Smart Case, July 26, 2002

07/26/02 | Jolly Green

[Jolly Green]

Time Line
05/30/02	Thursday	~ Ricci returns to pick up his Jeep at the auto repair shop before the shop has a chance to fully fix it He tells the repairman that it needed for an emergency.
06/04/02	Tuesday	~ Ricci is at work from about 9am to 5:30pm ~ Ricci claims he spends the evening with friends
06/05/02	Wednesday	~ 1:05am - 2 cars are spotted on the SLC Shriner's Hospital Parking Lot by a hospital security guard, two blocks from the Smart residence ~ 1:30am (approx) - Elizabeth is kidnapped from her home ~ 1:30am - Ricci claims to be in bed asleep with his with wife. ~ Ricci is scheduled to be off work all day today. ~ 7:21am - Rachel/Amber alert is issued and national media is involved. ~ 8:30am - Ricci and his neighbor talk about the kidnapping of Elizabeth, Ricci seems to know too much information about it. ~ Sometime during this day Ricci is visited by police in regards to Elizabeth's kidnapping as reported by Angela Ricci (Richard A. Ricci's Wife which is an ex-convict herself) ~ Ricci is seen by his neighbor digging a hole by his (Ricci's) trailer early in the morning. (heard the neighbor say this on TV)
06/06/02	Thursday	~ Ricci is scheduled to work from 9am to 5:30pm today, but instead works from 10:30am to 7:00pm ~ Police talk to Ricci this day about the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping. (The media is reporting this, so it could be wrong)
06/08/02	Saturday	~ Ricci returns the Jeep to the repair shop to get it fixed. The Jeep is muddy and the repair shop owner sees Ricci remove seat covers from the back of the jeep and place them into a plastic garbage bag that already contains other stuff in it. Also the repair shop owner said a muddy post hole digger was in the back of the Jeep, Ricci removes this also. Ricci has a man waiting across the street to give him a ride. Ricci takes the plastic bag and contents along with the post hole digger with him. Also there is 500 to 1000 extra miles on the Jeep since Ricci picked it up on May 30th, 2002.
06/14/02	Friday	~ Ricci is taken into custody for a parole violation, this being the 2001 robbery of the Smart Home in which he admitted to.
Special thanks to Brigette for starting this timeline.

[varina davis]

One day Lois said, "Just let her walk out." Another time (the last time I saw her on t.v.), she said "...you think can have her to yourself, but it won't work."

These remarks by Lois Smart are two of the most interesting of the entire case.

[varina davis]

Don't forget that Ed FORGOT to transfer the Jeep over to Ricci..

Can't help but wonder if the Smart brothers had "business" dealings with Ricci other than the handyman work he did for them.

[Pistacio]

Thanks Pistacio (my favorite nut BTW) ;-p

COOL! and Your welcome.
Favorite Ice Cream over here. ;)
unless of course Champagne Sherbert can be found.

[Iwo Jima]

I would appreciate your thoughts on Jeannie Boylan's statements. I understand that she does not consider herself to be a "sketch artist" in that her artistic skills, while considerable, pale in significance relative to her interviewing techniques. Her forte is her ability to draw people out to remember things which they never thought they knew or might have even adamantly denied that they knew. She uses her very warm and compelling personality to do this.

I read her remarks to Katie Couric to be a very subtle and diplomatic way of saying that sketches are extremely important and the earlier the better, but that a sketch done wrong -- by your run-of-the-mill "sketch artist" --often does more harm than good. Therefore, she was pleased to see THAT NO SKETCH HAD EVER BEEN DONE or maybe even that MK had not really been interivewed. She was able to get very good information because no one had been there to poison the well, so to speak.

I don't think that she is saying at all that it was a good thing that no sketch had ever been done. If she had been allowed to do a sketch from the outset, it makes you want to cry just thinking what a difference that could have made. But the SLC police would have probably botched the interview and the sketch just like they have apparently botched so many things.

The family should have listened to Mark Klaas.

[lakey]

Correction: Lois said, "...you think you can have her FOR yourself, but it won't work."

Definitely interesting. As I recall, she was quite calm, direct,