Brutal murder: Meredith Kercher was killed in her apartment on November 1, 2007
Raffaele Sollecito, in Perugia's court, in 2009; in Sollecito's book, he maintains his innocence but says he and his then-girlfriend behaved oddly.
Guilty: Rudy Guede, a drug dealer, was convicted of Kercher's murder
Amanda Knox American student convicted of homicide in Perugia Italy.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2201846/Raffaele-Sollecito-book-Amanda-Knoxs-ex-boyfriend-reveals-new-memoir-couple-innocent-2007-murder-Meredith-Kercher.html
The real story of me and Amanda Knox: Ex-boyfriend lifts the lid on whirlwind romance and their 'odd behaviour' as he insists they didn't kill Meredith Kercher
Italian native Raffaele Sollecito maintains his innocence in new book
However, he admits he and then-girlfriend, U.S. student Amanda Knox, acted erratically following death of Knox's British flatmate Meredith Kercher
After arrest, Knox was reportedly doing splits and cartwheels in police station and sat on Sollecito's lap during interrogation
Also admitted to smoking marijuana the night Kercher was murdered
Both were eventually acquitted
Drug dealer Rudy Guede remains in Italian prison
By BETH STEBNER
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 22:29 EST, 11 September 2012 UPDATED: 03:12 EST, 12 September 2012
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Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito repeatedly told the police a pack of lies in the days after Meredith's murder.
On 5 November 2007, Knox and Sollecito were confronted with proof that they had lied and were given another opportunity to tell the truth. However, they both chose to tell the police even more lies.
Sollecito's new alibi was shattered by computer forensic evidence and his mobile phone records.
Knox accused an innocent man, Diya Lumumba, of murdering Meredith despite knowing full well that he was completely innocent. She didn't recant her false and malicious allegation against Lumumba the whole time he was in prison.
Knox's account of what happened on 2 November 2007 is contradicted by her mobile phone records.
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito both gave multiple conflicting alibis. Neither Knox nor Sollecito have credible alibis for the night of the murder despite three attempt each. At the trial, Sollecito refused to corroborate Knox's alibi that she was at his apartment.
Rudy Guede's bloody footprints led straight out of Meredith's room and out of the house. He didn't lock Meredith's door, remove his trainers, go into Filomena's room or the bathroom that Meredith and Knox shared.
He didn't scale the vertical wall outside Filomena's room or gain access through the window. The break-in was clearly staged. This indicates that somebody who lived at the cottage was trying to deflect attention away from themselves and give the impression that a stranger had broken in and killed Meredith.
Guede had no reason to stage the break-in and there was no physical evidence that he went into Filomena's room.
The scientific police found a mixture of Amanda Knox's DNA and Meredith's blood on the floor.
There was no physical evidence that Rudy Guede went into the blood-spattered bathroom. However, the scientific police found irrefutable proof that Knox and Sollecito tracked Meredith's blood into this bathroom.
Amanda Knox’s DNA was found mingled with Meredith’s blood in three different places in the bathroom: on the ledge of the basin, on the bidet, and on a box of Q Tips cotton swabs.
Sollecito left a visible bloody footprint on the blue bathmat.
Amanda Knox left a bloody shoeprint on the pillow under Meredith's body.
Knox's and Sollecito's bare bloody footprints were revealed by luminol in the hallway. Knox’s DNA and Meredith’s DNA was found mixed together in one of the bloody footprints.
An abundant amount of Raffaele Sollecito's DNA was found on Meredith's bra clasp. Sollecito must have applied considerable pressure to the clasp in order to have left so much DNA. The hooks on the clasp were damaged which confirms that Sollecito had gripped them tightly.
Amanda Knox's DNA was found on the handle of the double DNA knife and a number of independent forensic experts - Dr. Patrizia Stefanoni, Dr. Renato Biondo and Professor Francesca Torricelli - categorically stated that Meredith’s DNA was on the blade.
Sollecito knew that Meredith's DNA was on the blade which is why he twice lied about accidentally pricking her hand whilst cooking.
The defence experts were unable to prove that there had been any contamination. Alberto Intini, head of the Italian police forensic science unit, pointed out that unless contamination has been proved, it does not exist.
Amanda Knox voluntarily admitted that she involved in Meredith's murder in her handwritten note to the police on 6 November 2007. She stated on at least four separate occasions that she was at the cottage when Meredith was killed. She also claimed that Sollecito was at the cottage.
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