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 spent a whole year living with someone in Paris on my university year abroad in 2005 and my only lasting memory of her is ‘she never did the washing up’ and ‘her hair blocked the plug hole’ 🤷🏻‍♀️

Youre being ridiculous now.

Amanda didn’t do a cartwheel at Meredith’s funeral. She was too busy being falsely imprisoned anyway.

Do tell us though what the acceptable way to behave is? We’re all ears

Honestly I think people expect the woman who despite the fact she’s been exonerated, to go round grovelling apologising and expressing sadness 17 years later.

Women: know your place.

But her behaviour brought her to the attention of the police, which otherwise would not have happened had she acted as any normal person would have done in this situation. Immediately after Meredith’s death, she was doing gymnastics/cartwheels in the police station, and being overly affectionate/touchy/acting inappropriately with her BF. So obviously it did raise suspicions about whether she was involved.

If you’re gonna post about this at least get your facts right.

There wasn’t a large amount of blood on the floor. There wasn’t a bit of blood. Amanda had 3 female flatmates. She assumed one had her period.

Its not hard to find facts about the case

Interesting to know people think behaviour over forensics should be police’s concern though. Very interesting

What horse shit

thats like saying the only people who are true victims are the people who have the worst lives or outcomes. Many people have died worse deaths than Meredith so does she not matter?

Amanda is a victim if you like it or not

Entirely irrelevant to her being found guilty of a crime she didn’t commit, and spending 4 years behind bars for it. As I said, trials should be based on actual evidence (of which there was none), not ‘suspicions’.

I think she was very young, even for her age, and in that teenage obsessive stage.

Yes she should have acted differently but she had very little life experience having been sheltered and spoiled.

How many people went completely doolally over their first college or university boyfriend to the exclusion of almost anything else? Or had a teenage daughter unable to think past the end of her nose?

I'm quite sure she looks back now and cringes at her own behaviour. I would hate to see my own behaviour at that age, especially on a holiday abroad, held up as the benchmark of my character.

I suspect at the heart of some of her odd behaviour was guilt. Not because she killed her but because she wasn't particularly nice to Meredith and was probably an awful flatmate.
They'd had words about it already.

No I didn't know her dad at all as they were divorced and he lived far away from them.

Yet after she died, i showed empathy to her father.

Amanda showed no empathy even before she was accused of murdering Meredith

Inasmuch as one can tell from someone's SM posts, I actually find Amanda Knox really likeable now.

I saw the photos.

It looked like a large amount of blood to me!

I have had loads of female flatmates over the years. Not one of them has left period blood all over the bathroom floor. Nobody does that

That could be the case…

Sorry but that’s horse shit

ive listened to interviews by AL from before she had children and she expressed sympathy and heartache.

TBH - being really blunt, she barely knew Meredith, had only met her a couple of weeks earlier…it’s absolutely fine to not still be heartbroken and grieving many years later especially when you spent 4 years being falsely imprisoned and lambasted by the media, the justice system, everyday people and Meredith’s family. If she has eventually run out of being support over Meredith’s death, that’s fine IME.

Given she has few other options to getting a serious job, I don’t blame her. Her life was ruined and it’s a huge miscarriage of justice that we should ALL be concerned about. Shes allowed to tell her story.

I don't know. I remember living with girls at Uni in a house.

Even if i didnt know them that well, If one of them had been murdered in the house, I think i would have reacted with more empathy and kindness.

And if i spoke about her years later, i would still speak about it with more kindness tham she did.

Of course they can be blamed!

Ofd behaviour during shock is normal.

They can be blamed when they believed AL magically cleaned a filthy crime scene of only her DNA.

Taking responsibility implies wrongdoing. Aside from (maybe or maybe not) acting a bit odd, what exactly has she done wrong that deserves the wrongful imprisonment, slander and hatred she has endured?

Exactly. She lost 4 years of her life after a huge miscarriage of justice, she lost her chance of ever having a normal life/career, but apparently she has committed the huge crime of being unlikeable, and odd, so she should just accept her fate.

I wonder if she wouldn’t feel so compelled to keep telling her story if people didn’t keep raking over her behaviour/lies told by police/media and implying her guilt because she she behaved in a way they’re convinced they wouldn’t behave.

Why should she? She didn’t kill her.

Yep, the number of people who actually know that due to either professional expertise or personal experience is vanishingly small. People delude themselves.

And by much more powerful people than MN users!

So earlier she didn’t grieve enough and now she’s grieves too much.

Basically you just hate her no matter what, for no apparent reason.

It’s quite possible to have no memories and only have “sort of” known her and also been very saddened and broken by her death.

I know too many women that were murdered, now I think of it. Three.

A girl I went to school with in primary school was murdered.
A girl I knew as a teenager was murdered.
A woman in my town, I knew to say hello to, was murdered.
I also know a woman who was kidnapped by a serial killer and escaped. This sounds too mad to be true when I write it, but sadly it is very true.

It is a violent world out there.

I can’t remember the name of my uni flatmate who lived in the 3rd bedroom for 6 months and always ate my bacon. Barely clapped eyes on her. I’d still have been devastated if she’d been murdered in our home at the time

She also might not have that many memories of Meredith. They lived together for about 6 weeks, nearly 20 years ago.