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- 0:01Speaker 1: Hi, guys, thank you for joining us for Legally Brunette.
- 0:04Speaker 1: I'll be your host today Emily Simpson with Shane. First
- 0:08Speaker 1: of all, we're going to go into for the bulk
- 0:11Speaker 1: of this episode, we're going to go into the Amanda
- 0:13Speaker 1: Knox story. But first I just want to start with
- 0:16Speaker 1: a little update about Brian Coberger because there's been so
- 0:19Speaker 1: many things in the news about him, and every time
- 0:22Speaker 1: I pull up and when I say news, my news
- 0:24Speaker 1: sources Instagram. So when I pull up Instagram, very very
- 0:30Speaker 1: reliable news in my Instagram feed, lots of things about
- 0:34Speaker 1: Brian Coburger. So let's just do a little update. I
- 0:37Speaker 1: like to do updates on some of the things that
- 0:38Speaker 1: we've talked about previously.
- 0:40Speaker 2: He's still in jail, He's still in prison.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Reports indicate that inmates at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution
- 0:46Speaker 1: have found ways to make his life very difficult. According
- 0:50Speaker 1: to a retired homicide detective, his name is Chris mcdonnaugh,
- 0:54Speaker 1: prisoners have been shouting through aravins, banging on doors, and
- 0:58Speaker 1: verbally taunting him. I also so read that they have
- 1:01Speaker 1: done it in a way where it's very organized. They
- 1:04Speaker 1: actually shift. They do it in shifts, so that it's
- 1:08Speaker 1: twenty four to seven, so that he.
- 1:11Speaker 3: Never gets But wouldn't that annoy the other prisoners, Like
- 1:15Speaker 3: if I was, like, I.
- 1:18Speaker 2: Didn't murder four people. I don't know.
- 1:20Speaker 1: That's a good question. I didn't think about that. But
- 1:23Speaker 1: I don't know if yeah, I don't know. I don't
- 1:25Speaker 1: know how they went.
- 1:26Speaker 3: If they're all on the same page and they're all
- 1:28Speaker 3: well to do it, yeah.
- 1:29Speaker 1: Maybe they do it in a way where the people
- 1:31Speaker 1: farthest from him take naps while everyone else is tormenting him,
- 1:35Speaker 1: and then they do it in ships. But anyway, so
- 1:38Speaker 1: they've been banging on doors verbally taunting him, and it
- 1:40Speaker 1: has been described as psychological torture intended to deprive him
- 1:44Speaker 1: of rest and peace of mind. The Idaho Department of
- 1:48Speaker 1: Corrections confirm that Coburger has voice concerns about what he
- 1:51Speaker 1: calls harassment, but emphasize that inmates often communicate with one
- 1:56Speaker 1: another through prison infrastructure. Officials have stress that he were
- 2:00Speaker 1: housed alone in his cell and that staff continued to
- 2:03Speaker 1: enforce safety and order. Basically, they're just like, what do
- 2:08Speaker 1: you What are you gonna do about it? And mates
- 2:10Speaker 1: have found ways to communicate with each other and so
- 2:13Speaker 1: they came up with some organized way to taunt him.
- 2:16Speaker 1: I actually, I don't feel badly no, I mean, are
- 2:18Speaker 1: we supposed to feel badly for Brian Coburger boo?
- 2:21Speaker 3: Who Yeah, that's a form of hierarchy too in these prisons.
- 2:24Speaker 1: This is interesting because after he pleaded or he took
- 2:27Speaker 1: his plea deal, all these new documents have been released
- 2:30Speaker 1: about the case, and one of them was very interesting.
- 2:34Speaker 1: It was that he faced many complaints when he was
- 2:37Speaker 1: at Washington State. So newly released documents and witness statements
- 2:40Speaker 1: revealed that Brian Coberger faced a total of thirteen complaints
- 2:44Speaker 1: while he was at Washington State University by the end
- 2:47Speaker 1: of just his first semester in his PhD program.
- 2:50Speaker 3: What were the comlients.
- 2:51Speaker 1: One student who was divorced were called that Coburger told
- 2:54Speaker 1: her he did not date quote broken women, while another
- 2:57Speaker 1: student who was deaf, was asked by cob whether she
- 3:00Speaker 1: should consider having children given her disability. I guess he's
- 3:03Speaker 1: just out there offending everyone, basically. Several classmates and staff
- 3:09Speaker 1: reported that he frequently stared and vaded personal space and
- 3:12Speaker 1: cornered people into unwanted conversations.
- 3:15Speaker 3: A lot of those women are probably like, holy crap,
- 3:17Speaker 3: he could have he was staring at me, he could
- 3:18Speaker 3: have killed me.
- 3:19Speaker 2: Yeah, I could have been the one on the list.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's really once you I mean, can
- 3:24Speaker 1: you imagine learning later that you just went to school
- 3:26Speaker 1: with or just you know, had conversations or class with
- 3:30Speaker 1: somewhat like a serial killer or.
- 3:31Speaker 3: Something, that twenty years later he killed someone else, like
- 3:35Speaker 3: during that time that semester.
- 3:37Speaker 1: Right, a younger undergraduate working in the criminology department, said
- 3:41Speaker 1: she eventually needed rides home from her boss just to
- 3:44Speaker 1: avoid walking or taking the bus alone in fear of Coburger.
- 3:49Speaker 1: I mean, I guess that's how bad he was bad
- 3:51Speaker 1: he is. Administrators ultimately required first year doctoral students to
- 3:56Speaker 1: attend discrimination training. This is due to the level disruption
- 4:00Speaker 1: his conduct was causing. Isn't that amazing how one person
- 4:04Speaker 1: can be so off putting and so bizarre that they
- 4:08Speaker 1: have to make an entire class take a training course
- 4:13Speaker 1: because of one person's bad behavior. Yeah, but I guess
- 4:17Speaker 1: they can't single I guess the point was they can't
- 4:19Speaker 1: single him out and be like you behaving and properly.
- 4:24Speaker 2: Yeah, it's education for everyone, I guess.
- 4:26Speaker 1: Right. In another article. It claims that Brian Coberger was
- 4:32Speaker 1: a supporter of the death penalty in his PhD program,
- 4:36Speaker 1: which was in a People article addressing right the irony
- 4:41Speaker 1: the irony for other people, not for me. Accounts from
- 4:44Speaker 1: Washington State University also indicate that Brian Coburger frequently clashed
- 4:48Speaker 1: with his peers in the Criminology PhD program, particularly over
- 4:52Speaker 1: topics such such as punishment and justice. While most of
- 4:56Speaker 1: his classmates opposed capital punishment, he was described as a
- 5:00Speaker 1: very outspoken supporter of it. In one classroom exchange documented
- 5:04Speaker 1: by investigators, Coberger pressed his argument and support of the
- 5:08Speaker 1: death penalty by asking a fellow student imagine if her
- 5:11Speaker 1: twelve year old daughter was the victim of rape and murder.
- 5:14Speaker 1: He asked her, would you then support the death penalty
- 5:17Speaker 1: in a case like that? You know, again, it just
- 5:20Speaker 1: goes through the irony of the situation that we're talking
- 5:22Speaker 1: about someone that was clearly so scared of the death penalty.
- 5:25Speaker 3: Yeah, And that was a criminology major, right, I mean,
- 5:28Speaker 3: he's hanging around crime a lot, so.
- 5:32Speaker 1: You know, I would say, and this is just a
- 5:34Speaker 1: personal anecdote here in my younger years, when I was
- 5:37Speaker 1: less wise and less educated, I would say I was
- 5:40Speaker 1: a proponent of the death penalty because I think when
- 5:44Speaker 1: you're younger or not as educated about the system, I
- 5:47Speaker 1: clearly wasn't involved with the Innocent Center at that point
- 5:50Speaker 1: in time. You have a very naive approach to the
- 5:53Speaker 1: justice system, where you think bad people go to jail
- 5:58Speaker 1: and innocent people don't, and guilty.
- 6:01Speaker 2: If you're found guilty, you're guilty.
- 6:03Speaker 1: If you're found guilty, you're guilty. If you're in prison,
- 6:05Speaker 1: you should be there. And if you committed capital crimes,
- 6:08Speaker 1: then you should be punished for such. However, now, and
- 6:13Speaker 1: you and I have had this conversation, because I know
- 6:15Speaker 1: you're not a proponent of the death penalty.
- 6:18Speaker 3: I am not for the death penalty.
- 6:20Speaker 1: You're not well.
- 6:21Speaker 3: I am for the death penalty if it's done correctly.
- 6:26Speaker 3: What would be done, but.
- 6:28Speaker 2: Not killing innocent people?
- 6:31Speaker 3: Right? Yeah, So if it's truly someone guilty, yes, and
- 6:35Speaker 3: guilty of a horrific crime, not just you know, a misdemeanor. Right.
- 6:39Speaker 3: So if but the systems flawed enough where I don't
- 6:43Speaker 3: think it's a.
- 6:43Speaker 1: Good idea, well that's the problem is is the risk And.
- 6:48Speaker 3: You're going to say reward, it's not a reward, but
- 6:51Speaker 3: you know.
- 6:51Speaker 1: The detriment is outweighs the benefit of capital punishment, because
- 6:57Speaker 1: that's exactly just putting one innocent person to death or
- 7:02Speaker 1: crime they did not commit, makes you say which happens.
- 7:05Speaker 1: It happens a lot.
- 7:06Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's irreversible exactly. But life, imprisonment or any
- 7:11Speaker 3: kind of prison sentence is reversible. You can fix that.
- 7:14Speaker 3: I mean, granted, there's gonna be trauma and time loss,
- 7:17Speaker 3: but you can fix that. But you can't fix someone
- 7:19Speaker 3: that's dead.
- 7:19Speaker 1: Exactly, all right. Victims families sue over crime scene photos.
- 7:24Speaker 1: This is an interesting, I guess, not only a legal debate,
- 7:27Speaker 1: but a moral debate. So the families of Madison Mogan
- 7:30Speaker 1: and Ethan Shapin, who we know we're two of the
- 7:32Speaker 1: victims and the Idaho murders, have filed a lawsuit against
- 7:35Speaker 1: the city of Moscow, Idaho, over the public release of
- 7:38Speaker 1: crime scene photographs. Their attorney told News Nation that the
- 7:41Speaker 1: families had begun to find a sense of closure after
- 7:44Speaker 1: Coburger's sentencing, but the publication of graphic images reopened painful wounds.
- 7:50Speaker 1: While acknowledging that some materials may inevitably become public because
- 7:54Speaker 1: of intense interests in the case. The attorney argued that
- 7:57Speaker 1: photos showing the victims or the immediate app aftermath of
- 8:00Speaker 1: the murders should remain private, calling such images an invasion
- 8:04Speaker 1: of privacy. He urged the court to restrict their release
- 8:07Speaker 1: and ask the public not to view them if they
- 8:09Speaker 1: appear online. He was also reminding people to consider how
- 8:13Speaker 1: devastating it would be for the victims' families. I don't
- 8:16Speaker 1: know what is your take on that. I did see
- 8:17Speaker 1: some of the images.
- 8:18Speaker 2: I don't know what are the rules with that.
- 8:20Speaker 3: Like, I'm sure it's the state thing, but like, is
- 8:23Speaker 3: it public? Are they public images? Like the record becomes public?
- 8:26Speaker 3: So did the images? Do they redact them? Like the images? Well,
- 8:30Speaker 3: I don't know what because I remember Kobe Bryant. Yeah,
- 8:33Speaker 3: you know some officers I think took images or pictures
- 8:37Speaker 3: or first responders of some sort.
