When she came home from Italy, Amanda was isolating. She kept doing prison things like washing her underwear in the sink and generally just kind of being a loner. And she was reached out to by the director of the Idaho Innocence Project. "What they did for me in that moment, these two men who had each spent over a decade in prison for crimes they didn't commit, I could probably do for someone else too"
For our listener favorites series, many of you mentioned Amanda Knox’s story. She was just 20 years old when she was found guilty of a crime she did not commit — the murder of her roommate. Amanda spent four years in an Italian prison before she was finally exonerated and allowed to return to her life back home in the U.S. But she soon discovered that that life didn’t exist anymore.
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