Amanda Knox broke down in tears and said she was ‘desperate’ to hear her ‘missing friend and roommate’ Meredith Kercher’s voice again on a recent episode of her true crime podcast.
In 2009, she was convicted of brutally murdering Kercher in the home they shared in Perugia, Italy, while studying abroad. She was acquitted two years later and has since made a living through podcasts, selling books and documentaries about the killing.
In a recent episode of her podcast, The Truth About Truth, Knox was interviewing the friends of murder victim Jennifer Levin – who was strangled to death by Robert Chambers in Central Park in 1996 – when she started crying.
One of Jennifer’s friends was talking about how she wished she could speak to her again and Knox said quietly: ‘I’ve often thought the same thing about Meredith.’
In a new episode of her podcast, Amanda Knox cries for Meredith Kercher – who she was convicted and then acquitted of murdering – and said she ‘often’ wishes she could hear her voice again
In a voice over afterwards, she added that the interview ‘brought to mind my own missing friend and roommate, and the desperation of wanting to hear her voice again.’
‘Not just because she knows the real truth, but because she deserves to be heard,’ she said.
After hanging up, she said she ‘stayed in the seclusion of her vocal booth for quite a while’, crying.
Knox’s husband, who was outside, was then heard asking her on tape if she was all right.
She answered that she was ‘sad’ and said: ‘I have a lot of unanswered questions too, you know?’
‘There are always unanswered questions when someone’s life is cut short.Things only they would know about what really happened at the moment of their death.
‘But unanswered questions are hard to bear.
‘So over time, we tell ourselves larger stories that don’t so much fill in those crucial gaps as much as they try to make sense of the senseless at the broader level of society.’
Meredith’s family have long said there has not been sufficient justice for her. They have also condemned Knox’s continued efforts to talk about the case publicly as ‘inappropriate’
Knox is pictured (left) in 2015 after being acquitted for the second time, by Italy’s highest court. Raffaele Sollecito (right), Knox’s boyfriend at the time, was also acquitted
It comes as she lends her support to people who she says are wrongfully convicted and have spent years behind bars.
The only person who remains in prison for Kercher’s murder is Rudy Guede.
In an interview with Dr. Phil which will air on Tuesday, Knox gave the example of Rodney Reed – a death row inmate whose execution was halted this week – as the type of person who needs help and said while she only spent four years in prison, there are some who have been in jail for longer than she has been alive.
Kercher’s family has not yet reacted to the podcast.
They have long said they feel there has not been sufficient justice for their murdered daughter.
In June this year, they labeled Knox ‘inappropriate’ for returning to Italy to attend a panel on the topic of trial by media, and said the visit was ‘painful’ for them.
The only person who remains in prison for Kercher’s murder is Rudy Guede.
He took a fast track trial in Italy and was convicted in 2009.
He was sentenced to 30 years in prison but it was automatically halved to 16 years as part of his submission to a fast-track, media-free trial.
In 2016, he was shockingly allowed to have 36 hours of freedom as a reward for good behavior.
Raffaele Sollecito, Knox’s boyfriend who was convicted alongside him, has also written a book about the murder and their subsequent legal woes.
