If Ricci had been actively using illicit drugs at the time of his arrest, it would have been easily detected. Why would it not have been reported? Ricci was eager to stash something under Thurber's trailer. May have been drugs. May have been a gun. In any event, after Thurber caught him, he had to find another hiding place.
Oh, yeah, JG, digging under a trailer for all the world to see, in broad daylight no less, is just exactly what Ricci would have done after kidnapping Elizabeth, driving out in the toolies to dispose of her body - in how long did you say - 3 hours 40 minutes?
Why would he have waited till he returned home to dispose of the gun? Why wouldn't he have thrown it out in the desert?
As I asked you before, when did this late-blooming sex pervert have time to have "fun" with her?