questioned for two hours. he left the meeting and wrote everything down, including the time he went in and the time he left. which is why giuliano mignini s recollection of that meeting with preston is so puzzling. translator: it lasted about 20 minutes. no more than that. and it was the first time i had met preston. around 20 minutes. i interviewed doug preston, and that is just not true according to him. he said the interrogation lasted two hours. translator: i don t remember now how long he was interviewed for. i believe it was about 20 minutes. perhaps half an hour. perhaps who knows? about an hour. i d have to look at the statement. however, what is certain is that when you make a statement, that person must tell the truth, and i challenge some of the things he said. and let me read to you what he said about it.
the jury had deliberated for 13 hours. in a moment that haunts him to this day, curt knox heard the verdict in italian. guilty. these two kids were innocent, and to have them say guilty, it was just devastating. it was literally devastating. and, you know, i mean literally the people that were in the courtroom were kind of like ooh! doug preston is a best-selling author that dreams up chilling murder plots in his writing shack on the cold coast of maine. 11 years ago he had an idea to write a chilling tale, but in a warmer location. i moved to italy to write a novel, and we rented a house in the tuscan hills just outside of florence. his research began with
power to put me in jail for the rest of my life. preston says he was questioned for two hours. he left the meeting and wrote everything down, including the time he went in and the time he left. which is why giuliano mignini s recollection of that meeting with preston is so puzzling. translator: it lasted about 20 minutes. no more than that. and it was the first time i had met preston. around 20 minutes. i interviewed doug preston, and that is just not true according to him. he said the interrogation lasted two hours. translator: i don t remember now how long he was interviewed for. i believe it was about 20 minutes. perhaps half an hour. perhaps who knows? about an hour. i d have to look at the statement. however, what is certain is that when you make a statement, that person must tell the truth, and i challenge some of the things
techniques, aggressive questioning, asking to speculate, confronted with so-called evidence of criminal activity that police didn t have. fearing he would soon be arrested, in 2006 preston fled italy and has never returned. but the tables were beginning to turn for the prosecutor as the main witness against amanda knox was called into question. i ve always had to keep my eye on her. but, i didn t always watch out for myself. with so much noise about health care. i tuned it all out. with unitedhealthcare, i get information that matters. my individual health profile. not random statistics. they even reward me for addressing my health risks. so i m doing fine. but she s still going to give me a heart attack. we re more than 78,000 people looking out for more than 70 million americans. that s health in numbers. unitedhealthcare.
thought that they had extracted all kinds of really important confessions from them. preston says with the suspects in custody, the monster would kill again. police chased wild theories of a satanic cult. preston and spezi began to write of a lone killer and terrible police work. the book, you know, to be honest, really criticized their investigation very thoroughly, and it wasn t just criticism. it presented irrefutable evidence that the police were on the wrong track. before the book could even be released, police focused their attention on the authors. mario spezi s villa was raided, his notes confiscated and the journalist placed under arrest, though later released without charges. police surmised spezi knew so much about the killer that he just might be the killer. then preston s phone rang. i thought it was a joke. then they said, no, mr. preston, this is not a joke. we are coming to get you. this is obligatory.