Amanda Knox and Rudy Guede were two suspects in the killing of Meridith Kercher in Peurgia, Italy back in 2007.
How Amanda Knox even knew Rudy Guede seems to be unclear, and the more you look into it, the more bizarre the whole case becomes.
Rudy came to Italy from the Ivory Coast with his dad. He was eventually adopted by a rich Italian family when his dad returned to the Ivory Coast, so he wasn't the typical "drifter and casual robber" that the media has made him out to be.
There are some suggestions he'd fallen out with his adopted family after years of misbehaviour and wasted opportunities, but none of this stuff makes it into the papers very often.
Just like the issue in question here: how Amanda even knew Rudy.
It seems Rudy used to play basketball and hangout with international students in Perugia, and and probably sold drugs on a small scale on the side.
To me, this seems like the most feasible way Rudy could have met Amanda, Raffaele, or Meridith.
And according to prosecutors, Rudy - along with Amanda and Raffaele - had tried to instigate a sex game, that Meridith refused to take part in.
If that is true, that suggests a degree of familiarity between the aggressors.