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Chapter Seven: A (Short) Explanation of the Amanda Knox Case

“A murder always…want in a story?”: Amanda Knox, directed by Rod Blackhurst and Brian
McGinn (Netflix, 2016). Also from that documentary are the following: Knox’s list of lovers (in
footnote); “She started hitting…suspect Amanda” (in footnote); “Every piece of proof…no doubt of
this”; and “There is no trace…not objective evidence.”
“The amplified DNA…borderline for interpretation”: Peter Gill, “Analysis and Implications of
the Miscarriages of Justice of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito,” Forensic Science
International: Genetics 23 (July 2016): 9–18. Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2016.02.015.
Judges correctly identify liars: Levine, Duped, chapter 13.
Levine found this pattern: This refers to experiment 27 in Levine’s Duped, chapter 13. See also
Timothy Levine, Kim Serota, Hillary Shulman, David Clare, Hee Sun Park, Allison Shaw, Jae Chul
Shim, and Jung Hyon Lee, “Sender Demeanor: Individual Differences in Sender Believability Have
a Powerful Impact on Deception Detection Judgments,” Human Communication Research 37
(2011): 377–403. Also from this source is the performance of trained interrogators on matched and
mismatched senders.
In a survey of attitudes toward deception: The Global Deception Research Team, “A World of
Lies,” Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 37, no. 1 (January 2006): 60–74.
“It wasn’t so much…care about this”: Markopolos, No One Would Listen, p. 82.
“And though it’s risky…Tsarnaev smirked” (in footnote): Seth Stevenson, “Tsarnaev’s Smirk,”
Slate, April 21, 2015, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/04/tsarnaev-trial-sentencing-phase-
prosecutor-makes-case-that-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-shows-no-remorse.html.
“In the Boston Marathon Bombing…remained stony-faced”: Barrett, How Emotions Are Made,
p. 231.
“I’d do things…fall-over hilarious”: Amanda Knox, Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir (New York:
Harper, 2013), pp. 11–12; “‘You seem really flexible’…full of contempt,” p. 109; “But what drew
laughs…accepting of differences” (in footnote), p. 26; “Ta-dah” moment, p. 91.
Just listen to a handful of quotations: John Follain, Death in Perugia: The Definitive Account of
the Meredith Kercher Case from Her Murder to the Acquittal of Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda
Knox (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2011), pp. 90–91, 93, 94.
Diane Sawyer interview: “Amanda Knox Speaks: A Diane Sawyer Exclusive,” ABC News, 2013,
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/amanda-knox-speaks-diane-sawyer-exclusive-19079012.
“What’s compelling to me…distance ourselves from” (in footnote): Tom Dibblee, “On Being
Off: The Case of Amanda Knox,” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 12, 2013,
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-being-off-the-case-of-amanda-knox.
“We were able…other kinds of investigation”: Ian Leslie, “Amanda Knox: What’s in a face?”
The Guardian, October 7, 2011, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/08/amanda-knox-
facial-expressions.
“Her eyes…could have been involved”: Nathaniel Rich, “The Neverending Nightmare of Amanda
Knox,” Rolling Stone, June 27, 2011, https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/the-
neverending-nightmare-of-amanda-knox-244620/?print=true.