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Amanda Knox, an American college student was studying abroad in Italy when her roomate was murdered. Knox was found guilty of murder in an Italian court in December of 2009 and is serving a 26 year sentence. Knox's former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito was also convicted and is serving a 25 year sentence.
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Now, CNN is reporting that a jailed mobster has caimed that he pair is innocent, and says he can prove it. The real killer? The informants own brother. Luciano Aviello, 41 says that at the time of the murder, his brother was staying with him close to the home where the crime was committed. In a videotaped interview with Knox's attorney, Aviello says his brother came home one night saying that he killed a girl in a botched robbery. Aviello also claims he wrote to the Italian court with this information before, but he was ignored.
I am hoping that by going public with this interview, the Italians will look into the possibilty that this girl is innocent, something they have thus far refused to consider. I followed the trial last year and feel very strongly that Knox did not receive a fair trial. She could not have been convicted based on the evidence had she been tried here.
 Source: CNN
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Comments: 6 ( 1 removed by Jeri Nowlin Shaffer )
They repeatedly told the police a pack of lies in the days after Meredith's murder.
On 5 November 2007, Knox and Sollecito were confronted with proof that they had lied and were given another opportunity to tell the truth. However, they both chose to tell the police even more lies.
Sollecito's new alibi was shattered by computer forensic evidence and his mobile phone records.
Knox accused an innocent man, Diya Lumumba, of murdering Meredith despite knowing full well that he was completely innocent. She didn't recant her false and malicious allegation against Lumumba the whole time he was in prison. She admitted that it was her fault that Lumumba was in prison in an intercepted conversation with her mother.
Knox's account of what happened on 2 November 2007 is contradicted by her mobile phone records.
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito both gave multiple conflicting alibis. Neither Knox nor Sollecito have credible alibis for the night of the murder despite three attempt each. At the trial, Sollecito refused to corroborate Knox's alibi that she was at his apartment.
Rudy Guede's bloody footprints led straight out of Meredith's room and out of the house. He didn't lock Meredith's door, remove his trainers, go into Filomena's room or the bathroom that Meredith and Knox shared.
He didn't scale the vertical wall outside Filomena's room or gain access through the window. The break-in was clearly staged. This indicates that somebody who lived at the cottage was trying to deflect attention away from themselves and give the impression that a stranger had broken in and killed Meredith.
Guede had no reason to stage the break-in and there was no physical evidence that he went into Filomena's room.
The scientific police found a mixture of Amanda Knox's DNA and Meredith's blood on the floor.
There was no physical evidence that Rudy Guede went into the blood-spattered bathroom. However, the scientific police found irrefutable proof that Knox and Sollecito tracked Meredith's blood into this bathroom.
Amanda Knox’s DNA was found mingled with Meredith’s blood in three different places in the bathroom: on the ledge of the basin, on the bidet, and on a box of Q Tips cotton swabs. Knox's DNA and Meredith's blood had united into one single streak on the basin and bidet which means they were deposited simultaneously.
Sollecito left a visible bloody footprint on the blue bathmat.
According to two imprint experts, Amanda Knox left a bloody shoeprint on the pillow under Meredith's body.
Knox's and Sollecito's bare bloody footprints were revealed by luminol in the hallway. Knox’s DNA and Meredith’s DNA was found mixed together in one of the bloody footprints.
An abundant amount of Raffaele Sollecito's DNA was found on Meredith's bra clasp. Sollecito must have applied considerable pressure to the clasp in order to have left so much DNA. The hooks on the clasp were damaged which confirms that Sollecito had gripped them tightly.
Amanda Knox's DNA was found on the handle of the double DNA knife and a number of independent forensic experts - Dr. Patrizia Stefanoni, Dr. Renato Biondo and Professor Francesca Torricelli - categorically stated that Meredith’s DNA was on the blade.
Sollecito knew that Meredith's DNA was on the blade which is why he twice lied about accidentally pricking her hand whilst cooking.
The defence experts were unable to prove that there had been any contamination. Alberto Intini, head of the Italian police forensic science unit, pointed out that unless contamination has been proved, it does not exist.
Amanda Knox voluntarily admitted that she involved in Meredith's murder in her handwritten note to the police on 6 November 2007. She stated on at least four separate occasions that she was at the cottage when Meredith was killed. She also claimed that Sollecito was at the cottage.
Yes, they were not truthful about everything. Amanda, if memory serves, was questioned for a very long period of time, yelled at, hit on the back of the head and called a liar. Additionally, she was interrogated in Italian, and responded in Italian without the benefit of a translator or an attorney. Again working from memory, the confession came after almost 24 hours of questioning and the "confession" was in response to be asked to "imagine" what might have happened if she had been involved.
She was a very young girl who had been through a horrifying experience in a place far away from home. She was scared and lonely. Obviously, it was a remarkably bad decision to implicate an innocent man, and if she serves time for that, so be it. If she did this horrible thing, she should pay for it for the rest of her life. My point is only that, in my opinion, the prosecution did not prove their case. Clearly, you disagree. I hope the person(s) responsible for Meredith's death pay for the crime. I'm just not convinced the right people are in prison right now.
Feel free to correct anything my memory has failed to recall. I respect your opinion and obviously, the case is of great interest to me. Thank you for your comment.
Most of what you've written is untrue.
There is plenty of physical evidence linking Knox and Sollecito to the crime scene. I listed it in my post above.
Amada Knox was provided with an interpreter on 5 November 2007. She had been questioned for less than three hours when she made her false and malicious accusation against Diya Lumumba. No-one asked Knox to imagine what might have happened. All the witnesses, including Knox's interpreter, who were actually present when she was questioned testified under oath that Knox voluntarily accused Diya Lumumba of murder.
Make sure you read the judges' sentencing report once it's published in English. I'm looking forward to finding out your opinion about the case after you've become fully acquainted with the facts of the case.
I am a reasonable person. I would actually like to read the report you referenced. I also firmly believe in "innocent until proven guilty". I will admitt that I am naive--I like to see people as good. Gets me dismissed from jury duty every time.