330 - Amanda Knox and the Murder of Meredith Kercher

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 162 minutes

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What do you think you know about Amanda Knox? Do you think she was a sex-crazed party girl who got away with the murder of Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007? That's what I thought before I dug into the research for this episode. I do not think that anymore. The case against her is the sloppiest murder trial I've ever looked into...

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0:00.0	There are those who believe in my innocence and there are those who believe in my guilt.
0:03.6	There's no in between. And if I'm guilty, it means that I am the ultimate figure to fear,
0:08.5	because I'm not the obvious one. But on the other hand, if I'm innocent,
0:11.7	it means that everyone's vulnerable. And that's everyone's nightmare.
0:15.2	Either I'm a psychopath and sheep's clothing or I am you. That's Amanda Knox speaking in her
0:20.6	2016 Netflix documentary. So what do you think? Is she guilty or is she innocent? Do you remember
0:26.7	hearing about Amanda's murder charge and sensational trial? All the wild theories about why she may have
0:31.1	killed and forming an opinion about a decade and a half ago. I do. In November of 2007, 21-year-old
0:37.6	British exchange student Meredith Kertcher was stabbed and suffocated to death in her house in
0:42.6	Peruzia, Italy. 20-year-old American student Amanda Knox married his roommate and Amanda's boyfriend
0:48.0	Rafaeli Celeste, Celesteiro and a local man named Rudy Gidei were the main suspects.
0:53.5	Because the brutal way Meredith was murdered and evidenced from the crime scene, police and prosecutors
0:58.0	eventually, or quickly, came to believe that she was killed by multiple people and that she was
1:03.6	most likely murdered due to refusing to be in part of some sexual act or perhaps being murdered for
1:08.5	scolding and enraged, demanded for being too sexually promiscuous. That was the tabloid and that was
1:13.2	the prosecutorial narrative. Amanda Knox was quickly painted as the ringleader of some sort of
1:18.2	alleged and ongoing sexual trist between herself, Rafaeli and Rudy. Italian prosecutors, police
1:24.0	and tabloids characterized Amanda as a promiscuous man-eater, sex crazed, she devil, and more.
1:30.4	There were even allegations that she was some sort of satanic temptress engaged in a cult sexual
1:35.6	rituals. No allegation was too wild or fantastical and no allegation seemed to need literally any
1:41.7	evidence before it's tossed around. Amanda Knox quickly became one of the most hated women in the
1:46.2	world. Definitely one of the most hated, probably the most hated woman in Italy. Everything she did
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