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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 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 pret 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 people in different places of the world. Because of that, it came to no one's surprise that when she got older, she had dreams of seeing more of the world beyond just her hometown. Amanda went on to attend the University of Washington. And there she still carried on her outgoing, curious, adventurous personality. But she had the kind of character that, you know, those kind of people that are so happy and so excited about just living life all the Time. I love those people. But she had that personality to the point that it almost made her naive. A little bit about, like, the dangers of real life. That was Amanda. She was just a very trusting person. And that'll make more sense the more we get into the story. In university, Amanda Knox studied linguistics, which is part of why she ultimately decided to study abroad in Italy. She was interested in learning Italian, but also completely immersing herself in the language and in the culture. But prior to studying abroad in college in high school, when she was only 14 years old, Amanda studied abroad in Japan for several weeks. She spent some time there with her host family, and towards the end of that adventure, her family flew overseas to see her. All of them together, then ended up traveling around, and one of the places they went to was Italy. It was during that trip that Amanda decided that she would 100% be studying abroad later on when she got to college. And she had a strong passion for poetry, and she thought that it would be a good idea because she also was interested in learning Italian, to then kind of combine the two together and be able to translate poetry. So, fast forward to her college years. She signed up to go study in Perugia for nine months and then go to Rome for the following three months to be part of the poetry program they had there. And then came September of 2007, and at only 20 years old, off to Italy she went. For the first several weeks of her study abroad experience, Amanda was living what felt like the ideal version of it. She found a beautiful apartment in a small cottage overlooking the valley. There she lived with three other young women. Two of them were Italian, one of them was British. And that also was very ideal because it meant that Amanda would be able to be immersed in the Italian language, even at home with two of her roommates. Being speaking in her university was only a short walk away from her apartment. And her days were spent meeting other students, settling into her new life. And again, keep in mind that we are in 2007. So around the time that the first iPhone was coming out, most people were still carrying around flip phones. Facebook was just starting to become really popular. So Amanda didn't really spend much time on her phone or on her computer. And she spent most of her days walking around, exploring, meeting new people, making new friends. She even began giving guitar lessons to a fellow student she met in class. And she also found a job bartending at a local bar. Everything was playing out to be exactly the experience that Amanda had hoped for for so long. A few weeks into her stay, Amanda Met a boy called Raphael Celestito. Raphael was a computer engineering student who was described as shy, sweet, and a little bit nerdy. The two of them met at a classical music recital and they connected almost immediately. From that point on, they spent nearly every single day and every single night together. Five days after meeting, Amanda ended up staying at his place for the first time. And ever since then, she just kind of continued to do so. The day after Halloween, November 1st was a public holiday. And Raphael told Amanda that he wanted to do something special for her, something sweet and thoughtful. He wanted to go on a cute, romantic long weekend trip to a nearby town. Amanda agreed and both of them very quickly got very excited about it. They were looking forward to it. But of course, Amanda needed to go back to her flat to shower, grab a change of clothes, pack a little bit for the weekend, and then she would meet back up with Raphael at his place so they could head off for the weekend. So that's what she did. She walked into her apartment. She remembers thinking that as soon as she walked in, she. Something felt off. She didn't know what, but things just felt weird. The first big red flag was that when she got there, the front door to her apartment was wide open, which obviously wasn't normal. Even more so because it was the beginning of November, so it was quite chilly outside. That was weird. However, the front door to begin with was kind of a difficult door to close. The girls often had to lock it with the latch for it to stay closed. Probably, I assume that maybe because it was an old building, I'm not sure. But the door was weird in itself. So the door being left wide open was weird. But Amanda just