by coincidence it happened on patriots day. virtually 18 years to the day after attorney general think mcveigh attacked oklahoma city. she was young. she was beautiful. and approximate she was in big trouble. >> the 20-year-old from seattle sits in this italian jail, a prime suspect in the mysterious death of her roommate. >> this was the ugly american on steroids. >> is amanda knocks a whore or a saint. >> i was sexually active. i was not sexually deviant. >> was she guilty, in fact, or just in the press? >> the newspapers had this fabulous story assuming that

what the prosecution said was true. >> it's selacious and fascinating. the juicier the tidbit, the better. >> it was a spectacle that consumed the united states, italy, and england igniting controversy that still rages. >> there's something about the way her eyes moved that leaves us wandering. >> i wish so much that i had stood up to them. >> amanda knocks next. >> perusia, italy, is famous throughout the world for its chocolates and equally famous to students as a party town where

getting high and hooking up isp college student. >> to the average american tourist, this looks like an idealic mountain town full of art and churches. if you spent a little time there and you read italian, you start to realize every single headline is about drugs, it's about gang violence. >> everything looks so calm and tranquil on the surface. it's a lovely little town in italy and terrible evil is being committed. this is something that the tabloids can feast on. >> amanda knocks never thought she would become fodder for the tabloids. when she arrived in perusia in 2007 as a 20-year-old exchange student italy seemed like a dream come true. >> she was a junior at the university of washington. she was good with languages, and she decided she was going to take her junior year abroad. she enrolled at the perusia

school for foreigners, which is a school that historically teaches italian to foreigners. she became the third of four roommates living together in this little house. >> two of the roommates were italian. amanda described one as off beat and the other as a bit of a hippie. the third housemate was 21-year-old meredith kircher, a british exchange student. amanda found her exotically beautiful and friendly. next to amanda, however, all three seemed almost reserved. >> amanda is from seattle. she was considered excentric in seattle, which prides itself on its eccentricities. >> the way you portrait yourself to the people around you in italy is of extreme importance, but she had this sort of extreme version of being blind and carefree and careless and actually kind of took pride in it, but in italy it's just not

done, and especially not young women. >> as the newest and youngest of the roommates, amanda and meredith found much in common. they also shared a bathroom at one end of the house. they would only know each other for six weeks. >> it's just so sad. she had by all accounts just a wonderful person. very smart, talented, and well liked and loved girl. >> meredith kircher was more formal. she was british. she was more fist indicated. she was there with a pack of friends who she knew from the university of leeds, so she was in a more secure place. amanda was like a lone wolf running around basically picking up guys. >> amanda's free spirit and fresh-faced beauty even helped her get a part-time job. >> she was recruited to waitress at a bar owned by an african immigrant to italy named patrick

lamumba. he hired her because she was american and pretty, and he hoped she would attract more male patrons. >> for foreign students it's a traditional party time, not unlike halloween. amanda and meredith had the cottage to themselves. their italian roommates were gone for the night. amanda had just started dating a young student raffaele sollecito. >> rafaelo thought he was in love, but how many fall in love and think it's forever. >> those things weren't reported. it was much that she was this wonton sex-crazed vicksen. >> they spent every night together. it was a romantic whirlwind

until the morning of november 2nd, 2007. after another evening with raffaele, amanda returned to the house early in the morning. she said she had no idea that meredith kircher was dead in her bedroom. her throat had been slashed, and she had been sexually assaulted. >> amanda knocks came home the day after the murder to take a shower. she took the same shower every single time she stayed at raffaele's because he had this moldy shower. she came home to shower and change her loathes. she came in and saw kind of weird little things in different parts of the house, but being amanda knocks and being a bit exsent rick, she still took a shower. >> she noticed, first of all, that there were blood drop on the sink and faucet, and when she got out of the shower, a kind of bloody spot on the blue bathmat, but she thought maybe meredith was having her period and that the blood on the sink had been dripped from her ear.

