Does anyone remember if Ed Smart's statement that Ricci 'potentially' had a key was before or after Ricci's cerebral hemmhorage? I think that would be significant. Interesting that this article implies Ed just informed the police of the potential key with the "That could explain some theories" line, I find that hard to believe. I find just about every statement the SLCPD makes in this case hard to believe.
Still, the Smarts question just how random the incident was. Three distinct similarities exist between the two incidents, Ed Smart said. First, the screen was cut in both windows. Second, both incidents occurred in the early morning hours. Those two details have been widely reported in the media, but until now no one has reported a chair being found outside the Smarts' kitchen window. "It was very unnerving," Ed Smart said of the similarities. "Basically it brought all of our kids who we'd gotten back into their rooms back into our room."
Certainly the timing is not accidental that with the death of Ricci they are now making known there was a chair outside the window at the Smart house like they had told us at the cousin's house. Even if it was a prank it would have had to have been an acquintance that somehow got insider details of the chair in Elizabeth's abduction. This timing does stink. I'm certain the Smarts would have no reason to hide the similarities. Unless the cousin gave out to her friends the information that the kidnapper used a chair in the Smart abduction both families had to have been petrified by this. Discussion of this and why the chair at the Smart house was not made public will go on for a long time, I'm sure.
The other interesting tidbit was Dinse's statements yesterday that there are other potential suspects and they are looking into possible connection between them and Ricci. For 3 months? Should be more from SLCPD on these 'other suspects' shortly.