23-year-old American national Amanda Knox wants to adopt kids and write books when she finishes her 26-year prison sentence for the murder of Meredith Kercher. Author Rocco Girlanda has spent 8 months with the convict, and will be publishing these ambitious goals with other details of her life in his new book “Take Me With You – Talks with Amanda Knox in Prison.” Get the full story and video below!
The 23-year-old was convicted along with her boyfriend and another man of sexually assaulting and murdering her British roommate in Italy last year. The two girls were said to have started arguing, which escalated when her boyfriend got involved, and resulted in the murder of Meredith Kercher.
Sentenced in December, the American girl is beginning her appeals process in November. She’s been passing the time by cultivating a relationship with Girlanda, who revealed to the press recently that Amanda Knox wants to adopt kids as soon as she’s freed. Girlanda says during their conversations he discovered “her desire to adopt children, her love for Italy despite everything, the significance of friendship.”
The 23-year-old was the protagonist of the extremely public trials concerning the Kercher murder. Her boyfriend Raffaelle Sollecito and Rudy Herman Guede were also charged in connection to the murder, and received 25 and 30 years respectively. Guede managed to reduce his sentence to 16 years after appealing, but all three maintain their innocence. For Girlanda, the desire to get to know Knox grew from curiosity about the 23-year old, who would spend the next 26 year of her life behind bars.
“Everything grew from a desire to get to know an American girl, the same age as one of my daughters, who has found herself to be living in the most dramatic experience of her life,” Girlanda writes in the book. “I think that after so many months, after so many meetings, I succeeded.”
Whether you believe she’s innocent or not, there’s no doubt a year in prison might affect her adoption profile. What do you think of Girlanda’s news that Amanda Knox wants to adopt when she leaves jail? Do you think she’ll be able to even if declared innocent in appeals? Let me know your opinion in the comment section! For more on the story, be sure to check out the video below!









August 30th, 2010 at 1:09 am
Anyone who has studied this case knows there is a serious controversy regarding whether she is completey innocent in that the investigation was seriously flawed and a top retired fbi investigator has gone through the trial transcripts and so called evidence produced and has determined she couldn’t be guilty. She is seemingly just an unluckly roommate caught up in a mess and appealing the case. The Italian prosecutor is trying to sue her for slandering his office and her parents for contempt of his office in desagreeing with him, but is currently embroiled in other legal problems of his own questioning how he handeled another legal case by the higher judiciary. There is a group of bloggers that are friends and family of the roomate killed in this case that have tryed to shut down her appeal and wikepedia had to assign the writing of their entry to a closed group, a highly unusual occurence. So be aware, there is a ton of misinformation being spread about Amanda Knox starting with the actual claims of what constitutes the trial transcript on down to supposed blogging entries trying to smear her. I think this would be a good case for students of law, criminology, psychology, and medai to study. Several US reporters have followed this case and feel she is also innocent and a careful reading of how the whole case was handled by the Italians is just abysmal.
August 30th, 2010 at 1:54 am
Paid bloggers, as part of Amanda Knox’s PR campaign, spamming every forum on the Internet mentioning the unanimously convicted murderess.
How can there be controversy when those who support Amanda Knox are either relative, paid agents, friends or sexually obsessed individuals.
19 judges and 6 jurors are convinced that she is guilty.
Of course having read the sentencing report, I have not doubt that she is guilty.
No one else had a motive to clean up the murder scene and stage a break in.
She is guilty and she is were she belongs.
In a community of like minded criminals.
August 30th, 2010 at 1:57 am
I somehow doubt that murderers and murderess’ are allowed to adopt anyone.
The safety risks is just to immense.
Who is to say that those kids are never going to be stabbed in the neck or sexually abused considering the very nature of Amanda Knox’s offense.
August 30th, 2010 at 2:08 am
A blogger by the name Candace Dempsey used to run a web site where every post critical of the deceptive maxime that Amanda Knox is supposedly innocent were deleted.
Candace Dempsey also wrote a book on this case as part of a coordinated marketing campaign designed to misrepresent the evidence against the unanimously convicted murderess Amanda Knox.
