Amanda Knox Page #5

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of Italy, close to the sea.

I was very shy.

And I didn't date girls.

Who cares when you can have

the new Sega Mega Drive or PlayStation?

So, when I was with Amanda,

I was so happy to enjoy life

and to enjoy my new relationship.

Why should I go and murder a girl?

This, for me, is craziness.

Now, I'm taking part of this nightmare,

on this tragedy,

and my life is going to be destroyed...

forever by all this...

if nothing changes.

[Giuliano in Italian] I remember

that we were nearby Sollecito's house.

Lumumba was no longer a suspect.

But the police told me

they had found proof

Meredith had definitely been killed

by three people.

[news anchor 1 in English]

For a bizarre case

with so many twists and turns,

let's start with the latest one.

[news anchor 2]

Police have been unable to identify

a number of fingerprints

where Meredith died.

[news reporter 3] And they say

they also found feces in the bathroom.

[Giuliano in Italian] They found traces

in Meredith's vagina...

and then there were the prints.

They were sure that the man

who had left the traces...

was Rudy Herman Guede.

[Nick in English] Rudy Guede had a bit

of form for breaking and entering.

Locals, as well, had told us

that he was a slippery character.

Fly-by-night guy.

But by this time,

he'd already fled the country.

And police were able to track down

one of his best friends

to have a Skype conversation with him.

[Rudy Guede in Italian] You there?

[Rudy] Can you hear me?

[informant] Yes.

[Rudy] The girl who's been killed...

I met her the previous evening.

The next day, I went to her house,

but we didn't do anything

because neither of us had a condom.

And so I went to the bathroom.

After that, I heard screaming

and I quickly came out of the bathroom.

I saw this guy.

I didn't see his face because it was dark.

Then he ran out the front door.

I saw Meredith, who was bleeding.

She had a cut on her throat.

She was clinging on me strongly.

I got scared.

I was completely covered with blood.

F***, I'm scared.

I'll kill myself.

[shutters clicking rapidly]

[Giuliano] An international

arrest warrant was issued.

And he was arrested.

[indistinct chatter]

[Amanda in English] Oh, my God!

Just the idea of knowing

who could have done it.

Like, I know him, kind of.

I've seen him before with the neighbors.

Like, we ran into him

and we were talking to him or whatever.

And then, I think I saw him

play basketball with them once.

And then, I think once

I saw him at my work.

But, like, I don't even know his name.

[Valter in Italian] Rudy has always

maintained that he didn't kill anyone.

But any good lawyer

must be aware of the fact

that a judge may not believe your client.

Rudy's presence in the house

is undisputed.

If we'd had a trial

with the other two defendants,

Rudy would run the risk

of being blamed for everything,

and Rudy might be

the only one convicted.

So I decided we'd go

for a fast-track trial

to separate the two trials.

[shutters clicking rapidly]

[Nick in English]

Once Rudy's trial begins,

there is this interesting revelation.

So, in those initial Skype conversations,

Rudy is telling his friend that Amanda

is nowhere near the crime scene.

He's saying that they had

nothing to do with it.

But then...

He then changes his story.

[in Italian] Through the window,

I saw the silhouette

of Amanda Knox leaving the house.

[Nick in English] No one was really

that bothered about Rudy.

I mean, obviously we gave it

the cursory coverage.

We had covered his trial,

covered his sentence.

But at the end of the day,

there was no interest in him.

[interviewer] Who was more interesting?

Amanda.

[news anchor 1] The cult of the girl

known as "Foxy Knoxy"

is why Italians are calling this

the trial of the decade.

[news anchor 2] You're talking about it,

everyone is talking about it.

[overlapping voices] Sex.

A drug-fueled sex game.

Drug-fueled sex game.

[news anchor 3]

A drug-fueled sex game gone wrong.

[in Italian] Calm down, calm down!

There is room enough for everybody!

You have to go back to your place.

[indistinct chatter]

[woman] Go away, please!

[man] Madame,

you can't push like that.

I didn't do anything to you.

[Giuliano] When the trial started,

I thought that everything would be easy.

There was direct evidence,

like the DNA proof,

but there is not only the DNA.

Amanda was a girl that was

very uninhibited.

She would bring boys home.

Hearing Meredith's friends...

If you could imagine a girl different

from Amanda in every imaginable way,

it would have been Meredith.

That night,

let's imagine what Meredith finds.

She sees suddenly in her house Amanda,

which is okay.

But Sollecito and Rudy.

And she's like, "What?"

Meredith couldn't take it anymore.

She must have scolded Amanda

for her lack of morals.

[reporter] How did it go today?

[Giuliano] Amanda must have felt

humiliated, irritated.

"So, you want to judge

my morals so harshly?

Now I'm going to show you

what will happen..."

She is a very proud girl.

Here's a first clash.

And then there's a crescendo of attacks.

I am convinced that Sollecito and Rudy

were trying to indulge Amanda

in every possible way that night.

Pleasure at any cost.

This is at the heart of most crimes.

[news anchor 1 in English]

After nearly a year of testimony,

Italy's so-called trial of the century

has come to a close.

[news anchor 2] Amanda Knox may

know her fate as early as tomorrow.

There may be a verdict.

[bell tolling]

[man] Amanda! Amanda!

[shutters clicking rapidly]

[Giuliano in Italian] The moment before

the court reads the verdict

is one of the most tense moments

one can experience in life,

especially for the defendant

because it is about their destiny.

Asking for the conviction,

such a severe penalty of two young people

on a human level, costs a lot.

I look at myself in the mirror

and I'm lucky not to be ashamed of myself,

there is no doubt

about the guilt of the pair.

[judge] Please,

there are too many cameras.

Please, please.

One cannot get in.

[reporters clamoring]

[judge] Given Articles 533 and 535

of the Penal Proceedings Code...

we declare Knox, Amanda Marie,

and Sollecito, Raffaele

guilty of the crimes charged.

They are convicted to a sentence

of 26 years in prison for Knox

and a sentence of 25 years

for Sollecito.

[reporters clamoring]

[indistinct chatter]

[news anchor in English]

With the white-hot glare

of reporters and cameras

Amanda was led away in a black van,

just moments after the verdict was read.

[in Italian] She's a murderer.

She's a liar.

[news anchor 2 in English] The verdict

floored an unsuspecting Knox family.

So convinced were they

of their daughter's innocence,

they'd brought her younger sisters

along to court.

[in English] Move.

[reporter] When do you hope

to lodge an appeal, sir?

The second we can.

[indistinct chatter]

Everyone in the room here obviously

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