- 8:39Speaker 1: Right right when it happened, and then released.
- 8:41Speaker 3: It, right. I don't know how it got released, but
- 8:43Speaker 3: it eventually got out there. Yeah, and then Vanessa Bryan
- 8:45Speaker 3: sued and she succeeded.
- 8:47Speaker 1: I think they released them. Wasn't it to TMZ And
- 8:49Speaker 1: I think.
- 8:50Speaker 3: I don't know, but I just know that they crossed
- 8:52Speaker 3: the line with the images, and in court she succeeded.
- 8:56Speaker 3: She prevailed, so obviously there was some wrong doing. I
- 8:59Speaker 3: don't know what the rules are on that. I always
- 9:00Speaker 3: wonder that.
- 9:01Speaker 1: I guess it comes down to it. It's a moral
- 9:02Speaker 1: dilemma or is it a legal dilemma. I don't know.
- 9:05Speaker 3: Is it I would want if it was a tragedy
- 9:08Speaker 3: and that involved my family, I would not want those
- 9:10Speaker 3: images out there, right, So I can totally understand those
- 9:12Speaker 3: images should should kind of be kept. I don't know
- 9:15Speaker 3: how you do it, though, because you release file. You
- 9:17Speaker 3: release a file, right, and then all it takes is
- 9:19Speaker 3: one person just to sneak a photo out there online
- 9:22Speaker 3: and it's over. Yeah.
- 9:24Speaker 1: I don't know if there was a differentiation made between
- 9:26Speaker 1: the images in between the documents that were released, because
- 9:28Speaker 1: clearly after he took the plea deal, all a lot
- 9:31Speaker 1: of the documents and the investigation were released to the public,
- 9:35Speaker 1: and then those images were released as well. Somehow, I
- 9:38Speaker 1: don't know if they were released by It might.
- 9:40Speaker 2: Just be an unfortunate thing.
- 9:42Speaker 3: That's just the way you release the file because public
- 9:44Speaker 3: has the access to it, and it's just unfortunate for
- 9:50Speaker 3: the victim's families. You know, maybe that's just the way
- 9:52Speaker 3: it is. You can't please everyone, you know.
- 10:01Speaker 1: All right, let's move into the bulk of our conversation today,
- 10:05Speaker 1: which revolves around the Amanda Knox case. And I will
- 10:07Speaker 1: tell you this happened in two thousand and seven. I
- 10:09Speaker 1: remember it. It was like it kind of reminds me
- 10:11Speaker 1: of like Menendez, where no, I was very I was
- 10:15Speaker 1: like sixteen.
- 10:16Speaker 2: You were sixteen in two thousand.
- 10:18Speaker 1: So when Menendez happened, I was like sixteen, and I
- 10:21Speaker 1: remember being very intrigued by it and watching it on
- 10:25Speaker 1: the news. And so in two thousand and seven, with
- 10:27Speaker 1: the Amanda Knox story, I was very intrigued by it,
- 10:30Speaker 1: and you know, I watched the news about it. This
- 10:33Speaker 1: is before Instagram, so I guess I was actually watching
- 10:36Speaker 1: the news at this point.
- 10:37Speaker 3: And I and I knew the smary more reliable back
- 10:40Speaker 3: we actually in this case, it wasn't very reliable, right well, I.
- 10:43Speaker 1: Mean, she had such a smear campaign against her. But
- 10:46Speaker 1: we'll get into that in a little bit. But do
- 10:48Speaker 1: you remember the case in two thousand and seven? Do
- 10:50Speaker 1: you remember it being.
- 10:51Speaker 2: In the media.
- 10:51Speaker 3: I remember, and I think you we talked about it
- 10:55Speaker 3: with like together. That's where I learned it from was
- 10:57Speaker 3: I did.
- 10:58Speaker 1: I was working with Shane and two aout.
- 11:00Speaker 3: She was in Italy. This is what my understanding was,
- 11:05Speaker 3: which I think is not correct. She was great in Italy.
- 11:08Speaker 3: She was an exchange student and there was some like
- 11:11Speaker 3: sex crazed party or game or something, and as part
- 11:17Speaker 3: of that, they killed her roommate and it was like
- 11:21Speaker 3: gruesome and their psychos and all that, And that's all
- 11:25Speaker 3: I heard.
- 11:26Speaker 1: Because Shane is an example of how the media can
- 11:31Speaker 1: take a story and present it in a way and
- 11:35Speaker 1: then that is all you take.
- 11:36Speaker 2: And I didn't look into it.
- 11:37Speaker 3: I didn't click, I didn't watch the videos and are
- 11:40Speaker 3: reporting on it. I just see those headlines and that's
- 11:42Speaker 3: what sticks in your head. Say it with the Menendez
- 11:44Speaker 3: it just stuck in my head that they're rich kids
- 11:46Speaker 3: that killed their parents and that's all you think.
- 11:48Speaker 1: Yeah, well that was the takeaway, right exactly. All right, Well,
- 11:50Speaker 1: let's go into the Amanda Knox story and let's actually
- 11:53Speaker 1: break it down and let's get into the facts as
- 11:57Speaker 1: opposed to just the headlines. So in two thousand and seven,
- 12:01Speaker 1: a Manonox. She was a twenty year old student from Seattle,
- 12:03Speaker 1: Washington and she was studying abroad in Perusia, Italy, where
- 12:07Speaker 1: she lived with another roommate named Meredith Kircher. Now Meredith
- 12:11Speaker 1: Kircher was not from the United States. She was from England.
- 12:15Speaker 1: She was a twenty one year old British student.
- 12:17Speaker 3: Did they know each other prior or they were?
- 12:19Speaker 1: They just they were just on this study abroad program.
- 12:22Speaker 2: Okay, So they got it paired up right.
- 12:24Speaker 1: And Philhemina Romanelli was an Italian trainee lawyer who was
- 12:28Speaker 1: also living in the same place, as well as another
- 12:30Speaker 1: Italian student named Laura Mazzetti. So there's four girls living
- 12:34Speaker 1: in this cottage type of home in Perusia, Italy. Amanda
- 12:40Speaker 1: first arrives in Perusia and she talks about how she
- 12:42Speaker 1: just spent the first couple of weeks that she's there
- 12:44Speaker 1: exploring the city and sightseeing and all these types of things.
- 12:47Speaker 1: She also talks about this is a twenty sixteen documentary
- 12:51Speaker 1: that I watched called Amandaox. So a lot of the
- 12:54Speaker 1: information that I talk about, a lot of the knowledge
- 12:56Speaker 1: that I have comes from that documentary. I've watched it
- 13:00Speaker 1: multiple times. I also have watched it multiple times. But
- 13:03Speaker 1: then when I'm watching a documentary, I also google things
- 13:06Speaker 1: constantly because I like to see the accuracy of it
- 13:09Speaker 1: or yeah, well I just like to add more. I
- 13:11Speaker 1: like to figure out things. So anyway, if you're interested,
- 13:15Speaker 1: there's a twenty sixteenth documentary. It's just called Amanda Knox,
- 13:18Speaker 1: and I believe it's either it's on Netflix or Hulu,
- 13:21Speaker 1: but I've watched it multiple times. I think it does
- 13:22Speaker 1: a really good breakdown of this case and presenting it
- 13:26Speaker 1: from all sides.
- 13:27Speaker 3: And it's like it's a like a dramatization.
- 13:30Speaker 1: No, it's it's actual interviews. They interview Amanda, they interview
- 13:34Speaker 1: the boyfriend, they interview the prosecutor, they interview the you know,
- 13:38Speaker 1: the journalists from Daily Mail that was the one that
- 13:41Speaker 1: wrote all the salacious headlines. Like, they present it from
- 13:44Speaker 1: all angles, and I think they do a really good
- 13:46Speaker 1: job of it. So Amanda's in Perusia, She's exploring the city.
- 13:50Speaker 1: She also talks about how she thought this study abroad
- 13:53Speaker 1: program was going to be a scholarly program, but she
- 13:56Speaker 1: realized quickly that it was basically like a class and
- 13:59Speaker 1: that was it. There was much of a workload or
- 14:01Speaker 1: anything that went with it. It was it was more like,
- 14:04Speaker 1: come to hang out in Italy and take some light classes.
- 14:07Speaker 1: So then she realized she has all night right, so
- 14:09Speaker 1: she has all this free time. So she ends up
- 14:11Speaker 1: getting a job at a bar in Perugia called Le Chic,
- 14:15Speaker 1: which was owned by a man named Patrick La Mumba.
- 14:19Speaker 1: And his name is very important because he's going to
- 14:20Speaker 1: come up later. But so far we have key players.
- 14:23Speaker 1: We have Amanda Knox, we have Meredith Kercher, who's the roommate.
- 14:27Speaker 1: We have Patrick La Mumba, who owns the bar where
- 14:30Speaker 1: she worked, where she worked. And then one night, after
- 14:33Speaker 1: she's been in Perusia for a little while, she goes
- 14:35Speaker 1: to a classical music concert. I think it was for
- 14:38Speaker 1: university students, and she meets her boyfriend who's named Rafaela
- 14:45Speaker 1: and I believe his last name is Soli Chito. He's Italian,
- 14:49Speaker 1: but we'll just call him Rafaeli because I don't want
- 14:51Speaker 1: to try to use my Italian accent. It's not very
- 14:54Speaker 1: good because you don't have one, because I don't have one. Anyway,
- 14:57Speaker 1: the two of them meet on October twenty fifth of
- 15:00Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. They meet at a concert. They
- 15:03Speaker 1: end up going out that night I believe after the concert.
- 15:06Speaker 1: I think she goes home with him that night and
- 15:08Speaker 1: they have dinner and sex, and they'd begin again slow.
- 15:11Speaker 1: She takes it slow. She's really into taking things slow.
- 15:14Speaker 1: But anyway, this is I think it's really important to
- 15:16Speaker 1: note that this is October twenty fifth because everyone refers
- 15:22Speaker 1: to them as like this boyfriend and girlfriend couple that
- 15:26Speaker 1: you know allegedly or perhaps committed this murder. But they
- 15:30Speaker 1: only knew each other like five days before it.
- 15:33Speaker 3: Five days a week, yes, so it takes much longer
- 15:38Speaker 3: to create like a sex crazed murderactly five.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Days, right, So anyway, they they meet, they instantly fall
- 15:47Speaker 1: in love, become boyfriend and girlfriend, and they're inseparable. So
- 15:51Speaker 1: let's move on into the actual Meredith Kercher murder. So
- 15:56Speaker 1: this is October twenty fifth when they meet at this
- 15:58Speaker 1: concert on the evening of Thursday, November one, two thousand
- 16:02Speaker 1: and seven. Amanda in Rafaelle were at Rafaelle's apartment that
- 16:06Speaker 1: evening and they decided to download Amanda's all time favorite movie,
- 16:09Speaker 1: which is the movie Ama Lee. I think that's how
- 16:12Speaker 1: you say it. It's a French movie. I actually like it.
- 16:14Speaker 1: I've seen it multiple times, it's very good. So at
- 16:17Speaker 1: around eight thirty pm, they're watching this movie. And then
- 16:20Speaker 1: around eight thirty pm, Amanda checks her phone and she
- 16:23Speaker 1: finds a text from Patrick Lamumba. Remember we talked about boss,
- 16:26Speaker 1: That is the boss that owns the bar. He texts
- 16:30Speaker 1: her telling her that he expected the night to be
- 16:32Speaker 1: very slow and that she didn't need to come into
- 16:34Speaker 1: the bar. Amanda texts back at eight thirty eight pm,
- 16:38Speaker 1: and she says she says it in Italian, but it
- 16:41Speaker 1: translates into see you later. Have a good evening. Now,
- 16:45Speaker 1: it's really important to remember that. She says, see you later.
