Amanda Knox

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[radio chimes]

[officer speaking Italian]

Perugia Police Department.

The address is 7 Via della Pergola.

[dispatcher] Marco, listen.

Do you understand

there's a dead girl here?

[officer] The request is from Amanda.

Amanda Knox.

[man] Bra.

They covered her.

Sh*t.

Sh*t.

[Amanda Knox in English]

There are those who believe in my innocence.

And there are those

who believe in my guilt.

There's no in between.

And if I'm guilty...

it means that I am

the ultimate figure to fear.

Because I'm not the obvious one.

But on the other hand,

if I'm innocent,

it means that everyone's vulnerable.

And that's everyone's nightmare.

Either I'm a psychopath

in sheep's clothing,

or I am you.

You can see that this

does not look like grief,

does not read as grief.

I think everyone's reaction

to something horrible is different.

Your roommates, your boyfriend, the cops,

they all say the same thing.

They thought you were responding weird.

Odd. Strange.

What makes you strange?

[woman] If you google the name

"Amanda Knox," you get 7.1 million hits.

You all know better than anybody

that hundreds of thousands

of those are not kind.

[interviewer]

"She-devil with an angel face.

Heartless manipulator.

Concertante of sex."

[interviewer] Were you into deviant sex?

Insensitive question, but, hey,

we gotta get to what it is.

This fuels the doubt.

Did you have any type

of experimental activities there

you're embarrassed to talk about?

[interviewer]

Did you kill Meredith Kercher?

No.

- Were you there that night?

- No.

Do you know anything

you have not told police?

- Do you know anything?

- No.

[car alarm beeps]

[Amanda] Before Italy, I had a happy life.

[Amanda's sister] All right, Amanda.

Are you excited to see David?

David? David?

[Amanda's sister]

David, the statue of David.

Oh. [chuckles]

- God damn.

- Good one. [chuckles]

[Amanda] I was quirky

and I was okay with that.

And I was ridiculous

and I was okay with that.

I thought of myself as, like,

a warrior princess.

I'm like Xena! [laughs]

I remember thinking,

"Okay, I'm different.

I'm my own person,

but I'm gonna find my place."

- [meowing]

- [Amanda] Yeah, I know, I know.

I know.

Going into college,

I felt a little behind.

[woman] One shot. One shot, Amanda.

[man] Don't you dare.

- It was one and a half, okay?

- [woman] It was one shot.

One and a half.

[Amanda] I didn't depend on myself much.

And I felt like it was very important

for me to get out of my comfort zone

and see if that made me

turn into an adult.

Italy has so much history.

Ruins, art, vineyards.

And I thought,

"I will find myself in this new place."

[Amanda's sister] So are you excited

to go live in Italy?

F***in' yeah, b*tch.

Those first weeks,

I was discovering what the city was.

I was living with these Italian women

and a British girl my age,

who was super sophisticated.

And we had this beautiful house

that overlooked this valley, like,

I was owning it. [chuckles]

I was expecting that I was going to be

part of this scholarly program.

And it was zero work.

And so I thought,

"Okay, I might as well get a job."

Patrick Lumumba was

trying to get his bar off the ground.

And he hired me hoping

it would bring in customers.

I swear to God,

I don't know what it is about people

who think that guys

are not attractive physically, but...

[whistles]

[Amanda] In Seattle, I was cute.

In Italy, I was the beautiful,

blonde American girl.

That, I had never been before.

[orchestra playing]

[Raffaele Sollecito]

I went to a classical music concert

and there was this girl alone.

She was very, very pretty.

[stutters] When I looked at her,

she looked at me back.

I was so shy

that even if she looked at me,

she smiled at me,

I was turning back and said,

"Is she looking at somebody in my back?"

[chuckles]

It was not. It was me.

So after I realized it, I said,

"Why not talking?"

He immediately recognized from my accent

that I was American or spoke English

and so he started speaking

to me in English, because he can.

Um, or at least, kinda.

[Raffaele] I showed her a beautiful

panorama of Perugia,

which, for me, was very romantic, and...

I had my heart beating so fast, like...

You know, like,

"Oh, there's the romance now." [chuckles]

And... I kissed her.

[laughing]

Compared to so many other guys

who were just automatically, like,

"Hey, baby."

Like, he was super nice

and I was completely charmed.

And... yeah.

Well, we went to home.

I started to smoke,

to try to prepare a joint

or something like that,

but then we thought about

something different.

And the night closed with a happy ending.

[bell tolling]

[Amanda] I had never been in love before.

From there on out,

like as soon as I got out of class,

we were going on walks together,

and getting pizza,

and going to the outdoor market.

And he wanted to get me a perfume,

because all Italian ladies have perfumes.

It was just a week,

but we spent every single day

with each other taking pictures...

smoking pot...

and making love.

[news anchor in Italian]

Good evening from the Umbria TV news,

which opens with sad news.

Meredith Kercher, an English 22-year-old,

was found dead in her house

on Via della Pergola.

Everything discovered so far

suggests she's been murdered.

[indistinct chatter]

[Giuliano Mignini] The crime scene.

It's a memory that will always be with me.

There was blood everywhere.

The girl's naked body had been covered.

There were signs that she'd been

violently held down.

Mostly on her arms.

Her throat had an extremely deep wound.

It struck me because of how deep it was.

I asked,

"Is a monster responsible for this?"

Outside, I saw two young people.

They were comforting each other

with an affection

inappropriate for the moment.

[camera shutter clicking rapidly]

[man] Make sure to

shoot the body bag if it comes out.

[officer] Enough, please stop it.

As a courtesy, please stop!

Have some dignity.

[camera shutters clicking rapidly]

[Nick Pisa in English]

A murder always gets people going.

Bit of intrigue.

Bit of mystery.

A whodunit.

And we have here this beautiful,

picturesque hilltop town

in the middle of Italy.

It was a particularly gruesome murder.

Throat slit, semi-naked, blood everywhere.

I mean... [chuckles]

what more do you want in a story?

I mean, all you're missing is maybe,

I don't know,

the Royal Family and the Pope

or something like that as well.

This was the first time

I'd ever covered a case in Perugia.

So obviously the first thing you need

to do is get to the main players.

'Cause obviously to get the facts,

you've gotta be on the scene, really.

You've gotta be Johnny-on-the-spot.

The authorities in Perugia were under

an intense amount of pressure.

As we say in Italy, there's this phrase,

"bella figura," a beautiful figure,

a beautiful impression.

Keeping up appearances.

They found themselves

on the international media map

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