ENQUIRER Special Investigation reveals the new information that could wreck AMANDA KNOX’s fight for extradition in bombshell murder case. PLUS: Secret VIDEO footage revealed!
As “Foxy Knoxy” prepares to appeal her recent murder re-conviction, disturbing new information could end her life as a free woman. For years, Italian prosecutors have claimed that British exchange student Meredith Kercher was killed in a drug-fueled frenzy.
Now The ENQUIRER can reveal Knox’s reportedly disturbing links to local cocaine dealers in the days before and after the bloody crime. Kercher was found brutally stabbed to death in the apartment that she shared with Knox in Perugia, Italy, on Nov. 1, 2007.
Knox, her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and alleged local drug dealer and petty thief Rudy Guede were charged with the crime.
In his closing statement, lead prosecutor Giuliano Mignini argued that Kercher was murdered “under the fumes of drugs and alcohol.” Knox and Sollecito were tried together, and found guilty in 2009.
In a separate trial, Guede was convicted and given a 30-year jail term that was later reduced to 16 years.
Two years later, as the former lovers languished in jail, local news media reported that a cocaine ring in Perugia had been uncovered with information police found on Knox’s seized cell phone. A man listed on Knox’s phone and two other men oversaw a “drug ring for university students and professionals,” the report said.
According to the report, cell phone calls between the man and Knox “occurred in the days before and after the murder of (Kercher).”
Authorities also said an “Italian person… from time to time replenished Amanda Knox’s narcotic substances, as well as having allegedly had with her the relationship of a sexual nature.