[Music] she was young she was beautiful and she was in big trouble a prime suspect in the mysterious death of her roommate this was the Ugly American on steroids is Amanda Knox a [ __ ] or a saint I was sexually active I was not sexually Feeney was she guilty in fact or just in the press the newspapers had this fabulous story assuming the war prosecution said was true it's salacious fascinating the juicier the tidbit the better it was a media spectacle that consumed the United States Italy and England igniting controversy that still rages there's
something about the way her eyes move that leaves us wondering I wished so much that I had stood up to them the prosecution of Amanda knows next [Music] Perugia Italy is a storybook city famous throughout the world for its chocolates an equally famous to students as a party town we're getting high and hooking up is like a prerequisite for the college experience to the average American tourists this town looks like Anna Dilek Italian mountain town filled with beautiful art and churches if you spend a little time there and you read Italian you start to realize
every single headline is about drugs it's about gang violence everything looks so calm and tranquil on the surface this is a lovely little hill town in Italy and terrible evil had been committed this was something that the tabloids could feast on Amanda Knox never thought she'd become fodder for the tabloids when she arrived in Perugia in 2007 as a 20 year old exchange student Italy seemed like a dream come true she was a junior at the University of Washington she was good with languages and she decided she was gonna take her junior year abroad she
enrolled at the Perugia School for foreigners which is a school that historically teaches Italian to foreigners so she became the third of four roommates living together in this little house two of the roommates were Italian Amanda described one as offbeat and the other as a bit of a hippie the third housemate was twenty-one year old Meredith Kercher a British exchange student Amanda found her exotic Lea beautiful and friendly next to Amanda however all three seemed almost reserved amanda is from seattle she is was considered eccentric in Seattle which prides itself on its eccentricity the way
that you comport and present yourself to the people around you in Italy is of extreme importance but she had this sort of extreme version of being blind and carefree and careless and actually kind of took pride in it but in in Italy it's just not done and especially not young women as the newest and youngest of the roommates Amanda and Meredith found much in common they also shared a bathroom at one end of the house they would only know each other for six weeks it's just so sad she had by all accounts was a wonderful
person a very smart talented and well liked the garden loved girl Meredith Kercher was more formal she was British she was more sophisticated she was there with a pack of friends who she knew from the University of Leeds so she was in a much more secure place amanda was like a lone wolf running around basically picking up guys Amanda's free spirit and fresh-faced beauty even helped her get a part-time job she was recruited to waitress at a bar owned by a an African immigrant to Italy named Patrick Lumumba that he hired her because she was
American and pretty and he hoped that she would attract more more male patrons the first big holiday of the season was November 1st All Saints Day in Italy it's a sacred time when families honored their ancestors but for foreign students like Amanda Knox and Meredith Kercher it's a traditional party time not unlike Halloween Amanda and Meredith had the cottage to themselves their Italian roommates were gone for the night Amanda had just started dating Rafael a select Oh a young student whom she had met a week earlier brafilius let you tow was in love but how
many people fall in love at 23 and think it's forever they met at a classical music concert but those things weren't reported it was much more than that she was just wantin kind of sex-crazed vixen for that one week they spent every night together it was a romantic whirlwind until the morning of November 2nd 2007 after another evening with Rafael II Amanda returned to the house early in the morning she said she had no idea that Meredith Kercher was dead in her bedroom her throat had been slashed and she'd been sexually assaulted Amanda Knox came
home the day after the murder take a shower she took the same shower every single time she stayed at Rafael's cuz he had this really crummy guide type moldy shower so she came home to shower and change her clothes she came in and saw it kind of weird little things in different parts of the house but being Amanda Knox and being a bit out sitting centric she still took a shower she noticed first of all that there were blood drops on the sink faucet and when she got out of the shower a kind of a
