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"The vivacious, sexually adventurous, guitar-playing student from Seattle has become a minor celebrity in Italy, ranked in a poll in December as one of Italy's 'women of the year.'"That's what you get in part because you're a pretty white American woman who is either killed, or is accused of k ... More >>
Knox is "spontaneous, immediate and imprudent"... but not enough to kill?Maybe we're all a little burned out from the Maurice Clemmons coverage. But there are other alleged murderers in the world, one being UW student Amanda Knox, whose trial in Perugia, Italy is entering final arguments this ... More >>
Bad girl or bad rap? The jury will soon decide.The BBC and Daily Mail are reporting all the latest dirt from the murder trial of UW student Amanda Knox in Perugia, Italy. The jury is expected to begin deliberations on Friday, meaning a possible verdict next week. As a state-owned media chann ... More >>
Beatles fan Amanda Knox still can't get a fair shake from the Brits.Reader Jolly Roger responds to More Dirty Linen From the Amanda Knox Trial. According to him, if an Italian jury finds Knox guilty it'll be the fault of the British press. "If Amanda Knox is found guilty of murdering Meredit ... More >>
Fluent in Italian, yet trembling in her defense. Now the jury will decide Knox's fate.Accused murderer Amanda Knox made a direct plea to the jury yesterday in her Perugia, Italy trial for the 2007 murder of fellow foreign exchange student Meredith Kercher. Is the 22-year-old Seattle native gu ... More >>
What actress will be cast as Knox?"This is my kind of murderess," says New York playwright John Guare in an interview with The Guardian. He's got a crush on Amanda Knox, the UW student presently appealing her murder conviction in Perugia, Italy. Guare is a distinguished veteran dramatist best ... More >>
ABCMoore, KnoxRetired FBI Special Agent Steve Moore was certain Amanda Knox killed roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy. Now he's certain she didn't - joining a chorus that includes her family, friends and a Mafia snitch. "When Amanda Knox gets out" of prison - where she's doing 26 years and ap ... More >>
Amanda Knox just can't seem to catch a break. Nearly a year after questionable evidence helped convict her in an Italian court of murdering British student Meredith Kercher, she's now facing new charges that she slandered police by testifying that they beat and coerced her into confession. Th ... More >>
In the three years since her original murder trial/media circus, Amanda Knox's demeanor seems to have changed. Gone, it seems, are the "All You Need Is Love" T-shirts and cute courtroom smiles. As her appeals trial begins tomorrow in Perugia, Italy, her lawyers tell the AP that she's now "bro ... More >>
Speaking of screen adaptations of recent murder cases, the new Lifetime film centered on former UW student and dubiously convicted killer Amanda Knox is enjoying none of the anticipation that celebrity dog trainer Mark Stover's 48 Hours special is--at least not from the families of those invo ... More >>
Millions of people already hate the new Amanda Knox movie. Most of them, however, will still be watching it when it airs tonight.
Whatever questions remained as to the kind of character that would come out in Lifetime's film Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy, it didn't take long to answer them when the movie aired for the first time last night. Knox, as played by Hayden Panettiere, is self-absorbed, cold, drug-addle ... More >>
When Amanda Knox was meeting with her parents in Italy following her arrest on charges of murdering Meredith Kercher, she told them "I was there" on the night of the murder. That's according to a new document released by a judge panel in Rome.
