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Amanda Knox Trial Update: Murder Case's Final Verdict Set for March 2015
The 2007 murder case of Meredith Kercher is set to its final trial in March, as primary suspects Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito will face the Italian courts for the third time.
The brutal killing of the British foreign exchange student took place in her flat while attending the University of Perugia, Italy in 2007. Kercher's high-profile murder case is still a mystery up to this day, as several stories and allegations surrounding the crime made it even more perplexing, which include testimonies that were given and disavowed that discredits the opinion of those who were involved with the case.
At the night of the murder in November 2007, Amanda Knox claimed she was with Sollecito in his apartment. In the late morning of November 2, Knox reported to the police that Kercher was not answering her locked bedroom door. When the police had finally arrived and broke the door open, Kercher was found dead on the floor with a shirt pulled up to her shoulders. Knox and Kercher were flatmates in an isolated house.
When the assigned Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini spoke to Knox at the scene, he suspects that she was trying to hide something. This led to Knox being the primary suspect of Kercher's murder. Mignini's theory of the case is that Knox and Sollecito killed Kercher as a form of a Masonic rite or a satanic ritual for Halloween.
Mignini said that Meredith's murder ""¦was the consequence of a sex hazing to which Meredith herself did not intend to take part, and, above all, it was the consequence of a climate of hostility which built up progressively between the Coulson girl and Amanda because of their different habit, and because of Meredith's suspicion about alleged money thefts by Knox." However, this statement made his capability to handle the case questionable.
Knox and Sollecito were convicted, acquitted, and convicted the second time of Kercher's murder. Currently, they're free as their appeal has yet to be heard. However, the final verdict next month will determine whether they are truly guilty of the crime or not.