that there was mixed dna blood in the house, mixing amanda's blood with meredith kercher's blood. true. and so there were a lot of memes that have been put out there. my book is about a lot of things. it's about italian journalism. >> why do you think we got these misperceptions here in the united states? why it is that the information was so bad? >> well, i think we are all, all of news the media much more fascinated with the occasional female alleged diabolical killer than we are with the more common run of the mill mundane domestic abuser or sexually violent male. and i think that's what is going on here. the british tabloids had a lot to do with it. they pay witnesses for information. they pay sources for interviews. and so people are sort of telling stories that aren't backed up by the record. and then you the judicial system in italy, which is much different than ours. it didn't have a public face. it's very opaque. and lawyers would walk out of these hearings and just drop rumors and gossip. and reporters over there print this as fact. and they never corrected it. so you ha