- 16:50Speaker 1: Then she turns off her phone. I guess this is
- 16:52Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven. So do people turn do
- 16:54Speaker 1: you turn phones off and on? In two thousand and seven?
- 16:57Speaker 2: Do you remember I was a flip phone?
- 16:59Speaker 1: When did the I phone come out?
- 17:01Speaker 3: Two thousand and seven? It was a slow start and
- 17:03Speaker 3: not everyone ran out and grabbed him.
- 17:05Speaker 1: Okay, so this is November of two thousand and seven.
- 17:07Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's pretty much pre smartphones. Okay, you know,
- 17:11Speaker 3: for the sake of for purposes of this conversation, it's
- 17:13Speaker 3: pretty smartphone, right.
- 17:14Speaker 1: Okay, So she turned off her phone. And she turned
- 17:17Speaker 1: off her phone just in case.
- 17:18Speaker 3: I guess people did turn off phones at night time. Yeah,
- 17:20Speaker 3: I don't know, that's turn off my phone.
- 17:22Speaker 1: Did you turn off your so yeah? Yeah, we didn't
- 17:26Speaker 1: leave them on like you do like an iPhone. Right.
- 17:28Speaker 2: No, I mean maybe if you plugged it in left
- 17:30Speaker 2: all night.
- 17:30Speaker 3: But I think you did kind of naturally, just like
- 17:33Speaker 3: like you turn off your computer or something, right, you
- 17:35Speaker 3: turn off.
- 17:36Speaker 1: I guess because pre iPhones, we weren't completely we weren't addicted,
- 17:39Speaker 1: we weren't addicted to our phones. They really were just
- 17:42Speaker 1: for the purpose of communicating of a phone call, right,
- 17:45Speaker 1: So I guess that's white people.
- 17:46Speaker 3: And now it's like, you know, you have to have
- 17:49Speaker 3: it twenty four to seven, right.
- 17:51Speaker 1: So she turns off her phone because she says she
- 17:54Speaker 1: doesn't want him to text back and change his mind
- 17:56Speaker 1: about working, So she turns off her phone.
- 17:58Speaker 3: That's like covering your eyes and if you don't see
- 18:00Speaker 3: the other person, they don't exists, come in. It doesn't
- 18:04Speaker 3: change any Well, I don't.
- 18:05Speaker 1: Know, because if the phone's turned off, does the text
- 18:07Speaker 1: not go through? I don't remember flip phones.
- 18:09Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 18:10Speaker 3: There was a lot more work to text too, with
- 18:12Speaker 3: only nine digits.
- 18:13Speaker 1: You know what I was thinking, though, I feel like
- 18:15Speaker 1: sometimes I would like to trade in my iPhone just
- 18:17Speaker 1: for a flip phone.
- 18:18Speaker 3: I'd love to trade in your eye.
- 18:19Speaker 1: I know you would, because I feel like we just
- 18:21Speaker 1: need to go back to simpler times.
- 18:23Speaker 3: All right.
- 18:25Speaker 1: Anyway, Anyway, so Rafaelli turns off his phone as well
- 18:29Speaker 1: so that they wouldn't be interrupted when the movie ended.
- 18:31Speaker 1: They ate fish for dinner, they dealt with a leaky
- 18:34Speaker 1: kitchen sink, and they smoked a joint. That's that's the
- 18:38Speaker 1: thing they did. There was a lot of smoking marijuana
- 18:40Speaker 1: and a lot of sex over these six days that
- 18:43Speaker 1: they're together. And then they apparently allegedly so they claim,
- 18:48Speaker 1: go to sleep. Now, this is the evening of Thursday, November.
- 18:50Speaker 2: First, and I'm sorry, who's home Dan, his or hers?
- 18:54Speaker 1: No, they're at his house, his apartment, which clearly is
- 18:57Speaker 1: nearby where she was staying with these other girls. I
- 18:59Speaker 1: think this is a very small town kind of and
- 19:04Speaker 1: so they're at his apartment, just the two of them alone.
- 19:07Speaker 1: They're watching a movie, they have dinner, they have sex,
- 19:10Speaker 1: they smoke pot, and then allegedly from what the investigation
- 19:15Speaker 1: has turned up, that the estimated window of the time
- 19:18Speaker 1: period in which Meredith Kircher was murdered that evening was
- 19:21Speaker 1: sometime between nine thirty PM and eleven thirty PM. So
- 19:25Speaker 1: that evening Meredith is murdered in they're in her and
- 19:30Speaker 1: Amanda and Philomena and the other girl, the four girls
- 19:34Speaker 1: that live together in their cottage. So the Meredith is
- 19:37Speaker 1: murdered that evening in Meredith's apartment that she shares with Amanda,
- 19:40Speaker 1: Amanda is in Raphael's apartment. So Amanda getting it on.
- 19:47Speaker 1: So Amanda wakes up the next day, so now we're
- 19:51Speaker 1: at Friday, November two, and claims that around ten am
- 19:55Speaker 1: she goes back alone to the cottage that she shares
- 19:59Speaker 1: with the other girls. She found the front door wide open. Now,
- 20:02Speaker 1: let me ask you a question. If you go home,
- 20:04Speaker 1: back to your own space, your apartment, your house, whatever,
- 20:07Speaker 1: and the door is wide open, do you find that
- 20:10Speaker 1: weird or do you just go in?
- 20:12Speaker 3: Well, I would be a little suspicious, okay, So I
- 20:15Speaker 3: wouldn't necessarily be scared, but I'd be a little cautious
- 20:18Speaker 3: and wonder why. And I guess I would also just think, okay,
- 20:20Speaker 3: one of my roommates left it open. Idia, that's true.
- 20:23Speaker 1: So she goes home in the morning and the front
- 20:25Speaker 1: door is wide open, and I guess you could just say, okay, well,
- 20:30Speaker 1: three other people, so maybe somebody left it open. That
- 20:33Speaker 1: alone is not startling, right. So then she goes to
- 20:36Speaker 1: take a shower. So while she's in the bathroom taking
- 20:39Speaker 1: a shower, before she gets in the shower, she looks
- 20:40Speaker 1: in the sink. She looks at the counter, I guess,
- 20:42Speaker 1: and there's some blood drops. But again, she's not really
- 20:46Speaker 1: alarmed by it. Okay, And I don't know. I put
- 20:50Speaker 1: myself in her position in a house, in a cottage.
- 20:53Speaker 1: I see some blood drops. Again, she's living with other women.
- 20:56Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe you cut your fingernail. Maybe it
- 20:59Speaker 1: has some to you know.
- 21:01Speaker 3: Well, if you come home right now and the door's open,
- 21:04Speaker 3: the door's wide open.
- 21:05Speaker 2: Forget the dog situation, the doors.
- 21:09Speaker 3: A runaway dog, and you come home and doors open,
- 21:14Speaker 3: your first thought would be someone left the door open,
- 21:16Speaker 3: like someone that we live with.
- 21:18Speaker 1: Well, we live in a gated community, so my first
- 21:20Speaker 1: thought would be one of these kids left a door open.
- 21:23Speaker 3: Well, okay, but if we didn't, you'd probably still think
- 21:25Speaker 3: the same thing. Yeah, and then you go upstairs to
- 21:27Speaker 3: take a shower or a bath, and then you see
- 21:30Speaker 3: some drops of blood.
- 21:31Speaker 1: What would you think then, nothing, I would think, there
- 21:34Speaker 1: you go. I would think someone in this house cut
- 21:36Speaker 1: their finger out the door and ran out the door
- 21:38Speaker 1: and left the door open.
- 21:40Speaker 2: All right, So so far not really reason to be.
- 21:42Speaker 1: Alarmed, right, So then I think she also sees that
- 21:45Speaker 1: there's a little bit of blood on a shower mat.
- 21:46Speaker 1: It looks like a footprint or something. I guess. Still,
- 21:48Speaker 1: she's not really concerned at this point. Yeah, but it's
- 21:52Speaker 1: not like a full one and it's just like a
- 21:53Speaker 1: little bit of blood. I guess again, I think, and
- 21:57Speaker 1: these women and you have to these roommates share bathrooms. Yeah,
- 22:00Speaker 1: it's not like each person has their own individual bathroom.
- 22:02Speaker 1: So again, I guess you could write it off as
- 22:05Speaker 1: like someone got out small kinds.
- 22:06Speaker 3: You said earlier. She's just as signed to these roommates,
- 22:08Speaker 3: so she doesn't really know them. It's not like she
- 22:10Speaker 3: knows their behavior and thinks, wait, why is someone bleeding
- 22:12Speaker 3: and left the door open?
- 22:13Speaker 1: Right, these are four strangers that have all come together, right.
- 22:16Speaker 3: So then she takes a shower.
- 22:17Speaker 1: So then she takes a shower, she gets out of
- 22:19Speaker 1: the shower, and then she's drying her hair with the
- 22:21Speaker 1: blow dryer. And when she's drying her hair with the
- 22:22Speaker 1: blow dryer, she looks over and she notices that there's
- 22:25Speaker 1: feces in the toilet.
- 22:26Speaker 3: Okay, so now someone didn't flush the toilet.
- 22:28Speaker 1: So someone didn't flush the toilet. That is what alarms
- 22:30Speaker 1: her that there's something wrong.
- 22:31Speaker 3: That would upset you.
- 22:33Speaker 1: Yeah, I would be so gross out by that. But
- 22:35Speaker 1: I mean, I have boys, so I feel like that's
- 22:37Speaker 1: normal because they don't always flush the.
- 22:39Speaker 2: Toilet or get it in the toilet or get it.
- 22:42Speaker 1: That's true too. But the fact that she's these are
- 22:45Speaker 1: all young women that live in an apartment, that's not
- 22:48Speaker 1: normal behavior. So when she sees that, she becomes immediately
- 22:50Speaker 1: alarmed and thinks, okay, now something is off. No, here's okay.
- 22:56Speaker 1: So when I told you that when I watched documentaries
- 22:58Speaker 1: that I like to google.
- 22:59Speaker 2: Things, google feces.
- 23:00Speaker 1: I googled can you find DNA and feces?
- 23:03Speaker 3: I imagine you can imagine you can find a lot
- 23:05Speaker 3: of things.
- 23:06Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you can find a lot of things, but
- 23:08Speaker 1: you you can find DNA because well not only just blood,
- 23:12Speaker 1: but it said that you can actually get a large
- 23:14Speaker 1: sample of DNA because of the the lining of the
- 23:17Speaker 1: stomach and testines.
- 23:18Speaker 3: Well, if you can get it from your mouth, why
- 23:20Speaker 3: couldn't you get it from your butt.
- 23:22Speaker 1: Well, I'm just saying I didn't know if you could.
- 23:26Speaker 1: You could test feces for DNA, I don't know, because
- 23:28Speaker 1: it's waste. I don't know.
- 23:31Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 23:31Speaker 1: But apparently you can because you can get cells skin
- 23:34Speaker 1: cells from the inside of your intestines on the feces
- 23:38Speaker 1: and then you know, as it comes.
- 23:40Speaker 3: Out it probably I have a vision, yes, okay.
