# Was Amanda Knox Involved In Any Way With Her Roommate's Murder?

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**Created:** [September 28, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-amanda-knox-involved-in-any-way-with-her-roommates-murder/597906 "2011-09-28T17:39:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-amanda-knox-involved-in-any-way-with-her-roommates-murder/597906/301 "2011-10-11T08:28:11Z")

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> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#):
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> [On that topic: it should be noted that - WRT to DNA testing and the like - that the following two statements are not at all the same:
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> [ul]  
> [li]The likelihood of X happening due to chance are one in a million[/li][li]The likelihood that X has happened due to chance is one in a million[/li][/ul]  
> These are very fundamentally different, and ISTM that many people fail to appreciate this.]  
> IMO.

Johnny Cochrane suckered the OJ jury into this one when he quoted the statistic that only one in a million men murder their wives…when the relevant stat was, GIVEN A DEAD MARRIED WOMAN, one in five were murdered by their husband.

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**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-amanda-knox-involved-in-any-way-with-her-roommates-murder/597906/302 "2011-10-13T00:46:18Z")

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I’m not a fan of bumping threads, but Wired has an [interesting article](http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/amanda-knox-dna/all/1) up about how DNA evidence worked (or rather, didn’t work) in the Knox case.

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