[CR Note: Doug Sacrison has joined Crime Rant as our first-ever intern. Doug is a graduate of Western Washington University (English, with a Creative Writing emphasis). He’ll be guest blogging on Crime Rant once a week. As news comes this week that Amanda Knox's boyfriend and fellow murder suspect Raffaele Sollecito says Knox tried to frame him for the murder of Meredith Kercher, we thought it would be interesting to have Doug the Intern talk about the case of our hometown girl, and internation woman of mysery.]

Guest blog by Doug Sacrison

Hi again.

This week someone said it might be interesting to hear my take on the Amanda Knox murder investigation, given my position as a young adult or whatever they’re calling us these days.  Both Knox and I are around the same age, have loads of stuff about us on the internet (well I’m getting there) and even attended college in the same state.  Perhaps what sets us apart the most is my general lack of interest in sleeping with strange foreign men on trains.  Or anywhere else for that matter.

According to some reports, Amanda Knox, a theater student at the University of Washington (great press for the Huskies!) was a rather promiscuous young lady who, immediately upon her arrival in Italy to study abroad, forewent the studying part of abroad to sidle up with some Italian man she had never met before on a train ride.  One can wonder where they found the space for this, but I’d rather not.  Apparently this was not the only “encounter” with strangers Knox had, as she traveled the Italian countryside “encountering” everyone she could.

Perhaps this was all research for her exchange program.

But sleeping with thousands of strangers is not what Amanda Knox is behind bars for.  It’s that whole murder thing that’s gotten her into trouble.  Of course, her escapades are what led to her involvement in Meredith Kercher’s death.  From the reports I’ve read, Kercher was not into the weird love triangles Knox was attempting to draw her into.  This leads to my conclusion: Amanda Knox decided to kill the one person she found in Europe who refused to sleep with her.

Actually, I am not sold on the fact that Knox is definitely the killer in this case, but I doubt her hands are completely clean in this mess.  My point would be that I find it no surprise that a young lady like this finds herself in a situation like this one.  I know plenty of people who don’t go looking for crazy European sex parties, and consequently these people aren’t sitting around in European jail cells.  I feel sorry for her family members, who don’t seem to believe she’s capable of making friends the way she has been, let alone murdering anyone.  But despite their disbelief, I tend to side more with Knox’s college peers who have been pointing to her promiscuity during interviews.  Given her back story, I wouldn’t really believe any front story Amanda Knox has to give.  She allegedly used her trail of various partners as a way to brag.  I heard a tale from a couple friends of mine concerning a chat with a girl they barely knew at a party and her apparent belief that they would think she was a very important person if she detailed her sexual exploits.  Instead, it turned into a horror story about avoiding theater kids who have been drinking (I’m sorry drama majors, but…).

And although I could turn this into a rant about how you can’t trust a drama student as far as you can throw one, I think her chosen major makes me question her far less than the fact that she had a creepy boyfriend who also thought this whole “sex with lots of other people at the same time while apparently having murder weapons lying around” was a really cool way to spend your Friday evening.  Or Saturday, or Sunday, or Monday, etc.  He, of course, is also in deep trouble for the murder.  Then they drag into the mix this 40-year-old bartender from the Congo.  Maybe they thought his age would lend some wisdom, but that sure didn’t work out. All these elements put together would make me question Knox long before any murdering.  Now far be it from me to question anyone’s life style, but when you go and kill somebody, I think we can all start questioning as much as we want.

Though it’s been said that any publicity is good publicity, I personally wouldn’t want my face all over numerous countries’ news casts for the same reasons as Amanda Knox.  And unlike Knox, I learned long ago to watch out for strangers. Not sleep with them.

Seattle’s favorite bad girl gone badder, Amanda Knox, cooked her own goose just after Thanksgiving when she admitted to her parents that she was at the scene of the murder of her British roomie, Meredith Kercher.

At least, that’s what Italian police are saying now.

The 20-year-old who went by “Foxy Knoxy” on her internet accounts, was denied bail today.

Here’s a snip from the UK to catch you up:

Kercher, 21, was found with her throat cut in the house she shared with Knox in the Italian city of Perugia a month ago. Police believe she had been subjected to an “extreme” sex game before being killed.”

A police source said last night: “From the bugged recording it is possible to understand that she [Knox] was in the house. She denies everything, but we did submit this evidence today.”

It is believed that the evidence was sufficient for Judge Massimo Ricciarelli to deny a request from Knox’s lawyers that she be freed into house arrest. Instead, Knox was driven back to Capanne prison outside Perugia in handcuffs.

Knox’s boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, 23, was also denied bail.

OK, the girl’s a creep, stupid, or innnocent of the crime (or maybe just two out of three). But is she a killer? Seems like most of Europe’s already decided that one. She’s been a fixture in the media for a month. Nothing’s better than a sex-crazed American murderess.

Don’t we know it.

Among the tidbits the UK press (the Daily Mail, in particular) has enjoyed reporting (and these are the details that will make her a supertar in the annals of crime):

Then a University of Washington student, Foxy Knoxy was arrested for hosting a drunken sex party in Seattle before leaving for Italy.

Those present that night say the scenes on the street were as nothing compared to what was going on inside Knox’s rented house, less than a mile from where she studied English, German and Italian amid the calm, regulated life at one of America’s greatest universities.

It was, according to one party guest, “bedlam, with drink, drugs and bodies everywhere.”

“I’ve been to a lot of student parties in my time, but I’ve never been to a party like that.”

“Everyone just wanted to get drunk, get high and get laid. There was also a lot of violence because everyone was so pumped up.”

After enrolling at the UW, she developed a taste for drugs, sex and trouble.

Although achieving top grades, she had started smoking potent ’skunk’ cannabis regularly and declared to friends that her favorite “poison” was vodka.

She also developed a deep, abiding desire for casual sex.

“She was – how can I put it – very friendly, outgoing and bubbly to all men she came into contact with,” said Philip Setran, a medical student, who shared a dormitory with Amanda.

“She had what in polite terms you’d call a lot of close male friends.”

Others were more blunt, calling her a “man-eater”.

In Italy, she cut loose. No one to watch her. No one to get in her way — except maybe Meredith Kircher. Within hours of arriving , she e-mailed friend that she sex with a stranger on a train. She was on the road to disaster, for sure.

Arriving in Perugia, she also liked what she saw, e-mailing another friend that the party scene was “great” and beginning a series of one-night stands with Italian men.

She also reputedly boasted to one friend in Seattle that she “could have any man she wanted” – and set about proving it.

It’s no wonder that she’s the toast of the tabloids. For a girl who craved attention, Foxy Knoxy will surely get her share now. And then some.