Mysterious murder in Perugia: The Meredith Kercher case remains unsolved!

Mysterious murder in Perugia: The Meredith Kercher case remains unsolved!

Perugia, Italien - On February 13, 2025, the ORF shows the three -part documentary "Meredith Kercher - the student and the bloody death," which deals with the spectacular murder of the British exchange student Meredith Kercher, which took place on November 1, 2007 in Perugia. Meredith Kercher was brutally murdered, which caused a sensation worldwide. Her roommate Amanda Knox and her friend Raffaele Sollecito were initially suspected and later acquired because of the crime, but acquitted several times on the basis of procedural defects and inadequate evidence, such as wikipedia describes.

The documentation consists of three parts: The first part, "Murder in Perugia," deals with the immediate events related to the murder and arrest of Knox and Sollecito as well as the discovery of DNA traces of the drug dealer Rudy Guede, which was ultimately also condemned for the murder. Part two illuminates the media spectacle and the subsequent legal proceedings. Here it turned out that Guede was sentenced to a reduced penalty of 16 years in October 2008, while Knox and Sollecito had to end up in prison for 25 or 26 years. Part three, "the new negotiation," tells of the efforts to resume the procedure and the final revival of Knox and Sollecito in 2015, which also led to deep uncertainty and grief at the Kercher family, which has still had no clarity about the circumstances of crime, as