Amanda Knox Shared One Last Moment With Former Boyfriend Before Going Free

Amanda Knox, center, shared a final moment with her former boyfriend, not pictured, before going free, according to her father, Curt Knox, also not pictured above.
ABC News’ Nikki Battiste and Lauren Effron report:
Soon after Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend and co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito, learned they were acquitted of murder charges in an Italian court, the two shared one final moment together before they went free.
In his first sit-down interview since the verdict, Amanda Knox’s father, Curt Knox, revealed to ABC News never-before-heard details about his daughter’s days in prison, including when she saw Sollecito.
“The only time they really got to talk was after the verdict, when they were getting ready to be whisked away in the cars,” Curt Knox said. “They actually went back to the prison in the same car. They hold something in common that very, very few people have ever had to deal with.”
He confirmed that the Sollecitos had been invited to visit the Knox family at their home in Seattle.
“An offer was extended to the Sollecito family to come to Seattle,” he said, “and whether they take us up on that or not is really too early to tell, because I know that Rafealle is experiencing the same thing that Amanda’s experiencing, and wanting to reconnect with people and try to get back to normal life.”
Curt Knox discussed how his daughter has been readjusting to life back in the United States. He said Amanda Knox, out of habit, occasionally slips back into Italian, a language she became fluent in during her four years in Capanne prison outside of Perugia while she battled charges that she murdered her roommate.
His daughter has also been experiencing a kind of Rip van Winkle wonderment over the pop culture references she had missed while in prison, where there were no electronics. Teen heartthrob Justin Bieber was just one of the now iconic things Knox had never heard of. She had never held an iPad or used Twitter.
“Somebody put out a phony tweet trying to say it was her and I don’t think Twitter even existed when she was arrested,” Curt Knox said. “So it was just totally fake, but it’s those kinds of things that you know times have changed.”
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they should never let those two be together again
Posted by: dave | October 7, 2011, 2:58 am 2:58 am
This is so touching and deeply heartbreaking. Who knows what this young love would have become, how it might have bloomed, if not for the horrible tragedy that separated them. Two profoundly innocent young people, put through a hell that would test any love. So sad.
Posted by: americaislost | October 7, 2011, 5:55 am 5:55 am
They barely knew each other. Less than a week I think, when the murder happened. It is very sad that they both lost their college years, but thank God it wasn’t any more than that. I do not believe they did it. Poor kids. I hope they can recover from this & move on in a healthy way. Their families are very supportive, so I think they have a good chance. God Bless them. And God Bless Meredith Kercher who was a victim to a brutal murder, but not by these two.
Posted by: pal | October 7, 2011, 8:22 am 8:22 am
The worst part of the whole Amanda Knox/Raffaele Sollecito trial is the loss of Meredith Kercher’s life. Amanda and Raffaele should never have been charged and I am happy those two are now free, but I wish and hope that the Kercher family will someday be able to gain closure because the prosecutor failed in his due diligence and as a result has reopened a hurtful wound within the Kercher family. Give Amanda and Raffaele time to adjust and hope and pray that Italy can fix its justice system. The prosecutors must be held accountable for their actions. Lets see Amanda and Raffaele get what is deserved for their pain and suffering from being in prison.
Posted by: Calder | October 7, 2011, 9:09 am 9:09 am
Goodness, the things I would do to Amanda…
Posted by: Corey | October 7, 2011, 9:21 am 9:21 am
I think this is a touchstone event that brings out the best and worst in some of us.
Posted by: Michael | October 7, 2011, 9:42 am 9:42 am
I wonder what the tone and tenor of the British tabloids will be when reporting Mignini’s appeal was turned down by Italy’s Supreme Court of Cassation,
Posted by: Michael | October 7, 2011, 10:14 am 10:14 am
There are reports that Amanda has invited her love to join her in Seattle! This is so exciting, almost like a fairy tale ending to this whole nightmare! And the evil one in this entire story, Mignini, the savage prosecutor without a soul, has been vanquished and left rotting in his self-humiliation! Justice is almost as sweet as love!
