Amanda Knox: Waiting To Be Heard

April 30, 2013 was Amanda’s first interview since her release from an Italian prison near Perugia in 2011. She was wrongly convicted of the murder of her roommate in 2009 along with her friend Raffaele Sollecito and ABC’S Diane Sawyer will host the segment where Amanda will finally be able to speak freely about her ordeal in Italy and discuss her upcoming memoir.
 
Amanda’s point of view has been a long time coming after first chafing under a gag order for four years (2007-2011) while in prison and then complying with contractual obligations of her publisher for the past year and a half. While the obligations to her publisher offered time to regain her sense of self and was a welcome relief, Amanda is now anxious to tell her side of this tragic story.
 
Her book, "Amanda Knox, Waiting to be Heard" is available for presale on Amazon and will be released April 30, 2013. Amanda has also recorded the audio version so that tonal inflection and pronunciation is correct, underscoring that her voice and her perceptions are important to understand the truth of the matter: that she and Raffaele never harmed Meredith Kercher or had anything to do with her death.
 
Her codefendant and friend, Raffaele Sollecito, released his memoir in September 2012 and the story of his bravery in the face of frightening odds is touching, as not many can say that they spent four years in prison to save a stranger. Amanda and Raffaele, who were virtually strangers when this began, are now brother and sister bound by an incredible judicial debacle and the strength to live through it.
 
"Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox" tells of Raffaele’s indomitable will against both the Perugians and some members of his family who wanted him turn on Amanda and lie to destroy her alibi simply so he could get out of prison. It was his integrity that kept him strong in the face of such odds and now he offers the unique view of an Italian citizen exposing flaws in his own judicial system. With his father and lawyer by his side, he survived the hell that the Perugians imposed on him for his honesty.
 
I hope you will support both of these fine young adults by reading their first person accounts of becoming trapped in a perverse justice system though no fault of their own, cautionary tales for any international traveler or student abroad.