>> amanda knox had gotten 11 ear piercings that week. >> she went into the other bathroom. not the bathroom that she uses all the time, but the other bathroom to get a hair dryer and blow dry her hair. >> at this point amanda's story takes an odd turn. >> there she found feces in the toilet, which kind of grossed her out because it was a nice, clean house. those particular roommates that used that toilet were the cleanest women in the house, so she couldn't figure out why didn't they flush the toilet and thought it was really weird and creepy, and she did not flush it. >> she went back to her side of the house for breakfast. people find that very hard to understand. the explanation is that she was young and innocent and a little bit naive. in her words she was stupid about it, but stupidity is not a criminal offense. >> amanda tries calling meredith several times. in another odd twist, the police arrive a short time later. they're investigating the theft of two cell phones that were registered to amanda's

roommates. >> first thing they do is go inside and notice meredith's door is locked. she doesn't answer the door. they open the door of one of the other roommates, and there's a room in utter disarray with a broken window, broken glass of where, clothes strewn around. drawers pulled open. clearly somebody has been in their house. then everybody starts to become concerned. meredith's door is locked. >> no one is prepared for what they find in meredith's room. the scene is a bloodbath. >> she was lying on the floor covered by a duvet, and her foot was sticking out. there was blood everywhere. on the walls, on the closet, everywhere. >> the house was sealed off. amanda and raffaele remained outside. their behavior quickly drew the attention of the police. >> so the body of meredith kircher had just been discovered in the cottage, and they were

outside comforting each other, and the camera started rolling. they were not aware of that, so they kissed like these pecks three times. >> as the police gathered information, a lead investigator was brought on to the case. juliano menini. >> he is both investigator and prosecutor. he is controlling what the police look at. >> the devoutly catholic was known as a tough, no nonsense prosecutor. >> he is a staunch catholic. he believes that in his town there are people who are practicing these dark ritual acts and the fact that it happened on an all souls night was part of the clue to him that this was a ritual act. >> we used to say every day is halloween to him. every day was satanic. every day was witch craft. every day had these kinds of ritualistic overtones, and that's what this overlay was in the case. >> guilianio and the police were

not buying amanda's story. it was hazy at best. was there opportunity? yes. but was there motive? >> guilianio is the kind of person that can come to a crime scene and see a beautiful english girl lying dead in a pool of blood and fantasize a four-way orgy. >> to him, the primary questions were obvious. did meredith die at the hands of amanda knox and her boyfriend, and how? as it turned out, the answers almost didn't matter. >> there's always been this idea that there's just something more going on and people couldn't quite put their finger on it and amanda was the best scapegoat. it can apply the brakes. cs introducing the all-new 2014 chevrolet impala with available crash imminent braking.

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>> to the press in both america and italy, it wasn't just the story of the year. it was the story of the century. >> the amanda knox case had something for everybody. sex, drugs, international intrigue. through the prosecutor, it even

had satanism. >> the italian press crafted a picture of this girl, this american girl, that was she's a sex maniac, she's a spoiled, rich american, and isn't she pretty? >> she had this uncanny ability to look straight into the camera no matter who was taking the picture, and look piercingly and the images were chilling. >> i would much rather suppress my emotion than have it be determined as insincere and affected. >> a broken back window. an unlocked front door. a mute rated corps. british exchange student meredith kircher had been savagely killed after a sexual assault in her own bedroom. the murder resonated throughout perusia. >> as the days progressed and this crime became known to the

community, students were fleeing in fear. my god, there's possibly a mane yak in our town. >> just outside the crime scene, meredith's roommate, amanda knox, and her boyfriend of one week raffaele sollecito were acting as if nothing had happened. the police began to suspect they were involved in the murder thanks, in part, to the now infamous kiss. >> this kiss was caught on cam remarks and then they were accused of behaving inappropriately in the context of murder investigation. >> with her house now a crime scene, amanda moved in with raffaele. police kept close tabs on both of them. meanwhile, prosecutor guilianio developed a theory. raffaele was naive and willing to please, caught under the spell of a racy american temptress, a woman who may well have been part of a secret satanic cult. investigators began interviewing potential witnesses.

