The father of slain British student Meredith Kercher has released a book about her homicide and the case that gripped headlines from all over the world. However, it won't be aimed at discussing whether or not he thinks Amanda Knox and her former lover are responsible. Instead, it will be focused on losing his daughter and the end of his life as he knew it. Though it's probably safe to say there will be some things written about Foxy Knoxy, you would probably have to buy the book to read and find out on your own.
John Kercher recounts the day he found out his daughter was the exchange student that had been murdered in Italy, as it was all over the news. He recalls the phone call he received that brought the heartbreaking news. Throughout the pages of his book, which has just been released, he goes into detail about the life and demise of Meredith Kercher.
Meanwhile, Amanda Knox fans are awaiting the release of her so-called memoir, which is bragged to be a blow-by-blow account of the events leading to her imprisonment. The woman was originally sentenced to 26 years in Perugia but managed to win an appeal several months ago. She's now free, but prosecutors in Italy are working on a new appeal that may return that original murder conviction. Perhaps the 2013 release date on her book is for a reason? Why so far away?
Crime analyst and profiler Chelsea Hoffman can be found on The Huffington Post, Chelsea Hoffman: Case to Case and many other outlets. Follow @TheRealChelseaH on Twitter or click here to contact Chelsea directly.
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Comments: 79
"Clown 4U" Apr 9, 2012, 6:28am EDT
How someone on the other side of the world can write and say things without even meeting Amanda ? Is It a Waste of Time FOR THIS SECOND HAND BOOK?
Ho ho ho. But you're wrong. It's FIRST HAND about Meredith and John Kercher's experience. "Secondhand" about the murder, it would be. Knox, Sollecito and Guede are the only people who can talk about the murder firsthand.
Nice identification of a USP. You make me sick.
I won't go as far as to say she killed Meredith Kercher -- but in my opinion, I believe she was involved.
If you truly want an unbiased account of the events surrounding the murder you would do better to google it and be prepared to read EVERYTHING.......not just what has been put out there by the hate groups who think true justice comes at the expense of common sense.
There have been enough tabloid journalists wishing to jump on this bandwagon that it would seem evident the motivation behind publishing anything they can......including proven lies, all in the endeavor to keep the clicks coming. If you don't believe me, click on Hoffman's stories. None of them get the comments that this one story has. Hoffman herself has as much as admitted in commenting to her readers she has used the Kercher case to bolster her readership.
If you want truth.....be prepared to slosh through alot of BS.
for the mentally disabled .
Please send an encouraging
sms to a mentally disabled friend,
as i have done‚¦‚¦‚¦
And yes please, could someone please remove the comments from people pretending to be Maresca and Mignini as its very disrespectful. These are the sort of comments which make me believe Knox and her supporters really must have something to fear if they are resorting to these sort of tactics.
Your allegance to Mignini and Maresca is what is odd, not some random post from a couple of people who are poking fun of your heros.
Amanda and Raffaele suffered more than who? Meredith Kercher who had her throat slit and breathed in her own blood? She died an agonizing death.
I believe Amanda Knox to be guilty based on all the lies she has told. Her email from the 4th of November 2007 is revealing enough to make you doubt her version of events. Than she lies more to police and finally accuses an innocent man to get out of a tight spot.
Now she makes money out of the death of Meredith Kercher, a murder Amanda Knox was very likely involved. This is an American dream come true.
Finally we will learn something about the victim Meredith Kercher and not about the heartless roommate who took a shower in a blood stained bathroom and told the police Meredith was in the habit to lock her door.
I hope the Kerchers can get some closure and that the murderers are found guilty.
You're too far down the rabbit hole to be reasoned with (as are most of the guilters like yourself.)
To quote Seth Chandler, why don't you...
The Italian system is what it is. Does it make it superior? Not anymore than the American justice system. Our court system doesn't always get it right....that you think the Italian courts always do renders your opinion worthless. To think the "19 judges" involved with the guilty verdict did so without the influence of Mignini's manipulation quite frankly lacks intellectual honesty.
The Court d'Assise is NOT the last word in the system. It is refered to as the "inferior" court with reason. That you seem so heavily invested in the courts opinion brings up the question as to whether or not you really do understand the funtion of the justice system you declare as your own.
Mignini lied to suit his agenda. He had a year to come up with 10,000 pages of worthless innuendo and manipulated information all in the effort to save his arse. You and all who believe his intentions were admirable have been duped or are simply devoid of analytical thinking.
"inferior" indeed.
