Amanda Knox: Unmasked

When Meredith Kercher arrived in Perugia she and her friend Natalie Hayward were warned by one of her university tutors about the hidden dangers that might lurk in the medieval passageways. Her friend Natalie Hayward recalls the ominous warning from the tutor. She remembers thinking that there was nothing to worry about since she was from the bustling city of London.However Perugia was in fact quite an edgy sort of place with a heady counterculture of soft drugs and a lively night club scene. Only the year before a student named Sonia Marra had vanished without a trace...........The Catholic holiday of All Saints Day started in an ordinary manner. The day after Halloween was a religious holiday in Italy when the saints are respected and this is followed on November the 2nd by All Souls Day.Amanda and Raffaele were sitting in the kitchen eating a bowl of pasta together when Meredith popped out of the shower nearby. Her face was still smeared with the red makeup and fake blood from the night before.Little did the party vampire know that this was to be her very last day in a life that was so full of promise..............On October 3rd 2011 Amanda and Raffaele's murder convictions were over turned. The judge could not find any convincing evidence with which to find them guilty. Circumstantial clues such as cleaning mops and changing alibis could not pass the stringent test of irrefutable proof of guilt.Amanda was thrilled to be able to fly home to Seattle and to be free from her dreary living hell of a cell. She held an emotional press conference upon landing at Seattle - Tacoma International Airport thanking everyone for their support.Despite being acquitted due to a lack of evidence, Amanda Knox continues to be portrayed as a wicked witch. It probably does not help her image that she named one of her beloved pet cats "Mr. Screams". ....................Did the camera footage of Amanda brandishing a large kitchen knife really did exist? Might things have turned out very differently for the defendants if Rudy had not been given a fast track trial??We will never know if this incriminating piece of film really did exist. Perhaps it is best to let sleeping dogs lie as the proverb goes. The day of the dead known as the Italian Festa di Ognisanti may never give up its dark and terrible secrets.