Candace Dempsey claims to be delivering an alternative view to the court’s view.
Who do I believe, a blogger who is part of the Amanda Knox is innocent project, or an independent Court?
Some people have been seen commenting on web forums and asking the question, when is an alternative view an outright lie?
Food for thought.
August 30th, 2010 at 6:14 am
Well I don’t know you T Princip, but I don’t get paid to blog for Knox. Not a penny. Not an iota. But having followed the case I find she doesn’t appear guilty of anything, and I gather you are one of those bloggers trying to keep her convicted. I find you guys try and make her look guilty by using various ruses and misreading of the trial and evidence. There is a group of Journalists, one from seattle that has carefully chronicled the trial and I refer others to do their own research and not take your word for anything. I noticed that you already blogged three times in a row to keep her convicted which tells me you have biased vested interests. In the end I hope real justice prevails, which means the truth comes out. To end here, the investigators found absolutely no evidence, nothing of Knox in the room where the murder occured which makes it a physical impossibility. Then they went over to her boyfriends apartment and claimed his kitchen knife used for cooking in his kitchen drawer had a trace of her DNA, common for anyone who uses a knife to cook with, while the defense showed conclusively the knife wasn’t the one that did the injuries by forensic analysis of the cuts. This knox women does not seem even slightly capable of such a crime to me. Either way lets have a fresh Italian court do an appeal case and see what comes out. I surely don’t see a problem of an honest appeal to review the “facts” of the case. T Princip, we don’t need your mind games but a fresh look at all of it. You have never even been on this blog as far as I can tell, now suddenly your here. But in the name of who?
August 30th, 2010 at 7:08 am
Brian says: ‘the investigators found absolutely no evidence’
Wow! And there was us thinking Knox was serving a 26 year prison sentence for torture and murder. I guess we must have all dreamed this up, along with the death of Elvis etc
August 30th, 2010 at 8:32 am
No evidence against Amanda get real there was plenty just go read the judges reason why she was convicted.
I hope and pray she will never get to adopt even a cat or dog or a mouse for this matter
August 30th, 2010 at 8:54 am
If she wasn’t hot would anyone care?
August 30th, 2010 at 9:14 am
Bravo Brian!! Bravooo!!! I have never left any comments, I am not a friend or a family member of Amanda’s…nor have I been paid for my views or interest…I am just an American who’s been following the case. And what I have found after much research and time put into her case is that it is forensically, physically, and seemingly mentally impossible for Amanda to have participated in this very heinous crime! I am actually looking at this from a mmother’s point of view. I have a young daughter who is also very intelligent and thirsts for an education abroad… Prior to Amanda’s conviction I was very supportive of her interests to study over seas, but now I struggle with the thought of her even visiting another country! T Princip, what if you had a daughter and she got caught up in something like this? Wouldn’t you want all appeals to be exhausted?! If she is as “obviously guilty” as you say she is than why not let another 19 judges and 6 jurors take a fresh look at it? I know with all of my being that she did not do this…I watched her family on tv and the absolute horror that they experienced as they watched helplessly as their daughter was led away to serve 26 years of her precious life behind foreign bars. Amanda handled that conviction and sentencing with such dignity and grace, she is an amazingly strong girl! I can only pray that someone in the Italian judicial system finds the wisdom to hear her appeal with an open heart and an open mind and does the right thing by overturning that conviction and sending her home where she can fulfill her dream of adopting many children and being free to bless this world with some beautiful writing.
August 30th, 2010 at 9:26 am
Who said she’s hot? She’s not even the least bit attractive.
August 30th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
T Princip says “19 judges and 6 jurors are convinced that she is guilty.”….so does that automatically mean she is and that no one can question her guilt? Certainly judges and juries have gotten it wrong many times before and convicted innocent people. Just because judges and juries say one is guilty, does it mean they are right. Perhaps you should become informed and make your own educated decision. Stop basing your opinions on what others determine…grow a sack and backbone while your at it.
