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Investigators analyzing the bloody evidence left at the crime scene found an entirely new suspect. His name, Rudy Gide, a known petty criminal from the Ivory Coast, who fled to Germany shortly after the murder.

Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profiles. This is Jim Clementi, former New York City prosecutor, retired FBI profiler and writer, producer on criminal minds, as well as co-creator and producer on CBS's The Case of, on Benebramsey.

Today with me is Laura Richards, I'm a victim advocate and activist and I'm also director and founder of Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service and also co-creator and producer on CBS's The Case of, Jean-Benei Ramsey.

And I'm Lisa Zambetti, I'm the casting director for Criminal Minds and Criminal Minds Beyond Porters and I have a real interest in Real Crime and the minds that solve those crimes.

So we've been talking in this series about the murder of Meredith Kertcher and we left off last week talking about the motives.

What was actually the basis or the motive of this crime and was there a time when it changed? So Laura, I wanted to weigh in on what you think that was, the motive that created this.

I think as you know Jim, it's a really important thing for anyone to understand, particularly if they're working this type of case.

And as I previously said on our last pod, I've done quite a lot of research since and I remember the case I'm folding and of course what you see in the media and what the reality is are two very different things.

But I always say you might have the what, the where, the when. You might have the why, not always. You certainly don't get the who.

And you know one of the biggest challenges in a crime like this is the why.

You know what is motivating it. And I think that having looked at all of the, as much of the evidence as I have been able to see and the crime scene video and some of the photos and reading a lot of the material.

You know, it certainly strikes me that the primary motive of this particular crime and case is burglary.

And I know there's a lot that has been said about whether this burglary was a bone of fighting burglary or whether it was staged.

But I think from all things considered and from seeing some of the pictures and understanding the window and understanding the individuals involved, it certainly sounds like it was a burglary that then evolved into something else.

I agree. And if you, if we just talk about the burglary and and what, what that means, were it staged?

People who stage crimes to look like something else are people who have a connection to that location typically or to the person that was killed a known connection.

They were known to have been with that person at that time. So they want to change the nature of what happened into something that was not true.

So why would somebody we know that Brudiguet was in that house by his own admissions by the fact that he left his DNA all over the crime scene in quantity, not trace DNA in quantity.

Quantity and multiple location, multiple locations as well as his finger and pomprints and his shoe prints in multiple locations.

So for all those reasons, his own admissions, all the DNA and all the fingerprint and shoe prints in blood, in the victims blood, all over that, that house in that room, we know that he was there.

There's a point before that, isn't there? I think just when I sort of roll my memory back to how this case was covered in the media and we did talk about that quite a lot, the sexual element of this case was what was really prevalent.

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