Smart Case, August 1, 2002

08/01/02 | Jolly Green

[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.

[Sherlock]

>Yes, I agree, he does know what's going on.

Is Ed Smart the perp? Uncle Tom?

>And I've come to the conclusion that withholding what they know is a form of child abuse.

So MK is being abused because her parents aren't telling LE what she told them?

>He's relaying messages via media, assuring the culprit that Ricci can be made to take the fall.

Why, so he'll give Elizabeth back?

>Law enforcement: Well, one of the first things my pappy taught me was, "Follow the money." Also look to officials' egos.

Where do you think the money went? Is there a certain way you think officials are suspect here?

[Jolly Green]

Elizabeth Smart Case - August 2, 2002

[lakey]

I'll be so glad when you learn to think.

[lakey]

Once more, we are in agreement. :)

[cookiedough]

An LE guy on another show I saw tonight said that a guy who does burglaries at night, going into people's houses (like Ratliff did, by implication), may have sex on his mind too, and at some point the burglar goes from thinking about it to acting on it.

That was the LE guy's explanation for how one makes the leap from burglar to sex offender.

[cookiedough]

Yes, I remember. That sounds like some foul eatin' to me.

[Bella]

The ones you find most interesting are those who are not privy to case evidence and have no clue about this particular case.

Been spending lot of time on the phone with your cop friends in SLC? Repressing your thoughts and feelings??

[Bella]

Of course, she did, Lakey. Any child would. And any mentally competent parent would make sure every question they had was answered. The only way this would not have happened, is if there was some sort of complicity by one or more of the principles.

Exactly..

[Bella]

Which, of course, makes them much more objective than those who believe they have the facts, but have none.

So true..or they're in denial.

[varina davis]

The family and the media have characterized MK as being "terrified" and that's why she waiting - from this story it sounded like she was anything but. Comments?

Agreed. It sounded like she could hardly wait to go tell the parents.