Amanda Knox, Family Speak Out Upon Return to United States
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SEATTLE (The Blaze/AP) — Amanda Knox returned to her hometown of Seattle on Tuesday with four years in an Italian prison behind her, the stabbing death of her roommate still a mystery and the media frenzy surrounding her case as strong on U.S. soil as it was in Europe.
Fox News provides the video of Knox and her family as they speak out at a press conference Tuesday:
Friends and family who held spaghetti dinners, bowling events and concerts to raise money for Knox’s defense were thrilled to have her home, but her supporters were a small presence at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport compared to the media: dozens of U.S. and international reporters, along with cameras and satellite trucks.
Knox’s life turned around dramatically Monday when an Italian appeals court threw out her conviction in the sexual assault and fatal stabbing of her British roommate. On Tuesday a courtroom picture of Knox crying after the verdict was read appeared on the front pages of newspapers in Italy, the U.S., Britain and around the world.
The court’s decision, fueled by doubts over DNA evidence, stunned the victim’s family and angered the prosecution, which insists that she was among three people who killed 21-year-old Meredith Kercher. But for Knox’s grandmother Elisabeth Huff, “it was like the weight of the world had gone.”
“We all are as happy as can be. I can‘t tell you how long we’ve been looking forward to this day,” Huff told The Associated Press outside her home in West Seattle, a tight-knit community a few miles across Elliott Bay from downtown.
“WELCOME HOME AMANDA,” read the marquee at a record store in the neighborhood where Knox grew up. Another welcome sign was hung at her father’s house. A bar offered half-price drinks to celebrate her acquittal. At least one TV station in Washington state tracked the progress of her flight on the air using a plane-tracking website.
Knox, 24, left Perugia’s Capanne prison Monday night amid cheers that a companion compared to those at a soccer stadium.
Hundreds of inmates – most of them in the men’s wing – shouted “Amanda, ciao!“ and ”Freedom!” as she walked into the central courtyard, said Corrado Maria Daclon, head of the Italy-US Foundation, which championed Knox’s cause. Daclon said Knox jumped a little for joy and waved to the prisoners.
She was soon on her way home, protected by the darkened windows of a Mercedes that led her out of the prison in the middle of the night, and then Tuesday morning to Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport. She flew from Rome to London, where she took a direct British Airways flight to Seattle, flying business class with full-length seat and menu options including champagne, smoked salmon and prawn salad.
She and her family were on the plane’s secluded upper deck. At least nine members of media organizations were on board below, but a flight attendant blocked them from climbing the stairs “to preserve the privacy” of passengers.
As the plane neared Seattle, the flight crew told reporters that once the plane landed, they would have to remain seated while customs officials escorted Knox and her entourage out of the plane. “You will not see her,” the cabin crew chief said.
After the plane landed, Knox and her family were taken by shuttle van to go through customs. Knox’s family planned to hold a news conference after the plane landed late Tuesday afternoon, but it was unclear whether Knox herself would speak then.
At the airport, 16-year-old Amra Plavcic shook her head at the dozens of reporters setting up for the news conference, within sight of the gate where Knox’s plane was to land.
“I don’t think this is important. It’s way too much,” said Plavcic, who was with her mother awaiting a relative who was on Knox’s flight.
Knox was a University of Washington student studying abroad in Perugia when Kercher was killed in 2007.
“Those who wrote, those who defended me, those who were close, those who prayed for me,” Knox wrote in a letter released just hours before she left Italy, “I love you.”
Knox thanked those Italians “who shared my suffering and helped me survive with hope,” in a letter to the Italy-US Foundation, which seeks to promote ties between the two countries.
“We’ve spent a lot of time waiting,” her uncle Michael Huff said in Seattle. “We’re planning a big hug. We’ll see day to day how it goes. She’s going to have to get acclimated. She’s a strong kid.”
Kerchner’s family said during an emotional news conference Tuesday that they were back to “square one.”
“If those two are not the guilty parties, then who are the guilty people?” asked Lyle Kercher, a brother of the victim.
Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini expressed disbelief at the innocent verdicts of Knox and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. He said he will appeal to Italy’s highest criminal court after receiving the reasoning behind the acquittals, due within 90 days.
“Let’s wait and we will see who was right. The first court or the appeal court,” Mignini told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “This trial was done under unacceptable media pressure.”
Prosecutors maintain that Knox, Sollecito and another man killed Kercher during a lurid, drug-fueled sex game. Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison and Sollecito received 25, but the prosecution’s case was blown apart by a DNA review ordered during the appeals trial that discredited crucial genetic evidence.
