He claims the man whispered “Trovato negro, trovato colpevole; andiamo” (“Found black, found guilty; let’s go”), before fleeing. The duo eventually had their convictions overturned in 2011, resulting in their release from prison.

Knox and Sollecito were provisionally set free. And, he added, because she had been in other relationships, he wouldn’t go further unprotected. The next day, they announced their verdict of annulling the appeal court's decisions, with the exception of Knox's calunnia charge, which was now made final.

Why did you take a shower?’ Raffaele told an Italian TV show. He attended the Molfetta Middle School and the Albert Einstein High School of Science, also in Molfetta. Then, feeling the effects of a spicy kebab he had eaten earlier, he had excused himself to one of the bathrooms in the apartment, where he spent “around 10 or 11 minutes” and listened to two and a half songs, before a scream “louder than the music from my headphones” startled him. He enrolled in the faculty of informatics and chose Perugia because ONAOSI college (Opera Nazionale Assistenza Orfani Sanitari Italiani—the name of the foundation that set up the college) is located there. ‘Certainly, I asked her questions. However, Sollecito told NBC News today that he had actually been arrested while driving back into Italy.

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz concurred: “As popular as she is here and as pretty as she is here — because that’s what this is all about, if she was not an attractive woman we wouldn’t have the group love-in — she will be extradited if it’s upheld. He says she left his house to return to the flat she shared with the British student, both in Perugia, Italy, but when she came back to his she appeared ‘very agitated’ and told Raffaele that the flat had been broken into and that there were spots of blood in the bathroom. [20] Knox was questioned by police and made statements in which she said she was present at the cottage at the time of the murder and that it had been committed by Patrick Lumumba.

‘Why did she spend so much time there?’, According to NBC News's Today Show, when the reporter asked what answers Raffaele gave himself, he responded, ‘I don't have answers.’, This isn't the first time he's shown a lack of support for Amanda. This though is contradicted by physical evidence.

We don't know exactly what happened on the night of the murder, but several pieces of physical evidence suggest Sollecito's presence at the crime scene: In addition, Sollecito gave several different accounts of the events of that day and a witness (Antonio Curatolo) placed him in the vicinity of the cottage on the evening of the murder. On September 30, 2013, Knox and Sollecito's new appeal began, in Florence, presided over by Judge Alessandro Nencini. Then he told Leosini that when he fled, Kercher was completely clothed in “the same clothes she was wearing when she opened the door for me.” But the facts beg an explanation, since Kercher was found semi-nude, with her jeans and underwear in a heap on the floor. [8] When he returned to Perugia, rather than returning to college accommodation, he moved into an apartment in Corso Garibaldi, paid for by his father. Guede then described how Kercher complained to him about her roommate Knox, saying she had stolen her money and how she was a slob. In 2009, Raffaele Sollecito and his ex-girlfriend Amanda Knox were convicted of Kercher’s murder. When the fight begins those are the grounds that U.S. attorneys will be arguing.”, However, Hofstra University law professor Julian Ku pointed out that in her initial trial, Knox was convicted, saying further “I followed the trial, it was slow but I never got the sense that it was unfair.”. The presiding judge was Claudio Pratillo Hellmann. The bra clasp, cut or torn off from the bra the victim was wearing and originally hidden under the victim, had Raffaele's DNA on the hooks. The interview aired on Italy’s prime time Maledette Storie (“Cursed Stories”), which chronicles the country’s most controversial stories to a wide audience on Thursday nights. Now the former university student works for an IT firm in the northern city of Parma. The Italian legal system, though I don’t love it, is a legitimate legal system and we have a treaty with Italy so I don’t see how we would resist.”, According to CNN, the Kercher family was pleased with the ruling, their attorney saying after six years of trials, “They are tired of this and want justice.”, The Kerchers still do not believe they know exactly who killed Meredith or how or why. Until then, his passport has been revoked. There was not a basis to charge me, to put me in jail.