August 30th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Janelle – you are one of the reasons I’m so glad I don’t live in America anymore. The views you express are truly disturbing. You have no respect for legal processes or rational argument, instead offering warped sentimentality based on nothing more than watching hours and hours of TV. I would guess that you have very little formal education, and have hardly ever been abroad. Your post, and especially your suggestion that children should be put in the care of a drug-using, hugely promiscuous convicted murderer is utterly horrifying, and offends all right-thinking people. I’m actually deeply concerned that you should be in charge of a child yourself, and I’m sure lots of other readers are too.
August 30th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
The English translation of the Massei report can be downloaded from here:
http://www.perugiamurderfile.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=259
August 30th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Who gives a sht.
Besides, you never know, ask O.J.
Hows the victims families doin ?
24;
“Who said she’s hot? She’s not even the least bit attractive.’
The media. If she were some dog she wouldnt get half the attention or sympathy.
In addition, beauty is perceptional regardless of what societal standards are.
Shes not hard to look at.
Maybe thats why Brian is willing to ignore the facts and concensus behind her conviction.
August 30th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
@ Sammy.
hey bro, theres a million reasons not live wherever the hell you dwell.
August 30th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
I find this case to be absolutely fascinating. As an American with a legal background, I find that this case will definitely show why we should cherish our own judicial system, flawed though it may be. Italian courts, rules of evidence, rules of law——it’s all different. Would Amanda had been found guilty in an American court? Would there have been a possibility of a conviction of a lesser offense with a less jail time attached? We don’t know. I do think that it’s harder for Americans to set aside our own understanding of our own system and see this case through the eyes of the court that tried it. Yes, there’s questions abound on the evidence itself, but how these things are handled in foreign courts really does make one appreciate our own system where there is such an animal as “reasonable doubt”.
August 30th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
There are no facts tieing Knox to the murder. period. There is a really house of cards hypothesis put forth by twisting questionable theories by the prosectuion, but I would encourage people to dig into the case and see what they really find once they get past the smokescreen being waved by people like Harry Rag who shows up at every thread on her hoping to stop her appeal. Sammy stop your mind games, you sound like someone out of that prosecutors office and may well be guilting people who simple question, “was justice really served” . Janelle is simply reacting to a Very it doesn’t make sense conviction and advocating real justice be served by reopening this case with an appeal trial. The prosecutors ego is definitely on the line here and that is one factor driving the case. His office even gave awards to the local police for helping convict her with what would not be accepted as evidence here. It seems everyone over there involved in the case has been managed and paid rewards. It is so eggregious I won’t go to Italy if that is how they do justice over there and Janelle is right that its unwise to send your children to school there if they can be so vulnerable in a situation like that. Seriously, who murders their roomate in the room next to them while they are a student in a foriegn country studying languages and poetry? Its just not in her. She is no more a drug user than the average student who goes to an occasional frat party. She has no record of violence or crime and was an honor student. We here in America respect true justice first, and governments second. The facts of the case simply do not add up regarding her, at all, but research it yourself as you will find it quite interesting on a lot of levels. Listen to the fbi expert on the radio show that profiled the case, its recorded and on the net. Guilting questioning Americans is not the way to go. Showing the truth is.
August 30th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
“There are no facts tieing Knox to the murder. period”
Right a$$hole.
Just like you think pineapple grows on trees.
Bwahahahaha !
August 30th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Brian – perhaps there’ll be an English translation of your comments at some point. Your grammar, spelling and punctuation betray someone who is woefully inarticulate. So sad for the Knox family that only the ill-educated, sentimental, and immoral are offering support, but unfortunately this often happens when a loved one is unanimously convicted of torture and murder following a year long legal process in a European Union democracy; one which was sanctioned by the both the State Department and the US Embassy in Rome.
August 30th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Hey Sammy, you can’t just come on this site and insult Brian that way.
You have to take a number.
And get in line!!!
August 30th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
Yeah well, Brians writting is pretty funky, uses weird words that are only in his dictionary, and has some bad grammar and spelling as do I quite often.
But Sammys not much better as he seems to think theres some connection between academia and ones intelligent abilty to be rational.