Prosecutors maintain that Knox’s DNA was found on the handle of a kitchen knife believed to be the murder weapon, and that Kercher’s DNA was found on the blade. They said Sollecito‘s DNA was on the clasp of Kercher’s bra as part of a mix of evidence that also included the victim’s genetic profile.
But an independent review – ordered at the request of the defense – found that police conducting the investigation had made glaring errors. The two experts said below-standard testing and possible contamination raised doubts over the attribution of DNA traces, both on the blade and on the bra clasp, which was collected from the crime scene 46 days after the murder.
The review was crucial to throwing out the convictions because no motive has emerged and witness testimony was contradictory.
The highest court will determine whether any procedures were violated. The hearing generally takes one day in Rome, and defendants are not required to attend.
If the highest court overturns the acquittal, prosecutors would be free to request Knox’s extradition. It would be up to the government to decide whether to make the formal extradition request.
One conviction in the slaying still stands: that of Ivory Coast native Rudy Hermann Guede. His lawyer said Tuesday he will seek a retrial.
Guede was convicted in a separate fast-track procedure and saw his sentence cut to 16 years in his final appeal. He says he is innocent, though he admits being in the house the night of the murder.
The highest court, in upholding Guede’s conviction, said he had not acted alone. But it did not name Knox and Sollecito as Guede’s accomplices, saying it was not up to the court to determine that.
Kercher’s family was perplexed. Monday’s decision “obviously raises further questions,” Lyle Kercher said.
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Comments (115)
ajelnnon
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 6:24amVery disappointed with Glenn’s comments on this and I am a big fan. Anyone who looks at this case and reads the full extent of the trial and papers will see that Amanda is involved. Glenn made a statement that she is completely innocent. I suspect that he made the statement based on emotion and he is wrong to do that. he should base his statement on fact… he tells us that often enough.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 6:48amI can see it now. Her and Casey Anthony starting a reality show together.
Report Post »MR_ANDERSON
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 8:01amI think my comments at work the other day when she was released say it best.
“I don’t care about this story. I prefer to error on the side of people being innocent, because ultimately God will judge. I hope she does something good with her life.”
Report Post »The Realist
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 8:26amSomeone help me out here. Amanda and her boyfriend both get off (in more ways than one apparently) and yet a stabbed to death girl in their apartment was killed by who then? Herself? Something’s fishy here. What a coincidence that we have another good looking female, and no charges.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 9:15amWhat was this woman doing around drugs and a murder? Whereas she may not be guilty of murder, she knows more than what she’s telling. I think it was very arrogant that you involve yourself in something and instead of apologizing to those who you have inconvenienced and caused great stress, you stand before the press and thank everyone for their support.
Report Post »Arch Stanton
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 9:31amReally surprised by all the hate for this girl. One could easily argue that the only reason she was convicted in the first place was due to general Italian resentment toward Americans.
I don‘t think she did it just because the crime doesn’t fit. Was she sex crazed and into drugs? Possibly, I don’t know. But multiple stabbing and throat slitting is pretty much unheard of from a small framed woman (regardless of how many drugs she had or hadn’t taken). The particulars of the crime do fit the Ivorian drug dealer who was also convicted, but only given a 16 year sentence. She might have known what happened, but refused to say. Perhaps the drug dealer’s associates threatened to kill her if she talked…who knows. I think she’s guilty of being stupid, but not of murder. Be careful of the friends you keep. It only cost her 4 years this time, but in the old days, they would have hung her along with the drug dealer and the boyfriend, regardless of whether she did the stabbing or not if it were proven that she was present at the time of the killing.
Report Post »atechgeek
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 9:39amGuilty or Nor Guilty … God will be the judge. As for Amanda .. Good grief she’s Hot !
Report Post »DrFrost
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 9:41amAjelnnon:
1) What I’ve read about this case does not convince me that she did it. Could you provide some links to the evidence you’re referring to? The media has certainly painted her as innocent.
Report Post »2) Glenn is human. He’s going to be wrong from time to time. I don‘t know if he’s wrong on this one or not but I tend to agree with him. From what I‘ve read there’s more than reasonable doubt. Regardless, though, Glenn would be the first one to tell you to investigate and make up your own mind.
rdietz7
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:36pmI have not heard anything on GBtv about this Knox case. I will say this, I would not be surprised if Glenn gave support for Amanda Knox. The reason for this is his religious beliefs. Glenn is a Mormon and his religious affiliation makes him susceptible to external demonic influence.
If a angel of light comes to you and inspires prophecy or you to rewrite the bible you may want to double check which morning star you’re looking to. Angel Moroni is Lucifer or at least a constituent of the leader of demons.
