Author: Nina Burleigh
Publisher: Broadway
ISBN: 0307588580
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Presents an account of the highly publicized 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher that examines the controversial prosecution, conviction, and sentencing of her American roommate while critiquing vulnerabilities in the Italian legal system.
Author: Nina Burleigh
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307588599
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Award-winning author and journalist Nina Burleigh’s mesmerizing literary investigation of the murder of Meredith Kercher, the controversial prosecution, the conviction and twenty-six-year sentence of Amanda Knox, the machinations of Italian justice, and the underground depravity and clash of cultures in one of central Italy’s most beloved cities. The sexually violent murder of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, on the night of November 1, 2007, became an international sensation when one of Kercher’s housemates, twenty-year-old Seattle native Amanda Knox, as well as her Italian boyfriend and a troubled local man Knox said she “vaguely” knew, was arrested and charged with the murder. When Perugia authorities concluded that the murder was part of a dark, twisted rite—a “sex game”—led by the American with an uncanny resemblance to Perugia’s Madonna, they unleashed a media frenzy from Rome to London to New York and Seattle. The story drew an international cult obsessed with “Foxy Knoxy,” a pretty honor student on a junior year abroad, who either woke up one morning into a nightmare of superstition and misogyny—the dark side of Italy—or participated in something unspeakable. The investigation begins in the old stone cottage overlooking bucolic olive groves where Kercher’s body was found in her locked bedroom. It winds through the shadowy, arched alleys of Perugia, a city of art that is also a magnet for tens of thousands of students who frequent its bars, clubs, and drug bazaar on the steps of the Duomo. It climaxes in an up-close account of Italy’s dysfunctional legal system, as the trial slowly unfolds at the town’s Tribunale, and the prosecution’s thunderous final appeal to God before the quivering girl defendant resembles a scene from the Inquisition. To reveal what actually happened on that terrible night after Halloween, Nina Burleigh lived in Perugia, attended the trial, and corresponded with the incarcerated defendants. She also delved deeply into the history, secrets, and customs of Perugia, renowned equally for its Etruscan tunnels, early Christian art, medieval sorcerers, and pagan roots. A New York Times bestseller, The Fatal Gift of Beauty is the thoughtful, compelling examination of an enduring mystery, an ancient, storied place, and a disquieting facet of Italian culture: an obsession with female eroticism. By including the real story of Rudy Guede, it is also an acute window into the minds and personalities of the accused killers and of the conservative Italian magistrate striving to make sense of an inexplicable act of evil. But at its core is an indelible portrait of Amanda Knox, the strangely childlike, enigmatic beauty, whose photogenic face became the focal point of international speculation about the shadow side of youth and freedom.
Author: Burl Barer
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786027924
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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She Offered Her Body. . . Jimmy Joste was a powerhouse in the oil and gas industry, but he was a weakling when it came to his gorgeous, athletic, longtime lover, Rhonda Glover. Addicted to her sexual prowess and madly in love, Joste gave her homes, cars, cash, and a $350,000 engagement ring. . . .But Left Him As A Corpse Their fifteen years of passion and excess ended the day Rhonda drove directly from a shooting range to the Austin home they once shared. After pumping ten bullets into him from a Glock 9mm, she stood over Joste's blood-splattered body and shot him six more times--twice below the waist. The Ultimate Girl Gone Wild According to Rhonda, Joste was violent, abusive, and threatened her life. Here, for the first time, are Rhonda Glover's shocking stories of drug-crazed devil worship and sexual perversity. But in a packed courtroom, prosecutors presented shocking evidence that beautiful Rhonda didn't act in self-defense--it was hot-blooded murder! Includes 16 Pages Of Shocking Photos
Author: Manfred Pfister
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004650857
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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This is the first anthology of British travel writing on Italy which traces the development of the genre and the history of the British perception of Italy from the Renaissance to the present. As an anthologie raissonnée it presents the texts in thematic clusters and chronological order, providing commentary and annotations for each of them and their nearly hundred authors (some of them, like Smollett, Byron, Dickens or Huxley, well-known, others virtually unknown, amongst them many unduly neglected women writers). Further features are a substantial introduction to the travelogue and the writing of Italy, more than thirty illustrations visualizing the British experience of Italy, and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
Author: Amanda Knox
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062217224
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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Amanda Knox spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime she did not commit, as seen in the Nexflix documentary Amanda Knox. In the fall of 2007, the 20-year-old college coed left Seattle to study abroad in Italy, but her life was shattered when her roommate was murdered in their apartment. After a controversial trial, Amanda was convicted and imprisoned. But in 2011, an appeals court overturned the decision and vacated the murder charge. Free at last, she returned home to the U.S., where she has remained silent, until now. Filled with details first recorded in the journals Knox kept while in Italy, Waiting to Be Heard is a remarkable story of innocence, resilience, and courage, and of one young woman’s hard-fought battle to overcome injustice and win the freedom she deserved. With intelligence, grace, and candor, Amanda Knox tells the full story of her harrowing ordeal in Italy—a labyrinthine nightmare of crime and punishment, innocence and vindication—and of the unwavering support of family and friends who tirelessly worked to help her win her freedom. Waiting to Be Heard includes 24 pages of color photographs.
Author: Latoya Lawrence
Publisher: Latoya Lawrence
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Do to others as you would have done unto you or do to others what they have done to you? One should ask Delilah, the beauty with a score to settle against those who inhabit her world. When an incident of disturbance shake-up Delilah's life, she becomes twisted, diving into the arms of men who cannot resist her fire. Ready to burn each one in her passion- things turn deadly. While Delilah plays a dangerous game of laying traps for those who cannot break free- even when she chooses to let go and cut loose- danger comes to bite back at a cost where murder inevitably will pay.
Author: Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934602317
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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"Blonde, beautiful, and now missing, Robyn Gardner took a secret trip to the island of Aruba with a man she met online and then vanished without a trace. Tina Watson was a young and pretty newlywed found dead at the bottom of the ocean just one week into a dream Australian honeymoon"--p.4 cover.
Author: Roger Harrington
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781521118665
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Amanda Knox: The Murder of Meredith Kercher On November 1st 2007, a murder took place in Perugia, Italy which would become one of most high-profile cases in recent history. Meredith Kercher, a beautiful, bright, 21-year-old student from England, was found murdered in her apartment under circumstances which, on first glance, appear suspicious. The case has been referred to as the "trial of the century" by multiple high-profile news sources, and has since gone on to inspire two major films, several books and thousands of journalistic pieces regarding the incident. The case has been noted as an example of the press, media and authorities manipulating the obtained information in order to fit the narrative they would prefer to pursue. Many researchers believe that the murder of Meredith Kercher is by no means a mystery, and a fitting conclusion can easily be drawn if one simply studies the evidence in detail.
Author: Jack R. Nerad
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780380797707
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Photographer Charles Edgar Rathburn was trying to crack the big time, and so was Linda Sobek, a former Los Angeles Raiders cheerleader turned model. An assignment for "Autoweek" took them to an isolated location called El Mirage dry lake. When it was over, Linda would be dead. In his unsettling account, Nerad details the story of an exquisite woman and her collision course with the man who killed her.
Author: Elizabeth Robins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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