Years After Amanda Knox Was Exonerated, a New Suspect Emerges In Meredith Kercher Murder

Nearly two decades after the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy in 2007—for which American exchange student Amanda Knox was infamously convicted and later exonerated—a new suspect has emerged in the case.

The name of the new person of interest has not yet been released, nor have Italian police decided whether they will officially reopen the investigation or not. According to Sky News, the tip came from former prosecutor Giuliano Mignini, the original investigator on the case, who first accused Knox, now 38, and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito of the crime.

“There are indications that this person may be implicated. It’s someone I’ve never considered before,” Mignini, 75, told Italian newspaper La Stampa. Mignini claims that the person in question fled Italy “a few days” after Kercher was found with her throat slashed in the apartment she shared with Knox on November 2, 2007.

Knox and Sollecito’s trial was a years-long saga which saw them convicted and acquitted of murder two different times. Even after they were fully exonerated, Knox was brought back into court in Italy in 2024 when slander charges stemming from her initial false confession—in which she accused her former boss, bar owner Patrick Lumumba, of the crime—were reopened. She was reconvicted of that crime, a decision that was upheld in January of 2025. Another suspect, Rudy Guede, was found guilty of sexually assaulting and murdering Kercher and served a 13-year sentence before being released from prison in 2021.