>> they asked everybody from that house to come to the police station to be questioned. all of the italians who lived in the house showed up with adult advisors, parents, professors, or lawyers. >> in the italian justice system, just like the american justice system, any time the police want to see you, it's smart to lawyer up. >> raffaele sollecito didn't think he had anything to lose. all did he was help out amanda when she was upset and asked him to come back to the house and see what was going on at her house. >> like raffaele, amanda arrived without counsel. she may have been exsent rick, but menini considered her a she-devil. she even headline a few suggestive yoga stretches. >> there were moments, for example, in the police station when they were waiting around. amanneda infamously, as was also reported by the media, did splits. she may have done other yoga moves. raffaele saw amanda do things that he found odd. for example, she curled up on

him like a koala bear. somehow deep down he felt uncomfortable. >> for raffaele things got worse during his questioning. >> the way raffaele got himself into the most trouble was to underestimate the seriousness of a murder investigation, not to understand that he had to be absolutely crystal clear about what he had done and seen and where he had been. he couldn't remember what happened each evening. he was eating dinner, smoking pot and seeing amanda, and he couldn't remember which night was which, so when the police asked him, he had trillion tremendous difficulty did she go to work that night, did she not go to work that night? they took that statement, got him to sign it in writing, and then they took it back to amanda and said your boyfriend has testified against you and said you went out. >> amanda's command of italian was poor, but under questioning the police got her to recant her original story. >> this interrogation went on all night long. she wasn't given food or water.

>> she was told that what would you have heard and seen. i hear a scream, i cover my ears. >> she said she answered hypothetically, but it was taken as gospel. >> the police told me that i knew who the murderer was. told me that i had to know, that i wasn't telling them the truth, that i had amnesia and that i had to remember. >> incredibly amanda now told police that she was in the house when the murder occurred. then a new suspect was implicated. amanda's boss at the nightclub, patrick lumumba. >> they told amanda knox that they had absolute proof that she had been had he at the crime scene and she had left the apartment and that she had met patrick. they have her cell phone and see that she texted patrick lumumba her boss. she said i'll see you later.

they read that as an actual appointment with him and that was her last text before the phones went off on the night of the murder. >> amanda knox did say she was there, but she said she was in the kitchen and that she heard patrick murdering meredith. she heard meredith scream, but her statement is so confused and so bizarre that she said i remember confusedly that he did all that. what she has said was the police asked her to imagine various scenarios, and that was one of them. >> so they basically browbeat the confession out of her, and the confession is a signed statement that they wrote for her that she signed, which says i see myself in the house with lumumba, and he is in the other room, and meredith, i can hear her start to scream. >> though amanda never directly admitted to the murder, the police are quick to report they have their killers.

amanda knox, raffaele sollecito, and patrick lamumba. with knox and seles toe already in custody, the police raced out to arrest patrick lamumba zoosh drag him out of his house and throw him in prison. he says, no, i wasn't there. i was in my bar, and there is somebody that can tell you they were there with me. they found his alibi, and it was a professor of french that said, yeah, i was in the bar with him that night. he wasn't killing anyone at 9:00. he was in his bar serving me a dink drink. they still didn't let him out, though. >> as the prosecutor built his case, the press had a field day and dug up everything they could about the accused. >> the british tabloids from the beginning were -- i felt by far the worst because they just printed whatever the prosecutor said, and he was saying all of these terrible derogatory things about amanda knox and portraiting her as just pure evil, as this terrible human being who had this beautiful trusted roommate and had

encouraged these men to help her kill her roommate. >> i was sexually active. i was not sexually deviant, and because i was sexually active, that turned in for them to sexually deviant. >> guilianio menini had his three killers behind bars. he would now use the press to help prove his case. >> the press in italy doesn't have any boundaries. that's where the word paparazzi comes from.

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media juggernaut, and once this case got going, it had a life of its own. >> when we turned on our televisions -- >> my head is all confuturesed. the incident has left me very confused. >> there wasn't an american college student in italy being paraded on a perp walk, and that was absolutely a shocking image that went viral. >> if she was an ugly girl, would we have a different feeling about her? >> let's not forget the real victim in this case is meredith kircher and her family that continues to grieve. >> we need to find out what happened. >> for the tabloids, however, meredith kircher wasn't the story. this was all about amanneda knox. >> in the amanda knox case the media played an enormous role.

>> this was a case front and center. here she was an american on their soil. >> some were beginning to question the facts. at least as presented by the italian prosecutor. >> in italy you can't just go to the court building and say may i have all the court records having to do with this trial. the way it's done there is all the lawyers who are involved and sometimes the police hand to their favored reporters what they want them to have. >> with amanda in deep legal trouble, her mother arrived in italy. eager to change public opinion about her daughter. >> there's an innocent person. it's really hard for her. there is no record that connects them to that crime. >> she told me what had happened to her in the interrogation. you know, she told me, you know, i never confessed to anything. they asked me to imagine possibilities, and, you know, i have now learned that that's a tactic that they use.

