Cases from 2007 include criminal investigations, trials, and notable events that occurred during the year. Whether they involved new charges, breakthroughs in cold cases, high-profile trials, or tragic incidents that captured national attention, the cases documented here reflect the state of the criminal justice system in 2007. CaseSleuth provides detailed, chronological coverage of each case with timelines, evidence breakdowns, profiles of key people involved, and links to primary sources and media coverage.
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Amanda Knox, an American exchange student, was wrongfully convicted alongside her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the November 2007 murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. After nearly four years in prison, Knox was acquitted in 2011, reconvicted in absentia in 2014, and definitively acquitted by Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation in March 2015. Rudy Guede, whose DNA and fingerprints were found at the crime scene, was separately convicted and sentenced to 16 years. A slander conviction against Knox for falsely accusing her employer Patrick Lumumba during a coercive police interrogation was upheld by Italy's highest court in January 2025. The European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2019 that Italy violated Knox's rights during the interrogation, and as of 2025, the ECHR has accepted a further appeal related to the slander conviction.
Three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on the evening of May 3, 2007, while her parents dined at a nearby restaurant. The case became the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history, spawning parallel investigations by Portuguese and British police. German convicted sex offender Christian Brueckner was identified as the prime suspect in 2020, but as of April 2026 he has never been charged in connection with Madeleine's disappearance, and the case remains unsolved.