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The Continuing Story of Foxy Knoxy: Honor Student to Violent Sex Killer?

By Rachel Plotnick

Many people are still wondering how an attractive honor student, studying abroad for a year and dubbed "Foxy Knoxy," could have become involved in the grisly throat-slashing and rape of her equally attractive female roommate who was found dead in her room after she had attended a Halloween party the previous Wednesday evening where, according to MSNBC, she had been accompanied by a person wearing a mask made famous in the "Scream" movies. Nonetheless, Italian police are alleging that 20-year-old Amanda Knox was involved in the brutal murder of Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old British exchange student, whose bloody, half-naked body was found on Friday morning, November 2, 2007 in the apartment that she shared with Amanda and two other young women...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).