>> the only thing that they were fixating on is the fact that i must have met patrick, and so i said patrick, and then they set up this entire scenario of having met patrick, about having heard meredith scream, and i signed to it just to make it stop. >> who do you know that's black, and shed patrick. she didn't say he did it, he is the one. you know, arrest that guy. is he the murderer. >> with fingerprint results coming in, the case took a new turn. there was an african man at the scene of the crime, but it wasn't patrick lumumba. >> if you are an immigrant have you to check in once a year with the police, i believe. you are considered a guest, and the fingerprints are known to them. they happen to be on file in the police station. they belong to a man named rudy guede, an african immigrant's son. >> he was a drifter, originally from the ivory coast. he partied on the periphery of

student life and was suspected of several recent crimes around perusia. >> rudy guede had a history with knives, violence, break-ins. >> left his blood. he left traces all over the crime scene. he left his feces in the toilet and although that degrades dna very rapidly, there was dna there as well. >> his blood and fingerprints are on her purse, and there are blood where i handprints and blood down the wall in her bedroom, and he may have been surprised. i don't know why he left, but he didn't complete the act of the rape. she had a tampon in at the time, and maybe that's where. >> guede left italy for germany. he admitted to a friend he had been with meredith that night but claimed he didn't kill her. his connection with amanda, raffaele and meredith was thin at best. >> there's a question about whether amanda and meredith knew him. amanda said i had seen him, but i didn't know his name.

>> never met rudy guede. didn't know anything about him. never set eyes on him. >> he was picked up by police in germany. >> the initial assumption when rudy guede was extradited back to italy was it was all going to be over. everything pointed to him wresh even had a motive. >> he had stated in a conversation to the police that, yes, i was there. yeah, i know who amanda is and, no, she wasn't there, and, no, i have never met her boyfriend before. we're all sitting there going, hallelujah. >> she basically just throw lumumba back out on the street. sorry, we got the wrong black guy. >> he was released from custody, but his damage was done. his reputation was trashed because of amanda's accusations. >> i would take back my interrogation. when i think back on it, god, especially right afterwards, right after all of that happened, i wish -- i wished so much that i had stood up to them. >> prosecutor menini, however,

wasn't changing his position. to him amanda had simply confessed about the wrong man. he still believed the murder stemmed from a sex orgy gone wrong with amanda at its center. >> investigators were interested to know how sexually active she was because they felt like that fit into the theory of their case. >> they took her downstairs and had a doctor take a blood test in the jail, and then they call her back and said we're so sorry you have h.i.v. so she writes down every guy she's ever had sex with, and there are seven guys, and then two weeks later they say, oops, sorry. we made a mistake. you're not h.i.v. positive. meanwhile, they have taken this document where she's listed out these guys that she's had sex with, and they've handed that to the press. >> to take that false information of such a deeply personal nature, something that is so intimate and then leak that out to the media to add to the sensationalism of the kashgs it's just unimaginable. >> we have to try to do our best

to put on a face that it is going to work out. >> and we keep telling her that it's taking way longer than we ever thought, but she will get out of there. >>. >> her bank records, her phone bills. convinced at the end of the day -- >> with the evidence pointing at rudy guede as the lone killer, would the prosecution actually put amanda knox on trial for a murder she didn't commit? >> if the amanda knox case were to have been tried in america, it would have been the rudy guede case, period. [ male announcer ] for diarrhea, you take kaopectate.

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time waiting in jail for their day in court. for amanda the ordeal is compounded by the peculiarities of the legal system. >> their juries work differently than ours. a judge is a member of the jury. the judge actually leads the jury in its decision making. >> in italy they take their time, and the case may start at one point and then adjourn for a couple of weeks. you'll have another day of testimony. a longer adjournment. so this keeps people on pins and needles for a lot longer. >> before trying amanda and raffaele, the italian court will prosecute the third suspect in the case, rudy guede, who has requested a separate fast track trial. >> with rudy guede they had strong evidence. they had his dna not only on her body, but actually inside of her. so this was a slam dunk case against rudy guede, and if this

