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?

Everyone was obsessed with Amanda it's very odd. The police determined to find more suspects when they had one.

Ockham's razor: was the killer the man who had been in the flat, left a load of DNA and confessed to having sex with Kercher and confessed to being in the flat when she died but tried to claim someone else did it... and he has since been found to sexually attacking a recent girlfriend
OR was it a "sex game gone wrong" involving Knox, her boyfriend, her boss and Kercher?
I know which one I'd plump for.

Evidence against Amanda :
She didn't act upset
She sat on her boyfriends knee and snogged him
She did cartwheels and splits
She and her boyfriend turned their phones off together that night
She confessed to something after being coerced: hit, threatened with 30 years in jail if she didn't confess.
She also owned a dildo
It was said she did drugs.

Meanwhile rapists get let off Scott free and murderers of women claim rough sex defence and walk. Misogyny still proliferates.

There’s no such thing as the perfect victim. Amanda does not come across as a sympathetic victim but she is certainly a victim. Many people react “weirdly” to traumatic events and it shouldn’t be used to convict someone. For example how often do we see crying parent(s) on tv and it turns out they know exactly what happened to their child?

Unless Amanda is peddling lies about Meredith or her family, I think it’s acceptable for her to make documentaries about this miscarriage of justice. What other work could she do? Not everyone would want to go to law school or be a motivational speaker

Acting odd is not totally normal. That os the definition of the word odd. Odd means not normal!

Right if you think its so normal, the next time someone that you know dies, will you go and do a cartwheel at the funeral?

She does say it, but she doesn’t have the power to help Meredith in any way now however many shots she has to give.

It is not strange for her to talk about herself when she is being interviewed by someone asking her questions about herself.

I think what also got the police suspicious of Amanda was that she went into the house, saw a large amount of blood on the bathroom floor, and just ignored it and had a shower.

Again she is a bit odd, but not a murderer

The 'main character' doesn't have to be likeable or behave in the ways you want her to. She's a human being with human responses, whether you like them or not.

I think her family sold everything they had to fight for Amanda Knox and she's spent her life trying to repay them.
Interestingly her stepfather had strong reservations about her going to Italy because he thought her too naive.

Imagine if your daughter had been murdered and never got a second chance at life. I’m sorry but none of what Amanda Knox has been through or her family compares one iota to Meredith and her family. She has got her freedom and life, she has no right to deflect attention from the only true victim here. I have absolutely no interest in a story about Amanda. The only story of importance is Meredith’s.

Did she wonder about the blood, did she think someone had hurt themselves?.

I’m not saying that teenagers are completely unsympathetic, or that no one can feel any sadness for somebody losing a child unless they have a child of their own.

But it’s a pretty well known concept that you can’t fully comprehend the full tragedy of losing a child until you have your own. This is clearly what she meant when she made this comment about understanding Meredith’s parents more once she’d had a child herself.

As a comparison, I was a child when Jamie Bulger was murdered. I felt extremely sad and angry about it, and felt very sorry for him and his family. Now, as a mother myself, the thought of something like that happening to my child makes me feel physically sick. I can’t even think about it as it fills me with that much horror, and I have a much richer understanding of how his poor mother must have felt.

There is a difference. Knox isn’t a psychopath because it took having her own child to fully empathise with Kercher’s parents. This is completely normal.

Yes but she didnt just say that. I remember in the interview she said that she didnt think about meredith AT ALL after she died.

She said It took her to have a child to think about merediths suffering and merediths parents suffering.

I agree. There should be more said about Meredith and less about AK. As I said already, she's using this situation to personally profit from the tragic circumstances. It is in poor taste.

It's all about $$$$$$ rather than vindication for AK. Scraping the barrel comes to mind....

Perhaps you would if you were in a foreign country and he was all you had there.

What do you mean by this?

If I had been dragged through the courts for a crime I had nothing to do with and spent 4 years in prison while being lambasted by the media seemingly free to print whatever they like I'd be singing from the rooftops about it.

There were 2 crimes here, AK is allowed to speak

She's an odd, unlikeable character caught up in a murder. She is innocent but shes still an odd unlikeable character.

But unfortunately the truth of the situation here is that many people only know Meredith Kerchers name and face because the trial was such a farce.

Unfortunately what differentiates Meredith from the many other women who were sexually assaulted and murdered is that this was an extremely high profile case.

No one (or barely anyone) would even be discussing Meredith's story at all if it wasn't for that, maybe there would be a documentary or youtube videos documenting it but that's it, most people would never have heard of her.

I don't think she and Sollecito did it. Why would they? It doesn't make sense, not to mention no DNA evidence. What I think is that people don't warm to her and her behaviour was probably a little 'off' with the 'stretches' etc. It has been suggested that she might be on the autism spectrum, hence the off behaviour, but I cannot imagine why she and Sollecito would have killed poor Meredith.

Well, if AK was the victim and Meredith or any other citizen had been accused of similar crimes surely she wouldn't be pleased about it all being dragged up again years later to profit from such a tragic situation? No one would want this! Especially the family left behind. Showing some tact wouldn't go amiss...

I think drawing a line under it and moving on with life would be a better response from AK.

Well, many people are unlikeable. No one needs to like Amanda Knox, I’m sure it’s not her priority.

Her schoolfriends nicknamed her Foxy Knoxy as a tribute to her sporting skills. I think it has different connotations to Americans, meaning clever, rather than sexy.

But you night not feeling like that if you'd lost years of your life, and all prospect of an ordinary life and career after being wrongly convicted

I don’t know what, if any, involvement she had. And I’m starting to wonder what the truth is about Lucy Letby too. Maybe they were jailed for good reason, and maybe not. But it’s awfully scary to think that there is a possibility that they, and others, could be subjected to such a horrific miscarriage of justice.

Yep - but a little sympathy for Meredith would be appropriate from a flatmate.

If Meredith or any other person had been accused, convicted, acquitted and then who still had to deal with people saying they were evil and did it might easily have gone down the same route as Amanda, telling their story and trying to help other victims of miscarriages of justice.

It would be very difficult to move on from such a traumatic life defining event like that.