S3 Ep368: Meredith Kercher & Amanda Knox | A Murder, a Villa, and a Storm to Come (Part 1)

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🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In September 2007, 20-year-old American college student Amanda Knox moved to Perugia, Italy to study abroad and experience life on her own. She settled into a stone villa with three other young women and quickly began building friendships with her new roommates, forming a particularly close bond with 21-year-old British exchange student Meredith Kercher.

Just weeks later, on November 2, Amanda would find herself standing outside that same home as police and paramedics rushed inside. Not fluent in Italian, she didn’t fully understand what was happening - only that Meredith had been found murdered in the villa they shared.

Despite having no clue what was going on, Amanda became the focus of the murder investigation within hours. And what followed would become one of the most controversial criminal cases of the modern era, marked by intense scrutiny, global media coverage, and sharply divided opinions about guilt, innocence, and how justice is pursued when the world is watching.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow.
0:15.7	And I'm Derek Lavasar. So today, we are diving into a new series. I know both Derek and I have wanted to cover this
0:23.0	series. I have never covered this series. I've never covered this case in depth on my YouTube
0:29.2	channel personally. I've touched on it here and there and done some coffee and crime times,
0:34.1	but never in depth. So I've really been looking forward to diving into the Amanda
0:38.4	Knox case and the Meredith Kircher case in depth. And that's what we're going to do here on
0:43.4	Crime Weekly. We've also had a lot of requests to talk about Amanda Knox. So some people said,
0:51.0	oh, only talk about Amanda Knox if your conclusion is that she's not guilty.
0:55.5	We don't actually have a conclusion yet. This has been one of those cases that I've gone back and
1:00.7	forth about. And I like we usually do. Oh, you have gone back and forth about, okay.
1:05.7	I've gone back and forth. I don't know how I feel about it. And so I'm hoping that diving deep with Derek, together we can sort of formulate at the end how we feel about it and what we think happened here.
1:16.8	I was getting nervous when we do cases like this because I know me too. I can't lie. I'm not going to lie about how I feel just for the sake of like appeasing a certain group. So I get nervous because I hope that I fall in line with the
1:29.3	majority, but there's a chance we might not. Yeah. Needless to say, if there was a popularity contest,
1:35.3	Derek and I are not winning it. No, we just, but I think I think that's important because that way
1:40.7	when you do say something, people know that it's how you truly feel. Yes.
1:44.6	But I mean, with this case, I know the, like I said, just the summary of it where we stand today.
1:50.6	But it is something that I think after this new recent, I don't know if it was a documentary or like a series came out about Amanda Knox.
1:58.8	Recently?
1:59.6	Yeah, I think it was on Hulu.
2:01.3	And now I'm seeing more requests to cover Amanda Knox since that release.
2:07.9	See, if there's been one recent, then I've missed it.
2:12.1	Because I watched the one from like, I think it was like 2016, 2018, something like that.
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