The Knox Trial Endgame
Barbie Latza Nadeau has reported from Italy for Newsweek Magazine since 1997. She also writes for CNN Traveller, Budget Travel Magazine and Frommer's.
As closing arguments began, prosecutors described accused murderess Amanda Knox as a sex-and-drug-crazed sociopath while tears streamed down her face.
Knox Evidence Will Stand Alone
Barbie Latza Nadeau has reported from Italy for Newsweek Magazine since 1997. She also writes for CNN Traveller, Budget Travel Magazine and Frommer's.
Grim news today for accused murderess Amanda Knox: The Italian judge ruled that damning evidence-including a knife with her DNA on it-cannot be re-analyzed.
Zero Hour for Amanda Knox
Barbie Latza Nadeau has reported from Italy for Newsweek Magazine since 1997. She also writes for CNN Traveller, Budget Travel Magazine and Frommer's.
As the Italian murder trial draws to a close, défense attorneys for American Amanda Knox and her boyfriend are challenging forensic evidence marred by sloppy police work.
No Mistrial for Knox
Barbie Latza Nadeau has reported from Italy for Newsweek Magazine since 1997. She also writes for CNN Traveller, Budget Travel Magazine and Frommer's.
Denied their request for a mistrial due to mishandled evidence, Amanda Knox's lawyers promise "bombshells" in the murder trial-but prep her for a guilty verdict.
Amanda Knox's Summer in Prison
Barbie Latza Nadeau has reported from Italy for Newsweek Magazine since 1997. She also writes for CNN Traveller, Budget Travel Magazine and Frommer's.
As the trial resumes this week, Barbie Latza Nadeau reports on the PR campaign championing the accused murderess, and her former boyfriend and alleged accomplice's two months "in hell."
The Knox Trial Cliffhanger
Barbie Latza Nadeau has reported from Italy for Newsweek Magazine since 1997. She also writes for CNN Traveller, Budget Travel Magazine and Frommer's.
As Italy's murder trial adjourns today for the summer, Amanda Knox's family is haunted by a scandalous photo of her sisters posing in short-shorts at the crime scene.
Knox Defense Has Its Day
Barbie Latza Nadeau has reported from Italy for Newsweek Magazine since 1997. She also writes for CNN Traveller, Budget Travel Magazine and Frommer's.
In a dramatic day of testimony-which literally made a court interpreter ill-experts knock down some, but not all, of the evidence against Amanda Knox.
The Other Murders That Could Save Her
Barbie Latza Nadeau has reported from Italy for Newsweek Magazine since 1997. She also writes for CNN Traveller, Budget Travel Magazine and Frommer's.
Charges of misconduct in Italy's other notorious crime-a series of killings described by bestselling author Doug Preston and optioned by Tom Cruise-could discredit the prosecutor of Amanda Knox.
At Knox Trial, the Lone Convict
Barbie Latza Nadeau has reported from Italy for Newsweek Magazine since 1997. She also writes for CNN Traveller, Budget Travel Magazine and Frommer's.
Rudy Guede, the only person yet convicted of murdering Meredith Kercher, holds the key to what happened that night. But he's staying mum-so far.
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