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Amanda Knox cries following the verdict in Italy that overturned her conviction and acquitted her of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher. (Lapresse, AP)
Amanda Knox cries following the verdict in Italy that overturned her conviction and acquitted her of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher. (Lapresse, AP)

Rome - Who killed Meredith Kercher? While Amanda Knox and her ex-lover celebrate their shock acquittal, the grisly case of the British student's murder is far from solved.

Eight years after Kercher was found in a pool of blood with her throat slashed, Italy's top court threw the case out late Friday, ending a legal saga which saw American Knox and Italian Raffaele Sollecito batted back and forth between courts as they were convicted, acquitted and convicted again.

Ivory coast drifter Rudy Guede is now the only person doing time for Kercher's 2007 murder.

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