Amanda Knox Returns Home to Seattle

I’ve been hearing about the Amanda Knox case for several years now, but paid special attention over the last several months while the appeal process finished up. I kept wondering what would happen next as whatever evidence the Perugia police thought they had was excluded.

As soon as the evidence was excluded, the only question was whether or not the Italian justice system would be willing to let someone go when there was no evidence to prove she had even been at the scene.

I could only imagine, as I heard the verdict read, what it must be like to be a young person arrested and held in a foreign prison, thinking you would spend a bulk of your life there.     What if she IS innocent?   The evidence is lacking… entirely.

Then she is set free, and it was emotional, even for me, and was not even involved, except as a spectator.

I could only imagine what it must be like on that long flight home, and even watched the plane land on FlightTracker, because it was momentous, after-all, and someone tweeted the link, so why not?  It was exciting to imagine her finally getting to do what she thought she wouldn’t be able to.  Come home.

Good luck to her, is all I have to say, really.   I’m happy things went her way.

I hope the family of Meredith Kercher find the answers and peace they are looking for. Sometimes, there are not enough answers in the end, and that’s the sad part of all of this.  No one deserves to die that way.