This Knox in my opinion is of Legion and since they are coming together for their demonic assembly they are being released into the world to do their hellish will. Beck knows a lot but even he is mislead with his faith because Mormonism appeals to men and women who have insecurities regarding family.
Respect Glenn but do not trust him. Not until he disowns his religion and puts his faith in the scriptures of the holy bible alone. I don’t know Glenn, I do love him. I’m happy that he was able to become self reliant without Fox news people breathing done his neck.
Just listen to Glenn when he says do your homework and don’t take everything he says as absolute until you research it for yourself.
Report Post »cycloid
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 1:03pmI agree Ajelnnon. Glenn disrespected the entire Italian justice system. That takes quite an ego when he has no expertise on the subject. He does that so often, I believe that God is going to kick him off his pedestel soon. I’m no longer a subscriber to GBTV.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:18pmI don’t see Amanda Knox as a sociopath or killer. Casey Anthony probably is both and got off because the prosecutor overstepped. I see Miss Knox as a stupid brat from a decent family and she hung around with the wrong people. Added to that, the system of justice in Italy allows for the prosecution to portray a defendent in a very unfair manner without the support of material facts, somewhat like the media. I think that a lot of decent people have stupid brats who hang around with the wrong people. In any event, for her being with the killer she probably deserved 4 years but surely not a long term sentence.
Report Post »Erwin
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 4:32pmI love Glenn and his view of Islam and how to resurrect America. I also support his religious views and admire his entrepreneurial drive.
BUT whenever he talks about someone or something abroad, except Israel maybe, don’t listen too hard. He is lacking relevant experience and amused me already a few times with lines like “Italy – the Lybians live here” or what he says about Germany and France.
Anyway, good that we have him.
Report Post »bunnellyl
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 6:03pmIf anyone followed the case closley, you would have absolutely NO doubt that she is absolutely innocent..
Report Post »I can’t imagine what you could have followed to lead you to false conclusions…..
motonutt
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 7:16pmThis is pathetic………She was part of this muder. Now she get‘s away with it and we all welcome her home like she’s this poor little girl victimised by the Italians. I was discusted by Fox this morning treating her like a rock star. She went to Italy, partied and slu**ed herself around, was involved in a murder….and now she’s a hero….go figure. Mabey her a Caley Anthony can get a house together.
Report Post »atvchick
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 10:46pmDear RDIETZ7,
Please research a religion properly. Go to the source. I am a Latter Day Saint, same as Glenn. We do not discredit the Bible. The Bible has the life and Ministry of Christ which is key in my religion. I love the Bible. But I also believe in other records, like the Book of Mormon. It is another testament of Jesus Christ and a record of an ancient people who lived in the Americas who traveled from Jerusalem. I invite you to read it. Please read it then tell me if it comes from the devil or not.
Also, Glenn is human. He is doing his best to uncover the truth to warn us all. That is why he left Fox. So he can give the truth and his opinions without hurting a network. I respect him for that.
Report Post »Erwin
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 5:31amIf we leave her nationality aside, she is a killer who was released because the police was too dumb to get the evidence right. Nothing to be proud of.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 6:18am… Italians are about as incompetent as Americans … and O.J. Simpson, when it comes to doing the right thing by the law,
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 6:21amErwin, totally agree. Excellent summary. A victory for PR and money. Next story.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 10:36amNo-she was released from pressure by the americans. Throughtout the process the american media were giving wall to wall propaganda about that evil italian justice system and they didn’t want hassles from america. We are an imperialist power and no one wants to stand up to us. This case shows how dishonest and jingoistic we are-only an american life is of value and we will stop at nothing to get our way.There was no substance to anything the media was reporting about the case-the victims name was barely mentioned. Of course the dna evidence will be contested-that’s what the defense has to do. It is shameful the way the media only presented the defense side of the case. That the majority of americans fell for it unquestrioningly shows how gullable americans are!. The only people unafraid to stand up to this imperialist superpower are you know who!
Report Post »velikovsky
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:49amI KNOW Amanda did not kill her roommate because she is cute.
Amanda “comes from a good family”…. she would never do drugs, sleep around like a whore, or try to pin the murder of her roommate on her boss.
Besides that… she is too CUTE to kill someone.
Did I mention that Amanda Knox is cute and did not kill her roommate?
Report Post »Gavinwcaf
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 9:32amWell said, She is as innocent as OJ Simpson, To bad she did not stay in Italy, We do not need another Casey Anthony.
Report Post »Keats
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:34amYeah, evil is truly becoming more predominant in the world, agreeing with those of you who have made similar remarks. The rest of you with your “I’ve followed this story since the beginning and welcome home Amanda…” Whatever.