August 30th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
Sammy;
“Janelle – you are one of the reasons I’m so glad I don’t live in America anymore. The views you express are truly disturbing. You have no respect for legal processes or rational argument,”
Really, is it “rational” to discount an entire nation because of one womans misguidings ?
You may be some literal and grammatic genious but you’re clearly a bigoted snot.
August 30th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Knox didn’t do it, so what about that? And sammy your english isn’t quite good enough to be the native english we use here as you cannot poet it. don’t blame me. you sammy have a vested agenda in keeping an innocent person in prison to simply close the case. so your language skills and ethics are bad. these other two are just slowns
August 30th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
“Knox didn’t do it, so what about that?”
You dont know that.
Whats your problem..huh ?
First you claim Bush lied to make the case for war, even though you cant prove it. And then you apply the same dictative factually void bullsht to this womans verdict ?
It has nothing to do with native English and as much as I despise Sammys concepts of intelligence his English is just fine and much easier to grasp than your weird babblings.
I mean really, if I were going to use an indivdual example as an excuse to leave this country you’d be at the top of the list.
Fortunately I’m well aware that morons like you dont speak for the majority of Americans anymore than radical Islam speaks for the majority across the planet.
August 30th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Brian;
“Slowns”
Urban dictionary describes as slutty clowns.
Thats pretty interesting coming from a guy that supports denominations of Islam who screw 9 year olds and regrdless of the facts says a chick in a kinky violent drug fueled sex marathon is innocent
August 30th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
I thought Amanda Knox was innocent based on the press coverage this case received, but when I read the sentencing report I realized that I was mistaken.
There is absolutely no way Amanda Knox could be innocent.
She is guilty. Period.
August 30th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
I am not a family member and have never met a family member and do not even know anyone in anyway related to a family member but have followed the media. This girl would have been found innocent in an American court. I believe that this girl was tried in court of public opinion based on her behavior; making it impossible for her to recieve a truly fair trial. This girl got a raw deal and I’m pretty sure that most American’s including some US senators having followed the case have and will continue to agree.
August 31st, 2010 at 12:06 am
Who said she’s hot? She’s not even the least bit attractive.
Yeah. Not in the least. She’s hideous.
August 31st, 2010 at 6:46 am
T Princip says Knox commenters are paid and a book is part of a “marketing campaign.” Really? Where’s the proof, a single source other than the wacko sites? Sounds like the self-named principessa is one of the crazies who foam at the mouth about this case. she probably did get deleted. who could resist.
August 31st, 2010 at 7:45 am
ME:
“Yeah. Not in the least. She’s hideous.”
While that may be just your opinion it still doesnt say much.
Bottom line is who gives a fck and whats it got to do with anything ?
August 31st, 2010 at 7:46 am
micky this post is so not about you. your literally talking like a babboon here. you have no self insight do you? everything is just a territorial battle for you. totally selfish for no good reason at all.
August 31st, 2010 at 7:55 am
“micky this post is so not about you. your literally talking like a babboon here. you have no self insight do you? everything is just a territorial battle for you. totally selfish for no good reason at all.”
Brian, you really are a sick sht, arent you ?
how have I made this about me ? Please tell.
What I have done is to address those like you who base her innocence on nothing more than trumped up bullsht opinions void of fact. Thats what you do. Thats how you are and thats why I’ve said repeatedly that I’m glad as hell that you dont sit on a bench because your a contemptuos prejudiced a$$hole.
You want to make this a pi$$ing match or do you want to make it about “YOU” asnd how your opinions and perceptions are so much more valid than facts ?
You come out and call people slutty clowns and you expect not to rattle your cage ?
Now, make your case based on something besides your hatred for the judiciary and law enforcement or continue looking like the clueless fck that you are
August 31st, 2010 at 7:59 am
Hey Flyingmonkey – love the joke about standing in line to insult Brian! Laughed out loud. There are some cool guys on this site. Respect brothers and sisters! So sad that we can’t all live together in peace and harmony, and that there will always be wars and killing….Oh well….You all look after yourselves, you here. That includes you too, Brian (even if you’ve got it all wrong over the horrible murder. And your writing could do with a bit of night school imput too)
August 31st, 2010 at 8:32 am
“Imput”? A misspelled word written in a sentence in which you crack on someone else’s writing. Nice.
