I think the answer is that he was already there when she arrived, probably waiting in ambush for AK to come home. If he was in one of the other girls bedrooms (and was aware that she was not coming home that night) he could have just left through the window again if AK came back with company. If she came back alone she would have been raped. But, AK didn't come, instead MK came, went to her bedroom and started to take her shoes off. RG then comes out of the other bedroom, and attacks MK because she just happened to be there alone.
I think it is quite clear what happened. I don't see why the prosecution needs these elaborate largely unsubstantiated theories about what happened, when the simplest explanation was that RG was a rapist who knew that he had the chance to catch one of the girls alone, and took the opportunity. That sort of thing is a scenario that happens ALL the time, it is supported by the evidence, so why do we need an outlandish theory instead?
Yes, but, I'm just having a lot of trouble piecing this together.....
Ok first of all....you're going with the theory that his main intent that night ws to rape one of the girls. That would be the "waiting to ambush" part. Becaues if he was just going about his burglary and was unexpectedly interrupted by Meredith, I have outline that scenario in my post, and I believe there would have been many more signs of a struggle or something happening way before Meredith's bedroom. Which there is not sign of in evidence, all the evidence we have points to Meredith's bedroom. If you noticed, I went through scenarios of Meredith walking up on him depending on where he was in the house.
So to get to your scenario, we have to start with the assumption that his main goal was to rape, that's why he was purposefully hiding and lying in wait. So....he's waiting.....where is he waiting. To be waiting in Meredith's room, would mean he was specifically hunting Meredith down. To wait in Amanda's room, and then Meredith shows up, there would have been signs of a struggle in Amanda's room. Or whatever room he was waiting in.
We could go with the theory that he used his knife to threaten Meredith to walk to her room. But why would he want them to go to her room? What difference did it make to him, whether he raped her in Amanda's room, in Filomean's room, Laura's room, living room, hallway, etc.. Why take her all the way to her own room? Makes no sense. He could have done it anywhere.
Also, if Meredith sees him with a knife, let's say he's in Filomena's room, first thing she would do, IMO, is instinctively run back towards the front door. Rudy would catch her, Struggle would be somewhere there, between the bedrooms and the front door.
And wouldn't it make more sense for him to be waiting right by the front door, so he could grab the girl as soon as she walks in, rather than have her wander around the house and find him, and risk her somehow being able to get away? It does not make sense.
Also, let's say he's waiting in one of the rooms. Like I said, Meredith would have noticed the broken window, if not from light, then from the cold air draft. She would have immediately starting running towards the front door to get out of there, knowing she's home alone and someone has obviously broken into the house.
The struggle would have then been between the bedrooms and the front door.
I am just not getting how it ended up in Meredith's room, and the way it did with the evidence we have.
Please read this post and the last post I read about possible scnearios.
I feel like I have gone over many scenarios of lone-wolf Rudy, and none of them point to the struggle being contained in Meredith's room.