Meredith Kercher, a student at a University in Perugia, Italy. Here she roomed with Amanda Knox, and two other Italian women, who were away visiting their parents. November second in 2007, Meredith Kercher was killed. There were many ways to describe this case unorganized, heartbreaking, and controversial. All of them can sum up the loops holes in this case. When the Italian Police arrived at the scene there were major questions raised by just observing the crime scene. The first thing they saw was Meredith’s lifeless body lying on the floor, under a blood soaked comforter. She had three slashes on her neck, which later were identified to be created by a knife, and to have been created by a man. She was half naked, her bloody bra was not…show more content… Amanda Knox, her DNA was found on the handle of a knife that had the DNA of Meredith Kercher on the blade. This knife was found at boyfriend (at the time) Raffaele Sollecito’s house. Raffaele Sollecito, was the second person the police believe was at the scene at the time. This was because a shoe print made from a Nike was found in blood at the crime scene. This was the only evidence that was found against Sollecito. Another person that was incriminated by evidence was Rudy Guede, a common friend between the Knox, Sollecito, and Kercher. His DNA was found on a pillow that contained a bloody handprint, these fingerprints belonged to Rudy. There was DNA found inside of Meredith’s body, which proves that she had been sexually assaulted before she had been killed. Guede’s DNA, had been found on her purse and her jumpsuit. Following this information, the police asked around town to find out some more information about the group of friends. They found that there was one more friend that had been quite interested in Meredith, in a very disturbing kind of way. The name people gave to police was Patrick Lumumba, a bar owner that was the boss of Amanda Knox, and regularly hang out with her and her friends. This gave the police a possible motive for Lumumba. As the police went deeper into their investigation, they found out that the Nike shoe that created the imprint was not only…show more content… Amanda Knox changed her story quadruple times during the investigation. Amanda first told the police at the crime scene that she was at her boyfriend at the time, watching movies at his house. The second time, she told them during interrogation that she was in the villa and heard Meredith scream but just covered her ears. The third time, she was not alone in the villa and that Lumumba was there in the room with Meredith. The fourth time she told police that she was not in the villa. The security cameras near the villa, quickly put the first and fourth alibi to rest, showing that she indeed was in the villa around the same time that Meredith may have been killed. The police questioned Lumumba about his whereabouts that night and it turned out that he had witnesses to corroborate his
