Amanda Knox, left, leaves the Perugia court following the verdict overturning her conviction and acquitting her of murdering Meredith Kercher, Oct. 3, 2011. (AP)
The Appeal Trial Of Amanda Knox
(CBS/AP) Updated at 7:55 a.m. Eastern
PERUGIA, Italy - Amanda Knox on Tuesday thanked those Italians who supported her throughout her four years of prison, a day after an appeals court cleared the young American of murdering her British roommate and freed her to return home to the United States.
Knox left her prison outside Perugia Monday night, less than two hours after the verdict was read out in a packed court acquitting her and her Italian one-time boyfriend of the brutal murder.
The Italy-US Foundation, which has championed Knox's cause, said the American was at Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome boarding a flight to London, where she will catch a connecting flight to the United States.
AP photographers and camera crew at Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome saw Knox family members in a terminal. Knox was not immediately seen, and was believed to have been escorted by police through a non-public entrance to the airport.
"She just couldn't wait to get on the plane. She told me that, even though she wasn't yet on the plane, she felt like she was already flying." Knox's friend Giulia Alagna tells "The Early Show.""She was just very, very happy to get on that flight," added Alagna, who spoke to her friend on the phone as she waited to board her flight Tuesday morning. She said Knox's voice sounded "strong" in spite of her ordeal.
The freed American thanked those "who shared my suffering and helped me survive with hope," in a letter to the foundation, which seeks to promote ties between Italy and the United States.
"Those who wrote, those who defended me, those who were close, those who prayed for me," Knox wrote. "I love you, Amanda."
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