Smart Case, August 2, 2002

08/02/02 | Jolly Green

[Jolly Green]

Time Line
04/01/01	Sunday	Ricci burglarizes a Smart neighbor's home taking various items.
06/05/01	Tuesday	Ricci steals items from the Smart home while he is employed there as a handyman. Ricci is charged in July of 2002 of 1 count of theft related to the Smart incident.
05/30/02	Thursday	~ Ricci returns to pick up his Jeep at the auto repair shop before the shop has a chance to fully fix it He tells the repairman that it needed for an emergency.
06/04/02	Tuesday	~ Ricci is at work from about 9am to 5:30pm ~ Ricci claims he spends the evening with friends
06/05/02	Wednesday	~ 1:05am - 2 cars are spotted on the SLC Shriner's Hospital Parking Lot by a hospital security guard, two blocks from the Smart residence ~ 1:30am (approx) - Elizabeth is kidnapped from her home ~ 1:30am - Ricci claims to be in bed asleep with his with wife. ~ Ricci is scheduled to be off work all day today. ~ 7:21am - Rachel/Amber alert is issued and national media is involved. ~ 8:30am - Ricci and his neighbor talk about the kidnapping of Elizabeth, Ricci seems to know too much information about it. ~ Sometime during this day Ricci is visited by police in regards to Elizabeth's kidnapping as reported by Angela Ricci (Richard A. Ricci's Wife which is an ex-convict herself) ~ Ricci is seen by his neighbor digging a hole by his (Ricci's) trailer early in the morning. (heard the neighbor say this on TV)
06/06/02	Thursday	~ Ricci is scheduled to work from 9am to 5:30pm today, but instead works from 10:30am to 7:00pm ~ Police talk to Ricci this day about the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping. (The media is reporting this, so it could be wrong)
06/08/02	Saturday	~ Ricci returns the Jeep to the repair shop to get it fixed. The Jeep is muddy and the repair shop owner sees Ricci remove seat covers from the back of the jeep and place them into a plastic garbage bag that already contains other stuff in it. Also the repair shop owner said a muddy post hole digger was in the back of the Jeep, Ricci removes this also. Ricci has a man waiting across the street to give him a ride. Ricci takes the plastic bag and contents along with the post hole digger with him. Also there is 500 to 1000 extra miles on the Jeep since Ricci picked it up on May 30th, 2002.
06/14/02	Friday	~ Ricci is taken into custody for a parole violation, this being drinking while on parole and association with other ex-cons.
07/11/02	Thursday	Formal charges are filed against Ricci (2 counts of theft & 1 count of burglary) on the theft & burglary of the Smart neighbors home which occurred in April 2001, and 1 more count of theft for stealing from the Smart home on June 6th, 2001.
Special thanks to Brigette for starting this timeline.

[Soccer-Dad777]

WHEW, I found you good people! I have been searching for this thread for two solid days! Does anyone have any advice on how I can find you? I've been scrolling to the end of each forum to lead me here. SEARCH doesn't seem to do it...THANKS

[cherry]

"If the premise, that LE and the Smarts know who the perp is and believe he would not kill Liz, is true -- then wouldn't the abductor have to be someone the Smarts know so well that they believe he would not kill Liz? The perp would have to be a close family friend or relative,in that case. "

that reminds me of something....remember early on the cops...at least the media...were saying that they thought it was someone not quite right??..somebody not really smart...not retarded but slow in some way?

does anybody else remember this>?

[JudyB1938]

You are probably searching under News. You have to go to General Interest to do the search.

What I do is right click on the thread and save it to my desk top. Then I don't have to hunt for it when I come back to the computer. At the end of each thread will be the link for the new thread.

Hope that helps.

[lakey]

See MY COMMENTS on the upper right with your name? Click it. Make comments to keep threads coming up, or bookmark.

[sandude]

Our little forum has been moved to the General section of the FreeRepublic. Click on the General catagory and then do a search on "Smart". Also you can go to the upper right and click on "My Comments" or "New Posts to You" and it will bring up your posts and a link to these threads. Enjoy.

[cookiedough]

I don't recall that, but it does make sense out of the Smarts' comments about the person not being able to keep Liz and have a life with her and how he must return her to them (this is major paraphrasing).

