As she continues working on her appeal to overturn a murder reconviction, Amanda Knox continues facing claims from both defenders and prosecutors which paint extremely different pictures of the American woman's role in the case.

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An interview on the YouTube program Crime Time with ex-FBI agents has once again aimed to prove Knox's innocence in the 2007 slaying of her British roommate Meredith Kercher, in the Perugia, Italy home they were sharing while studying in the city.

The March interview, which saw host Allison Hope Weiner interview ex-FBI agents Steve Moore and Jim Clemente, presents new assertions about Knox's alleged innocence in the murder, including claims that the Italian prosecutor fabricated all the evidence against her and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito.

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Citing evidence that prosecutors claimed they had, including Knox's fingerprints on a knife, as well as her purchasing bleach the day after the crime, and confession to authorities, Moore stated in the interview that the evidence was all completely faked, leading to the initial exoneration Knox received back in 2011.

"These bits of evidence in her exoneration were not thrown out because they were technicalities," he said. "They were thrown out because, number one, either they were false, completely misread, or made up. And it proved that none of these had anything to do with the crime."

Moore went on to state that the first appeals judge ruling that both Knox and Sollecito were innocent was also something that proves the pair's innocence.

"The judge in that case didn't call her not guilty. In Italy, there are two types of verdicts. There's a not guilty, and there's an innocent," he said. "Rarely do you hear anybody called innocent. He called them both innocent, saying that the evidence proved their innocence, not that the burden of proof wasn't met."

However, a May 27 article on Ground Report claims the opposite, citing all of the reported evidence against Knox, and claims she is without a doubt, guilty of the murder, citing her changed alibi, her accounts of the morning after the murder, the differing stories she and Sollecito gave to police and other physical evidence.

Knox, Sollecito and a third man, Rudy Guede, were all arrested in connection to Kercher's death back in 2007. While Guede was convicted of murder and given a 16-year sentence, Knox and Sollecito both pleaded not guilty and served four years in an Italian prison before their convictions were overturned in 2011.

In January of this year, the Italian Court reconvicted Knox and Sollecito in a retrial that was reportedly focused on DNA evidence.

A reasoning for the reconvictions was released earlier in May, and now the verdict has officially been opened to appeals by both Knox and Sollecito. However, if the Supreme Court of Cassation confirms the convictions, Sollecito, who is still in Italy, will be brought to prison.

Knox, who resides in Seattle, Wash., would then become the focus in what would likely be a long extradition fight between the U.S. and Italy.

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