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New DNA Found on Slain British Student's Bra

Posted Jan 31, 08 5:45 PM CST in Crime & Courts,  World 

(Newser) – Mystery DNA found on the bra of Meredith Kercher could point to more players in the November murder of the British student in Italy, the Telegraph reports, though police maintain the traces indicate only that others handled it. "All we know for certain is that it does not match any of the suspects," a source says.

American Amanda Knox, her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Hermann Guede are known to be suspects; a change in the estimated time of death could lead police to re-question a bar owner who was previously a suspect. The pathologist who conducted the post-mortem also backed off an earlier conclusion that Kercher was raped, saying bruising indicates such an attack was simulated.

Source Daily Telegraph (UK)

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Rudy Hermann Guede, an Ivory Coast native who has been detained in the slaying of British college student Meredith Kercher in Perugia central Italy, is held by Italian police officers as he arrives from...   (Associated Press)
This photo released by the Italian Police, shows 22-year-old British university student Meredith Kercher, who was found dead Friday, Nov. 2, 2007 with her throat slashed in the bedroom of a house in the...   (Associated Press)
This photo taken Friday Nov. 2, 2007, and made available on Thursday Nov. 8, 2007 shows Amanda Marie Knox outside the rented house where 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher was found dead Friday,...   (Associated Press)
Luca Maori, the defense lawyer of jailed Italian suspect Raffaele Sollecito, answers questions outside Perugia's Capanne jail, Italy, Monday, Dec. 17, 2007. Sollecito is a suspect in the slaying of British...   (Associated Press)
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