. >>> perugia, italy is a storybook city, famous throughout the world for its chocolates. and equally famous to students as a party town, where getting high and hooking up is a prerequisite. for the college experience. >> to the average american tourist, this town looks like an idyllic italian mountain town filled with beautiful 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. this is a lovely little hill town in italy and terrible evil had committed. this is something the tabloids could feast on. >> amanda knox never thought she would be fodder for tabloids. when she arrived in perugia in 2007 as a 20-year-old exchange student, it seemed like a dream come true. >> she was from university of washington, good with languages and she decided she was going to take her junior year abroad. she enrolled at perugia school for foreigners, a school that historically teaches italian to foreigners. she became the third of

the british exchange student was found raped and murdered in her apartment in perugia in november two thousand and seven. the circumstances of the desk has never been established with any degree of clarity. i freaked as national reading to them was convicted of consciousness in two thousand and eight and sentenced to sixteen years in prison. expert witness testimony to him that it could not estimate of them italian prosecutors continue to believe united states citizen. amanda knox and her ex boyfriend play less of a teacher and italian are implicated. nelson seventy two was convicted of them in december two thousand and nine. on the basis of circumstantial evidence and sentenced to more than twenty years each. yell a set of sentences overturned on appeal on the grounds of unreliable dna evidence amanda knox enlisted to me and return to the united states. loves to munch italy's highest court overturned the result and ordered a new trial. sunny and seventy two will be present in court to hear the verdict. not refuse to return to the retrial whatever the judges decide the ruling will not

year-old american amanda knox guilty of fatally stabbing meredith kercher in the university town of perugia seven years ago. the decision upholds the original guilty conviction of knox, which had been overturned in 2011. the italian court sentenced her to 28 years and 6 months in prison. it is worth noting that amanda knox was not present in court and she remains in the united states. >>> coming up, election 2014. will democrats have to sacrifice the lower chamber to save the upper? we will discuss when ben le bolt and casey hunt join us next on "now." ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] old el paso frozen entrées. now in freezers. you raise her spirits. we tackled your shoulder pain. you make him rookie of the year. we took care of your cold symptoms. you take him on an adventure. tylenol® has been the number 1 doctor recommended brand of pain reliever for over 20 years. but for everything we do, we know you do so much more. tylenol®. i took medicine but i still have symptoms. [ sneeze ] [ male announcer ] truth is not all flu products treat all your symptoms. what? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus