In August , Amanda announced she and husband Christopher were expecting their first child together , one month after suffering a miscarriage. On October 22, Amanda revealed that she had welcomed a baby daughter and revealed her name as well. For access to all our exclusive celebrity videos and interviews — Subscribe on YouTube! View this post on Instagram. Tags: True Crime. After the long judicial ordeal, which involved two appeal court trials and two Supreme Court decisions , Knox and Sollecito were finally acquitted of murder in Prosecutors had accused Knox and Sollecito of killing Kercher with the help of Guede, a young man from the Ivory Coast who had grown up in Perugia.
Guede, whose DNA was the only one found at the murder scene, was convicted of Kercher's murder in a separate trial in He was sentenced to 16 years in prison after a fast-track process resulted in less jail time. I had been acquitted in a court of law, but sentenced to life by the court of public opinion as, if not a killer, then at least a slut, or a nutcase, or a tabloid celebrity.
Her 15 minutes are over. In freedom, I had become a pariah. Strangers sent me lingerie and bizarre love letters. All over the world, people believed they knew me, a warped assumption that turned me into a monster to some and a saint to others. I felt like I was always standing behind that cardboard cutout, Foxy Knoxy, saying, Hey, back here, the real me! They loved her. I could have chosen to hide out, to change my name, to dye my hair, and hope no one recognized me ever again.
Instead, I decided to embrace the world that had dehumanized me, and all those who turned me into a product. From the moment I was arrested, my name and face and trauma became a source of profit for news organizations, filmmakers, and other artists, scrupulous and unscrupulous. The most intimate details of my life, from my sexual history to my thoughts of death and suicide in prison, were taken from my private diary and leaked to journalists.
Those journalists turned my darkest fears into fodder for hundreds of articles, thousands of blog posts, and millions of hot takes. The hypocrisy and the cruelty are maddening. All of this has led me to dedicate myself, in my written journalism and on my podcast, Labyrinths , to upholding the ethical principles I so often found lacking in the media that covered and consumed me. I believe that journalists must always center people in their own stories, and recognize what is at stake for their subjects.
But even as I put my own voice into the world, the idea of me is still an object for others to consume. Does it refer to anything I did? It refers to the events that resulted from the murder of Meredith Kercher by Rudy Guede.
It refers to the shoddy police work, the flawed forensics, and the confirmation bias and tunnel vision of the Italian authorities whose refusal to admit their mistakes led them to wrongfully convict me, twice. In those four years of wrongful imprisonment and eight years of trial, I had near-zero agency. The erroneous focus on me by the police led to an erroneous focus on me by the press, which shaped how I was presented to the world, and continues to shape how people treat me today.
In prison, I had no control over my public identity, no voice in my own story. This focus on me led many to complain that Meredith Kercher had been forgotten. But whom did they blame for that? Not the Italian authorities. Not the press. The young mother raised suspicions with her behavior after the disappearance of her daughter, Caylee, though prosecutors were unable to conclusively tie her to the toddler's death.
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September 20, Knox moves into her Perugia cottage The cottage, already occupied by Kercher and two Italian women in the upstairs apartment and four male students in the one below , is said to be in a " bad neighborhood ," with drug dealers lingering at the nearby basketball court. By Tim Ott. By Rachel Chang. By Eudie Pak.
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