Acquitted woman says media created story about her role in death of Meredith Kercher An emotional Amanda Knox has castigated the media for depicting her as a "dirty maneater" when she was on trial for the murder of the British student Meredith Kercher. Knox, now 31, was twice convicted and twice acquitted of killing Kercher, 21, in the home they shared in the Italian university town of Perugia in November 2007.