Amanda Knox

I love that idea.

I love that idea. Start something new.

I love that idea. Start something new.

I love that idea. Start something new.

I was in a grocery store in Hilo buying milk for my toddler when I saw the newspaper at the checkout stand. I recognized the expression on Ian's face, the struggle to grasp that he was actually free. And in that moment, the grocery store around me took on the surreal feel it had when I first came home, a feeling I knew Ian would experience soon enough.

I was in a grocery store in Hilo buying milk for my toddler when I saw the newspaper at the checkout stand. I recognized the expression on Ian's face, the struggle to grasp that he was actually free. And in that moment, the grocery store around me took on the surreal feel it had when I first came home, a feeling I knew Ian would experience soon enough.

the seemingly endless choices after a world of deprivation. Even just the color palette of a place like this, with its bright fruits and vegetables and packaging, was a shock after years of gray concrete and steel. In the blink of an eye, Ian went from a prisoner of the Saguaro Correctional Center in Arizona to a free man back in his home of Hilo, Hawaii.

the seemingly endless choices after a world of deprivation. Even just the color palette of a place like this, with its bright fruits and vegetables and packaging, was a shock after years of gray concrete and steel. In the blink of an eye, Ian went from a prisoner of the Saguaro Correctional Center in Arizona to a free man back in his home of Hilo, Hawaii.

He walked out of the courtroom, not in shackles like he had walked in, but hand in hand with his mom and dad, who for the last 30 years since all this started, had been mourning the life they all lost. After years in prison, stepping into the outside world is like stepping through the looking glass. There's a distorted surreality to the mundane.

He walked out of the courtroom, not in shackles like he had walked in, but hand in hand with his mom and dad, who for the last 30 years since all this started, had been mourning the life they all lost. After years in prison, stepping into the outside world is like stepping through the looking glass. There's a distorted surreality to the mundane.

A mailbox or a key can take on magical significance. A crowd waiting for a bus can become terrifyingly claustrophobic.

A mailbox or a key can take on magical significance. A crowd waiting for a bus can become terrifyingly claustrophobic.

Having been convicted in 2000, Ian was sentenced to life behind bars at the start of the new millennium, just a year before the first iPod was released, and nearly a decade before social media platforms like MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter transformed the way we communicate. Even in 2011, when I was acquitted, I was baffled by touchscreens.

Having been convicted in 2000, Ian was sentenced to life behind bars at the start of the new millennium, just a year before the first iPod was released, and nearly a decade before social media platforms like MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter transformed the way we communicate. Even in 2011, when I was acquitted, I was baffled by touchscreens.

I'd missed the rise of Obama and our intro into the iconic Taylor Swift and a million other things. Compared to me, Ian had so much more to catch up on.

I'd missed the rise of Obama and our intro into the iconic Taylor Swift and a million other things. Compared to me, Ian had so much more to catch up on.

I'm Amanda Knox, and this is Three. Chapter 6, Unknown Male Number One. Only four days after his release, Randy Roth and Ken Lawson of the Hawaii Innocence Project have dinner with Ian.

I'm Amanda Knox, and this is Three. Chapter 6, Unknown Male Number One. Only four days after his release, Randy Roth and Ken Lawson of the Hawaii Innocence Project have dinner with Ian.

A few days after that dinner, I met Ian for the first time as we shared the stage at a Hawaii Innocence Project event to educate law students about the causes and costs of a wrongful conviction.

A few days after that dinner, I met Ian for the first time as we shared the stage at a Hawaii Innocence Project event to educate law students about the causes and costs of a wrongful conviction.