Nice of her to mention her sympathies to Meredith Kercher’s family. One more little spoiled American girl gone bad. It’s really embarrassing as a country. I can’t get the picture of the blood soaked bathroom out of my head. If you compare that bedroom to the Manson murders, it was worse in many ways with the blood drenched walls and room. Happy happy, joy joy, Amanda is home!
Report Post »Yorzaxt
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:13amAmazing to me how the people here are willing to throw out the entire legal system whenever it comes to a decision that they dont agree with. Who the HECK are you all to decide guilt and innocense based upon the dribble that you get from the media and even the Enquirer. Good god people, you spend all your time raging against various abuses of freedom but you seem to be perfectly willing to abuse it when it doesnt suit you. That is the problem with america right now. Its not a Dem or Repub problem but a problem where people abandon the constitution for selfish means.
The fact is, she was found not guilty by a court of law. If you arent willing to accept that then I hope you will be just as willing to put yourself up for trial by public opinion when you get arrested. Precedents like the one being set here are on the dangerous road to tyranny.
If you weren’t on the Jury of Anthony or Knox, just shut up already and let the legal system work.
We are a nation of laws, not opinions of men and women.
Report Post »Keats
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:37amWe are nation of laws, but this was Italy. And newsflash, our “nation of laws” is corrupt. Did you see OJ Simpson walk away with murder. You don’t have faith in a system even when it is WRONG. Can you think for yourself?
Report Post »mlsmith1964
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 4:02am@YORZAXT well said. We have to be a people who respect the rule of law and the outcome of a jury. If she did it justice will not escape her, if she did not do it then she has been delivered from bondage. I put my faith in YHWH, everything will work out in the end.
Report Post »Yorzaxt
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 4:35amKeats, you ask if I can think for myself in your denigrating fashion, failing to realize that it is I that is doing the thinking. You are merely emoting as your rant about Knox’ looks above proves. Who are You to decide when the constitution and the rule of law are to be thrown out? Is totalitarianism ok when the ends agree with you? Is it alright to incarcerate or even execute people if you say so?
You preach a false and dangerous path, one that had been responsible for the slaughter of millions.
The way to reform the system is through the ballot box, not a raised fist in anger. If you want the presumption of innocence changed, put up a constitutional amendment that says Keats gets to decide who is guilty and try to pass it.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 9:10amI will confess to slamming others for their opinions before I familiarized myself with the case. Stupid. My bad.
Still, the evidence of her character notwithstanding (and I’m not sure what I can trust about that) two things strike me as odd about the prosecution’s case:
The forensic evidence against the man, Guede, still in prison was strong. That‘s why his conviction wasn’t overturned. Yet there was no such convincing forensic evidence to connect Knox and her boyfriend that could stand up on appeal. And there apparently wasn‘t much forensic evidence on the victim’s body of the two, but there was of Guede. How could that be? How could she erase her DNA from the body and leave that guy’s still there.
From the prosecution’s case neither of the three knew each other for long, Knox only knew her boyfriend a couple of weeks, and neither of them knew Guede previously. How is it that neither of them has flipped on the other? People of such sleezy character generally aren’t above ratting out their friends let alone a little know accomplice, not if it might reduce their sentences.
Report Post »Gavinwcaf
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 9:36amAnd Courts do not make Mistakes, you forgot the Supreme Court and Dred Scott.
Report Post »Kd4G
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:33pmWe are no longer a nation of laws. We are a nation of special interest groups with each one pushing it’s agenda on to the America public.
Report Post »psst
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 1:21amYou and your boyfriend get crazily hopped up on dope/crack/heroin or whtever.have wild sex and a gal (your roomie)in the next room is found half nekked w/ multiple stab wounds. Presto, who done it.?
Oh, Col Mustard in the Lie-brary.
Next morning, w/ the cops investigating the scene, you and your main squeeze are squeezing outside as if nothing has happened.
Now our American heroine is arriving here from Eyetaly to wild cheers from her fans.
I heard she said the first thing after she arrives, will be to help OJ look for whoever/whomever slashed the throats of Nichole and Ron.
Who said Crime does not pay? That /those person /s is /are behind the times.
One has to have $$ to send one’s child to study overseas.Methunks she‘s daddy’s spoiled little girl who went off to college abroad, Got hooked on drugs/partying and wild sex.
Report Post »Many American kids who goes away to college goes apeshit when the parental shackles are removed and their jailers (aka mom and dad) are back at the homestead and far away.
This one just it waaaaaay pass the limits.
