planning. all three were arrested and charged with murder, but the tabloid press turned their attention to one in particular, amanda. when the papers hit the newsstands the next day, foxy knoxy was all over the front page. in the weeks following her arrest, new evidence emerged. a knife found in rafaeli s apartment, with both of their dna on it. a homeless man came forward claiming to have seen the couple near the house at the night of the murder. we kept thinking, oh, this is a big mistake, it will clear up, and then it got really weird with the trial and it kept going and going and going. the world was captivated. two attractive young women, one accused of killing the other. so what really did happen to
then all of a sudden it goes viral. reporter: the pressure grew on the police to solve the case. on the night of november 5th, police interrogated amanda all night and into the next morning. it was during this session amanda confessed she was at the house that night. her boss patrick lamumba was there as well. at that point amanda knox officially a witness became the suspect. the police held a press conference late they are a day announcing to the world they had solved the crime, case closed. according to police, meredith kercher was killed because she would not take part in a sex game, a sex game orchestrated by amanda knox, her boyfriend rafaeli. translator: i ve always said this was a crime of succession. it was step by step, no
by amanda s family. he says there was enough to make her a suspect. translator: the famous behavior of amanda knox cannot be justifiable to the way normal people behave. in this video amanda and her boyfriend comfort each other outside the house, but at the police station witnesses say they laugh and made faces, heightening suspicions about them. to amanda knox and rafaeli, the police station would become all too familiar over the coming days. her father curt recalls the week after the grizzly discovery. between the time they actually found meredith and when amanda was arrested, there was roughly a 90-hour timeframe in a ballpark of the numbers there. during that time, amanda was in the police station being questioned for, i believe it was 52 hours. as the days passed, the