It’s utterly despicable that the girl jailed for killing my daughter has become a celebrity
From Meredith Kercher’s father, a passionate attack on the cult of ‘Foxy Knoxy’
By John Kercher
Last week, I switched on my television to see the parents of the young woman convicted of taking my daughter’s life proclaiming her innocence. And, once again, I felt the pain and the anger and the raw grief resurface.
Amanda Knox was found guilty of killing my daughter Meredith at the house they shared in Italy three years ago. Yet since that act of horrific violence, Knox, it seems, has been accorded the status of a minor celebrity.
Sometimes it seems that there is no escape from her or her jaunty nickname, ‘Foxy Knoxy’ (doubly hurtful, for the way it trivialises the awfulness of her offence).
Cherished memories: John Kercher misses daughter Meredith every day
Last week, Knox’s parents were given star billing on the ITV breakfast show Daybreak, where they had free rein to profess their conviction that their daughter is not guilty.
Kurt Knox and his ex-wife Edda Mellas have never expressed their condolences to our family for our grievous loss. There has been no letter of sympathy; no word of regret. Instead, I have watched them repeatedly reiterate the mantra of their daughter’s innocence.
Alas, I fear there is more yet to come. Their TV appearance last week, trailed for two days as if it were some exclusive media coup, coincided with the resumption of Knox’s appeal against her conviction.
This appeal, like the initial court case, will drag on for months, while the dark tunnel between my family and our ability to grieve for Meredith in peace becomes ever longer.
If Knox doesn’t get the result she wants, our agony will be even more protracted: she may then take her case to Italy’s Supreme Court in Rome. Put simply, our ordeal could go on for years.
‘To many, Knox seems an unlikely killer. Yet to my family she is, unequivocally, culpable’
Knox is one of three people convicted of killing my beautiful and talented daughter. It was a brutal murder. Meredith’s throat was slit, and she was stabbed to death.
Knox and her former boyfriend, Italian Raffaele Sollecito, are serving jail sentences of 26 and 25 years respectively for their heinous crime. A third person, drifter Rudy Guede, convicted with them, is also in prison.
Yet it is Knox who still exerts such a hold over the media. As a journalist myself, I know the reason why. Knox is young, attractive and female. To many, she seems an unlikely killer.
Yet to my family she is, unequivocally, culpable. As far as we are concerned, she has been convicted of taking our precious Meredith’s life in the most hideous and bloody way.
And the sadness is, the nature of that death too often prevents us from celebrating her life. She has become ‘Meredith Kercher, murder victim’, not Meredith Kercher, our lovely, intellectually curious daughter.
So, today, I’d like to redress the balance and tell you about our irredeemable loss. About the Merdeith we knew and loved.
Our girl was 21 when she died; a bright, sweet-natured and engaging young woman. She had been studying for a degree in European Studies and Italian at Leeds University when she had opted to spend some time in the medieval Italian town of Perugia, at the university there, improving her knowledge of the Italian language and culture.
On November 1, the third anniversary of her death, I gathered with the rest of the family in the cold, grey cemetery where she is buried. One by one, we laid bright flowers on her grave and left messages. Mine said simply, ‘I miss you’.
Along with our own handwritten notes, there were dozens from Meredith’s friends.
They write as if she’s still with us, telling her about their new jobs, their boyfriends.
They remind her of all the wonderful times they had, of the shared laughter. And like us, they hope — really, they do — that Meredith might somehow know what they have written.
None of us, you see, wants to forget her for even one second. So she is here, among us, everywhere. She lives on in the public memorials, with trees planted in her honour at her old school and university, and in the private ones, too.
At her home in Surrey, where she lived with her mum during the university holidays, her room remains as it always was. It is not a shrine; but neither will it ever be disturbed.
‘All we want now is the peace to be able to celebrate her life. Is that so much to ask?’
Her clothes remain in the wardrobe, her posters on the wall. Study books are piled on the table, make-up arranged beside them. It is just as she left it — and sometimes I even convince myself that one day she will return to it.
I wait to hear the cheerful cadence of her laughter. Even now, the memory of it has the power to make me smile.
People also always remember Meredith’s kindness and caring nature. She never gave the impression of being studious, but she was. She worked quietly and assiduously for her degree. But she was generous too. Several friends commented that she would lend out her lecture notes to anyone who asked: to her, it was second nature.
But Meredith, of course, was not perfect. Punctuality was never one of her qualities.
The last time I saw her, during a weekend trip back to London, she breezed into the Italian restaurant where I was waiting for her a full hour late. Yet when I saw her, wreathed in that famous smile, my annoyance instantly evaporated.
The vision of her delightedly showing me the new boots she’d bought that day is one I continue to hold dear.