bloody spot on the blue bat mat but she thought maybe Meredith was having her period and had just dripped blood or that there the blood on the sink had been drip drip from her ear Amanda Knox had gotten eleven ear piercings that week she went into the other bathroom not the bathroom that she uses all the time but the other bathroom to get a hair dryer and blow dry her hair at this point Amanda's story takes an odd turn there she found feces in the toilet which kind of grossed her out because it was a
nice clean house and so those particular roommates that use that toilet worth of cleaned women in the house so she couldn't figure out why didn't they flush the toilet and thought it was really really creepy and she did not flush it and she went back to her fellas house for breakfast people find that very hard to understand and you know the explanation is that she was young and innocent and a little bit naive in her words she was stupid about it but stupidity is not criminal offense Amanda tries calling Meredith several times before she and
Raffaelli returned to the house in another odd twist the police arrived a short time later they're investigating the theft of two cell phones that were registered to Amanda's roommates first thing they do is go inside and notice Meredith's door is locked she doesn't answer the door they opened the door of one of the other roommates and there's a room in utter disarray with a broken window broken glass everywhere clothes strewn around drawers pulled open and clearly somebody has been in their house and then everybody starts to become concerned Meredith's door is locked no one is
prepared for what they find in Meredith's room the scene is a bloodbath she was lying on the floor covered by a duvet and her foot was sticking out and there was blood everywhere like on the wall on the closet everywhere the house was sealed off Amanda and Raffaelli remained outside their behavior quickly drew the attention of the police so the body of Meredith Kercher had just been discovered in the cottage and they were outside comforting each other and the camera started rolling and they were not aware of that and so they kissed like these little
pecks three times as the police gathered information a lead investigator was brought onto the case Giuliano ma Nene what people don't understand is that a prosecutor like Giuliano mangini is both investigator and prosecutors so he's controlling what the police look at the devoutly Catholic manin II was known as a tough no-nonsense prosecutor he is a staunch Catholic he believes that in his town there are people who are practicing these dark ritual acts and that the fact that it happened on All Souls night was a part of the clue to him that this was a ritual
acting we used to say every day is Halloween community every day was satanic every day was witchcraft you know every day every day you had these kinds of ritualistic overtones and that's what this overlay was in the place Giuliano manin II and the police were not buying Amanda's story it was hazy at best was there opportunity yes but was their motive Juliana main unity is the kind of person who can come to a crime scene and see a beautiful English girl lying dead in a pool of blood and fantasize a four-way orgy to money the
primary questions were obvious did Meredith die at the hands of Amanda Knox and her boyfriend and how as it turned out the answers almost didn't matter there's always been this idea that there's just something more going on and people couldn't quite put their finger on it and amanda was the best scapegoat if you will vestigators have been picking apart this case bringing in forensic experts criminologists for the press in both America and Italy it wasn't just the story of the year it was the story of the century the Amanda Knox case had something for everybody
sex drugs international intrigue for the prosecutor it even had Satanism the Italian press crafted a picture of this girl this American girl that was she's a sex maniac she's a spoiled rich American and isn't she pretty she had this uncanny ability to look straight into a camera no matter who was taking the picture in the paparazzi and look piercingly into that camera and the pictures were chilling I would much rather suppress my emotion than have it be determined as insincere and affected a broken back window an unlocked front door a mutilated corpse British exchange student
Meredith Kercher had been savagely killed after a sexual assault in her own bedroom the murder resonated throughout palooza as the day's progressed and this crime became known to the community students were fleeing in fear oh my god there's a homicidal maniac in our town just outside the crime scene Meredith's roommate Amanda Knox and her boyfriend of one week Raffaele alleged Oh were acting as if nothing had happened the police began to suspect they were involved in the murder thanks in part to the now infamous kiss this kiss was caught on camera and then they were
accused of behaving inappropriately in the context of murder investigation with her house now a crime scene Amanda moved in with Rafa le police kept close tabs on both of them meanwhile prosecutor Giuliano man Nene developed a theory raffaeli was naive and willing to please caught under the spell of a racy American temptress a woman who may well have been part of a secret satanic cult investigators began interviewing potential witnesses they asked everybody from that house to come to the police station to be questioned all of the Italians who lived in the house showed up with
