Amanda Knox Imprisoned In Italy: The Real Story
From The Hidden Third by Mariana van Zeller
April 29, 2026 · 2h 8m
About this episode
Amanda Knox shares her experience of being wrongfully convicted in Italy and the impact of media on her case.
Join The Hidden Third Patreon today! patreon.com/thehiddenthird Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MARIANA at http://www.oneskin.co/MARIANA #oneskinpod Amanda Knox was 20 years old when she went to Italy for a study abroad year. Weeks later, her roommate Meredith Kercher was murdered — and Amanda became the story. She was wrongfully convicted, sentenced to 26 years, and imprisoned for four years while the global media treated her guilt as a foregone conclusion. After one of the most high-profile exonerations in modern legal history, Amanda Knox is now a New York Times bestselling author, journalist, criminal justice reform advocate, and host of the wrongful conviction podcast Hard Knox. In this episode of The Hidden Third, Mariana van Zeller gets the real story — false confessions, media trials, the psychology of innocence, and what it actually takes to reclaim your life when the whole world got it wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
People in this episode
Host: Mariana van Zeller
Guest: Amanda Knox
Topics covered
- media trials
- wrongful conviction
- criminal justice reform
- psychology of innocence
- personal story
- exoneration
Keywords
- Amanda Knox
- wrongful conviction
- Italy
- Meredith Kercher
- media trials
- exoneration
- criminal justice reform
Sponsors
OneSkin
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: New York Times, Hard Knox
Places: Italy, Meredith Kercher
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