Wading back into fiction writing’s tepid waters, I found myself conducting some “research” vis-a-vis John Follain’s A Death in Italy: The Definitive Account of the Amanda Knox Case (2012). I was an adolescent in 2007, when American exchange student Amanda Knox went on trial for the alleged slaying of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher. The first-gen iPhone had been around for less than six months at the time of the murder. Knox and her boyfriend were convicted and sat in prison for a few years before being released on a successful appeal. Now she hosts a podcast and speaks on behalf of the “wrongfully convicted,” a population that can only ever expand. Legions of r/amandaknox posters—I can’t tell if this is a crowd of 5, 500, or 50,000—insist she did it.
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