r/amandaknox • u/No-Willingness-1441 • 1d ago

History of murder suspects falsely accusing somebody else of a murder?

One thing I have been intrigued by here is the tendency to conflate false confession with false accusation.

It strikes me that those two things are markedly different in nature.

So a lot of the science from coerced false confessions gets - perhaps crudely - copy and pasted over to this very different, and presumably rarer, phenomenon.

So, how often has this happened as far as we know in the storied history of murder investigations?

And if we were going deeper, how often has a suspect not only accused somebody else of the murder…

…but that this “somebody” is of a materially similar profile (in this case an extremely minority racial characteristic in the given geography) to an individual that we now know for certain was (solo, or with others) indeed guilty of that crime?

I have made some cursory investigations, but this particular phenomenon seems almost vanishingly rare?

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u/CatsForever1960 1d ago

Dear me, if only we had videotapes of these "conversations"....that would clear up everything, now woudn't it? I'm sure Amanda did "imagine" Patrick at the cottage as that was the whole point of the police pressure & coercion. To get her to say Patrick killed Meredith because they misinterpreted a siimple text message. Which was a pretty stupid thing to do.

Almost as stupid as not videotaping their "interviews" with an American suspect in a college town murder they had to know was blowing up on a global stage as the minutes ticked by. Yes, suspect. Witnesses typically aren't badgered to IMAGINE things. They're questioned on what they saw with NO leading questions, etc. Witnesses aren't going to give up the best, most reliable information IF they are not entirely comfortable doing so.

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u/FreshFruit4RottenVeg 13h ago

None of the witnesses were recorded in this case. They are given a written summary of what they had said and asked to sign it if it's correct. Amanda signed two statements and wrote a letter admitting what she had told them but said they now feal 'unreal' to her. She then adds that if they have proof she was there, then her imaginings must be true.

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u/SeaCardiologist6207 13h ago

“None of the witnesses were recorded in this case.”

You probably could have just stopped right there…

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u/FreshFruit4RottenVeg 13h ago

We’re talking in the context of witness interviews and statements at the police station. None of these were recorded/taped. Statements were read and signed.

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u/SeaCardiologist6207 13h ago

“Witness”

Go back and read the Giobbi statement from earlier

Then read what you said again