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FROM Rod Blackhurst
Directors Rod Blackhurst & Brian McGinn on 'Amanda Knox' After British student Meredith Kercher was found brutally murdered in Perugia, Italy, in 2007, news stories quickly focused less on the victim than her roommate, Amanda Knox.
New Netflix doc examines the Amanda Knox case from all sides In 2007, a young student named Meredith Kercher was found brutally murdered in the picturesque hill town of Perugia, Italy. The events that followed would become one of the most salacious, sensationalized stories in modern history. At the center of it all was a beautiful, young American student named Amanda Knox.
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