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Graphic Scene Reportedly Pulled From Lifetime's Amanda Knox Movie
By Lisa Holewa - AOL NewsA Lifetime TV movie based on the trial of American student Amanda Knox, convicted of murdering her roommate in Italy, is scheduled to air Monday -- reportedly without a graphic scene of the victim in her bra, pinned down and screaming for help. The scene, which had been featured in the video trailer for "Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy" on Lifetime's website, has been cut from the final version, according to the U.K.'s The Sunday Telegraph, which screened the film. Lifetime publicity managers did not immediately respond to AOL News to confirm whether the scene had been cut from the ...
Knox's Parents Are Just the Latest to Run Afoul of Italy's Libel Laws
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsAmanda Knox's parents said today they will not stop fighting to clear her name, even though they themselves have not been indicted on criminal libel charges in Italy. Curt Knox and Edda Mellas, who could face prison time, e-mailed a statement to The Associated Press saying their "focus is unchanged" and "remains wholeheartedly with our daughter, her appeal, overturning her wrongful conviction and bringing her home." "I'd tell them not to ever go back to Italy," Seattle attorney Anne Bremner, a Knox family friend and founder of the Friends of Amanda organization, told AOL News today. ...
Amanda Knox's Parents Indicted in Italy
By not in system - AOL NewsPERUGIA, Italy -- The parents of Amanda Knox, an American student convicted of murder in Italy, were ordered Tuesday to stand trial for alleging that Italian police abused their daughter, a lawyer and media reports said. Curt Knox and Edda Mellas were indicted in Perugia for libel, said the Italian news agency ANSA. Lawyer Luciano Ghirga confirmed the indictment and said trial was set for July 4. Luca Bruno, AP Amanda Knox's parents, Edda Mellas and Curt Knox, seen here in December 2009, were indicted for libel Tuesday in Perugia, Italy. He said the couple did not attend the ...
Amanda Knox Almost Threw Up Seeing Clip of Movie About Her Life
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsAmanda Knox was so upset seeing actress Hayden Panettiere play her in a clip from the upcoming Lifetime TV movie that she almost threw up and fainted, according to her stepfather and attorneys. According to her stepfather, Knox, 23, told her family during her recent weekly phone call home that she became physically ill watching the clip on TV in the Italian prison. She is serving a 26-year sentence for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher. The case is under appeal in Italy. "She was so amazingly shocked by it," Chris Mellas, Knox's stepfather, told ABC News today. "She said she literally ...
TV Re-Enactment of Meredith Kercher's Murder Draws Parent's Ire
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON - The father of slain British student Meredith Kercher on Friday harshly criticized a U.S. television re-enactment for including scenes of his daughter's murder. The Lifetime movie, due to air next month, is based on the trial that followed the stabbing death of Meredith Kercher on Nov. 1, 2007, a killing for which Kercher's roommate, University of Washington student Amanda Knox, was eventually found guilty. Italian police / AP An upcoming Lifetime movie is based on the trial that followed Meredith Kercher's murder in 2007. "Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy" has ...
Experts to Review Evidence at Knox Appeals Trial [VIDEO]
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Slain Woman's Dad Slams Amanda Knox, Family
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News
(Dec. 3) -- The parents of Amanda Knox reacted swiftly today to an angry and impassioned article written by the father of Meredith Kercher criticizing them for never expressing condolences for the death of his daughter. John Kercher, a veteran freelance journalist, also said it is agonizing to relive his daughter's murder over and over again in the media and left no doubt that he firmly believes in Knox's guilt. In response, Curt Knox and his ex-wife, Edda Mellas, issued a statement expressing sympathy for the Kerchers and explaining that they've never reached out personally to them because ...
Women Who Kill . . . or Rather, Women Who Don't
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyTwo "femme fatales" were in the news last week. Laurie Bembenek, accused killer turned folk hero ("Run, Bambi, Run") died of liver cancer at the age of 52 in Portland, Ore. A former Playboy bunny and a Milwaukee police officer, Bembenek was convicted of the 1981 murder of her husband's ex-wife. She escaped from prison in 1990 and fled to Canada. She was recaptured and, after a new trial, was sentenced to time served and set free. To the end, she proclaimed her innocence. On the other side of the world, in Italy, former Seattle college student Amanda Knox recently appealed her murder ...
Knox's Mom Says Murder Appeal Taking Its Toll
By Lisa Flam - AOL News
(Nov. 24) -- The case against Amanda Knox, imprisoned in Italy for the death of her British roommate, is taking its toll on the young American, her mother said today as the 23-year-old's high-stakes appeal of her murder conviction began in a Perugia courtroom. Her daughter puts on a "brave face" but is worried about her future, Edda Mellas said this morning on NBC's "Today" show. The appeals proceedings were adjourned until Dec. 11 after a 15-minute procedural hearing. In a trial that's drawn worldwide attention, Knox, of Seattle, was convicted in December of murder and sexual assault in ...
New Book Gives Intimate Portrait of Convicted Knox
By not in system - AOL News
ROME (Oct. 17) - Amanda Knox, the American student convicted in Italy of murdering her British roommate, is quoted as saying in a new book that she'd rather not be famous for the slaying and that her days in jail feel like "limbo" - suspended between her old life and her hopes for the future. Knox talks about her aspirations to marry and adopt children, and her interests in writing and studying languages in a series of jailhouse conversations with an Italian lawmaker who visited her over the past year. The conversations serve as the basis for the book. The 23-year-old Knox was convicted in ...
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