IMO, both she and her boyfriend were so stoned, they just went crazy.
Now she’ll write a book about the evil Eyetalian judicial system, get booked on the tube and make mucho dinero. Only in America.
biggreenboo
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:23amWow… everything you said was completely wrong.
FRRRRRRTTTTT
What’s wrong with you people… I hit the Blaze today to see some happy responces to Amanda’s verdict and finally getting home. If you do a bit of research (not the news rags / not what your buddy says they heard) there is no way Amanda or her Ex were in that room during the rape and murder of that poor girl.
Look, research, read… stop judging with your emotions and search for the turth… they’re giving it to you for free… And NO!!! I will not give you links to the info… go find it yourself. You owe it to them if you’re going to sit behind a screen and screem GUILTY!!!!!
Amanda = innocent
Amanda’s ex = innocent
Geude = murderer and should be put down like an animal
Welcome home Amanda.
Report Post »maestrochase
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 1:19amI have been following this case for 4 years and all i can say is, “Welcome home Amanda.” Given the facts of the case it is apparent that the Italian prosecution and police were under pressure to find the killer and put them away as speedily as possible. Now i have no idea why a lot of you are so quick to judge this young woman and call her “sleazy” or a sex crazed maniac based on superficial and false stories that were propogated by tabloids. All of you are so quick to disregard stories put out by the mainstream press but you are willing to base your opinions on tabloids? Really!? Don’t take this as a low blow fellow blaze readers, but if you want to be regarded as more well informed than others who get their news solely from mainstream media outlets, then don’t fall into the, “I don’t know much, if anything, about this, but I‘m still going to respond as if I’m an expert,” trap.
Report Post »Zeus In A Speedo
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 10:05amWell put Maestro –
I too have followed this case and as law enforcement agent who works violent crime investigations, I don’t think she had anything to do with this crime, and the Ivory Coast national drug dealer is the sole culpret. No DNA linking her or her boyfriend to the crime scene, and a motive completely made up by the prosecutor. This was a rush-to-judgement by an over-zealous prosecutor, similar to the Duke LaCrosse Team case, making evidence and motive up. Their only evidence is a “half-baked confession” from Knox,who did not completely understand the questioning for over 5 hours with no translator, This confession would be supressed in our courts. Welcome home Amanada!
Report Post »american_rose_126
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 1:06amI rejoice with her and her family and friends that she is finally home and they are all through this terrible ordeal. I don’t get why everyone is comparing her to Casey Anthony…totally different case. The DNA evidence was what the prosecution was counting on to condemn her…but is was complete crap. After that, about the only evidence left was evidence that proved they were roommates, nothing more. The whole things smacked of how foreigners get used as unsuspecting drug mules and get thrown into a foreign prison and accused wrongfully. Some of them never get out–though their only crime was being naive or just in the wrong place at the wrong time–not vigilant enough. I thank God this poor young woman is finally free. She already lost too many years of her life in that kangaroo court. I pray for justice for the family of the victim–but I don’t ever want to see the wrong person convicted just to satisfy bloodlust.
Report Post »Common Sense Jedi
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 4:16am@AMERICA_ROSE_126
It sounds like you’ve been smoking the same stuff that Amanda was in Italy or have simply been brainwashed by all the pro-Amanda stories that have been put out there by the media that leave out all the *actual* details (thank God O’Reilly finally had a segment about this BS with some sane people on it tonight). If you think she’s so innocent as you say, then how do you answer the following?
1) Amanda admits to Italian police details of the crime scene even though the door to the bathroom was locked from the inside. How would she know about these unless she was there? She obviously wasn’t told by the police about it.
Report Post »2) How do you explain Amanda’s shoe print in the crime scene, something the prosecution never refuted? This proves she was at least there when it happened.
3) Amanda and Raffaelle staged a fake burglary. Only problem is the glass was broken from the inside, clearly a sign of a botched cover up.
4) How could the bathroom be locked when only person inside was Meredith.
5) Amanda confessed to police of being present at the scene of the murder, then recanted and constantly lied and changed her story.
6) Amanda falsely accused an innocent man (Patrick Lamumba) of murdering Meredith.
7) Amanda was seen laughing, in good spirits, lovey-dovey with her 1.5 week boyfriend Raffaelle, and shopping for lingerie the very same day of the murder—not a typical response when you’re roommate was just brutally murdered.
Common Sense Jedi
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 4:22am8) A witness testified Amanda went to a store to buy cleaning supplies the morning after Meredith’s murder. When questioned by police, Amanda lied and said she was sleeping at Raffaelle’s at that time. Also, Raffaelle’s home smelled of bleach when the police arrived to investigate. The cleaning lady who cleaned his place testified she never used bleach when cleaning his place.
