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Amanda Knox

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BendydickCuminsnatch · 03/10/2016 19:33

Anyone watched this on Netflix? I'm only on the intro and already she creeps me out! I feel incredibly bad for her if she is innocent but my god she doesn't really do herself any favours - appears to be acting the whole time and completely not genuine! Confused

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albertcampionscat · 05/10/2016 14:47

But it's nonsense to say that because there weren't any defence wounds she must have been held down. 1) You'd expect the holding down to leave marks if she was struggling 2) people freeze when they're scared.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 05/10/2016 14:51

Who's poo was it?

Bagina · 05/10/2016 14:52

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen I've been dying to know that!!!!

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 05/10/2016 14:53

Surely they DNA'd it?

KimmySchmidtsSmile · 05/10/2016 15:00

Rudy had a habit of dumping and not flushing in a passive aggressive stylee iirc. Where's the lovely poster Portofino?
She was very good on these threads.
It's been a while since I read up on this. I think AK was innocent but if I was being an armchair detective, that she had bought/smoked weed and, in trying to cover that, ended up embroiled in the mess in terms of stumbling on the scene post-murder but, as I said, it's been a while.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 05/10/2016 15:08

I remember Portofino.

SuperFlyHigh · 05/10/2016 18:03

Kimmy I don't buy knox's guilt re buying and smoking weed!

Like I said I've read the cupboard parts of their story with witnesses etc.

All very sad

MissDreamGirl · 05/10/2016 20:23

I think some of the Meredith kercher sites linked to on thread are written and run by some fairly deranged and slightly stalkerish people and bear little resemblance to the truth, just read this article world.time.com/2013/03/29/the-amanda-knox-haters-society-how-they-learned-to-hate-me-too/

I thought the documentary was interesting and Nick Pisa is a scumbag - and overall I find it hard to judge Ananda Knox as I have no idea how I would react to being wrongly imprisoned for four years and to be repeatedly demonised for some fairly vanilla student activities. I would be surprised if she wasn't more than a little angry, bitter and unsure of how to react normal.

Maybe she didn't grieve as was initially expected, but we have to remember that most of what we think we know had been written by Nick Pisa.

As far as the evidence, there was nothing credible - and it seems bizarre that people seem to find it easier to believe the deranged ideas of satanic sex games gone wrong, rather than the fairly common lone man

I think that Nick Pisa, the prosecutor and the writers of the very disturbing Justice for Meredith sites, have caused huge amounts of pain to the Kercher family - the truth has been so distorted behind all the pants buying, pizza eating, evil eyes nonsense, I doubt whether they will ever feel that they will know what happened and instead have had to face years of trials - they should all be very ashamed

Titsywoo · 05/10/2016 20:48

When I think about it if she has something like Aspergers her behaviour might not be that unusual. DH has AS and he found his friends body after he died alone in his flat. He was very matter of fact and even went for a pizza while waiting for the coroner. I was at home distraught but he just doesn't get emotional about that stuff. Many may view him as a horrible person but he truly isn't. And he had known his friend for years. It's easy to paint someone as a monster.

As for the actual evidence it seems too many mistakes were made.

GardenGeek · 06/10/2016 01:36

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DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 06/10/2016 08:22

On the other hand 'quirky' is a good excuse to explain odd behaviour IF she was guiltyWink

It's hard to find anything to read with straight facts ,no wonder it's so confusing!

BombadierFritz · 06/10/2016 08:26

again, if, she had aspergers, her interview statements make more sense. I have sat in on police interviews with people with aspergers, under stress sometimes they say literally anything, pure nonsense, just whatever they think the police want to hear, plus pure fantasy.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 06/10/2016 08:28

That's interesting and makes sense.

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BendydickCuminsnatch · 06/10/2016 08:34

If she has Aspergers (which sounds likely), why didn't she (her team) use that as an explanation for her behaviour? Confused

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DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 06/10/2016 08:35

Mind you, she comes from an American middle class family, I'd be very surprised if any hint of Aspergers wouldn't have been diagnosed before the age of 20.

IfAtFirstUDontSucceed · 06/10/2016 08:36

I watched it this week. I felt so sorry for Meredith's family- that journalist is horrid. The excitement over a juicy, gruesome murder - absolutely no acknowledgement of the poor girl who died for his scoop.

Amanda is an odd character but I do believe she is innocent, when previously I was 100% convinced she was guilty. So I guess this programme has done its job! Confused

ButtMuncher · 06/10/2016 13:27

I watched this whilst feeding the other day. I remember the case when it first happened, and read the subsequent articles and book written on the case when both were charged and jailed - at that point the articles and books were pro-guilty and then had to do a u-turn years later.

I think it's one of those cases where so much evidence was botched - I don't mean just the physical evidence, but also the discourse about the case and people involved - so much has been spun, respun and denied/confirmed/denied again that it's almost impossible to get a first hand, accurate account. It's much like the JoBenet case where the scene was compromised and all parties had wildly different interpretations of the facts.

For what its worth and from what I know, I think they are innocent. It wouldn't surprise me if Knox has AS, but I agree with PP in that you'd expect a legal team to pick up and use any mitigating factor to explain her sometimes awkward behaviour. Also, she was an incredibly young woman in a foreign country who could only really lean on a guy she had been with 5 days. I know had I been in that situation I would have behaved differently. Add to the mix they'd been smoking weed, and I think you've got a few mitigating factors.

ButtMuncher · 06/10/2016 13:29

I hated the journalist though - so smarmy and self congratulatory, a true vulture.

I think what still gets me about this case is not the mistakes or questions, but that a young girl lost her life in a brutal way but has never been the true focus - it's always been on a the suspects, the trial, the acquittal etc. Makes me sad.

Buttercupsandaisies · 06/10/2016 18:51

Bear in mind the documentary was made by Amanda Knox so it's supposed to make you think she's innocent! It's worth noting that their convictions were quashed because evidence was compromised - no one confirmed they didn't do it

danTDM · 06/10/2016 21:29

She so obviously didn't do this.

Buttercupsandaisies · 06/10/2016 22:02

interesting how she washes over her conviction for blaming Patrick the bar man. That still stands (though time served) so still has a pretty bad criminal record.

SuperFlyHigh · 07/10/2016 08:41

I agree Buttercups and whilst I don't think she murdered her she was an accomplice... Held her down or whatever.

I think solliciete is more guilty than he's portrayed...

Groovee · 08/10/2016 14:35

I think she knows a lot more than she lets on!

PoldarksBreeches · 09/10/2016 21:30

AK and RS barely knew each other, or RG, or even MK
It's just not realistic to believe that AK was a sexual deviant who persuaded 2 men she barely knew to rape and kill her flat mate. That's not how things work. Something like that is possible but there would have been a long 'grooming' period between the 3 of them before they acted. Things like that don't happen as spur of the moment events with 3 unconnected people who barely know each other.
The prosecutor was very keen to push the line that she was a sexually depraved monster based on the fact that she had some casual sex. Note the contrast with the 'good girl' Meredith.
Her response to someone saying 'I hope she died painlessly' was fairly blunt but didn't indicate guilt. Anyone could have guessed that poor Meredith didn't die painlessly.
The DNA evidence was shoddy and completely inconclusive.
Yeah they lied. But not because they murdered Meredith.
What's that law? The most obvious solution is probably correct. She was murdered by a man, with a criminal past, who did what millions of men do and raped a woman, and also did what millions of men do and murdered her.