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Of the slain roommate. what did they say? >> well, meredith kerchers family speaking out today. her brother and sister, stephanie and lyle, were present in court for the verdict last night. speaking out for the first time this morning, talking about how meredith kercher, they will never get her can ba. also saying they would support amanda knoxs extradition from the united states if that should happen. take a listen to what they had to say. >> no matter what the decision and whether it is finall...

To the original lead prosecutor. its a rare opportunity to decide for yourself whether he 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 didn...

Case. so we left it to a discerning eye. but i can tell you, a careful review of the evidence, you have to ask yourself, how is it 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...

Narrow minded investigation. drew griffin spent hours talking to the original lead prosecutor. its a rare opportunity to decide for yourself whether he was a crusader for justice, talking about the prosecutor, or a man obsessed. >> 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...

In prison. moments ago the family of meredith kirchner says they want amanda knox sent back to prison. >> nothing will bring meredith back. the best we can hope for is finally bringing this whole case to a conclusion. >> developing overnight, police paying a visit to knoxs former boyfriend who is also convicted of murder. they stopped him near the border to enforce a travel ban. a judge sentencing knox to 28 years 6 months in prison and her boyfriend to 25 years. their lawyers say they will appe...

Bakley the fact that she did not attend any of the appeal hearingings did not work in her favor, though shes not required to by italian law. nonetheless her codefendant did attend many, saying he wanted to show he had nothing to hide. amanda knox wasnt hiding, but probably being very program. the third go-around for this murder. meredith was found p murdered seven years ago. and were hearing that if amanda knox is found guilty, her attorneys will file yet another appeal with the supreme court, a...

This. howhowever long this goes on, nothing will bring back meredith cutcher, a 21-year-old who was murdered on the night of november 1, 2007, and we just saw again a picture of lyle and stephanie, her brother and sister, sitting in that court awaiting this verdict. >> i want to find out what this is going to look like. we have been studying this italian system now for all these years, and the thing islander is, -- i learned about it, i dont work. i dont -- you practiced law in it tall and speak...

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 contaminated. its not admissible. its compromised. >> what they thought was merediths dna was not dna at all. it was nothing. it didnt match her in any way, shape, or form. >> the prosecutor trying to rebut that suggests somehow amanda went back and clean...

When she got out of the shower, a blood can 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 ...

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. the confession is a signed statement they wrote for her which she signed which says, i see myself in the house with...