Amanda Knox

[YourBrickTiger]

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?

It Was a horrific miscarriage of justice based on complete misogyny and xenophobia, a huge stain on Italy - it should be told because people should be vigilant when things go South in a country that they are visiting.

I can’t imagine how distressing it must be for Meredith’s family. But Amanda is still allowed to tell her story, I can’t imagine it’s very realistic to expect her to shrug and say “Oh well could be worse”

Which strange evening?

I think Amanda Knox was still a teenager when she was falsely accused. It’s hardly her fault the media sexualised her

I remember the cartwheels and splits reported at the time, and years later in interviews that was clarified as practicing yoga in between interviews. Kissing and straddling her bf also clarified as cuddling whilst upset (such a contradiction with the original reports that she showed no upset).

If those are correct it goes some way to illustrate just how readily her every response was being twisted. Given how definitively the appeal court acquitted her I'm inclined to believe the clarifications as opposed to the original reports.

The interview tapes were shown on telly and showed her laughing and snogging the face off her boyfriend, whilst on his lap.

People like that worry me - if you’re not a pliant and jolly woman who is constantly apologising for everything and crying over bad things, you’re labelled a psychopath and narcissist.

I am someone who really has to prompt themselves to be empathetic. It doesn’t come naturally. I like to think I’m still a good person, who does good things. I’ve behaved strangely when in shock, including when I got the new that my dad died suddenly and in violent circumstances. I went to take a bath after I heard. A bath! I have no idea why. I hope it doesn’t make me a psychopath. It’s more likely I was just in extreme shock

The manner in which she was treated was appalling.

Yes she behaved oddly. I don't think she showed the level of sympathy others would. But she was also a spoiled teenager and she wouldn't be the first to be totally self absorbed. Her and Meredith weren't really friends and the whole place turned into such a circus I can see how it perhaps felt unreal.

To get her to list her sexual partners they told her she was HIV positive and then leaked that information to the media.

The knife sample supposedly showing her DNA was well below acceptable sample size and they could never replicate the result. The bra clasp was left lying for hundreds of days and passed between forensic officers.

The police investigating this let Meredith down. I don't blame her for wanting to tell her story as an adult and a mother with more perspective.

Well try to think a bit harder next time, and look at the actual evidence.

Oh and the one person convicted with a huge weight of DNA was never required to explain how he knew them or how they were involved and never appeared at any of the trials, which is surely fundamental even if you think her guilty.

I’ve heard her on podcasts and she always expresses sympathy for the Kerchers, but also states her story can be told too. She’s right.

Also, IIRC she only knew Meredith for a few days. It must be very strange to be expected to weep wail and miss someone you barely knew

A man served time for her rape and murder. He was convicted before Knox and Sollecito even had their trials

On the idea that Meredith is being lost, I think we need to let it go. If it was only about Meredith then people would be saying that she needs to be left to rest in peace.

The fact that a life was also lost does not detract from the fact that Amanda Knox’s life was shattered that day, and she became a victim too. Her story is hers and is valid in its own right.

I think she could be guilty. But even if she isnt she is a wrong un

Why? There was not a scrap of evidence she was involved. The man who killed her was caught before Amanda was found guilty

Eh? There was absolutely no evidence that she was guilty.

Based on what evidence?

‘But even if she isn’t she’s a wrong ‘un’ - wtf?!

I found this interview with her extremely compelling: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-do-you-cope/id1793829037?i=1000700822479

It’s a really interesting thesis on how the world, Italians (I’m from an Italian family - the misogyny where I’m from is off the scale even in 2025) and the justice system see women.

they expected a wailing sorrowful ugly woman saying “It’s my fault! I should have protected her!” And then accepting her false arrest as “Oh well, I’m a lady, I shall take it in good spirit”

I well remember the clips of them kissing, and the reports of sitting on his lap. Im just not daft enough to take them without considering the wider context, and also remember the reports of bursting into tears shortly after interviews and of incredibly long interview sessions.

That she was so definitively acquitted, that the police were found to have acted so inappropriately with regards to the investigation and the sexualisation by the media are all factors in my viewing any of those original reports through a more balanced lens.

So it means she’s a murderer?

Like I said above when I found out my dad had died, in AWFUL circumstances, I ran a bath. Put a shit load of bubbles and bath salts in and lit a load of candles. Like Amanda wasn’t with Meredith, I wasn’t with dad when he died, but had been with him recently. How should I have behaved? Do you think it makes me look guilty?

They let her boyfriend in the interview room?! Are you sure? Can you point us to these videos?

Still nor normal. Would you do yoga in a police station where you were being interrogated.
Also, you don't straggle your boyfriend in public in a formal place if you have any sense and particularly if you're a murder suspect.
However, it has nothing to do with whether she was guilty or not.

It could have been in the police station. It's also possible that they were interviewed together at some point because different countries do things differently - differences between US and Italian justice systems was a big deal at the time, discussed in all the papers.

Yes Rudy Guedde must have thought all his Christmases came at once. A plea deal, not having to say a single word, and all he had to do was implicate other people (but AFTER he said in his statement that Amanda and her BF weren’t at all involved…something he conveniently changed his mind on once he was offered a deal)

Context is key.

She had been sitting there in the police station all day. She said she got up to stretch and do yoga to help herself in a stressful situation

How so?

what makes you think she could be guilty? She’d be the first person ever to murder someone in a bedroom, leave a mess and a load of blood behind and yet not leave one scrap of her DNA in the room. How do you think she managed that?