August 31st, 2010 at 9:17 am
Michelle – you are so bitter and twisted. Let go a little. Try and get over your loveless, sad life. It may get better. Smile a little, smell the flowers!
August 31st, 2010 at 9:29 am
Yeah well Sammy…
Theres no love lost between Michelle and I but when you criticize other peoples spelling you’d better have your literal sht together or you’re leaving yourself wide open and just asking for it.
When you fail at maintaining your own standards that dictate intelligence its your intelligence that comes to question for even putting yourself in that position
September 3rd, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were unanimously found guilty of the murder of Meredith Kercher because the evidence against them was overwhelming.
They repeatedly told the police a pack of lies in the days after Meredith’s murder.
On 5 November 2007, Knox and Sollecito were confronted with proof that they had lied and were given another opportunity to tell the truth. However, they both chose to tell the police even more lies.
Sollecito’s new alibi was shattered by computer forensic evidence and his mobile phone records.
Knox accused an innocent man, Diya Lumumba, of murdering Meredith despite knowing full well that he was completely innocent. She didn’t recant her false and malicious allegation against Lumumba the whole time he was in prison. She admitted that it was her fault that Lumumba was in prison in an intercepted conversation with her mother.
Knox’s account of what happened on 2 November 2007 is contradicted by her mobile phone records.
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito both gave multiple conflicting alibis. Neither Knox nor Sollecito have credible alibis for the night of the murder despite three attempt each. At the trial, Sollecito refused to corroborate Knox’s alibi that she was at his apartment.
Rudy Guede’s bloody footprints led straight out of Meredith’s room and out of the house. He didn’t lock Meredith’s door, remove his trainers, go into Filomena’s room or the bathroom that Meredith and Knox shared.
He didn’t scale the vertical wall outside Filomena’s room or gain access through the window. The break-in was clearly staged. This indicates that somebody who lived at the cottage was trying to deflect attention away from themselves and give the impression that a stranger had broken in and killed Meredith.
Guede had no reason to stage the break-in and there was no physical evidence that he went into Filomena’s room.
The scientific police found a mixture of Amanda Knox’s DNA and Meredith’s blood on the floor.
There was no physical evidence that Rudy Guede went into the blood-spattered bathroom. However, the scientific police found irrefutable proof that Knox and Sollecito tracked Meredith’s blood into this bathroom.
Amanda Knox’s DNA was found mingled with Meredith’s blood in three different places in the bathroom: on the ledge of the basin, on the bidet, and on a box of Q Tips cotton swabs. Knox’s DNA and Meredith’s blood had united into one single streak on the basin and bidet which means they were deposited simultaneously.
Sollecito left a visible bloody footprint on the blue bathmat.
According to two imprint experts, the woman’s bloody shoeprint on the pillow under Meredith’s body matched Knox’s foot size. The bloody shoeprint was incompatible with Meredith’s shoe size.
Knox’s and Sollecito’s bare bloody footprints were revealed by luminol in the hallway. Knox’s DNA and Meredith’s DNA was found mixed together in one of the bloody footprints.
An abundant amount of Raffaele Sollecito’s DNA was found on Meredith’s bra clasp. Sollecito must have applied considerable pressure to the clasp in order to have left so much DNA. The hooks on the clasp were damaged which confirms that Sollecito had gripped them tightly.
Amanda Knox’s DNA was found on the handle of the double DNA knife and a number of independent forensic experts – Dr. Patrizia Stefanoni, Dr. Renato Biondo and Professor Francesca Torricelli – categorically stated that Meredith’s DNA was on the blade.
Sollecito knew that Meredith’s DNA was on the blade which is why he twice lied about accidentally pricking her hand whilst cooking.
The defence experts were unable to prove that there had been any contamination. Alberto Intini, head of the Italian police forensic science unit, pointed out that unless contamination has been proved, it does not exist.
Amanda Knox voluntarily admitted that she involved in Meredith’s murder in her handwritten note to the police on 6 November 2007. She stated on at least four separate occasions that she was at the cottage when Meredith was killed.