American girl in italy charged with murder

American writer and activist (born 1987)

For the documentary film, see Amanda Knox (film). For the true crime television film, see Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy.

Amanda Marie Knox (born July 9, 1987) is an American author, activist, and journalist.

American girl in italy charged with murder

She spent almost four years incarcerated in Italy after her wrongful conviction in the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, a fellow exchange student, with whom she shared an apartment in Perugia. In 2015, Knox was definitively acquitted by the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation.^[1] In 2024, an Italian appellate court upheld Amanda Knox's slander conviction for falsely accusing Patrick Lumumba of murdering Meredith Kercher.^[2]

Knox, aged 20 at the time of the murder, called the police after returning to her and Kercher's apartment after a night spent with her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and finding Kercher's bedroom door locked and blood in the bathroom.

During the police interrogations t