Mention the name “Amanda Knox,” and most people respond: “Oh, isn’t that the American girl who killed her roommate in Italy?”
Knox was, indeed, convicted of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher, during a study-abroad program in 2007 in Perugia, Italy. She spent almost four years in an Italian prison before being freed in 2011. She was formally exonerated in 2015.