Posted on 08/30/2002 8:48:33 PM PDT by stlnative
I would expect that soon after Richard's funeral that there will be a press conference where much of the circumstantial and direct evidence that LE has on Ricci will be released. The only information that they may withhold is data that would still be useful in prosecuting his co-conspirators. I am not sure if this person or persons have been identified or not. The press conference will give us a better idea on that matter. As far as closing the case for the family, that won't come until Elizabeth is found and anybody that was involved in the crime would need to be prosecuted and incarcerated. Total closure for the family won't come until then.
If they suspected an associate of his rather than him, they would have dealt with Ricci by now to get the associate identified.
The family has said that Richard was most unhelpful in clearing matters up. I think that LE's play was to try to find Elizabeth's body and hopefully find evidence at that crime scene that would point directly to Richard and the Jeep. Once they had that then they would have been in a better position to get Ricci's cooperation. The case against him was largely or wholly circumstantial. A career criminal would understand that without solid evidence they would never charge him with the crime. Richard had nothing motivating him to give up his accomplice.
Ed has stated on many occasions that he had no idea that Rick was a felon. A friend of Ed's in the construction business had referred Ricci and Ed felt that he was probably alright. Also, Richard was a con man and was able to charm people.
I wouldn't blame Ed for not admitting it now if he knew.
You have spent a fair amount of time defending Ed in this forum. Why are you starting to doubt his truthfulness now?
It will be interesting to find out the details of how the investigation proceeded. I'm sure that mistakes were made along the way but I feel that Ed probably didn't mention the Jeep in the beginning. We will find out what transpired, probably sooner rather than later now that Richard is gone.
They didn't need to arrest him because he was already incarcerated. They didn't need to charge him because they were still building their case.
Mary Katherine has told them WHO IT IS.
I don't remember what we've discussed in the past but there are two circumstances that arouse my ire:
1) People that are nearly intoxicated with their joy in printing statements or transcripts of Ed Smart and in a juvenile fashion going down the list and slamming him and accusing him of lying in everything he says. IMHO this poor man and his family have suffered enough with this horrible tragedy that has been perpetrated on them without having to endure this kind of immaturity.
2) People that are dishonest and will continue to post false information favorable to whatever view they're trying to sell even when the facts have been shown to them over and over. varina davis and Bella are the worst perpetrators of this. They have a common thread that they are continually coming up with accusations that Ricci is completely innocent, could not have been involved, the Jeep story on Jun 8 is a fabrication of LE, etc. This group believes for sure Elizabeth ran away from home with a guy she was hot for and MK lied to protect her and any other vile, unsubstantiated, contrary to the facts, out of the sewer position they can imagine. They also believe Uncle Tom Smart assisted in the kidnapping. This is the crowd that lacks the logical perspective to look at all of the inputs in the case and confine their speculations to the rational. There is nothing wrong with speculations, as long as they are documented as such and are not malicious to the family and do not defy logic.
Semper Fi.
Mary Katherine has told them WHO IT IS.
I'm sorry Neenah, I'm not quite following what your saying here. Would you elaborate a bit. Thanks
You're a disgrace! If you read the MANY boards on the net, you'd find that there's MANY people who are speculating the SAME as we are, plus more. So take your prozac and stop accusing people of things as you've been doing from the beginning of this. Isn't it a shame that you like to hide what people are saying, especially people from SLC about this case, without these boards and the people posting what they know, the people who aren't from SLC wouldn't know any of it, and things would be kosher then, wouldn't it. Must be something hidden that you're worried about coming to surface. Maybe you ought to take a slow boat to SLC and try to control what's being said!
If this is true, then it was Ricci. As Sandude has reasoned better than I care to try to repeat.
As I've said before I have a problem with this view. Hasn't Ed said on several occasions recently that if Ricci wasn't the kidnapper he's sure he was involved in some other way? And the way he says it gives me the impression he believes the way I do, that Ricci was not the one that went in the house but was an accomplice.
Bella, why don't you post some of this stuff again so people here can get a flavor of the kinds of things you post here. Thank you.
Sure. First, we do not have factual proof that Elizabeth is dead, so we can't address the perp as the "Killer", and second...Lois Smart said that Mary Katherine identified the voice of the perp who took Elizabeth..so who are they looking for?..THE PERSON WHO TOOK HER..right?
Well, then, Mary Katherine told them who the voice belonged to. (That has been given out in print as quotes from Lois)...as of now, we do not know if a sketch has been done by Boylan. But the "voice" has been given a "name", cause MK recognised it.
So in essence, MK gave them the name of the man who took her sister.
I certainly wouldn't be surprised if he didn't tell the truth about something this embarassing. And I think you yourself have commented how Ed was a little bit cheap, cutting corners and hiring people and paying them cash and all. A lot of people are ex-convicts.
We will find out. Neither you nor I know who Mary Katherine saw. Until then, all we know is that that little precious 9 yr. old saw who it was.
I never stated such a thing, you just did, and is your inner thoughts coming out. Get a life and stop twisting comments of posters! We all know your game!
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