Amanda Knox Blog Wars Cross the Line

This photo, by Flickr user TheImpressionist.co.uk, is one of the many odd turns the Amanda Knox case has taken on the web: crime-inspired erotica.

The Seattle P-I has an interesting article on the escalating war of online words between Amanda Knox supporters and those who think she's guilty. We wrote a short post about this back in January, but things have apparently radically escalated since the first salvos were fired.

According to the P-I story, Peggy Ganong, a West Seattle-based translator who moderates the forum Perugia Murder File and who is avowedly a skeptic over the question of Knox's guilt, has filed a harassment report with Seattle police. According to Ganong, some aggressive supporters of Knox have used pro-Knox blogs like Perugia Shock to make public information about Ganong. Amanda Knox's step-father Chris Mellas was named in the report, though he denies any involvement. The Mellases apparently live near Ganong.

"I am supposed to somehow get behind the home team. It is as simple as that," Ganong told the P-I. "But I had ongoing doubts, I continued to express that opinion, and that's when I became a target. But the fact that it has spilled over into real life, well there's something scary and terribly wrong about it."

According to the article, Ganong finally went to the police "after posters published her husband's first and last name, the approximate location of their home, information about their family life, as well as shopping and personal habits, much of which had been gleaned from public-records searches, Facebook and other online portals."

Talk about trolls.