Amanda Knox Returns to Italy for the First Time Since Her Infamous Trial
Amanda Knox has touched down in Italy for the first time since she spent four years in prison there for the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007. She was released in 2011 after being acquitted, and after a sensationalized trial that was broadcast throughout the world. Knox now hosts a podcast called The Truth About True Crime; she arrived in Italy to media hysterics not unlike those she experienced—and which traumatized her—as a 19-year-old when she was accused of murdering Kercher, a fellow exchange student and her roommate whom she found dead.
Knox is attending the Criminal Justice Festival in Modena, a city in northern Italy, on June 15, held by the Italy Innocence Project. She posted a few days before her trip that she was “feeling frayed.”
Yesterday, she looked ready to go, asking her followers to wish her and her fiancé, novelist Christopher Robinson, good luck:
Per the New York Post, Robinson, who lives in Seattle with Knox, posted on Twitter that, “Last time I was in Italy, I took a train to Florence, blew my money on a €100 bottle of Barolo which I drank by myself while writing a bad short story. Then I slept underneath the Ponte Vecchio. This time with @amandaknox is going to be, shall we say...different.” One would hope!
In a Medium post published yesterday, Knox addressed the media sensation around her trial and what it took for her to go back to Italy when the prosecutors in her case still claim she is guilty (despite another man, Rudy Guede, certainly serving a 16-year prison sentence for Kercher’s death). “I’m about to return to Italy for the first time since I was released from prison,” she wrote, “and fled the country in a high-speed chase, paparazzi literally ramming the back of my stepdad’s rental car....While on trial for a murder I didn’t commit, my prosecutor painted me as a sex-crazed femme fatale, and the media profited for years by sensationalizing an already sensational and utterly unjustified story. It’s on us to stop making and stop consuming such irresponsible media.”
Originally Appeared on Vogue
