You are no longer onsite at your organization. Please log in. For assistance, contact your corporate administrator. Arrow Created with Sketch. Calendar Created with Sketch. Path Created with Sketch. Shape Created with Sketch. Plus Created with Sketch. On Nov. Knox's explanation of where she was during the murder has changed at least twice over the course of the case.
Originally, she said she was not in the house. Later, Knox told police that she was in the house when Kercher was murdered and heard the victim scream. On the stand she explained that, under intense police interrogation, she had "imagined" hearing the scream. Wearing white and sporting a ponytail, Knox explained to the jury in a confident voice why she signed a statement at a Perugia police station implicating herself, a statement she now says was false.
She spoke in a confident voice and used her hands freely to emphasize her points. She added, "I couldn't understand why they were so sure I was the one who knew everything.
She said police posed the same questions over and over again, repeatedly asking her who she thought had killed her roommate and asking her to go over exactly what she did the night Kercher died.
The Perugia police have repeatedly denied any misconduct on the night of the interrogation or at any other point. The prosecution maintains that the confused testimony Knox gave to the police is a sign of her culpability. When describing the day the murder was discovered, her voice cracked with emotion, as if she were going to cry.
She said police were in the house that day, and she was cold, so she went to a car. Sollecito came out to tell her that Kercher had been knifed. Knox recalled thinking it was "too much," and crying. Ted Simon, a prominent criminal defense lawyer, told ABC's "Good Morning America" that the pressure was on Knox to explain herself to the jury and present herself as a believable witness.
That was key to the decision over which language to speak in. Although Knox was supposed to be a defense witness, the judge allowed lawyers representing a civil case filed against Knox to question her first. Daily Mail journalist Nick Pisa readily admitted in interviews that journalists at the time sought out images from Amanda's social media with the intention of making her appear more crazy, dangerous, and like a sex freak.
Already being accused of the murder that was supposedly a "sex game gone wrong," reporters got photos and information from her Myspace account to enhance their portrayal of her in a certain light.
Her Myspace name "Foxy Knoxy" really caught on when it was broadcast in the news. Photos, such as the one of Amanda posing with a machine gun and one of Raffaele dressed as a mummy with a meat cleaver, were published side by side in newspapers and online for this reason.
Clearly taken out of context, their image took a nosedive after they appeared to be two dumb kids who thought murder was a joke. By most standards, Amanda Knox is an average-looking woman, normal in every way, both physically and otherwise. Like most women, when she gets all dolled up, she looks very pretty. Her looks are definitely not those of your typical cold-blooded murderer, and the fact that she's attractive actually worked against her because it gave the press fuel to turn her ordeal into something more than it was.
Because it was so shocking that a pretty young woman was at the center of such a huge, international murder case, the reporters were like sharks who smelled blood or vultures circling their prey. They knew that Amanda's story -- especially because of her looks -- was gold. And they were right.
Daily Mail writer Nick Pisa was very open about this fact, and he described the thrill of a story such as Amanda's like this: "To see your name on the front page with a great story that everyone's talking about It's like having sex or something. Even after 10 years and the fact that Amanda Knox's case has been litigated to death with the final result of an acquittal, Meredith Kercher's family still doesn't accept her innocence.
They were quoted as being very "bitter" after the acquittal of Amanda and Raffaele Sollecito. By this time, their daughter had been gone for seven and a half years, and so much had been made of the Amanda Knox case that they felt as if Meredith, the real victim, had been forgotten in lieu of the spectacle that was the case. The Kercher family's never-ending nightmare continued with the release of Netflix's documentary this fall, which they found unnecessary and one-sided, and they've declared that they refuse to watch it.
They still believe Amanda and Raffaele played a part in Meredith's death, and the family probably always will. Many people forget that actually, Amanda Knox confessed to the murder of Meredith Kercher. Having spent a decade fighting this legal battle, it's easy to forget this fact because according to everything else she's said about that fateful night, she's innocent.
Yet her confession directly contradicts that. In the days following the murder, Amanda was put under intense pressure by the Italian police, and she's far from the first innocent person to make a false confession under duress. Subjected to extreme intimidation, Amanda said in one interview, "They lied to me, shouted at me, threatened me; they slapped me on the head twice. They told me that I would never again see my family if I could not remember what happened to Meredith that night.
During Amanda Knox's trial, the prosecution claimed that she and her flatmate, Meredith Kercher, were fighting over various things in the weeks before her death. It was reported that Amanda and Meredith argued over boys, cleaning their flat, and other typical roommate issues.
Thus, the prosecution tried to paint the picture that this was the motive for murder, even though it was Meredith who had the complaints about Amanda and not the other way around. Allegedly, Meredith wasn't happy that Amanda brought strangers home, frequently skipped her turn cleaning the bathroom, and that she was generally disrespectful. Meredith was also not happy that Amanda kept condoms and a vibrator in their home. Their other roommate, Fiorella Romanelli, confirmed this. But then, the prosecution took things to a new level and accused Amanda and Raffaele of something else they had allegedly fought about -- forcing Meredith into playing a sex game the night she was murdered and that when she refused, they killed her.
For now I write gossip and quite contradictory to that, I write my books. Married, mommy to one crazy 5-year-old, world traveler, hails from the Midwest and now living on the East coast. By Kaline Forrester Published Oct 19, Share Share Tweet Email Comment. Related Topics Shocking Entertainment.
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