adult advisors parents professors or lawyers in the Italian justice system just like the American justice system any time the police want to see you it's smart to lawyer up Rafi alias legit Oh didn't think that he had anything to lose all he did was help out Amanda when she was upset and asked him to come back to the house and see what was going on at her house like Raffaelli Amanda arrived without counsel she may have been eccentric but man Nene reportedly considered her a narcissist and a she-devil Amanda even seemed to preen in front
of the police with a few suggestive yoga stretches there were moments for example in the police station when they were waiting around Amanda infamously as was also reported by the media did the splits she may have done other yoga moves but Rafaela saw a man to do things that he found odd for example she curled up on him like a koala bear somewhere deep down he felt uncomfortable for raffaeli things got worse during his questioning the way rough Ally got himself into the most trouble was to underestimate the seriousness of a murder investigation not to
understand that he had to be absolutely crystal clear about what he'd done what he'd seen where he'd been he couldn't remember what had happened which evening he was eating dinner he was smoking part he was seeing Amanda and he couldn't really remember which night was which so when the police asked him he had a tremendous difficulty remembering did she go to work that night did she not going to work that night they took that statement got him to sign it in writing and then they took it back to Amanda and said your boyfriend has testified
against you and said he went at Amanda's command of Italian was poor but under questioning the police got her to recant her original story and say she had not been with Raffaelli all night this interrogation went on all night long and she wasn't given food or water she wasn't allowed to go to the bathroom she was told that you know imagine if you'd been there what would you have heard her scene and she said there's that really famous statement I covered my ears I heard a scream I cover my ears Amanda claimed she answered hypothetically
but it was taken as gospel they told me that I had to know that I wasn't telling them the truth that I had amnesia and that I had to remember incredibly Amanda now told police that she was in the house when the murder occurred then a new suspect was implicated Amanda's boss at the nightclub Patrick Lumumba they told him in an ox that they had absolute proof that she had been at the crime scene and that she had left the apartment and that she had met Patrick Lumumba they have her cell phone and they see
that she texted Patrick Lumumba her boss and said I'll see you later they read that as an actual appointment with him that was her last text before the phones went off on the night of the murder my manda Knox did actually say that she was there but she said she was in the kitchen and that she heard Patrick murdering Meredith she heard Nerdist scream but her statement is so confused and so bizarre that she said I remember confusedly that he did all that and what she is said was the police asked her to imagine various
mario's and that was one of them so they basically browbeat the confession out of her and the confession is a signed statement that they wrote for her that she signed which says I see myself in the house with Lumumba and he's in the other room and America that can hear her start to scream though Amanda never directly admitted to the murder the police were quick to report they had their killers Amanda Knox raffaeli Celeste oh and Patrick Lumumba with Knox and select Oh already in custody the police raced out to arrest Patrick Lumumba they dragged
him out of his house and he's thrown into prison he says no I wasn't there I was in my bar and there's somebody who can tell you that I was there with so they went and found his alibi and there's a professor French or something who says yeah I was in bar with him that night he wasn't killing anyone at nine o'clock he was in his bar serving me a drink they still didn't let him out though as the prosecutor built his case the press had a field day and dug up everything they could about
the accused the British tabloids from the beginning were I felt by far the worse because they just printed whatever the prosecutor said and he was saying all these terrible derogatory things about Amanda Knox it and portraying her as as just pure evil as this terrible human being who who had this beautiful trusted burn made and had encouraged these men to help her kill her remain I was sexually active I was not sexually deviant and because I was sexually active that turned into for them - sexual abuse Juliano Venini had his three killers behind bars he
