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Amanda Marie Knox (born July 9, 1987) is an American author, activist, and journalist. She spent almost four years incarcerated in Italy following her wrongful conviction for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, a fellow exchange student with whom she shared an apartment in Perugia. In 2015, Knox was definitively acquitted by the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation.Knox, aged 20 at the time of the murder, called the police after returning to her and Kercher's apartment following a night spent with her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and finding Kercher's bedroom door locked and blood in the bathroom. During the police interrogations that followed, the conduct of which is a matter of dispute, Knox allegedly implicated herself and her employer, Patrick Lumumba, in the murder. Initially, Knox, Sollecito, and Lumumba were all arrested for Kercher's murder, but Lumumba was soon released due to him having a strong alibi. A known burglar, Rudy Guede, was arrested a short time later following the discovery of his bloodstained fingerprints on Kercher's possessions. He was later found guilty of murder in a fast-track trial and was sentenced to a 30-year prison sentence, later reduced to 16 years. In December 2020, an Italian court ruled that Guede could complete his term doing community service.In their initial trial, in 2009, Knox and Sollecito were convicted and sentenced to 26 and 25 years in prison, respectively. Pre-trial publicity in Italian media, which was repeated by other media worldwide, portrayed Knox in a negative light, leading to complaints that the prosecution was using character assassination tactics. A guilty verdict at Knox's initial trial and her 26-year sentence caused international controversy, as US forensic experts thought evidence at the crime scene was incompatible with her involvement. A prolonged legal process, including a successful prosecution appeal against her acquittal at a second-level trial, continued after Knox was freed in 2011. On March 27, 2015, Italy's highest court definitively exonerated Knox and Sollecito. However, Knox's conviction for committing defamation against Lumumba was upheld by all courts. On January 14, 2016, Knox was acquitted of defamation for saying she had been struck by policewomen during the interrogation.Knox subsequently became an author, an activist, and a journalist. Her memoir, Waiting to Be Heard, became a best seller. In 2018, she began hosting The Scarlet Letter Reports, a television series which examined the "gendered nature of public shaming". Early life Amanda Knox was born July 9, 1987, in Seattle, Washington, the eldest of three daughters born to Edda Mellas, a mathematics teacher originally from Germany, and Curt Knox, a vice president of finance for Macy's. Knox and her sisters were raised in West Seattle. Her parents divorced when she was 10 years old, after which her mother remarried to Chris Mellas, an information technology consultant.Knox first travelled to Italy on a family holiday at the age of 15. During that first trip to Italy, she visited Rome, Pisa, the Amalfi Coast, and the ruins of Pompeii. Upon reading Under the Tuscan Sun, which was given to her by her mother, Amanda's interest in the country increased.Knox graduated from the Seattle Preparatory School in 2005 and then studied linguistics at the University of Washington. In 2007, she made the dean's list at the university. She worked at part-time jobs to fund an academic year in Italy. Relatives described the 20-year-old Knox as outgoing but unwary. Her stepfather had strong reservations about her going to Italy that year, as he felt she was still too naïve. Italy Via della Pergola 7 Knox had come to Perugia for its universities and because it had fewer tourists than Florence, a more popular destination for foreign students. Knox lived in a four-bedroom, ground-floor apartment at Via della Pergola 7 with three other women. Her flatmates were Kercher (a British exchange student) and two Italian trainee lawyers in their late twenties, one of whom was Filomena Romanelli. Kercher and Knox moved in on September 10 and 20, 2007, respectively, meeting each other for the first time. Knox was employed part-time at a bar, Le Chic, which was owned by a Congolese man, Diya Patrick Lumumba. Kercher's English female friends saw relatively little of Knox, who preferred to socialize with Italians.Giacomo Silenzi, who lived in a walk-out semi-basement apartment of the building, shared an interest in music with Kercher and Knox and he often visited their apartment. Returning home at 2 a.m. one night in mid-October, Knox, Kercher, Silenzi, and another basement resident met a basketball court acquaintance of the Italians, Rudy Guede in the basement apartment. At 4:30 a.m. Kercher left, saying she was going to bed, and Knox followed her out. Guede spent the rest of the night in the basement. Knox recalled a second night out with Kercher and Silenzi in which Guede joined them in the basement apartment.Three weeks before her death, Kercher went with Knox to the EuroChocolate festival. On October 20, Kercher became romantically involved with Silenzi, after going to a nightclub with him as part of a small group that included Knox. Guede visited the basement later that day. On October 25, Kercher and Knox went to a concert, where Knox met Raffaele Sollecito, a 23-year-old software engineer student. She began spending her time at his flat, a five-minute walk from Via della Pergola 7. Discovery of Meredith Kercher's body November 1 was a public holiday, and the Italians living in the building were away. It is believed that after watching a movie at some friends' house, Kercher returned home around 9 pm that evening and was alone in the building. Just after midday on November 2, Knox called Kercher's English phone. But contrary to her normal practice, the call was not answered. Knox then called her roommate Filomena Romanelli, and in a mixture of Italian and English said she was worried something had happened to Kercher, as on going to Via della Pergola 7 apartment earlier that morning Knox had noticed an open front door, bloodstains (including a footprint) in the bathroom, and Kercher's bedroom door locked. Knox and Sollecito then went to Via della Pergola 7, and on getting no answer from Kercher unsuccessfully tried to break in the bedroom door, leaving it noticeably damaged. At 12:47 p.m., Knox called her mother and was told to contact the police as an emergency.Sollecito called the Carabinieri, one of Italy's national police forces, getting through at 12:51 p.m. He was recorded telling them there had been a break-in with nothing taken, and the emergency was that Kercher's door was locked, she was not answering calls to her phone, and there were bloodstains. Police telecommunications investigators arrived to inquire about an abandoned phone, which was in fact Kercher's Italian unit. Romanelli arrived and took over, explaining the situation to the police who .... Discover the Amanda Knox popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Amanda Knox books.

