Report: DNA Links American To Italy Murder
Samples From 20-Year-Old U.S. Student, Murdered Roommate, Reportedly Found On Knife
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View taken Nov. 5, 2007 of the house of British exchange student Meredith Kercher in Perugia. (Getty Images/AFP/STR)
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Italian police released this photo of 22-year-old British university student Meredith Kercher, who was found dead Friday with her throat slashed in the bedroom of a house in the Umbrian town of Perugia. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)
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Staff and students at the University of Leeds lay flowers to remember murdered student Meredith Kercher, Nov. 7, 2007. The British exchange student was murdered because she refused to take part in violent sex with her friends, Italian police claimed. (Press Association via AP Images)
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American Amanda Marie Knox, with her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito of Italy, in a photo taken Friday, Nov. 2, 2007. The two are held in connection with the murder of Knox's roommate. (AP (file))
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Amanda Marie Knox, under investigation for the murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher, is pictured outside her home in Perugia, Nov. 5, 2007. Knox has since been detained, and an Italian judge will decide whether she and two other suspects in the gruesome murder should remain in custody. (Getty Images/AFP/STR)
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As Italian authorities continue to investigate the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, the media is painting a dark portrait of her accused killer and roommate Amanda Knox. Richard Roth reports.
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Greg Milam, the Sky News reporter covering the murder case of British exchange student Meredith Kercher, tells Hannah Storm that Kercher's accused killers may be spending the next year in Italian prison.
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Amanda Marie Knox, 20, of Seattle, her Italian boyfriend, and a Congolese immigrant have been jailed as suspects in the case since soon after police in the city of Perugia discovered the partially-nude body of her roommate in a pool of blood at their apartment on November 2.
Meredith Kercher, 21, was found with her throat cut.
Britain's Sky News and the British Broadcasting Corp. both reported Thursday that police sources had confirmed DNA from a knife belonging to Knox's 23-year-old boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, matched samples taken from Kercher's body, and Knox herself.
Investigators have not confirmed that the knife, removed form Sollecito's home, was the murder weapon.
All three suspects have denied involvement in Kercher's death. They are being held as suspects, but have not been charged with any crime. Under Italian law, they can be held for up to one year while prosecutors decide if there is enough evidence to bring formal charges.
According to the BBC, police were pursuing several other key pieces of potential evidence, including Sollecito's computer hard drive.
Lawyers have claimed that the Italian and Knox were not at the apartment she shared with Kercher at the time of the murder, but were instead at his home, online.
Police were examining the hard drive in an attempt to prove that Sollecito was not on the Internet as he claims he was, the BBC said.
The report also said investigators were scrutinizing hair samples found in Kercher's left hand, and images from a security video camera that monitors the entrance to the two girls' apartment building.
The body of Kercher, who prosecutors believe was murdered after refusing to take part in an extreme sex game, was flown back to the U.K. on Sunday. She was from the county of Surrey, in southern England.
An Italian newspaper reported over the weekend that forensic traces found in Kercher's apartment suggested that a fourth person may have been involved in the killing. La Repubblica said police discovered DNA in the apartment's bathroom that did not match any of the three suspects.
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Are you on some kind of medication? That made ABSOLUTELY no sense. Fox News is *** with your brain.
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