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Amanda Knox returns to Seattle, thanks supporters

Amanda Knox at a news conference in Seattle Tuesday after returning home from Italy.
Associated Press
Amanda Knox at a news conference in Seattle Tuesday after returning home from Italy.

SEATTLE — Amanda Knox has thanked all those who believed and defended her during her trial in Italy over the sexual assault and fatal stabbing of her British roommate.

"Thank you for being there with me," she said through tears Tuesday, shortly after the plane carrying her to freedom landed in her hometown of Seattle.

"I'm really overwhelmed right now. I was looking down from the airplane, and it seemed like everything wasn't real," she said.

Her attorney, Theodore Simon, reiterated her claims on innocence in the case, which has made her a tabloid staple on two continents. The conviction was overturned amid doubts over DNA evidence. Prosecutors insist she was among three people who killed 21-year-old Meredith Kercher.

Knox said her family was the "most important thing to me right now, and I just want to go and be with them, so, thank you for being there for me."

The University of Washington student was studying abroad in Perugia at the time.

On the Web:

Nightline from ABC News: Amanda Knox's Emotional Journey Home:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEXzvaFnTA4

Paula is a former host, reporter and producer who retired from KNKX in 2021. She joined the station in 1989 as All Things Considered host and covered the Law and Justice beat for 15 years. Paula grew up in Idaho and, prior to KNKX, worked in public radio and television in Boise, San Francisco and upstate New York.
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