thought, oh, one of my roommates probably left in a hurry. They probably tried to close the door, forgot to latch it with the lock, and the wind probably blew it open. And again, keep in mind, Amanda is not the kind of person to assume the worst ever. If anything, she assumes the best. But after walking in and closing the door behind her, Amanda called out for her roommates. And she got no answers from any of them. And again, she got this wave of thinking that's also a little bit weird. She had said that she just felt like there was this eerie feeling in the air. Yet she didn't immediately go to the worst case scenario. She looked past it. She decided to get in the shower. She walked into her bedroom, grabbed some clothes, went to the bathroom, got in the shower. When she was stepping out of the shower, she notices something else. A few drops of blood on the floor. Off the bathroom. Not a ton, only a few drops, but enough for her to notice. And she also noticed, which this is gross, that the toilet had not been flushed. Amanda had just gotten her ears pierced, so her initial thought was, oh, maybe the blood was coming from my ears. But she looked in the mirror, and she saw that she wasn't bleeding. Still, however, because of the door and the blood, now she's thinking, okay, maybe one of my roommates got hurt on accident, cut themselves on accident, and something happened that made someone bleed. And then they must have rushed out of the house and quickly walked to the closest pharmacy to get a band aid. She had no clue. It was weird, but it wasn't that alarming to Amanda yet. She packs her bags. She walks over to Raphael's place again. And I guess you can call him her boyfriend at this point, that's what he was. But she tells him what she saw, kind of asking him, should I be concerned? Should I not? And he says, mm, yeah, interesting. Maybe just call your roommates and see where they are, make sure they're okay. Make sure that everything is fine. So Amanda calls one of their roommates, Meredith. She doesn't pick up. She calls the other roommate, Laura. She doesn't answer. Finally, she calls the third roommate, Philomena, and she picks up. Amanda tells her about what happened, what she saw. And Philomena says, okay, walk back over to our place. I will meet you there, and we'll make sure that everything and everyone is fine. Amanda and Raphael walk back and meet up with Philomena outside of the apartment. All three of them then walk inside. And at some point, I'm not sure exactly when, but at some point, they notice that one of the bedroom's doors is locked. The door to Meredith's bedroom. They also discover that the window into Philomena's bedroom was broken. It looked like someone smashed it. And that's when they decided to call the police. Coincidentally, a neighbor, a woman, had also contacted authorities earlier that morning because she had found a phone in her backyard that did not belong to her. Come to find out, that phone was Meredith's phone. Somehow, some way, it had ended up in the neighbor's backyard. Rafael is the one who calls the police. And once they arrive, they fill them all in and tell them that Meredith's bedroom door was locked and they asked them to break down the door. According to Amanda, police officers were a little bit hesitant to break down the door because they didn't feel like they had the right to break anything in the property. So actually, it was Philomena's boyfriend who ended up kicking down the door to Meredith's bedroom. And, and that's when they find Meredith Kircher. Meredith Kercher was one of Amanda's roommates. A 21 year old student from Surrey, England. She grew up in a close knit family and was described as someone who easily made people feel comfortable. Her friend saying that she was the kind of person who was very outgoing, very caring, very sweet to every single person that she met. She was studying European studies at the University of Leeds and had gone to Perugia, Italy as part of her study abroad program. Meredith, like Amanda, loved to travel. She had been super excited about Italy and about the new independence that she would get to experience studying abroad. That was one of the biggest things that her and Amanda had in common. So naturally having pretty similar personalities, similar interests. Amanda and Meredith had become good friends during the time that they shared together in Italy. They also made new friends together and would often hang out with not only themselves, not only them too, but also in groups of people with the new friends that they made. Back to November 2nd to the crime scene in the apartment when the door was broken down into Meredith's bedroom. She was found dead lying on her bed. It was a gruesome crime scene. Meredith had been brutally essayed and stabbed to death in her own bedroom. She had been strangled and had over 40 separate injuries. Two major stab wounds to her neck. She was partially undressed with some of her clothing cut and or ripped off of her and her shirt rolled up to her neck. Philomena, the other roommate, she walked in and saw