Knox pinned murder on barman due to 'stress'

[The Straight Story]

Knox pinned murder on barman due to 'stress'

A recording of Amanda Knox being interrogated over the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher has been released, in which she says she blamed someone else for the crime because she was "stressed".

Speaking to police on December 17th 2007, six weeks after fellow exchange student Kercher was stabbed to death in Perugia, Knox said she implicated bar owner Patrick Lumumba out of fear.

“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!” she is heard telling police.

“In that moment that I said Patrick’s name I thought that it could have been true,” Knox said, adding that she “couldn’t understand” why police were accusing her of lying.

http://www.thelocal.it/20140217/stressed-knox-interrogation-tape-released

[CBGLuthier]

1. she closed her eyes and thought to herself, got to think of a black guy

If I can just blame it on a black guy the world will believe me because black guys do all the crime not pretty little white girls like me.

Why anyone supports this woman is a mystery to me.

[mainer]

4. You haven't been following the case, have you?

The police found evidence of a black assailant at the crime scene. They asked Amanda if she knew any black people, and noticed that she'd texted Lumumba on her phone, about work. They suggested that Lumumba might be the killer, and after hours of them suggesting it, she said that yes, it was possible.

[sked14]

6. Why anyone supports this woman is a mystery to me.

Maybe because she's innocent.

[hobbit709]

2. Here we go again.

[mainer]

3. The police essentially planted Patrick's name in her head

In the annals of false confessions, there are only two other cases that rival the Knox case: the Billy Wayne Cope case and the Norfolk Four case. These three are the only rape-murder cases in which prosecutors continued to pursue convictions against an original suspect who "confessed" even after DNA testing conducted before trial matched to a different person who had little or no connection to the original suspects. When such DNA evidence surfaces before trial, prosecutors almost always drop charges against the original suspects and pursue the man whose DNA is a match. That the prosecutors in these cases didn't and that juries convicted Knox, Sollecito, the Norfolk Four, and Cope speaks to the power of confession evidence to blind them to the truth.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-drizin/amanda-knox-and-raffaele-_b_4757435.html

[AleksS]

5. From what I understand

From what I understand, that's a common occurrence.

Police interrogations, while not as physically brutal as the witch hunts of yore, are still disturbingly effective at getting the accused to give false confessions, or name false names. Nowadays, instead of hot irons and stone weights, they use psychological pressure, and sleep deprivation, etc. to get a person to tell the police what the police want to hear, but the result is the same. False confessions, and false accusations are commonplace. People tell the police what they think the police want to hear, regardless of the truth.