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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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mangolandin · 15/10/2016 22:16

It's interesting that everyone focuses on her rather than raffaelle. He doesn't seem like a killer to me.

pizzapop · 16/10/2016 08:29

Ok some thoughts:

That Italian detective seemed like a bit of a sexist pig, he really had it in for her, all the spurious comments about her sexual experiences and "not liking authority", it makes me doubt his whole investigation when he seems so biased against her.

We can debate whether Amanda seems like a killer, she's clearly an oddball, but what about Sollecito? He just seems like a bit of a sap in love, I can't imagine him killing poor Meredith like that.

And who kills someone with a knife, takes it back to their apartment and then pops it back in the kitchen drawer?! That knife was clearly cross contaminated and it annoys me that the detective is still banging on about it.

SouthWestmom · 16/10/2016 09:34

Mignini was investigated for his approach in the monster of Florence cases from what I remember, do not always perfect

ThenLaterWhenItGotDark · 17/10/2016 07:42

Here in Italy the focus (obviously) tends to be on him, not her. If you saw him interviewed on Tv (frequenly) you'd say he came across exactly as she does. (I haven't seen her interviewed but from reading threads like this) He is very monotone, unemotional, doesn't look his interviewer in the eye, mumbles, looks down, glasses over, no emotion.

Aspie? Murderer? Geeky kid? Sexual deviant? Who knows?

The court ruling judge's exact words were "di non aver commesso il fatto" (of not having committed the fact".

Lizzzar · 21/10/2016 13:30

To some Americans Amanda Knox will probably always be an innocent Daisy Miller - improperly chaperoned and unaware of foreign ways. However, the evidence that she was involved in the murder in some way is very high. Exactly how unfortunately may never be known.

M1ssunderstood · 21/10/2016 23:32

That was interesting in the official documents how she took a shower when she got back to house and discovered front door wide open, specks of blood in the sink and then on bathmat(collaborated by AK herself on Netflix)! Who would do that? The document also questions as a foreigner whom would she be most likely to call for help given that she might not even know emergency number? Her boyfriend but no call ever made - is this because he was already with her when she "discovered" the crime scene! The boyfriend also alludes to the weirdness of her behaviour on Netflix re taking shower.

Xmaslover · 22/10/2016 17:28

One thing which I can't understand and points to guilt to either one or both is ,first Knoxs boyfriend said she was with him all night and then changed the story.
For 4 years he wouldn't confirm she was with him all night, he only confirmed it at the second trial.

Why did it take 4 years?

Then there is Knox blaming the barman , I think one or both involved

Queenbean · 24/10/2016 15:36

I've just caught up on the documentary and am leaning to her being innocent. for the fact that there was none of her DNA found in meredith's room

I think the press is hideous for the way they painted AK - a sexual devient etc when she was basically just a normal student

That DM is absolute scum. What a hideous man.

Poor Meredith and her family, being forgotten in this

katemuff · 10/08/2021 19:24

She's an oddball, not a murderer. This is misogyny at his most dangerous. An odd woman who isn't empathic and caring almost got a life sentence.
The killer, a 'calm and well integrated person' is free, still ananda is held to account.

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 10/08/2021 22:00

I posted a thread about this in chat tonight that got removed. But I basically said whilst I believe she is innocent and always have, I also feel uncomfortable about her lack of empathy or focus on others - Meredith, Patrick Lumumba etc.

But then I also reflected that maybe it's my internalised misogyny creeping up and making me uncomfortable to see a woman who doesn't spend her life feeling guilty and apologetic when actually she did nothing wrong to Meredith. Maybe we all need to be a bit more Amanda.

I do think it's distasteful that she's profiting 14 years later off the death of her friend who was raped and had her throat slit.

BUt the person who disturbed me the most in that documentary was the DM journalist who seemed over the moon he got a 'golden' story (a girl was killed FFS stop being so happy) and his total lack of regret about the salacious lies and slander he published about Amanda and her sex life. That 100% had an effect on the trial. It practically gave the prosecution ideas!