would now use the press to help prove his case the presidental II doesn't have any boundaries that's before the word paparazzi comes from the Amanda Knox case was a media juggernaut and once this case got going it had a life of its own we all first heard about the case when we turned on our televisions my head is all confused the incident has left me very confused and there was an American college student in Italy being paraded on a perp block and so that was absolutely a shocking image that went viral but she was a
ugly girl would we have a different feeling about her let's not overlook that the real victim in the case is Meredith Kercher and her family that continues to grieve we need to find out for the tabloids however Meredith Kercher wasn't the story this was all about Amanda Knox in the Amanda Knox case the media played an enormous role this was a case that was front and center in all of the Italian media and they looked at her as this sexy demon you know here she was an American on their soil living heinous crimes but some
were beginning to question the facts at least as presented by the Italian prosecutor in Italy you can't just go to the court building and say may I please have all the court records that have to do with this trial the way it's done there is all the lawyers who were involved and sometimes the police hand to their favored reporters what they want them to have with Amanda in deep legal trouble her mother arrived in Italy eager to change public opinion about her daughter it's really hard for her that there is no evidence of Rafaela or
of Amanda they connect them to that crime because she told me you know what had happened to her in the interrogation you know she told me you know I never confessed to anything they asked me to imagine possibilities and you know I've now learned that that's a tactic that they use the only thing that they were fixating on was the fact that I must have met Patrick and so I said Patrick and then they set up this entire scenario of having met Patrick about having heard Meredith scream and I signed to it just to make
it stop who do you know that's black I think it's what I said and she said Patrick she didn't say like you keep hearing like he did it he's the one you know arrest that guy he's the murderer when fingerprint results came in the case took a new turn there was an African man at the scene of the crime but it wasn't Patrick Lumumba if you're an immigrant you have to check in once a year with the police I believe you are considered a guest and the fingerprints are known to them they happen to be
on file in the police station they belonged to a man named Rudy g'day an African immigrant son Rudy g'day was a drifter a rich we from the Ivory Coast he partied on the periphery of student life and was suspected of several recent crimes around Perugia pretty good day had a history with knives and violence and break-ins he left his blood he left her traces all over the crime scene he left his feces in the toilet and although that degrades a DNA very rapidly there was a DNA out there as well his blood and fingerprints are
on her purse and they're bloody hand prints and blood down the walls of her bedroom and he may have been surprised I don't know why he left but he didn't complete the act of the rape she had a tampon it at the time and maybe that's why but g'day had left Italy for Germany he admitted to a friend he had been with Meredith that night but claimed he didn't kill her his connection with Amanda Raffaelli and Meredith was thin at best there's a question about whether Amanda and Meredith knew him amanda has sitting seen him
but I didn't know his name Rafaela had never met Rudy good day never set eyes on him didn't know anything about him within days g'day was picked up by police in Germany the initial assumption when Rudy good-day was arrested in Germany and extradited back to Italy was it was all gonna be over any day now everything pointed to him he even had a motive he had stated in a conversation to the police that yes I was there yeah I know who Amanda is and no she wasn't there and no I've never met her boyfriend before
the world sitting there going hallelujah they basically just throw Lumumba back out on the street sorry we got the wrong black guy Patrick Lumumba was released from custody but the damage was done his reputation was trashed because of Amanda's accusations I would take back my interrogation when I think back on it and God especially right afterwards right after all that happened I wished I wished so much that I had stood up to them prosecutor ma Nene however wasn't changing his position to him Amanda had simply confessed about the wrong man he still believed the murder
stemmed from a sex orgy gone wrong with Amanda at its center investigators were interested to know how sexually active she was because they felt like that fit into the theory of their case they took her downstairs and had a doctor take a blood test in the jail and then they called her back and said we're so sorry you have HIV so she writes down every guy she's ever had sex with and there's seven guys and then two weeks later they say oops sorry we made a mistake you're not HIV positive but meanwhile they've taken this