- 23:43Speaker 1: I just wanted you to see what I was, what
- 23:45Speaker 1: I was working with.
- 23:45Speaker 3: Anyway, all the forensic scientists are like, no, you tested,
- 23:48Speaker 3: you test it.
- 23:49Speaker 1: I'm not testing it all right, I don't know about
- 23:53Speaker 1: that part. But so she's concerned now because there's FECs
- 23:56Speaker 1: in the toilet, So she leaves. She goes back to
- 23:58Speaker 1: Raphael's apartment and she tells him there's something weird going on.
- 24:01Speaker 2: Okay, so now she's alarmed.
- 24:03Speaker 1: Now she's alarmed. So the two of them go back
- 24:06Speaker 1: together to the cottage. And when they go back together,
- 24:09Speaker 1: they go in, the door is still open. There's still
- 24:11Speaker 1: the blood spatter, there's the feces in the toilet. But
- 24:14Speaker 1: this time Rafael notices that there is a broken window
- 24:17Speaker 1: that it looks that looks like a rocksman thrown through it.
- 24:20Speaker 1: I think there's a rock there. And Meredith's door is
- 24:24Speaker 1: closed but it's locked and they can't get into her room.
- 24:26Speaker 1: And they said that was odd, like she normally doesn't
- 24:29Speaker 1: do that. So at some point they call the postal police.
- 24:33Speaker 1: And I know you think this is funny, but apparently,
- 24:36Speaker 1: apparently in Italy there are two types of police. There's
- 24:38Speaker 1: the postal police and the elite police. The postal police
- 24:42Speaker 1: deal I don't know why, the postal police, but apparently
- 24:49Speaker 1: they deal with tech crimes and then the elite police
- 24:53Speaker 1: deal with like actual crime. So the postal police police
- 24:58Speaker 1: the elite police. So the police, the postal police come
- 25:02Speaker 1: and they come to the cottage and at some point
- 25:05Speaker 1: I don't know where, I don't know the exact details.
- 25:08Speaker 1: But also the postal police were aware that Meredith had
- 25:12Speaker 1: two cell phones and those were found earlier by like
- 25:15Speaker 1: an older woman in her garden.
- 25:17Speaker 2: And those are tied to Meredith.
- 25:18Speaker 1: They're tied to Meredith two phones, two.
- 25:21Speaker 3: Two cell phones, two cell phones in seven in seven Okay,
- 25:25Speaker 3: well not everyone even had a phone, Okay.
- 25:27Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't know why there were two, but
- 25:29Speaker 1: there were two. So then once they arrive at this cottage,
- 25:32Speaker 1: the postal police are the ones that bust down the
- 25:37Speaker 1: door because it's locked. And then that is when they
- 25:39Speaker 1: find Meredith's dead body on the floor. She's laying on
- 25:42Speaker 1: the floor, she's covered by her duvet and there it's
- 25:47Speaker 1: a bloody scene. There's blood on the walls, there's blood
- 25:50Speaker 1: on the floor, there's fingerprints, there's just it's a crime scene.
- 25:55Speaker 3: So now with her whole body covered. I remember were
- 25:59Speaker 3: watching this. I thought I heard something that the body
- 26:01Speaker 3: was covered, and some investigator was saying that females tend
- 26:05Speaker 3: to cover their victims. Yeah, that was which I didn't
- 26:07Speaker 3: like it because he made it like that's one hundred
- 26:10Speaker 3: percent the way it works. Yeah, I know, all female
- 26:12Speaker 3: murderers cover their victims and male murders don't.
- 26:15Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, well, this this Italian prosecutor,
- 26:20Speaker 1: he had a lot of wild theories that he just believed,
- 26:23Speaker 1: and then I feel like he came up with the
- 26:25Speaker 1: theory and then tried to find evidence to back his theory.
- 26:29Speaker 1: Instead of looking at the evidence and coming up with
- 26:31Speaker 1: the theory. It's like he made the evidence fit yeah.
- 26:34Speaker 3: Perpetrator or whatever.
- 26:35Speaker 1: Right, But you're right, he did say that he was
- 26:38Speaker 1: very fixated on the fact that he said most.
- 26:41Speaker 3: Because I didn't watch the documentary, but you were watching it,
- 26:43Speaker 3: and he was.
- 26:45Speaker 2: He was adamant.
- 26:46Speaker 3: Yeah, he made it like like that, that's that, therefore
- 26:48Speaker 3: it's a female murder.
- 26:50Speaker 1: Right, So she was covered by a duvet, you could
- 26:52Speaker 1: see her feet weren't covered. But he was very adamant
- 26:55Speaker 1: that it had to have been a female murderer because
- 26:57Speaker 1: he was claiming that statistically. I don't even know if
- 27:00Speaker 1: this is true. If he just made this up. I
- 27:02Speaker 1: don't even think that statistic is true. But basically, I
- 27:05Speaker 1: never heard anything that female murders cover the body or
- 27:09Speaker 1: something like that.
- 27:10Speaker 3: But I've never heard anything where female murders tend to
- 27:13Speaker 3: do this and male murders. I've never even heard a
- 27:15Speaker 3: difference like that.
- 27:16Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, that's that's something I
- 27:19Speaker 1: didn't google, but I google a lot. So if anybody
- 27:22Speaker 1: has any insight into that, please damn me. So, Meredith's
- 27:32Speaker 1: body was found lying on the floor partially covered with
- 27:34Speaker 1: a blood soaked duvet. She had suffered two knife wounds
- 27:37Speaker 1: to her neck and she was partially undressed. Blood was
- 27:41Speaker 1: visible on the floor, walls, and around her neck and head.
- 27:44Speaker 1: The room showed evidence of a very violent struggle. There
- 27:47Speaker 1: was overturned furniture, things were in disarray, and her belongings
- 27:50Speaker 1: were scattered about. Her cell phones and a few personal
- 27:52Speaker 1: items had been taken. And again we talked about how
- 27:55Speaker 1: the police ended up coming finding her two cell phones
- 27:59Speaker 1: that were and because of an elderly lady I believe
- 28:01Speaker 1: found them in her garden or something. So obviously someone
- 28:04Speaker 1: was in the house, took some of her personal things
- 28:06Speaker 1: and then discarded them later outside of the cottage. So
- 28:10Speaker 1: the homicide division shows up. Once the body's discovered, forensic
- 28:14Speaker 1: officers took over and everyone was moved out of the
- 28:17Speaker 1: house in order to preserve evidence. Officers began photographing and
- 28:21Speaker 1: sealing off the rooms. This is when Raphael and Amanda
- 28:26Speaker 1: are now not inside the cottage, but they are over
- 28:29Speaker 1: standing outside the cottage, And this is where I assume.
- 28:33Speaker 1: At this point, there's now a word that there's a
- 28:35Speaker 1: homicide in this little small Italian town, and the media
- 28:39Speaker 1: has arrived and they're video taping or recording the police
- 28:44Speaker 1: going in and out of the house, because you can
- 28:46Speaker 1: there's I've seen that footage. And they're also taking video
- 28:50Speaker 1: of Amanda and Rafael standing off to the side, and
- 28:53Speaker 1: this is where they're hugging and kissing. This ends Ida
- 28:59Speaker 1: see that part problem and it wasn't her.
- 29:01Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, keep going. I did see that part, so
- 29:03Speaker 3: I have an opinion on it. Go ahead.
- 29:04Speaker 1: Well, I'm just saying this is what they captured on
- 29:08Speaker 1: on in a recording of them consoling each other or
- 29:11Speaker 1: hugging or kissing or making out or whatever you want
- 29:13Speaker 1: to call. It was problematic for her because that was
- 29:18Speaker 1: initially people just from the offset were saying that it
- 29:22Speaker 1: was she that she well, it was inappropriate. Even if
- 29:27Speaker 1: if it wasn't like she wasn't, you know, be carrying
- 29:32Speaker 1: or or she wasn't emotional. She didn't know this person, no,
- 29:36Speaker 1: you know, and that was another thing.
- 29:37Speaker 3: She might have been scared or freaked out, but not
- 29:39Speaker 3: like sad.
- 29:41Speaker 1: Yeah, as far as what I can tell or what
- 29:44Speaker 1: I've read and what I've watched, she and Meredith did
- 29:48Speaker 1: not know each other before they went there. They didn't
- 29:50Speaker 1: they knew each other briefly, and the time that they
- 29:53Speaker 1: lived there, I think they hung out a couple of times.
- 29:55Speaker 1: I don't think they had an amazing friendship by any
- 29:59Speaker 1: stretch of the imagine, nor were they really contentious with
- 30:03Speaker 1: each other either. I think it was probably more cohabitating. Yeah,
- 30:07Speaker 1: and so anyway, what they capture is her and RAPHAELI
- 30:12Speaker 1: off to the side. And then this is when I
- 30:15Speaker 1: think this whole media storm against Amanda because they a
- 30:19Speaker 1: lot of people thought that the way she was acting
- 30:21Speaker 1: was inappropriate in that particular scenario of what's going on.
- 30:27Speaker 1: So the locked bedroom door and the way the window
- 30:29Speaker 1: had been broken, this is when the detectives first enter
- 30:33Speaker 1: the room and they're they're they're collecting evidence. They noticed
- 30:37Speaker 1: that the window had been broken and raised immediate suspicions.
- 30:41Speaker 1: I still don't really understand this.
- 30:43Speaker 3: I understand that the dead body didn't raise immediate suspicions.
- 30:48Speaker 1: Well, the window raised suspicions because they thought it looked
- 30:50Speaker 1: like it was staged. They didn't think that it was
- 30:54Speaker 1: a legitimate burglary of someone outside of the house.
- 31:00Speaker 3: The alarmed them as that suspicious behavior. It's not literally
- 31:05Speaker 3: a broken window that someone broke into to kill her, like,
- 31:08Speaker 3: there's something different about it, right.
- 31:09Speaker 1: They felt as if the broken window because the glass
- 31:11Speaker 1: was laying on top, so the room was in disarray
- 31:14Speaker 1: some you know, there had been a struggle and there's
- 31:15Speaker 1: stuff everywhere, and then the glasses on top of that,
- 31:19Speaker 1: so that would indicate that the window was broken after
- 31:21Speaker 1: the struggle. So their initial thought process was, it looks stage.
- 31:26Speaker 1: It doesn't look like it was an actual burglary. It
- 31:29Speaker 1: looks like someone killing.
- 31:31Speaker 3: They'll find the glass on the inside versus the outside,
- 31:34Speaker 3: And they determined a lot that.
- 31:35Speaker 1: Way, right, And that's it's very smart if you're an
- 31:38Speaker 1: investigator to look at things like that. The rest of
- 31:41Speaker 1: the house showed little disturbance, valuables weren't taken, and so
- 31:45Speaker 1: the scene didn't resemble a typical burglary. So that's what
- 31:47Speaker 1: we were talking about. So I think immediately this prosecutor
- 31:51Speaker 1: had in his mind that it was staged. Amanda's making
- 31:54Speaker 1: out with her boyfriend outside of the house. So I
- 31:57Speaker 1: think the theory that they he comes up with immediately
- 32:01Speaker 1: is this is off, she's acting weird. She has to
- 32:04Speaker 1: be involved in some way. So November two, this is
- 32:07Speaker 1: the day the body's found at the scene. Knox gave
- 32:09Speaker 1: a basic witness statement recounting her experience from that day.
