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Hayden Panettiere to play convicted killer, Amanda Knox
[HMG Celebrity News] – In a welcome return to our screens for the former ‘Heroes’ actress, Hayden Panettiere has just signed to play one of modern history’s more infamous killers – Amanda Knox.
The 22-year old actress has signed as the lead in a Lifetime movie which will retell the story of the American exchange student, who is now serving 26-years in an Italian jail for a crime her friends insist she did not commit.
On November 1st, 2007 the body of 21-year old British student Meredith Kercher was found in the small apartment in Perugia, Italy which she shared with Knox and two other women. Five days later Knox, her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and two others were arrested and charged with the death.
On December 4th of last year, Knox and Sollecito were found guilty of murder. Knox was sentenced to 26 years, while Sollecito got 25. The first appeals on behalf of the pair are expected this fall.
But Knox’s supporters claim the Italian police invented wild stories of drug use and weird sexual acts to help win the case. The eleven-month trial was also a media circus, and Knox’s friends say this made the verdict unfair.
In their defense, the police say they believe Knox and Sollecito stabbed Kercher to death for reasons unknown, then tried to hide their crime by staging a break-in. And the eight judges deciding the case [there was no jury] promptly sided with them.
No other cast has been announced at this point according to Variety, but Hayden will debut in “The Amanda Knox Story” on Lifetime sometime next year…
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
Harry, Glad you are back. Peter said he had to institutionalize you to cure your cutting and pasting the sane false statements and half-truths that you are so famous for. Looks like the treatment did not work. Too bad – for all of us.
Harry, you know that none of the above plagiarization is true. Amanda was beaten into naming Patrick and the police waved a mistranslated text message in her face, screaming that she would never see her family again. Coerced.
Harry, you know that Knox did not change her statements but Solecito did.
Harry, if Knox was so involved, why is there no DNA in the murder room? Perhaps she was not there.
Harry, if Knox was such a liar, why did the police arrest Patrick SOLELY on Knox’s word immediately upon extracting it from her?
Harry, if the Perugia Police are so fair, why did they ignore all the alibi’s provided by the Negro patrons of Patrick’s bar, but released him only after a white man vouched for him?
Harry, if the DNA evidence is so important, why was the sperm found on Kercher’s bed not analyzed?
Harry, if the Supreme Court of Italy disallowed Knox’s so called “confession” because she was a suspect and yet, she was denied legal representation, why was the forbidden testimony included in her trial (in the civil portion)?
Harry, if the DNA evidence is so sound, why has it not been provided to the defense for analysis?
Harry, if the DNA evidence was important, why did the prosecution test it in an uncertified lab using an under-qualified technician?
Harry, if the DNA evidence is so sound, why did the international justice-seeking group, The Innocence Project, say there is no credible evidence to connect Knox to the murder?
Give it some thought, Harry.
Aside from the points raised by Harry Rag, which prove that the American media have dropped the ball on this case, big time, Knox was convicted by a jury of two judges and six citizens. It is not true to say “there was no jury”
Knox is right where she belongs, and should stay there for several years. The noises from her supporters are becoming increasingly shrill and desperate.
The family of Meredith Kercher, Knox’s victim, have made it very clear that they believe this film should not be made. This story IS about Meredith, and it is in studying her bubbly, upbeat, friendly, studious personality that any impartial person can begin to understand the reasons why Knox chose to kill her.