Is Amanda Knox Guilty? Page #2

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Meredith was trained in karate,

and must have encountered

overwhelming force.

TRANSLATED:
One person couldn't,

all at the same time,

hold Meredith still

and hold back her hands -

because there are

very few defensive wounds -

inflict those wounds

with a smaller knife

and then give her the fatal blow

with the larger knife.

It is impossible.

Not even Superman could do it.

The behaviour of Amanda Knox and

her boyfriend attracts attention.

Meredith's friends tell police

that, far from appearing distraught,

Amanda and Raffaele have

been seen laughing and joking.

A vigil is held for Meredith, but

Amanda and Raffaele don't attend -

they go for dinner

at a friend's instead.

And the prosecutor recalls why he

was concerned by Amanda's behaviour.

TRANSLATED:
When the girls

were brought to see the knives

that were in the kitchen,

the reaction of Amanda...

It was a reaction... She put her

hands on her ears, as if she were

trying to block out a terrible sound

she was hearing in her ears.

It was like she was having

a nervous breakdown.

And then there was this,

one of the defining images

of the case -

Amanda and Raffaele kissing

outside the cottage

where Meredith was murdered.

Her supporters say

this was only natural.

Did they comfort each other?

We've seen that famous footage of

the two of them together. They did.

What's wrong with any of that?

Nothing.

It did appear to be wrong

to some authorities.

November 5th.

Four days after the murder.

Raffaele Sollecito

is called in for questioning.

Amanda goes with him, and once again

her behaviour seems odd.

She does yoga and the splits

in the waiting room.

At this point, the couple's

alibi appears to fall apart.

Amanda had told police she'd

spent the night of the murder

at Raffaele's apartment.

They cooked, watched a film,

made love, smoked marijuana

and went to bed.

But separately,

Raffaele's story begins to change.

He's no longer sure

if Amanda was with him all night.

Amanda's called in

for more questioning.

As she is only

a witness at this stage,

an interpreter is present

but she has no legal representation.

What happens next is crucial,

and one of the most controversial

twists in the story.

Police ask Amanda Knox about

text messages on her phone.

In particular, a message

from her boss, Patrick Lumumba.

TRANSLATED:
"Don't come to work

tonight." I sent that message.

It's, like, Sunday. "Don't come

to work." I sent that message.

Amanda had texted back,

"See you later."

She says she just meant

"see you around",

but police now want to know...

had Amanda arranged to meet

Lumumba later that evening

and taken him to her house?

At 1.45 in the morning,

Amanda breaks down.

TRANSLATED:
She says

she had entered the house with him

because he was attracted to Meredith

and wanted to be with Meredith,

and she stayed in the kitchen

and heard Meredith's screams,

and HE was the assassin.

That's what she said.

Police believe Amanda Knox's story.

They raid Patrick Lumumba's home

and take him in.

Within hours,

his photo flashes around the world

as one of the murder suspects.

But for the police, Amanda Knox has

now gone from witness to suspect.

If she's taken Lumumba to Meredith,

she must have been at the house.

TRANSLATED:
She put herself

at the scene of the crime.

She admitted to

accompanying Lumumba

as if she were an accomplice

in his project.

She was in the room next door when

the crime happened, in her version.

This fact pushed the police

to suspend the audition

in order to protect her rights.

November 6th 2007.

Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito

are arrested.

Waiting to be taken to jail,

Amanda makes another attempt to tell

police what happened with Lumumba

by writing out an

explanation in English.

"In my mind, I saw Patrick

in flashes of blurred images.

"I saw him near the basketball court.

I saw him at my front door.

"I saw myself cowering in the kitchen

with my hands over my ears

"because, in my head,

I could hear Meredith screaming.

"But I have said this many times,

so as to make myself clear -

"these things seems unreal to me,

like a dream.

"I want to make it clear that

I am very doubtful

"of the verity of my statements

"because they were made

under the pressure

"of stress, shock

and extreme exhaustion."

But, despite her uncertainty,

she doesn't retract her accusation.

Lumumba remains in jail,

pleading his innocence.

In the city square,

members of the African community

protest against his arrest.

TRANSLATED:
The black man is

always the thief and the assassin.

She wanted them to believe

what she was saying.

It was just because I was black.

At this point, another African

immigrant enters the story.

20-year-old Rudy Guede, from the

Ivory Coast, is living in Perugia.

Detectives find his bloody

thumbprint on a pillowcase

that was underneath Meredith's

dead body.

Because he's an immigrant,

they have his prints on file.

Police raid his

tiny bedsit apartment

and test his toothbrush for DNA.

It matches traces found on

Meredith's bra strap, on her body

and on the left sleeve

of her pale-blue sweatshirt.

Rudy Guede has fled the country.

He's arrested in Germany.

Perugia attorney Valter Biscotti

volunteers to defend him.

TRANSLATED:
I met this

young man in this prison

in Schiffenstadt, Germany,

and he seemed to me like

a guy who was scared,

someone who was in the middle of

a story that was bigger than him.

He was surprised to see a lawyer

who arrived from Italy for him.

Extradited back to Italy,

Rudy Guede confirms to police that

he's lived in the country

since the age of five.

A keen basketball player,

he'd met Amanda and Meredith

after shooting hoops with students

who lived in the apartment

below theirs.

They partied and

smoked dope together.

Meanwhile, the case

against Patrick Lumumba,

as outlined by Amanda Knox,

collapses.

A customer at the bar has given

him an alibi and he's freed.

How did Amanda Knox come to

mention Lumumba's name to police?

For the first time,

we can hear an audio tape

of her explanation

to the prosecutor.

A transcript of this was presented

in court, but not the audio.

Accompanied by three lawyers

and an interpreter,

on December 17th 2007,

Knox is asked why she told police

Lumumba committed the crime.

So what's the extent of the police

evidence at this point?

It includes a knife found

at Raffaele Sollecito's apartment

they believe could be

the murder weapon.

But they need more,

so return to the crime scene.

46 days after the murder, they find

Meredith's bra clasp under a mat.

Using rubber gloves, they pick it up

and inspect it.

It will become the most

controversial piece of evidence

in the investigation.

The defence will claim the delay

in collecting it

could have resulted in

contamination.

Investigators also,

for the first time, use luminol,

a chemical that highlights

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