- 32:13Speaker 1: Then we move on to November third through the fourth,
- 32:16Speaker 1: so this is when they're investigating. Knox was brought in
- 32:18Speaker 1: multiple times for routine questioning as a witness. It's important
- 32:21Speaker 1: to note that Amanda was not fluent in Italian. So
- 32:24Speaker 1: let's remember that she is there in Perugia, studying abroad
- 32:28Speaker 1: and learning Italian, but she does not speak Italian fluently.
- 32:32Speaker 1: So she's being brought in and she's being questioned, and
- 32:35Speaker 1: so far she's only being I don't know what you
- 32:37Speaker 1: want to call it, labeled as a witness, not a
- 32:41Speaker 1: person of interest at this part. At this point, she
- 32:43Speaker 1: admits to smoking marijuana the night of the murder, which
- 32:46Speaker 1: she had originally lied about. So this is another problem
- 32:49Speaker 1: with Amanda is inconsistent statements m H So November fifth
- 32:55Speaker 1: to six, this is when they give her an overnight interrogation.
- 33:00Speaker 1: So on the night of November fifth, Amanda Knox went
- 33:02Speaker 1: voluntarily to the police station. I don't know if this
- 33:05Speaker 1: is the night where she was doing the cartwheels, but
- 33:07Speaker 1: this is another problem that rubbed people the wrong way.
- 33:12Speaker 1: Was that when she was at the police station and
- 33:14Speaker 1: she was being interrogated or investigated or questioned, there was
- 33:19Speaker 1: a point in time where I think she was doing
- 33:21Speaker 1: yoga poses. I think there was another point in time
- 33:23Speaker 1: where she was doing cartwheels. It's just one more thing
- 33:27Speaker 1: to add to her behavior is off. She's not acting
- 33:31Speaker 1: like someone who just had a roommate that was murdered.
- 33:34Speaker 3: Well, again, I've said this before, how does someone act I.
- 33:38Speaker 1: Don't know, you know, I don't know. You know. That's
- 33:40Speaker 1: a good question too, because the whole time I was,
- 33:42Speaker 1: you know, going through this documentary and I was reading,
- 33:45Speaker 1: and I was going through all these things about her,
- 33:46Speaker 1: and a big, huge part of why I think this
- 33:50Speaker 1: Italian prosecutor was so hell bent on making her a
- 33:53Speaker 1: guilty party was because he did not like the way
- 33:56Speaker 1: that she acted. And it reminded me of when we
- 33:59Speaker 1: talked to about the Idaho murders and how they didn't
- 34:02Speaker 1: call the police until the next day at noon, even
- 34:04Speaker 1: though one of the surviving roommates saw an intruder with
- 34:07Speaker 1: a mask on in the house.
- 34:08Speaker 3: And I think I said the same thing, which is like, well,
- 34:10Speaker 3: how do you know how someone acts when they're frightened
- 34:13Speaker 3: and scared or confused or half awake and tired, and
- 34:17Speaker 3: then someone walks in and it's a apartment where it's
- 34:21Speaker 3: you know, lots of roommates and lots of activity. No
- 34:23Speaker 3: one knows.
- 34:24Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's a very good question. I
- 34:27Speaker 1: think it's very easy for someone to say, oh, my gosh,
- 34:29Speaker 1: your roommate's just been murdered and you found the body.
- 34:32Speaker 1: You should behave like this, or the roommates in the
- 34:35Speaker 1: Idaho case, where it's like you have roommates that are
- 34:37Speaker 1: dead in your house and you heard noises and there
- 34:40Speaker 1: were suspicious things going on, and you saw an intruder,
- 34:43Speaker 1: but you didn't even call police until noon the next day.
- 34:47Speaker 1: But it's very easy from an outside perspective to look
- 34:50Speaker 1: in and say, this is what you should have done.
- 34:52Speaker 1: Why didn't you do that? You're not behaving like you should.
- 34:55Speaker 1: But you're right, no one knows what you would behave like.
- 34:57Speaker 1: You don't know what you would actually do if you
- 35:00Speaker 1: were put in that situation. No, I don't we get
- 35:02Speaker 1: to this overnight interrogation. So on the night of November fifth,
- 35:06Speaker 1: a man and Knox went voluntarily to the police station.
- 35:09Speaker 1: She started being questioned starting around ten thirty pm and
- 35:13Speaker 1: continued past one am all the way into November sixth
- 35:16Speaker 1: Knox was not This is important to remember too. Not
- 35:19Speaker 1: only does she not speak Italian, she was not given
- 35:22Speaker 1: a lawyer. She's also young, she's in a foreign country,
- 35:25Speaker 1: she doesn't have parents there, she doesn't have an advocate,
- 35:28Speaker 1: she has no.
- 35:28Speaker 2: One male interrogators.
- 35:31Speaker 1: And you're right, it's probably a bunch.
- 35:33Speaker 3: Of intimidating because no one's being sensitive to her in
- 35:36Speaker 3: any way.
- 35:38Speaker 1: So they ended up confiscating her phone and saw that
- 35:42Speaker 1: she had texted her boss the night of the murders.
- 35:44Speaker 1: And we talked about this earlier when she was at
- 35:47Speaker 1: when she was at Rafael's apartment and her boss, Patrick
- 35:50Speaker 1: Lumumba texted her and she replied, see you later. So
- 35:55Speaker 1: they find that text on her phone. And apparently even
- 36:00Speaker 1: in English, when we say see you later, when we
- 36:02Speaker 1: say see you later, it's a very vague meaning.
- 36:04Speaker 3: Right, it doesn't mean well later. There is no exact
- 36:08Speaker 3: time for later, right. It could be next week.
- 36:11Speaker 1: It could be never. Yeah, I mean I've said see
- 36:14Speaker 1: you later. Lots of times of people hoping that I
- 36:16Speaker 1: never see.
- 36:17Speaker 2: See them later. They may also want to see you
- 36:20Speaker 2: later exactly.
- 36:22Speaker 1: So when the Italian police find this text on her
- 36:26Speaker 1: phone that says see you later, they start interrogating her,
- 36:32Speaker 1: saying taking it literally, because I guess an Italian, there
- 36:36Speaker 1: is no vague interpretation. It has a very strict literal,
- 36:40Speaker 1: meaning that she is going there so that there are
- 36:44Speaker 1: solid plans to see him later. So they start interrogating
- 36:48Speaker 1: her about Patrick and when she's going to see him,
- 36:50Speaker 1: and what time and all these things that they're supposedly
- 36:53Speaker 1: going to meet. Because they took this text very literally,
- 36:56Speaker 1: they accuse her of being a liar, saying she must
- 36:58Speaker 1: have met up with Patrick at some point she said
- 37:00Speaker 1: such a thing in a text. She later claims she
- 37:03Speaker 1: was subjected to hours and hours of pressure, repeated questions,
- 37:06Speaker 1: and intimidation, including being slapped in the head, until she
- 37:09Speaker 1: finally broke down. So what happens during this interrogation is
- 37:15Speaker 1: she actually names Patrick as the murderer, her boss, her boss,
- 37:22Speaker 1: and she gives this account of being there, of hearing
- 37:26Speaker 1: Meredith's scream, of Patrick being involved, of seeing Patrick in
- 37:30Speaker 1: the house, and she signs a confession. She actually signs
- 37:33Speaker 1: two confessions, but the two confessions that she signs were
- 37:36Speaker 1: written by the Italian investigators.
- 37:39Speaker 3: Has the phony like he pretends he knows how male
- 37:43Speaker 3: and females operate.
- 37:45Speaker 1: Yes, So they type out a statement and she signs
- 37:51Speaker 1: it at one forty five in the morning. Then there
- 37:53Speaker 1: is another statement that she signs at five forty five
- 37:57Speaker 1: in the morning, confessing to her and that she was there,
- 38:01Speaker 1: that the guy named Patrick la Mumba was involved.
- 38:04Speaker 2: Like more supposed facts.
- 38:07Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if you want to more.
- 38:08Speaker 3: Confession, but no, I know, I know, may or may
- 38:11Speaker 3: not be, but more confession.
- 38:12Speaker 1: Yeah, just saying that like she heard screams and she
- 38:16Speaker 1: had to cover her ears.
- 38:17Speaker 2: And she saw five in the morning.
- 38:20Speaker 3: I can't even buy the if I if you woke
- 38:22Speaker 3: me up at five in the morning and said buy
- 38:24Speaker 3: this on Amazon, I probably buy the wrong thing.
- 38:26Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
- 38:28Speaker 3: So that's shady right there.
- 38:31Speaker 1: Right, So, as we talked about the two confessions, she
- 38:33Speaker 1: signs at one and then another one at five forty five.
- 38:36Speaker 1: Then later that day Knox gave another handwritten note saying
- 38:40Speaker 1: that she was confused and that her previous statements were
- 38:43Speaker 1: the result of pressure and exhaustion. So then later that day,
- 38:46Speaker 1: after she signs these two confessions, basically implicating Patrick la
- 38:50Speaker 1: Mumba and saying that she was part of you know,
- 38:54Speaker 1: that she was there and that she heard the screaming
- 38:57Speaker 1: and things like that. She then goes back and cants
- 39:00Speaker 1: and writes this long handwritten note saying that she was
- 39:03Speaker 1: confused and that her previous statements were false because they
- 39:07Speaker 1: were the result of pressure and exhaustion, also the result
- 39:10Speaker 1: of probably not understanding what's going on, not understanding Italian,
- 39:13Speaker 1: and not having a representative and not having an attorney.
- 39:15Speaker 1: And note that's allful.
- 39:18Speaker 3: How can you have any kind of interrogation when there's
- 39:20Speaker 3: a huge language barrier.
- 39:22Speaker 1: So let me just read a little bit of her
- 39:24Speaker 1: handwritten confession because I found it. In regards to this
- 39:27Speaker 1: confession that I made last night, I want to make
- 39:29Speaker 1: clear that I'm very doubtful of the verity of my
- 39:31Speaker 1: statements because they were made under the pressure of stress, shock,
- 39:34Speaker 1: and extreme exhaustion. Not only was I told I would
- 39:37Speaker 1: be arrested and put in jail for thirty years, but
- 39:40Speaker 1: I was also hit in the head when I didn't
- 39:41Speaker 1: remember facts correctly. I understand that the police are under
- 39:44Speaker 1: a lot of stress, so I understand the treatment I
- 39:46Speaker 1: received here. She's trying to be nice. She's like, understand,
- 39:49Speaker 1: I understand why they hit me in my head, because
- 39:52Speaker 1: they're under stress too. However, it was under this pressure
- 39:56Speaker 1: and after many hours of confusion, that my mind came
- 39:59Speaker 1: up with these ant In my mind, I saw Patrick
- 40:02Speaker 1: and flashes of blurred images. I saw him near the
- 40:04Speaker 1: basketball court. I saw him at my front door. I
- 40:07Speaker 1: saw myself cowering in the kitchen with my hands over
- 40:09Speaker 1: my ears because in my head I could hear Meredith screaming.
- 40:12Speaker 1: But I've said this many times so as to make
- 40:14Speaker 1: myself clear. These things seem unreal to me, like a dream,
- 40:19Speaker 1: and I am unsure if they are real things that
- 40:21Speaker 1: happened or just dreams. My head has made up to
- 40:23Speaker 1: try to answer the questions in my head and the
- 40:26Speaker 1: questions that I am being asked. But the truth is,
- 40:29Speaker 1: I am unsure about the truth. And here's why. And
- 40:31Speaker 1: then she goes into more. But I just wanted to
- 40:33Speaker 1: read that part because I think it's clear that she's
- 40:36Speaker 1: so distorted and stressed and overwhelmed that she doesn't even
- 40:42Speaker 1: understand at this point, like they're interrogating her all night long.