The next thing we knew, we were travelling to Italy to identify her body.
And then there was the ordeal of the court case, the details of which have been picked over too often to bear repeating here.
Glamorised: Actress Hayden Panettiere is playing Knox in a new film about the events of Meredith’s death
Glamorised: Actress Hayden Panettiere is playing Knox in a new film about the events of Meredith’s death
But still, the hurt wasn’t over. I’ll share one small example.
Two years after her death, we were told that we could finally take Meredith’s possessions home with us. I expected a large suitcase full of her belongings, which we could all cherish.
Instead, I was given a small, battered case. Her beloved clothes had all been taken for forensic tests. Not even her treasured possessions were sacrosanct.
Who knew?
Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Guede received a total of 67 years in prison for Meredith Kercher’s murder
So we concentrate on the happy memories instead. Meredith was a Christmas baby, and as the festive season approaches, we hold in our hearts the memory of her 21st birthday, celebrated in a local Italian restaurant. None of us could have dreamed it would be her last.
Meredith meant so much to us all. Our lives have, of course, moved on, but not a minute passes when she is not in our thoughts. And the question that nags insistently at us is: ‘Why?’ Why was she taken from us prematurely and with such horrific brutality?
Like all grieving parents, we sometimes wonder what she would be doing now if she were still with us. She would have graduated with her degree from Leeds University in 2009. But, of course, we were never able to share her pride in reaching that milestone.
She was, however, awarded a posthumous degree, and her sister, Stephanie, collected it for her. Every student in the vast hall rose to their feet to applaud her that day. The standing ovation lasted a full minute, and my eyes brimmed with tears.
Sometimes, even now, I find it hard to believe she is not still with us. Her passing is easier to bear if I pretend she has just gone away for a while; that some day soon she will ring me — her voice bubbling with laughter and enthusiasm — to tell me about her latest adventure.
Meredith was the baby of the family, the beloved youngest child. Her mum, her siblings and I cherish every memory of her short life. It is her untimely and horrific death we would all prefer to obliterate from our minds.
All we want now is the peace to be able to celebrate her life. Is that so much to ask?
Indulgant little rascal, aren't you? Or maybe just a little off......or a lot?
I hope Knox and Sollecito have security with people like you roaming around. They most definately need it.
You guilters do have a penchant for the dramatic.
Quite frankly, I find it rather ugly that people seem determined to pursue what can only be described as a witch hunt to serve some warped sense of justice.
Like I said...such a flair for the dramatic you people possess.
At best, if Amanda and Raffaele are innocent then they brought what happened on themselves through lies and deliberate vagueness. Raffaele was lying to press about his whereabouts before he was even properly questioned by the police (Kate Mansy interview). I understand Kate still has the tapes and the transcripts and is happy to be challenged by anyone who thinks she made the story up. She does have Raffaele's voice on tape, lying, even if the police don't. And don't tell me he was confused because it doesn't wash. It was 24 hours after the body was found.
I say at best because lets face it, the real odds of these two being innocent are small.
I have NEVER witnessed a death threat posted by ANYONE directed toward ANY of the Kercher family on ANY forum by those who believe in the pairs innocence......EVER. While I have read over and over again innuendos of retribution, both physical and mental posted ad nauseum by the guilters directed mostly toward Knox. No one begrudges the Kerchers their grief.
If you found a comment on Huff Po that does do so provide the link. Otherwise it's just another tidbit of gossip you guys are so fond of perpetuating.
Ahhhh......Kate Mansey. The interview of hearsay that is no where to be found on the internet. Just another guilter who has made a name for herself (like our friend Chelsea here) riding the wave of voyerism perpetuated by this case. If she indeed has tapes or transcripts why are they not published? How can this be? I can find stories dated back from when this story broke on the Mirror, but this interview? Let's be honest, it's no accident that interview is MIA. And it's no surprise you and your friends over at TJMK have latched onto yet another person giving your theories and fantasies legs.
The odds small? The higher court did not think so. What FACTS do you have that the appellate court did not?
PROVOCZIONE
Amanda is not model type women,but very pretty and photogenic she is natural beauty, personally for me she is beautiful.
Post the link I asked for.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2129717/Meredith-Kerchers-father-Its-Amanda-Knox-justice-daughter.html
Fortunately there are also rational people who know that Amanda and Raffaele are INNOCENT and are glad to see the Italian Justice system correct its initial error.
Why are you deliberately avoiding doing so if it so readily available online? You basically called me a liar.....prove it!
POST THE LINK!!!!
O God I´m so so sorry for them.....
You of all people are clearly not in a postion to judge anyones conduct.
