Amanda Knox Page #4

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And now we've got

Amanda Knox involved as well.

Pretty blonde girl, 20-something.

It had that sexual intrigue.

[chuckles] Girl-on-girl crime,

if you like.

The pack were in their hotel room,

and everyone was going, "Amanda Knox,"

tap, tap, tap, into their computer.

This picture pops up on MySpace

of Amanda Knox with a machine gun,

laughing hysterically

as she was firing it.

We were thinking, "Wow, great.

She's a complete and utter nutjob."

We had Raffaele Sollecito,

tapped him in,

and there he was, dressed as a mummy,

with a meat cleaver.

I mean, you just couldn't ask

for any better material

to illustrate a story with.

[news anchor] Raffaele collects knives.

He drives a nice car.

He was majoring in engineering.

This guy wasn't very sexually experienced.

She might've been only the second person

that he'd ever had sex with.

And she'd sort of...

got her hooks into him.

[news anchor] She'd been seen nuzzling

with a boyfriend at a local shop

as they bought underwear for her.

The store owner said he heard them

laughing about having hot sex that night,

just a day after her roommate

had been found murdered.

[Nick] "La Femme Fatale,"

"La Dominatrice,"

"Amanda Mangiatrice Di Uomini,"

Amanda the man-eater.

Finally, you have her own name

for herself, "Foxy Knoxy."

It was a perfect headline, really,

the perfect name.

I mean, it was a feeding frenzy

for everyone, basically.

I mean, you were getting front pages.

I don't think I've ever had

so many front pages.

[chuckles]

Front page after front page,

page lead in the paper after page lead.

Just story after story.

[reporter in Italian]

Patrick! How are you, Patrick?

[Patrick in Italian] I'm good.

Thank God I get to go home.

[reporter 2 in Italian] Patrick!

Why did Amanda accuse you?

[reporter 3 in Italian]

What do you think of Amanda?

[reporter 4 in Italian] Why did Amanda

say those things?

[Giuliano in Italian]

Why did she falsely accuse him?

Can you give me an answer?

I think it's a little bit hard, huh?

The only reason would be

to divert the investigation away from her.

[Amanda in English]

And so in comes Giuliano Mignini.

I just remember that he was a big man,

very solemn.

[in Italian] I asked her,

"Why did you accuse Patrick?"

[Amanda in English] Why? I was stressed.

I was scared.

It was after long hours.

It was in the middle of the night.

I was innocent, and they were telling me

that I was guilty.

[Giuliano in Italian]

For the record, she's crying.

[in English] I told him it was because

they had said that I had met him.

They had shown me his text message

and said that I had met him,

and that I must have not remembered it

because it was so traumatizing.

[in Italian]

She kept insisting and insisting,

"They told me to say Lumumba's name.

They told me to. They told me to."

I didn't understand this.

Earlier she said

that it could have been true.

[Amanda in English] In that moment,

I thought it could have been true.

[in Italian] Usually a person says,

"That's true" or "That's not true."

But Amanda had a very unusual

way of reasoning.

She kept going between dream and reality.

He just kept asking the question again.

Again and again and again.

"No, why did you...

Why did you say, 'Patrick Lumumba'?"

You made me believe I met Patrick Lumumba.

Therefore, I said Patrick Lumumba.

It wasn't the answer that he wanted,

and I realized that, and I...

was devastated.

Like, when that happened,

I realized that they weren't

ever going to listen to me again.

[in Italian] This is Amanda's weakness.

She can't stand being questioned.

And she also has an attitude...

hostility and rebellion toward authority.

It's a little bit anarchist.

[stutters]

I don't know if there is

such an attitude in Seattle.

This I don't know.

It's possible to speculate of course,

but instead I choose to stick

to the facts.

[Nick] I've always wanted to be

a journalist ever since I was a kid.

I mean, everyone knows

Woodward and Bernstein.

I mean, I wouldn't dream of putting

myself in their shoes or anything,

but I'm naturally nosy as well,

which is always a good talent to have,

if you like,

if you can call it a talent,

to be a journalist.

Amanda was in a cell at Capanne jail

with two other inmates.

She obviously underwent

a medical examination.

She had a blood test,

and they then told her

that she was HIV-positive

and that she was going to develop AIDS.

I remember she was writing in her diary

that she was terrified.

She was saying that she wanted

to have a family,

and that idea was now scuppered.

And then she was, sort of,

listing all her lovers and saying

oh, she remembered using protection

with that one,

and not with that one.

And this was all in her diary,

which, again, was leaked.

I mean, I managed

to get ahold of it as well.

I was probably one of the first people

who managed to get ahold of it.

[interviewer] How did that diary even

get to the press?

[chuckles]

Well, we never...

we never reveal our sources.

That's the key thing.

'Cause you do that,

and then you're just betraying all

your journalistic principles, aren't you?

And then it turned out

that she didn't have HIV,

and it was just mind games

being played on her

by the police and the prosecution.

At the time, people were saying,

"Oh, how could you do that?

How could you cover such a story?

And how could you be involved?"

And yet at the same time,

these are the same people who are...

logging onto the Internet

first thing in the morning,

trying to find out the latest details,

you know?

[thunder rumbling]

[car door closes]

[in Italian] Enough.

You've already filmed enough.

[shutters clicking]

[indistinct chatter]

[phone ringing]

[man] Hello? Come over here.

We are at Sollecito's.

[Giuliano] The knife that was used

in the murder still hadn't been found.

They did a search at Sollecito's house.

They went into the kitchen

and found a number of knives.

And they found one that matched

the characteristics of the murder.

It is a kitchen knife found

in Sollecito's house,

which he shared with Amanda Knox.

The knife.

The knife is a fundamental element.

Amanda's DNA was found on the handle.

Meredith's DNA was found

on the tip of the blade.

The knife was found

after a search ordered by me.

[Amanda in English]

The knife, I could not explain.

There was no reason for my DNA

to have been on a handle,

and Meredith's DNA

to have been on the blade.

It was impossible.

[man in Italian] It's soaked in blood.

Therefore, she had it on her

when she was killed.

[woman] This has been ripped.

[man] The part with the clasp is missing.

[man 2] Here it is.

[Giuliano] After some time,

we found that Meredith's bra clasp

contained traces of Sollecito's DNA.

This is a very significant fact.

I remember my colleagues

complimenting me and saying,

"At this point,

there's no hope for the two of them."

[Raffaele] I grew up in the southern part

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