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  • The Witch of New York synopsis, comments

    The Witch of New York

    Alex Hortis

    Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthonybefore even Lizzie Bordenthere was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation...

  • Io vengo con te synopsis, comments

    Io vengo con te

    Rocco Girlanda

    "Questo libro è nato per caso, dopo tanti incontri con Amanda dei quali ho cercato di tenere un mio diario privato e personale, il più possibile preciso e dettagliato. Tutto nasce ...

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    Outlandia

    Georgia Angelis

    A spicy erotic historical novel set in the nineteenth century...Shipwrecked on the remote South Sea island of Wahwu, at first, Iona Stanley longs for the temperateness of England. ...

  • The Perfect Mother synopsis, comments

    The Perfect Mother

    Nina Darnton

    NOW A NETFLIX SERIES!When an American exchange student is accused of murder, her mother will stop at nothing to save her. A midnight phone call shatters Jennifer Lewis’s carefully ...

  • Amanda Knox and the Perugia Murder synopsis, comments

    Amanda Knox and the Perugia Murder

    Jacopo Pezzan & Giacomo Brunoro

    On December 5, 2009, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty of the murder of Meredith Kercher. In December of the following year, the appeal trial began. Despite the ...

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    The Monster of Perugia

    Mark C. Waterbury, Ph.D.

    The Monster of Perugia – The Framing of Amanda Knox, is a work of literary nonfiction that is unlike any other book about the events surrounding the murder of Meredith Kercher. By ...

  • Amanda Knox e il delitto di Perugia synopsis, comments

    Amanda Knox e il delitto di Perugia

    Jacopo Pezzan

    Il 5 dicembre 2009 Amanda Knox e Raffaele Sollecito sono stati condannati per il brutale omicidio di Meredith Kercher. Nel 2011 arriva invece la sentenza di appello: assolti per no...

  • Talk with Amanda Knox in Prison synopsis, comments

    Talk with Amanda Knox in Prison

    Rocco Girlanda

    Amanda Knox’s prison stay in Italy was made bearable by the visits of one man who took it upon himself to ease her life behind bars, and to eventually leave the country . At the ti...

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    Todesstiche

    Nina Darnton

    Sie ist ein UNSCHULDIGER Engel. Sie ist eine eiskalte Mörderin. Die Wahrheit kennt nur sie selbst.Der Anruf kommt mitten in der Nacht und bringt die heile Welt von Jennifer Lewis z...

  • A Death in Italy synopsis, comments

    A Death in Italy

    John Follain

    London Times journalist John Follain presents the most comprehensive account of the most publicized and controversial trial in a decadeShortly after 12:30pm on November 2, 2007, It...

