Post by Adriana Velez
The murder of foreign exchange student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy and the trial of Amanda Knox and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito has been a strange and twisted one -- not least because we've heard so little directly from Amanda and Raffaele themselves. Now Raffaele is telling his story in his new memoir. And! I got to hear part of Raffaele's side of the story live and in person this afternoon. Raffaele appeared on Katie Couric's new show today to discuss his book -- and I was sitting in the audience just a few feet away. It was so surreal to be sitting so close to one of the key figures in this story I've been following and writing about. This was his first interview in English, so it was a little difficult to understand him sometimes. But I picked up a few hair-raising details from the interview.![]()
The murder of foreign exchange student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy and the trial of Amanda Knox and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito has been a strange and twisted one -- not least because we've heard so little directly from Amanda and Raffaele themselves. Now Raffaele is telling his story in his new memoir. And! I got to hear part of Raffaele's side of the story live and in person this afternoon. Raffaele appeared on Katie Couric's new show today to discuss his book -- and I was sitting in the audience just a few feet away. It was so surreal to be sitting so close to one of the key figures in this story I've been following and writing about. This was his first interview in English, so it was a little difficult to understand him sometimes. But I picked up a few hair-raising details from the interview.