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Smart Case, July 31, 2002
07/31/02 | Jolly Green

Posted on 07/30/2002 10:14:47 PM PDT by Jolly Green

Time Line
04/01/01 Sunday Ricci burglarizes a Smart neighbor's home taking various items.
06/05/01 Tuesday Ricci steals items from the Smart home while he is employed there as a handyman. Ricci is charged in July of 2002 of 1 count of theft related to the Smart incident.
05/30/02 Thursday ~ Ricci returns to pick up his Jeep at the auto repair shop before the shop has a chance to fully fix it He tells the repairman that it needed for an emergency.
06/04/02 Tuesday ~ Ricci is at work from about 9am to 5:30pm
~ Ricci claims he spends the evening with friends
06/05/02 Wednesday ~ 1:05am - 2 cars are spotted on the SLC Shriner's Hospital Parking Lot by a hospital security guard, two blocks from the Smart residence
~ 1:30am (approx) - Elizabeth is kidnapped from her home
~ 1:30am - Ricci claims to be in bed asleep with his with wife.
~ Ricci is scheduled to be off work all day today.
~ 7:21am - Rachel/Amber alert is issued and national media is involved.
~ 8:30am - Ricci and his neighbor talk about the kidnapping of Elizabeth, Ricci seems to know too much information about it.
~ Sometime during this day Ricci is visited by police in regards to Elizabeth's kidnapping as reported by Angela Ricci (Richard A. Ricci's Wife which is an ex-convict herself)
~ Ricci is seen by his neighbor digging a hole by his (Ricci's) trailer early in the morning. (heard the neighbor say this on TV)
06/06/02 Thursday ~ Ricci is scheduled to work from 9am to 5:30pm today, but instead works from 10:30am to 7:00pm
~ Police talk to Ricci this day about the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping. (The media is reporting this, so it could be wrong)
06/08/02 Saturday ~ Ricci returns the Jeep to the repair shop to get it fixed. The Jeep is muddy and the repair shop owner sees Ricci remove seat covers from the back of the jeep and place them into a plastic garbage bag that already contains other stuff in it. Also the repair shop owner said a muddy post hole digger was in the back of the Jeep, Ricci removes this also. Ricci has a man waiting across the street to give him a ride. Ricci takes the plastic bag and contents along with the post hole digger with him. Also there is 500 to 1000 extra miles on the Jeep since Ricci picked it up on May 30th, 2002.
06/14/02 Friday ~ Ricci is taken into custody for a parole violation, this being drinking while on parole and association with other ex-cons.
07/11/02 Thursday Formal charges are filed against Ricci (2 counts of theft & 1 count of burglary) on the theft & burglary of the Smart neighbors home which occurred in April 2001, and 1 more count of theft for stealing from the Smart home on June 6th, 2001.
Special thanks to Brigette for starting this timeline.


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Comment #161 Removed by Moderator

To: Neenah
>What time did Angela go to sleep?

I didn't hear a specific time but probably about 20 minutes after the Mormon missionaries left.
162 posted on 07/31/2002 7:51:33 PM PDT by Sherlock
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To: Bella
I've gotten use to Ed by now, so the only thing that stuck out was what Spore-gasm mentioned:

He hasn't seen the sketch (so that means there IS a sketch, he just hasn't seen it)

It sounded like there was a sketch, but the police hadn't shown it to Ed yet. Another weird event.

Normally, you would show the sketch to the family to see if it was someone they recognized.

163 posted on 07/31/2002 7:52:12 PM PDT by FR_addict
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To: varina davis
He also DID NOT answer LK's question about why not release the sketch -- just babbled about the expertise of Boylan.

Also, the last question LK asked him was what was the latest the police said, he said something about the cops working, blah, blah..like what?!

164 posted on 07/31/2002 7:55:49 PM PDT by Bella
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To: Sherlock
didn't hear a specific time but probably about 20 minutes after the Mormon missionaries left.

It is in transcripts, and news reports. She said she was in bed with Richard at about 10;30 when he went to sleep, she stayed up, in bed watching t.v. until about 1:00 or 1;30.

I know she has been in jail, I know about the drugs..but this is what she testified to the GJ..and on T.V and it has been quoted in the paper.

How did Ricci get E. up into the hills in one hour, where she screamed? (at 2:30 ) ??

165 posted on 07/31/2002 7:57:29 PM PDT by Neenah
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To: spore-gasm
And if Boylan had been brought in when Ed and Lois "begged" her (early in the case) perhaps the sketch that has been produced (according to Ed) would have been done. Now that it has, why not release it? Because the police are still "working" on it? What are they doing? Matting and framing it? Now that Mary Katherine has identified the voice (by whatever means), why hasn't the press covered that? There is a big ol' roadblock here and one of these days something will blast it out of the way and maybe we'll find out the truth.

My sentiments exactly. And I believe the problem is the police. I believe they know who went into the house (I think Ricci was an accomplice and participated in something ugly on Jun 8) but for some reason they don't want us to know. I think there's something really rotten about that but I'm not sure what it is. I also think LE probably recommended to Ed Smart that he not call Boylan in early and that is why the family backed down on it as politically as they could.

