[Murder Cases here are usually filed in the name of the perpetrator, or the lead perpetrator. If the case remains unsolved or with several killers, the case may be filed in the name of the victim]
Kercher, Meredith murder p5 - Kerrell, Christopher p7 - Kerry baby murder p7 - Kerrigan, Sam p8 - Kessler, Kimberly p8 - Keyes, Israel p8 - Khaleel, Mohammed p8 - Khan, Faria et al p9 - Khan, Sabah p9 - Khan, Usman p9 - Khatun, Madmua p9 - Khondaker, Iftekhar p9 - Kibbe, Roger p9 - Kidder, Matthew p9 - Killer Woodsman (not named) p9 - Kim, Kyu Soo p10 - Kimes, Sante & Kenneth p10 - King, Levi p10 - King, Michael p10 - Kinkel, Kip p10 - Kinyua, Alexander p10 - Knight, Julian p11 - Knight, Katherine Mary p11 - Knight, Suge p11 -
KERCHER, MEREDITH murder [viz Miscarriages of Justice: Knox & Sollecito] Who Killed Meredith Kercher? TV - Andrea Vogt - ABC online - The Trials of Amanda Knox TV - Killer Trials TV - Amanda Knox: The Untold Story TV - David Wilson TV - Amanda Knox - Guardian online - Is Amanda Knox Guilty? TV - Amanda Knox: Crimes of the Century TV - Amanda Knox 2016 - The Murder of Meredith Kercher TV - Cutting Edge: Sex, Lies & the Murder of Mereditch Kercher TV -
On the night of November 1st 2007 a British student – Meredith Kercher – was killed in her bedroom in the Italian city of Perugia. Within days the investigation took a chilling turn. The finger of suspicion was pointed at Meredith’s flatmate – an American student – Amanda Knox. Two years later Amanda Know would be convicted of Meredith’s murder, along with her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and a second man, Herman Rudy Guede... Is Amanda Knox a killer? Who Killed Meredith Kercher? Discovery Channel 2010
At 12:30 the postal police who had done the phone-trace arrived at the flats to return the phones to their owners. They noticed a young woman and man already there. ibid.
She had died from multiple stab wounds. There was evidence of profuse bleeding. Already at the flat was Meredith’s flatmate, Amanda Knox, and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. From the outset police carefully observed their behaviour. ibid.
There was a trail of blood leading from Meredith’s upper floor flat to the flat below. This was also lived in by students. Among them Meredith’s boyfriend ... Police video showed many more bloodstains inside. ibid.
In all there were thirty-seven wounds. Knife stabbings, cuts and bruises. ibid.
Over the three days in Meredith’s flat four hundred items of evidence were collected. ibid.
No video or audio recordings were ever released. But, though she would later dispute the police version, she had placed herself at the scene of the crime. Next, she would put an accusation against Patrick Lumumba in writing. But Amanda Knox was beginning to spin a web of invention that would lead to her downfall. ibid
On the night of the 6th Amanda Knox retracted the written and oral statements she had made only hours before. ibid.
Amanda remained deeply confused about the night of the murder. ibid.
The role that drink and drugs might have played in this confusion is unknown. No tests were done on Knox or Sollecito in the days after the murder. ibid.
In February 2009 the full trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaela Sollecito began. ibid.
Whoever killed Meredith Kercher stole her cell-phone and threw it not far from the villa where she lived. Andrea Vogt, freelance journalist
They didn’t have any hard evidence. Andrea Vogt
Raffaele was not supporting Amanda’s alibi. Andrea Vogt
That five-page statement became a major piece of evidence against her. Andrea Vogt
American Amanda Knox received the one verdict that has set her free to go home with her family to Washington state, but mental health experts say the 24-year-old’s traumatic journey is far from over.
Since her conviction in the murder of British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007, Knox has said that she longs to go home and daydreams of catching up on Harry Potter movies and lying in the grass of her Seattle back yard.
After spending four years in a cramped cell in an Italian prison, Knox appeared elated but emotional as an appeals court in Perugia overturned her 26-year sentence.
But her pale face and thinning hair show the toll prison life has taken on the young woman psychologically. Even before her fate was sealed, cameras showed her nervous breathing and a face buried in hands, ready for the heaving tears that would follow. ABC News online 4th October 2010
It took two years to convict Amanda Knox of murdering Meredith Kercher. Two years in which coverage of the American girl’s character overwhelming the memory of her victim. With Knox’s image itself becoming a battleground. And a jury found itself having to choose between at least three Amandas. The Trials of Amanda Knox, 2011
And Foxy Knoxy the media creation. ibid.
With highly disputed forensic evidence against Knox and even fewer agreed facts. The battle to establish which Amanda Knox was the real one would become central to winning the case in the court of public opinion and in the court of law. ibid.
Her new American housemate, Amanda Knox, had been expecting to work at her bar job that night. But her boss Partick Lumumba texted that it was quiet and he didn’t need her. ibid.
In the eyes of the prosecution Amanda Knox was about to lead Sollecito, her boyfriend of less than a week, and Rudy Guede, a man she hardly knew, into an explosion of sex and violence. ibid.
At some time before midnight someone sexually assaulted Meredith and put a knife in her throat. ibid.
What followed was a frenzy of police activity. ibid.
She had posted holiday pictures of herself in an Austrian Museum posing with a gun; she had held a leaving party in Seattle and was fined for playing loud music. ibid.
Sollecito ... One site pictured him dressed like a surgeon and holding a meat cleaver. An equally disturbing online image was that of Rudy Guede. Born in the Ivory Coast ... ‘I’m a Vampire. I’m Dracula. I’m going to suck your blood’. ibid.
Over several nights in the police station Knox’s behaviour began to raise questions. ibid.