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Amanda Knox and her ex: Enough is enough

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A prisoner serves a sixteen-year-sentence for a murder that the courts have declared he did not commit, while a former murder convict is currently being touted as a “crime expert.”  Before this, a creative writing major was blasted across the media waves as a “journalist”  Such are the public relations antics being played out in the news.  All part of an ongoing communications war between three devious defendants in the Meredith Kercher murder case:  Rudy Guede, Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox.  So far the score is: two acquittals, one conviction.

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Meredith Kercher honored in Perugia, Italy

Murder, Murder of Meredith Kercher

Amanda Knox co-defendant Rudy Guede discussed in seminar

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Did Amanda Knox have stimulant psychosis like Joran van der Sloot?

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On March 17, 2016 Joran van der Sloot revealed why he murdered a young woman in Peru named Stephanie Flores.  In an undercover video, van der Sloot explained, ” ‘. . .you can’t imagine this if you don’t use drugs yourself— I convinced myself that she was part of the FBI. . .I really convinced myself that,’ he said, grinning. ‘And that was the reason why I murdered her.’

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Joran Van der Sloot confesses to killing Natalee Holloway

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Joran van der Sloot, the main suspect in the case of missing high school student Natalee Holloway in 2005, has confessed to murdering her. A reporter who interviewed van der Sloot, surreptitiously recorded him on video.

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Crime & Courts

FBI and Amanda Knox advocate fail to win support to weaken cell phone privacy

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When the story broke about Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook’s refusal to give the FBI full access to their cell phone security software last month, it caused an uproar. The iPhones in question belonged to the San Bernardino terrorists. The FBI made a court ordered request,“the bureau’s first and most urgent demand is that Apple disable the iPhone’s ‘auto-erase; security feature. This feature (which is not enabled by default on most iPhones) protects user data on a device from would-be snoops by wiping the phone after 10 failed passcode attempts.” Ardent Amanda Knox supporter and former FBI agent, Steve Moore, wrote animpassioned post supporting these demands.

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Oscar Pistorius to return to prison

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It is being reported on March 3, 2016 that the Constitutional Court in South Africa has rejected Oscar Pistorius’s appeal against his murder conviction. “”We can confirm that Oscar Pistorius’ leave to appeal has been denied,” National Prosecuting Authority spokesman Luvuyo Mfaku told Reuters.”  The double-amputee Olympian now faces at least 15 years in jail — a new sentence will be handed down on April 18, 2016.

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Two men stand trial for stealing Amanda Knox’s knives and Meredith Kercher’s mattress

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It is being reported in Italian news that two men stood in court for breaking into the cottage that Erasmus scholar Meredith Kercher was murdered in.  An unidentified Italian native and a foreigner, two males, burglarized the cottage on Via della Pergola, two times, once in February 2009 and again in March 2009.

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Amanda Knox co-defendant Rudy Guede working on a publication and online store

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It is being reported in Italian news that the Ivorian embassy paid a visit to Amanda Knox co-defendant Rudy Guede.  Guede was born in the Ivory Coast before being brought to Italy at the age of five by his father and growing up Italian.  He described all of this in his January 21, 2016 interview with Franca Leosini on television show Storie Maledette.

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Amanda Knox ex lashes out at Leosini

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It is being reported in the Italian news that Raffaele Sollecito, the media-loving ex-boyfriend of Amanda Knox, has again threatened the host of Italian hit show Storie Maledette (Cursed Stories), Franca Leosini. Sollecito said on a radio program, “She was injured my image, I will sue the Leosini”

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