- 40:46Speaker 1: She's do you know when you don't have sleep.
- 40:49Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, terrific. You shouldn't be able to sign
- 40:52Speaker 3: confessions like pass a certain hour.
- 40:54Speaker 1: I agree. You know. I can tell you one time
- 40:56Speaker 1: I've been the most tired in my life, and it's
- 40:57Speaker 1: when I was traveling in Europe and we took like
- 40:59Speaker 1: an all night train from somewhere to Rome, and I
- 41:03Speaker 1: hadn't slept in probably forty eight hours, and I'm telling you,
- 41:06Speaker 1: I was delirious. I wouldn't remember any conversation I had.
- 41:10Speaker 1: You probably could have robbed me and I probably could
- 41:12Speaker 1: have been sex trafficked, and I couldn't function. And when
- 41:16Speaker 1: people are in that kind of state where you don't
- 41:18Speaker 1: have sleep, you go into a dread lake stage.
- 41:22Speaker 3: Yeah you can. You can start to see images, right
- 41:25Speaker 3: you hallucinate.
- 41:26Speaker 2: Hallucinate, that's the word exactly.
- 41:28Speaker 1: So after this confession, Amanda was formally arrested, along with
- 41:32Speaker 1: Raphael and along with Patrick La Mumba, who she names
- 41:35Speaker 1: in her two original confessions. Amanda didn't know she was
- 41:39Speaker 1: charged with murder until after her arraignment three days after
- 41:42Speaker 1: entering prison, so when she's arrested, she doesn't even understand
- 41:45Speaker 1: that she's being arrested. She doesn't understand what's going on.
- 41:48Speaker 3: No, she might just think she's going to go and
- 41:51Speaker 3: identify or fill out some forms.
- 41:53Speaker 2: By the way, I found the answer.
- 41:54Speaker 3: Those two confessions that she signed in the middle of
- 41:57Speaker 3: the night were written in Italian. They were supposedly explained
- 42:00Speaker 3: to her in English, but they were typed up in Italian,
- 42:04Speaker 3: which is like ridiculous.
- 42:06Speaker 1: Yeah, and then she signs it and she doesn't speak Italian, No,
- 42:09Speaker 1: but she signs off on.
- 42:10Speaker 3: She signs it in English.
- 42:12Speaker 1: They were charged with murder, sexual assault in staging a
- 42:14Speaker 1: break into Mislead investigators. Patrick was incarcerated for two weeks
- 42:20Speaker 1: before the police confirmed that he had as airtight alibi
- 42:23Speaker 1: and then he was released. So they arrest Amanda and
- 42:28Speaker 1: Raphaela and Patrick. And the prosecutor in this case is
- 42:33Speaker 1: hell bent on this being a If you remember the headlines,
- 42:39Speaker 1: they were so salacious. It had to do with this
- 42:41Speaker 1: being like this sex.
- 42:43Speaker 3: Drug was she found to have?
- 42:47Speaker 1: Well she was found I think well she was. I
- 42:50Speaker 1: think all she had, almost like a T shirt in
- 42:51Speaker 1: or underwear, was sexually assaulted and murdered. So this prosecutor
- 42:59Speaker 1: is just bit on making this story into this orgy
- 43:03Speaker 1: sex game. Situation that Amanda and her boyfriend were involved in,
- 43:07Speaker 1: and now that she named Patrick, it's this game of
- 43:10Speaker 1: the three of them and they all did this to
- 43:13Speaker 1: Meredith and they're all arrested. Then Patrick ends up having
- 43:16Speaker 1: this airtight alibi, so he's let go. So now he's
- 43:21Speaker 1: got a he's still there, so he's in the clear.
- 43:25Speaker 1: But they have what they considered to be evidence against Amanda,
- 43:30Speaker 1: DNA evidence. And so what happened was on November sixth,
- 43:34Speaker 1: they the investigators, they search Rafael's apartment because they're looking
- 43:40Speaker 1: for the murder weapon. So they go through his kitchen
- 43:42Speaker 1: and they look at all these different knives and then
- 43:45Speaker 1: they find a knife that they think looks like a
- 43:47Speaker 1: knife that could have been the murder.
- 43:48Speaker 2: Weapon, which is knife.
- 43:50Speaker 1: So they're just like, oh, that knife looks like it
- 43:53Speaker 1: could be the knife that killed her. So they take
- 43:55Speaker 1: that knife. But then you know what they do with
- 43:57Speaker 1: that knife. They take that knife and they put it
- 43:59Speaker 1: in a bag with all the other evidence.
- 44:01Speaker 2: They mix it with the blood, they mix it.
- 44:02Speaker 1: With the other evidence that was collected in this murder.
- 44:06Speaker 1: So all the evidence collected is all together in a bag.
- 44:11Speaker 1: Shar sharing DNA. Also, if you watch when you can
- 44:15Speaker 1: see the footage of the forensic team going in and
- 44:18Speaker 1: out of her of the cottage. No one has the
- 44:21Speaker 1: booties on, none of the investigators have has matt suits on.
- 44:26Speaker 1: You know, they're not separating the evidence behavior after a murder, right,
- 44:31Speaker 1: So there's a lot of problems they did with this investigation.
- 44:35Speaker 1: So they go through Raphael's apartment on November sixth, they
- 44:39Speaker 1: find this knife, they test this knife, and what they
- 44:42Speaker 1: say is they found Amanda Knox's DNA on the handle
- 44:45Speaker 1: of the knife, which, okay, that would make sense because
- 44:48Speaker 1: she said that they cooked a lot in his apartment.
- 44:51Speaker 1: But they also claim that they found a very very
- 44:54Speaker 1: very extremely small trace of MEREDITHS DNA on the blade
- 44:58Speaker 1: of the knife.
- 44:59Speaker 3: Well, yeah, but you just said it was all mixed, right,
- 45:02Speaker 3: because it went from like the kitchen that went and
- 45:04Speaker 3: got mixed up with other DNA, right, that's ridiculous. This
- 45:08Speaker 3: Italian work is not very good. Well, the elite police
- 45:13Speaker 3: police need some training.
- 45:15Speaker 1: Maybe they should have the postal police to it.
- 45:16Speaker 3: Maybe maybe the post police are better.
- 45:26Speaker 1: So prosecutors claimed that a mixture of Amanda's DNA and
- 45:29Speaker 1: MEREDITHS DNA were found in the bathroom sink and on
- 45:32Speaker 1: a bidet. However, the DNA sample on the knife was
- 45:35Speaker 1: very low quality and possibly mixed with other people's DNA,
- 45:38Speaker 1: and contamination was likely because multiple people had access to
- 45:41Speaker 1: the bathroom. So then on November twentieth of two thousand
- 45:46Speaker 1: and seven, someone else is finally arrested. Now, his name
- 45:49Speaker 1: is Rudy. I think his last name it's Geddy. Maybe
- 45:52Speaker 1: he was arrested in Germany. His DNA is found all
- 45:56Speaker 1: over Merediths room, everywhere, on her on the walls, every everywhere.
- 46:00Speaker 1: So and he also was a known burglar.
- 46:04Speaker 3: How did they find this guy?
- 46:05Speaker 1: Because they did the DNA testing and he's in the system,
- 46:07Speaker 1: and he's in the system, I assume, and so they
- 46:09Speaker 1: found him. His name's Rudy. It's g U E d E,
- 46:12Speaker 1: but I think it's Gwetty or Getty something like that.
- 46:15Speaker 1: But anyway, his DNA is all over the room. He's
- 46:18Speaker 1: also a known criminal, like he's a burglar. He's burglarized, okay,
- 46:22Speaker 1: And apparently he also has been arrested previously for some
- 46:26Speaker 1: type of sexual assault, so they arrest him. He also
- 46:32Speaker 1: confessed on a Skype interview because after they found his
- 46:35Speaker 1: DNA all over her room. They had a friend of his,
- 46:38Speaker 1: They wired a friend of his, had the friend skype
- 46:42Speaker 1: him to Skype. Is pre zoom skype Skype. We're talking
- 46:47Speaker 1: about flip phones and skyping people. They have him skype
- 46:51Speaker 1: him because he fled the Knight of Meritiths murder. He
- 46:53Speaker 1: flees Italy and he goes to Germany. So this friend
- 46:57Speaker 1: skypes him. He confesses to the friend that he was there,
- 47:02Speaker 1: that he murdered Meredith, and that Amanda was not present,
- 47:06Speaker 1: and the police have this entire conversation because they're listening
- 47:09Speaker 1: to the entire thing. So they extradite him back to Italy.
- 47:14Speaker 1: They arrest him for murder, but they also keep the
- 47:19Speaker 1: murder charges against Amanda and Raphaeli because they are still
- 47:23Speaker 1: stuck on this whole orgy sex game.
- 47:28Speaker 2: Like it sounds like it's a.
- 47:32Speaker 3: You know, the world is watching because it's it's international, right,
- 47:37Speaker 3: because you have Italy in the United States, right, And
- 47:39Speaker 3: so maybe they didn't want to back down and make
- 47:42Speaker 3: it like oops, sorry, America, it's not her, it was
- 47:46Speaker 3: one of ours, and so they're just stuck on it.
- 47:48Speaker 3: Being a man in ox.
- 47:49Speaker 1: Well, I think the prosecutor was so stuck on it
- 47:52Speaker 1: being a mand in ox. And the other problem is
- 47:54Speaker 1: is that the prosecution went to Meredith Kircher's family and
- 47:58Speaker 1: said it is absolutely Amanda Knox. And when they told
- 48:03Speaker 1: her family that they cannot they can't psychologically break from that. Yeah,
- 48:08Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? Yea, even though the
- 48:09Speaker 1: evidence is clear in another direction.
- 48:12Speaker 3: Probably needed someone to point the finger at, right, because
- 48:16Speaker 3: they were just so confused. So when that was given
- 48:19Speaker 3: to him, then they're probably they're running with it, right,
- 48:21Speaker 3: because then it makes him feel like they have us,
- 48:23Speaker 3: you know, they've solved the crime. Right.
- 48:26Speaker 1: So although Rudy was arrested and had previously said that
- 48:28Speaker 1: Amanda had nothing to do with this this crime, she
- 48:31Speaker 1: wasn't there, he now helped authorities by making a statement
- 48:34Speaker 1: placing Amanda and Rafaeli at the murder scene. He claimed
- 48:37Speaker 1: it was a fight over money between Amanda and Meredith.
- 48:40Speaker 1: So basically, when Rudy isn't talking to police and he's
- 48:43Speaker 1: talking to his friend over Skype, he says Amanda wasn't there,
- 48:46Speaker 1: she had nothing to do with it. I did it
- 48:48Speaker 1: because he doesn't know the police are listening. So he's honest, right,
- 48:51Speaker 1: and he's just talking to his buddy. But then after
- 48:54Speaker 1: he's arrested, he then he starts implicating her, because clearly
- 48:58Speaker 1: that's what after your arrests said. You're like, oh wait,
- 49:01Speaker 1: it wasn't me, It's not my DNA everywhere, it is her.
- 49:05Speaker 3: She was there Skype?
- 49:06Speaker 2: What Skype?
- 49:07Speaker 1: What Skype?
- 49:08Speaker 2: Let me.
