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That's not necessarily true. LE has some forensic evidence, else Dr. Lee would not have been called in. It may not have linked directly to Ricci -- or it may have, but since he has been in the house for legitimate purposes, it may not have been conclusive.

Also, Ricci may not have been the abductor who went into the house. He may have been one of the perps, though, and certainly of every player we know about, he's the most likely to have been involved.

I'll tack the fingerprint stuff on here. Each person has unique fingerprints. This means that your fingerprints have a pattern characteristic only to you. That's why fingerprint evidence is great! It proves that only one person could have left those prints.

If your fingerprints are on a gun, and you tell me you have never seen the gun, I have proof positive that you are lying.

Thee is nothing unique about having no fingerprints. Fingerprints are left by oil deposits from the skin, and I do not know whether the ability to leave oil deposits from the fingertips is destroyed when the skin is destroyed -- perhaps what is left is scar tissue, hence no oil deposits would be left. At any rate, whatever "prints" are left at a scene, they would not identify anyone, except after the fact as a bit of circumstantial evidence only. Standing alone, that evidence would be insufficient to convict anyone.

LE has some forensic evidence, else Dr. Lee would not have been called in.

I believe that Lee was brought in by the Smart family, not by LE. and you are right, there has to be some forensic evidence, but apparently none of it pointed to ricci as Chief Dinse stated or they would of charged ricci.

Lee was called in by Ed Smart. Lee confirmed that the screen was cut from the inside. Ricci's prints were not found in the Smart house. Mitchell's prints were not found in the Smart house. Barzee's prints were not found in the Smart house.