 196 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:18.399 to make it clear that I'm very doubtful of the 197 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:21.440 verity of my statements because they were made under the 198 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:24.960 pressure of stress, shock and extreme exhaustion. 199 00:16:29.399 --> 00:16:35.759 But despite her uncertainty, she doesn't retract her accusation. Lumumba 200 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:41.960 remains in jail, pleading his innocence. In the city square, 201 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:48.039 members of the African community protest his arrest. 202 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:50.679 In why ju Tu Julie. 203 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:56.240 Signed the black man is always the thief and the assassin. 204 00:16:57.279 --> 00:17:00.159 She wanted them to believe what she was saying. It 205 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:03.159 was just because I was black. She was looking for 206 00:17:03.240 --> 00:17:05.720 someone in society who was credible. 207 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:08.559 There was a moment when she should have actually retracted 208 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:10.440 that story, at the moment when she should have said, no, 209 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:13.559 this is the wrong thing to do. And he's grown 210 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:16.559 it to jail for two weeks, just over two weeks 211 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:20.559 for something he did not do, and he lost his livelihood. 212 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:30.680 At this point, another African immigrant enters the story. Twenty 213 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:33.880 year old Rudy gray Day from the Ivory Coast is 214 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:37.920 living in Perusia. Detectives find his bloody thumbprint on a 215 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:43.200 pillowcase that was underneath Meredith's dead body. Because he's an immigrant, 216 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:51.440 they have his prints on file. Police raid his tiny 217 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:56.680 bedsit apartment and test his toothbrush for DNA. It matches 218 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:01.160 traces found on Meredith's brass trap on her body. And 219 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:05.680 on the left sleeve of her pale blue sweatshirt. Rudy 220 00:18:05.799 --> 00:18:11.799 Guayde has fled the country. He's arrested in Germany. Perusia 221 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:16.720 attorney Valter Biscotti volunteers to defend him. 222 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:19.480 In Contra Costo Ragazzo. 223 00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:22.920 I met this young man in this prison in Schiffenstat, Germany, 224 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:25.519 and he seemed to me like a guy who was scared, 225 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:27.640 someone who was in the middle of a story that 226 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:30.400 was bigger than him. He was surprised to see a 227 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:32.559 lawyer who arrived from Italy for him. 228 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:43.839 Onlui extradited back to Italy, Rudy Guayde confirms the police 229 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:44.799 that he's lived. 230 00:18:44.599 --> 00:18:48.440 In the country since the age of five. A keen 231 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:53.160 basketball player, he'd met Amanda and Meredith after shooting hoops 232 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:57.160 with students who lived in the apartment below theirs. They 233 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:03.960 partied and smoked dope together. Meanwhile, the case against Patrick Lumumba, 234 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:08.599 as outlined by Amanda Knox collapses. A customer at the 235 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:12.640 bar has given him an alibi and he freed. How 236 00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:17.400 did Amanda Knox come to mention Lumumba's name to police 237 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:21.400 for the first time? We can hear an audio tape 238 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:25.960 of her explanation to the prosecutor. A transcript of this 239 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:31.559 was presented in court, but not the audio. Accompanied by 240 00:19:31.640 --> 00:19:36.279 three lawyers and an interpreter. On December seventeenth, two thousand 241 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:40.640 and seven, knox Is asked why she told police Lumumba 242 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:41.599 committed the crime. 243 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:49.960 I was expressed. 