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Theft is the word here... Burglary is entering a home when your not suppose to be in it. Ricci took the things while he worked there. But Ed Smart had several people working in the home at the time. I guess Ed should have took the Jeep back and paid out cash to Ricci. Whatever the deal was it had to be sticky for Ed and not a wise choice as we all now know. What do you think happened on the Ed & Ricci deal? Do you recall hearing Ed say that Ricci was still working in the home as of September 2001? (I am not sure how to take your message)

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

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.