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a key question would be.....did Ed submit insurance claims on any items that were "stolen" from his home...what were the items and were any of these items found at Ricci's or inlaws house...

could all this case be about a setup insurance scam....???? did Ed need money badly and did he arrange to have a little breakin....gee..sure convenient to have the garage door open and the alarm off.....did the breakin go badly....????

of course if that happened that way....no way would Ed want it to be known that he was involved....could he have arranged to have Ricci quietly killed... a man or relatively young years...???

far fetched??? sure.....so is the so simple idea that Ricci just came , took a willing teenager out, in front of a little sister who was so worried she came quietly to her parents bedroom up to two hours later....oh, and that gun.....

How about the fact the gunman stopped with Elizabeth in tow on the way out of the house and peaked in the brothers' bedroom? That new fact confirms to me the kidnapper had to have been a low life scumbag moron criminal like his partner Richard Ricci.

Well, I've thought it was unusual for a supposedly wealthy family to go to the trouble of building a large home that would house them comfortably, then up and sell it. Elizabeth was around 7 years of age when they moved there.

They have nice neighbors in an up-scale neighborhood. Judging by the work still going on at the time of Elizabeth's disappearance, the house was not totally finished.

Do the Smarts like perpetual chaos brought on by having workmen in & out, not to mention possible buyers, lookyloos, plus six children & their activities? Makes me tired to just think about it.

So, I think you are asking good questions, not far-fetched at all, cherry - Ed & insurance claims. What did he want stolen, leaving the garage door open & the alarm off?