document where she's listed out these guys that she said sexist and they've handed that to the press to take that false information of such a deeply personal nature something that's so intimate and then leak that out to the media to add to the sensationalism of this case it's just unimaginable we have to try to do our best to put on a face that it is going to work out and we keep telling her that it's taking way longer there's now delays that's hard than we ever expected but she will get out of there I would
looked at all the evidence in the case including the crime scene DVDs her quote-unquote confession for bank records through phone bills I had everything and and went through all of it was convinced at the end of the day that she was innocent with the evidence pointing at Rudy good day as the lone killer would the prosecution actually put a man to knocks on trial for a murder she didn't commit if the Amanda Knox case would have been tried in America it would been the Rudy gadeuk case period DNA is very powerful evidence but if it's
mishandle if that evidence is compromised it's garbage in garbage out their investigation technique was really just appalling if you ever get into the system it's very hard to get at I was not strapping on leather and bearing a whip 14 months have passed since Meredith Kercher was murdered Amanda Knox and Raffaele Issa Leto have spent the entire time waiting in jail for their day in court for Amanda the ordeal is compounded by the peculiarities of the legal system Italian juries work differently than ours the judge is a member of the jury the judge actually leads
the jury in its decision-making in Italy take their time and the case may start at one point then adjourn for a couple of weeks you'll have another day of testimony a longer adjournment and so this keeps people on pins and needles for a lot longer before trying Amanda and Raphael II the Italian Court will prosecute the third suspect in the case Rudy good day who has requested a separate fast-track trial with Rudy today they had strong evidence they had his DNA not only on her body but actually inside of her so this was a slam
dunk case against Rudy today and if this case were brought to justice in America it's my suspicion that we would never be hearing about Amanda or Raphael the investigation would have begun and ended today but there may have been other reasons for granting Rudy g'day a quick trial the prosecutor was convinced that that this wasn't just Rudy that once Rudy was found guilty Rudy would come and cooperate especially if he was offered certain reductions and sentence in the end Rudy godis trial was simply a warm-up the real show was the prosecution of Amanda Knox she
was voted over the first lady of France is most popular in the press in Europe think about it Amanda Knox you know over Carla Bruni I think it's so unfair to look at everything that Amanda does in court and to write it down but you see people actually doing them when I didn't cry it was bad when I smiled it was bad when I didn't smile it was bad it I have been paralyzed by this kind of scrutiny and and I feel like it's unfair Amanda Knox's defenders say she was constantly misrepresented even her online
social media nicknamed foxy Knoxy was held up as alleged proof of her wicked ways in court they talked about that all the time like why are you focusing oxy and what does that really mean it was the name her teammates gave her when she played middle school soccer that was her nickname it was that innocent nobody called her that in Seattle nobody called it out when she was in Italy no one called her that post probably aged 14 at the same time the media virtually ignored Raphael isolette cheeto Raphael in the media was almost invisible
he was Amanda's boyfriend he was alleged to have been involved somehow prosecution made various allegations against him but really nobody focused on him the trial was a long slow process and the media constantly milked the emotions of the public prosecutor in unis who tells wonderful stories would get up and say Amanda did this Amanda that did that and they would just write it down and so it happened in front of their eyes the Italian justice system and the Italian media system is like a two-headed monster and both of them need to get fed even with
all its advantages the prosecution's case lacked hard physical evidence against Amanda and Raphael II they keep trying to find evidence placing Amanda Knox and Raffaele alleged Toth in the actual room where the murder was committed and they've never been able to do that there's only two pieces of evidence that ever supposedly connected her to this crime and neither one of those connecter the first was a kitchen knife found in raphael e's apartment in the case of the knife the media mantra on this the thing that they kept repeating over and over again was that it