244 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:52.920 I was feared it was after a long hour, in the. 245 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:55.119 Middle of the night, and would be innocent. They were 246 00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:56.680 telling me that I was killed. 247 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:01.720 What did police tell you? 248 00:20:03.039 --> 00:20:05.519 The police are telling you that you know your house, 249 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:09.440 he know view of the house, and before I said 250 00:20:09.559 --> 00:20:12.720 Hatrick's name, they were put and someone would shown me 251 00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:14.960 the message that I was seen on. 252 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:18.240 The pal insist. 253 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:23.759 I couldn't understand why they were telling me that I 254 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:24.680 was lying. 255 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:35.480 It needs that in that home that I had said 256 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:36.200 Hadrick's name. 257 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:37.599 I thought it could. 258 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:38.079 Have been true. 259 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:43.880 So what's the extent of the police evidence At this point, 260 00:20:46.119 --> 00:20:50.240 it includes the knife founder Raphael so Legito's apartment that 261 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:54.519 they believed could be the murder weapon, but they need 262 00:20:54.519 --> 00:20:58.319 more so return to the crime scene. Forty six days 263 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:02.599 after the murder. They found Meredith's bra clasp under a mat. 264 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:08.599 Using rubber gloves, they pick it up and inspect it. 265 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:11.759 It will become the most controversial piece of evidence in 266 00:21:11.799 --> 00:21:16.519 the investigation. The defense will claim the delay in collecting 267 00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:22.119 it could have resulted in contamination. Investigators also, for the 268 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:27.519 first time use luminol to look for invisible bloodstains. Three 269 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:33.599 clear footprints appere plus other small bloodstains more new evidence, 270 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:44.839 but it will be controversial. In Seattle, the campaign to 271 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:49.559 prove Amanda as innocent is underway. Her family turned to 272 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:54.400 a crisis communications firm and a group called Friends of Amanda. 273 00:21:56.319 --> 00:21:58.400 It was just this kind of small group of people 274 00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:01.880 that were called the America. Hence and our offense. I 275 00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:04.039 think there was one quote that the Americans would send 276 00:22:04.039 --> 00:22:20.000 in the Marines to get Amanda Knox. I love Italy 277 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:22.400 and in Italy, and I have great respect for the courts. 278 00:22:22.759 --> 00:22:25.079 I do think we have a read prosecutor in Italy. 279 00:22:25.319 --> 00:22:27.799 If you speak against the prosecution, you can be prosecuted. 280 00:22:28.039 --> 00:22:31.640 So nobody can speak, and it's a perfect storm of 281 00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:33.640 a potentially very unfair prosecution. 282 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:50.000 Amanda Knox's DNA has been found mixed together with Meredith 283 00:22:50.079 --> 00:22:54.559 Kerchers in five bloodstains in the flat. Plus tests show 284 00:22:54.640 --> 00:22:58.039 the bare footprints made in blood match the size and 285 00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:01.480 shape of Amanda's and her boy friend's feet, and the 286 00:23:01.559 --> 00:23:06.119 kitchen knife from Rafaele's apartment shows Amanda's DNA on the 287 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:10.680 handle and a tiny trace of Meredith's DNA on the blade. 288 00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:20.720 The clock spins forward almost one year to September two 289 00:23:20.759 --> 00:23:26.359 thousand and eight. Amanda Knox, Rafaele Solechito, and Rudy Gwyde 290 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:30.559 appear before a judge in Perusia. With so much publicity 291 00:23:30.599 --> 00:23:35.480 now surrounding, Knox, Gwyde opts to be tried quickly and separately. 292 00:23:39.400 --> 00:23:43.240 Misono Conveno I was convinced that if he had been 293 00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:46.200 tried with the others, that with all the international media 294 00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:48.960 clamor and the international pressure there would have been surrounding 295 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:53.920 this trial, they would have dumped all the blame. 296 00:23:53.720 --> 00:23:55.839 On Rudy Arebroscaricato. 