John Walsh is very good friends with Jeanne Boylan. I wonder if she is the one that leaked to John what MK said about the intruder.
'America's Most Wanted' Points to New Suspect in Smart Kidnap
BY MICHAEL VIGH
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
The host of "America's Most Wanted" told a national television audience Monday that the only witness in the abduction of Elizabeth Smart may have seen a homeless roofer kidnap her older sister.
Though Salt Lake City police quickly denied John Walsh's account Tuesday, a Smart family spokesman refused to dismiss the potential lead.
"I'm not denying what [Walsh] said," said family spokesman Chris Thomas. "There's definitely some significance to this one."
Thomas said that the Smart family would release further information on the man in early January, adding that "once it's appropriate, they'll be making a statement."
Police have said since early in the investigation that former Smart handyman Richard Ricci is their primary suspect in the then-14-year-old girl's disappearance on June 5. Ricci died in August of a brain hemorrhage he suffered in his Utah State Prison cell, where he was held on a parole violation.
"Ricci is our primary suspect and remains that way," Salt Lake City police Detective Dwayne Baird said.
But Walsh said on CNN's "Larry King Live" that Elizabeth's sister Mary Katherine -- who feigned sleep in her sister's room during the kidnapping -- "has now said that she believes that Ricci wasn't the guy in [the bedroom] that night, that it may have been another guy that did some work on their roof."
Walsh described the man as an "itinerant" who worked for one day at the Smarts' Salt Lake City home several months before Elizabeth was kidnapped at gunpoint from her bedroom. The man apparently used an alias when he worked at the Smart home, and police have been unable to locate him.
Baird said investigators have known about him for months, adding that he is "on the same level of priority as several hundred people we've looked at."
Baird said police have no reason to believe the man was even in the Salt Lake City area the morning that Elizabeth was abducted. Still, they would like to talk to him.
Baird also said that any speculation that Mary Katherine has changed her story is "nonsense. That's inconsistent with everything we've found in connection with this investigation."
Walsh pledged to profile the man -- and the roofer's possible role -- on a future episode of his show, but no date has been scheduled.
"I hope that [Ricci] didn't take the secret of Elizabeth Smart to the grave with him," Walsh said.
Thomas added that the Smarts still believe their daughter is alive and are hoping that the holiday season will "soften someone's heart. There would be no greater gift than having Elizabeth back home on Christmas."
mvigh@sltrib.com
Thanks for the posts! Those articles might even be worthy of a new thread! I hope all had a merry Christmas and I wish all a happy New Year!
what makes you think the Boylan is friends with Walsh?...have you read that somewhere?
that would be interesting....
funny how a man who makes a living out of people's misery and who works for a particular network seems to be able to get what ever he wants from the Smarts while early on they refused Mark Klaus because he essentially worked for a network....hmmm????
I wish I knew how the Smart's could believe that Liz is still alive....wish I knew what they knew....and I sure wish and pray that they are right.....
why can't this itinerant worker be found?....
why do the police keep insisting on Ricci being the main focus?
so many unanswered questions...