A retired FBI special agent has analysed documents relating to Amanda Knox's confession to the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 and has concluded that she was bullied, by police, reports
KGW.com.
Steve Moore worked on many complex murder cases and part of his job was to obtain confessions.
He notes that Knox signed two confessions in the early hours of the morning after ten hours of interrogation. He believes that her language in the statements indicates that she was bullied into telling police what they wanted to hear. Later Knox retracted the confessions in a long written statement.
Moore is hopeful that Knox's conviction for murder will be overturned in the December appeal hearing. He has met Knox's family but has not travelled to Italy because he claims that he has been threatened with arrest if he goes there.
In October a book, entitled “Take Me With You – Talks with Amanda Knox in Prison” is to be published in Italy and then in the US.
The book is based on conversations that Knox had during twenty prison visits with the Italian politician, entrepreneur and journalist Rocco Girlanda.
Girlanda is the founder of the Fondazione Italia USA, a non-profit organisation which promotes friendship between Italy and the USA. The book will contain Knox's thoughts on issues such as religion and marriage and her memories of her upbringing in Seattle. In the book Knox says that when she is freed she wants to become a writer and adopt children. Profits from the book will go to Girlanda's Foundation.