297 00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:00.759 So you have to see the role that money plays 298 00:24:01.039 --> 00:24:04.839 it being a USA or even here in your situation 299 00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:09.759 as a citizen or as a person as a suspect, right, 300 00:24:10.839 --> 00:24:13.359 you're not the just A system is not fair no 301 00:24:13.400 --> 00:24:15.839 matter where you are, because money's going to play a role. 302 00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:25.039 The prosecution's case is a tabloid editor's dream, they say, 303 00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:31.160 Amanda Knox, Raphael Solegito, and Rudy Grayday killed Meredith Kercher 304 00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:35.680 in a sex game gone wrong. Gray Day denies this 305 00:24:35.960 --> 00:24:40.680 and pleads not guilty. His defense is that he wasn't 306 00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:43.720 in the room when Meredith was murdered. He was in 307 00:24:43.720 --> 00:24:52.200 the bathroom. Meredith had invited him over. He said when 308 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:56.039 he got there, Meredith was furious because money was missing 309 00:24:56.319 --> 00:25:00.640 and she was blaming Amanda. He says he comforted Meredith 310 00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:04.799 and things got physical, but they didn't have full sex. 311 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:09.640 He went to the toilet, then says he heard Amanda 312 00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:11.200 enter the apartment. 313 00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:16.640 Luisa sin tito lace Lamanda. 314 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:19.440 He heard Amanda's voice as she came in. He was 315 00:25:19.480 --> 00:25:22.319 in the bathroom or just about to go into the bathroom, 316 00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:24.680 and then he really did put on his headphone and 317 00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:28.160 listened to music rap I think at full volume, and 318 00:25:28.200 --> 00:25:30.599 then heard a scream. He came out and came up 319 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:32.000 against a male figure. 320 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:34.200 I encorachat in Cristo Corridor. 321 00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:40.839 Rudy Guayde says this man lunged at him with a knife, 322 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:45.759 cutting his hand. The attacker then yelled black man. Found 323 00:25:46.119 --> 00:25:51.680 black man condemned and ran away. Gwyde found Meredith bleeding 324 00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:54.839 in the other room. He tried to stem the blood 325 00:25:54.839 --> 00:25:58.799 flow with towels and left a bloody thumbprint on the pillowcase, 326 00:25:59.519 --> 00:26:03.759 but reading didn't stop, and Gueyde says he panicked. 327 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:06.079 Luja. 328 00:26:06.440 --> 00:26:08.519 He tried to help her, He took her in his 329 00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:10.880 arms and should have called for help, but he was 330 00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:13.799 scared and ran away, and he feels guilty for. 331 00:26:13.799 --> 00:26:16.640 This, Queen de Luis perquesto. 332 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:22.640 Rudy Guayde is found guilty of Meredith's murder and sentenced 333 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:30.359 to thirty years. The judge's verdict says Rudy Guayde did 334 00:26:30.440 --> 00:26:34.839 not act alone. He's led away to prison. Amanda Knox 335 00:26:34.920 --> 00:26:39.000 and Raphael Solechito will now stand trial for the murder 336 00:26:39.039 --> 00:26:50.759 and sexual assault of Meredith Kircher. January the sixteenth, two 337 00:26:50.839 --> 00:27:00.480 thousand and nine, the trial begins. The world's me is 338 00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:04.960 focused on Amanda Knox. Her face fills the front pages. 339 00:27:06.039 --> 00:27:11.079 Could this attractive, bubbly All American girl be capable of murder? 340 00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:16.400 As they did at Rudy Grayday's trial. The prosecution again 341 00:27:16.519 --> 00:27:19.519 suggests the murder was the result of a sex game 342 00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:26.079 gone wrong. Again, this is strongly denied. Amanda and Raphael 343 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:31.920 claim they weren't in the house that night. To support 344 00:27:31.960 --> 00:27:36.440 their case, the prosecution produces evidence they claim places the 345 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:41.720 couple at the scene of the murder. First, there's the 346 00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:45.960 DNA found in the bathroom. The prosecution says it shows 347 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:49.720 the mixed blood of Amanda Knox and Meredith Kercher in 348 00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:52.839 the b day rain, the sink drain, and on a 349 00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:57.160 cotton bad box. There is also a large drop of 350 00:27:57.160 --> 00:28:02.400 Amanda's blood on the bathroom tap. According to the prosecutor, 351 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:06.920 this shows Amanda and Meredith were bleeding at the same time. 352 00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:09.480 Strong evidence there was a fight. 