Amanda Knox Page #2

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and they just wanted to show

that they were capable of dealing with

something of this... of this scale.

[Stephanie Kercher]

Nothing can prepare you for the news

we received on Friday evening.

Words can't even describe

how we feel right now

other than utterly devastated

at the tragic loss of our daughter

and sister Meredith.

We feel it's no exaggeration to say

that Meredith touched the lives

of everyone she met

with her infectious, upbeat personality,

smile, and sense of humor.

We loved Meredith then.

We love her still.

And she's still very much

a part of our family forever.

[Giuliano in Italian]

Meredith's mother came.

And she asked to see her daughter.

And I remember

she was absorbed in silence.

And then she made a gesture.

She asked if she could give her a kiss.

I have a family,

I'm the father of four girls.

Therefore, I understood her immense pain.

I am Catholic.

So I believe in two things

that are hard to reconcile.

That God runs the world.

But also that man has free will...

and must be held responsible

for their actions.

[indistinct chatter]

[journalist] Investigators are working

around the clock

to figure out the motive,

people she knew,

and possible romantic relationships.

Investigators are not ruling out

any motive.

Tomorrow, they'll do the autopsy.

[Nick in English] The whole place

was just awash with journalists.

So any nugget, any scrap, anything new,

you were just trying to get it out

ahead of your competitor.

We were all camped outside the mortuary

waiting for the pathologist to come out.

I spoke good Italian

and I think also they liked the fact that,

"Wow, I've got

a British journalist talking to me.

[stuttering] I'm now a big star as well."

And I was allowed

to come report the facts.

The post-mortem concluded

that there had been

some sort of sexual interference

with Meredith's body.

Traces of male DNA in her body.

And I remember him telling me that

there were also little nicks in her chin,

as if someone had been taunting her,

sort of torturing her.

That's when the police and the prosecution

started saying that it was a group crime.

A sex game gone wrong.

And we managed to get it out

to the British press before anyone else.

And that was the scoop that we had,

and it made headlines all over the world.

To see your name on the front page

with a great story

that everyone's talking about...

it's just a fantastic buzz.

I mean, I'd like to say it's like

having sex or something like that.

[chuckles] You know?

[bell tolling]

[Amanda] Meredith was my friend

of a few weeks.

We weren't lifetime best friends.

But I was so shocked

by what happened to her.

It made no sense.

It was brutal.

And it could've happened to me.

But I was at Raffaele's apartment

the night of the murder.

We watched Amlie,

and in the middle of watching Amlie,

I got a text message from Patrick saying

that I didn't have to come into work,

and I was like, "Yes!"

We finished watching the movie.

We made dinner.

And I read to him

from a German Harry Potter book.

And after that we just hung out

on his bed and talked

and made goofy faces at each other.

And eventually that turned into kissing

which turned into the making love

and then passing out.

The next morning, I wake up,

I told him that I was gonna

go back to my place.

So I went there. [sighs]

Um, I just walked down.

And the first thing that I saw was

that my front door was already open.

The common area was normal.

My room was normal,

normal messy, but normal.

And I got undressed

and I walked into the bathroom.

And I noticed that there was

some drops of blood in the sink.

But... I mean, there were just

a few drops of blood.

Whatever. Um...

I brushed my teeth.

And then I took a shower.

When I stepped out of the shower

onto the bath mat,

that's when I noticed the larger

splotch of blood on the bath mat.

But there's only some spots of blood

and then that,

so maybe someone cut themselves,

something like that.

It was right after I was done

blow-drying my hair

that I just happened

to look over into the toilet

and saw that feces had been left there.

That gave me the creeps.

Like, all of a sudden

I got this creepy feeling

like someone was in the house with me.

And I was just like, "Oh, sh*t."

So, I went to Raffaele

and I talked to him about it.

[Raffaele] I went back there.

I saw all this mess.

It was very weird.

And I was a little bit surprised

that she took a shower inside her house

without having the anxiety of it.

We tried Meredith's room

and the door was locked,

which was very strange.

And so I knocked gently

and called for Meredith.

And then I knocked louder

and I called for Meredith.

And finally I was like,

"Raffaele, can you please, like,

try to break open this door?

I don't know if Meredith's

in there or not."

And he tried kicking it down twice,

but it didn't work.

[phone chimes]

[Raffaele in Italian]

Hello, good morning, listen...

someone made a mess

and there is a door closed.

And there are also blood marks

in the bathroom.

[dispatcher] Which door is closed?

[Raffaele] One of the roommates.

We don't know where she is.

[dispatcher] I am sending a police car

so that we can inspect the situation.

[Amanda in English] The police, like,

kicked us all out of the house.

Kicked down Meredith's door.

And they were saying that her...

Like, there was blood everywhere

and that her throat had been slit and...

And so that's how I was told

that Meredith was dead.

[Giuliano in Italian] I have always had

a great passion for investigating.

I like detective movies a lot.

Sherlock Holmes, for example.

He was able to get clues

from seemingly insignificant events.

Why was the girl covered with the blanket?

A woman who has killed

tends to cover the body of female victims.

A man would never think to do this.

The thing that struck me the most

was the break-in.

Nothing had been stolen.

And there was no evidence

that someone had climbed the wall.

Immediately, I could tell

it was a staged break-in.

It could have no other function than this,

throw off suspicion from someone

who has a connection to the house.

[Amanda in English] The next day,

they brought me back to my place.

It was the first time

I was back in my apartment

after it had been closed off

as a crime scene.

And they were having me

go through the knife drawer

to see if any of the knives were missing.

So basically they were asking me to see

if there was the murder weapon

missing from this drawer.

And it just all hit me all at once,

and I became hysterical.

[in Italian] She started hitting

the palms of her hands on her ears.

As if there was the memory

of a noise, a sound, a scream.

Meredith's scream.

Undoubtedly, I started

to suspect Amanda.

[Amanda] Pronto.

[Brett in English] Amanda, it's Brett.

What are you doing?

[Amanda] I'm just about to head home

from one of Raffaele's friend's places.

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