When Amanda Knox was a junior in college, she went to Perugia, Italy to study abroad and… didn’t exactly have the typical study abroad experience. In November 2007, Amanda and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were accused of murdering her British roommate, Meredith Kercher. They spent years in Italian prison, were convicted twice, and ultimately exonerated in 2015. “Two very young women went to Perugia and one of them didn’t get to go home, and one of them came home completely and utterly changed,” Amanda told NPR in March 2025. “It’s a grieving process for me for both of us.” The case got a ton of media attention, especially in Italian and British tabloids.
These days, Amanda advocates for people who’ve been wrongfully convicted of crimes, and she’s sharing more of her story in the new Hulu series, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox. She serves as an executive producer on the project, which stars Grace Van Patten (Tell Me Lies) as Amanda. Nearly two decades later, many still question what really happened that night in 2007. Did Amanda Knox do it? Here’s a breakdown of the case and where Amanda is today.
Is Amanda Knox Guilty Of Killing Her Roommate? Case Explained
Did Amanda Knox Do It?
On November 2, 2007, Amanda claims she returned to her apartment after spending the night with Raffaele, who was her brand new boyfriend at the time. She says she found the apartment door open and drops of blood in the bathroom. She also noticed that her roommate’s door was locked. Eventually, Amanda and her boyfriend called the police after failing to get the door open, and the police discovered that Meredith had been brutally murdered, her body mostly covered by a duvet.
Amanda was detained by the Italian police and illegally interrogated for five days with no legal counsel or interpreter. She says she was coerced into giving a false statement, implicating both herself and innocent bar owner Patrick Lumumba in the murder. (Amanda later recanted the statement.)
Separately, an individual named Rudy Guede was arrested in connection with Meredith’s murder in November 2007. His fingerprints were found at the crime scene, and his DNA was found on her body. In October 2008, he was found guilty of murder and sexual assault and was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
An appeals court overturned the most serious charges against Amanda in 2011, but two years later, Italy’s Court of Cassation ordered a retrial, and she was found guilty once again.
Italy’s highest court of appeals eventually overturned Amanda and Raffaele’s convictions on March 27, 2015, noting that there were “stunning flaws” in the investigation and evidence. “I am tremendously relieved and grateful for the decision of the Supreme Court of Italy,” Knox said in a statement, per People. “The knowledge of my innocence has given me strength in the darkest times of this ordeal.”
During her NPR interview earlier this year, Amanda reflected, “Acknowledging my innocence costs people something. It costs them the realization that they scapegoated a person who could very well have just been them, that they’ve consumed as entertainment the worst experience of someone’s life.”
Where Is Amanda Knox Now?
Today, Amanda serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Center, a nonprofit law firm dedicated to freeing the innocent from prison and educating the public on wrongful convictions. She launched a podcast with her husband, Christopher Robinson, called Labryinths with Amanda Knox in 2020, and she’s also written two books about her journey.
Amanda’s new Hulu series, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, comes out on August 20. “It’s not just a courtroom drama, it’s not your typical true crime biopic,” Amanda told Good Morning America about the series. “It’s a more personal journey and one that really begins with the story of what happens before — and then, of course, what happens after the worst experience of your life.” She says that making the show allowed her to really “grieve” what happened in a new way.
