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A sad case/mabe lnsane

thanks for the this. i'm a german major at the U of Washington and have been following this story...and can't seem to not be obsessed with it.

This is really a weak case. They found her DNA on a knife from her apartment. Relying on the lazy Italian justice system to process this case makes me so glad I live in the United States. The burden of proof is on the defandant, not the state, she has to prove she did not do this.

As for the Myspace stuff, maybe the multitude of young (and sometimes older) idiots of the world who disclose every aspect of their personal lives to people who can interpret it in an entirely different context will wise up and see the downside of putting it all out there on the web. Everything you do, say or show on the Internet becomes permanent record, and people worry that the government is spying on them?

As for Amanda Knox, I am sure that this is wrecking her family's finances and paralyzing them with worry. Based on the lack of real evidence, I believe she is totally innocent and I hope she is released soon.

Ofcourse once lawyers or parents become aware of the impending homicide charges and the media interest being generated in the case the MySpace pages are made inaccessible. What would one expect a lawyer to do under the circumstances? I would wonder if this "lack of real evidence" and "totally innocent" were not also lawyer-inspired! Damage-control and advocacy issues predominate in situations like this.

I just can't understand the massive personality change. I can't understand it at all. Just because she is a drugged-out slut doesn't mean she had to be so utterly unable to deal with the aftermath of her crime. She utterly failed the clean-up, leaving the task largely to her Italian boyfriend. She had successfully avoided any accusation of theft of her roommate's rent-money. Surely her culinary skills involved some exposure to tasks involving cleaning up afterwards. Surely her barrista experience taught her the need for thorough cleaning. Why is it that just because she is young and perhaps excessively devoted to one-night stands she goes all to pieces after she kills someone and can only make half-hearted efforts at concocting a would-be locked room mystery. She couldn't even get her story straight for the cops! Weird. Seattle Prep kids are supposed to be much smarter! UW honor-students are supposed to have more on the ball than that! What went wrong that she could not complete such simple tasks as getting rid of the blood splatter and the body? How is it she felt more desirous of buying lingerie than keeping control over the cell phones? Alot of people think that after one's first kill there is a desire for alcohol but its far more common to have an intense desire for sex instead. Couldn't she defer her needs for sexual gratification until she had cleaned up the crime scene and disposed of the incriminating evidence?

Sociopath? Perhaps, but why such an incompetent one? Usually they are rather skilled at doing what has to be done such as cleaning up a crime scene and exercising control over co-conspirators.

People seem to be focusing on her being somewhat of a slut and her interest in men who are low-lifes but there seems to be a lack of focus on why she was so utterly inept at murder. Sociopaths are usually good at that sort of thing.

Any new updates on this case? I haven't seen/heard anything new...

I want to know more recent information....I seriously believe Amanda is innoccent. I think that her boyfriend killed Meredith...and her being the young American Teen she is had an obsession in that relationship....so did what she had to do to help him out....she didnt stop to think what was going to happen to her....poor girl I think she is totally innocent and now she is sitting behind bars for that murder. Now as far as Meredith: I am truly sad to hear of her death. I pray she will forever rest in peace may the Lord be with her and her family always....and as for the sick disgusted murderer
(which I belive was te Boyfriend of amanda knox)....May rot into the walls of his current surroundings and when he is parished may his soul suffer and always be burning in the depths of HELL

just seen yhe tonight programme shown itv england.her trial is tommorow and from what ive seen im sure she is inocent.good luck with trial

What's wrong with people today. Drinking wine and writing strange storys that also include some sex and violence makes you suspicious?
Well I guess then Stephen King is suspicious of having committed every unsolved crime in the US, hmmm?
Drinking? Guilty!
Writing? Guilty!
Killing? Well, sounds only logic, lol!
Oh, and she does not show the mourning that we are all used to from Hollywood Cinema and acts strange and inaproppriate - that sure makes her a murderer.

I'm not saying that she's not guilty - but the way the public and press makes her a sex crazed serial killer reminds me of the burning of witches in the medieval times.

