Before we begin today's episode features some descriptions of sexual violence and murder,

protect the children.

My name is Amanda Knox and I am a person.

In 2007, I was living with three other young women in a house in Perucia, Italy.

Meredith, a British exchange student, and two Italian roommates.

On the night of November 1st, Meredith was home alone and our apartment was broken

into by a local burglar named Rudy Gidei who then raped and killed her and then fled

the country to Germany.

In the initial days after the crime was discovered, I was suspected by the police.

I was pinpointed as a character who might have special knowledge of this crime.

I'm still to this day not entirely sure why, but I was subjected to 53 hours of interrogation

over four days and I was arrested after falsely confessing to having witnessed the crime

and then having amnesia and not remembering it because that was what the police suggested

to me.

I immediately retracted those statements, but I was arrested.

My boyfriend of five days was arrested and my boss was arrested.

We were imprisoned and it wasn't until the actual evidence came back that showed that

there were fingerprints and footprints left in Meredith's blood by the actual killer,

Rudy Gidei, that my boss was released from custody, but instead of admitting that they

had made a mistake that the police had arrested the wrong people, they instead decided to

reframe the whole story as Amanda Knox is jealous of her roommate and so she got this

random burglar and her boyfriend to rape her roommate for her and then she stabbed her

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