Crime Time
Episode 194
Amanda Knox Acquitted in Italy + Germanwings Co-Pilot’s Mass Murder
Amanda Knox was acquitted of all charges on Friday by Italy’s highest court following a nearly eight-year legal battle over the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher. We look at the false imprisonment of Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, as well as the suicide of the Germanwings co-pilot and how mental illness factored in with retired FBI SSA Jim Clemente in this uncensored episode of Crime Time with host Allison Hope Weiner.
Episode Breakdown
00:01 Welcome Jim Clemente to Crime Time.
01:00 The overturning of the Amanda Knox murder convictions.
02:15 The shoddy police work in Meredith Kercher’s murder.
05:22 The interrogation of Amanda Knox.
07:26 The prosecutors presenting false evidence against Knox.
09:00 Why do people hate Amanda Knox so much?
11:45 Why Clemente believes what Knox said in the interrogation.
13:15 Knox’s response to her confession during the interrogation.
14:40 What can be done about Knox and Sollecito’s false imprisonment for four years?
17:50 Why is Rudy Guide not being held accountable for the murder?
19:35 The suicide of the Germanwings co-pilot.
20:40 Are those with suicidal tendencies prone to telling someone about it?
22:33 A psychological autopsy of the Germanwings co-pilot.
25:12 How does his conversations with his ex-girlfriend show how he is as a person?
27:10 The co-pilot wasn’t able to leave a suicide note.
28:40 What can be done to make sure this doesn’t happen again? Did 9/11 make us overly cautious?
29:55 The technological freeze on airplanes.
32:30 Autopilot can take off and land the planes.
34:25 What does the co-pilot’s silence in the cockpit mean?
36:42 Thank you and goodbye.
Guest Bio
Jim Clemente is a retired FBI agent and current advisor, writer and producer for the TV series “Criminal Minds.” A graduate of Fordham University School of Law, Jim was the head of the Child Sex Crimes Prosecution Team in Bronx County for the New York City Law Department. As a result of undercover work that led to the imprisonment of a child sex offender, Clemente was recruited into the FBI. From 1998 until October 2009 he was a Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico, Virginia. He is an expert in the fields of Sex Crimes Investigations, Sex Offender Behavior, Child Sexual Victimization, and Child Pornography. Clemente has investigated and consulted on thousands of cases involving the violent and sexual crimes, sexual victimization of children, and he has interviewed hundreds of victims and offenders. He has also testified as an expert witness and lectured on these topics across the country and around the world.
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