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Prison Turning 'Angel Face' Knox Into Tough Con

Ex-inmate's memoir offers glimpse of world behind bars

By Emily Rauhala,  Newser User

Posted Sep 27, 2010 4:24 AM CDT

(Newser) – Prison has been no party for Amanda Knox, claims a new memoir written by a woman incarcerated with the killer. The book, Passeggiando con Amanda—'Walking with Amanda' —chronicles Knox's transformation from fresh-faced undergraduate to hardened prison vet over the course of her trial for the death of Meredith Kercher, reports the Daily News. The book also notes that Knox was pressured by prison guards to take tranquilizers, but she refused.

Author Florisbela Inocencio de Jesus, 58, says Knox was initially ostracized for her looks and her reputation as a "cold dominatrix." However, as months passed, her looks faded and she began to fit in. She is "no longer the beautiful angel girl she had been," the author says. Instead, Amanda is "much more adult," a woman who "in a small amount of time seems to have aged beyond her years." Click here for the latest on the Amanda Knox.

Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison for killing Meredith Kercher.
Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison for killing Meredith Kercher.   (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
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mrwoody
Sep 28, 2010 8:25 AM CDT
Any picture of her new look?
Vide
Sep 27, 2010 11:38 PM CDT
The crime scene was a mess with Guede's fingerprints - none of Amanda or Sollecito... Sollecito's DNA on Meredith's bra clasp: so what? Girls co-habiting often borrow one another's clothes. The justice system in Italy is seriously derailed.
MichaelF1982
Sep 27, 2010 9:46 PM CDT
I am not saying she did it or not, but the evidence is inconclusive at best. In America she would not have been convicted on so little evidence, even if her story kept "evolving".
 

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