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Yes, even if the loan/repo person was one of those sleazy "pawn your title" places, those places apparently are doing business within the law. (Though they are still sleazy.) So there would be a paper trail, and I agree such a person/company would probably come forward.

But what if Ricci's borrowing, or buying on credit with jeep title as collateral, wasn't the legal type? What if it was a deal with a narcotics trafficker? NO WAY is some narcotics trafficker going to come forward and clear up the mystery, b/c narcotics trafficking can land a person in jail for FOREVER.

To complete the scenario that Ricci's jeep was "repossessed" from Neth's on May 30 b/c Ricci owed money to a heroin trafficker, let's consider Moul's reaction. There was no hue and cry by Moul or the Riccis when the jeep was taken from Neth's on May 30. We don't know who took it. Notice Moul had much less to say about whoever took the jeep out on May 30, whereas he went into all sorts of detail about who brought the jeep back on June 8 (Ricci.)

Moul is described in one article as "street-smart," and that's probably accurate, what auto repair shop owner isn't at least somewhat street-smart? Maybe Moul knew or suspected that Ricci's dealer had "repossessed" the jeep right out of Moul's lot, on May 30. He sure isn't going to raise any fuss, and risk angering, or blowing the anonymity of, a narcotics trafficker. Moul would know that if one ticks off a narcotics trafficker by revealing the trafficker's name or any of the trafficker's doings, one can easily be found dead soon after.

Now for the discrepancy in mileage on the jeep when it returned to the shop. If you were a drug dealer who had taken some customer's jeep b/c that rat didn't pay you what he owed you, would you be all conscientious about not letting anyone use the jeep while you had it? No. Being a drug dealer/criminal, you might very well decide to use or loan out the jeep any way you pleased.

Or maybe Ricci quickly scrambled and got up the money he owed the drug dealer, and the dealer returned the jeep to him. Maybe then Ricci took a drive somewhere (for legal or illegal purposes.) Maybe Ricci put those miles on the jeep after he got it back from its "repossession."

If any of this is accurate, did Ricci pay off his drug debt b/f or after June 5? Because if he hadn't paid it by June 5, and gotten his jeep back, then he didn't have a jeep with which to transport Elizabeth--if he's the one who took her.