MURDERED: Meredith Kercher
A 21 year-old British woman is less than a month into a foreign exchange in Perugia, Italy when she is brutally murdered in her apartment. Everyone’s world is turned upside-down. And for the woman who found herself in the center of the storm — and on trial for murder — it has stayed that way ever since. My question is: Why, all these years later — long after the courts have spoken — are we still talking about Amanda Knox?
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Episode Source Material
- Waiting to be heard: A memoir (book), by Amanda Knox
- The fatal gift of beauty: The trials of Amanda Knox (book), by Nina Burleigh
- The forgotten killer (book): Rudy Guede and the murder of Meredith Kercher, by Douglas Preston and John Douglas
- Labyrinths (podcast): The forgotten killer. Released December 9, 2010.
- The Atlantic – Who owns Amanda Knox, by Amanda Knox
- Amanda Knox (film). Netflix
- VICE’s The Scarlet Letter Reports: Amanda Knox opens up about harassment
- Biography – Amanda Knox: A complete timeline of her Italian murder case and trial, by Tim Ott
- CNN: Timeline – Meredith Kercher murder case
- The Guardian – Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito: timeline of the seven-year legal fight, by Associated Press in Rome
- Famous Trials – The Amanda Knox case. Douglas O. Linder, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
- Mirror – Amanda Knox: Timeline of events since death of Meredith Kercher, by Nicola Bartlett
- CBS News – A timeline of the Amanda Knox case
- Injustice Anywhere – The Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito case
- Standard News – A timeline of everything that happened in the Amanda Knox case, by Emily Rosenthal
- Bustle – Here’s a timeline of the Amanda Knox case, by Johnny Brayson
- ABC News – Murder. Mystery. Amanda Knox speaks — A Diane Sawyer exclusive
- CNN – Amanda Knox decision explained by Italian court, by Barbie Latza Nadeau
- Marie Claire – Everything you need to know about the Amanda Knox case, by Emma Dibdin
- ABC News – ‘They had no reason not to get along’, by Ann Wise
- Vanity Fair – Perugia’s prime suspect, by Judy Bachrach
- Judge Micheli’s pretrial motivation report (translated to English)
- ABC News – Suspect in Perugia murder case seeks fast-track trial, by Phoebe Natanson and Ann Wise
- The Guardian – Court cuts Rudy Guede’s sentence for Meredith Kercher murder, by Tom Kington
- Italy Magazine – Perugia murder victim not raped
- The National Post – ‘The forgotten killer’: Amanda Knox takes aim at Rudy Guede as he is released from Italian prison
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