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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 crime scene, allegedly with raffael...

Stories would get up and say, amanda did this, amanda did that and they would write it down as though 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 prosecutions case lacked hard, physical evidence against amanda and raffaele. >> they keep trying to find evidence placing amanda knox and in the actual room where the murder was committed and they were ...

>> 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. the confession is a signed statement they wrote for her which she signed which says...

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 ...

Around italians is extremely important. she had this extreme version of being carefree and careless and actually 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. ...

Her get a part-time job. >> she was recruited to waitress at a bar owned by an african 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...

She had this extreme version of being carefree and careless and actually 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...

Originally from the ivory coast. he partied on the periphery of student life and was suspected of recent crimes around perugia. >> rudy had a history of knives and violence and break-in. >> he had blood, traces all over the crime scene, left his 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 ...

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...

>> amanda tries calling meredith several times before he they return to the house. in another odd twist the police arrive a short time later. theyre investigating the theft of two cell phones registered to 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...