Really....I don't think I need an answer. I'm pretty sure I've got it pegged. But you could supply me with the link for Mansey's article (you know......since I've asked for it over and over again from you after your assertion it was readily available and I was making stuff up.)
Think you can do that now that I've got your attention?
ITALY MURDER DETAILS EMERGE
EXCLUSIVE
MURDERED IN ITALY. MEREDITH, 21
Friend tells how he broke down door
Kate Mansey In Perugia, Italy 4/11/2007
A friend of murdered British student Meredith Kercher told last night how he discovered her body in her blood-spattered bedroom.
Raffaele Sollecito, 23, relived the horror of finding the body of the pretty brunette who died when her killer broke into her home and cut her throat as she lay in her bed.
"It is something I never hope to see again," he said. "There was blood everywhere and I couldn't take it all in.
"My girlfriend was her flatmate and she was crying and screaming, 'How could anyone do this?'"
Meredith, 21, who had been studying in Perugia, Italy since August, was murdered the day after a Halloween fancy dress party at the city's British-themed Merlin Pub on Wednesday.
On Thursday she posted happy snaps of herself in fancy dress on the internet and in the evening had returned home alone after watching a film at a friend's house.
But her flatmates - two Italian girls and one American - had all stayed out for the night, so the gruesome discovery wasn't made until the next day.
Raffaele had spent the night at his own house on the other side of the city with his girlfriend, Meredith's American flatmate Amanda Knox, 22.
He said: "It was a normal night. Meredith had gone out with one of her English friends and Amanda and I went to party with one of my friends.
"The next day, around lunchtime, Amanda went back to their apartment to have a shower."
As Amanda, from Washington DC, stepped into house [sic B] she could tell there was something terribly wrong.
Raffaele said: "When she arrived the front door was wide open. She thought it was weird, but thought maybe someone was in the house and had left it ajar.
"But when she went into the bathroom she saw spots of blood all over the bath and sink. That's when she started getting really afraid and ran back to my place because she didn't want to go into the house alone. So I agreed to go back with her. When we walked in together, I knew straight away it was wrong. It was really eerily silent and the bathroom was speckled with blood like someone had flicked it around, just little spots.
"We went into the bedroom of Philomena (another flatmate who was away) and it had been ransacked, like someone had been looking for something. But when we tried Meredith's room, the door was locked. She never normally locked her bedroom door and that really made us frightened."
Their panic grew as they desperately banged on her door.
Raffaele said: "I tried to knock it down. I thought maybe she was ill... I made a dent, but I wasn't strong enough on my own so I called the police."
When police arrived they knocked the door down straightaway and Raffaele followed them into the room.
"I couldn't believe what I was seeing," he said. "It was hard to tell it was Meredith at first but Amanda started crying and screaming. I dragged her away because I didn't want her to see it, it was so horrible.
"It seems her killer came through the window because it was smashed and there was glass all over the place. It was so sinister because other parts of the house were just as normal."
Raffaele, a computer science student, said Meredith had recently started seeing an Italian neighbour called Giacamo [sic B] who lived in the apartment beneath the girls. He said: "Meredith was always smiling and happy. She was really popular and it's horrible that someone would want to hurt her."
Police hunting for the killer found two mobile phones in nearby Parco Saint Angelo, a favourite hang out for heroin addicts.
(...)
See....it's comments like this that render your point moot. So....how pray tell did the "FOAkers" manage to pull a journalists interview from the web? Do you actually believe they have some special powers?
This is an interview that if indeed took place would be available for all to view, as well as, the audio. Why is the "interview" ONLY available on TJMK? Given the mission of the TJMK website, how does an impartial party take ANYTHING that is asserted by the author at face value when there is no REASONABLE explanation of it's absence on a news forum? One that the author claims as her employer?
Easy to call it a conspiracy by the FOA parties. But it hardly adds an ounce of plausibility to your argument to, once again, evoke images of dark forces at play as a reason of yet another stumbling block to it's authenticity.
Doesn't work that way verp. Show me a credible source...not one derived from people hell bent on proving the pair did it.
Amanda has P.R. liars.
How does Raf defend himself against allegations of what was found on his computer if the investigative team destroyed the evidence? Again.....more garbage thrown out there by the prosecutor that can not be substantiated. Of course, were just supposed to take their word for it......right?
You want to compare Italy and England's media to the US? The capital of the world for tabloid journalism? Really? Are you actually telling me the media in either country didn't make millions selling their tawdry sex stories about a bad girl gone wild, killing her roommate for revenge. Are you really trying to say that didn't sway public opinion?
Please.....the irony is glaring.