an exchange student from america and kircher's roommate. media frenzy surrounding the case is almost immediate. >> amanda knox was back in court over the weekend. >> she saw drops of blood in the sink and on a bath mat. but she couldn't find meredith. but she went back to her boyfriends instead of calling police. the two are interrogated for days. knox says she's unaware she's a suspect. she then admits to what she later calls a coerced statement, placing herself at the scene that night. in july, 2008, knox, her boyfriend and a third man are charged with kircher's murder. forensic scientists find her dna all over the crime scene. prosecutors believe knox were come police sit in the murder. they rely heavily on her tabloid image as foxy knoxy. they are found guilty. she is sentenced to a total of 26 years in prison. two years later, a new trial and a different outcome. the dna linking them not even considered evidence. >> the first thing she wants to do is just lie in a green field. >> free to fly back to america, but leaving so many wonderi

when she arrived at the scene of kircher's murder, there were things that seemed strange. like the front door being flung open. speckles of blood. but she still took a shower there, stepping out onto a bath mat with a bloody footprint. unsettling the prosecutors, mops removed a mop from the scene and brought it back to her boyfriend's house. amanda and raphael share an embrace. their kisses fuel headlines portraying her as a sex-obsessed femme fatale. amanda and raphael cuddling, making faces at each other. knox doing a split in between interrogations. knox was spotted at a boutique and purchasing underwear the press dubbed saucey. her image as foxy knoxy is now solidified. knox would later say the statement was coerced. knox was found guilty of defaming him. another piece to the puzzle of knox's behavior. >> every piece of a puzzle looks strange until you put them all together. it doesn't really register as unusual in. >> it did register as unusual. and i never said that it didn't. >> i felt strange. i almost felt like someone over your shoulder feeling. so i got out of t

she hopes it will help clear her name. >> did you kill meredith kircher?> no. >> were you there that night? >> no. >> do you know anything you have not told police, that you have not said in this book? do you know anything? >> no. i don't. i wasn't there. >> amanda knox's freedom is now back on the line. an italian court has ordered a retrial of her appealed conviction, and knox may once again finding herself pleading her case in an italian court, proclaiming her innocence. >> when asked whether or not she would return to italy to be tried, she said her family has absolutely, positively said no way, but she is actually thinking about it. >> her lawyer thinks it's a bad idea. i don't think that will happen. >> i don't either. >> is fascinating to hear her talk about this. >>> let's bring you up to date. danny, the man who was carjacked by the boston mabombing suspect is telling his story of terror, talking to cnn news about how he feared for his life and talking about his decision to make a very daring escape. >> i was counting. i was counting, one, two, th