(Smart) KIDNAP PROBERS SEIZE KNIFE FROM EX-CON'S IN-LAW

New York Post ^ | 6/29/02 | AP

[kattracks]

June 29, 2002 -- SALT LAKE CITY - A man whose son-in-law was questioned in the disappearance of Elizabeth Smart said the FBI took a knife and a golf hat from his home.

Dave Morse Sr.'s son-in-law, Richard Ricci, worked at the Smart home as a handyman more than a year ago. He is now in custody on an unrelated parole violation and has not been charged in the disappearance of the 14-year-old girl.

[exnavy]

I'm afraid it doesn't look good for the survivability of this young girl.

[Ann Archy]

If he took her and left her alive somewhere, she's surely dead now since he's been in custody. What a horrible shame.

[capt. norm]

Terrible misleading headline. It focuses on the knife and then you read on to find that there is just a brief and nearly innocuous mention of it in the story.