Posted by: americaislost | October 7, 2011, 10:55 am 10:55 am
Raffaele is coming to Seattle to join Amanda and they will be together as they once were! What a lovely outcome for this couple and how much this joyful reunion will mean to them. They were so very much in love and true soul-mates when they were torn apart and it appeared they would be separated for all time. However, as is so often said, Love conquers all! At last they will be as they were meant to be!
Posted by: cynicalinGA | October 7, 2011, 11:18 am 11:18 am
The only difference between Knox & Casey Anthony is a PR campaign and Donald Trump’s money to spring Knox. Every dollar Knox makes in books, moviesw and interviews will drip with Meredith Kercher’s blood.
Posted by: Robert Albrecht | October 7, 2011, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm
“She had never held an iPad or used Twitter.” Who gives a damn,there are hundreds of millions around the world who have no idea what an ipod or twitter is, or are just wondering where they
will get their one meal of the day from and here we are talking of this murderer and her murderous boyfriend and what they might have missed whilst in prison.She got away with murder,but we all know that time takes care of evil like her and her boyfriend.KARMA.
Posted by: Natalie | October 7, 2011, 12:20 pm 12:20 pm
Robert Albrecht and Natalie: Ugly, hateful, and most of all baseless statements about a sweet, innocent girl who was barely out of her teenage years when the monster Mignini focused his own hateful gaze upon her. Both of you are beneath contempt for making accusations that are completely without evidence! Hate, that’s all it is, hate of a kind that is expressed by someone who has a spiritless soul rotting within their body. You both lack empathy so profoundly that it borders on the sociopathic!
Posted by: tvhumphrey | October 7, 2011, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm
If ANYONE thinks Knox and her disgusting ‘one week boyfriend’ are innocent.. you clearly are the same morons that think Casey Anthony and OJ were truly innocent as well. Seriously – check statistics.#1. NO ONE GETS MURDERED IN ITALY. #2. 90% of ALL MURDER VICTIMS ARE WELL AQUATINED WITH THEIR ASSILIANTS. You can not change the sociology of guilty people .. that filth Amanda and her equally obscene ‘boyfriend’ will kill again… just like OJ…has been unable to stay out of prison… these nut cases never de-escalate, only escalate. May they all be haunted for a lifetime by their victims… then eternity in hell…
Posted by: Katy AOK | October 9, 2011, 2:40 am 2:40 am
katy AOK .– I take it you’re a reap what we sow type person.. I’m sure I will be held accountable for my behavior at some point.. I am thankful that condemning other people to eternal suffering is not who I am.. Nor do I claim to know everything in absolutes — That sounds like a perspective of a nut case.
Posted by: Michael | October 9, 2011, 11:11 am 11:11 am
“An offer was extended to the Sollecito family to come to Seattle.”
This family is completely tasteless. It’s no wonder their daughter has problems.
Posted by: Sarah | October 9, 2011, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm
katy AOK: you are spot on. Amanda Knox, like Casey Anthony and OJ, got away with murder and it is so so sad and pathetic. I wish the punishment of having to live with what she did, and the stigma that brings with it, could give Meredith’s family some relief, but it can’t…. because it seems the only real tears this girl has ever cried are for herself.
Posted by: seatteite | October 10, 2011, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm
i see where people like to do more writing then reading now days…all i can say is the Italians need to update their ways in trials…they were just throwing the book at Amanda and her boyfriend ..it made me laugh when the courts took 14 years off of Rudy’s sentence because he said he was sorry to the family…it is sad the victim is the one who gets lost but there is no doubt they have the real murder in prison and the family should not of accepted Rudy’s ty and appealed his case so he would do life…i have read and read on this case and still find no reason for Amanda nor her boyfriend to commit this murder..i am glad they r free and can move on in their lives…
Posted by: stacet | October 10, 2011, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm
I think Amanda knows what happened that night. We may never know if she participated–God knows, she and boyfriend know. She would be very emotionally distraught after 4 yrs in prison whether she is guilty or not, so don’t mistake that for innocence. It’s nice to write about a fairy tale ending but no one really knows the truth.
Posted by: Jim | October 12, 2011, 10:26 pm 10:26 pm
Leave Amanda and her boyfriend alone, PLEASE!. They did nothing wrong’
What you see in others, Are what you see in yourselves.
What you bellieve is what your experience in life will be.
Amanda is a good person. Love her as you love others.
