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Fellow Inmate Pens Book on Amanda Knox's Life in Prison

The Amanda Knox case is certainly helping to revive the flagging book-publishing industry. Recently we interviewed a local author of a book largely sympathetic to the 23-year-old former UW student serving time in an Italian prison for the 2007 murder of one of her flatmates in Perugia, Italy.

Now the Daily Beast has word of a new book by one of Knox's companions in Capanne prison, a 58-year-old Brazilian woman who served time on drug charges, offers a glimpse into Knox's daily life in prison.

Florisbela Inocencio de Jesus self-published her work, Passeggiando con Amanda (which translates to "Walking With Amanda").

De Jesus tells the Daily Beast that Knox was polite and friendly upon her arrival, but withdrew and looked more aged as the trial progressed, then finally fit in among fellow prisoners. The author shares mundane daily details of Knox's prison life and tidbits like other inmates' fondness for gossiping about her supposed promiscuity.

According to a Newsweek report out today (but the same woman who authored the Daily Beast piece) prison guards say Knox now spends her days reading and laying low as she prepares to appeal her murder conviction this fall. The article also notes that well-meaning Americans who claim Knox's innocence and impugn the Italian justice system are actually doing more harm than good. Such claims receive snide and unfavorable treatment in Italian press, according to the article, and reinforce the stereotype of snotty, self-congratulatory Americans.

Yet another book about Knox's imprisonment is due out in Italy this fall.

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  • Harry Rag

    Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were unanimously found guilty of the murder of Meredith Kercher because the evidence against them was overwhelming.

    They repeatedly told the police a pack of lies in the days after Meredith's murder.

    On 5 November 2007, Knox and Sollecito were confronted with proof that they had lied and were given another opportunity to tell the truth. However, they both chose to tell the police even more lies.

    Sollecito's new alibi was shattered by computer forensic evidence and his mobile phone records.

    Knox accused an innocent man, Diya Lumumba, of murdering Meredith despite knowing full well that he was completely innocent. She didn't recant her false and malicious allegation against Lumumba the whole time he was in prison. She admitted that it was her fault that Lumumba was in prison in an intercepted conversation with her mother.

    Knox's account of what happened on 2 November 2007 is contradicted by her mobile phone records.

    Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito both gave multiple conflicting alibis. Neither Knox nor Sollecito have credible alibis for the night of the murder despite three attempt each. At the trial, Sollecito refused to corroborate Knox's alibi that she was at his apartment.

    Rudy Guede's bloody footprints led straight out of Meredith's room and out of the house. He didn't lock Meredith's door, remove his trainers, go into Filomena's room or the bathroom that Meredith and Knox shared.

    He didn't scale the vertical wall outside Filomena's room or gain access through the window. The break-in was clearly staged. This indicates that somebody who lived at the cottage was trying to deflect attention away from themselves and give the impression that a stranger had broken in and killed Meredith.

    Guede had no reason to stage the break-in and there was no physical evidence that he went into Filomena's room.

    The scientific police found a mixture of Amanda Knox's DNA and Meredith's blood on the floor.

    There was no physical evidence that Rudy Guede went into the blood-spattered bathroom. However, the scientific police found irrefutable proof that Knox and Sollecito tracked Meredith's blood into this bathroom.

    Amanda Knox’s DNA was found mingled with Meredith’s blood in three different places in the bathroom: on the ledge of the basin, on the bidet, and on a box of Q Tips cotton swabs. Knox's DNA and Meredith's blood had united into one single streak on the basin and bidet which means they were deposited simultaneously.

    Sollecito left a visible bloody footprint on the blue bathmat.

    According to two imprint experts, the woman's bloody shoeprint on the pillow under Meredith's body matched Knox's foot size. The bloody shoeprint was incompatible with Meredith's shoe size.

    Knox's and Sollecito's bare bloody footprints were revealed by luminol in the hallway. Knox’s DNA and Meredith’s DNA was found mixed together in one of the bloody footprints.

    An abundant amount of Raffaele Sollecito's DNA was found on Meredith's bra clasp. Sollecito must have applied considerable pressure to the clasp in order to have left so much DNA. The hooks on the clasp were damaged which confirms that Sollecito had gripped them tightly.

    Amanda Knox's DNA was found on the handle of the double DNA knife and a number of independent forensic experts - Dr. Patrizia Stefanoni, Dr. Renato Biondo and Professor Francesca Torricelli - categorically stated that Meredith’s DNA was on the blade.

    Sollecito knew that Meredith's DNA was on the blade which is why he twice lied about accidentally pricking her hand whilst cooking.

    The defence experts were unable to prove that there had been any contamination. Alberto Intini, head of the Italian police forensic science unit, pointed out that unless contamination has been proved, it does not exist.

    Amanda Knox voluntarily admitted that she involved in Meredith's murder in her handwritten note to the police on 6 November 2007. She stated on at least four separate occasions that she was at the cottage when Meredith was killed.

    The English translation of Judge Massei's sentencing report can be downloaded from here:

    http://www.perugiamurderfile.org/viewtopic.php?p=53735

  • sept79

    Indisputable Proof of Innocence:

    IMPROBABLE PARTICIPANTS – Amanda does not fit the profile of a killer; she doesn’t even fit the profile of a person capable of ANY violence. A few will say that hundreds are murdered every year by exactly this type of perpetrator—really? What do the facts say about two college kids contriving to perpetrate a grisly murder like this with an unknown drifter?

    MOTIVE – None; marijuana does not induce aggression. There simply was no motive for Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito to participate in this atrocity.

    ALIBI – A 9:30 pm probable time of death (based on time of last meal, autopsy stomach contents, and victim’s phone activity) precludes the presence of Knox/Sollecito because of know computer activity. The time of death may be contested and disputed, but the consensus is 9:30 pm. Interrupted/confusing/irregular phone activity at 8:56 pm and 9:58 pm provide bookends for the hour when this assault/murder was forced onto Meredith Kercher by Rudy Guede.

    NO EVIDENCE OF PRESENCE IN THE BLOODY BEDROOM

    NO UNEXPECTED EVIDENCE OF PRESENCE OUTSIDE THE BLOODY BEDROOM –They found Amanda's DNA in her own bathroom? Astounding! Since DNA cannot be dated, mixed DNA means nothing—i.e., Amanda’s DNA could have been from a week ago. Don’t forget, it was her bathroom!

    KNIVE, BRA CLASP, LUMINOL FOOTPRINTS, BATHMAT FOOTPRINT – ‘Evidence’ so dubious (or devious) that the prosecution contrived to withhold testing information; ‘evidence’ so dubious (or devious) that the prosecution continues to withhold testing information; ‘evidence’ so dubious (or devious) that the prosecution contrived to falsify amounts and measurements. The court ordered the prosecution (Dr. Stefanoni) to turn over withheld information to the defense six months into the trial. Still missing: the electronic data files (.fsa files), the instrument log files, and the contamination log files if they exist.

    NO CREDITABLE WITNESSES -- The shopkeeper’s testimony is disputed by four other people; the homeless man’s testimony provides an alibi when the probable time of death is placed at 9:30 pm; the scream Nara claimed to hear at 11:30 pm is at odds with known activity and the probable time of death.

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