Meredith and within seconds she was hysterical, which makes sense. Philomena started screaming. Amanda then remembers everyone, including investigators and the police. They all began talking in Italian really, really fast to the point that Amanda couldn't really understand. And then they were all rushed out of the house. Meredith's murder was a shock to say the least because crimes of that nature did not happen in that area. It was an area that had a pretty big student population. So the crimes would be students partying too much, staying up too late, too hard, too loud. People would get in trouble for drinking too much and behaving like college students, not for murdering other people. The news of the murder was not only devastating, but also shocking and completely unexpected. Throughout the following days, an investigation began with authorities assuming that the broken window was a staged robbery since nothing had actually been stolen. Over 400 pieces of evidence were gathered and removed from the home. And very quickly, officers began to pay very close attention to Amanda. And Raphael, she didn't know yet. But her reaction at the crime scene when she was standing outside with Rafael was very closely observed by the investigators there. Some reports state, and whether you believe this or not is up to you, but according to some, the way that Amanda was reacting in the situation wasn't in the way that she would have been expected to. While others were distraught and quite literally inconsolable, Amanda had a blank look on her face. And some reports state that she and Raphael even smiled and laughed at each other outside at some point the day of, one of the officers who witnessed their behavior stated that, quote, amanda and Raphael appeared completely indifferent to everything. End quote. For four days following the discovery of Meredith's body, Amanda Knox's life was absolutely consumed by the murder of her roommate. And this was only the beginning. She didn't realize it yet, but she was absolutely being treated in a different way than the others were. The thoughts that were going on in Amanda's head immediately after were, whoa, that is so scary. That could have been me. She thought that she was lucky because she ended up staying the night at her boyfriend's house the night prior. But. But had she not, she thought that she could have also been a murder victim because the crime literally happened in her own house. So who is to say that if she would have been home, the killer would not have also attacked her? So she was feeling a mix of emotions. She was feeling extreme sadness for her friends, also fear of who could have done something so horrific, but at the same time, feeling extremely lucky to be alive. To Amanda, at first, it felt like everyone else was just as confused and as terrified as she was. And she thought that the officers and the investigators were on her side, thinking, okay, if we all work together, we can figure out what happened and catch whoever did this. What she did not consider was that police officers were paying close attention to her as a possible suspect rather than just being the roommate and or a potential witness. Law enforcement, as well as people of the public in Italy, by the way, all agreed that Amanda was just acting odd. One of the investigators even saying that while she was at the police station waiting to be questioned for the first time, she was seen doing cartwheels and handstands in the hallway. In the early stages of the investigation, Amanda was questioned a lot by police altogether. In the following day, she was interviewed for a total of 10 hours and kept in custody for 53 hours in total. And even after that, she kept being called back into the station to talk to them more and more. But still, she Continued thinking that they wanted to talk to her because she was one of, if not their strongest witnesses. After all, Meredith was her roommate. They were close in age. They had a lot of things in common. They were friends. They had mutual friends. And Amanda knew who Meredith hung out with and spent time with. On top of that, Amanda was the first person to show up to the empty house and feel like something was off. So she was under the impression that she could be the most helpful person in the investigation to help them solve the crime altogether. However, in the eyes of the investigators, her behavior was questionable, and they felt as if Amanda knew a lot more than she was letting on. Even people who had nothing to do with the investigation, people of the public who had heard about what happened on tv, on a newspaper, whatever the case, had also very quickly began to spread information, planting suspicion on Amanda because the way that she was acting was, quote, weird for everyone. Without her knowledge, officers tapped her phone, and they were able to listen in on any and every phone call that Amanda was having on her phone. After the murder, her parents obviously were very, very worried about her. They were also scared. For all they knew, there could have been a serial killer