When police released the Meredith Kercher murder house to its original owner — Adalia Tattanelli Marrone — in 2009, the owner went right back to renting out the house and its 10 rooms to students and immigrants. However, The Daily Beast explains that Marrone did some refurbishing first, including adding metal grates to the windows for security purposes and remodeling the interior to more or less wipe Kercher’s old room from the floor plan. Those who moved into the house included “Bangladeshi street vendors” and a Moroccan family who survived carbon monoxide poisoning on the premises.
In October 2009, The Guardian reported that three individuals had moved into the house, including 22-year-old Congolese nursing student Christ Mbette, who told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, “I am not scared of ghosts. We will throw a party soon.” Mbette’s roommates — students from Congo and Cameroon — might have felt differently, however, as they asked him to take the space where Kercher’s old room was. If the aforementioned refurbishment is correct, then said “room” might refer to a certain section in the apartment rather than the same exact space.
The Times also reports that some unknown people “ransacked” the house following the murder and left behind “four kitchen knives and some candles.” This, in turn, led to cries of “Satanists” breaking into the property to “desecrate” the scene, as The Daily Mail puts it.
