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In 2007, the entire world's attention was drawn to the city of Perugia, Italy, after the gruesome murder of a foreign exchange student occurred.

The investigation felt like pure and utter chaos with investigators making 54 mistakes

in the gathering of the DNA straight from the crime scene. And yet despite no physical evidence

tying her to the crime, almost immediately Italian police focused solely on finding one of her

roommates, 20-year-old Amanda Knox, guilty of first-degree murder. I have been waiting to cover this

case. Grab a drink, grab a snacks, grab a meal. Drive safe, whatever you're doing. Welcome to this

episode of I Wish You Were Here. This is the story of Amanda Knox.

Before Amanda Knox became a global controversy, she was just a kid from Seattle, Washington.

Amanda was the oldest daughter in her family, and friends have described her to be curious, quirky,

and independent. Her parents got a divorce when to be curious, quirky, and independent.

Her parents got a divorce when she was little, but the family remained very, very close.

Her mom and dad actually only lived two blocks away from each other, and in addition to that,

her extended family also lived pretty close by, some even within walking distance.

Needless to say, the dynamic of the family was a pretty close one.

As a little girl, she was someone who loved to learn. She was very creative. She loved spending time outdoors.

She was also very athletic and pretty smart. She was the kind of kid who always did well in school.

She was someone who had been very emotionally expressive her entire life, but above anything else, her entire thing, her favorite thing in the whole entire world from a very, very young age, was traveling.

Amanda loved the idea of traveling around the world and getting to see different cultures, learning different languages, and just seeing what life was about for different

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