out on the loose. Her parents wanted Amanda to fly home as soon as possible to be with her family and recover from walking in on the murder of her roommate. But officers kept telling her that she could not go back to the States because they needed her to be there to help them in the investigation. Because officers told Amanda to stay in Italy rather than go back home, Amanda's mom ended up booking a flight to go to Italy and be with her there. But the night before her mom arrived, actually when her mom was in the plane flying to Rome, Amanda Knox was called in and taken to the station once again, this time for an overnight interrogation. That interrogation would be the one that would lead to her arrest. And looking back at it now, Amanda thinks that because authorities were listening on her phone calls, they knew that her mom was planning on flying out. They knew that she was either on the plane or was about to be on a plane on the way. And they wanted to get Amanda in custody before her mom got there, which is why they brought her in overnight when they did. And Amanda wasn't there to greet her mom when she arrived in Italy. They didn't only focus in on Amanda. They also were focusing on Raphael. They brought him in for questioning as well. The two of them were in rooms next to each other. And Amanda remembers thinking that that night, investigators really turned up the heat. They started asking leading questions Blaming her for the crime, pretty much. Or at the very least, blaming her for withholding the truth. And Amanda hadn't slept. Her roommate was found murdered. She was scared and confused. She didn't have her family there. She was starting to feel almost delusional from experiencing so many strong feelings in such a short period of time. And sooner than later, because investigators began to question if she was telling the truth, she began to question herself. They would ask her about her movements the night of the murder. She would tell them that she was not home because she slept over at Raphael's house. And they would look at her and say, are you sure? Are you sure that you were there? Are you sure that it was during this exact time? Are you sure that you had dinner at the time that you say that you did? Are you sure that you watched a movie with Raphael at his house? Pretty much suggesting that she wasn't sure because they were doubting her entire story. But Amanda kept saying, look, I cannot tell you my exact movements down to the minute because I don't remember if. If I. Dinner at 7:02 or 7:17pm I don't know exact times, but I can tell you for a fact that I was not at my apartment the night that my roommate was murdered. And then investigators switched up their tactic, and they went to Amanda and said, look, Raphael has turned against you. He told us the truth. And the truth is that you were not at his apartment during the time that the murder is believed to have taken place. That was a lie. Raphael said none of that. But investigators told Amanda that in an attempt, I guess, to get her to confess. Taking a quick pause today to talk about today's sponsor, Remy. 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And I can't say, obviously with a hundred percent certainty that Amanda was with me when I was unconscious. That was what he was willing to sign to. So after getting him to say that, they came into my room and said, your boyfriend says that you were not with him that night and you must be traumatized and you must have witnessed the crime and have blocked it out of your memory. So we need you to start trying to remember what you have forgotten. And then the very key thing happened. They didn't tell me who they thought the murderer was. I had no idea who the murderer was. But what they did was they went into my cell phone records. They asked for my cell phone. They. They looked at My cell phone text message log, and found that I had sent a text message to my boss. I was working for a local pub owner. His name was Patrick. And the night of the murder, I was supposed to come into work, but he said that it was a slow night because it was a holiday, so I didn't have to bother to come in. And I said, okay, have a good night. See you later. And they took that text message to mean that I had met an appointment to meet with my boss, Patrick. And so they assumed that what actually happened was that I left Raphael's apartment that night, met up with my boss, Patrick, and he raped and murdered Meredith. And I witnessed it, but then blocked it out of my memory because I was so traumatized. So they're pushing this narrative on, end quote, insane. First of all, again, Amanda was sleep deprived. She was confused, she was scared. And eventually, after hours of questioning, she agrees with investigators, and she says, yeah, I guess that must have happened. And she says that she must have been in the apartment the night of the murder while Patrick was attacking Meredith, saying that she covered her ears to draw the noise of Meredith screaming. Officers then wrote everything up in a police report. They had Amanda sign