Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir

Amanda Knox

Apr 2013 · Harper Collins

About this ebook

Amanda Knox spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime she did not commit, as seen in the Nexflix documentary Amanda Knox.

In the fall of 2007, the 20-year-old college coed left Seattle to study abroad in Italy, but her life was shattered when her roommate was murdered in their apartment.

After a controversial trial, Amanda was convicted and imprisoned. But in 2011, an appeals court overturned the decision and vacated the murder charge. Free at last, she returned home to the U.S., where she has remained silent, until now.

Filled with details first recorded in the journals Knox kept while in Italy, Waiting to Be Heard is a remarkable story of innocence, resilience, and courage, and of one young woman’s hard-fought battle to overcome injustice and win the freedom she deserved.

With intelligence, grace, and candor, Amanda Knox tells the full story of her harrowing ordeal in Italy—a labyrinthine nightmare of crime and punishment, innocence and vindication—and of the unwavering support of family and friends who tirelessly worked to help her win her freedom.

Waiting to Be Heard includes 24 pages of color photographs.

Ratings and reviews

See? American imperialism silently gives Americans around the world immunity from prosecution whether or not evidence exists as proof of a crime committed abroad. Let's turn the tables around. What would been the outcome if it were exactly the other way around? The British girl would be forcibly extradited to the US to face trial and ultimate death sentence. That's how American power is exercised around the world. Really sad. They can bite you but you can't bite back. Very sad indeed!

I wonder what the victim's family feel about this. She could've waited at least a few years before putting out a memoir. Whether she did it or not this is just in bad taste. Imagine if you were the victim's mother and you hear that the person accused of killing your daughter wrote a book of how she was wrongfully accused, how would you feel? Now I know people WILL say "geez c'mon now don't be too dramatic it's just a freaking book" or "well, she just want to share her story blah blah blah". Yeah I guess, but that does NOT change the fact that this book is just a bad idea. Like I said, TOO SOON. P.S. Dude calm your t*ts. It's just my opinion. I believe I am entitled to it, or so I thought.

Innocent until proven guilty ? You people who feel the need to call someone a murderer, remember, you can be sued for slander. Also, just to make this as clear as possible, NO PROOF WAS EVER FOUND THAT SHE OR HER BOYFRIEND DID IT. A killer was convicted for the murder, and confessed and HIS DNA was found on the bra. And for those calling her a "money hungry b☆tch, her WHOLE family went broke being in Italy, with housing, attorney fees, food, etc. She is just trying to reimburse them. My hope, is that you who are being judgemental, have to answer for ANY wrong doing you might have done in your perfect little lives! Good luck with that.

About the author

Amanda Knox is an exoneree and a writer in Seattle, Washington. She was wrongfully convicted of murder in Perugia, Italy, in 2009. In 2011 the conviction was overturned, and she was affirmatively found innocent of the charge of murder. In March 2013, the Italian Court of Cassation annulled the acquittal and ordered a new review of the case. Then in March 2015 Italy’s high court overturned the previous convictions and ruled she was innocent. She now lives in Seattle, her hometown. She is committed to helping others who have been wrongfully convicted.