Probe Into Missing Girl Focuses on Neighborhood Wednesday, June 12, 2002 BY KEVIN CANTERA THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
After sifting through thousands of leads since Elizabeth Smart disappeared from her Salt Lake City home a week ago, police said Tuesday they have a new focus in tracking down the 14-year-old 's ab- ductor.
"We don't have an identified suspect but we do have an analysis of what this suspect is like . . . We may have already talked to the suspect," said Salt Lake City Police Chief Rick Dinse, adding: "We are encouraged that we will solve this case."
He said detectives will "re-canvass" the Smarts' Federal Heights neighborhood because police "believe the suspect is still in the area," but added: "We have not excluded anyone."
The new focus is based on a forensic examination of the home, a criminal profile created by FBI behavioral specialists and numerous interviews with Elizabeth's family -- including three separate questionings of the 9-year-old sister who told police she saw the gunman snatch Elizabeth early June 5.
Investigators on Sunday administered a polygraph to Ed Smart, Elizabeth's father, but have refused to comment on the results. Other members of the family have not been given lie detector tests, but police held out the possibility of that happening.
"We believe [the suspect] is somebody who has the ability to do it again," said Dinse, who declined to release further information about the suspect, who has been described as soft-spoken, about 5-foot-8, with dark hair. He reportedly wore white pants, a white baseball cap and light jacket.
"We've given all the description out that we think is helpful at this point," Dinse said.
Since Elizabeth's disappearance, police dispatchers have been swamped with around 6,000 tips from across the country, including a New Jersey "clairvoyant" who said the girl is alive and being held hostage, and an Idaho woman who suggested police question her ex-husband, a convicted child predator.
In addition, officials from the Utah Department of Corrections have given police a list of dozens of names of known sex offenders on probation or parole "who are known to target the same general age [as Elizabeth] with a history of break-ins," said spokesman Jack Ford.
On that list is the name of a man who fits the suspect's description and recently had a delivery job in the Smarts' neighborhood. The man -- convicted of aggravated sexual abuse of a child in 1994 -- has failed to check in with his probation officer in the past month as required, said Ford, who added: "That is not so uncommon."
Wonder where Sickler worked in 1994?
Does anyone know the age of the milkman?? Could this be him wearing a white/beige baseball cap, also check out the description listed in the article. There's a pix of Charlie Miller on this site--
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/12/utah.teenager/?related
For some reason, I can't view the Charlie Miller that is pictured here...Is this the same person?
http://corrections.utah.gov/asp-bin/sexoffender.asp?offender=78070&addrid=0&jurs_flg=U&name_id=193596
Name and Address
MILLER, Charles H Iii
Not Available
Address Date: Not Available
Physical Description
Ethinicity: Unknown Sex: Male
Height: Not Available Weight: Not Available lbs
Eyes: Unknown Hair: Unknown
DOB: 2/11/1975 Age: 27
Alias(es)
MILLER, Charles H
Current Vehicles
No Current Vehicles on File
Sex Offenses Offense: Sex Abuse Of A Child
Convicted: 1993-01-05
Degree: Compact Felony
Counts: 1