it, and then they go off to arrest her boss, Patrick. Then they also arrest Amanda and Raphael for being accomplices to murder. Amanda would later take back her quote, unquote confession, but by then, the damage was already done. Even though when I say she decided to take back her confession, it was the same day. It was literally while she was still in the police station. She had not left. But after she wanted to take back what she said, that only ended up making her case worse in the eyes of the investigators, because then they started thinking, oh, you are not only a violent criminal, but you are also a liar, and we can't trust anything that you say. All three of them were arrested and taken into custody despite no physical evidence tying them to the crime scene at all, and despite the fact that a lot of people came forward on behalf of Patrick, providing a solid alibi for him, saying that they were with him the night of the murder, and confirming that Patrick never left to go anywhere at all, let alone to go to Amanda and Meredith's apartment. There had been DNA collected from the crime scene. And from the sounds of it, by the way, the police work at the crime scene was very, very, very, very sloppy. But they collected physical evidence. They sent that evidence to the lab for it to be tested, and when the results came back, they have no tie to Amanda, no tie to Raphael, no tie to Patrick whatsoever. Instead, DNA evidence found at the crime scene on Meredith, inside of Meredith in her bedroom, and on items directly connected to the SA is a match to the DNA of a 20 year old man called Rudy Guid. Rudy Guid had grown up in Italy. He had a criminal history. He had a history of petty crime and burglary and was known to bounce around between cities, often staying with friends or squatting. At the time of Meredith's murder, Rudy was in Perugia hanging out with the same social circles as Amanda and her roommates. However, he wasn't necessarily friends with them. They just had common friends. And coincidentally, Rudy left Perugia altogether very shortly after Meredith's murder. So unlike the quote unquote evidence against Amanda, Raphael and Patrick, the evidence against Rudy was not direct and overwhelming. However, instead of authorities saying, hey, we have the wrong people, we arrested the wrong people, they say, well, no, Patrick is good. We did make a mistake there. Patrick does have an alibi. Must have not been him. But the new story they came up with, Amanda is sitting in prison, by the way, this entire time. The new story they came up with is that instead of Patrick being the third person involved, it is now Rudy. And it was their belief that Amanda Knox orchestrated a party of sorts where a lot of people were intimate with each other. And they say that in the middle of being intimate, Rudy and Raphael held down Meredith against her will while Amanda stabbed her. They say that Amanda was a killer and that she had Rudy and Raphael help her. And before calling the police. The morning Meredith's body was found, Amanda returned to the apartment early in the morning to clean up all traces of her DNA and then plant Rudy's DNA with the intention of framing him for the crime. That was their new theory. Apparently, they were so set on the idea that whoever killed Meredith was a person that she knew, a person that she was close with. Reason being is because they were convinced that the break in the quote unquote robbery was staged and they were just simply not willing to let that go. So according to them, it had to have been someone that Meredith knew. So they go and talk to Rudy. Rudy, he's a very interesting character. He's awful. But he does confess that he was at the apartment the night that Meredith was killed. Rudy says that the night before, him and Meredith had been hanging out, which wasn't unusual because they were in the same friend group, kind of ish. But he says that they were hanging out the night of Halloween. They agreed to meet up the following night, November 1, to hook up they scheduled a hookup, according to him. And then he says that the following day, the night of the murder, he went over to the apartment. It was only him and Meredith. They started kissing. Things started to heat up, but then his tummy started to hurt. So he left Meredith in the bedroom on the bed by herself while he went to the toilet. While Rudy was on the toilet, a random stranger broke into the house through that broken window, attacked Meredith on her bed, saing her and killing her, and then left. Rudy then walked out of the bathroom into the bedroom, saw that Meredith was dying, freaked out, tried to help her, save her life, which is why he says his DNA is all over her. But he said that it was too late. She just wasn't going to make it. So what did he do? He just left. He walked out, leaving Meredith to die on her own. He went back to his house, cleaned up. The night after, he went out with his friends as if nothing had ever happened. And the following day, he left the country. He went to Germany, introduced himself under a fake name, and