did not have. how did she do it? she had to save $10,000. she lived extremely frugly and spent no money on anything. and then worked several jobs at a time, numerous jobs at a time, saved every penny. amanda chose to study in perusia, italy, a small town in the center of the country. in the late summer of 2007, amanda and her sister deanna traveled there to get her settled. on the very first day in town, deanna found amanda a place to live. we were walking around and the first thing amanda did, of course, was go down to her university. so we walked down there and she went inside and i sat outside. and this girl came up and was posting something on the fence right next to where i was sitting. and i looked over and it said, all i could read in italian, was apartmento. and that was it.
honest, really criticized their investigation very thoroughly, and it wasn t just criticism. it presented irrefutable evidence that the police were on the wrong track. before the book could even be released, police focused their attention on the authors. mario spezi s villa was raided, his notes confiscated and the journalist placed under arrest, though later released without charges. police surmised spezi knew so much about the killer that he just might be the killer. then preston s phone rang. i thought it was a joke. then they said, no, mr. preston, this is not a joke. we are coming to get you. this is obligatory. you tell us where you are. that will save everyone a lot of trouble. preston would find himself at the door of the prosecutor s office here in perugia where he thought he would spend a few minutes answering just a few questions. i had never understood how brutal, psychologically brutal an interrogation is.
how she says under pressure by police she was asked repeatedly to dream up, imagine scenarios for how it could have happened. cnn traveled to perugia, italy, to sit down with the prosecutor, amanda knox. for three hours, he answered his questions and his critic that is he prosecuted knox with little evidence, that he played on emotions and rumor rather than facts. and that the lynch pin of his case, the so-called confession of amanda knox was coerced out of a frightened college student. nobody hit her? no, absolutely not. was she asked to imagine scenarios? so she s lying. translator: absolutely. you either see the person or not. i can t can a person what he or she imagines. this question would make no
american girl, they charged an italian national, they charged amanda knox with the thing and an american girl. why do they single out all of these people for a crime that they at least two of them they didn t commit? let me say one other thing about the case that s strange i think in terms of steve s approach. why is everything fwlong this case? the confession s wrong, the dna s wrong, the knife is wrong. i can tell you why. the motive is wrong. the prosecutors are corrupt and they re all ignorant superstitious idiots. that s over reaching. steve, reply. the week before the murder rudy, the burglar, was arrested in milan for the burglary. the police asked to lease him and send him back to perusia. the only reason to do that is he s a police informant. a week later he murders a woman
today in florence, italy, with a new appeals trial for the 2007 murder of her british roommate, meredith kercher. knox will not be in court for the retrial. concerned about returning to the country where she spent four years behind bars. i m afraid to go back there. i don t want to go back into prison. i don t want them to all of a sudden do a court order when i m there, just respecting the court and going there and the prosecution ask that i be put in preventative detention again. i mean, i was there for four years. reporter: at 22 years old, knox was convicted of brutally killing kercher in the villa they shared in the small italian town of wperusia. that ruling was overturned in 2011 due to lack of evidence and she returned home to seattle. thank you to everyone who has believed in me. reporter: but those cries of relief in no way signaled the end of the legal ordeal.