Here are the New York Times, CNN, and NBC. Here is Wikipedia for background.
The case has made several appearances on LessWrong; examples include:
- You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event (December 2009)
- The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour Beats a Year in the Courtroom (December 2009)
- Amanda Knox: post mortem (October 2011)
- Amanda Knox Guilty Again (January 2014)
Bad prior. Gang violence is a major murder statistic, but it's pretty far from being "most". Quick googling says: "1 in 6 murders". The most common motive, at 50% is "Argument". So.. men are more likely to escalate those to homocide?
Makes sense.