Nima Momeni
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57 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Nima Momeni’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I didn't mean for this to happen. To the entire planet, please forgive me.
Kintu Sukaroi is a kind of Japanese ceramic style which means to repair with gold. When a ceramic piece breaks, an artisan will fuse the pieces back together again using liquid gold or gold dust lacquer. And each piece becomes more beautiful because it has been broken.
I didn't mean for this to happen. Forgive me, George. Forgive me, Torres family. Forgive me, Judge Kranich. To the entire planet, please forgive me.
Was this murder for hire? Did someone know that he had plans for something?
Here I was before this house that was all over the headlines called the House of Horrors. And it turned out to be all of that.
Hey, Andrea. How are you?
Oh, I so well remember standing there looking at that little building, Andrea. Here's Perugia, this medieval beauty of a town known for making chocolate and educating students. And yet here I was before this house that was all over the headlines called the House of Horrors. And it turned out to be all of that.
Well, our most interesting stop on that trip, we went to the office of the chief prosecutor. And he sat us down and he took us through this very lurid operatic theory of the crime. He said there were three people involved here. It was three on one. It was a sex game gone wrong.
Amanda Knox holding the victim with a knife under her chin, her boyfriend of just a few days, an Italian boyfriend, and a third man who sexually assaulted the roommate. And it all took place in that little cottage, the House of Horrors.
The Italian authorities leaked every bit of information I think they had at the time, especially to the British tabloids. The media had a field day when it found Amanda's MySpace webpage. Her online nickname was Foxy Noxy. Who was Foxy Noxy, this young woman seen in her high school photo playing soccer? And it was nothing more than that. That was an allusion to her ability to play soccer.
But somehow this appellation that she was known as Foxy Noxy became this portrayal of a promiscuous young American woman.
Exactly. The court of public opinion had decided, we've seen her in the paper every day. What is she doing? Giggling while she's buying lingerie with her boyfriend. What is the story we hear about being in the police station doing cartwheels? It all added up to a guilty on that side of the Atlantic.
She didn't. They bring her in, and she doesn't have an attorney, and she's being interrogated by the homicide detectives in Italian. And she gives up what they said at the time was something like a confession, where she seemed to implicate herself by being in the house. She recalled the screams of Meredith. And the other thing that happened is that they said, who is the third man?
And Amanda Knox, under interrogation, gave up the name of her boss, the owner of a small cafe where she part-time waitressed in town. And she said, he was the guy. He's your third man. None of those things turned out to be true.
I wasn't in Italy at the time, but I was watching the coverage, of course, and I remember feeling so sorry for her. She was so disturbed. Her face was just—it revealed everything that was going on.
Sobbing, sobbing at her table. And just like that, it was over. 26 years for Amanda, 25 for her one-time boyfriend.
Well, it goes to an appeals court. And here it's very interesting because everything shifts to Amanda Knox's favor. They throw out all of the forensic evidence as junk science, incompetently collected and processed. And then there's a second trial. And once again, she was found guilty. And then the appellate court did something interesting.
They not only said there is not enough evidence to support a guilty verdict, they said she did not do it. You've got the wrong person here. So after nearly four years in prison, she was completely exonerated.
The boyfriend was let go, too.
I think you could say that the events of her early 20s have really shaped the person she is today. She's living back in Seattle, as I understand it. She's married with children and has become a vocal advocate for those who are wrongfully accused, wrongfully convicted. And yes, she went back to Perugia to revisit it all. It's not a case that she lets go.
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