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In November 2007, Amanda Knox was catapulted from a free-living foreign exchange student smoking pot and watching movies with her new boyfriend to the prime suspect in a brutal murder case, and the focus of an international trial that captured the attention of the world.

Now five-and-half years after life as she knew it evaporated in an instant, she is finally telling her version of events and revealing the moment of horror when the butchered body of roommate Meredith Kercher was discovered in their Italian villa.

Setting the scene of another fun weekend for students at the University For Foreigners in Perugia, Knox, now 25, reveals in her new memoir, Waiting To Be Heard, how everything at that time “happened by chance.”

She met British student Meredith “by chance,” and then met Raffaele Sollecito at a string and piano quintet “by chance,” and he would ask her to be his girlfriend within three days.
Halloween offers an irresistible excuse for students to dress up in costumes and to party,” wrote Amanda, and the girls celebrated the night with different friends – a fact that prosecutors later claimed showed their friendship was fraying.

The next day – eerily All Saint’s Day, a national holiday in Italy to honor the dead – Amanda and Raffaele enjoyed a chilled-out couple’s night smoking a joint, playing The Beatles on the guitar and wa.