Hayden Panettiere to play Amanda Knox

As people who have murdered someone by stabbing them in a psycho-sexual attack go, American lady Amanda Knox who’s serving a 26 year prison sentence in Italy for murdering her housemate Meredith Kercher is pretty cool. She’s got the looks, the strange habits and the right amount of “is this really happening?” bemusement on her face in roughly 62% of the post-‘worst night ever’ photos of her.

(SCARED OF PEOPLE HATING US DISCLOSURE: We realise calling a convicted killer ‘cool’ is slightly contentious but we’re just making flippant judgements within the context of murderers because it might be funny rather than suggesting you should put a poster of her on your wall or anything.)

Fred West, for example, was not cool. He ate onions like they were apples and raped his own children.

Amanda Knox did cartwheels and the splits in the police station while she was waiting to be questioned.

Ed Gein was also not cool. He made a full body suit out of his dead mother’s skin, and when they searched his house they found four noses, whole human bones and fragments, nine masks of human skin, bowls made from human skulls, Ten female heads with the tops sawed off, Human skin covering several chair seats, Mary Hogan's head in a paper bag, Bernice Worden's head in a burlap sack, nine vulvas in a shoe box, skulls on his bedposts, organs in the refrigerator and a pair of lips on a draw string for a windowshade.

Amanda Knox’s nickname is Foxy Knoxy.

In a roundabout way this leads us to Heroes' superhotmegababelookatherfacehasn’tshegotalovelysmile Hayden Panettiere who’s been chosen to play Knox in a biopic of the murderer. The film will be shown on US TV next year and will be written by Law and Order’s Wendy Battles.