Very tragic case.
I think Meredith and Amanda became fast friends, but Amanda was more sexually adventureous and eventually they fell out. Meredith probably got annoyed and went to be early the night she was killed while Amanda and her friends continued to party, boozing and taking drugs. The hree accused got carried away and started having sex. Meredith was probably asleep and they wanted her to join in the fun but she told them to get out of her room. Something snapped and they killed her. They are probably remorseful now but it's too late for sorry.

She's as guilty as sand to me-and people who criticise the Italian legal system don't get it-leaks, interviews, diary entries all making their way into the media- these are her lawyers' methods to deflect, deny and confuse. This is because they are running scared of the evidence that will be produced at her trial.
As for the trial itself they are completely paranoid about that-I say she will never take the stand-an organised PR campaign pre-trial is one thing-the chance that she might crack-up completely on the stand is too much for these guys to take
Give her 40 years as a lesbian!

you have to think when u r oversea - in a world nobody knows u - far awaay from home - maybe the first time without parents familiy and friends - then sometimes people change from the sweet honey into a drinking and drug using sex girl. cause nobody knows. and then italy where is a open feeling - party fun sex alcohol drugs are normal in the old europe. and sometimes happen things that u cant understand in your small behavied world because the real world is hard unfair und fucking. an kids like amanda meredith and so on they are from rich parents, they dont have a mind for such things.
always party party party - espaccaly amanda.
look into her eyes. cold. dark. dead.
i think something happend there really badly -
and amanda was involved. but i dont think she was the murder from meredith but she is also guilty. and mostly poor little rich girl buy her freedom.
and the black drugdealer got 30years.
because no money and black.

Here in her hometown neighborhood, family and friends ( and the local newspaper) persist in trotting her out as the ivory snow baby. Next they'll be suggesting she is still a virgin, and that, okay, she smoked some hash, but she "didn't inhale". You don't have to travel across an ocean to try on a new persona; any small town kid who has gone away to college has had a chance to be thrown in with 'exotic' experiences, and to let their judgement slip. This girl mostly sounds like a flake. What were her convictions, pre-Perugia, on political matters in the world? On the suffering of underprivileged people anywhere? As a mixed race,24 year old myself, I have encountered people my own age for whom I could never be white enough ( in 21st century America!!!), but they still thought they were cool to be seen with me! Read The Stranger article, "The Education of Amanda Knox, for her distasteful comment to a coworker at the World Cup. Was this her idea of clever repartee?
I see a xenophobe at work; Meredith, as a mixed-race girl, was an inconsequential sacrifice. (Why was Amanda so insistent that Meredith come home on that particular evening? Was Amanda setting her up?) And to finger Mr. Lumumba as the Killer, when Amanda supposedly had no particular information as to the perpetrator's i.d. ( wasn't home/oops/was home but had her ears covered)? What's one more black man in prison, eh? People here(in Seattle) have this phony PC thing where they are afraid to make racial suggestions . I think she was flirting with danger (ooh, ooh! I kissed a non white! How daring! What would My friends back home say? OOh I wrote a story about murder. I'm so shocking!!!) And now you're in prison---top that with your silly myspace page.

Give her the chair.

Amandas parents have got a pretty good fund raising band wagon going so they are hardly likely to admit that the DNA evidence will put their daughter at the scene while a young girl bled slowly to death, possible contamination of evidence does not put a bloody foot print on a bed sheet.

Italy is not some third world banana republic were confessions are routinly beaten out of a suspect, it has a multi teired justice system that has on all levelles found sufficient evidence to prosecute. I have followed this case in the US,UK and Italian media and the reporting differs greatly from poor innocent abroad to cold calculating bitch.

If she is convicted it wont be because of pages on her myspace it will be because she has proved herself to be a liar. An innocent person only has one story to tell Amanda has told several different versions of the events that night and that does not say innocent to me.

Tn The reports that I have read particularly in the Italian media Amanda appears to think she is the most important person in this case, she isn't the most important person is Merrideth Kercher

My opinion my well be wrong that is for the jury to decide. I do know one thing and that is if I was her father I would be demanding a lie detector test though it would not be admissable as evidence it would help prove to the folks back home her guilt or innocence.

They have already prosecuted that Rudy guy why is it so hard to believe he did this alone???? She was petite. He easily overwhelmed her happens all the time. Why would Amanda throw her future away, she was happy and smart......give her a break people what if it was u in her shoes ease up!!!!!!!! Jeeeeeeez.

