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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 >>
Knox was depicted as a sex-crazed American by Italian prosecutors.UPDATE: The P-I's Andrea Vogt reports that Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison. Amanda Knox, the 22-year-old Seattle native charged with murdering her roommate, was found guilty today by an Italian jury. After deliberatin ... More >>
Or a fantastic appeals attorneySpeaking on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanaopoulos, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confessed that, unlike the rest of the world's populace, she had not in fact been waiting breathlessly for the verdict in the Amanda Knox trial. The former UW s ... 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 >>
Amanda's Knox's lawyer says new witnesses have come forward.A lawyer for Amanda Knox says a 200-page appeal filed in Italy over the weekend includes new evidence pointing to his client's innocence. In an appearance on ABC's Good Morning America this morning, Philadelphia lawyer Ted Simon says ... 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 >>
Antonio Curatolo, Italian prosecutors' gold-plated witness against Seattleite and convicted killer Amanda Knox, has been busted for heroin dealing (something he supposedly has made quite a living at). Furthermore, his key testimony about seeing Knox and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito on the ... 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 >>
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.
This week I learned that there is apparently a word which Amanda Knox supporters use to describe people who think she's guilty of murder. It's called "Guilters." Like 9/11 "Truthers" or Obama "Birthers," it seems that even a single criminal case can earn the "ers" conspiracy suffix these days ... 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
In the weeks before Seattle student Amanda Knox was convicted of murder in Perugia, Italy, Italian prosecutor Giuliano Mignini was more than happy to leak info to the press and use the tabloid craze that followed as a weapon in court. But now that the media's tune has changed to casting dou ... 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 >>
Dr. Mary Ellen O'Toole spent 14 years of her 28-year career with the FBI getting inside the heads of criminals through her work as a profiler. Her book Dangerous Instincts: How Gut Feelings Betray Us examines how appearances, instincts and preconceived notions can get in the way of finding th ... More >>
Cynthia SommerOn this final day of arguments in the Amanda Knox/Raffaele Sollecito appeals trial, a lot of Americans may be wondering how a case built on such circumstantial evidence might have come this far. Certainly in the United States no one could be convicted based on what appears to ... More >>
It was the outcome that the Knox family--and indeed most of Seattle and a lot of the world--had prayed for.
Fresh from accidentally publishing, then deleting, an incorrect story about Amanda Knox being found guilty on appeal, scummy British tabloid Daily Mail is back to their niche of circling the journalistic drain.
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.
Raffy's mitt mittsToday's Comment of the Day winner is officially a smartass; a title that is, of course, infinitely better than a dumbass.
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