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Among other things, they found his bloody fingerprint on a sofa cushion and his unflushed feces in the toiled (identified by DNA). Guede clearly was involved in the murder.

I'm trying to figure out how the police identified Guede. Amanda and Guede were friends.

From the beginning, the police concluded that Meredith Kercher was killed by more than one assailant. She had wounds from two different knives. The bruises on her wrists indicated that she had been held down with great force and the lack of any blood or skin on her fingernails suggested she had not been able to strike back at her attacker(s), yet all of her clothing had been torn from her body, suggesting that one person held her down while least one other stripped her.

Judge Giancarlo Massei, Judge Paolo Micheli, and the Supreme Court of Cassation all concluded that multiple perpetrators murdered Meredith Kercher. The DNA mixed with Kercher's blood in the bathroom did not belong to Guede.At the time of Meredith’s murder, Rudy Guede had no known arrest record, no criminal history, was not found to possess drugs or drug paraphernalia, although he admittedly smoked marijuana. He's termed a "drifter" by the public relations firm hired by Amanda Knox's parents in 2007, yet he was renting his own apartment at the time of the murder.

You'll hear that Guede has a 'past history with knives.'

The story behind that claim is this. Earlier in the year of the murder, Guede was spotted walking out of the principal's office in a local Milan school. He was detained. When the police searched his backpack, they found a laptop and a knife. The laptop was later identified as having been stolen from a Milan law firm. Guede claimed he had purchased it. No charges were pressed against him and he was released by the police. Guede had no other history of a fascination with or use of knives.

Guede has changed certain details of his confession several times, but his confession has generally been that he was present when Kercher was murdered, that he had sexually assaulted her, but that Knox and Sollecito were present and wielded the two knives.

At the trial were Guede was convicted, the trial judge ruled that Knox and Sollecito were accomplices to the murder. This was an entirely different trial than the one that's at issue now.

One other curious detail is that Knox supporters claim Guede entered Kircher's apartment by climbing through a shuttered window, facing the street, 13" off the ground, while holding a 9-pound rock in one hand. This is where the evidence that the rock and broken glass were on top of the simulated burglary comes into play.

Guede has confessed that entered the apartment through the front door with Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox, that he sexually assaulted Kircher, and that Sollecito and Knox stabbed Kircher to death.

One other detail that's often not presented is that fact that Patrick Lumumba had employed Amanda Knox and was helping her get her work visa. He had cut back her hours to two days per week, allegedly because of poor work performance. The day of the murder, he called Knox and asked her not to come to work that night.

Some speculate that's why Knox named Lumumba as the killer.

Again, the Italian jury found Knox not guilty - but it's simply not the case that there was no evidence against. I'm satisfied that the jury found her not guilty initially, but I know that there are plenty of intelligent legal minds who believe Knox and Sollecito were involved in the murder.