Knox has made a career out of Meredith's murder – it's time to lay her memory to rest

As Disney Hulu starts filming a caller bid astir Amanda Knox, US exertion Christopher Bucktin says Meredith Kercher's communicative should beryllium astir her, the beingness she led and the calamity of its loss, not an endless PR run and gravy bid for Knox

Amanda Knox has turned her transportation to Meredith Kercher's tragic execution into a idiosyncratic concern empire.

For years now, the American has capitalised connected the brutal decease of her British roommate, turning notoriety into profit, and it seems she has nary volition of letting the communicative rest.

Now, arsenic Disney's Hulu is filming a caller bid astir Knox, successful Perugia, Italy, wherever the execution happened, the exploitation continues - angering locals who person not been shy to dependable their disgust.

The constricted series, which Knox is an enforcement shaper of, details her conflict to wide her sanction erstwhile she was convicted of the 21-year-old's execution successful 2007.

Knox and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were yet acquitted by Italy's highest tribunal successful 2015. Rudy Guede, who was tried separately, was recovered blameworthy of the execution and sentenced to 16 years successful situation but was released successful November 2021.

Since her acquittal, Knox has pursued nationalist attraction with a memoir, nationalist speaking engagements and adjacent a podcast – each centred astir her broadside of the story.

Through it all, Meredith's beingness and bequest risks being overshadowed arsenic Knox comes to predominate the conversation. What makes the concern particularly distasteful is that Knox erstwhile pledged to enactment distant from Italy. She vowed she wouldn't acceptable ft successful Perugia retired of respect for Meredith and her family.

But portion the metropolis has remained off-limits for now, she has since returned doubly to Italy.

She archetypal revisited successful 2019 erstwhile she attended a league to appear connected a sheet wherever Amanda discussed the media's relation successful transgression trials. Yet her reappearance successful Modena seemed much astir sustaining her ain illustration than astir justness oregon respect.

Now, though she's not successful Perugia arsenic the Hulu bid is filming, it's Knox's sanction that resurfaces each clip the communicative is retold.

Her defenders reason that she has the close to stock her experience, but this is nary longer simply astir "telling her story".

Knox has made a vocation disconnected the backmost of Meredith's murder, utilizing it to motorboat media ventures that support her sanction – and her profits – growing.

With this latest Hulu production, her transportation to the calamity she claims she wants to permission down is lone getting much attention.

Knox whitethorn not person physically returned to Italy for this, but her power is felt done each caller reimagining of the case, each caller dollar earned.

Meanwhile, the radical of Perugia person had enough. The signs that person appeared astir the metropolis - pleading for Rispetto per Meredith" ("Respect for Meredith") - amusement a assemblage fed up with having this achy lawsuit dragged up implicit and over.

For Meredith's family, each caller task astir the execution is simply a caller wound. There comes a constituent erstwhile the request to "share her story" is intelligibly conscionable a mode to currency in, to support the attraction rolling and to support the profits flowing.

Meredith's communicative should beryllium astir her, astir the beingness she led and the calamity of its loss, not an endless PR run for Knox.

It's clip for her and those who enactment her, specified arsenic Disney, to fto Meredith yet remainder successful peace.