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"Someone who knew her"

But, see, Neenah, that doesn't let Ricci off the hook--and I now realize that you are not necessarily counting Ricci out. I'm not either. By all accounts, Ricci was a charming man. He could have become friends with Elizabeth. She could have trusted him. After all, her father trusted him, and I'm sure she saw that. I don't think her father would have said much, or anything, about his later suspicions that Ricci stole from them, in front of his children. I wouldn't let my children in on something like that, I wouldn't want them talking to their friends about it.

On the other hand, when you talk about prior posts I've made, one of my big theories was that Ricci was involved in some criminal enterprise (maybe methamphetamine lab, maybe an organized theft/burglary ring), working for/with some very dangerous people who might actually kill him if he told about it. This could be the real reason he wouldn't budge on telling what was done with the jeep. In fact, Scaredkat's post last night supports this idea.