What Happened to Themselves?

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I hope that one day something, some kind of understanding and just an opportunity for mutual grief is possible because their lives and my life were completely turned upside down. We experienced it in different ways, but I think that it all stems from the same root cause. There's millions of murders every year, whatever. The number is 100,000. Why yours? One thought I had was because sex is involved and people lose their minds over sex. But there are a lot of sex crimes that happen in the world too. You know what? I don't blame them for that. That's a really, really hard thing to deal with.

Amanda Knox spent four years in an Italian prison for a crime she did not commit. In the fall of 2007, the 20-year-old college coed left Seattle to study abroad in Italy, but her life was shattered when her roommate was murdered in their apartment. After a controversial trial, Amanda was convicted and imprisoned. But in 2011, an appeals court overturned the decision and vacated the murder charge. Free at last, she returned home to the U.S., where she remained silent until she released the memoir of her ordeal, Waiting to Be Heard. Unfortunately, after the publication of her book she was tried and convicted again in an Italian court, only to see that conviction overturned by the Italian Supreme Court. She cannot be tried again, but in the court of public opinion she has been on trial since that fatal day in 2007. Here she shares with listeners her story and all she has learned from her experiences and what lessons we can all take from adversity.