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?

They didn’t find her ‘innocent’. In the same way you are not found innocent in UK courts. There’s a difference. Besides OJ was found not guilty and we all know how that turned out.

If you accept that Rudy is guilty then how did Amanda know to point the finger at a black man. That coincidence.

And following a murder for justice is different to Amanda’s Ghouls and her profiting now. If she truly was innocent she would not want to keep cashing in. She was an attention seeker then and still is now.

Peace for the Kercher family 🫶

Are Disney and Monika Lewinsky going to be donating 100% of their profits? Monika Lewinsky, another fame hungry, profit driven, attention seeker.

Yes it was a coincidence, he first came into it because they fixated on her text that said 'see you later'.

If you really cared about justice then you should be more focused on Guede and how he got a lesser sentence due to the Italian justice system being so focused on blaming innocents.

There was hardly any media attention when he got released, he's facing a new trial now for sexually assaulting and being violent towards his ex girlfriend who he was in a relationship with after being released.

It's bollox that if she were truly innocent she wouldn't be trying to profit, victims of miscarriages of justices are just that, victims, and victims are allowed to tell their stories and they're allowed to make money from it if the opportunity presents itself.

Being an attention seeker doesn’t make you a murderer

That is a very very interesting point-have not seen anyone else mention it.
Was it bought up anywhere else?
the thread has deteriorated a bit so hard to read.

I don’t agree @kkloo. Yes victims should be heard but this new thing with Disney is disgusting and sensationalist. No one knows exactly what happened, not even you. Knox has told her story a thousand times before. She should go and live her life now surrounded by her adoring fans.

Peace for the Kercher family 🫶

There are even more discrepancies and flaws in the prosecution’s case.
thatcher point. There was NO credible evidence against her that stood up to scrutiny. None at all.

Tell you what, you can start a fund for Amanda Knox to live off, that way nobody will be able to say she needs to do this because her wrongful conviction and mistreatment have destroyed her chance of earning a living in a normal way. As the issue is so important to you, make regular donations and also volunteer your time to administer it.

I have no issue with Amanda Knox finally owning her own narrative especially after a ton of male crime writers have exploited her story for entertainment (dramas like Showtrial which clearly borrowed her story amongst others). BUT I tried to watch, got two episodes in and I think the tone is tone deaf. It felt like Emily in Paris and so off for a crime drama where someone died in the most awful circumstances.

As she is an executive producer on it I think she could have chosen who was trusted with her story a little better. It’s a male writer which I find odd as she’s such a feminist (I listen to her podcast).

I suspect she just trusted the wrong writer, wrong production company and wrong cast. The casting is so off with the lead actress who is incredibly distracting, mainly due to her way too now, filler inflated lips and trying to play young when she’s way older than Amanda was. It’s a weird performance and weird script that doesn’t sit with the solemnity of the issue. It just feels disrespectful somehow.

if you look at another recent US true crime drama written by a female writer, Under The Bridge, it’s ambitious and entertaining but also extremely respectful of the victim and her family. Both things are possible in the right hands.

This drama just feels disrespectful and ill judged. I imagine that’s what the paywalled review says too judging by the headline.

It wasn't a coincidence.

Amanda worked for Patrick Lumumba.

On the day that meredith was killed, There were texts on Amanda's phone between her and patrick lumumba.

Her last text to him said "see you later"

Police strangely jumped on that text and said to amanda that it meant that she met up with patrick later that night to kill meredith.

She said that the police kept pushing her to say that patrick was involved.

@Imperativvv how about you do that if you love her so much?

@Iamthemoom Exactly. Finally someone gets it. This is tacky tv for pure profit.

my final comment so don’t bother tagging me in:

Peace for the Kercher family (the real victims) 🫶

Because I'm quite content for her to earn money through Netflix. You're the one whining about it, so you can be the change you want to see.

Do post proof of your financial contributions once you've made them, so we know you actually want to do something helpful here instead of just post creepy nonsense.

I think a lot of people have commented on it, I'm sure she mentioned it before too that people said it, but I don't think she said she was.

If you look at earlier videos of her I can see it, but at the same time those videos are from after everything happened, it could easily have been trauma too, if you look at more recent videos of her she seems very different now, a lot happier and more confident and like she's healed a lot from the trauma, although of course it's clear that what happened to her is a huge part of her identity and she lives with it every day.

They didn’t find her ‘innocent’. In the same way you are not found innocent in UK courts. There’s a difference.

They actually did, though, as the final court case ruled the case against them as "without foundation". I chose those words specifically because they are true in this instance.

"On March 27, 2015, the ultimate appeal by Knox and Sollecito was heard by the Supreme Court of Cassation; it ruled that the case was without foundation, thereby definitively acquitting them of the murder"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmandaKnox

If you accept that Rudy is guilty then how did Amanda know to point the finger at a black man. That coincidence.

She (likely due to police coercion) accused her boss, Patrick Lumumba, who is black.

With respect, you don't seem to know much about the case if you're unaware of these details.

Actually they did. They completely exonerated her.

They also paid her compensation for her false imprisonment, although it was a pitiful amount.

I believe she only got compensation of €18k, and that was for violating her rights by not giving her access to a solicitor and intrepreter.
She didn't get anything for false imprisonment I think, presumably because they refused to clear her of the slander charge against Lumumba and so the time in jail was seen as time served for that charge 🙄

Is Raffaele Sollecito's book available in English anywhere? Does anyone know.

I only see an Italian version online

I'm autistic and I really think she's autistic. I think people take against her be cause she doesn't express emotion how they feel someone should. They also dislike her uninhibited sexuality. But that doesn't make someone guilty of something. There was never any real evidence against her.
She was held for four years of her life. At a young age as well. The impact on her must have been horrific. Couple that with the fact many people still believe she's guilty and won't let it go... I'm not suorised at all that she's still trying to tell her story. I think I would too..

It definitely was in the past because I read it years ago. Probably on kindle, but doesn't seem to be there now.

Wow.

I was just reading a book about the case. It was written by a journalist who went to perugia at the time.

I thought raffaele was quite sweet and shy. I was wrong.

This book researched raffaele's past and it says that raffaele got into trouble with a university he was in for watching extremely bad pornography. I don't want to write it. But it was illegal pornography

@Applebun
What's the book?

That thought had crossed my mind too.

Jesus Christ. The thought of people like you being called for jury service horrifies me.