Independent Research

For my independent research I decided  to watch a documentary on Amanda Knox. For those of you who don't know Amanda and her boyfriend Raffaelle Sollecito were accused of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy. She was convicted guilty for the 2007 murder and spent almost 4 years in Italian prison before she was given a retrial in 2011 and again in 2015. She was acquitted both times. The first time I even heard about this event was after I watched the lifetime movie based on this story.

 In the documentary that I watched they interviewed Amanda Knox, her then boyfriend Raffaelle Sollecito, a freelance journalist that covered the story for The Daily Note named Nick Pisa and the leading prosecutor Guiliano Mignini. the main thing I was looking for while watching this documentary was to hear her side of the story and also the prosecutor's to see why he thought they were guilty. The whole story is really long and both sides point out very valid arguments but a helpful piece of evidence was presented by Guiliano Mignini. In the beginning of the documentary he states that he thinks she is guilty because of the way she was acting during the whole thing. She was very calm, she was overheard talking to her boyfriend about the sex they had the night after the murder was discovered and she was doing cartwheels and stretches at the police station. He also says that from experience he has noticed that only female murderers are common to cover the victims bodies just how Meredith's body was discovered covered in a blanket. Another thing that he found strange was that nothing was taken from the house after the supposed break in. The outside walls showed no evidence of being  climbed on and it looked very much like it was staged. Guiliano said that usually the main purpose for a staged break in is to throw off suspicion of someone who has connection to the house. Although I was not able to speak to anyone involved in this case I still found it very helpful to have been able to watch interviews from both parties. I will be honest, at the beginning I was convinced that Amanda was guilty, but after this documentary I am not so sure. She was acting like a psycho during the investigation, but during the interview she seems so sincere.. the evidence found were not good enough to keep her in jail in Italy though, so Amanda is currently free living in Seattle, Washington. I have decided that I will try to write to her to ask her about her behavior and what kind of impact this whole thing has had in her life. I am hoping she will respond to me and if she does choose to respond I will post the letter on this blog. If anyone reading this would also like to contact her this is how you can reach her:

Amandaknoxmedia@gmail.com

During my research on her I have also learned that she has her own blog as well:

http://www.amandaknox.com/blog/