- 49:09Speaker 1: Let's talk about the media in this case, because, as
- 49:11Speaker 1: we talked about previously, the media frenzy over Amanda Knox
- 49:15Speaker 1: was insane. In this twenty sixteen documentary I watched, there
- 49:19Speaker 1: is a journalist for The Daily Mail name Nick Pisa,
- 49:21Speaker 1: and he drives me absolutely nuts. He is so excited
- 49:28Speaker 1: to talk about all the cover pages he got because
- 49:31Speaker 1: he was reporting on Amanda Knox, and he talks about
- 49:34Speaker 1: journalistic integrity. However, all of his headlines are foxy Knoxy
- 49:40Speaker 1: and sex crazy, drug fueled orgies. And he's not presenting
- 49:47Speaker 1: this case.
- 49:48Speaker 3: He's not researching.
- 49:50Speaker 1: No, I mean, is he writing articles about the the
- 49:54Speaker 1: problem in the DNA analysis? Is he writing articles about
- 49:58Speaker 1: Rudy being there in his DNA everywhere and Rudy's confession?
- 50:02Speaker 1: Is he writing articles about how she's being interrogated in
- 50:07Speaker 1: a language she doesn't understand? No, you know what he's doing.
- 50:10Speaker 1: He's getting on her MySpace page and he's finding.
- 50:13Speaker 3: Now we have flip phones, yes, Skype and my Space.
- 50:18Speaker 1: So he gets on her MySpace page and there is
- 50:21Speaker 1: a photo of her. So before she went to Perusia,
- 50:24Speaker 1: I guess her and her sister went to Germany and
- 50:26Speaker 1: they went to this World War two museum and there's
- 50:30Speaker 1: a picture of her in her MySpace page, like holding
- 50:32Speaker 1: this machine gun and like laughing.
- 50:35Speaker 3: Well there's the murder weapon.
- 50:36Speaker 1: So they take that photo and they blast that photo
- 50:40Speaker 1: everywhere like she's like, she's a maniac, she's a murderer,
- 50:45Speaker 1: she's a crazy psycho.
- 50:47Speaker 3: Look at her this World War two machine gun.
- 50:51Speaker 1: Then they find a picture of Rafaeltium, probably on his
- 50:55Speaker 1: MySpace page, of him dressed up for Halloween with a hat.
- 51:01Speaker 1: So these tabloid, these these media photos are of her
- 51:06Speaker 1: with a machine gun and him with a machete, and
- 51:08Speaker 1: it's all about they're these crazy, crazed, you know, murderers.
- 51:13Speaker 3: Did they searched their Aol accounts?
- 51:15Speaker 1: I don't know, probably, but they called her Foxy Noxy
- 51:17Speaker 1: because that's what she that's what she called herself on MySpace,
- 51:21Speaker 1: Foxy Noxi, Foxy Noxy and then that became her moniker.
- 51:26Speaker 1: So it was like everything was like Foxy Noxy and
- 51:29Speaker 1: all these images of her and it was a media storm.
- 51:32Speaker 1: Now you tell me how this girl can get a
- 51:34Speaker 1: fair trial when the media has already condemned her.
- 51:37Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and you know what. The other interesting thing
- 51:39Speaker 3: is Rudy and she signed confessions supposedly.
- 51:42Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and the thing about Rudy is he's clearly
- 51:47Speaker 1: he's guilty. He's guilty. There was no.
- 51:51Speaker 2: Media, No, he's one of them.
- 51:53Speaker 1: No media surrounding was the Italian Well no, he he
- 51:58Speaker 1: was from somewhere else European, European I think, and he
- 52:01Speaker 1: was living in Italy and then he fled to Germany.
- 52:03Speaker 1: He was kind of a drifter. It seemed to me
- 52:05Speaker 1: like just you know, but there was no media coverage
- 52:10Speaker 1: when he was arrested, and there was no there was hardly.
- 52:12Speaker 2: Eight I never heard of him, not that I researched.
- 52:14Speaker 1: But any media coverage when he was on trial and
- 52:17Speaker 1: he was found guilty of the murder. Nothing, No one
- 52:19Speaker 1: was interesting.
- 52:20Speaker 3: He was selling guilty of the murder.
- 52:22Speaker 1: Yes, well so was she initially.
- 52:25Speaker 3: Oh wow, yeah that and see I never heard that, right,
- 52:28Speaker 3: I'm proving your theory.
- 52:29Speaker 1: Right, all right, So we get to Rudy's trial. Rudy
- 52:32Speaker 1: goes on trial. He's convicted trial. They have separate trials.
- 52:36Speaker 3: So does he speak Italian?
- 52:38Speaker 1: I don't. I think he does speak Italian. So he
- 52:41Speaker 1: goes on this fast track trial. I don't know what
- 52:43Speaker 1: that means. This must be an Italian thing. But this
- 52:45Speaker 1: trial allowed for a shorter process before only a judge,
- 52:49Speaker 1: no a speedy trial, no live witnesses, and a one
- 52:53Speaker 1: third reduction in sentence if you're convicted. So his fast
- 52:56Speaker 1: track trial begins in Perugia. This is in two thousand
- 52:58Speaker 1: and eight. He's convicted of murder, sexual assault, and theft,
- 53:03Speaker 1: and he sentenced to thirty years in prison, but it's
- 53:05Speaker 1: later reduced to sixteen years because of he because he
- 53:08Speaker 1: did the fast track. When I think fast track, I
- 53:12Speaker 1: think when I drive on.
- 53:12Speaker 2: The That's funny.
- 53:14Speaker 3: It's like, if you choose for a speedy trial, you get.
- 53:17Speaker 1: Like half this sentence. So anyway, he only so he
- 53:20Speaker 1: so he sexually assaults and murders this young girl, and
- 53:23Speaker 1: he goes to prison for sixteen years.
- 53:25Speaker 3: Would you want to do that? Would he be like, Oh,
- 53:27Speaker 3: I have a quick, that's weird.
- 53:28Speaker 1: Well guilty, I would take a fast track.
- 53:31Speaker 3: Yeah, well you would try to also, you know, fight
- 53:34Speaker 3: it and not be guilty. Found guilty, Okay.
- 53:36Speaker 1: So then Amanda and Rafaelle go on trial, and this
- 53:38Speaker 1: is in two thousand and eight. This is after Rudy
- 53:40Speaker 1: goes on trial and Rudy's found guilty. The preliminary hearings
- 53:44Speaker 1: examine whether there is enough evidence to go to trial.
- 53:46Speaker 1: Amanda and Rafaelle maintain that they were alone in their
- 53:49Speaker 1: apartment at the time of the murder. So then they
- 53:52Speaker 1: go on trial in Perugia in January through December of
- 53:58Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. So this first trial takes almost
- 54:01Speaker 1: a year. And wow, okay the chief prosecutor actually and
- 54:05Speaker 1: let me say one more thing. While she is in prison,
- 54:08Speaker 1: they mess with her because they tell her that she
- 54:10Speaker 1: has AIDS and she didn't. Do you believe that?
- 54:15Speaker 3: Wow? They're like, we just took a blood sample and
- 54:18Speaker 3: you have AIDS.
- 54:18Speaker 1: Yes. So then she's completely freaked out, thinks she's going
- 54:22Speaker 1: to die, and she writes this journal talking about how
- 54:26Speaker 1: she has AIDS and then she writes down all of
- 54:29Speaker 1: her all the guys that she slept with and whether
- 54:32Speaker 1: she's a condom or not, and I think there was
- 54:34Speaker 1: like seven men. She's twenty something. She had sex apparently
- 54:37Speaker 1: with seven guys. Then they get a hold of this
- 54:40Speaker 1: journal that she hand wrote in prison, and that reporter
- 54:44Speaker 1: I was talking about, Nick Peas that gets a hold
- 54:45Speaker 1: of it and he wants to he publishes it.
- 54:49Speaker 3: Just the part that I slept with all these people
- 54:51Speaker 3: kind of yeah.
- 54:52Speaker 1: So then they then again it just feeds into that
- 54:55Speaker 1: media frenzy of her being this you know.
- 54:57Speaker 2: Crazy sexy, well foxy.
- 55:00Speaker 1: Nazi, foxy noxie. So the chief prosecutor called about twenty
- 55:05Speaker 1: witnesses to discuss it.
- 55:06Speaker 3: As this is early in the internet days too. Imagine
- 55:09Speaker 3: if like it was today, if Foxy NAXI would have
- 55:12Speaker 3: like a whole trail of stuff for them right to find.
- 55:15Speaker 1: All right, So the prosecution calls like twenty witnesses. Then
- 55:19Speaker 1: the defense comes on and the defense began presenting its case,
- 55:22Speaker 1: with Amanda taking the stand as the primary witness. Rafaeli
- 55:25Speaker 1: did not testify. His attorneys decided it was strategically better
- 55:29Speaker 1: to keep attention on Knox, so Knox appeared confident while
- 55:33Speaker 1: testifying and carefully addressed questions about her unusual actions such
- 55:37Speaker 1: as showering after discovering the blood in her shared bathroom,
- 55:40Speaker 1: and why she initially accused Patrick La Mumba. She described
- 55:44Speaker 1: being slapped twice during her interrogation, demonstrating the strikes for
- 55:48Speaker 1: the court. She explained, quote, they were yelling at me
- 55:52Speaker 1: and I only wanted to leave and I was thinking
- 55:54Speaker 1: about my mom, who was arriving. Soon after she finished,
- 55:57Speaker 1: her lawyer praised her performance, saying she had done very well.
- 56:00Speaker 1: When the trial resumed after a two month summer recess,
- 56:03Speaker 1: a series of expert witnesses debated the forensic evidence. The
- 56:07Speaker 1: defense challenged the prosecution's DNA findings, arguing that they were
- 56:10Speaker 1: unreliable obviously because of all the contamination, and requested that
- 56:15Speaker 1: the judge authorize an independent review of the DNA. The judge, however,
- 56:20Speaker 1: denied the request, and both Amanda and Rafaela were found
- 56:25Speaker 1: guilty of murder on December fourth, two thousand and nine.
- 56:28Speaker 1: Amanda is sentenced to twenty six years in prison and
- 56:31Speaker 1: Rafaelle is sentenced to twenty five years in prison.
- 56:34Speaker 3: And so she was in prison for two years. I
- 56:37Speaker 3: think four, Well, no, two, you're right, I'm sorry, but
- 56:41Speaker 3: seven ninety two years.
- 56:42Speaker 1: Yes, sorry, I went to law school. I don't do
- 56:45Speaker 1: math very well. Then in twenty eleven comes around their
- 56:49Speaker 1: first chance at an appeal. So Amanda and Rafaelle appeal
- 56:53Speaker 1: to the Court of Appeals of Perugia and their convictions
- 56:56Speaker 1: are overturned on appeal. This is in twenty eleven. The
- 57:00Speaker 1: court ruled that the DNA evidence was unreliable, that Amanda
- 57:04Speaker 1: was coerced into making statements and those were inadmissible, and
- 57:08Speaker 1: both were acquitted and released from prison in twenty eleven.
- 57:11Speaker 3: Okay, so she's oh, so she was in there, So
- 57:14Speaker 3: she was in there for four years.
- 57:16Speaker 2: Yeah, you were correct in that sense.
- 57:17Speaker 1: Yeah, I knew there was four years. So she actually
- 57:20Speaker 1: spent four years in prison in Italy. So she was
- 57:22Speaker 1: arrested in two thousand and seven, put into prison, and
- 57:25Speaker 1: then she got out on appeal in twenty eleven. So
- 57:28Speaker 1: she spent four years in an Italian prison. Then Amanda
- 57:31Speaker 1: returns to the United States and Rafaela resumed his life
- 57:35Speaker 1: in Italy.