case were brought to justice in america, it's my suspicion that you would never be hearing about amanda or raffaele. the investigation would have begun and ended with rudy guede. >> but there may have been other reasons for granted rudy guede a quick trial. >> the prosecutor is convinced that this wasn't just rudy. that once rudy was found guilty, wept we would cooperate, he would be offered certain reductions in the settlement. snoo in the end rudy guede's trial was simply a warm-up. the real show was the prosecution of amanda knox. >> she was voted over the first lady of france as the most popular in the press. >> it was so unbearable to look at -- and to write it down. do you think of actually doing

that. >> amanda knox's defenders say she was constantly misrepresented. even her on-line social media nickname foxy knoxy was held up as alleged proof of her wicked ways. >> in court they talked about that all the time. like why are you foxy knoxy? what does that really mean? >> it was a name her teammates gave her when she played middle school soccer. >> that was her nickname. it was that innocent. nobody called her that in seattle. nobody called her that when she was in italy. no one called her that post probably age 14. >> at the same time the media virtually ignored rafael yea sollecito. >> rafael yea in the media was almost invisible. he was amanda's boyfriend. she was alleged to have been involved somehow. the prosecution made various

allegations against him. nobody focused on him. >> the treel was a long, slow process. the media constantly milked the emotions of the public. >> the prosecutor and media tells wonderful stories and would get up and say amanneda did this, amanda did that, and they would just write it down as though it happened in front of their eyes. >> the italian justice system and the italian media system is like a two-headed monster, and both of them need to get fed. >> even with all its advantages, the prosecution's case lacked hard physical evidence against amanda and rafafaeleraffaele. >> they kept trying to find evidence to place amanda and raffaele in the actual room where the crime was committed, and they haven't been able to do that. >> there's only two pieces of evidence that supposedly ever connected her to this crime, and neither one of those connect her. >> the first was a kitchen knife found in raffaele's apartment. >> in the case of the knife, the media mantra on this, the thing they kept repeating over and

over again was that it had meredith's dna on the blade and -- >> if a spoon was taken from your kitchen drawer and tested by the same techniques that the spoon would be shown to have on meredith kircher's dna on it. it really was pseudo-science. >> the second piece of evidence was meredith's bra clasp found at the crime scene allegedly carrying raffaele's dna. >> so they went back in some 40 some days after the original crime scene investigation and brought back that bra clasp. >> didn't collect it for, like, six weeks? they kick it around the room and kept picking it up with the same gloves and putting it down. >> the defense tried to challenge the dna test done on the knife and the bra clip, but the prosecution argued that all testing had been done correctly. the judge agreed, and disallowed additional testing. sdoo they refused to have independent experts look at any of the scientific evidence, so all you could go by was what the

police wanted to show you. >> what ended up being prosecutor menini's contention was that somehow amanda ordered the murder from the next room because that was the only way you could explain how she was involved but there was none of her dna at the scene. it was remarkable it didn't even pass the giggle test, but that was what the prosecutor was reduced to. >> without real evidence the prosecution had not a case on amanda's presumed bad character, but was merely looking guilty enough to send her to prison for life? >> for all of their theories about my personality and my behavior, there is nothing that links me to this murder. i am not present at the crime scene. i'm just not. farmers presents: fifteen seconds of smart.

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>> the more you know about amanda knox and raffaele sollecito, the less likely you are to believe that they were guilty. >> if you met raffaele

the verdict for the 22-year-old handed down earlier this evening and we're told she was sobbing while the decision was being nountsed. >> you could really hear a pin drop in that room. the judge dispassionately saying that both were guilty giving amanda knox 26 years, her former lover 25 years for the brutal murder of meredith kircher. when the verdict came down, there were parties in the street. people seemed to be overjoyed with the fact at her conviction. >> as an american living in the 21st century to be present at the conviction which was announced at midnight on a foggy night with a crowd of townspeople shouting assassina,

americana was the closest thing i will ever come to, i think in my life, witnessing an actual pagan scapegoating ritual. >> the prosecution and meredith kircher's family felt justice had been served. >> the kircher family is convinced that she killed their daughter, and they are behind the italian prosecutor 100%. >> but there were others who were outraged by the manipulation of evidence and the verdict. >> in any legitimate court of law that was looking at this dna evidence in the united states, in the u.k., in france, in any of these countries, this dna evidence would be absolutely thrown out. >> there's not a hair there. trz not a fiber of amanda knox. there's not blood of amanda knox. there's not footprints of amanda foxx. there's nothing. >> no one questioned rudy guede's guilt. yet, two and a half weeks after