At the time, I thought they were speaking to the perp as though he were a child: "No sweetie, you can't keep the puppy, she belongs to the neighbors and we have to give her back."

I think you are onto something here, Cherry.

[lakey]

In retrospect, I think we do need a handle on certain aspects of the church. Those fundamentalists, polygamists, may be a part of Elizabeth's disappearance.

Not long ago, someone posted that some of them are "jet setters" - have mucho money & are big investors in Utah's economy - money that is intertwined with that of the LDS. That could be why LE is holding back on showing a composite drawing.

[lakey]

...someone slow... No, I don't remember it. Wish I did.

[cookiedough]

Or maybe the Smarts' love their daughter so much they could not conceive of anyone not wanting to have a life with her, and they were in denial that something worse could, and likely would, happen to her.

Still, a person with below normal intelligence might not understand that he can't keep the girl.

[Sherlock]

Subject: Has anyone noticed that when the LDS are angry they will gang up like a pack of wolves? Date: Jul 21 17:50 Author:Sandy Mail Address: 1. Is it because they know that they have no good argument so they need their other bullies to pick on you? 2. Does anyone else notice that in the Elizabeth Smart daily conferences the family gets together with arms folded or locked like the family gang will force the perpetrator to send back Elizabeth? 3. I had a father who had my brothers and sisters gang up on me because I started to question the church. He was basically saying personal stuff that I revealed to him in personal trust. His intention was to make me look bad and not be part of the family "gang." Was he trying to put negative pressure on me to stay in line? 4. Does this come from communal thinking? Does it come from cult thinking? 5. What do you think? --------- Subject: They don't have the confidence to confront you alone, Date: Jul 21 18:05 Author:Dark Sparks Mail Address:ziffsword@aol.com but feel they can get you to conform by approaching you all at the same time. Ten little pieces of testimony outrank one large piece of evidence. Add to that the pressure to be a part of the family and they hope to humiliate you back into conformity. This is a tactic started by Brigham Young in frontier days and today is part of the culture of the mormon mind control machinery. Funny thing is, most momos do not realize that this is what they are doing. They feel like it is okay to do anything to get you back into the fold including embarrassment and guilt of any kind...whatever it takes. They never say to themselves, "What if I am wrong."

Uh, Bella, notice your Subjects are not Elizabeth Smart. This is an Elizabeth Smart forum. Please take your off subject hatred elsewhere.

[cookiedough]

Have there been other cases in which polygamists have kidnapped girls whose families have nothing to do with polygamy, in Utah or elsewhere? Were the girls found alive and well and returned to their families?

[lakey]

Not to my knowledge, but have only researched it once.
There's always a first time, though, particularly if a man became enamored with Elizabeth.

[cherry]

okay...if its not Ricci...could it be someone very old...who else would have hairy hands and talk nice and wear white pants and a golf cap....

[Vinomori]

You say you don't hate anyone, but it seems like you hate poor Sherlock.

[lakey]

Remember that Elizabeth played her harp at the Olympics. And it has to be someone that MK knew, therefore, her parents know him, also.

[lakey]

"Poor Sherlock" has said plenty of mean things to many of us. Don't "Poor Sherlock" that piece of granite - we're in the kitchen because we can stand the heat, so he/she can take it or get out.

[Jolly Green]

Gee, Bella, if we wanted to read the AOL boards we would move over there.

[cherry]

again...if its not Ricci ..and that could be a big if...if its not him,,,I posted early on that that same week .,,Tom Green was being sentenced ...remember that...

if you want an off beat scenario...could it be that its payback ....taking one of Slc's finest young women for revenge .....

[Sherlock]

At the time, I thought they were speaking to the perp as though he were a child: "No sweetie, you can't keep the puppy, she belongs to the neighbors and we have to give her back."

I noticed that in the first weeks, like she was talking to a child. About a month later she did it a few more times. But I don't see Mrs. Smart much anymore, her appearances are pretty infrequent.

[Sherlock]

We need some new facts in the case so we can discuss something more substantive than how many times Ed Smart said 'you know' in his last television appearance.