353 00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:10.759 Libroi. 354 00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:13.799 Principalis son no tragedy sangue misto. 355 00:28:14.119 --> 00:28:17.480 The principal evidence was mixed blood traces from which were 356 00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:19.559 extracted mixed DNA of Amanda. 357 00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:22.039 Media equista mistura. 358 00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:25.160 The only explanation for that mix is that Amanda was 359 00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:29.799 bleeding and touched objects that were covered in Meredith's blood. 360 00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:33.720 There's no other explanation. 361 00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:35.599 Alternativa. 362 00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:42.240 But Amanda's lawyers say this proves nothing. Two young students 363 00:28:42.279 --> 00:28:46.319 living together means it's perfectly normal to find mixed blood 364 00:28:46.359 --> 00:28:52.079 and DNA in the bathroom. They say it's possible Amanda's 365 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:57.000 DNA isn't from her blood at all, but from her saliva. 366 00:28:57.279 --> 00:29:01.880 Sarah Gino is the forensic biologist on Amanda Knox's defense team. 367 00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:06.000 Somewhere in this case the test was done for blood, 368 00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:11.359 but was the test done for saliva? So we can't 369 00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:14.119 know if inside that mixed trace there was blood because 370 00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:18.359 it had been demonstrated, or just saliva. Or maybe there 371 00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:19.440 was blood from. 372 00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:19.880 Both of them. 373 00:29:20.279 --> 00:29:21.200 But what does that mean. 374 00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:24.480 Maybe someone had a bloody nose one time, and then 375 00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:26.920 at another moment someone cut their finger and put it 376 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:28.440 down and their blood got mixed. 377 00:29:31.839 --> 00:29:34.640 Then there was the kitchen knife found in a Rafaele 378 00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:39.720 Solechito's flat. This, say the prosecutors, is the murder weapon, 379 00:29:39.960 --> 00:29:43.559 which has been cleaned. But they have found DNA of 380 00:29:43.640 --> 00:29:47.279 Amanda Knox on the handle and a minuscule amount of 381 00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:52.359 Meredith Kercher's DNA on the blade. But the words too 382 00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:55.799 low are written on the DNA reports for the knife. 383 00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:58.960 The test should never have been carried out, say defense. 384 00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:04.759 There's no not enough reliable DNA. When questioned by journalists, 385 00:30:05.240 --> 00:30:08.279 the prosecution stands by its forensic evidence. 386 00:30:09.720 --> 00:30:12.839 It is not too little. The genetic profile is low, 387 00:30:13.079 --> 00:30:16.319 but it is absolutely reliable. In fact, we were able 388 00:30:16.359 --> 00:30:19.279 to get it, which means there is no uncertainty about 389 00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:22.839 the attribution of that profile to the victim. 390 00:30:24.119 --> 00:30:29.119 More DNA evidence is presented, this time on Meredith's bra clasp. 391 00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:33.680 Police say Raphaels so Legito's DNA is on one of 392 00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:37.680 the hooks. This is the only evidence placing him in 393 00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:42.400 her bedroom. There is no DNA evidence that puts Amanda 394 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:50.480 in the room. David Balding, a DNA statistician at University 395 00:30:50.519 --> 00:30:55.400 College London, is recognized as one of the world's leading analysts. 396 00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:00.000 In twenty twelve, he is asked by the Italian Forerecis 397 00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:04.519 Sick Association to study Meredith Kirch's bra clasp and to 398 00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:08.680 give an independent view on whether Solechito's DNA is present. 399 00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:11.759 His findings are not part of the court case. 400 00:31:12.359 --> 00:31:14.720 When you just look at the evidence by I you 401 00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:19.440