[Sherlock]

Ricci was not the guy that went in the house and took Liz. But there's no doubt the guy that did was an associate of Ricci. He had at some point heard Ricci's bragging about how easy it would be to break into the Smart home. He most probably got the key from Ricci in the Shriner's parking lot just before he drove up into Federal Heights. The middle of the night breakin, like Ricci's breakin of the Smart neighbors, the other house on the block he had worked on, and the small 9mm caliber pistol, same weapon used by Ricci in his bank robbery in November, place Ricci's planning all over crime.

The unfortunate circumstance of MK being in the bedroom and seeing the handgun and the police determining the screen was cut from the inside place the crime squarely in the lap of Ricci and his associates. Not to mention Ricci's stupid sideshow of taking the Jeep in, taking it out, parking it away from his home for a week, taking it back all muddy wearing a machette, and then denying he ever had it and refusing to tell police who picked him up at Moul's. Only the most die hard, logic free Ricci lovers would still be in denial of Ricci being in the middle of this at this point.

[lakey]

LAPD Fiction - by Jim Crogan, LA Weekly Writer. Detective made up evidence and got away with it

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Law and order Cajun style. Don't be soft with criminals, make up the evidence to make sure they get convicted.

"So the police can tell a suspect 'your prints were found on the murder weapon' when in fact the police have no such information. The technique can yield false confessions with inexperienced criminals or retarded people since they figure the police have them set up. The con-wise know that the police are blowing smoke if the con-wise are innocent."