On another note, it's weird to see how the Italian justice system works. The prosecutor literally made up a whole conversation between 4 people, word for word, off nothing more than his imagination and uses that as evidence!!! Absolutely shocking! Why can they do that?
It seemed when the prosecution appealed the, erm, appeal, and Knox and Sollecito were once again found guilty it was because of literally nothing - no new forensic evidence, just got given a guilty verdict!

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 10/08/2021 22:03

@schoolchange123

She is very odd but there's not much that links her to it.

I don't think she was affected at all by Merediths death and that's why she was so carefree during the trial. She's hardly going to sit and cry her eyes out over someone she knew for a few weeks.

I don't think she cares either. Doesn't make her a murderer though. Some people have exceptionally thick skin about these things
FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 10/08/2021 22:07

@albertcampionscat

She didn't turn cartwheels. After a long wait in the police station she got talking to an officer about yoga. He asked her to show her a pose. As for kissing her boyfriend - there's one fairly chaste peck on the lips.
First thing I did when I found out my dad had died was run a bubble bath and lit candles Confused I have no idea why it shock and grief fucks us up massively. Like doing strange things in lieu of bursting into tears or something
Yellow78 · 10/08/2021 22:17

Rudy Guede was convicted with overwhelming evidence for the murder yet you never hear his name in relation to this!

The media were horrific in this and also the prosecution was corrupt, she definitely had nothing to do with it .

CaveMum · 25/08/2021 15:39

I know this is an old thread, though it has been resurrected recently.

I highly recommend listening to the interview with Amanda Knox that Laura Richards (a forensic crime analyst and campaigner on VAWG) released last week. It's a very interesting listen: www.crime-analyst.com/35-the-crime-analyst-ep-35/

Also, on a more historic note, there is another podcast which Laura Richards was also involved in that dates back to the time of the release of this documentary where they thoroughly analysed Meredith's murder (and there are some distressing details about what happened so don't listen if you think it might be triggering) and the botched investigation. The so-called "forensic analysis" of the crime scene was too bad to be true and there is no doubt in my mind that Amanda and Raffaele are 100% innocent.

www.realcrimeprofile.com/the-death-of-meredith-kercher

Rudy Guede murdered Meredith and he is the one that should be held accountable in every way. Though sadly he has already been released from prison.

awaynboilyurheid · 25/08/2021 17:28

I always thought she was guilty as hell, and this programme confirmed it .

Gluestick80 · 25/08/2021 19:38

I always thought she was guilty as hell, and this programme confirmed it

How exactly do you think she’s guilty as hell?

CaveMum · 25/08/2021 19:45

@awaynboilyurheid

I always thought she was guilty as hell, and this programme confirmed it .
How?! There was absolutely no evidence to link her to the murder scene. Rudy Guede was the murderer and that should not be forgotten, for Meredith’s sake.

The overwhelming majority of people that think Amanda Knox had a role in the killing were influenced by the tabloid media and the Daily Mail journalist writing the salacious headlines admitted on camera that he didn’t bother fact checking the information he was being fed by the Italian police/prosecutors.

Whitewolf2 · 25/08/2021 20:25

The media take on it was horribly misogynistic, for example the Foxy Knoxy nickname! It was so distasteful, and so disrespectful to Meredith Kercher and her family when the press just loved how ‘attractive’ the woman who might have murdered her was, it’s just horrible.

Queenoftheashes · 25/08/2021 20:30

The fucking Italian policeman basically said he has it in for her because she kissed her boyfriend. It was totally based on how some sexist old pig thought women should behave. Journalist also a cunt. Saw this when it came out so can’t remember the details but I remember those pigs and that there wasn’t actually any evidence she’d done anything.

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 25/08/2021 21:02

I always thought she was innocent. Sex games is not why you go abroad for a year.

Thanks for the podcast recommendation. Id started listening a couple of weeks ago to the early episodes - its a REALLY good podcast.

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