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Knox Story underway despite uncertain guilt
Hayden Panettiere to play Amanda Knox in TV movie - but how does the story end?
Has a US television company got ahead of itself in its eagerness to tell the true story of an all-American girl from Seattle who went to Italy on an exchange student programme - and ended up murdering her British housemate?
According to the Hollywood trade paper Variety, Hayden Panettiere, who played the cheerleader in Heroes, has been signed to portray the convicted killer Amanda Knox in a made-for-TV movie - despite the fact that Knox is set to have her appeal heard soon and could well have her conviction quashed.
Knox's appeal case is due to start in November and there are many - Knox herself apparently among them - who believe she will succeed and be freed.
As The First Post reported earlier this month, the latest to query the 23-year-old's conviction is a former FBI man, Steve Moore, who obtained a video taken at the crime scene, as well as autopsy photos.
He said he was convinced of Knox's guilt until he examined the evidence. Among many other gaps were a complete lack of DNA evidence proving guilt. Knox and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, also in jail, should have been "eliminated on day one" as suspects", said Moore.
A journalist who visited the Capanne jail outside Perugia, where Knox is serving her sentence, found even those in authority talking of the young American prisoner's confidence that the appeal would end in freedom, while her fellow prisoners were convinced of her innocence.
However, none of this has discouraged the Lifetime channel from committing itself to The Amanda Knox Story.
The director is Robert Dornhelm, who made a successful miniseries out of the Anne Frank story a decade ago, and the script is by Wendy Battles, who has written episodes of CSI New York and Law and Order.
Meanwhile, Knox is due to sing in her jail's Christmas concert, according to the Daily Mail, which quotes the prison's musical director as saying she has a "formidable soprano voice".
It should make a cute scene in The Amanda Knox Story - if she's still in jail come Christmas.
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