9) Amanda was seen doing cartwheels and the splits at the police station when brought 4 questioning. Nothing screams party like a murdered roommate!
10) Both the police and evidence showed that the murder of Meredith could not have happened by just Rudy Geude because there were no defensive wounds on the victim.
The Knox family waged a multi-million dollar PR campaign to free their daughter and it looks like it was succssful, though I‘m hoping the prosecution’s appeal just made today will put Amanda back in prison. The investigators *possibly* contaminated DNA, though even if you take out the DNA component of this trial, based on the above, at the very least Amanda *had* to have been at the murder scene and knew what happened.
Finally, aside from *actually* raping or murdering someone, falsely accusing an innocent person of these crimes like Amanda did is w/o question 1 of the most despicable things a person can do, and this speaks volumes about her character. It makes me sick that this complete slut/psyhopath is in all likelyhood going to make millions of dollars off her story now. Shame o
Report Post »rdietz7
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 9:09amDrug mules? Are you talking about the Knox case? Or maybe you are off point completely. For whatever reason, the kangaroo court let her out. Maybe she is innocent and then again maybe not. I’ll say this, if she is guilty this is not the last we have seen of her. If she did it she is an incurable sociopath. You can cover up murder with bleach and fake set up but you can only hide your psychosis for only so long. I’d like to be there to hold people like you and others on this discussion (to your words) board when everyone see’s the real Amanda Knox.
Report Post »brian8793
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:45amThis Amanda Knox girl is a hot babe. I’d take my chances and hit that…
Report Post »Pete
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:05amDidn’t read story. Tired of hearing about a murderer getting a heroes welcome. Cant watch national news, all they do is glorify people who shouldn’t even be given the time of day. Hate the fat lipped woman whose husband hung himself too. Find some real news Blase, not this tabloid crap.
Report Post »rdietz7
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:14amGo to bed Pete
Report Post »dhb1ibo
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 11:39pmEvery time I give my opinion this site automatically censors it, so you’ll just have to guess what I think about this.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 11:59pm.
Report Post »Maybe she and Casey Anthony can share a condo while
their movie deals are in the works.
rdietz7
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:04amDon’t be a little baby. Increase your vocabulary and make offensive comments eloquently.
Report Post »dhb1ibo
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 11:30pmI just want to know if we HAVE to take her back? Don’t we have enough murdering sluts running around free on technicalities in this country??
coindexter
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 11:36pmshe’s hot! love you amanda…i will take care of you and make sure no one ever hurts you. LOL!
Report Post »rdietz7
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:01amCoindexter you must like those old dirty pulp magazines with scantily clad women being molested in prison camps. She looks beat up to me bro. Besides who knows what she caught from all those Guido prison guards and lawyers and magistrates. That little ho worked her way out of there somehow. Just saying. Gross.
Report Post »rdietz7
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:12amI take back the word ‘ ho’ from my last comment and substitute it with the word ‘fox’. Or foxy… as In Foxy Knoxy. You can’t make this stuff up. Sounds like a movie character for Pete’s sake alive.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:54pm“The night the lights went out in Roma”
Report Post »rdietz7
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 11:16pmI’m still confused about who killed who. Was it Vicky Lawrence?
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:24pmWell, I haven‘t followed the case any closer than Casey Anthony’s case. If Knox isn’t guilty of murder, she is an accomplice at the very least and she was involved in a twisted sex trio or whatever it was. She is a dirt bag and is now being welcomed back home as a hero. How about welcoming home our hero troops and let Knox slink back to her disgusting lifestyle?
Report Post »Keats
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:41amAGREED! But letting Knox slink back in to her disgusting lifestyle? Anyone want to go on a sleepover with her or let her watch your kids? Didn’t think so…let us pray she won’t harm anyone else. She played a role of some sort and has shown absolutely no remorse since day 1. Few people die the horrible and traumatic and messy death that Meredith Kercher did. God have mercy on her soul and prayers to the KERCHER FAMILY.
Report Post »Keats
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:48amFor those of you who say you’ve followed this but wonder why she is being called sleazy, you really haven’t followed it. How about the riot she was in (throwing rocks at cars and windows in Seattle) before she left for Italy? Sex on the bus, her writings on MYSPACE page before she left. Guede was a FRIEND of Knox. How many nice American girls have a friend like that? How many choose to work at a sleazy bar in a foreign country? Kercher had complained to her friends – and all of this is part of the 4000 page testimony from the FIRST trial – that she was upset with sharing a house with Knox due to her promiscuity and her uncleanliness? She had even told her friends she was going to confront Knox about leaving feces in and around the shared toilet. Just conveying stuff from the testimony. Not gossip. That is where the “sleazy” remarks originate.
