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Amanda Knox

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YourBrickTiger · 21/08/2025 09:08

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?

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SomeOfTheTrouble · 05/09/2025 07:14

GrumblyHedge · 05/09/2025 06:52

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

I’ve been thinking that about many posters on this thread. Inventing the existence of evidence to fit a pre conceived agenda, judging someone on their ‘unusual’ behaviour just after their housemate has been murdered (what is ‘usual’ behaviour in that situation, I wonder?), deciding someone must be guilty of something because they’re ’weird’ and ‘unlikeable’….

Applebun · 05/09/2025 10:07

SomeOfTheTrouble · 05/09/2025 07:14

I’ve been thinking that about many posters on this thread. Inventing the existence of evidence to fit a pre conceived agenda, judging someone on their ‘unusual’ behaviour just after their housemate has been murdered (what is ‘usual’ behaviour in that situation, I wonder?), deciding someone must be guilty of something because they’re ’weird’ and ‘unlikeable’….

I was just reading a book about the case. Written by a journalist who was there.

Meredith's friendwere partly to blame for the suspicion being on Amanda.

He said that at the time of the murder, Meredith's friends constantly said to everyone that Amanda Knox's behaviour was very suspicious after Meredith was murdered.

YourBrickTiger · 05/09/2025 19:30

Applebun · 05/09/2025 10:07

I was just reading a book about the case. Written by a journalist who was there.

Meredith's friendwere partly to blame for the suspicion being on Amanda.

He said that at the time of the murder, Meredith's friends constantly said to everyone that Amanda Knox's behaviour was very suspicious after Meredith was murdered.

Please tell me it’s not that dickhead Nick Pisa?

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Applebun · 05/09/2025 19:50

YourBrickTiger · 05/09/2025 19:30

Please tell me it’s not that dickhead Nick Pisa?

No the book is not written by Nick Pisa.

Meredusoleil · 17/09/2025 20:49

I've been watching this on Disney+ as it is released every week. It is far too painful watching it like this. Today's episode (6 - Guilty) was agonising. I have also read her latest book Free.

Just can't believe the Italian police were so corrupt. It makes Italy look like a 3rd world country rather than a European one!

IRefuteItThus · 17/11/2025 09:23

DwarfBeans · 01/09/2025 12:51

Poor Meredith Kercher was brutally murdered almost twenty years ago. It is not true to say that there was ‘no shred of evidence’ against Amanda. There was circumstantial evidence.

Her boyfriend was obsessed with knives. Both of them turned off their mobile phones the night of the murder which was completely out of character for them. Amanda bought bleach the next morning. Her blood was found on the tap in the bathroom (guess she could have sprayed around her menstrual blood) She described hearing Meredith scream. She said she saw her boss (a black man) and on it goes.

I don’t think Amanda killed Meredith but I do think she knew a lot more than she admitted. It’s possible that high on drugs the pair of them went to the cottage and she witnessed something. No one will ever know the truth but it’s far more complicated than some are saying.

So no, I think Amanda should stop profiting from Meredith’s death now and let the family have peace.

Her boyfriend was obsessed with knives.
The term obsessed is charged and highly subjective. What makes something an obsession as opposed to an interest or aestethic, and how exactly did Sollecito fulfill these criteria? Besides, even having an obsession with knives does not equal having an obsession with using them on live subjects. I should know, i collect axes. I have committed exactly zero axe murders, nor do i have any inclination to.

Both of them turned off their mobile phones the night of the murder which was completely out of character for them.

When using inference from circumstantial evidence, you should always consider if there are plausible, innocent explanations. You cannot just jump to the most damning possible conclusion. Amanda said she turned off her phone to avoid being called into work and Raffaelle said that he didn[´t turn off his phone, but that his apartment had poor connection in several places. This turned out to be true. Their own explanations notwithstanding, this is incredibly weak circumstantial evidence. In part, this is because one could imagine many innocent explanations. Furthermore, if it is true that they turned their phones off to go an commit a murder, this suggests an organized crime whereas other circumstantial evidence used against them suggests a disorganized crime.

Amanda bought bleach the next morning.

This was claimed a year after the crime had taken place, by the storeowner. The people that worked there that day claimed otherwise, in line with what they had said from the beginning. They never found any receipt or the bleach bottle in question. Besides, this is irrelevant as there was no indication of any clean up or bleach usage at the crime scene or adjacent rooms (in any way that connects to the crime at least).

Her blood was found on the tap in the bathroom (guess she could have sprayed around her menstrual blood)

It was her own bathroom, that she used everyday. Her bodily fluids are expected to be found there. See again; jumping to the most damning conclusion/weak inferences.

She described hearing Meredith scream.

Unless you have a recording of the scream, which shows some unique aspect of the scream which Amanda described in a way that meant she had to have been there to hear it do describe it, it does nothing to show she wasn't pressured into giving that account. Mind you, people have been pressured by highly coercive interrogation tactics to admit to murders of people that were, in fact, alive. This is the gold standard of proving a false confession, and more generally that false confessions do occur in this way. Naturally, in most murder cases there are actual victims and so, whether a confession is genuine or not cannot be proven this way.

She said she saw her boss (a black man) and on it goes.

And Amanda says that this entire narrative was coerced from, and suggested to, her. These things happen and conventiently (for the police) the interrogation was not recorded. On principle alone it is my opinion that interrogations that are not recorded should be inadmissible as evidence, but that is beside the point.
More to the point is the fact that the police afterwards said something to the effect of "we interrogated her until she gave an account that we already knew was correct".

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