then just went on about his life. That was what Rudy eventually told investigators. That was the real, true story, that. That is the story that Rudy is holding on to. Still, to date, he maintains his innocence, but putting all of that absolute nonsense that is probably giving you a headache for a second, putting all of that aside, that still doesn't connect Amanda to the murder at all, in any way, shape, or form. But she had been under a very intense spotlight, and her name and her face had been all over the news for so long that I guess investigators had absolutely just convinced themselves that she was involved. The media was not kind to Amanda Knox by any means. Things that were being said about her were some of the worst things that you've ever heard. People were ruthless, completely cruel. From the beginning, the media framed Amanda as some sort of Persona rather than a student or a human being, really. She was judged on her personality, her appearance, her sexuality, her dating life, how she dressed. Judged based on all that, not at all based on the facts of the crime. She was labeled as Foxy Knoxy, a nickname that implied that she was into doing certain things in the bedroom that led to becoming dangerous. She had that nickname for different reasons when she was younger, but the media just brought it back out and used it for completely disturbing and opposite reasons. Before trials, and yes, there were multiple. But before the trials even began, tabloids were running wild about different theories, such as satanic rituals, sex games, jealousy, most of which, if not all of which, were later debunked. In court. But by then, the narrative had already stuck. Public opinion hardened. Before any verdict was reached at all, Amanda Knox underwent three trials for the murder and essay of Meredith Kercher. Remember, the murder took place in 2007. The first trial happened from 2009 and into 2010. Both Amanda and Rafael were convicted of the murder. Amanda got 26 years, Rafael got 25 years. And that case relied heavily on circumstantial evidence and forensic evidence, which later came under serious scrutiny. The first appeal was in 2011. Italian courts reviewed the evidence and ultimately both Amanda and Rafael were acquitted. Because the evidence did not hold up, they were released after spending several years in prison. And then we have the Supreme Court retrial 2013-2015, Italy's Supreme Court overturned Amanda's acquittal and ordered a retrial, questioning the appeals, handling some of the forensic evidence. But finally, in 2015, her and Rafael were cleared of all charges and they were finally freedom. Amanda wrote the following letter, quote, to hold my hand and offer support and respect throughout the obstacles in the controversy. There were Italians, there was the Italy USA foundation and many others that shared my pain and that helped me survive with hope. I am eternally grateful for their caring hospitality and their courageous commitment to those that wrote me, that defended me, that stood by me, that prayed for me. I am forever grateful to you. End quote. So Amanda Knox and Raphael were wrongfully convicted, appealed, retried, and ultimately acquitted of Meredith Kercher's murder. They were put through the worst of the worst and they received so much hatred from a million different angles, while the actual perpetrator, Rudy, was convicted separately. Rudy's trial happened in September of 2008. He was found guilty of murder and SA and he was sentenced to 30 years in prison. However, his sentence was eventually reduced to 16 years for the crime because of, quote, unquote, good behavior, I guess, and he was released from prison in Italy in November of 2021. To this day, Rudy maintains his innocence. Amanda Knox's story is a huge reminder of just how quickly a person can be judged not only by the court, but also by public opinion. And how fragile justice can be when evidence is misinterpreted and or sensationalized. After years of legal battles, wrongful imprisonment, and intense media scrutiny, Amanda was finally acquitted. And it makes me so glad to say that. But the experience left an inevitable mark on her life. It is also extremely upsetting that because of what happened, Meredith's name often gets lost in the headlines. But she was brutally and senselessly killed and her loved ones will forever be affected by the loss of her. She was such a beautiful loved person and will always be remembered by the people who loved her. Today, Amanda Knox is a public figure who advocates for people who are wrongfully incarcerated. She has written two books about her journey in life experiences. One is called Waiting to Be Heard. The other is called Free My Search for Meaning. Do you have any words? Because I literally don't. That is all I have on this case. Let me know your thoughts on it because it is actually so insane. But yeah, I hope you guys are having the best day. If not, go do something to make it the best day. Make somebody happy and I will see you in my next video. Massive kiss on the forehead to every single one of you.