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Labyrinths with Amanda Knox

#118 - The Media Machine (Mandy Matney)

Labyrinths with Amanda Knox

Knox Robinson Productions

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

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Mandy Matney exposed the Murdaugh family's corruption before the world knew their name. But as her reporting gained national attention, she found herself battling not just a powerful dynasty—but the media machine itself. https://www.amandaknox.com Bluesky: @amandaknox.com | @wisecracker.bsky.social IG: @amamaknox | @emceecarbon Free: My Search for Meaning Preorder Link: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amanda-knox/free/9781538770719/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, listeners. If you're enjoying Labyrinths, I think you love my new book, Free, my search for meaning.

0:06.6

Even after I was released from prison, I still felt trapped in the story that had taken over my life.

0:12.4

Free is about my journey to reclaim my identity and the mistakes and misadventures I had in trying

0:18.1

to create my own freedom. It's also a guide to resilience, post-traumatic growth, and making peace with the past.

0:24.6

Go to Amandanox.com to pre-order your copy of free today.

0:29.2

I mean, I've always understood that there's a gross part of true crime, but I never understood.

0:34.3

There were tactics.

0:35.3

I think one of the worst things was the amount of victims I heard

0:40.0

from who were allegedly coerced into signing no-compete documents. So, like, in telling their

0:48.2

story to one documentary and then saying, I'm not going to tell my story to anybody else. And I'm

0:53.6

like, to a victim, that is a horrible thing to do to somebody.

0:58.5

And you own their story, you own their trauma.

1:00.8

It's a horrible thing to do, and it's extremely unethical.

1:05.8

Feeling lost?

1:07.1

Then you're in the right place.

1:08.7

I'm Amanda Knox.

1:09.9

And I'm Christopher Robinson.

1:11.9

And this is Labyrinths.

1:19.7

On February 24th, 2019, at approximately 220 a.m., Paul Murdoch, son of a.m.,

1:25.7

son of a well-connected South Carolina lawyer, Alex Murdoch,

1:29.6

crashed his family's boat into the piling of a bridge, killing one of his five passengers.

1:35.4

At only 20 years old, Paul was manning the boat with a blood alcohol content three times the

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