Amanda Knox
9 October 2012
The muder of Meredith Kercher was covered very differently from beginning to end. Media bias was present on both sides of guilty and not guilty. The story was hard to keep straight as information was either left out or presented falsely. News articles presented soon after a story, is useful for awareness of the issue; however, exact details are generally not presented fairly or true fully.
An article written in 2007 was one of the first published after the murder of Meredith Kercher. This article has valid information; however, important details were left out which made Amanda seem guilty. NBC did a respectable job at walking the reader through Merediths murder. They mentioned suspects, cause of death, and interviewed detectives, suspect’s friends, relatives, and Meredith’s family. Meredith was murdered the night of November 1, 2007. Stabbed in the throat with a knife after refusing to play in a drug induced group sex game, she was found November 2, a horrific bloody, half naked mess. Police concluded that the knife wound caused her to drown in her own blood leading to misery and pain that could have lasted for over two hours (Murphy Denis). There are four suspects for the murder of this young woman: Rafaelle Sollectio, Patrick Lumumna , Amanda Knox and Rudy Hermann Guede.
Rafaelle, a computer engineering student, was Amanda’s boyfriend during the time of the murder. When questioned by the police, Rafaelle claimed he was at home downloading stuff onto his computer. Rafaelle sticks to this story throughout the entire court case and trial.
Lumumna, an African man, was the bar owner where Amanda worked. He had lived in Perugia for almost 20 years, and never left upon graduating. Amanda and Lumumna did not get along very well. He considered her lazy and complained of her constant flirting with customers (Murphy Denis). Amanda claimed that Lumumna was present at the crime scene and that is how he became involved. No evidence was present to back
The muder of Meredith Kercher was covered very differently from beginning to end. Media bias was present on both sides of guilty and not guilty. The story was hard to keep straight as information was either left out or presented falsely. News articles presented soon after a story, is useful for awareness of the issue; however, exact details are generally not presented fairly or true fully.
An article written in 2007 was one of the first published after the murder of Meredith Kercher. This article has valid information; however, important details were left out which made Amanda seem guilty. NBC did a respectable job at walking the reader through Merediths murder. They mentioned suspects, cause of death, and interviewed detectives, suspect’s friends, relatives, and Meredith’s family. Meredith was murdered the night of November 1, 2007. Stabbed in the throat with a knife after refusing to play in a drug induced group sex game, she was found November 2, a horrific bloody, half naked mess. Police concluded that the knife wound caused her to drown in her own blood leading to misery and pain that could have lasted for over two hours (Murphy Denis). There are four suspects for the murder of this young woman: Rafaelle Sollectio, Patrick Lumumna , Amanda Knox and Rudy Hermann Guede.
Rafaelle, a computer engineering student, was Amanda’s boyfriend during the time of the murder. When questioned by the police, Rafaelle claimed he was at home downloading stuff onto his computer. Rafaelle sticks to this story throughout the entire court case and trial.
Lumumna, an African man, was the bar owner where Amanda worked. He had lived in Perugia for almost 20 years, and never left upon graduating. Amanda and Lumumna did not get along very well. He considered her lazy and complained of her constant flirting with customers (Murphy Denis). Amanda claimed that Lumumna was present at the crime scene and that is how he became involved. No evidence was present to back