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if they knew he committed buglary April 2001, and possessed booze, or hadn't been to rehab,...why didn't they book him on June 5th, 2002, when they interviewed him?

I think his parole officer was giving him more than one chance, warning him, as such officers do, to stop using and start back with his drug testing or whatever it was he was skipping, and threatening to request that Ricci's parole be revoked. Same for the booze thing. Now, the burglary...that, to me, would lead the parole officer to immediately start writing up a revocation request. But when exactly did police notify the parole officer that Ricci had confessed to this burglary? How long after knowing that did it take b/f the parole officer dictated the letter or form to the sentencing judge, asking him to revoke parole?

And, as you've said, why did they date that Habitual Offender charge "June 6, 2002?" Why that particular date?

My problem with Ricci having done this has mainly been that the height thing was wrong. (The age thing was wrong, too, but a little girl would not be able to tell an adult's age that accurately.)

Someone freepmailed me this idea:

First, it's likely that the way police got the height estimate (5'8"--5'10") was by asking Mary K. to tell how much taller the man looked than Elizabeth was. Suppose Mary K. had said, "this much," indicating about 4 inches. Elizabeth is 5'6", so they would have said, okay, he was in the neighborhood of 4 inches taller than that--which would be 5'10".

But suppose Elizabeth already had on her running shoes at the time Mary K. saw them standing together? (If she did see them standing together.) Running shoes are known to have thick soles, to absorb shock. The shoes could have added as much as 2 inches to Elizabeth's height. So, if the man was 4 inches taller, and Elizabeth was 5'8" in the shoes, that means the man could have been 6'. Ricci was 6'. Maybe the police, or whoever, mistakenly added the 4 inches to Elizabeth's real height, instead of adding the 4 inches to Elizabeth's height while wearing running shoes.

Also, the freepmailer suggested that it is possible Elizabeth slumped a little b/c perhaps she had her arms in front of her--that would be a likely posture for some 14-yr-old girl who was not wearing a bra, and who would probably have felt funny about having some man looking at her while she didn't have a bra on. Seems to me that's a really big issue when one is a 14-yr-old girl. (Of course, with some people, it's a bigger "issue" than with others!)