Amanda Knox Case

Seen happily attending Halloween parties with her friends the previous night, Meredith Kercher was tragically murdered sometime after 8:30 on the evening of November 1st. After receiving a call about a supposed break-in the next morning, police found Kercher's body wrapped in a blanket with a slashed throat. During the trials following this investigation, main suspects Amanda Knox, the victim's roommate, and Raffaele Sollecito, Knox’s boyfriend at the time, maintained innocence while the night of November 1st became a point of intense controversy. The evidence the police found, though much of it deemed unreliable, was used to prove Knox guilty in the first two trials; the third and final verdict, however, acquitted them of their crimes due

When she called the police on November 2nd, Knox described a robbery and the victims locked room. Apparently, the culprit had broken a window in one of the other girls´ rooms to get in; however, according to four witnesses, the glass from the broken window was laying on top of the scattered objects in the room (Linder, 2023, para. 7). Based on deductive reasoning, the room was ransacked previous to the broken window, further proving it as a cover-up for some illicit act. Furthermore, numerous valuables, objects the “culprit” would have stolen, remained spread around the room in plain sight during the investigation (Ott, 2020, para. 13). Clearly, Knox attempted to cover an illegal act using a staged robbery gone horribly wrong. As one of the more controversial aspects appealed to during the trial, her motivations and reactions are just as important as her suspected

Guede’s DNA, as previously mentioned, was found on and around the victim. On the other hand, police found Sollecito's DNA on Kercher’s bra clasp, though they collected it weeks after the murder and thus deemed it unusable. (Linder, 2023, para. 31). Moreover, they found Knox’s DNA mixed with Kercher’s in various blood spots around the apartment (Strange, 2017, min. 22:48). The Italian Court of Cassation’s official statement included the fact that the majority of the collected evidence incriminating Knox and Sollecito permitted the occurrence of laboratory contamination and thus was labeled unreliable (Linder, 2023, para. 6); however, the court proceedings should have still acknowledged the existence of said evidence during the trial. Even though they were roommates, speculation of “contamination” does not prove the innocence of the suspect. Obviously, clear DNA evidence existed linking each suspect to the crime scene along with its significance in the