Amanda Knox

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I see there is another Amanda Knox series out on Hulu/Disney. I've always followed the case closely. But I have mixed feelings. At first I thought Amanda was involved in the murder but as time has gone on, there isn't a shred of proof (from a DNA pov) against her. But should she continue to make money from the case? I feel deeply sorry for Meredith's family. As her sister Stephanie said, Meredith is the 'forgotten victim' in this. I understand she did spend 4 years behind bars and wants to be vindicated - and she does help other innocent victims who have been jailed - but I feel it's too much now and that Meredith is being lost in it all. What do you think?

I agree with him there.

It’s unimaginable.

AK is hardly to blame though. The media and police behaved abominably.

Yes that’s the usual Italian process.

But cross contamination would put DNA in different places - not eliminate it entirely. There were none of AK or RS’s DNA in Meredith’s room compared to her actual killer, where it was everywhere. That alone makes is laughable to suggest that either of them were involved.

Meredith's dad's book about it is really well written. He said that since Meredith was very small she had always loved Italy, and always wanted to go there to study.

He said that he was a journalist himself and he heard that there was an English student murdered in Italy.

He felt scared and then he thought "but there are hundreds of english students in italy".

Then he said someone rang him and said "the name going around is Meredith. But that might just be a contact in the dead person's phone"
Then someone rang him again and said the dead girls name is definitely meredith kercher

Horrific.

Im a total fanny and I don’t think I could stomach a book about the grief of losing a child.

They must be furious at the way they were treated.

I’m sure I’ve read both Meredith’s mum and dad have now died too.

Yeah.
Luckily for Amanda she was guaranteed appeals, because if it had been the case of having to fight for a chance of one I don't know if they would have allowed it seeing as they seemed so determined to pin it on her.

Yeah it was very sad. They were very close.

Such a waste of a life of a young woman

Thanks for the clarification, I had misremembered that.

It would take professional level acting skills for someone who has just stabbed someone to death to be so blasé and unperturbed about imminent arrest, jail and eventual conviction. The guilty tend to marshal themselves and put a lot of effort into looking shocked and protesting their innocence.

They're saying it to you so that you know they know the photos don't exist. Nobody actually thought you were going to provide a source for something you made up, don't worry!

It's a very sad book. Her dad is a journalist so he is a rely good writer too. It was very well written

@Applebun this is the podcast interview with Amanda I linked to yesterday. There are others out there.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/crime-analyst/id1545830333?i=1000532561812

As I also said, it’s worth listening to the Real Crime Profile podcast short series on Meredith’s murder which goes through the whole case and how badly it was conducted.

I’m waiting for my apology from that poster for being called ‘too lazy’ to find something that doesn’t exist!

@Applebun did you mean this picture?

Very interesting.
What about the bloody footprints? I know one was Rudy Geude's. The other one was allegedly a "smaller, female sneaker" - was this also unproven?

There was a bloody footprint on the bath mat it belonged to Rudy. Lots in Meredith’s room IIRC

Yes, it was the one in Meredith's room. I assume the implication was that it was Amanda's, but clearly that's not the case.

I remember that Rudy Guede's initial defense was that he was in the house in the bathroom. An intruder came in, and he heard meredith screaming. He said that he tried to stop the blood from her neck with a towel.

Interestingly there was a towel that was drenched with blood in the bedroom.

I think he did it, but why did he cut her throat, then appear to try to stop the bleeding with a towel

Thanks for all the great responses. Even after all these years there is something about it doesn’t sit right with me. But if her DNA wasn’t there, then that is it really. But her weird behaviour and how her and Raffaelle were seen buying bleach the day after and cleaning products.

Even after all these years there is something about it doesn’t sit right with me

Honestly the "something that doesn't sit right" is what was planted by the police and prosecution at the time, aided by the global media. That's it. No actual evidence and she's been exonerated.
Lucky for her it wasn't the middle ages, she'd have been burned.

Most of the stuff that doesn’t ’sit right’, is the made-up nonsense presented by the police and sensationalised by the media

But they didn't go into Meredith's room immediately so she wouldn't have known this at the point she took a shower.

Meredith’s door had to be broken down. So I think the killer went out the window as it was locked from the inside.

The day after, when the police had already raided the house and scene where Meredith died??

I imagine they were buying shopping because Rafaelle had a house they were both now living in. Unless you think they tried to inflate and already searched crime scene to clean up?

It’s such a dangerous thing to say. It writes off real evidence and goes with the concept of “I don’t like you so you must be guilty”

And as you say a tactic that drove witch hunts - old and recent