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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 Kerchers 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. The Fatal Gift of Beauty is award-winning author and journalist Nina Burleighs mesmerizing literary investigation of the murder, the controversial prosecution, the conviction and twenty-six-year sentence of Knox, the machinations of Italian justice, and the underground depravity and clash of cultures in one of central -Italys most beloved cities. 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 Perugias 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 Kerchers 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 Italys dysfunctional legal system, as the trial slowly unfolds at the towns Tribunale, and the prosecutions 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. The Fatal Gift of Beauty is a thoughtful, compelling examination of an enduring mystery, an ancient, storied place, and a disquieting facet of Italian culture: an obsession with female eroticism. 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. From the Hardcover edition.

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ALSO BY AUTHOR UNHOLY BUSINESS A True Tale of Faith Greed and Forgery in - photo 1

ALSO BY AUTHOR

UNHOLY BUSINESS:
A True Tale of Faith,
Greed, and Forgery in the Holy Land

MIRAGE:
Napoleons Scientists and
the Unveiling of Egypt

THE STRANGER AND THE STATESMAN:
James Smithson, John Quincy Adams,
and the Making of Americas
Greatest Museum: The Smithsonian

A VERY PRIVATE WOMAN:
The Life and Unsolved Murder of
Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer

Copyright 2011 by Nina Burleigh Epilogue 2012 by Nina Burleigh All rights - photo 2

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Copyright 2011 by Nina Burleigh
Epilogue 2012 by Nina Burleigh

All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Broadway Paperbacks, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
www.crownpublishing.com

BROADWAY PAPERBACKS and its logo, a letter B bisected on the diagonal, are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Originally published in hardcover by Broadway Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2011.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Burleigh, Nina.
The fatal gift of beauty: the trials of Amanda Knox / by Nina Burleigh.
1. Knox, Amanda. 2. MurderItalyPerugiaCase studies. 3. Homicide investigationItalyCase studies. 4. Trials (Murder)ItalyCase studies. I. Title.
HV6535.I83P438 2011
364.1523092DC22 2011012669

eISBN: 978-0-307-58860-9

Map and diagram by Mapping Specialists, Ltd.
Photographs by Erik Freeland
Cover design by Alison Forner and Jim Massey
Cover photographs by Daniele la Monaca/Reuters (Amanda Knox);
Pjr Travel/Alamy (brick wall); Stefano Stefani/Getty Images (street)

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In memoriam:
female victims of sexual violence

Italia Oh Italia Thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty LORD BYRON - photo 4

Italia Oh Italia Thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty LORD BYRON - photo 5

Italia! Oh Italia! Thou who hast
the fatal gift of beauty.

LORD BYRON

CONTENTS
PART ONE
ETRUSCAN GATE
PART TWO
PIAZZA
PART THREE
CITY OF SPIRES
PART FOUR
THE ANCIENT WALL
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
THE VICTIM

MEREDITH KERCHER . Born December 28, 1986, in the United Kingdom. Died November 1, 2007, in Perugia. A student at Leeds University, she was in Italy on an Erasmus scholarship, studying political theory and history of cinema, when she was murdered.

THE DEFENDANTS

AMANDA MARIE KNOX . Born July 9, 1987, in Seattle. A junior at the University of Washington, she was in Perugia studying Italian at the Universit per Stranieri when she was arrested in November 2007.

RAFFAELE SOLLECITO . Born March 26, 1984, near Bari, Italy. A student at the University of Perugia, he met Amanda Knox on October 25, 2007, and became her lover that night. He was two weeks from getting his degree in virtual reality computing when he was arrested in November 2007.

RUDY HERMANN GUEDE . Born December 26, 1983, in Agou, Ivory Coast. His father, Roger Guede, brought him to the outskirts of Perugia when Rudy was five years old. He was later adopted, as a teen, by one of the richest families in Perugia. A high school dropout, he had no occupation when he was arrested in Mainz, Germany, in November 2007.

THE FAMILIES

JOHN AND ARLINE KERCHER . Merediths parents.

CURT KNOX . Amandas father, an accountant at the time of the murder, working in the finance department of Macys in Seattle.

EDDA MELLAS . Amandas mother, a Seattle elementary school math teacher.

CASSANDRA KNOX . Curts second wife, a housewife and the mother of their two daughters, Ashley and Delaney.

CHRIS MELLAS . Eddas second husband, an IT professional.

DEANNA KNOX . Amandas younger sister.

FRANCESCO SOLLECITO . Raffaeles father, a urologist based in Bisceglie, Italy, with his second wife, Mara.

VANESSA SOLLECITO . Raffaeles older sister, a Rome-based carabiniere who lost her job after her brother was arrested.

ROGER GUEDE . Rudys father, a bricklayer born in Ivory Coast and living in Bastia, Italy.

THE HOUSEMATES AT 7 VIA DELLA PERGOLA

FILOMENA ROMANELLI . Intern at a Perugia law firm, age twenty-six at the time of the murder.

LAURA MEZZETTI . Intern at a Perugia law firm, age twenty-six at the time of the murder.

STEFANO BONASSI . Student from Marche, lived in the downstairs flat.

MARCO MARZAN . Student from Marche, lived downstairs.

GIACOMO SILENZI . Student from Marche, Meredith Kerchers lover in the two weeks before her murder, lived downstairs.

RICCARDO LUCIANI . Student from Marche, lived downstairs.

PERUGIANS

DIYA PATRICK LUMUMBA . Congolese immigrant, musician, bar owner, and Amandas employer.

PAOLO CAPORALI . Wealthy Perugia businessman, owner of the Liomatic vending company and the Perugia basketball team; adopted the teenage Rudy Guede, then disowned him.

ILARIA CAPORALI . Paolos daughter.

IVANA TIBERI . Rudys first Italian teacher and de facto Italian mother.

NARA CAPEZZALI . Elderly woman neighbor of 7 via della Pergola who testified that she heard screams on November 1.

ANTONIO CURATOLO . Homeless heroin addict who testified that he saw Amanda and Raffaele near the murder scene on November 1.

MARCO QUINTAVALLE . Perugia grocery owner who testified that Amanda entered his shop as it opened the morning after the murder.

HEKURAN KOKOMANI . Cocaine dealer and Albanian immigrant who testified that he saw Amanda and Raffaele together with Rudy in the days before the murder.

BISCARINI FAMILY . Wealthy villa owners who found Merediths phones.

FRANK SFARZO . Perugia-based blogger whose case files were confiscated by police.

FRANCESCA BENE . Reporter for the Perugia daily Il Giornale dellUmbria, detained by police for her investigation into the witnesses.

THE BRITISH GIRLS

SOPHIE PURTON . Leeds University Erasmus student in Perugia, the last person to see Meredith alive.

SAMANTHA RODENHURST . Erasmus student in Perugia, friend of Meredith.

AMY FROST . Erasmus student in Perugia, friend of Meredith.

NATALIE HAYWORTH . Erasmus student in Perugia, friend of Meredith.

ROBYN BUTTERWORTH . Erasmus student in Perugia, friend of Meredith.

FRIENDS

BRETT LITHER . Amandas elementary and high school friend, West Seattle.

MADISON PAXTON . Amandas University of Washington friend, Seattle and Perugia.

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