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Sign, signs, everywhere a sign. Unemployment leads to fewer traffic jams. Glad we could help you out with that. Over in Perugia, Italy, investigators on the stand today said Amanda Knox turned cartwheels at the police station. And down in the deep blue sea there's a groovy new species of fish that a UW scientist named psychedelia. We'll smoke up to that.

It's probably too late at night to be writing this sort of piece, but sitting around a lonely house, sipping a glass of Scotch and trying to forget about our more quotidian problems, we found ourselves reading today's (or yesterday's, we suppose) article about the ongoing Amanda Knox trial. In the piece, AP reporter Alessandra Rizzo goes on at length about how Knox didn't seem to show any remorse in the police station following her roommate Meredith Kercher's murder. She quotes three prosecution witnesses (all friends of the victim, apparently), who testified that, "Everybody was upset and she didn't seem to show any emotions," or that she "'made faces,' such as crossing her eyes and sticking her tongue out. She was 'giggling' and kissing [then-boyfriend and co-defendant Raffaele] Sollecito," and finally that, "She didn't show any sadness. She wasn't crying. She seemed quite angry and a bit frustrated and sometimes happy."

According to the electronic edition of the we get in our inboxes each morning, Seattle's most famous exchange student has finally gotten to trial in Perugia, Italy. Amanda Knox, the UW student accused of taking part in the sado-sexual murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007, has been an obsession of the British and Italian (and Seattle, to a lesser degree) media, as the article attests to:

After waiting a year, hometown girl Amanda Knox and her defense team got bad news today. Judge Paolo Micheli indicted Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito in the murder of Meredith Kercher, and the trial will start December 4. Further, the Seattle Times tells us, "A third suspect, Rudy Hermann Guede of Ivory Coast, was sentenced to 30 years in jail after his defense requested a fast-track trial, said the lawyer for the victim's family Francesco Maresca." That would seem to a) indicate the judge found the prosecution's story compelling, and b) provide compelling reason why you should never, never ask to have your trial fast-tracked.

Is it just us, or is it unspeakably flimsy speculation on the part of the Italian prosecutor in the Amanda Knox trial to make "specific references in court to rocker Marilyn Manson and the violent, sexually charged Japanese manga comics Sollecito was fond of"? Giuliano Mignini is trying to draw a link between the fact that murdered student Kercher dressed as a vampire for Halloween and one of Raffaele Sollicito's graphic novels has to do with someone killing vampires on Halloween. Whereas Mignini has set himself the task of describing how an apparently crazy-ass threesome slaughtered Kercher without leaving anything besides circumstantial evidence behind, Knox's lawyers argue it was just one attacker. We have the uncomfortable feeling we're learning more about Mignini's psyche than we really wanted to.

A hearing began today in Perugia, Italy, in the case of former University of Washington student Amanda Knox. Knox, her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and Rudy Hermann Guede are accused of killing Knox's roommate Meredith Kercher last November. The hearing is being held to determine whether Knox, Sollecito, and Guede will stand trial. Prosecutors want to charge the three with Kercher's death, sexual violence, and theft. Knox, Sollecito, and Guede all deny involvement in Kercher's slaying. While the courtroom is closed for the proceedings, we know that Knox, Guede, and Kercher's family are all present. The presiding judge is expected to rule on the indictment in several weeks.

University of Washington student and murder suspect Amanda Knox is awaiting trial in an Italian jail cell. Her parents and friends—and Amanda herself—still proclaim her innocence, but things aren't looking up for the 21-year-old.

Just days after she spent her 21st birthday in an Italian jail cell, UW student Amanda Knox has been indicted in the killing of Meredith Kercher. Prosecutors in Perugia, the town in which the murder took place, requested today the indictment of Knox, Raffaele Sollecito, and Rudy Hermann Guede on charges of murder and sexual violence. No word yet on when the trial will be scheduled. Knox still denies any wrong-doing or involvement in Kercher's death.

Perugia's lead prosecutor in the case against Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito says the three suspects will shortly be charged in Meredith Kercher's death. All three stand to be indicted not only with participating in the crime, but also its cover-up. If convicted, Knox and company could be spending upwards of 20 years in an Italian jail cell.

Italian officials have concluded their investigation into the death of UK exchange student Meredith Kercher. Per Italian law, the prosecution informed the defense yesterday of their final findings--that they believe Kercher was murdered by Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito, and Rudy Hermann Guede. Prosecutors contend that the three strangled and stabbed the 21-year-old exchange student to death and that Guede sexually assaulted her, with the help of Knox and Sollecito.

The Amanda Knox case, similar to Hillary Clinton's campaign for the Democratic nomination, seems to be never-ending. It boggles the mind how Knox still sits uncharged in an Italian jail while evidence continues to build that she is likely innocent. Just like the Hillary campaign, the Italian police seem to be continuously denying the most recent evidence and plodding on the course they planned to take all along: Hillary will be President, Amanda Knox will be guilty.

Amanda Knox, the 20-year-old University of Washington student at the center of an Italian murder investigation, has been ordered to remain in jail. Knox, along with her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Hermann Guede, are the top suspects in the death of Meredith Kercher.