Amanda Knox Hosts New True Crime Podcast

Amanda Knox's focus on "reasonable doubt" stems from her own widely publicized legal battle. She spent nearly four years in an Italian prison after being wrongfully convicted of the 2007 murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, before being definitively exonerated by Italy's highest court in 2015. The subject of her podcast, Lucy Letby, was a neonatal nurse in the UK found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others between 2015 and 2016. Her methods included injecting infants with air, overfeeding them with milk, and poisoning them with insulin. Letby was arrested in 2018 after hospital consultants noticed an alarming rise in infant collapses and deaths when she was on duty. A subsequent police investigation delved into her entire nursing career. Following a 10-month trial, Letby was handed 15 whole-life sentences, one of the most severe penalties in the British legal system. Evidence presented against her included handwritten notes, which the prosecution characterized as a confession, stating "I killed them on purpose because I'm not good enough to care for them" and "I AM EVIL I DID THIS." Despite the conviction, some journalists and medical experts have questioned the strength of the evidence, a viewpoint Knox's podcast aims to explore. This has drawn parallels to other cases, like that of Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk, who was wrongfully convicted of murder and later exonerated. Since her release, Knox has become an author and activist for the wrongfully accused, hosting other media projects that examine the "gendered nature of public shaming."