Posted on 12/26/2002 2:56:18 PM PST by Palladin
KING: All right, let's talk about the Elizabeth Smart case, which the media has kind of left now. What is your best read on that tragedy in Utah?
WALSH: I spent yesterday by coincidence with Ed and Lois Smart. I had them on "The John Walsh Show" to kind of give an update to the case. You know, Ricci, the guy that was the main suspect, died in prison of an aneurysm. He's the guy that was the handyman at the house that put 1,000 miles on his pickup truck during the two days that she was missing. He was a burglar. He also had a rap sheet, which a lot of the media doesn't understand. He spent 10 years in jail. He tried to blow the head off of a cop with a shotgun. This is a real bad guy.
I hope that he didn't take the secret of Elizabeth Smart to the grave with him. I talked to Ed and Lois yesterday. I said, don't give up hope. Justice delayed isn't justice denied.
What's killing them is the fact of the not knowing. I think they're prepared for the worst. Most parents of missing children are prepared for the worst. But their young daughter has now said that she believes that Ricci wasn't the guy in there that night, that it may have been another guy that did some work on their roof, an itinerant guy that worked at a homeless shelter, and he may be a suspect in this. And I don't want to give away a lot of breaking information here, but "America's Most Wanted" is going to take a look at the Smart case, because I know one thing, we have been able to solve crimes after 10 years.
So I gave the Smarts, you know, the best encouragement I could and said, look, don't give up hope. We'll relook at the case. It is normal for the media tension to die down, and to try to have a good holiday. This is going to be the first Christmas without this beautiful girl, and the Smarts have five other beautiful children. So they're trying to hold that family together.
I said, you know, do the best you can with your five children. Don't give up hope, and, you know what, we'll take another look at this case and try to keep it alive.
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This is as illogical as all your posts, my dear TREGEN. I don't think it's quite possible that JG could cower behind the image of another poster.
Now if the network would play the tape of the 911 call....we would like to know if Ed described this incident to the Watch Commander as being a kidnapping at gunpoint. Specifically, was a gun mentioned? And, if so, why were people rushing around the neighborhood, knocking on doors, tramping through bushes, etc., searching for Elizabeth?
We've read reports (false, perhaps) that Elizabeth's parents first thought she might be at a neighbor's home.
You mentioned earlier that you know and talk to detectives. Are they on SLCPD or hired?
I ask because the Smarts are said to be monied, and hiring a private agent with many contacts would be my alternative to waiting for LE to get a handle on matters. Takes oodles of money, though.
As I have said before, your deductive reasoning skills are pathetic. You might want to follow the old adage: "It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool that to speak up and remove all doubt."
Do you know if anyone on CourtTV page has given info on how 911 messages are recorded?
In the old days before computers, urgent calls to a metropolitan police station were handled by the Watch Commander, just as they apparently are now in Salt Lake City. Back then, the officer on duty logged the call, in handwriting, and it was mechanically DATE and TIME STAMPED, then he dispatched a radio car, ambulance, etc., to the area. It wasn't unusual for him to dial all but the last digit of the proper phone number at the same time he was taking the emergency call, so no time would be lost.
For there to have been an error in the time of the Smart 911 call, from 2 a.m. to 4:01 a.m., is far beyond belief, and I'm surprised no one in media has questioned Chief Dinse on it.
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