Is this the face of a killer?
- January
- 16
5:54 am Live News
An Italian newspaper called her the Dark Lady of Seattle, but it is the
nickname she gave herself on her blog, Foxy Knoxy, that has stuck. Amanda
Knox, a 20-year-old American student, is a key suspect in the sexual abuse
and murder of her British flatmate, Meredith Kercher, 21, in the
otherwise-idyllic hill town of Perugia in Umbria on November 1 last year.
A senior Italian investigator, meeting her for the first time after the
killing, says he was impressed by Knox%26rsquo;s %26ldquo;virgin-like beauty%26rdquo;. But in the
same breath, he added that he was struck even more by the way she played
with the truth. %26ldquo;Knox is very calculating. She lies shamelessly,%26rdquo; he said.
Precisely how an attractive, gifted, wholesome American student found herself
at the heart of a particularly sordid and brutal murder has yet to be
established by prosecutors and the police. They have dozens of blood samples
and other forensic evidence to analyse from the whitewashed cottage where
Knox and Kercher lived %26ndash; and four suspects.
Knox, her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, 23, and two other
acquaintances %26ndash; Rudy Hermann Guede, 20, from the Ivory Coast, and Patrick
Diya Lumumba, 37, the Congolese manager of the bar where Knox worked %26ndash; are
as yet uncharged of sexually abusing and murdering Kercher, a Leeds
University student from Coulsdon in Greater London. They are all in jail
save for Lumumba, who has been released but is still being investigated.
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