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Behavior of amanda knox cannot be justifiable if we compare it to the way normal people behave. >> reporter: in this video, amanda and her boyfriend, raffaele, comfort each other outside the house. but at the police station, witnesses say they laughed and made faces, heightening suspicions about them. to amanda knox and raffaele sollecito, the police station would become all too familiar over the coming days. her father recalls the week after the grisly discovery. >> between the time that they a...

Feces in the toilet. although that degrades dna very rapidly, there was dna out there as well. >> his blood and fingerprints are on her purse. and there are bloody hand prints and blood down the walls of her bedroom. he may have been surprised -- i dont know why he left. he didnt complete the act of rape. she had a tampon in at the time. maybe thats why. >> guede left for germany. he admitted to a friend he had been with meredith that night but claimed he didnt kill her. his connection with aman...

Immigrant to italy named patrick lumumba. he hired her because she was american and pretty and he hoped she would attract more male patrons. >> the first big holiday of the season was november 1st, all saints day. in italy its a sacred time, when families honor their ancestors. but for foreign students like amanda knox and meredith kercher its a traditional party time, not unlike halloween. amanda and meredith had the cottage to themselves. their italian roommates were gone for the night. amanda...

Being blithe and carefree and careless and actually kind of took pride in it. in italy its not done, 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. >> its just so sad. she had, by all accounts, a wonderful person, very smart, talented and well liked, regarded and loved girl. >> meredith kercher was more formal. she was british....

A bloody spot on the blue bath mat. she thought maybe meredith was having her period and had dripped blood or the blood on the sink had dripped from her ear. amanda knox had gotten 11 ear piercings that week. >> she went into the other bathroom. not the bathroom she uses all the time, but the other bathroom to get a hair dryer and blow dry her hair. >> at this point amandas story takes an odd turn. >> she found feces in the toilet which grossed her out because a nice, clean house. those particul...

Lumumba and hes in the other room and meredith, i 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, raffaele sollecito and patrick lumumba. with knox and sollecito already in custody, the police raced out to arrest patrick lumumba. >> they drag him out of his house and throw him in prison. he says, no, i wasnt there. i was in my bar, and there is somebody that can tell you they were there wit...

Raffaele sollecito in the actual room where the murder was committed and they were never able to do that. >> theres only two pieces of evidence that supposedly connected her to the crime, and neither one connected her. >> the first was a kitchen knife found in raffaeles apartment. >> in the case of the knife, the media mantra on this, the thing they kept repeating over and over again was that it had merediths dna on the blade and amandas on the handle. it did not have merediths dna. if a spoon w...

He was in the bathroom. 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 its kind of the garden variety one guy kills -- tries to rape and rob girl case. >> in contrast to rudy guedes incriminating dna, amandas defense team also set out to prove that the dna found on the knife, allegedly merediths, did not implicate amanda or raffaele. >> they actually had independent experts come in, and they were absolutely ap...

Re-convicted. unlike knox he was in italy for the new trial. after the verdict he was arrested. he says he wasnt trying to escape but was planning a trip if found innocent. he spoke with nbc news this morning. >> i didnt expect it. the first thing that came to my mind was to wait for the reasons of the verdict. i dont want to comment on anything about that. it was completely unexpected. i will look into the reasons of it. >> his attorney says the fight is not over. >> translator: this is a trial...

>> like this really has hit me like a train. i did not expect this to happen. i really expected so much better from the italian justice system. they found me innocent before. how can they say that its guilt beyond a reasonable doubt? >> the guilty verdict is little consulation to meredith kirchers family. after nearly seven years of controversial evidence and testimony they now say they may never know the truth. >> nothings, of course, going to bring meredith back. nothing will ever take away th...