Though no formal charges have been brought in the murder of Meredith Kercher, the British student studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, who was killed on November 1, the European press has remained fixated on the case, dubbing suspect Amanda Knox, with a Mediterranean flourish, the "Dark Lady of Seattle." One police investigator tasked with uncovering the truth in the case seemed so distracted and fascinated by what he termed Knox's "virgin-like beauty," he mentioned it as though it held the weight of evidence. But whatever Knox's involvement that night, the indelible fact is she may remain in the Perugia prison until November 2008 without any clarification of the charges against her.