murder abroad. amanda knox was going into her junior year of college. her mother etta recalls amanda the fresh-faced 20-year-old intent on adventure. she was going to study abroad going into college somewhere. she didn t know where yet. amanda would decide on perugia, italy. her sister deanna remembers when she moved into this house which she shared with three other girls, two italians and one british student named meredith kircher. why was she so set on that apartment? i think because of the people really. it was close to the college and her roommates are the sweetest people in the world. but after only six weeks in italy on the night of november 1st, 2007, amanda s overseas adventure would take a bizarre turn. amanda claims she slept over with her boyfriend raffaello sollecito that night. according to her, they cooked dinner at his house, smoked hashish and made love. on that same night, meredith kircher returned to the home she shared with amanda after watching a m
i did not take an opportunity. reporter: the morning after our interview with guilianio mignini, the prosecutor spots our camera, walks towards me, and off camera asks what i thought of the interview the night before. if i thought he was being truthful. clearly, mignini is now concerned. his case against amanda knox appears to be falling apart. the tabloid press still enamored with foxy knoxy is beginning to tell a different story. amanda and rafaelle have appealed their conviction. the appeal process is now underway, and a new judge and new jury have been seated. knox, rarely smiles now. raffaele sollecito has shaved his head. they have both been imprisoned for more than three years. knox s family says the couple who had met just eight days before the murder haven t communicated since their arrests.
sensational headlines about the murder suspect dubbed foxy knoxy were rampant. completely fabricated stories of how amanda knox engaged in sexual orgies, satanic rituals, how she bought bleach to clean up the crime scene. all of it, according to the prosecutor himself, lies. with no conclusive evidence their daughter was guilty, the knox family would enter the courtroom just after midnight on saturday, december 5th, 2009, believing prosecutors had simply not proved their case. the jury had deliberated for 13 hours. in a moment that haunts him to this day, curt knox heard the verdict in italian. guilty. these two kids were innocent, and to have them s guilty, it was just devastating. it was literally devastating. you know, i mean, literally the people that were in the courtroom just kind of went ah!
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
were rampant. completely fabricated stories of how amanda knox engaged in sexual orgies, satanic rituals, how she bought bleach to clean up the crime scene. all of it, according to the prosecutor himself, lies. with no conclusive evidence their daughter was guilty, the knox family would enter the courtroom just after midnight on saturday, december 5th, 2009, believing prosecutors had simply not proved their case. the jury had deliberated for 13 hours. in a moment that haunts him to this day, curt knox heard the verdict in italian. guilty. these two kids were innocent, and to have them say guilty, it was just devastating. it was literally devastating. you know, i mean, literally the people that were in the courtroom just kind of went ah! reporter: doug preston is a