amanda's trial ended, guede's sentence was reduced from 30 years to 16, leading some to ask did he cut a deal? >> there's overwhelming dna evidence along with lots of other physical evidence that points to rudy guede. >> amanda's attorneys appealed the verdict and focused on challenging the dna evidence. >> when the appeals process began, it felt like they had another mountain to climb that right away you could tell that there was a very different tone, and, again, the key decision was whether or not they would allow an independent assessment of the forensic evidence. >> november 24th, 2010. 11 months after the guilty verdict a second trial is granted. >> the defense presented a very compelling case identifying rudy guede as the true killer, based on hard facts and motive. >> rudy guede came to the house. he broke in. he was in the bathroom.

he left his own dna in the bam room. meredith may have come home and surprised him. maybe he was lying in wait. i hate to say it, but it's kind of the garden variety one guy kills tries to rape and rob girl case. >> in contrast to rudy guede's incriminating dna, amanda's defense team also set out to prove that the dna found on the knife allegedly meredith's, did not implicate amanda or raffaele. >> they actually had independent experts come in, and they were absolutely appalled by the way that dna was collected and tested. >> those independent experts said the evidence is contaminated. it's not admissible. it's compromiseded. >> they thought was meredith's dna, was not dna at all. it was nothing. it didn't match her in any way, shape, or form. >> the prosecutor trying to rebut that somehow amanda went back and cleaned up the dna.

it's a ridiculous notion. it's crazy. >> somehow they have special vision that allows them to see dna, so amanda and raffaele were able to go in all night they worked and cleaned up only their dna and left rudy's dna all over the place. >> amanda and raffaele tried to remain hopeful about the second trial, but public opinion was still >> there were times that i thought i was going crazy and i was talking to my younger self when i was alone. i would be alone in my cell thinking about the past and all of my regrets. alert.

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italian, the verdict was clear. amanda knox was free. >> in the fall of 2011 after these kids have been in prison for four years, a appeals court threw the case out. overturned it. and they walk and they went home. >> they paid the ultimate price. i wish that they would not

always go by what the prosecutor says. actually, they could have had some closure long ago if he had just pursued the most logical trail. i don't think the prosecution has admitted that through the objectivity of their evidence they can conclude who participated and who did not. the fact that it has been put out there for so long that i may or may not have had something to do with the murder they can't let go of. the idea that someone knows what happened or was a part of what happened and isn't saying anything 12k3 r and isn't being held responsible is maddening. i understand that. but it's not but i'm not responsible for what happened.

i didn't do it. i don't know inside more about it. >> this is a case where there is dna evidence that show that the murderer is in prison but there is a feeling that justice has not been certained. >> they don't understand that somebody else has already been convicted of this crime. but that all the evidence points to rudy. >> amanda flew back to the u.s. she knew she had to face the press. but it was nothing like italy. >> when amanda came home there was a huge crowd. >> my family is the most important thing to me right now. and i just want to go with with them. so thank you for being there for me. all the tv radio and print media, they sent a letter which i think is unpres kented together saying we will honor

amanda nox's request to leave us alone. >> raf yell tried to move on with his life as well. >> i think that he feels very ambitious about the justice system and continues to feel very bittered because of the length of time that this has taken. he understood that amanda was innoce innocent. >> he came to the united states and spent a few days with her. their relationship was over. they are obviously bound together by this bizarre experience but they are not boyfriend and girlfriend any more. >> amanda knox signed a deal but her nightmare was not over.

she and rapheali received disturbing news. the italian supreme court was considering a third trial. unlike the american legal system, the prosecution can repeal a reversal verdict. >> we called this an express. it's like a vortex that you can't get out of. she should have lawyered up. but she should have gottenen a plane shechlt stayed in italy. if she had just flown home none of this would have ever happened. >> whether or not she returns to italy, the italian justice system can grind on for decades and amanda may never be able to say she is truly free. >> i'm afraid to go back there.

i don't want to go back to prison there are only so many times i can say no i didn't do it. >> sher dan county, nebraska, is the type of place that most people think of as the heartland. there is lots of little places like sheridan, but this is unique in a different way. the people are still reeling from the effects of drought. >> we are living in one of the worst droughts of the past 100 years. >> three fifths of the usa from sea to shining sea is dry. >> you can't deny that our planet is in the midst of a massive