Of course he did, it was the man's eulogy, for goodness sake. Didn't you ever hear the one about the man that died, and his wife & son were sitting in the front row at the funeral. The preacher got up and went into a long discourse of what a great man this fellow had been, pillar of the community, strong family man. The wife nudged her son and said "Sonny boy, tip toe up and peak in that casket and make sure that's your Daddy that man's talkin' about.
I'm sure there was a beautiful side to Ricci in spite of the fact in his last year he snuck in somebody's bedroom in the middle of night and stole jewelry & all the cash he could find, stole $3000 worth of jewelry from the Smart family, robbed a bank at gunpoint and threatened to take an employee hostage, and went for a mysterious muddy joyride in his Jeep on Jun 8 that he won't admit to or tell who he left a certain repair shop that day with. So what if he's flipped off the Smart family, the police, the FBI, and the American public and took this information to the grave. So what if they think he's involved in this girl's kidnapping and probable murder. And whatever else he did he didn't get caught at, yet. Hey, the LDS bishop said he was a great guy! And their are plenty of liberals on this thread with no sense that'll stand by their man no matter what. Bizarre, man.
The same liberals you refer to - you know the Ricci lovers on this thread - are the very same ones who were touting a "poll" on one of the Westerfield threads which indicated 90% of the participants thought Westerfield was innocent. If I were one of them I would hang my head in shame after the news that came out of San Diego today about a Westerfield plea bargain underway when the body was found. These people are INCREDIBLY STUPID, yet they rant and rave about the virtues of the Riccis. PATHETIC. And we are supposed to be tolerant of such stupidity - yeah, right!