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Reports Point to New Suspect in 2007 Meredith Kercher Killing, Former Prosecutor Says

Authorities have not announced a decision to reopen the investigation.

Overview

  • Giuliano Mignini told La Stampa that investigators are examining a person he had never previously considered.
  • The individual reportedly left Italy a few days after the murder, according to media accounts of Mignini’s remarks.
  • Mignini said the inquiry would have unfolded differently had he possessed the new information at the time.
  • Italian outlets report an unnamed witness may have come forward, though no details have been disclosed.
  • Rudy Hermann Guede was convicted based on DNA and bloody shoeprints, while Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were later acquitted after earlier convictions.