Posted by: justme | October 18, 2011, 9:34 pm 9:34 pm
In this country, much more bad news is told by the media, and news than good news.
Amand Knox did nothing wrong. She did not desrve to be locked up or talked badly about by others.
Do not judge others or you will be judged. Stop Labeling her and back off!
Posted by: justme | October 18, 2011, 9:38 pm 9:38 pm
Amanda did not get away with murder. She did not hurt or kill anyone, STOP SAYING FALSE THINGS ABOUT HER!!!
Posted by: justme | October 18, 2011, 9:41 pm 9:41 pm
What I feel sad is that justice was not fully served since we already know that based on evidence, there were multiple killers who attacked Meredith. The Knox family is like a PR Machine and there are biased medias and dumb online comments twisting the original trial later which allowed her to win the second trial and to eliminate the evidences against her. The evidence of the original trial had gone in flames since that is the only way to get Amanda and Rafaele release. It is still very strange that the only one that has to be jailed is Guede while the original trial said Amanda Knox, Rafaele Sollecito and Guede were all suspects in the killing of Meredith so why did they radically overturned murder convictions against the other 2 while Guede remains in prison? The fact is that this is the dirty magic that the dirty $$$ money can do. When someone has too much money, they can easily be acquitted of murder especially in countries like Italy where corruption is problematic even the Prime Minister Berlusconi admitted on his secret phone conversation that was recently revealed. It reminds me of Casey Anthoy and OJ Simpson.
The logic about this case that I am having trouble with is that since nobody break into the cottage then who else could have done this or who else could have easily gained access to the cottage? Amanda Knox is the key link to the Guede and Rafaele Sollecito since she was a habitant who shared the cottage with Meredith Kercher. In other words, Amanda Knox is the missing link and she is the connection to the other 2 suspects. The break into the window was a failed simulation by Amanda Knox and her boyfriends since it was broken after Meredith was killed and after the room was ransacked to lower the suspicion against them so that the investigators would focus more on the burglary theory that Rafaele who called Police had confirmed but nothing was missing in the room. I’ve seen many burglary cases committed by Romanians and Albanians but this one is very strange because who the heck would break into the room later after raping the poor girl and did not steal anything except for Meredith’s money from her purse?
Another strange thing or another logic I was having trouble with and kinda disturbed me is why did Amanda Knox was lying to the police and pointing her finger at innocent people like Patrick Lumumba who was a bartender and a black man but was not even present at the cottage during the murder? Amanda Knox is kinda racist too. This is why Patrick Lumumba had sued Amanda Knox and he won and Amanda had to serve 4 years in prison as if she served prison for accusing the wrong person but not for the first or second degree murder of the original trial in 2007. The stories told by both of them did not even fit well between each other or that they go in conflict. Rafaele also claimed that he wasn’t with Amanda during the night of murder but later, he claimed that he could not remember that he was with Amanda when he learned that Amanda said that she was with him during the night of murder. Kinda strange that a young boy cannot remember his first date with a girl and they both changed their original story many times.
The third strange thing is that who the heck would go and buy many bleach after Halloween? I can’t be a coincidence since it happened for too many times and as if the murder was pre-planned by Amanda Knox. All killers know that bleach substance would destroy almost any kinds of evidence from organic matters to blood and to DNA. It raised more suspicion against Amanda Knox even if it is not a direct evidence to accuse her for murdering Meredith but it is like a “smoking gun evidence but without the gun”. The only evidence is the Knife with Meredith and Amanda’s DNA at Sollecito’s flat and Sollecito’s DNA on Meredith’s bra and cigarette ashtray while they both admitted to be using illegal drugs during the murder.
