sudden it goes viral. as the media circus grew, so did the pressure on police to solve the case. on the night of november 5th, the police interrogated amanda all night and into the next morning. it was during this session amanda confessed she was at the house that night. her boss patrick lamumba was there as well. at that point amanda knox officially ceased to be a witness. she became the suspect. the police held a press conference later that day announcing to the world they had solved the crime, case closed. according to police, meredith kircher had been killed because she would not take part in a sex game, a sex game orchestrated by amanda knox, her boyfriend, raphaelle and patrick lamumba. translator: i ve always said that this is a crime that was born of succession. it was step by step. there was no planning.
she s not answering her phone. her door is locked. there was lots of concern. i said, okay. you know, call the police, and she did, and, you know, the police came, and then they had actually one of the other roommates boyfriends that broke down the door because the police wouldn t do it. behind meredith s bedroom door was her body covered by a blanket, blood everywhere. meredith had been sexually assaulted, stabbed, and slashed in the neck. a bloody handprint left on the wall. bloody footprints on the floor. as police began to process the crime scene, suspicion soon began to fall upon amanda. partly due to what police believed was a faked forced entry through the window. observers also thought amanda s behavior was odd. she and raphaelle stayed in the living room while the others broke into meredith s room.
francesca moresco is an attorney hired by the victim s family. he says amanda s behavior was enough to make her a suspect. translator: the famous behavior of amanda knox cannot be justifiable if we compare it to the way normal people behave. reporter: in this video amanda and her boyfriend comfort each other outside the house. but at the police station witnesses say they laughed and made faces, heightening suspicions about them. amanda knox and raphaelle, the police station would become all too familiar over the coming days. her father, curt, recalls the week after the grisly discovery. between the time that they actually found meredith and when amanda was arrested, there was roughly a 90 da 90-hour time fr. i m ballparking the numbers there. during that time, amanda was in the police station for questioning for, i believe it