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'Katie' debuts with Amanda Knox boyfriend

August 29, 2012 @ 2:15 am (Updated: 1:07 pm - 8/29/12 )

The former boyfriend of Amanda Knox will talk publicly for the first time about the relationship he had with the West Seattle native and the murder of her roommate in Italy.

Katie Couric has landed an interview with Raffaele Sollecito, for her new TV talk show that begins next month, simply called "Katie."

In promoting the show, Couric says Sollecito talks for the first time on American television about the 2009 murder of Meredith Kercher. He will discuss life after his time spent in an Italian prison and his reunion with Knox.

KnoxKnox, who was a UW student studying in Italy, and Sollecito were convicted in 2009 of murdering the Kercher during a drug-fueled sex game.

Kercher's body was found with more than 40 stab wounds in the apartment they shared.

Knox told the court: "I did not do the things they say I did. I did not kill, rape or steal. I was not there," Knox said in Italian. "I want to go home. I want to go back to my life. I do not want to be punished. I do not want to be deprived of my life for something I did not do, because I am innocent."

A forensic science review dismissed police claims that traces of DNA were found on the kitchen knife identified as the murder weapon.

The appeal court threw out Knox's 26 year jail term and the 25 year sentence Sollecito was serving and ordered that they be freed in October of last year.

While Knox and Sollecito were acquitted, a third defendant is still in jail.

Knox has landed a nearly $4 million book deal about her story, based on diaries she kept while in prison. The still-untitled book is due out in early 2013. Her publisher says she'll give a "full and unflinching account" of her struggles and the complexities of the Italian judicial system.

Sollecito wrote a tell-all book too, which will be in stores this fall.

There have been several books about Kercher's murder. Investigative reporter John Follain has just published another account of the case called, "A Death in Italy." In it, he describes Knox as a pretty young American woman from Seattle who seemed "bizarrely unemotional" in the aftermath of the crime.

By LINDA THOMAS

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  • CH wrote...
    I...don't...care....
    August 29, 2012 5:38 pm
    did we ask you? If we want something out of you we'll squeeze it.
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  • Rangerhawk wrote...
    Wow, killer girlfriend dude!
    August 30, 2012 3:17 am
    Wake me up when she eats a pistol.
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  • Tony Del Balzo wrote...
    Likely tha he was framed
    August 30, 2012 8:47 am
    I hope that the probability that RS was framed gets discussed. Knox has done a remarkably fine job of keeping out of trouble and out of the press for someone described as a publicity hound.
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  • cj7484 wrote...
    It seems to me...
    August 30, 2012 12:42 pm
    that he was framed along with Amanda. I would love to hear more of that side of the story. I hope some of the interviews and their books focus on what the Italian authorities did to get and keep these two kids in prison. It'd be interesting to hear from the appeals court jury, that found there was essentially NO EVIDENCE against them as well. I think there is a lot more to this story than has been released (which couldn't be told prior due to legalities), and I hope it all comes out in the coming interviews and books.
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  • kennedy67 wrote...
    What is HER version?
    August 30, 2012 9:27 pm
    Has AK expressed her version of that night since she's been home? No. Has she ever approached the Kercher family with condolences? No. She hasn't quite acted like a person who's extraordinarily excited about her freedom after being wrongely jailed for 3 years. She's undoubtebly been sitting on pins and needles since the potential outcome of the acuittal appeal next March 2013. Need I say more?
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  • imanegro wrote...
    what the...
    August 31, 2012 6:43 am
    What are you talking about? You clearly have not been chatting with Amanda lately. She is savoring her freedom like only one who has had freedom taken away can. Trust me, you don't know what you're talking about.
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  • Anna2878 wrote...
    Looking forward to it
    September 6, 2012 4:56 am
    I'm really looking forward to hearing (and reading) what Raffaelle has to say. Of course I'm interested.
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  • seattlecitizen wrote...
    Clueless
    September 10, 2012 10:12 am
    First of all, Meredith Kercher was murdered in November of 2007, not in 2009. This is something that Raffaele Sollecito and his former GF Knox know very well. Why is Katie Couric giving the time of day to this loser, whose family money and ties helped to spring him and Knox? Shame on you, Katie. I'll never watch your show.
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