giuliano magnini admitted to us, even without any evidence, he knew almost the moment he arrived and laid eyes on amanda knox and raffaele, they were involved in the murder. prior to the forensic investigation, prior to everything really, your intuition or your detective knowledge led you to amanda knox and rafaelle sollecito? translator: after the first few weeks we were convinced because of the behavior of the amanda, that they were both involved in a crime. reporter: but almost immediately after the arrests, he had a problem. the third suspect, patrick lamumba, had an air tight alibi. he was in his crowded bar that night. he could not have been involved. then the actual forensic tests came back.
would present witnesses, one who says they saw the couple near the home the night of the murder. two others would come forward saying they heard a scream, one of them also hearing footsteps running in different directions. but magnini now would also present scientific evidence, he says, proved amanda and raffaele s guilt. two dna samples. raffaele s skin cells on meredith s bra clasp collected 46 days after police first showed up at the murder, and what one expert called an inclusive sample of what could have been meredith s dna found on a knife collected at raffaele s apartment. on the handle, amanda s dna. according to the prosecutor because the victim had never been to raffaele s apartment, the knife must be the murder victim. but tests for blood on the knife turned up negative.
his 23-year-old stepdaughter is being held. he works in computer software and was able to move to italy. so amanda would always have at least one member of the family here. it s about a half hour outside of perugia. he is hoping this summer he and amanda will move back home to seattle. but despite the evidence or lack of evidence being presented in the appeal, neither one appears to be hopeful. how is she holding up? i heard you saying she doesn t want to be too hopeful. no, she doesn t want to be too hopeful because it s difficult. things have gone our way in the past and we have been completely kicked in the teeth. so you don t want to you don t want to get hopeful. amanda knox is not allowed to talk to the press. her stepfather says she has no idea just how big this case has become. giuliano mignini knows all too well. the prosecutor who repeatedly told us he has nothing to be
prosecutors explained it s because the knife had been wiped clean. a forensic expert said finding dna but no blood mike it highly unlikely that the knife was used in a bleed murder. he also says it s surprising the prosecutor was even allowed to admit such a small unexplainable sample as evidence. would this have made it into a u.s. court? i don t think this would made it on to a u.s. lab report. reporter: what also made it into court was amanda s so-called confession. in a quirk of italian law the confession was thrown out of the criminal case against knox, but jurors heard it anyway as part of a civil case being tried simultaneously. in court, jurors heard magnini s evidence of guilt, and then when they went home each night, they heard news from a tabloid press gone wild. sensational headlines about the murder suspect dubbed foxy knoxy