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    The Fatal Gift of Beauty

    Nina Burleigh

    Awardwinning author and journalist Nina Burleigh’s mesmerizing literary investigation of the murder of Meredith Kercher, the controversial prosecution, the conviction and twentysix...

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    Justice in the Age of Judgment

    Anne Bremner & Doug Bremner

    From Amanda Knox to O.J., Casey Anthony to Kyle Rittenhouse, our justice system faces scrutiny and pressure from the media and public like never before.  Can the bedrock of “i...

  • The Hot One synopsis, comments

    The Hot One

    Carolyn Murnick

    A truecrime, comingofage story with a tragic twist: a New York editor’s quest to uncover the truth about the brutal murder of her wild and seductive friend in a “riveting…and thoug...

  • Der Engel mit den Eisaugen synopsis, comments

    Der Engel mit den Eisaugen

    Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi

    Im italienischen Perugia wird die britische Studentin Meredith Kercher brutal in ihrer Wohnung ermordet. Hauptverdächtige sind ihre amerikanische Mitbewohnerin Amanda Knox und ihr ...

  • Unschuldig synopsis, comments

    Unschuldig

    Amy Lloyd

    Dennis ist ein verurteilter Mörder. Sam glaubt an seine Unschuld. Sie und hunderte andere Menschen weltweit kämpfen in einer groß angelegten Kampagne für seine Freilassung. Onlinef...

  • Transmedia Crime Stories synopsis, comments

    Transmedia Crime Stories

    Lieve Gies & Maria Bortoluzzi

    This collection focuses on media representations of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, defendants in the Meredith Kercher murder case. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, encom...

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    Those Who Prey

    Jennifer Moffett

    Sadie meets The Girls in this riveting debut psychological thriller about a lonely college freshman seduced into joining a cultand her desperate attempt to escape before it’s too l...

  • Murder in Italy synopsis, comments

    Murder in Italy

    Candace Dempsey

    The true story behind the notorious international murderupdated to cover Amanda Knox's acquittal.In Perugia, Italy, on November 2, 2007, police discovered the body of a British col...

  • He Killed Them All synopsis, comments

    He Killed Them All

    Jeanine Pirro

    Former prosecutor Jeanine Pirrothe “true hero” (New York Post) of the hit HBO documentary series The Jinxoffers the transfixing true story of her tireless fifteenyear investigation...

  • The Amanda Knox Story synopsis, comments

    The Amanda Knox Story

    ABC News

    American college student Amanda Knox had been studying in Italy for just a few weeks when she was arrested and charged with the brutal murder of her British roommate. The Amanda Kn...

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    The Tall Man

    Phoebe Locke

    YOU DON'T FIND HIM... HE FINDS YOU.'THE MUSTREAD SUMMER CHILLER' Daily Express'GENUINELY SCARY' Observer'IF YOU READ JUST ONE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER THIS YEAR MAKE IT THE TALL M...

  • Honor Bound synopsis, comments

    Honor Bound

    Raffaele Sollecito & Andrew Gumbel

    They were accused of one of the most infamous murders of our time. Targeted by the media, sentenced by the courts, and wrongfully imprisoned for four excruciating years for a crime...

  • Changing Times synopsis, comments

    Changing Times

    Mary Jane Staples

    It is 1953 Coronation year and like all of Cockney London the members of the Adams family are looking forward to the celebrations. Chinese Lady, now Lady Finch, worries that her ...

  • Die Kunst, nicht aneinander vorbeizureden synopsis, comments

    Die Kunst, nicht aneinander vorbeizureden

    Malcolm Gladwell

    Unsere Instrumente und Strategien, mit denen wir andere Menschen verstehen wollen, funktionieren nicht, schreibt Bestsellerautor Malcolm Gladwell. Und weil wir nicht wissen, wie wi...

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    Cartwheel

    Jennifer DuBois

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYSlate  Cosmopolitan  Salon BuzzFeed BookPageWritten with the riveting storytelling of authors like Emma Donoghue, Adam Johnson...

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    Angel Face

    Barbie Latza Nadeau

    Despite all the airtime devoted to Amanda Knox, it's still hard to reconcile the freshfaced honor student from Seattle with the sexually rapacious killer convicted of the November ...

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    Serial Killers

    Brian Innes

    The Terrifying Story of the Most Monstrous Serial Killers through History.Serial Killers are the most notorious and disturbing of all criminals, representing the very darkest side ...