Amanda Knox Case

(Perugia, Italy) It would be near impossible for any person following current events over the last few years to not know of the Amanda Knox case. It's a story of sensation and outrage.

Yesterday, an Italian appeals court reversed Knox's murder conviction from 2008.

Young American coed in Italy hosts a drugs and sex party resulting in a flashing blade and the bloody throat-slashed murder of her female roommate, Meredith Kercher.

Newspapers couldn't ask for better copy. The story is almost formulaic and the media have been obligingly frenzied.

Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted in December 2009 of killing her roommate Meredith Kercher in a 2007 attack that left the British exchange student partially nude and bleeding to death from a slashed throat. Sollecito was also acquitted of the murder today.

Knox, 24, and Sollecito, 27, have spent the past four years in an Italian prison and faced the prospect of a life sentence depending on today's appeals court ruling.

With nail-biting anticipation, publishers everywhere were ready to push the button to have their pre-written stories of Guilty or Not Guilty distributed first. Comically, the UK Daily Mail pushed the send button too early and got it wrong -- a "Dewey Wins" moment.

Nevertheless, I confess to possessing an almost complete lack of interest in the story and, therefore, haven't mentioned it previously. But now, I'm curious. My reading indicates that no motive for the murder has been identified.

Unless I missed something, the investigators only reported that a drug and sex party ended in the bloody death of Meredith Kercher. I would suggest that most drug and sex parties don't end in murder.

Surely, something triggered the crime. Jealousy, drug deal gone bad, cheating at cards, dissing homeys, an extreme catfight, personality clash -- something was the initiating event. Haven't heard what it was. Maybe a reader knows.