There is no Wikipedia page for Amanda Knox. There is a page for the "Murder of Meredith Kercher," but Knox supporters claim it's chock-full of misinformation and bias. And after a well-placed letter caught the eye of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, the article-editing minions and Wales himself ... More >>
It was a lynchpin in the case that convicted Seattle native Amanda Knox of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. DNA evidence found on the knife that prosecutors say was used to brutally stab Kercher to death was linked back to Knox. But now, deep into her all-impo ... More >>
Last year, homeless dope dealer Antonio Curatolo told Italian jurors that he saw Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito chatting "excitedly" in a public square near where British student Meredith Kercher was murdered. The testimony punctured Knox and Sollecito's alibis that they were nowhere near ... More >>
Giuliano Mignini does not like when people say mean things about him or nice things about Amanda Knox. This is an assertion shared by dozens of journalists that have covered Knox's murder and appeals trial over the last two-plus years. And now it's an assertion shared by the largest journalis ... More >>
The public opinion tide in Italy appears to be changing in Amanda Knox's favor. After positive developments in the Seattle woman's appeals trial including DNA evidence that has been labeled too minute to test and a key witness being caught flubbing details while being outed as a dope dealer, ... More >>
Add King County Superior Court Judge Michael Heavey to the list of people who think that Amanda Knox's conviction for the murder of Meredith Kercher is a sham. In fact, not only does Heavey think Knox was wrongfully convicted, he thinks the U.S. State Department utterly failed in its mission ... More >>
Mario Alessi was one of three inmates who testified to Amanda Knox's innocence. As Amanda Knox's appeals trial hits its fever pitch, more and more of the case against her appears to be unraveling. At a hearing on Friday, cellmates of Rudy Guede, the first person convicted for the murder of Br ... More >>
Rudy Guede After three and a half years of waiting, Amanda Knox case-watchers finally got the showdown they were waiting for today when Rudy Guede, the first person convicted for killing Meredith Kercher, returned to court--this time as a witness.
Accidental ingenue.It's not new detail, but there is a fresh take in the current Rolling Stone on the Amanda Knox conviction--which is on appeal and during which today court-appointed experts said some of the DNA evidence used to convict her may have been contaminated, a major breakthrough ha ... More >>
The legal landscape has changed much in the months since Seattle student turned dubiously convicted killer Amanda Knox began her appeal trial in Perugia, Italy, for the murder of Meredith Kercher. Previous witnesses have been discredited, new witnesses have offered conflicting accounts, and ... More >>
In a small courtroom in Perugia, Italy, today, two forensic scientists are expected to swear in and explain how facts prove that the DNA work of another scientist--work that led to the murder convictions of Seattle exchange student Amanda Knox and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito--is absolute ... More >>
Patrizia StefanoniWatching a team of experts thoroughly trash your work as a professional in front of an international audience is, no doubt, excruciating. So one can understand why Patrizia Stefanoni--the Italian forensic scientist who led the botched investigation into the murder of British ... More >>
Italian Prosecutor Manuela Comodi appears to finally be reading the writing on the wall. With crucial DNA evidence that had linked Seattle student Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito to the murder of British student Meredith Kercher thoroughly trashed by independent expert ... More >>
The bra clasp and the kitchen knife. For years now, we've been told that slain British student Meredith Kercher's bra clasp and a kitchen knife found in the home of Italian student Raffaele Sollecito and handed by Seattle student Amanda Knox were the most crucial pieces of DNA evidence in t ... More >>
Keeping track of all the ways in which Italian police and forensic scientists have botched the investigation into British student Meredith Kercher's death is difficult, because there are simply so many examples of negligence. Fortunately, the folks at injusticeinperugia.org--easily to most c ... More >>
It was the outcome that the Knox family--and indeed most of Seattle and a lot of the world--had prayed for.
Why calling a woman a "witch" is a call to arms.
The only charge that the Italian appeals court held up after Amanda Knox's murder conviction was overturned was the crime of defamation stemming from when Knox falsely accused bar owner Patrick Lumumba of being the murderer who killed Meredith Kercher. For that Knox was sentenced to three yea ... More >>
Meredith Kercher's parents Arline and John and their lawyerA rumor spread far and wide yesterday that the Kercher family--as in Meredith Kercher, the young British student who was killed in Italy by Rudy Guede, not Amanda Knox or Raffaele Sollecito--was going to sue the Knox family for $12 mi ... More >>
Two pieces of Amanda Knox-related news to report this morning--one more gosspiy than the other.
Raffaele Sollecito has officially beat his ex-girlfriend Amanda Knox to the book-deal money trough. He reportedly inked a contract with Seattle-based Martin Literary Management for a book due out at an unknown date. Here are 10 questions I hope he finally answers.
Not to be outdone by her former beau's book deal, emancipated murder suspect Amanda Knox has inked her own deal--hers with an agent who has helped usher in books from some of the most famous people in the world.
The world is rife with mystery and surprise. Exhibit A: Amanda Knox. Turns out, our girl "loves Italy" and would like to return to Perguia, even though she spent four years in prison there and fought the battle of her life to get the hell out. But really, inexplicable as it may seem, she want ... More >>
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