Meredith Kercher

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October 2008
- Knox Will Stand Trial for Murder
  
  Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Oct 28, 08 4:51 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - American exchange student Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend will stand trial on charges of murdering her British roommate, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. The trial in the death of Meredith Kercher will begin Dec. 4 in Perugia, Italy. Prosecutors say Kercher was killed during a violent sex game gone awry and that Knox, a 21-year-old Seattle native, cut her throat. More »
September 2008
- 'Foxy Knoxy' Faces Old Flame
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Sep 26, 08 12:50 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Amanda Knox saw her one-time boyfriend in an Italian court today for the first time since they were arrested on suspicion of killing her British roommate, reports the Telegraph . The pair can’t write each other, but Raffaelo Sollecito sent the 21-year-old American flowers on her July birthday. They met at the trial for Rudy Guede, the third person prosecutors have accused of the murder. More »
- Italian Judge Will Set Course for Knox Case
  
  Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Sep 16, 08 7:19 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - An Italian judge will review evidence today to decide if Amanda Knox, jailed in Italy for 10 months as a suspect in the killing of 20-year-old British roommate Meredith Kercher, should go free or face a trial, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. Attorneys will argue both sides of the case in a private hearing examining Knox, 21, and two other defendants. More »
April 2008
- Amanda Knox: 'Railroad Job From Hell'?
  
  Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Apr 13, 08 2:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Amanda Knox , the 20-year-old University of Washington student who's been held by Italian police since November as a suspect in her British roommate's murder, is the victim of a “railroad job from hell,” an investigator hired by the “48 Hours Mystery” to review the case concluded. "They've put so much into Amanda Knox, they have to convict her now or they look like fools," he says on the show, broadcast last night. More »
February 2008
- Knox Case Co-Defendant Attends Hearing
  
  Associated Press | Feb 21, 08
  
  An Italian man jailed in the killing of a British student in the central Italian city of Perugia attended a closed hearing Monday on the selection of experts to examine computers belonging to him, his U.S. former girlfriend and the victim. Police escorted a handcuffed Raffaele Sollecito, 23, into Perugia's courthouse.
January 2008
- New DNA Found on Slain British Student's Bra
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Jan 31, 08 5:45 PM CST
  
  (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. More »
- Prison Diaries
  
  Newsweek | Jan 17, 08
  
  Amanda Knox likes the view from her prison cell. From the high-security Capanne jail%u2014home to, among others, convicted drug dealers, mafiosi and killers%u2014the 20-year-old Seattle native held in connection with the murder of British student Meredith Kercher overlooks a landscape of rolling Umbrian hills, fragrant pine trees and a collection of olive groves. She stares out of her window often, she notes in a diary from prison, "and, when I have an hour of outside time, I sit with my face in the sun, so I can get a tan."
- Wholesome Seattle Girl or Foxy Knoxy?
  
  Times (UK) | Jan 13, 08 10:31 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - She claims to be “a girl of 20, who came to Perugia to learn Italian,” but on her blog, Amanda Knox—accused by Italian police of sexually abusing and murdering British student Meredith Kercher, 21—more aptly nicknamed herself "Foxy Knoxy." The Times of London reports on the divide between the wholesome Seattle girl she says she is and the wild side she might've overly indulged in Italy. More »
December 2007
- 'Group Attack' Led to Meredith Slaying: Judge
  
  Times (UK) | Dec 20, 07 12:36 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - An Italian judge yesterday upheld a decision to detain the three suspects in the murder of Meredith Kercher, saying that "none of them can be said to have played a passive role." The Times of London reports that the court in Perugia has seen evidence suggesting that Kercher's roommate Amanda Knox, her Italian boyfriend, and a third suspect all participated in a "group attack" on the British exchange student. More »
- Tape Puts Amanda at Murder Scene
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Dec 1, 07 2:04 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - An American student suggested in a bugged jailhouse meeting with her parents that she was home when her flatmate in Italy was murdered, the Telegraph reports. The disclosure contradicts earlier claims by Amanda Knox. "From the bugged recording it is possible to understand that she was in the house," a police source says. "She denies everything, but we did submit this evidence." More »
November 2007
- Murder Suspect 'Serene' Behind Bars in Italy
  
  Times (UK) | Nov 29, 07 5:12 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Amanda Knox, the American student suspected in a murder in Italy, told an Italian legislator she has adjusted to life in prison, a day before her lawyers will argue she should be placed instead under house arrest. The Times of London reports that Knox said the first few days were "very tough," but now she feels "serene." More »
- Amanda: 'I Didn't Kill Meredith'
  
  CNN | Nov 23, 07 10:11 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - A US student under suspicion in the murder of her British roommate in Italy is claiming drugs have blurred her memory of the night Meredith Kercher was killed. In a statement obtained by CNN, Amanda Knox of Seattle insists she does know one thing: "I didn't kill Meredith." Knox told police she has only "flashes of blurred images" of what occurred. More »
- Media Frenzy Creates Trial by Gossip
  
  Times (UK) | Nov 15, 07 8:31 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The media frenzy over high-profile international cases like those of missing girl Madeleine McCann and murdered student Meredith Kercher makes it nearly impossible for the justice system to function, writes Times of London columnist Magnus Linklater. Neither case, he writes, "has demonstrated the two prerequisites of a just legal process: an unbiased police inquiry and the presentation of untainted evidence in court." More »
- Meredith Kercher Murder Case: Questions and Answers
  
  Times (UK) | Nov 12, 07
  
  Who is Meredith Kercher? Ms Kercher was a 21-year-old student at the University of Leeds, who had travelled to Perugia, central Italy, to spend a year studying Italian at the city's University for Foreigners. She was originally from Coulsdon, South London, and educated at a local private school for girls. She was found with her throat cut on the morning of Friday, November 2, in the bedroom of a house that she shared with three other women.
- Yank Changes Story in UK Roomie's Death
  
  Guardian (UK) | Nov 11, 07 2:37 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - The American flatmate of a murdered UK student has reversed her story a second time, telling Italian police that she wasn't home at the time of Meredith Kercher's death, the Guardian reports. Kercher's body, meanwhile, was flown home despite a move by lawyers for the suspects—Seattle native Amanda Knox, her Italian boyfriend, and local bar owner Patrick Lumumba— for more time to dismantle claims about time of death. More »
- Yank Roomie & Lover Held in Murder of British Student
  
  Guardian (UK) | Nov 7, 07 4:23 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The American roommate of a murdered British student, the flatmate's boyfriend and a bar manager have been detained by Italian police after their alibis collapsed, reports the Guardian . The roomie has already confessed to the macabre crime that police believe was committed during a sexual assault, according to the Telegraph . Meredith Kercher, 21, was found half-naked with her throat cut in a Perugia flat. More »