It’s difficult to grasp that Amanda Knox was jailed for murder almost 20 years ago.
The image that Knox conjures even today is one of a young American co-ed, clad in jeans and billowy skirts, winding the ancient paths of Perugia, Italy during a study abroad term. After the brutal killing of her roommate Meredith Kercher, Knox and boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were vilified then jailed vilified for years for a crime they didn’t commit — while bloodthirsty media consumers dissected their (at times quite odd) dynamic.
GRACE VAN PATTEN, GIUSEPPE DE DOMENICO in “The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox”
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