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 8:51amI am not so sure she is being welcomed back as a hero. I think people would like to hear her side of the story. Someone killed that girl. I would like to hear how she thinks blood got on the bottom of her shoes. Her fingerprints would be on any kitchen utensils if she lived there. I would want to hear her explanation of what she think happened if she didn’t have anything to do with it. I am not deciding her guilt or innocence, and I am certainly not welcoming her as a hero. Who is doing that?
Report Post »Agnes
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:16pmHow can she be found guilty four years ago and now innocent? Corruption as usual (O.J. and Casey Anthony). Someone made a lot of money! In the meantime, the victim’s family went home without justice being done and no satisfying answers. Knox will probably get a book deal, appear on all talk shows etc. SICK!
Report Post »Againstallenemies
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:27pmIf she was truly guilty then why didn’t she receive a life sentence the first time around? The courts knew the had no evidence on her. When you rush something you don’t get the satisfaction of knowing the job was done right, and once you realize the job wasn‘t done right then you don’t want to have to own up and face those consequences. She is innocent, and as a fellow American you should be happy to have one of your own back on our soil. God bless this young lady and welcome home!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:38pmAgnes, have you never heard of a miscarriage of justice? Such things can be discovered and corrected in appeals.
Your first sentence is frankly idiotic and unChristian, as well as unAmerican. We are supposed to assume innocense until guilt is proven. If the apeals court say later that it wasn’t proven why would you inist the original court was right. Do you just like to judge people. Shame on you.
Report Post »proantisocialist
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:15pmcan anyone say Casey Anthony?
Report Post »rdietz7
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:43pmThey are being let go. With the Antichrist coming to power I wouldn’t be surprised to see MANSON eating a sandwich at the local Paneara Bread in the near future.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:12pmNow if only that pastor could be so blessed.
Report Post »rdietz7
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:02pmRecently we had the West Memphis three released from prison for the alleged satanic murder of three boys in the 90′s. With this second black mass murder committed on Hallow‘s Mass or All Saint’s Day in 2007, Involving Knox and her boyfriend, it makes you wonder if something else is responsible for the reversal of these once convicted murder’s fates. Maybe both cases are involving wrongly accused or maybe Lucifer is making good for his end of the bargain. Released from incarceration to find a welcoming fan base and new opportunities with their new found celebrity. Something always promised by the dark arts is fame and fortune. Any of these young people can now make money on their story since the convictions were over turned. I can feel it in the air, covering the whole world, it’s like we are waiting for a supernatural explosion to knock us all to our knees.
Report Post »rdietz7
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:29pmOne interesting detail about Amanda and Meredith‘s relationship that came out at the initial stages of the investigation was Amanda’s girly bag filled with sex objects bothering Meredith. Why would a free spirited party girl from London be upset about her roommates carnal toys? Unless she was a virgin? Maybe Meredith really was the goody girl who felt pressured by her peers to be more wreckless with her sexuality. Meredith’s virginity may make her a more suitable sacrifice during those days surrounding Halloween. Legion is running wild at the end of October and influences all who participate in the festival because Legion runs on a collective base.
Report Post »ILoveGlenn
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 9:52pmThank God she’s back with her family.
Report Post »proantisocialist
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:06pmWhat her shoe print in blood was at the sceen,i just hope she doesnt blame it on relations with the U.S.A. for her problems in italy…
if not for the follies of the italian police she wouldve been convicted…thats just my opinion…
Report Post »mbean
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:09pmNow she is free to babysit for you.
Report Post »wordweaver
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 9:43pmAfter all of the hubbub of her release and return home subsides, the real questions will come. Was she there that night? Does she know what happened? Was she a part of it? It will be interesting to see how America at large will treat her.
Report Post »AnAppealToGod
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 9:51pmGood question, but it wasn‘t her and she didn’t deserve to be locked up for 4 years of her life. I got married and had a kid in the last 4 years. That is 4 years of her life, she won’t ever get back.
She and her family live about a mile away from me and they are the kind of people who you could trust with your life. Just hope the media gives her space. If she becomes a big celebrity it will be because the media made her that, not by her choice.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 9:54pmThis is the white female OJ.
Report Post »AnAppealToGod
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:05pmRangerP, you obviously don’t know anything about this case.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 9:42pmShe has been given a chance to turn her life around – I hope she cleans up her act.
Report Post »rdietz7
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 12:56pmTurn her life around?
