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Amandas roommates. >> first thing they do is go inside and notice merediths door is locked. she doesnt answer the door. they open the door of one of the other roommates. the room is in disarray. broken glass everywhere, clothes strewn around, drawers pulled open and clearly someone has been in their house. and then everybody starts to become concerned. merediths door is locked. >> no one is prepared for what they find in merediths room. the scene is a bloodbath. >> she was lying on the floor cov...

>> 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 all over it was that it had merediths dna only the blade and amandas on the handle. it did not have merediths dna. if a spoon was taken from your kitchen drawer and tested by the same techniques, the spoon would be shown to have meredith kerchers dna on it. it was pseudoscience. >> the second piece of evidence was merediths bra clasp, found at the cr...

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 appalled by the way the dna was collected and tested. >> those independent experts said the evidence is contam...

In the end, this evidence has been looked at and analyzed by a huge number of judges and ordinary people and ultimately we now have a finding of guilt. i think you cant say that their process isnt a correct process. they looked carefully at this evidence. you might disagree with their analysis, but they certainly tried to be careful. >> steve, to that point, first of all, i want to go through some of the evidence. we went through this last night. i know you find all of this evidence not to be co...

And that was her last text before the phones went off on the night of the murder. >> amanda knox did actually say she was there, but she said she was in the kitchen and that she heard patrick murdering meredith. she heard meredith scream. but her statement is so confused and so bizarre, that she said, i remember confusedly that he did all that. what she had said is the police asked her to imagine various scenarios and that was one of them. >> they basically brow-beat the confession out of her. t...

Possible that an appellate court jury found her innocent and now another jury of equal stature has reviewed the evidence again and theres no new or different or favorable evidence? in fact, now the knife was retested and the prosecution was basically throwing a hail mary pass, hoping that they would find merediths profile on the blade. in fact, it was determined that she absolutely was not on the blade. there was a finding that amanda knox was on the knife, but that was already the case and she ...

And when it is finally upheld or not, you know, nothings, of course, going to bring meredith back. you know, nothing will ever take away the horror of what happened to her. the best we can hope for is, of course, finally bringing this whole case to a conclusion, you know, and a conviction, and everybody can then move on with their lives. >> reporter: stephanie and lyle kercher also saying that should it come to an extradition order for amanda knox, should italys supreme court make that ruling, t...

Court has heard the case. the judge overturned the original conviction due to errors in the investigation. she returned to the united states and made no appearance in this trial. last night, a woman believed to be amanda knox was whisked away by family members. knox released a statement saying i am frightened and saddened by this unjust verdict. i expected better from the italian justice system. now the court has sentenced knox to 28 1/2 year in prison. knoxs ex-boyfriend, sollecito was also con...

Was a crusader for justice, talking about the prosecutor, or his critics say a man obsessed. take a look. >> reporter: amanda knox in this statement told police she was in the house the night of the murder and saw her boss, nightclub owner and meredith kercher go into merediths room and she heard screams. amandas statement adds, i am very confused. i imagined what could have happened. police apparently didnt bother to check the facts about him. they immediately arrested amanda knox, her boyfrien...

Agree with this courts decision, but if you speak to the regular person on the street who has been following this trial, im getting mixed reaction. some are agreeing with the courts decision and others are disagreeing, carol. >> i do understand that the kercher family spoke out this morning. what did they say? >> thats right. meredith kerchers brother and sister speaking out this morning in their very first interview after the conviction saying that nothing will bring meredith back but they adde...