had Meredith DNA on the blade and Amanda's on the handle it did not have Meredith's DNA on the blade if if a spoon was taken from your kitchen drawer and tested by the same techniques that that spoon would be shown to have on Meredith Kercher's DNA it really was pseudoscience the second piece of evidence was Meredith's bra clasp found at the crime scene allegedly carrying Raphael E's DNA so they went back in some 40 some days after the original crime scene investigation and brought back to that bra class didn't collect it for like six weeks
and they kept kicking it around the room and then picking it up with the same gloves and putting it down the defense tried to challenge the DNA tests done on the knife and the bra clip but the prosecution argued that all testing had been done correctly the judge agreed and disallowed additional testing they refused to have independent experts look at any of the scientific evidence so all you could go by was what the police wanted to show you what ended up being prosecuted minionese contention was that somehow Amanda ordered the murder from the next room
because that was the only way you could explain how she was involved but there was none of their DNA at the scene it was something it was a remark that didn't even pass the giggle test but that was what the prosecutor was reduced to without real evidence the prosecution had built a case on Amanda's presumed bad character but was merely looking guilty enough to send Amanda Knox to prison for life for all of their theories about my personality and my behavior there is nothing that links me to this murder I am not present at the
crime scene I'm just not the more you know about Amanda Knox's obvious alleged toe but less likely you are to believe that their ability if you met Rafa this alleged oh you'd realize the idea of him harming a fly absolutely absurd the idea that I could have participated in a murder and yet not present at the crime scene is vote Icarus the trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele is alleged oh lasted almost 12 months finally on December 4th 2009 just over two years after the murder of Meredith Kercher a verdict is reached breaking news from
Italy Amanda Knox found guilty of murder the verdict for the 22 year old American handed down earlier this evening and we're told she was sobbing while the decision was being announced you could really hear a pin drop in that room the judge dispassionately saying that both were guilty getting Amanda Knox 26 years her former lover 25 years for the brutal murder of Meredith Kercher when the verdict came down there were parties in the street people seem to be overjoyed with the fact of her conviction as an American living in the 21st century being present at
the conviction which was announced at midnight on a foggy night with a crowd of townspeople shouting asesina Americana [Music] it was the closest thing I will ever come to I think in my life witnessing an actual pagan scapegoating ritual the prosecution and Meredith Kercher's family felt justice had been served the Kircher family is convinced that she killed their daughter and they are they are behind the italian prosecutor 100% but there were others who were outraged by the manipulation of evidence and the verdict in any legitimate court of law that was looking at this DNA evidence
in the United States in the UK in France at any of these countries this DNA evidence would be absolutely thrown out here's not a hair of a minute Knox in there there's not a fiber of Amanda Knox there's not blood of Amanda Knox there's not footprints of Amanda Knox there's nothing no one however questioned rudy geude days guilt yet two and a half weeks after Amanda's trial ended today's sentence was reduced from 30 years to 16 leading some to ask did he cut a deal there's overwhelming DNA evidence along with lots of other physical evidence
that points to Rudy Guede a Amanda's attorneys appealed the verdict and focused on challenging the DNA evidence and when the appeals process began it felt like they had another mansion to climb but right away you could tell that there was a very different tone and again the key decision was whether or not they would allow an independent assessment of the forensic evidence November 24th 2010 11 months after the guilty verdict a second trial is granted the defense presented a very compelling case identifying rudika day as the true killer based on hard facts and motive pretty
good day came to the house he broke in he was in the bathroom and he left his own DNA in the bathroom Meredith may have come home and surprised him maybe he was lying in wait I hate to say it but it's kind of the garden-variety one guy kills tries to rape the wrong girl case in contrast to Rudy good days incriminating DNA Amanda's defense team also set out to prove that the DNA found on the knife allegedly meredith's did not implicate Amanda or Raffaelli I actually had independent experts come in and they were absolutely
appalled by the way that DNA was collected and tested those independent experts said the evidence is contaminated it's not admissible it's compromised but what they thought was a smeared of DNA was not DNA at all there was nothing it didn't match her in any way shape or form the prosecutor trying to robot that suggests that somehow Amanda went back and cleaned up the DNA it's a ridiculous notion it's crazy somehow they can have this special vision that allows him to see DNA so Amanda Bobby Ellie were able to go in all night long they worked
