Exactly! Her boyfriend was Italian, he was offered a better deal if he testified against her, he wouldn’t do it. He was also convicted on zero evidence.
Being a whore does not make you a murderer. Ignorant people seem to link the two.
I'd have gone for "slut" rather than "whore", but I agree.
I've been to Perugia, and in that area of Italy -- near Assisi-- they are very conservative. But if Knox had been an Italian slut, I think that they would have been more forgiving than they were with "an American slut" defiling their city.
Perugia is only nine miles from very religious Assisi, and it is less than 200 miles from Vicenza where there is already one US military base and another planned -- and militantly protested by Italians.