We ate talking about a near decapitation not a DUI!
You must be a grandma to make that senseless comment. Or joking.
Report Post »Harvickfan29
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 9:36pmHas anyone seen Nancy Grace spewing off at the mouth about her? I guess if you breathe your automatically guilty of murder in Nancy Grace’s eyes. That woman makes me sick and should just shut up.
Report Post »AnAppealToGod
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 9:57pmI stopped watching her a long time ago. Just seeing her name makes me nauseated.
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 8:47amNancy Grace was wrong about the Duke Lacrosse victim. I turned her OFF after that one.
Report Post »ooskerDoo
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 8:55pmeasy?
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 8:52pmI suppose that the appeals court reached the proper decision, but even at that, Knox is sleaze…, and now is celebrity sleaze. She’ll be a shoo-in for a Hollywood spot.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 9:29pmreally. what do you base that on? I know little about the case.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:25pmHow the hell do you know she is a sleaze? You don’t know crap. She could have been set up as a fall guy (gal) for some Italian clown. You don’t know. All I know is that I don’t trust any of those European bastards to give an American a fair shake. If you do, then you are a fool. I am glad she is home in her own country where she belongs.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:43pmI‘m still wondering how you can accept the appeals court’s repudiation of the prosecution’s case and still call Knox “sleaze”. What evidence do you have for that? Or are you just willfully slandering a young woman because it pleases you? There’s a name for that. Dirtbag.
Report Post »Common Sense Jedi
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:34am@ISLESFORDIAN
You want proof of Amanda Knox being a complete sleeze/slut? Well here you go—and these are FACTS openly admitted by Amanda to police and in court and corroborated by Meredith’s best friend Natalie Hayward, as well as countless other news sources:
1. At 20 years of age, Amanda had s#x with *7* people.
2. Of the 7 people Amanda had s#x with, 4 of them were while she was “studying” in Italy—OVER A 1 MONTH TIMEFRAME, ONE OF WHICH WAS ON A TRAIN (confirmed to police, in her diary, and in an e-mail she sent to a friend).
3. Of the 7 people Amanda had s#x with, 1 of them—co-defendent Raffaele Sollecito—she had only known for less than 1 week.
4. A sore spot with Amanda’s roommate Meredith (besides all the dudes she was bringing home to hook up with) was Amanda’s keeping a bag containing a clearly visible vibr@tor out in the open in their bathroom.
5. Speaking of sore spots, it‘s clear to anyone looking at Amanda’s court photos that she has oral herpes—you can do the math there.
6. On the VERY SAME day Italian police closed off her place of stay, Amanda goes lingerie/th0ng shopping with Raffaelle.
7. On her MySpace page, she placed a picture of a n@ked friend (probable lover) she met in Italy named Federico.
8. Amanda carries cond0ms with her whenever she goes out. 3 of the 7 dudes she had s#x with did not use them.
Does the above prove Amanda killed Meredith? No. But it CLEARLY indicates the woman’s a complete SLUT! Do your homework n
Report Post »JayCee
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 6:07amYou are just envious.
Report Post »Common Sense Jedi
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 6:57am@JAYCEE
Please. With the exception of a few sane people out there, 99.9% of the American media coverage paints Amanda as a sweet, innocent, naive young girl who was abused by the evil Italian police and judicial system, which is so far from the truth it’s rediculous. Lots of people, including the person I was replying to, know nothing of the details of this case because of the multi-million dollar PR campaign put out there by the Knox family.
As far as your comment goes, I’d rather not wh0re myself around like Amanda does and pick up an STD(s) like she has. Amanda was tricked (reprehensibly I might add) by the Italian police that she had AIDS, which is how they learned of her promiscuity, especially in Italy. With the rate at which she’s going (again s#x with 4 dudes in just 1 “study abroad” month in Italy), her drug use, and her indifference to safe s#x, I‘m sure it’s only a matter of time before she picks up something worse than herpes. Envious? I don’t think so, but go ahead and believe that if it makes you happy.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:46amI keep tying to respond with an apology to rightthinking but it keeps getting blocked. I should have investigated before criticizng him for his more informed judgment
Report Post »JayCee
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:51pmThe National Enquirer is not a credible news source.
Report Post »sbynyc
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 8:45pmHow to learn to speak fluent Italian in four easy years.
Report Post »Agnes
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 5:11pmGreat comments! I still say that there are many unanswered questions and Knox knows exactly what happened and by whom!
Report Post »JustJerry
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 5:31pmI am loving all the “she did drugs and slept around so she is guilty” posts. This is social conservatism at its finest.
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