Amanda Knox: Life After the Crime That Wasn't Hers

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Uh you hear my guest speaking now, Amanda Knox. She spent eight years on trial and four years in an Italian prison for a crime she did not commit, and as a result became a notorious tabloid story in the process. Here's what happened. Amanda, if you don't mind, I'll just get everybody up to speed, uh, which is in your first book which you were on for. In the fall of 2007, the 20-year-old college co-ed left Seattle to study abroad in Italy, but her life was shattered when her roommate, Meredith Kircher, was murdered in their apartment in Perugia, Italy, where a burglar named Rudy Gade broke into her cottage when no one was home.

When Meredith returned, Goday raped and killed her, then fled the country. Amanda was not there. Gudet left his fingerprints and footprints in her blood, and he left his DNA in and on her body. The MO of the break-in matched his previous burglaries, and he was known to carry a knife. He confessed to having been at the scene of the crime, and ultimately he was tried and convicted for the murder, sort of.

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