Amanda is the murder, 100%. In her eyes ... these look like an mentally ill person. She laughts in the judgment as she had speak with her lawyer. Who laughts when a friend has died?

From everything that I've seen and read about this case, I believe that both Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are innocent and that Rudy Guede is the sole murderer and rapist.

The Italian Prosecutor's office has been throwing out false information and fabricated lies during the past 1 1/2 years in order to bias people against 2 of the defendants Amanda and Raffaele.

If this crime had occurred in the U.S., neither Amanda nor Raffaele would be in jail nor prosecuted since there is no actual evidence suggesting in any way that they participated in this horrible crime.

I've been following Amanda Knox's case for quite a while, and while I don't know if she's innocent or guilty, I just wanted to comment on how you claim her Myspace page "shows a couple inconsistencies between the person she claims to be and the murder suspect being portrayed by the media", which you have only inferred from checking out her interests in the "About Me" area of her page versus the "Details" section.
I am a longtime Myspace user (pretty much since it started out). It is quite common to log on and just update little things here & there on your personal page, like the "General" or "About Me" sections (as things occur to you to put there) or "Movies" or "Music" (as you see/hear new things). When you go to edit your profile, the large area where you edit your interests pops up first, and that's what people are usually most concerned with filling in and it's also where you add your HTML code for your backgrounds, etc. Here's the list of categories that come up (in order) on this one page:

Headline:
About me:
Who I'd Like to Meet:
General:
Music:
Movies:
Television:
Books:
Heroes:

However, the following categories are all on separate pages, which require you to wait for each individual page to load:
Name

Basic Info

Details (the section you're referring to)

Schools

Companies

Networking

This is probably because this is information that mostly stays the same, unless you have a life change such as getting married, changing or graduating college, or starting a new job. Nobody changes this info very often, whereas with the regular profile info, you do. I have been guilty of forgetting to change this info myself for a new job, though I remembered to do it when I got married. Sometimes you just get wrapped up in other things, and in the grand scheme of things, it's just not a big deal. It's a MYSPACE PAGE. Something people have to connect with their friends because it's more fun than e-mail, not something intended to be scrutinized to the last detail by police investigators.

Also, it's very possible that when she joined Myspace, she was not a drinker/smoker, and then took it up later. It happens all the time, especially at her age. She might not have wanted to list herself as a drinker until she was legal to drink, or maybe she didn't drink yet. I'm a 30-year-old female, both scenarios are completely normal. And that's really not something you'd think to change in the "Details" area of your page, which is probably why she put that she liked wine in her "About Me" area, which would be getting changed much more often.

I read somewhere that she'd had a boyfriend back in Seattle, and that they broke up before her trip to Italy, so it's quite possible that was why she did not list her Italian boyfriend on her page because she didn't want to hurt his feelings. (I had an ex-boyfriend who left himself listed he was single because he tried to stay friends with his ex-girlfriends, who were all on his myspace page. Not a good idea, but it happens.)

And because she liked "Fight Club" and "American Beauty", her interests are "subversive" and "Shrek", "The Lion King" and "Finding Nemo", she's "childish"??? The films you refer to as "subversive" were critically acclaimed & are amazing pieces of art. (Art is intended to provoke a reaction.) I also have them listed in my interests on my own Myspace page, along with plenty of other films you'd probably consider "subversive", like "Revolutionary Road", "The Clockwork Orange", and a zillion others, and I am definitely NOT some kind of subversive freak. I'm a happily married woman who enjoys good art. As for the "childish" ones, everyone has their favorite Disney movies, and I'm sure YOU even liked "Shrek". Most people I know do, and they certainly don't have childish taste.

Of course the internet is a public arena, but what could people analyze from reading your blog? That you're quick to jump to conclusions, judgmental, and should really do more investigating, particularly about Myspace, before making your ridiculous assumptions. You would think that something called the "Seattle Crime Blog" would be more reputable and focus on the facts, but this is, in reality, no better than all the horrible tabloid-ish foreign press that Amanda Knox is getting that has made her "the most hated woman in Italy" (according to CBS news).