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Peter Van Sant is an American television news reporter and correspondent for 48 Hours Mystery.
Van Sant was born on February 21, 1953 in Seattle, Washington. He graduated cum laude from Washington State University in 1975 with a Bachelor's degree in Communications.
After gradutation, Van Sant worked for KAPY-LP in Port Angeles. He joined KMVT-TV in Twin Falls, Idaho in 1975. From 1976 through 1977 he worked for Cedar Rapids-based KCRG-TV and from 1977 through 1978, for Omaha-based KETV. In 1978, he joined Fox-owned KOOL-TV in Phoenix, Arizona as weekend anchor and reporter. In 1982, he moved to Dallas and worked at WFAA-TV until 1984.
Amanda Marie Knox (born July 9, 1987) is an American woman who was accused of the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Umbria, Italy. She served four years of a 26-year sentence before the murder conviction was overturned on October 3, 2011. Raffaele Sollecito, Knox's boyfriend at the time of the murder, was also accused of the murder and had his conviction overturned on appeal. The jury upheld Knox's calunnia conviction for falsely implicating bar owner Patrick Lumumba. For this Knox was sentenced to three years in prison, which she had already served, and was ordered to pay Lumumba's court costs of about 22,000 euros.
Knox was born in Seattle, Washington, to Edda Mellas, a math teacher, and Curt Knox, a vice president of finance at Macy's. The couple divorced when Knox was a toddler. Knox attended Seattle Preparatory School, from which she graduated in 2005. In 2005 she began studies at the University of Washington.
In 2007 Knox moved to Perugia, Italy, to study Italian, German, and creative writing at the University for Foreigners for one year. She shared a house with Meredith Kercher, a student from England, as well as two Italian women. In mid-October 2007 she began a romantic relationship with an Italian engineering student, Raffaele Sollecito, from Bari, Apulia.