With a retrial in the ongoing Meredith Kercher murder case upcoming, there appears to be no end in sight for Amanda Knox. This Friday, her boyfriend at the time and fellow defendant Raffaele Sollecito went onto the "Today" show to shed some light on the case.
The case against Sollecito and Knox stems from the murder of Knox's study abroad roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007. Initially, Sollecito claims his parents wanted him to implicate her in the murder so that he may be saved, something he refused to do because he knew she was innocent, he claims.
"(Amanda) told me that she thinks that I'm a kind of hero, but I don't feel so," Sollecito told the Today show on Friday morning. "And I don't need any kind of gratitude... I did it because I know it's the truth. It's the good thing to do. It's the only way for me."
Sollecito claims that he and Knox have remained good friends throughout their legal struggles. Both ended up spending multiple years in jail before eventually being acquitted of the charges after a controversially botched investigation by Italian police. Now they will both have to go to Italian court again in yet another trial in the case.
Both Sollecito and Knox have been keeping busy in the mean time, however. They have both recently released tell-all memoirs about their experiences and have remained steadfastly adamant that neither one had anything to do with Kercher's murder. A third suspect, Rudy Guede, is currently serving a 16-year sentence in the case.
Much has been made about Amanda Knox's stoic behavior ever since the murder was first discovered. Often times she has seemed very distant and removed from what was going on around her, and a recent interview with one of her jailers confirms that this is just how Amanda Knox behaves in general.
"She never once cried when I was there," recalled the warder, speaking at her cluttered home in the city. "I often spent the nights there and looked into her cell through the hole to check on her and the others."
Though it doesn't sound like much to most people, such unemotional behavior is seen as exceedingly strange in the jail. Others among the population were not able to take the confinement nearly as well.
"Other people ask for tranquillizers, cry, shout that they didn't do it, that they're in pain, that they can't go on. 'Why did this happen to me?' they shout. Many prisoners bang their heads against the walls or even sew up their mouths, scream, vomit, cut their wrists. But she showed no reaction."
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