Let’s talk true crime. Society’s unwavering obsession with understanding, dissecting and chronicling each and every detail behind humanity’s most reprehensible acts is certainly nothing new. And lucky for pop culture fanatics, the genre has undoubtedly become stitched into the very fabric of the entertainment word. And while some would say doubting prosecutions, rehashing evidence and asking a victims’ loved ones to relive their pain day after day is callous and exploitative, millions of television … read more
Giuliano Mignini, the Italian prosecutor who put Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito behind bars for a killing they have always said they didn’t commit, still isn’t convinced of their innocence despite their overturned convictions. But “if they are innocent, I hope they’re able to forget the suffering they’ve endured,” Mignini says in a new Netflix documentary, Amanda Knox, which re-examines the case. “If they’re guilty, if earthly justice didn’t get to them, I hope they own their guilt,” he continues. … read more
Giuliano Mignini, the Italian prosecutor who put Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito behind bars for a killing they have always said they didn’t commit, still isn’t convinced of their innocence despite their overturned convictions. But “if they are innocent, I hope they’re able to forget the suffering they’ve endured,” Mignini says in a new Netflix documentary, Amanda Knox, which re-examines the case. “If they’re guilty, if earthly justice didn’t get to them, I hope they own their guilt,” he continues. … read more
“Either I’m a psychopath in sheep’s clothing or I am you.”
That’s the question Amanda Knox poses to audiences in her latest foray into the spotlight, Netflix’s documentary Amanda Knox.
Released on Friday, the hour-and-a-half film revisits the infamous murder case from the perspective of four crucial characters, Knox, her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, a Daily Mail journalist who covered the original case and Giuliano Mignini, the Italian prosecutor who tried the case. In addition to interviews … read more
Amanda Knox has revealed why she initially lied and told Italian police she was in the apartment when her roommate Meredith Kercher was killed in November 2007. Sitting down with JuJu Chang on Friday’s Nightline, Knox explained that Italian police broke her down during a grueling 53-hour interrogation. “I was hit on the back of the head, I was yelled at. Police were coming in and out of the room telling me that I was a liar,” she said. “It was chaos. It was utter chaos.” Knox trial, conviction and … read more
British student Meredith Kercher was murdered in 2007, and since then the investigation and trial surrounding her death has taken over the world.
American student Amanda Knox, one of Kercher’s roommates, was eventually convicted of the murder—as was her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and Rudy Guede, a man originally from Ivory Coast who Kercher met at her neighbor’s place just downstairs. Through convictions, acquittals, convictions and more vacated rulings, Knox’s story continues to captivate … read more
The question of who killed Meredith Kercher, a British student living in Perugia, Italy, in 2007, was seemingly answered, if not right away, then in due time.
American student Amanda Knox, one of Kercher’s roommates, was convicted of the murder—as were the Italian man Knox had been dating at the time, Raffaele Sollecito, and Rudy Guede, a man originally from Ivory Coast who Kercher had met at their neighbors’ place downstairs.
But their arrests and that trio of guilty verdicts was only the beginning—and … read more
It was the truly international murder case that captivated the world. In 2007, American exchange student Amanda Knox was accused of killing British student Meredith Kercher in the home they shared in Perugia, Italy. A new Netflix documentary, Amanda Knox, is taking a close look at the brutal murder and the subsequent years of global legal battle surrounding the case. The doc’s two dueling trailers – one that portrays Knox as an innocent who finds herself in a nightmare, with the other taking the … read more
Amanda Knox, the American study-abroad student who was accused of murdering her roommate in Perugia, Italy, in 2007, spoke out about the highly controversial case and her involvement in a new Netflix documentary during an interview on Good Morning America on Thursday, September 29.
The talk show aired a clip of Knox, now 29, giving a provocative statement in the documentary. “Either I’m a psychopath in sheep’s clothing or I am you,” she declared. The Washington native explained to GMA … read more
There are few ordinary Americans who have managed to incite international captivation quite like Amanda Knox.
Once just a regular college student bound for studies abroad in Italy, the then-20-year-old would soon amass global notoriety as a central suspect of her roommate’s murder.
Meredith Kercher, a British college student, was discovered with her throat slashed in the four-bedroom apartment she shared with three women, including Knox, in Perugia. At the time of Kercher’s death, Knox was involved … read more
From what I remember, we didn’t cover every little detail of the Amanda Knox saga, but I did end up doing a fair amount of coverage about Knox when all of the legal/trial shenanigans started happening in 2011 – you can see our archives here. In 2007, Knox, then an American college student studying abroad in Peruga, Italy, returned to her shared living quarters and learned that her roommate, a British student named Meredith Kercher, had been murdered. Knox and her boyfriend of a few weeks, Raffaele … read more
The question “Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?” is, once again, on everybody’s lips.
With the 20th anniversary of the still-chilling-to-this-day murder of the 6-year-old beauty queen almost upon us, people close to the case are talking, the media coverage is ramping up and we’ve got at least two docu-treatments to anticipate, plus there’s a Lifetime movie in the works. (There was a TV movie, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenet and the City of Boulder, but that was already 16 years ago.)
So, a public … read more
Rudy Guede, convicted of killing of 21-year-old British exchange student Meredith Kercher in 2007, has received 36 hours of freedom from his 16-year sentence for “good behavior,” RadarOnline.com has learned.
The 29-year-old was released from Viterbo’s Mammagialla prison Wednesday morning, and is scheduled to return Friday evening, The Local reported.
“I will be able to feel the sun on my skin and be able to look out of the window without bars in front of my eyes,” Guede told La Repubblica. … read more
Rudy Guede, convicted of killing of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in 2007, revealed horrifying details from her death in an Italian TV interview filmed from his jail cell.
Serving a 16-year sentence for the murder, Guede claimed that “justice for Meredith has not been done,” insisting that he is innocent. He also alleged that Kercher spoke to him moments before death as he scribed with blood on the apartment walls, The Mirror reports.
In his interview, Guede paints a vivid description of Kercher’s … read more
After three appeals and eight long years, Italy’s top court recently found Amanda Knox not guilty of murdering her roommate in Italy — but the Seattle native has found little reason to celebrate. Famed writer Douglas Preston, who worked closely with Knox and her loved ones to produce his book Trial By Jury, reveals to RadarOnline.com that the case has left the family completely broke. “The [ordeal] has been hugely emotional, but the financial impact has been catastrophic,” Preston says. … read more