Even if the 2 did not kill Meredith but logic still dictates that Amanda Knox and Rafaele Sollecito could have at least known the truth but why they did not want to tell the truth? The reasonable doubt could be that because they actually killed Meredith so they would never tell the truth. Let’s not also forget that Amanda did confessed that she killed Meredith before original trial in 2007 because the police was using a psychological warfare during tough interrogation against her which made her believe that she could not easily get away with murder so she had to confess the truth but unfortunately it was rejected and the police were accused for abusing her and for making illegal interrogation. The Italian police were angry at her since they all knew that she killed Meredith so they yelled at her which is also part of the police’s trick to let the suspect confess the truth. I also bet that Amanda’s father got angry at Amanda Knox because she was too scared, over-reacted and having low confidence so she had to confessed the truth from her mouth to the angry police that she killed that poor girl so her father told her to kept silent and don’t be afraid because he will help her to be acquitted of murder and release. She was in defiant at the police station and she has no respect for Meredith’s death so that is why she kissed Rafaele right after the murder which is very strange and inappropriate especially for Italians since many Italians are more aware of moral values than many Americans due to their old European moral culture.
Amanda Knox was acquitted with the help of the US senator who mentioned before the 2007 trial that this case is an anti-american case so he brainwashed the american public to believe that bullcrap and Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton also paid the dirty money to get Amanda Knox release. It’s a shame that Italian justice system was corrupted and interfered by US government and rich aristocrats in the US. It is just like they supported the CIA black prison to torture innocent people abroad included the torture of Guantanamo Bay inmates and tried to cover-up and get away with crimes they had committed. I never trust the american media so I’m not going to watch news like CNN or Fox news again in my life.
Posted by: Critical Thinker | October 26, 2011, 10:07 am 10:07 am
The conclusion is that Amanda Knox, Rafaele Sollecito and Guede are still suspects in the killing of Meredith Kercher whether there is enough evidence to jail them or not based on the logic itself. Logic dictates that they all are still suspects even if they were acquitted of murder. It is like Logic VS Evidence… Maybe the court had enough evidence to jail them but it is also no surprise that most killers would still pay dirty money to the court in order to be release from prison and convincing the court to throw away any crucial evidences against them. What would you do after you killed somebody and be arrested? You would certainly do corruption by paying dirty money to the authorities. It’s simple. Corruption is not something new and this is how many criminals at high rank or at lower rank can get away with crime… Wake up America!
Also, many moral people with enough logic and critical thinking in their head would also have a second doubt and fear if they had to date these creepy drug-addicted suspects in the killing of that poor girl and who had no respect for the death of another person rather than just looking at their angel face.
Posted by: Critical Thinker | October 26, 2011, 10:28 am 10:28 am
A modern day twist to Bonnie and Clyde but these two are hoping to get together again to plan how to profit from the loss of Meredith Kircher’s life. And the whole Knox family is trying to get celebrity status–sister tells the media how this was a tragedy for Amanda and she was really a hero; Grandma wants everyone to understand that the family will all get their money or loans from the profits and only if there is extra money, will any go to Kerchers. Parents are unemployed and mooching off of the fame and trying to paint an awful picture of Amanda’s prison life. Murder someone in the United States and she wouldn’t have been treated as nice–and whining about someone making sexually harassing comments–in the US she would be crying about being gang raped and facing hard labor for pennies on the dollar. You hear Dad’s comments about poor Amanda and you realize just what a rich family she was from. She wanted to be treated like a Princess in prison and she and her boyfriend have to get together in Seattle so they can both be telling the same story. They knew each other for all of one week, playing house, having sex, drinking and doing drugs–and someone we are supposed to hang onto their every word and send money their way so they can afford more drugs and booze. Surely Seattle has more to offer than the bad behavior of Foxy Knoxy when she danced off to play in Italy.
Posted by: julie | October 29, 2011, 7:44 pm 7:44 pm
Her defenders (here) sound absolutely hysterical, beside themselves with love and salacious fascination for a character in the news they’ve never met. Not a sane word have they got to say, just pure GUSH. I’m American, and so ashamed of you! –the ones who cry, “Stop saying things about Amaaaandaaah!” and “Oh goody, these poor kids, these lovers, shall be together again in Seattle, it is like a fairy tale!” JESUS. You’re THAT sure she didn’t murder that girl, that you take personal delight in her shining future and her love life, and want to post it to the world, for the record? WOW. Because you know her too well, and she just wouldn’t do that, huh? So sick, all of you, my God…
Posted by: Carly Corday | December 26, 2011, 8:40 pm 8:40 pm
So they are not just innocent, but “profoundly innocent.” Oh my God.
Posted by: Carly Corday | December 26, 2011, 8:44 pm 8:44 pm