Drifter Testifies: Amanda Knox DID Murder British Exchange Student
June 27 2011, Published 8:30 a.m. ET
By Neil Woulfe - Breaking Celebrity News News Director
American exchange student Amanda Knox suffered a setback Monday at her appeal hearing related to her 2009 murder conviction in Italy.
Knox, 23, and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 27, were convicted of killing their British roommate Meredith Kercher back in 2007. She was semi-naked and her throat had been cut.
A third person -- a drifter by the name of Rudy Guede -- was also convicted of the crime and was sentenced to 16-years behind bars; Knox and Sollecito were sentenced to 26 and 25 years in prison in 2009.
At Monday’s appeal hearing, Guede was called as a witness to corroborate the story of a fellow convict who told the court earlier this month that Guede had sa