Update on Amanda Knox Case in Italy

April 02, 2008

According to Italian news reports that began surfacing in the U.S. on Wednesday, March 27, 2008, including ABC News, revealed that Italian investigators had found seven new bloodstains in the bungalow where British student Meredith Kercher was found dead of a stab wound to her neck in a pool of blood in November 2007. The new bloodstains, which include bloody footprints, were apparently found when forensic investigators used luminal inside the Perugia, Italy apartment that Kercher had shared with American student Amanda Knox. While it was not immediately revealed when the new bloodstains were found, revelations of the new findings came on the heels of Knox’s lawyers as they prepared to argue for Knox’s release.

Another suspect in the case, Rudy Hermann Guede, apparently told investigators on the same day that the new revelations began pouring out to the news media that he had seen both Knox and Raffaele Sollecito at the apartment on the night that Kercher was slain. Knox, Guede, and Sollecito have been held as suspects in Kercher’s death and sexual assault since last November. Guede had previously told police that he’d had sex with Kercher, but denied that he killed her. He said that he had been in the apartment’s bathroom when another person had entered the cottage-style apartment.

"When I came out of the bathroom I saw a male figure," Guede had previously told the police. "I put my hand on his shoulder and he had a knife in his hand."

Guede had told police last December that he had not seen the face of the man who had entered the cottage. But on Wednesday of last week Guede changed his story and identified Sollecito, Knox’s boyfriend at the time, as the man he had seen...

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