Why meredith kercher was killed

There are signs that all of this potentially took place at Kercher's apartment, and it's possible that that Kercher came home to discover Guede — or perhaps she was already home when he allegedly broke in — and so he could have panicked and killed her. But again, this is only speculation. Guede maintains that he is innocent, and that an unknown man killed Kercher while he was in the home. Guede claims to have been invited over by Kercher, and since there were no witnesses to the crime, no one can say for sure that he killed her, or why he did it, if he did.

So since the motive behind Kercher's killing will probably never be known, perhaps the most important thing to do is simply remember Kercher as the person she was. Speaking from prison in Viterbo, Italy, the year-old told the Italian broadcaster Rai that the bedroom had been staged to look as a burglar had broken in and a rock had been used to break a window. He said he and Ms Kercher had met the following evening at a college nightclub where they had shared a kiss.

He said he had accepted an invitation to come to her house the following evening but they did not have sex because neither had a condom. He claims he left the room to go to the bathroom where he heard a scream and saw a man - who he described as "foreign" - in the house.

Guede then described how the unnamed man had warned Knox they had been "discovered" and ran out of the building before saying "black man found, guilty found". He described finding her lying there as a "heartbreaking moment" and said "she was trying to tell me something".

Image source, PA Media. Meredith Kercher was an exchange student at the University of Perugia in Who was Meredith Kercher? Image source, Getty Images. Rudy Guede, centre, was convicted of Ms Kercher's murder in More on the case:. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What the scene processing showed was Kercher had been attacked, raped, and had her throat cut in her bedroom.

Her official cause of death was exsanguination bleeding out after being injured with a sharp-edged weapon. Police initially treated Amanda Knox as a witness. She was questioned on different occasions, but the homicide investigators slowly formulated a theory that Knox was lying to protect the actual murderer. They also developed a motive theory that Kercher was killed because she refused to take part in a multi-person sexual trist.

An orgy. On November 6, the Italian homicide detectives again brought Knox in for questioning. This time it turned into a full-on, hard-core interrogation that lasted hours.

This is a complex and controversial part of the Amanda Knox story and precise details—at least as precise as possible because the authorities did not audio or video record it rather they elicited a written confession from Knox —can be read on the website amandaknoxcase. Knox did not supply any motive or any details which only an involved person would know. Amanda Knox was held in custody while the prosecution put an indictable case together. They conclusively linked it to Rudy Guede who had been at the social gathering on the evening when Kercher was last seen alive.

By now, the Italian legal system had a freight train rolling along the justice track. Instead of applying the brakes, the police, prosecutors, and judges threw more coal on the fire and kept on persecuting Amanda Knox. This was due to the archaic inquisitional system Italy was trying to gentrify into a western adversarial legal framework.

No, the Italian legal machine went right on persecuting Amanda Knox. Knox stood trial through the summer and fall of Her case received massive public attention and the British tabloids sensationalized it like nothing ever seen. She was sentenced to 26 years in jail.