and cleaned up only their DNA and left Rudy's DNA all over the place Amanda and Raphael II tried to remain hopeful about the second trial but public opinion was still against them and they had already spent years behind bars there were times when I thought I was going crazy in prison and I was literally just talking to my younger self when I was alone I would be alone in myself thinking about the past and thinking about all of my regrets [Music] publicly this case is considered to be the Amanda Knox case but really it's the
Meredith Kercher murder case and sadly I think a lot of that's been lost in the way the case has been covered in the media millions of Italians believe that this young woman is a murderess millions I don't think Amanda's guilty of felony murder but I think Amanda is guilty of being felony stupid the second trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele a select Oh took 11 months to complete even when delivered in Italian the verdict was clear Amanda Knox was free is breached and solicitor Raphael [Music] in the fall of 2011 after these kids have been
in prison for four years a Perugia appeals court threw the case out overturned it and they walked and they went home [Music] while it became a time of celebration for Amanda Knox Raffaelli select oh and their families the tragedy of Meredith Kercher cannot be forgotten the Kircher family has paid the ultimate price I wish that they would and not always go by what the prosecutor says because the prosecutor is absolutely obsessed with this one person and actually they could have had some closure long ago if he had just pursued the most logical trail I don't
think the prosecution has admitted that through the objectivity of their evidence they they can conclude who participated in or not and the fact that it has been put out there for so long that I may or may not have had something to do with the murder they can't let go of they just they just the idea that someone knows what happened or was a part of what happened and isn't saying anything and isn't being held responsible it is maddening I understand that but it's not I'm not responsible for what happened I didn't do it I
wasn't there I don't know anything more about it this is a case where there's DNA evidence that shows that the murderer isn't present but yet there's this feeling that somehow justice hasn't been served when I talk to people they don't understand that somebody else has already been convicted of this crime not only that but that all the evidence in the murder room points to Rudy just after her acquittal Amanda flew back to the US she knew she had to face the press but it was nothing like Italy when Amanda came home and there was a
huge crowd my family is the most important thing to me right now and I just want to go be with them so thank you for being there for me all the TV stations all the radio stations all the print media Seattle Times everybody they wrote a lot they send a letter which I think is unprecedented together saying we will honor Amanda Knox's request to leave her alone Rafa Ellie's alleged Oh tried to move on with his life as well I think Rafaela feels very embittered about the justice system and continues to feel very embittered because
of the length of time that this has taken his great virtue was he understood that Amanda was innocent and he was absolutely not gonna roll over he was not going to testify against her no matter what it cost him after Amanda Knox and Raffaele Issa let you tow were released Rafi Ellie came to the United States and spent a few days with her their relationship was over they're obviously bound together by this bizarre experience that they've had but they are not boyfriend and girlfriend anymore some five months after returning home Amanda Knox signed a book
deal worth a reported four million dollars but her nightmare was not over on March 26th 2013 2 months before Amanda's memoir was published she and Raphael II received distressing news crime and punishment tonight will Amanda Knox face retrial for murder in Italy the Italian Supreme Court was considering a third trial unlike the American legal system the prosecution in Italy can appeal a reversal verdict and Giuliano Mann Nene is apparently not a man to lose the case of his career we called this the mini Express you know it was like it's like this vortex you can
get into and can't get out the biggest world of stories she should have lawyered up but before that she should have cut on a plane she stayed in Italy voluntarily if she had just flown home none of this would've ever happened whether or not Amanda Knox returns to Italy to face her accusers the Italian justice system can grind on for decades and Amanda may never be able to say she is truly free I'm afraid to go back there I don't want to go back there are only so many times that I can say no I
didn't do it [Music] [Music]
