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  • September 2008

    • 'Foxy Knoxy' Faces Old Flame

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Sep 26, 08 12:50 PM CDT

      'Foxy Knoxy' Faces Old Flame

      (Newser) - Amanda Knox saw her one-time boyfriend in an Italian court today for the first time since they were arrested on suspicion of killing her British roommate, reports the Telegraph . The pair can’t write each other, but Raffaelo Sollecito sent the 21-year-old American flowers on her July birthday. They met at the trial for Rudy Guede, the third person prosecutors have accused of the murder. More »

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      Italy  • murder trial  • Meredith Kercher  • Amanda Knox  • University of Washington  • Perugia  • Raffaele Sollecito  • Rudy Hermann Guede

    • Italian Judge Will Set Course for Knox Case

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer  |  Sep 16, 08 7:19 AM CDT

      Italian Judge Will Set Course for Knox Case

      (Newser) - An Italian judge will review evidence today to decide if Amanda Knox, jailed in Italy for 10 months as a suspect in the killing of 20-year-old British roommate Meredith Kercher, should go free or face a trial, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. Attorneys will argue both sides of the case in a private hearing examining Knox, 21, and two other defendants. More »

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      murder  • Italy  • judge  • Meredith Kercher  • Amanda Knox  • Perugia

  • July 2008

    • Murder Indictment Sought Against Amanda Knox

      Associated Press  |  Jul 11, 08 10:35 AM CDT

      Murder Indictment Sought Against Amanda Knox

      (AP) - Prosecutors are seeking murder indictments against Amanda Knox and two other suspects in the death of the British college student who was Knox's roomate in Italy, the AP reports. Prosecutors in Perugia requested that Knox, 21, of Seattle; her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito; and Ivory Coast citizen Rudy Hermann Guede be tried in connection with the death of Meredith Kercher, who was strangled and stabbed in November. More »

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      murder  • Italy  • college student  • Meredith Kercher  • Amanda Knox  • Raffaele Sollecito  • Rudy Hermann Guede

  • April 2008

    • Amanda Knox: 'Railroad Job From Hell'?

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer  |  Apr 13, 08 2:00 PM CDT

      Amanda Knox: 'Railroad Job From Hell'?

      (Newser) - Amanda Knox , the 20-year-old University of Washington student who's been held by Italian police since November as a suspect in her British roommate's murder, is the victim of a “railroad job from hell,”  an investigator hired by the “48 Hours Mystery” to review the case concluded. "They've put so much into Amanda Knox, they have to convict her now or they look like fools," he says on the show, broadcast last night. More »

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      murder  • Italy  • DNA evidence  • Meredith Kercher  • Amanda Knox  • University of Washington  • Perugia  • Raffaele Sollecito

  • January 2008

    • New DNA Found on Slain British Student's Bra

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Jan 31, 08 5:45 PM CST

      New DNA Found on Slain British Student's Bra

      (Newser) - Mystery DNA found on the bra of Meredith Kercher could point to more players in the November murder of the British student in Italy, the Telegraph reports, though police maintain the traces indicate only that others handled it. "All we know for certain is that it does not match any of the suspects," a source says. More »

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      crime  • Italy  • rape  • DNA  • Meredith Kercher  • Amanda Knox  • Perugia

    • Wholesome Seattle Girl or Foxy Knoxy?

      Times (UK)  |  Jan 13, 08 10:31 AM CST

      Wholesome Seattle Girl or Foxy Knoxy?

      (Newser) - She claims to be “a girl of 20, who came to Perugia to learn Italian,” but on her blog, Amanda Knox—accused by Italian police of sexually abusing and murdering British student Meredith Kercher, 21—more aptly nicknamed herself "Foxy Knoxy." The Times of London reports on the divide between the wholesome Seattle girl she says she is and the wild side she might've overly indulged in Italy. More »

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      murder  • Meredith Kercher  • Amanda Knox  • Perugia  • Raffaele Sollecito  • Rudy Hermann Guede

