Murder in Perugia: The truth about Amanda Knox

Murder in Perugia: The truth about Amanda Knox

The 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, a British exchange student in Perugia, Italy, may be the most widely debated criminal case of the century. The victim’s American roommate, Amanda Knox, along with her Italian boyfriend and an Ivory Coast-born Perugia resident, were initially convicted of the murder. After serving four years in prison, Knox and her boyfriend were definitively acquitted on appeal. But the case has continued to captivate the public’s attention, largely because of Knox's crusade denouncing both Italian investigators and international news coverage. Acclaimed investigative journalist Antonio Iovane, who covered the original case, long believed that the full truth had never been revealed. To discover it required going beyond the public obsession with Knox, speaking to those directly involved and pursuing the evidence wherever it might lead. What really happened that night in Perugia in 2007? This exclusive, seven-part podcast series is Iovane’s singular quest for the truth. Murder in Perugia is a co-production of OnePodcast and Worldcrunch

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September 3, 2025 30 mins
During the investigations inside Meredith's room, the forensic police found a footprint: it belonged to a 21-year-old drifter originally from Ivory Coast who lives in Perugia. His name is Rudy Guede and he had been in Italy for five years. The police are hunting for him, but discover that he had left Italy immediately after the crime, and is now in Germany. With a trick and the help of Guede’s friend, the officers manage to arrest ...
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Amanda Knox tells investigators that Meredith's killer was Patrick Lumumba, the Congolese-born owner of the the Perugia pub Le Chic, where Knox works. The Seattle student recounts that on the night of the murder, Patrick had gone to the house on Via della Pergola and had sex with Meredith. Then Amanda had heard screams coming from her English friend's room. "He killed her," Knox tells police. Lumumba is arrested, and the Italian ...
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September 3, 2025 38 mins
It was November 2, 2007, when the lifeless body of a young woman was found with multiple stab wounds in Perugia, a charming city in central Italy renowned for its chocolate production. The victim is a 21-year-old from England named Meredith Kercher, who had come to study in Italy thanks to the Erasmus exchange program. In a small rented house, on Via della Pergola, she lived with three other women, including Amanda Knox, a student ...
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September 1, 2025 3 mins
The 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, a British exchange student in Perugia, Italy, may be the most widely debated criminal case of the century. The victim’s American roommate, Amanda Knox, along with her Italian boyfriend and an Ivory Coast-born Perugia resident, were initially convicted of the murder. After serving four years in prison, Knox and her boyfriend were definitively acquitted on appeal. But the case has continued to ...
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