Many people are still wondering how an attractive honor student, studying abroad for a year and dubbed "Foxy Knoxy," could have become involved in the grisly throat-slashing and rape of her equally attractive female roommate who was found dead in her room after she had attended a Halloween party the previous Wednesday evening where, according to MSNBC, she had been accompanied by a person wearing a mask made famous in the "Scream" movies. Nonetheless, Italian police are alleging that 20-year-old Amanda Knox was involved in the brutal murder of Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old British exchange student, whose bloody, half-naked body was found on Friday morning, November 2, 2007 in the apartment that she shared with Amanda and two other young women. For friends and relatives of the Seattle-area native and University of Washington honor student, Amanda’s alleged involvement in Meredith Kercher’s murder just could not have happened and must be some sort of mistake, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. But to the police in the central Italian city of Perugia located 105 miles north of Rome and well-known for its chocolate, Amanda, along with her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, 23, and another man, Patrick Diya Lumumba, 37, a Congolese musician who owned the Perugia bar where Amanda worked, there is little, if any, doubt of Amanda’s alleged complicity in the brutal murder that made headline news all across Europe. "The motive appears sexual, but Meredith was morally innocent," Perugia Police Chief Arturo de Felice told The Daily Telegraph of London. "She was the victim, not a participant." The police chief said that Meredith had died while trying to fight off a sexual attack. When Meredith’s body was discovered in her room, her bloodied shirt was found bunched up around her slashed and stabbed neck. According to the coroner’s report, Meredith had died a "slow, agonizing death." According to the police chief, Knox and her boyfriend, the son of an Italian doctor, told investigators that they had found Meredith dead when they returned to the apartment and discovered that it had been ransacked by burglars. |
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