Someone who, after all these years, he has come to know as part of his own theory, but who remained nameless. The police proceeded to arrest Knox, Sollecito, and Lumumba. In November 2007, Raffaele Sollecito was a 23 year-old Italian college student, just a few months from a degree in software engineering, attending classes by day, smoking marijuana with his new American girlfriend by night. I think it may be the fact that we don’t ever really know what happened that night, which is obviously something we will have to come to terms with.”. After co-writing a book about his ordeal, Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox, in 2013, he was reported by The Daily Mail to be in the process of writing a second book, though that has yet to be released. Now, almost a decade later — after Knox spent four years in jail before being released on appeal and eventually acquitted of the charges — Knox's story is coming to Netflix in a new documentary set for release on Sept. 30. Educators at the college were shocked to find a very hard-core film containing scenes of sex with animals. He also founded a business, there, for the production of screenplays. He was therefore required to leave Switzerland and return to Italy. In Sollecito’s house, a knife was found containing traces of Knox's DNA, on the handle, and traces of biological material attributable to Meredith on the blade. But upon visiting Knox in her home city of Seattle, after their release, his old affectionate associations of her were restored. He stood by his original story that after that dance-floor kiss, Kercher had invited him over the next night, Nov. 1, 2007, and he happily obliged, arriving at her house after dark. Guede, who was arrested more than a week after the murder—after he escaped to Germany and after Knox fingered her Congolese nightclub boss, Patrick Lumumba—maintains his innocence. Guede, speaking polished Italian and presenting an extremely cultured, if not intellectual, image, spoke clearly and concisely about his life, including how, at the age of 5, he was taken from his mother’s arms in the Ivory Coast after his father “reclaimed” him in Italy. The forgotten protagonist in the story, as Leonisi so poignantly pointed out in her interview with Guede, is Kercher, who would have turned 30 on Dec. 28 and whose version of the story, which would clearly be the definitive one, has sadly gone with her to her grave. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for January 22, 2015 in Florence. [3] His parents split up in the 1990s: Raffaele and Vanessa remained with their mother, while their father met and moved in with Mara Papagni, who was to become his second wife. [13], Romanelli recalled seeing them together at the flat the day after the concert, and saw him there two or three more times. Sollecito’s lawyers claimed that a glass fragment of broken window found beside Guede’s shoe print outside the cottage was proof that Guede had broken in. In 2014, Guede will come up for release.

Meredith Susanna Cara Kercher (28 December 1985 – 1 November 2007) was a British student on exchange from the University of Leeds who was murdered at the age of 21 in Perugia, Italy.Kercher was found dead on the floor of her bedroom. When asked about the present status of their relationship, after their convictions were overturned in 2011, Sollecito said “she’s with another boyfriend and I am going on with my life. Raffaele Sollecito, who had been convicted of murder along with Knox in a 2007 case that made international headlines, made his debut on The Mystery of the Week on Italian TV on Saturday, news.com.au reported. Knox and Sollecito quickly established “a good understanding,” he treating and cuddling her “like a little girl.” They met frequently and were constantly together. Her bra—which was covered with blood splatters, implying she was wearing it when she was stabbed—had been cut from her body and lay in shreds on the floor. Here's everything you need to know about Raffaele.

The doc comes after multiple investigations, news segments, and even a few original films and television shows about Knox's role in the case, but while she has become somewhat of a celebrity due to the events, her boyfriend at the time of the murder, who was accused of the crime alongside Knox, is a bit less talked about. Raffaele had previously been supportive of Amanda, but now it seems he is in a vulnerable position. That scream, he said, came after Knox, whose voice he recognized—somehow despite his loud music—had come home to confront her roommate. In what seems like a twist out of a Lifetime movie, Amanda Knox’s ex-boyfriend is now working as a TV crime expert. Their deliberations took almost 12 hours, but the court's decision was to uphold the conviction of Knox and Sollecito.