This case is “a tragedy” that the inhabitants of Perugia “would rather forget”, tell The New York Times. The 1is November 2007, British student Meredith Kercher was found with her throat slit in her room, in the apartment she shared with her three roommates in this city in central Italy in which she was doing a university exchange. Suspicion quickly falls on a 20-year-old young man named Rudy Guede, whose DNA is found at the crime scene. Arrested in Germany, he will be convicted for the murder and rape of Meredith Kercher.
Then it was the victim's roommate, the American Amanda Knox, and her Italian boyfriend at the time, Raffaele Sollecito, who were also found responsible for the Londoner's death. Sentenced to prison, they were finally acquitted on appeal in 2011. The case, which received very strong media coverage in Italy, kept the whole country in suspense until 2015, when the Italian Court of Cassation definitively confirmed their acquittal.
But in November 2024, this story is in the news again. A new series dedicated to him, intended for the streaming platform Hulu, is currently being filmed. Produced by
