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The Case of Amanda Knox
📻 Episode #99
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Oct 23, 2019
About This Episode
This is an updated episode that originally aired on September 17, 2018.
The Case
This is an updated episode that originally aired on September 17, 2018.
Amanda Knox was convicted of the murder of a 21-year-old British exchange student, Meredith Kercher, who died from knife wounds in the apartment she shared with Amanda in Perugia, Italy in 2007. Amanda and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were both found guilty of killing Kercher, receiving 26- and 25-year prison sentences, respectively. Their convictions were subsequently overturned in 2011, and she was released from prison after serving four years. In early 2014, the Italian Supreme Court ruled that they should both stand trial again, and she and Sollecito were re-convicted. Finally, in March 2015, the Italian Supreme Court overturned both murder convictions, ending their eight-year ordeal. Amanda Knox is currently a *New York Times *bestselling author, the host of the Scarlet Letter Reports on Broadly/Vice, and the host of The Truth About True Crime, a Sundance AMC podcast series.
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:06:30“Speaker 4: She was studying at the University of Perusia, and I Speaker 4: was studying at the University of Prestranierti, so the university Speaker 4: for foreigners, because my Italian wasn't good enough yet to Speaker 4: actually go to the regular university. Speaker 1: Wow, that was just the way you said that words”
00:25:33“Speaker 4: by my boyfriend who was trying to comfort me. All Speaker 4: of it they just felt was inappropriate, and that made Speaker 4: me suspicious. We're better equipped to make, you know, decisions Speaker 4: about guilt and innocence, but we are also just flawed Speaker 4: human beings who should remember that when we're drawing conclusions”
00:45:05“Speaker 4: didn't do, and that could be the rest of my life. Speaker 4: That could be my life. I could be that person. Speaker 4: And you know, I faced another two years in prison Speaker 4: with the prospect of being that person, of living the Speaker 4: rest of my life in prison. No matter how innocent”
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