- 57:36Speaker 2: Then they broke up, well, they they broke.
- 57:39Speaker 1: Up when they were in prison. There's some letters going
- 57:41Speaker 1: back and forth between the two eleven and they're not together.
- 57:43Speaker 1: I mean they only dated five days or six days.
- 57:46Speaker 1: I mean, we keep acting like this is this big,
- 57:49Speaker 1: like like long term Roman. You know what? This is
- 57:54Speaker 1: what I keep thinking about Raphael. That guy wishes he
- 57:57Speaker 1: never went to that music concert that night. Can you imagine, right,
- 58:01Speaker 1: this guy just went to a concert, saw a cute
- 58:03Speaker 1: blonde American girl, thought she was pretty, took her home,
- 58:06Speaker 1: made her dinner, had sex with her. The next thing,
- 58:08Speaker 1: he ends up in prison in Italy for four years.
- 58:11Speaker 1: So the Italian prosecutors appealed to the Supreme Court, and
- 58:14Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, the Supreme Court orders a retrial in Florence.
- 58:19Speaker 2: She's now in the States.
- 58:20Speaker 1: Though, right, yes, so she's home, but now she has
- 58:24Speaker 1: to be tried again.
- 58:25Speaker 3: And I assume that we extraditeer or whatever.
- 58:29Speaker 1: No, she doesn't. They actually allow her to stay in
- 58:31Speaker 1: the United States and her lawyer represents her for this.
- 58:35Speaker 3: Well that's a big suspense. Yeah, it's like at homegoing
- 58:38Speaker 3: what happened today?
- 58:39Speaker 2: I know about me?
- 58:40Speaker 1: If you watch the twenty sixteen documentary, it shows her
- 58:44Speaker 1: at home waiting for kidding the verdict. Can you imagine? No?
- 58:51Speaker 2: Right, then I would be planning my escape.
- 58:53Speaker 1: Yeah, where are you going?
- 58:54Speaker 3: I don't know, but I have a backup plan. Yeah,
- 58:57Speaker 3: Raphael's got overturned too, right, Yeah.
- 59:00Speaker 1: He goes home to the United States, he goes on
- 59:01Speaker 1: with his life in Italy. Then the prosecution appeals that decision,
- 59:05Speaker 1: so now it goes to the Supreme Court. So now
- 59:08Speaker 1: there is a retrial that they don't have to be at,
- 59:11Speaker 1: so they're not there in person. So the prosecution presented
- 59:15Speaker 1: some of the same evidence but relied on a different
- 59:17Speaker 1: interpretation than In January of twenty fourteen, Amanda and Rafaelle
- 59:21Speaker 1: were again found guilty of meritith murder. Amanda, who was
- 59:26Speaker 1: in the United States at the time, was sentenced to
- 59:28Speaker 1: twenty eight and a half years in prison, this time,
- 59:30Speaker 1: with Rafaela receiving twenty five. So now they've been reconvicted
- 59:35Speaker 1: on this new trial.
- 59:37Speaker 3: Unreal.
- 59:38Speaker 1: So March twenty seventh of twenty fifteen, they're finally acquitted
- 59:44Speaker 1: because they appeal that verdict. So Amanda and Rafaela appeal
- 59:50Speaker 1: the verdict and it goes to the Italian Supreme Court.
- 59:53Speaker 1: The Italian Supreme Court definitively ecquits them, ending a nearly
- 59:59Speaker 1: decade long legal battle in Italy. The court stated that
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: the evidence was insufficient and unreliable, and they confirmed that
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: the only person definitively involved in Meritith murder was Rudy Getty.
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: Wow can you imagine going through that how psychologically?
- 1:00:17Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean I she probably never finished school
- 1:00:21Speaker 3: or anything, but she did.
- 1:00:22Speaker 2: Oh wow, good for her home.
- 1:00:24Speaker 1: She went home and she finished school.
- 1:00:26Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, stopped going to concerts, probably doesn't go to
- 1:00:30Speaker 3: doesn't have a roommate.
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, she ended up getting married. She has a husband,
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: she has two children.
- 1:00:36Speaker 3: Now that's good. You know, if there's any any prison
- 1:00:39Speaker 3: to be in, I guess it would be an Italian prison.
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: Why do you think because you get cheese and pasta.
- 1:00:43Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Alfredo.
- 1:00:45Speaker 3: It's like, we have the best cells, we have top quality,
- 1:00:49Speaker 3: we have three hundred thread count.
- 1:00:51Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true, but I don't know.
- 1:00:53Speaker 3: Well I take my chances in Italy, all right.
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: So, finally an Italian court upheld Amanda Knox's twenty twenty
- 1:00:59Speaker 1: four slander conviction for falsely accusing Patrick la Mumba. So
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: even though she was finally, finally, finally freed of the
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: murder charges and the sexual assault, she still has the
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: slander charges against her, and I guess you were saying
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: we were talking about this earlier where.
- 1:01:16Speaker 3: Yeah explained the slander charges from who.
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: Well, when she named Patrick la Mumba in her confession,
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: he sued her for slander and she was convicted of that.
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: But you were saying here in the US, when when
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: you're being interrogated, like you wouldn't have been hell old.
- 1:01:31Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 1:01:32Speaker 3: There's something called quasi immunity. So it's like, you know,
- 1:01:35Speaker 3: if I'm suing someone and then we go to court
- 1:01:37Speaker 3: and I'm at the podium and then I say he's lying,
- 1:01:41Speaker 3: he's a liar, he stole. That could be defamation if
- 1:01:47Speaker 3: if it's proven to not be true. But in a
- 1:01:49Speaker 3: court you have protection because otherwise no one would make
- 1:01:52Speaker 3: any allegations in courtroom.
- 1:01:53Speaker 1: Right. Well, and that's what we talked about earlier.
- 1:01:55Speaker 3: I don't know if her interrogation or excuse me, her
- 1:01:58Speaker 3: confession written confession, and that should be protected otherwise she
- 1:02:01Speaker 3: would be fearful to anyone would be fearful to put
- 1:02:04Speaker 3: anything in writing because it could be used against him.
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: Right And that's the problem because she did name Patrick
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: after she But here's the thing. If the court finds
- 1:02:12Speaker 1: that she was coerced, you know what I mean, and
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: then the slander charge should be thrown out as well
- 1:02:19Speaker 1: because it doesn't right.
- 1:02:22Speaker 2: Right as a result of But anyway, that was upheld.
- 1:02:24Speaker 1: I guess at this point she's like, fine, you want
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: to slap me with a slander charge, take it out
- 1:02:29Speaker 1: in prison for four years and I've been going through
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: this for ten. So in twenty eighteen, she married Christopher Robinson,
- 1:02:36Speaker 1: an American author. Together they host a podcast called Labyrinths,
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: and they have two young children, a daughter and a son.
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: She also continues to speak out. I do know, you know,
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: I work a lot with the Edoson Center. She's actually
- 1:02:47Speaker 1: a board member at the Edison Center. She is an
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: advocate for the wrongly convicted. I've also seen her speak.
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: I think it was maybe I'm trying to figure out
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: when it was, but I think it was back in
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: maybe twenty eighteen.
- 1:02:58Speaker 3: I might be earlier than that.
- 1:03:00Speaker 1: I went to LA and I watched her speak. It
- 1:03:02Speaker 1: was really interesting. She wrote a memoir called Waiting to
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: be Heard back in twenty thirteen, which details her time
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: in Italy, the trial, and her perspective on being wrongfully accused.
- 1:03:14Speaker 1: Despite her public presence. Knox has also sought privacy and
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: strongly advocates for victims' rights and media accountability. She continues
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: to reflect on her experience to help others understand the
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: consequences of wrongful accusations. And now, currently, Amanda Knox has
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: teamed up with none other than Monica Lewinsky. Oh yeah,
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: and they have teamed up to make a new Hulu
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: limited series called The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, which
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: I am very excited to watch. It is not a
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: documentary style, it is a reenactment like one like The
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: menindaz One. So Amanda Knox and Monica Lewinsky have collaborated
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: together on a new limited series about Knox's life entitled
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox. It is now streaming
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: on Hulu and Disney Plus. And Lewinsky appeared on Good
- 1:04:01Speaker 1: Morning America. They're on a media tour now. I keep
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: seeing that every time I get onto my newsfeed, which
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: is Instagram. But they're doing their press now because of
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: this new Hulu series that's coming out, and they described
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: why their partnership made sense. Lewinsky noted that both women
- 1:04:17Speaker 1: were publicly vilified at a very young age and became
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: distorted versions of themselves in the press. Knox added that
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: while their situations were different, they shared the same experience
- 1:04:27Speaker 1: of being interrogated and misrepresented on a world stage. Both
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: Knox and Lewinsky emphasize that the show acknowledges Meredith's kircher.
- 1:04:36Speaker 1: Knox stress the importance of ensuring Meredith was portrayed as
- 1:04:39Speaker 1: a real person, not just a character in the story,
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: noting that her presence continues to shape her life even today. Actually,
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: and I thought this was interesting too, because I didn't
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: know if Amanda and Rafael were in touch currently. I
- 1:04:53Speaker 1: didn't know if they were friendly. I didn't know if
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: they hated each other. I didn't know what their standing
- 1:04:59Speaker 1: was as of today. But it said that Raphael made
- 1:05:02Speaker 1: a public appearance at the premiere in New York City,
- 1:05:05Speaker 1: and that was just a couple of days ago. So
- 1:05:09Speaker 1: and then also I learned that in twenty twenty two,
- 1:05:12Speaker 1: Amanda Knox and Rafael reunited together in Italy when she
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: was there traveling with her family, and they met in
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: this small Italian town called Goobio. I don't know if
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: I'm saying that right, it's Gubbio. Because they had planned
- 1:05:27Speaker 1: to take a day trip there together the day that
- 1:05:30Speaker 1: Meredith was murdered. So clearly they're on good terms. And
- 1:05:36Speaker 1: he claims that when they're together, they don't talk about
- 1:05:39Speaker 1: any of this situation. They don't talk about prison, they
- 1:05:42Speaker 1: don't talk about being convicted, they don't talk about.
- 1:05:45Speaker 3: At some point they did and now they've moved on right.
- 1:05:48Speaker 1: All right, anyway, thank you guys so much for listening
- 1:05:50Speaker 1: to the Amanda Knox story. Again. You can watch the
- 1:05:52Speaker 1: new Hulu series The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox coming up,
- 1:05:56Speaker 1: and I think, well, once we watch it, we'll probably
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: talk about Amandaox a little bit again, just to add
- 1:06:02Speaker 1: if there's any new insights in that as well. This
- 1:06:05Speaker 1: is I found this story truly intriguing. I hope you
- 1:06:09Speaker 1: guys do as well. Also, one other thing that's very interesting,
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: Shane and I will be interviewing Amanda Knox in person
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: coming up soon. So when you're listening to this or
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: you're watching the Hulu series or the documentary that I
- 1:06:25Speaker 1: talked about from twenty sixteen, what questions do you have
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: for Amanda DM me, because I would love to know. Obviously,
- 1:06:31Speaker 1: we have questions that will come up with but also
- 1:06:33Speaker 1: we want to know your insights. What would you like
- 1:06:35Speaker 1: to ask her that we can ask her that day.
- 1:06:37Speaker 1: So anyway, thank you guys so much for listening to
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: Legally Brunette. Thank you, thank you,