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Labyrinths with Amanda Knox

#116 - Picking Cotton (Jennifer Thompson)

Labyrinths with Amanda Knox

Knox Robinson Productions

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, True Crime, Mental Health

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

On July 29th 1984, Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. A day later, Ronald Cotton was arrested wearing gloves and a blue shirt with white stripes on the sleeves, an identical outfit to Thompson’s attacker. He was sentenced to life in prison. After identifying Cotton in a physical lineup, Thompson trusted law enforcement had caught the perpetrator. 11 years later, however, that trust was broken. In Thompson’s own words, the public scrutiny and guilt that ensued after Cotton’s release “far outweighed” what had been done to her in 1984.  https://www.amandaknox.com Bluesky: @amandaknox.com | @wisecracker.bsky.social IG: @amamaknox | @emceecarbon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, listeners. This May, I'm going to be leading a resilience retreat where I'm going to talk about my practices for building resilience in the face of adversity. It's going to be a very close-knit community of people who are overcoming hardship and attempting to regain agency in their own lives and their own stories. Please join us here in the beautiful Pacific

0:21.9

Northwest for four days of focused, resilience-based training in a safe and supportive space.

0:29.3

It's going to be both fun and rewarding. So go to Amandanox.com to find out more and I hope to see you

0:36.4

there. As a small business owner, and I hope to see you there.

0:42.0

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0:44.4

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0:49.2

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0:54.1

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0:55.2

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1:02.0

Go to LinkedIn.com slash agree to post your job for free. Terms and conditions apply.

1:08.2

Well, the dark voice was telling me that this was my fault.

1:13.0

Because I had picked Ronald's photograph out of a photographic lineup, that it was my fault.

1:19.9

And to be truthful, the world, the justice world, the media world, the public world was very happy for me to carry that narrative.

1:32.8

Because it was easy.

1:34.6

Yeah.

1:35.1

White woman accuses black man.

1:37.7

Oh, yeah, exactly.

1:38.8

It was the stereotypical, you know, that all of that, like all of that.

1:43.8

That was the story and the trauma that

1:50.5

that caused in my life on many levels far outweighed what had been done to me on July 29th and 1988 before.

2:04.8

Feeling lost? Then you're in the right place. I'm Amanda Knox. And I'm Christopher Robinson.

2:11.0

And this is Labyrinth. On July 29, 1984, Jennifer Thompson was raped at Knife Point by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept.

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