  • December 2007

    • 'Group Attack' Led to Meredith Slaying: Judge

      Times (UK)  |  Dec 20, 07 12:36 PM CST

      'Group Attack' Led to Meredith Slaying: Judge

      (Newser) - An Italian judge yesterday upheld a decision to detain the three suspects in the murder of Meredith Kercher, saying that "none of them can be said to have played a passive role." The Times of London reports that the court in Perugia has seen evidence suggesting that Kercher's roommate Amanda Knox, her Italian boyfriend, and a third suspect all participated in a "group attack" on the British exchange student. More »

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      Italy  • Meredith Kercher  • Amanda Knox  • Perugia  • Raffaele Sollecito  • Rudy Hermann Guede

    • Tape Puts Amanda at Murder Scene

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Dec 1, 07 2:04 PM CST

      Tape Puts Amanda at Murder Scene

      (Newser) - An American student suggested in a bugged jailhouse meeting with her parents that she was home when her flatmate in Italy was murdered, the Telegraph reports. The disclosure contradicts earlier claims by Amanda Knox. "From the bugged recording it is possible to understand that she was in the house," a police source says. "She denies everything, but we did submit this evidence." More »

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      murder  • Italy  • Meredith Kercher  • Amanda Knox  • sex crime  • extreme sex

  • November 2007

    • Murder Suspect 'Serene' Behind Bars in Italy

      Times (UK)  |  Nov 29, 07 5:12 PM CST

      Murder Suspect 'Serene' Behind Bars in Italy

      (Newser) - Amanda Knox, the American student suspected in a murder in Italy, told an Italian legislator she has adjusted to life in prison, a day before her lawyers will argue she should be placed instead under house arrest. The Times of London reports that Knox said the first few days were "very tough," but now she feels "serene." More »

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      Italy  • Meredith Kercher  • Amanda Knox

    • Amanda: 'I Didn't Kill Meredith'

      CNN  |  Nov 23, 07 10:11 AM CST

      Amanda: 'I Didn't Kill Meredith'

      (Newser) - A US student under suspicion in the murder of her British roommate  in Italy is claiming drugs have blurred her memory of the night Meredith Kercher was killed. In a statement obtained by CNN, Amanda Knox of Seattle insists she does know one thing: "I didn't kill Meredith." Knox told police she has only "flashes of blurred images" of what occurred. More »

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      murder  • Italy  • rape  • Meredith Kercher  • Amanda Knox  • Perugia  • Raffaele Sollecito  • Rudy Hermann Guede

    • Media Frenzy Creates Trial by Gossip

      Times (UK)  |  Nov 15, 07 8:31 AM CST

      Media Frenzy Creates Trial by Gossip

      (Newser) - The media frenzy over high-profile international cases like those of missing girl Madeleine McCann and murdered student Meredith Kercher makes it nearly impossible for the justice system to function, writes Times of London columnist Magnus Linklater. Neither case, he writes, "has demonstrated the two prerequisites of a just legal process: an unbiased police inquiry and the presentation of untainted evidence in court." More »

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      media  • Madeleine McCann  • Meredith Kercher

    • Yank Changes Story in UK Roomie's Death

      Guardian (UK)  |  Nov 11, 07 2:37 PM CST

      Yank Changes Story in UK Roomie's Death

      (Newser) - The American flatmate of a murdered UK student has reversed her story a second time, telling Italian police that she wasn't home at the time of Meredith Kercher's death, the Guardian reports. Kercher's body, meanwhile, was flown home despite a move by lawyers for the suspects—Seattle native Amanda Knox, her Italian boyfriend, and local bar owner Patrick Lumumba— for more time to dismantle claims about time of death. More »

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      police  • Rome  • Meredith Kercher  • Amanda Knox  • Perugia  • Raffaele Sollecito  • exchange student

    • Yank Roomie & Lover Held in Murder of British Student

      Guardian (UK)  |  Nov 7, 07 4:23 AM CST

      Yank Roomie & Lover Held in Murder of British Student

      (Newser) - The American roommate of a murdered British student, the flatmate's boyfriend and a bar manager have been detained by Italian police after their alibis collapsed, reports the Guardian . The roomie has already confessed to the macabre crime that police believe was committed during a sexual assault, according to the Telegraph . Meredith Kercher, 21, was found half-naked with her throat cut in a Perugia flat. More »

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      murder  • Italy  • rape  • assault  • Meredith Kercher  • Perugia

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