Hello, everybody.

Welcome back to Crime Weekly.

I'm Stephanie Harlow.

And I'm Derek Lavasser.

Okay.

So today we're jumping into the fifth and final part of the Amanda Knox and Meredith Kircher series.

We made it.

We made it.

And hopefully we'll have, I guess, some productive final thoughts at the end of this.

But let's kind of jump in.

Let me give you a quick review of where we're at now.

Just two weeks after Meredith Kircher was found murdered inside

her Prussia Villa, forensic testing identified a partial bloody palm print on the pillow beneath her

body. It belonged to a man detectives had not previously identified somebody we knew as the Baron.

And that was 20-year-old Rudy Gidey. So as investigators looked into, they learned he had a criminal history, that he was known to carry a knife, and that he had previously used the same method of entry seen at the villa, throwing a rock through a window, even though the police said that they don't believe he throw a rock through the window and they believe it was staged.

An international arrest warrant was issued and Rudy was eventually taken into custody. But even as the evidence against

Rudy grew and grew quite quickly and in quite an accumulation, prosecutor Giuliano

McNini did not abandon his theory that Meredith's murder involved multiple attackers. He continued to argue that her roommate, Amanda Knox, and her boyfriend Rafael Solicito, were also involved.

In September of 2008, Rudy's attorneys requested a fast-track trial.

Over the weeks that followed, hearings were held, and the prosecution used those proceedings to not only argue Rudy's guilt,

but also to press for Amanda and Raphael to stand trial. On October 28th, Rudy was found guilty

of sexually assaulting and murdering Meredith and he was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Spoiler alert.

...