166 posted on 07/31/2002 7:58:30 PM PDT by Sherlock
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To: Sherlock
I also think LE probably recommended to Ed Smart that he not call Boylan in early and that is why the family backed down on it as politically as they could.

Why on earth, would the Police and the F.B.I. tell the family NOT to get a famous artist to NOT do a sketch from what the 9 yr old saw? She was instrumental in the Una Bomber,among other recent big fedral crimes, but they don't want her to talk to a 9 yr. old girl?

After the parents wanted her to? What?

167 posted on 07/31/2002 8:03:13 PM PDT by Neenah
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To: Neenah
>It is in transcripts, and news reports. She said she was in bed with Richard at about 10;30 when he went to sleep, she stayed up, in bed watching t.v. until about 1:00 or 1;30.

Puhleeze, Neenah. If you believe that I've got some oceanfront property for you in Florida. Why would Thurber, her friend, lie about that. He also said Angela went around the neighborhood later to make sure no one saw Rick leave that night so she would know no one would be disputing her testimony. She told Newhouse she didn't know if Rick had gone out or not.
168 posted on 07/31/2002 8:04:47 PM PDT by Sherlock
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To: Sherlock
How can you not know when Angela went to bed? She does not go to bed early. Ricci does. She went to bed around 1 or 1:30.

What are you in this thread for?

169 posted on 07/31/2002 8:04:55 PM PDT by lakey
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To: IamHD
Funny thing, I came across an article about this, and it implied, very much so, that this was done. If I can find it again, I'll post it.

I saw an article with the same thing..wasn't it done early on?? I've been trying to find that article..

I did find this article a bit interesting, I'd like to know who this police Captain Atkinson is and what's going on with the changes in their stories.--

Abductor of missing Utah girl didn't threaten her little sister, police now say
Wednesday, June 19, 2002

SALT LAKE CITY - The little sister who shared a bed with a 14-year-old girl who disappeared two weeks ago wasn't threatened by the kidnapper, police said, in a shift from what they initially reported.

After Elizabeth Smart was reported taken at gunpoint, police had said the kidnapper warned 9-year-old Mary Katherine Smart to remain quiet, and that the little sister waited two hours before alerting her parents.

But police who interviewed the youngster three times now say the man did not speak to the younger child or even realize she saw him. The girl apparently kept quiet because of something the kidnapper said to Elizabeth, police Capt. Scott Atkinson said Tuesday.

"The threat was not made to Mary Katherine," Atkinson said.

He said the police account changed as investigators with skills at interviewing child witnesses talked to the girl. Police also reviewed the witness's earlier two interviews with police, Atkinson said.

"I don't believe that she's changed her story," he said.

170 posted on 07/31/2002 8:05:30 PM PDT by Bella
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To: Neenah
>Why on earth, would the Police and the F.B.I. tell the family NOT to get a famous artist to NOT do a sketch from what the 9 yr old saw? She was instrumental in the Una Bomber,among other recent big fedral crimes, but they don't want her to talk to a 9 yr. old girl?

>After the parents wanted her to? What?

For the same reason the Police and the FBI didn't produce their own sketch.

171 posted on 07/31/2002 8:06:52 PM PDT by Sherlock
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To: Sherlock
Oh, yeah, Thurber's a great witness!

Can you present valid citations from all the neighbors?

172 posted on 07/31/2002 8:07:33 PM PDT by lakey
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To: lakey
lakey, are you Angela?
173 posted on 07/31/2002 8:10:07 PM PDT by Sherlock
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To: Sherlock
Why do you keep bringing up Newhouse? The police have discredited her.
174 posted on 07/31/2002 8:10:17 PM PDT by lakey
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To: Sherlock
I saw this post on that board earlier and wondered about this.
175 posted on 07/31/2002 8:11:11 PM PDT by Bella
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To: spore-gasm
If she didn't yell and Elizabeth didn't yell the probability is they knew the abductor,” King said.

He has that right. Did you sense disgust in LK tonite when asking questions?

176 posted on 07/31/2002 8:14:02 PM PDT by Bella
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To: Sherlock
"What do you people expect them to say in public, this is what the police have told them to do."

See post 155, ie:

I'll ask you again: Do you know this for a fact? That is, before you read that article; which was after you posted your hatred toward me and/or others.

177 posted on 07/31/2002 8:15:03 PM PDT by IamHD
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To: IamHD
Also, you would THINK that RR would have shaved, because he definitely looks sinister. "Hey, Richard, SHAVE for pete's sake!" :)

do you think that Smith told Ricci NOT to shave....afterall, if Ricci is the perp, why show up in public looking like the perp that might have been seen that night...the beard makes him look differant and perhaps unrecognizable......

178 posted on 07/31/2002 8:15:19 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Sherlock
No, I'm in Arizona. Where are you -- no state flag. And you joined the FR on 6/29/02! Why? FReepers have other interests than this thread.

Angela passed a lie detector test. Can you?

179 posted on 07/31/2002 8:16:07 PM PDT by lakey
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To: lakey
"Oh, yeah, Thurber's a great witness!"

Only when it suits the way a person thinks. I thought that the NE and the GLOBE were not to be believed? :)

180 posted on 07/31/2002 8:18:02 PM PDT by IamHD
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