How much time should she spend trying to convince people of her innocence? To what extent is it OK for her to profit from the fame she never wanted? Knox, who is now an advocate for the wrongfully convicted, is still trying to square that caricature of herself - her murderous “doppelgänger,” as she calls her - with who she really is, what she is allowed to be and the way her daughter will see her. Knox was released from prison, chased through the winding roads of Perugia to a safe house in Rome before boarding a flight home, its touchdown in Seattle covered live by the news.Īnd yet Ms. It has been exactly 10 years now since Ms. Knox kept a vibrator in their shared bathroom and didn’t like to flush the toilet.
She was vilified as a sex-crazed, diabolical “luciferina” in court - and in the tabloids - and we would soon learn that Ms. Knox, who behaved strangely in the days after the crime - doing “cartwheels” in the police station (they were yoga poses), shopping for “lingerie” with her boyfriend (she didn’t have any clean underwear), and, later, showing up to court wearing a T-shirt that read, “All You Need Is Love,” a line from her favorite Beatles song. Kercher, with an equally beautiful American roommate, Ms. What they likely do remember are the more salacious details of a Halloween murder in a picturesque medieval town: the prosecution’s theory about a satanic sex game gone awry. By then, Rudy Guede, an acquaintance and known burglar who was convicted of the crime, had served eight years of a 16-year sentence.īut most people don’t remember that part of the story.