Meredith's Case: The Murder Of Meredith Kercher

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Murder of Meredith Kercher
A sex game gone wrong, rape, murder and more than one culprite. 21 year old Meredith Kercher was found murdered in her flat that she shared with 3 other roomates on Novermber 1, 2007. With collected information mulitiple suspects have been accused of murdering the lovable and always cheerful Meredith. Meredith Kercher was said to be murdered my more than one person, these suspects include Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito, and Rudy Guede.
Meredith Kercher was born December 28, 1985 and grew up in Coulsdon, South London with her three siblings with divorced parents. Meredith was studying European politics and Itialian at the University of Leeds and went to Perugia to study abroad. She paid for college working as a …show more content…

The crime scene includes Merediths room were her body was found, the bathroom where blood and someones feces was left in the the toilet, and the one of there other roommates room had been broken into. Prosecutors and detectives have spoken out about this information. Accorrding to crime scene photos and descriptions, between all the rooms that were shared between multiple roommates, there was significant amounts of blood found in each room. In meredith’s room, Rudy Guede’s fingerprints were found everywhere, his fingerprints were even found in Meredith’s blood written on the wall, which he claimed to be trying to understand what Meredith was saying so that he could try to save her. Acrossed the hall in there other roommates room there was an alleged breakin, which Detective Mingnini said there had been a smashed window which was the reason the police were called. Detective Mignini remembered and told the documentary: “ Nothing had been stolen and there was no evidnece that someone climbed the wall (to get to the window)”(Mignini). Mingnini had also said that the breakin looked staged and that he knew it was without investigating. The glass from the window was seen on top of the clothes that had already been rummaged through amd nothing was stolen so what would be the point expecially if the door was open when Amanda had gone back the next morning. Other …show more content…

Not only the suspects and crime scene help clarify the killer but also the weird behavior that Amanda and Raffaelle had been portraying during their waiting for interrigations and when the police had invaded the home after the body was found. While outside the house Knox and Sollecito were very touchy feely on each other as if they were not worried about what was going on, and while Amanda was waiting to be interrigated she was doing kart-wheels in the police lobby. Also as much evidence that was found on Amanda Knox and Raffaelle, the world was shocked after the repeal of their sentence when they were set free and Rudy never got a deal. Much time and investment went into this gruesome and atrocious crime. With the many pieces of the puzzle fitting perfectly it seem’s that the murder’s Amanda Knox, Raffelle Sollicito and Rudy Guede. Amanda had the most motive of all of the suspects, she and the victim were roommates that gave her easy access to the house. Their roomates had also claimed that the day before Meredith was murdered Knox and Kercher had got in

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