The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox includes details that Amanda never discussed in detail before including how she met up with the prosecutor who tried to sentence her years later.
Amanda Knox made the surprising move of reaching out to the prosecutor who tried to get her sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her college roommate Meredith Kercher while studying abroad in Italy.
In actuality, Amanda spent nearly four years in prison before her 2009 conviction was overturned. Even though her prosecutor, Giuliano Mignini, tried to get that conviction to stick, Amanda begun exchanging letters with him years later. The exchange ultimately resulted in a friendship and saw Amanda traveling to Italy in an attempt to understand his perspective.
They had a secret meeting in June 2022, and now details on that are being unveiled for the first time in The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox now streaming on Hulu.
This in-person exchange is built up throughout the entire eight-episode miniseries. The first episode starts with Amanda hiding in a car as she arrives in Italy with her mom, her husband and their daughter.
The year is 2022, and years later, her mom is concerned that it’s still a trap to get Amanda thrown back in jail.
The moments leading up to the discussion unfold throughout the series with the last episode being entirely focused on their exchange.
During the exchange depicted in the series, the two go back and forth on whether she was at the crime scene.
“You placed me at the scene of the crime. You talked about how I tortured and taunted Meredith,” Amanda says. While Giuliano said his “hyopthesis” was based on “investigative decisions” made at the time, which he still believed to that day, Amanda insists it wasn’t true.
An tearful Amanda then asks, “Why didnt you see me when you looked at your daughters? You often said that when you looked at your daughters, you saw poor Meredith. That she couldve been them. But I was just a girl too. I was just a young girl too.”
She then asks why he “came after her,” to which he responds, “Because I didn’t know you then as I know you now.”
While he says he would decline the case now, ultimately, he says he stands by the decision he made at the time based on the information he had.
In Italian, he states, “I confirm the position I took as prosecutor. I decided on the basis of the acts. In life you, make mistakes. And I could have been wrong about some things. It is also true there’s the judicial truth and there’s the real truth. We can only do our best to ensure the two truths coincide.”
Their interaction is interrupted by Amanda’s baby, Eureeka, crying. Giuliano says, “Eureeka is beautiful. A gift from the heavens.” She’s transformed you, you know. Motherhood will do that” to which Amanda responds, “No it hasn’t transformed me, actually. Who you see is who I’ve always been.”
When she met back up with her mom, her mom asked if he would put out a statement or if he apologized. Amanda then responded that he wouldn’t which caused her mom to exclaim it was all “for nothing.”
Amanda also addressed this encounter in her second memoir Waiting to Be Heard which was published in 2025.
“I never set out to forgive him,” she said of the reason why she reached out to Giuliano.
“I think that’s an important point to make as I’m not a person whose faith, for example, compels them to forgive. That was not my goal. My goal was to understand him… there was this deep curiosity in me to try to understand this person who decided that I was a dangerous person, who deserved to spend the most years of my life in prison.”
The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox premieres on Hulu on Wednesday, August 20.
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