When was this crime committed? June 5?...and MK told the police she recognised the voice...whan was that? It was before Ricci died tho.
And they did not arrest him !Or name him as the alleged kidnapper , and prepare for trial. (I know he was in prison at the time of the voice identification)
The eye witness would be questioned in court to name him. (even if it was in black face)..but if they have the identity..where is the arrest?
And they had not charged him as of the time he died. But don't forget--at the time he died, they didn't know if Elizabeth was alive or dead. So what, exactly, would they have charged him with? Kidnapping? Suppose they'd done that. Suppose he'd lived, and gone to trial. THEN suppose her obviously-murdered body were found. No matter how the kdinapping trial had come out, Ricci would have been protected by double jeopardy. How the public would have howled! "You idiots, you let a murderer get off with just a kidnapping trial!"