Smart Case, July 26, 2002

07/26/02 | Jolly Green

[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,