The case of Meredith Kercher's murder, as far as her loved ones are concerned, has not been resolved until the murderers have been founded guilty with finality and are locked up in jail for their crime.
Seven years ago, Amanda Knox was arrested together with former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecitofor suspicion that they may have an involvement in the death of the American student's untimely death, the Huffington Post recalled. However, new information was released later of Knox having sexual and business relations with a known drug dealer, and her phone records indicated that she had contacted the dealer, who is a member of the Perugia drug ring, before and after Kercher's murder, Daily Mail said.
This was another major setback for Knox's publicist, David Marriott, of Gogerty Marriott Public Relations Inc, who just recently rebuilt his client's image in the media when Sollecito withdrew his alibi that had initially vindicated his former girlfriend from the allegations. In her previous statements, Knox had claimed she had been with Sollecito the night of the murder. Sollecito told an appeals court in Italy that Knox's text message to him confirms that they were both not in his house, and he was at home alone that night, the Independent reported.
HuffPost described Knox's image shaped by her PR team in the US, "Knox was turned from promiscuous schemer to naïve college girl, railroaded by ruthless Italians driven by their consuming hatred for anything American."
Amanda has since insinuated that Rudy Guede is the real killer of Kercher. Enstarz quoted Knox's post, to which it read, "Raffaele Sollecito and I have happy, healthy histories and no criminal record. Rudy Guede was an orphan turned drug dealer and burglar."
Sollecito and Knox received 25 years and 28 years respectively for their involvement in Kercher's death, but was released on appeal in 2011, Daily Mail said. Since Knox's return to the US, an Italian appeals court had reconvicted the two for murder, and that the two had since been appealing for. Rudy Hermann Guede, on the other hand, is currently serving the firsts of his 16 years in jail following a separate, quick hearing back in 2008. Sollecito and Knox's camp has since fingered Guede solely for the murder, but the Independent said that evidence suggested that the killing involved more than one person.
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