‘The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox’ Is Effectively Outraging, but Could Push Further Past the Headlines: TV Review

The media fixture Amanda Knox — who was accused, convicted and exonerated of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher while both women were studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, in fall 2007 — has lived through a litany of injustices. She was coerced into a confession by Italian police, who interrogated her for hours in a language she didn’t speak with fluency. She was strong-armed into implicating her employer in the crime, then prosecuted for slandering him. She was falsely told she had tested positive for HIV, a lie used to manipulate the then-college student into disclosing her past sexual partners to investigators and,…