Italian prison guard says Knox was cold-hearted and is a "brilliant actress"

[davidn3600]

The press and tabloids in Britain hate Knox... So keep that in mind that there is bias there... But they paint a very different picture than the American media.

Amanda Knox is a brilliant actress and a secret 'Ice Maiden' who has reinvented herself as a warm compassionate human being, according to a prison guard who watched over her in jail.

Angela Antonietti, a favourite guard of Knox's at Capanne prison, near Perugia, has revealed that her charge never cried or showed remorse during her time inside.

Hours after an Italian court convicted her for a second time of killing British student Meredith Kercher in 2007, the 26-year-old made an emotional – but defiant – U.S. TV appearance insisting her innocence.

But Ms Antonietti has labeled her tears nothing more than an act and said Knox 'never, ever' talked of her 'friend', Miss Kercher.

She told the Daily Mirror: 'Underneath the veneers she remains the same controlled woman I knew well in Capanne prison. She was so composed, I never saw her suffering.

'She now presents herself to the world as an image of compassion, and thoughtfulness, with a carefully presented look that changes when she wants to look serious. Or glamorous She’s a brilliant actress.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2549990/She-Ice-Maiden-Amanda-Knox-reinvented-teary-American-TV-star-cold-unemotional-Italian-jail-says-prison-guard.html

[dionysus]

1. oh geez...

got any salt?

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. ROFL...I'm awaiting long-ass retorts from the resident experts

"Five years ago, I embarked on a journey to become the world's greatest living expert on the Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito case. At the time, I thought Amanda and Raffaele were surely guilty (I call them by their first names now, I know them so well), but I soon saw through the smokescreen of the Italian judicial farce and sordid UK tabloids...and etc."

Apparently, greatest living expert on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg was taken...

[bemildred]

2. What is this, a B movie? Who writes this crap?

Oh, I see, it's the Daily Mail. Never mind.

[11 Bravo]

3. Oh geez, in that case string her guilty ass up!

[bravenak]

4. Italian prison guard says whatever sells plenty of papers.

Good Grief!

[Bluenorthwest]

6. The Daily Fail.

It's not even fair to claim the Mail is representative of British press. It's the Mail. A tawdry thing.

[tandot]

7. read this

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-neverending-nightmare-of-amanda-knox-20110627

it is long ... but I changed my mind after that.

[Iggo]

8. I remember this one time, when I was in jail, I was so happy and nice.

I can't imagine anyone who's locked up being anything but bright and cheery.

[Crepuscular]

9. Um....

She should show remorse while being jailed for a crime that she was innocent of??

[davidn3600]

10. People said the same about Casey Anthony and George Zimmerman, criticizing the lack of sympathy

People thought they were guilty for other reasons too, but people also seemed to focus on the idea that a truly innocent person is supposed to act in a certain stereotypical manner. If you didnt cry enough or act upset enough, then it means you wanted the victim dead.

In fact, in the Casey Anthony case, one of the prosecution's main points was that Casey continued to party and got a tattoo and didn't show any emotion that a mother is supposed to feel when their kid is dead. Actually...this was that majority of the prosecution's case along with some questionable forensic evidence. And then some wonder why she was acquitted?

[dsc]

15. that is ridiculous

In the Casey Anthony case the victim was her own child while no one disputes that Zimmerman shot Treyvon Martin. In both of those cases a lack of sympathy for the victim would be bizarre indeed and somewhat indicative of guilt. In Knox's case, if she is telling the truth she had literally nothing to do with this woman's death and wasn't related to her (she was supposed to be a decently close friend). A lack of remorce would seem very fitting in that case.

[riderinthestorm]

11. Well, she certainly concealed her Satanic sex fiend side then!

That jail guard certainly misread HER!

The prosecutors had it all wrong, they should have gone with the "brilliant actress Ice Maiden" bit.

[elias7]

12. they had known each other a matter of weeks

If she didn't show remorse, you could conclude she is a psychopath, or more simply, that she was not guilty

[Adrahil]

13. What? No mention of Guede's cell mates?

The ones who said that Guede admitted he did the murder alone?

[liskddksil]

14. Is this the same guard that made continual sexual advances towards her?

Why should we trust any thing that comes out from them.

[sked14]

16. Why would she show remorse for a crime you very obviously

didn't commit? And how do we know this guard is being truthful?

[pnwmom]

17. Sounds like junior high mean-girl stuff to me. And Amanda isn't the mean girl -- this guard is.

What you're forgetting is that ALL Americans seem cold-hearted to Italians. That is one reason one of the police cited for saying that he knew she was guilty just by watching her -- a proper Italian woman would have been wailing and screaming after her friend had died -- and she'd take to her bed, not go to a restaurant and eat pizza. (He actually said that.)

Italians express their emotions a lot more than Americans, and especially people from the Pacific Northwest with Germanic and Scandinavian roots. People here shut down and get quiet when terrible things happen. That reaction of Amanda's would seem perfectly appropriate here but seemed wrong to the Italians --it seemed like a sign of guilt.

[Gothmog]

18. You got to be kidding

This guard is a lay person with no expertise. The verdict in this case was not based on evidence but public opinion that is relying on crap like this. The Italin justice system is a joke and the evidence in this case is too weak to get to jury in the US

[Matariki]

19. If she's innocent what would she show remorse for?

[markpkessinger]

20. The illogic of this is amazing . . .

. . . I mean, why should she "show remorse" if indeed she didn't commit the crime?

[Gothmog]

21. The judge in this case is facing some problems

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024437954

the Italian media has decided that Amanda Knox is guilty. I really do not think that the verdict was based on evidence but was based on the Italian media's determination that Knox is guilty