--- description: Rudy Guede is serving a 16-year sentence for killing Knox's roommate Meredith Kercher title: Amanda Knox Was at Scene of Murder Says Killer image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0bf8763c0fe80269/69887a22428a9eba57cd10f3/amanda-knox.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Amanda Knox Was at Scene of Murder Says Killer by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 22, 2016 12:33 PM CUT  Amanda Knox speaks to the media during a brief press conference in front of her parents' home in Seattle on March 27, 2015. Amanda Knox speaks to the media during a brief press conference in front of her parents' home in Seattle on March 27, 2015.Stephen Brashear—Getty Images by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 22, 2016 12:33 PM CUT ROME — The man convicted of killing a British student in the Amanda Knox case broke his silence Thursday, insisting the American was at the scene of the crime on the night of the murder. Rudy Guede, who is serving a 16-year sentence for killing Knox’s roommate Meredith Kercher, protested his innocence from an Italian jail in his first television interview. He recounted the events surrounding Kercher’s death in a Perugia apartment in 2007, repeating his claim that he was in the bathroom when the 21-year-old was fatally attacked. The 30-year-old insisted he saw Knox, now 28, and her then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, in the apartment when he rushed to investigate Kercher’s screams…….. [Read more from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/amanda-knox-was-scene-murder-convicted-killer-rudy-guede-n501861?cid=par-time%5F20160122 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4189960/amanda-knox-rudy-guede/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4189960/amanda-knox-rudy-guede/"},"headline":"Amanda Knox Was at Scene of Murder Says Killer","datePublished":"2016-01-22T12:33:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:21:26.808Z","description":"Rudy Guede is serving a 16-year sentence for killing Knox's roommate Meredith Kercher","url":"https://time.com/4189960/amanda-knox-rudy-guede/","keywords":["Italy"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0bf8763c0fe80269/69887a22428a9eba57cd10f3/amanda-knox.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0bf8763c0fe80269/69887a22428a9eba57cd10f3/amanda-knox.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Italian Court Rules On Amanda Knox Case","caption":"Amanda Knox speaks to the media during a brief press conference in front of her parents' home in Seattle on March 27, 2015.","creditText":"Stephen Brashear—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4189960/amanda-knox-rudy-guede/","name":"Amanda Knox Was at Scene of Murder Says Killer"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Amanda Knox Retrial Ordered","description":"The Italian Supreme Court ruled Tuesday Amanda Knox should stand trial again for the death of her former roommate.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/plgQ7xUj/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2013-03-29T14:30:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/plgQ7xUj.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4189960/amanda-knox-rudy-guede/","duration":"PT1M38S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4189960/amanda-knox-rudy-guede/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```