If you were sentient in 2007, it was hard not to be aware of the Amanda Knox story. A British exchange student named Meredith Kercher was raped and murdered at the student apartment in Perugia, Italy, that she shared with three other girls—two Italians and an American. The American, Amanda Knox, and Knox’s boyfriend of eight days, Raffaele Sollecito, were held for questioning.

Under questioning, Knox confessed, implicating Patrick Lumumba, the Congolese owner of the café where she worked part time, by saying she and Sollecito had been in the room when Lumumba killed Kercher. Although she retracted her statement the next day, all three were arrested. However, Lumumba had a tight alibi and, two weeks later, was released without charge. At the same time, the Italian police detained Rudy Gued

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