Suspect ‘did cartwheels’
The woman accused of murdering British student Meredith Kercher performed bizarre gymnastic stunts immediately after the killing, her trial heard.American Amanda Knox did cartwheels and performed the splits as she was waiting to be questioned over the death, a senior police officer told her trial.
She and her former lover Raffaele Sollecito are accused of killing Miss Kercher, from Coulsdon, in Perugia.
I’m becoming convinced that Amanda is simply simple. Simple in the sad sense of having a mental disability. A serious weakness or break must exist in the processes that connect her mind to the world of actual things and happenings. More and more I do not see her as a criminal but as clueless as that horse of Enumclaw. The undeveloped state of her mind make her as undesirable and as simple as that horse. What separates Meredith from Pinyan is that Meredith had no idea that an animal was in her house.
EDITOR’S NOTE: On October 3, 2011, Amanda Knox was acquitted of the murder of Meredith Kercher and released from prison.
It really staggers me how many people just automatically assume she’s guilty (of murder, there’s no question she’s guilty of bad judgement). Jesus, people, the tabloid press has tried her and convicted her already, and the Italian cops are desperate to pin this on the American girl, so they’ll say or do anything.
Do I think she’s guilty? I don’t know. But I do not believe her guilt has been proven; I think what’s been proven is that she’s a bit off (she always has been, I know her slightly), has piss-poor judgement, and that the Italian police force is inept and corrupt.
In what context do you know her Geni?
I agree completely with Greg @48. Given the information the internet/newspaper specatator is given, there are 2 very plausible contradictory explanations
1) AK is a somewhat odd individual, whose very peculiar behaviour made police mistakenly think she was involved and therefore added their own evidence to the significant circumstantial evidence, or
2) It’s as open and shut case as you’re likely to see and anybody who can’t see it, is simply blinded by AK’s good looks and charm and is therefore willing to suspend disbelief.
Impossible to know really (though the language I’ve used suggests I’m strongly leaning towards 2) and I’m slightly appalled my own morbid fascination with the whole sorry and tragic circus.
For anyone who is interested in the facts behind the media spin, and who cares to learn more about the victim of this terrible murder – Meredith Kercher – there is an excellent discussion board
http://perugiamurderfile.freeforums.org/…
as well as an interesting blog
http://truejustice.org/ee/index.php
These online resources are not for profit. Anyone can read and/or participate and people from around the world do. They have followed this case since November 2007, and are in no way related to Amanda Knox. Nor are they her friends
This hurts to see. Amanda is, judging from only photos and with absolutely nothing else included in the opinion, just strikingly pretty. The kind of girl who I could fall for instantly. The kind of girl that could cause regrets of the worst kind possible. I hope that the trial will end soon, and that truth and justice will win.
You will all regret the terrible things you are saying about my friend, Amanda, when she returns home…
Wow, that doesn’t surprise me. I’ve lived in Seattle for awhile, and have met quite a few chicks from there before I had to move there. Alot of the girls I’ve met from Seattle were kooky at best, and definitely not nice. Color me bias here, but based on what I’ve read about Amanda so far, I think she fits that stereotype I have of Seattle women.
I thought OJ did it, and I think Amanda Knox is guilty too. Maybe not of direct murder, but she was definitely a participant. She shows no feelings of empathy, remorse (which would imply guilt), or sadness. These are qualities of a sociopath, people. And sociopaths tend to be murderers.
yes she guilty knox led these boys to the door of her house with every intention of haveing what she belived would be some sadistic fun humilating another woman who she knew was meridith at home alone .a game gone wrong. in the strugle for her pride and dignetiy meridith was held down and the knife made its fatel first wound the blood flowed and the screams came the panic set in a couple of minutes she dead blood every where .only a friend would stick around to clean up such a mess this is the incrimanating surcumstansial evidence without the dna .they are in the room frozen in the situation gueade runs for his life knox cleans and conspires with her weak pen knif loveing geek and make up a few storyes that dont match and throws the police off the sent with lumumba she embelishes and confuses her own story her and solicito dont match .25 years for knox 18 for solicito and reduce to 18 for gueade without knox this would never of hapend the promise of free sex and this gueade was dragged to his doom with an errection .solicito would do anything to please knox you can see he is a nerd this doesant mean he was a bad person he just thought this would improve his sad little sex life with a lady killer
I found this while doing a school project which explains why I’m commenting almost a year after this was written. I’m horrified by your titled “Amanda the Animal.” I understand that her behavior may not be considered a “normal” way to cope with being arrested and interrogated, but to liken her to animal, is absolutely dehumanizing. Especially if she does have a mental disability, why would you call her animal? How insulting to her personhood. Whether or not she actually was an accomplice in the murder of Kercher, to equate her to an animal equates all potential criminals to animals, and to better justify taking away criminal’s human rights. Perhaps it is just that I don’t believe in the “eye for an eye” system of justice. Another critique is that the title is misogynistic. Women who deviate from society’s norms (in this case violence) are often equated to animals, which places other women up on an impossible pedestal of morality that no one can live up to. Thus, either women are saints or animals. Plus, the only reason why this case is receiving so much media attention is because Knox is a woman. People really are intrigued by women committing violence because society believes that women aren’t supposed to. It tests our gender norms. I’m fairly certain that it Knox was a man, the media would be tired of the case already.
Really, next time, think about how you’re framing your subject.
Amanda was a honors student. That alone rules out retardation, naturally. She displays behaviour that is odd for the norm of people. But honors students aren’t the norm. I understand the norm, sub 100 IQ people have problems not equating cartwheels and guilt. I think the world is an almost unbearable place for over 130 IQ people to share with the rest. It probably feels like when Homo sapiens shared territory with Homo neanderthalis. I propose the over 130 IQ people, Homo genius, to migrate away from sapiens. To Mars possibly.