False Confession
Knox’s boss, Patrick Lumumba, had been in touch with her the night of November 2. Lumumba texted Amanda Knox, saying she didn’t need to come to the bar that night. During her interrogation, Amanda Knox implicated Lumumba in the crime, but later retracted the confession. Knox claimed all the hours of threats in Italian without a lawyer pressured her. Although her murder conviction was dismissed, they did uphold the conviction against Knox of slandering Lumumba.
False Confession
Under Pressure
Years after, Knox said, “They lied to me, shouted at me, threatened me, they slapped me on the head twice. They told me that I would never again see my family if I could not remember what happened to Meredith that night.” Both Sollecito and Knox were taken into custody and alas, charged with murder in July 2008. After their very public trial, they were found guilty in December of 2009. Both got sentences of over twenty years.
Under Pressure