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Smart Family Keeps Elizabeth’s Story Alive Six Months After Her Kidnapping
Dec 5, 2002 12:29 pm US/Mountain
Six months ago today, on June fifth, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her bedroom in her Federal Heights home. People all over the country followed Elizabeth's story.
Even today, Elizabeth's parents, Ed and Lois Smart, were on national television.
"We want Elizabeth back. We want her back. We want this whole thing to be over with," Ed Smart said.
Ed and Lois Smart have lived a nightmare of not knowing for six months. In an interview on the CBS Early Show, the Smarts said their family just takes it a day at a time.
"We had her birthday and that was a difficult time. There definitely is a void in our family. We miss her," Lois Smart said.
Since Elizabeth's kidnapping, police have sifted through 16-thousand leads and tips. Volunteers have searched on foot and Ed Smart has tirelessly kept Elizabeth's story before the media.
All hopes of breaking the case seem to have gone to the grave with the death of Richard Ricci the "Main" suspect in the kidnapping. Ricci was a convict handyman who did work at the Smart home. Ed Smart gave a Jeep to Ricci as payment for some of that work. He died after he suffered a brain hemorrhage.
"The fact that two of his previous co-horts from a robbery said that he was planning to burglarize our home and asked for their help kind of points the finger at him," said Ed Smart.
Trying to track Ricci’s movements and the whereabouts of his Jeep in the time before and after the abduction has been a major part of the investigation. People who helped Ricci take the Jeep in and out of a repair shop are of particular interest.
Even with Ricci's death, police believe other people know what happened. Their focus now, who was the woman who made a phone call to Neth's Auto to arrange the pick-up of Ricci's Jeep just days before Elizabeth's kidnapping?
And who was the man Ricci met after he returned the Jeep to the repair shop.
"Even though Richard is dead there is someone else, he worked with someone else, we need to find that person." Lois Smart said.
More than 100 police officers and FBI agents initially worked the kidnapping full time. With only six investigators working the case now police still feel it's only a matter of time before they solve this case.
A reminder, there is a 250-thousand dollar reward for Elizabeth's safe return and a 25-thousand dollar reward for information leading to an arrest. The tip hotline number is 800-932-0190. For information on the web click here for Elizabethsmart.com