MURDERED: Meredith Kercher

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4.7 • 358.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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A 21yo British woman is less than a month into a foreign exchange in Perugia, Italy when she is brutally murdered in her apartment. Everyone’s world is turned upside-down. And for the woman who found herself in the center of the storm -- and on trial for murder -- it has stayed that way ever since. My question is: Why, all these years later -- long after the courts have spoken -- are we still talking about Amanda Knox?

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0:00.0	Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.
0:03.6	And I'm Britt.
0:04.6	And the story I have for you today is one that every crime junkie knows.
0:09.8	I know you know it because I still get the strangest DMs from you guys about it.
0:14.9	Asking me if I think Amanda Knox did it.
0:18.8	And spoiler alert, no, she didn't.
0:22.2	And if you're still asking that question six years after the Italian courts
0:27.2	gave her an unequivocal exoneration, then I don't think you know the real story.
0:32.8	Just the one the media has fed you.
0:35.0	To get to the truth, the proven beyond a reasonable doubt truth.
0:39.0	You have to wade through a sea of salacious headlines and wild accusations
0:44.4	that are still all these years later a distraction from what really happened.
0:50.0	This is the story of the murder of Meredith Kertcher.
1:20.0	It's late morning on November 2nd, 2007.
1:29.0	And 29 year old Filomena Romanelli is on her way to the fair with a friend when her phone rings.
1:35.2	It's her roommate Amanda and she sounds a little scared.
1:39.6	Amanda tells her that when she arrived to their flat in Perugia, Italy that morning,
1:43.8	something seemed off.
1:45.8	The door had not just been open but like wide open.
1:50.0	One of the toilets was unflushed and there were a couple of droplets of blood in a bathroom sink.
1:55.8	Amanda says that she left the apartment and is on her way back to her boyfriend's place now,
1:59.6	but before she goes into like a full on panic, she thought she'd call and ask Filomena,
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