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Post by Admin on Feb 19, 2014 14:57:22 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 24, 2014 23:37:38 GMT
Raffaele Sollecito has said he has unanswered questions about Amanda Knox's behavior after the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007. In an interview that aired on Italian television, Sollecito said that Knox left his house the morning before Kercher's body was found and when she returned hours later, she seemed 'very agitated'. She said her front door had been broken into and that she had found spots of blood in the bathroom. 'Certainly I asked her questions,' Sollecito said in the interview, which aired in part on the Today show on Monday. 'Why did you take a shower? Why did she spent so much time there?' Interview: He said he did not know why she took a shower after seeing her house had been broken into The interviewer asked what answers he had to these questions. 'I don't have answers,' he responded. NBC legal analyst Lisa Bloom said Sollecito seemed to be distancing himself from Knox - his girlfriend of just a week at the time of the murder - with these latest comments. 'He's saying that there's some evidence that may apply to her that doesn't apply to him,' she said.
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Post by Admin on Feb 26, 2014 22:59:10 GMT
"We are innocent." For six years, that has been the cry that has united Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend, as they have faced trials in the murder of Knox's former roommate Meredith Kercher. But that unity may be crumbling, as she and Raffaele Sollecito prepare to appeal their convictions before Italy's Supreme Court next year. Though he still says that the evidence exonerates them both, he is using more selective language. "There is nothing against me and nothing very strong against Amanda," Sollecito recently told CNN. "And in my case, I really did nothing wrong, and I don't want to pay for someone else's peculiar behavior." Knox's behavior on the morning Kercher was found stabbed to death in the apartment she and Knox shared seems to be a new hitch for Sollecito. Sollecito expanded on his doubts in a new interview with Italian television this week that aired in part on NBC. Knox had spent the night with him but went back to her place to shower, he said. When she returned, she was "very agitated." She told him that it looked like someone had broken in and that there was blood in the bathroom, Sollecito said. But rather than call the police, she showered and returned to his place. He finds it odd, he now says. "Certainly I asked her questions," he said. "Why did you take a shower? Why did she spend so much time there?" Sollecito's apparent distancing from Knox echoes the position of his lawyer, John Kelly. "It's imperative that the Italian courts consider Raffaele's case separate from Amanda's case," he said. "By necessity, he has to distance himself and his case from Amanda and her case." In a note on her Facebook page, Knox acknowledges Sollecito's new stance and appears to back it up. She said he's a scapegoat. "The only reason he has been dragged into this is because he happens to be my alibi," she wrote.
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Post by Admin on Mar 19, 2014 2:54:47 GMT
Did Amanda Knox' behavior following the death of Meredith Kercher show she was guilty or untroubled by the death of her roommate? We discuss how the Italian cultural expectation that she openly grieve in public worked against her and result in her being convicted by the media with retired FBI SSA Steve Moore in this Crime Time clip. Amanda Knox has been spotted cycling around her hometown as she prepares to appeal against her conviction of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. The 26-year-old was pictured riding her black-and-purple bike to a local Goodwill store in Seattle, Washington, on Saturday. She could be seen sporting a hooded top, gloves and bright pink socks - with her short hair tucked under a black helmet. Goodwill stores, which sell donated goods from the community, use their profits to provide free job training and basic education to people on low incomes. It comes just weeks after Knox was sentenced to 28 years in prison for killing Ms Kercher with the help of her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito.
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Post by Admin on Mar 25, 2014 23:27:24 GMT
Meredith Kercher was murdered in Italy and investigators stated that Amanda Knox cleaned the murder scene with bleach. However, looking at the scene it became readily apparent that it was a "slash and run murder scene." We look at the photos and take apart the prosecutor's statements in with retired FBI SSA Steve Moore and Jim Clemente in this clip from Crime Time. Exchange student Meredith Kercher was unlawfully killed a coroner has ruled - six years after her murder. A brief hearing was held at Croydon Coroner's Court in south London today where coroner Dr Roy Palmer formally closed the inquest into Meredith's death. None of Miss Kercher's relatives was present for the five-minute hearing. "She died, the autopsy tells us, as a result of haemorraghic shock from stab and incised wounds to the vasculature of the neck. I do conclude that she was unlawfully killed, said Dr Palmer, senior coroner for the south London area. "On the night of the first and second of November 2007 Meredith was found in her bedroom at a residence in Perugia, Italy. It was clearly an unnatural death. 'Three individuals were arrested and tried. One male was convicted and did not appeal. The other two were convicted and appealed and the present position I believe is that there are further proceedings currently in Italy." Miss Kercher's body was repatriated almost two weeks after her death, on November 13 2007. Dr Palmer said a statement of identification had been made by her mother, Arline Kercher, the next day. Speaking to Mr May, Dr Palmer said: "You have indicated that, on the night of 1/2 November, Meredith was found in her bedroom of her student residence... It was clearly an unnatural death." Dr Palmer said three individuals had been arrested and tried. "My understanding is that one male was convicted and has not appealed and so he stands convicted of unlawful killing."
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