Posted on 07/23/2002 9:34:42 PM PDT by Jolly Green
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| Richard Ricci has been identified as the prime suspect in the case, though several of his "theme park" pals are under suspicion. | - Ricci is a 5-time loser, having been convicted of burglarizing a food bank and shooting a police officer. He has recently been indicted on three additional state charges including theft at the Smart residence and burglary of a Smart neighbor. Additionally, he has been recently indicted on three federal charges related to two bank robberies. - Ricci worked for the Smarts last year for several months and was paid with a white Jeep in lieu of cash. He had full access to the house and may very well have had a key to the Smart residence. Ricci and two others were fired when some items were stolen from the home. Ricci later approached Ed Smart and said he wasn't involved and wanted his job back. Ed Smart declined to rehire him. - Ricci lives in a trailer park in West Jordan that is now referred to as a "theme park" because of the large number of Ricci convicted felon friends living there. - Ricci has no credible alibi for the period during and shortly after the abduction. He is believed to have put an additional 1000 miles on the Jeep during a period when he claimed the Jeep was in Moul's shop. Moul also reported that Ricci removed several trash bags, the seat covers and a post hole digger and carried them across the street. - Ricci had both opportunity and motive. |
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| Ed Smart and Richard Ricci were gay lovers. This is based upon Ed Smart's pleading before the media for Ricci to come clean, where he used phrases like "Help me, Richard". | This theory was eloquently refuted by Jengaio and it hasn't reared its ugly head recently. | |
| Elizabeth Smart had a nose ring, must have been rebellious and ran away. Later, proponents shifted emphasis to "piercings". | Numerous photographs of Elizabeth Smart show no indication of a nose ring and the existence of a nose ring has never been reported by any credible news source. | |
| Moul, the mechanic, lied to the grand jury and in TV interviews. Some of the scenarios: He knows more than he is telling; his eyesight is bad; he made it up; he is in cahoots with Ricci; he used Ricci's Jeep without Ricci's permission. | Moul has no criminal record and no motive. What's more his vehicle logs corroborate his testimony. If Moul had "borrowed" the Jeep, he certainly would have washed it to remove the bugs, mud and pine needles. | |
| Elizabeth Smart's aunt, in a televised interview said the police "are working with us". Implications: This surely must mean that the Smarts and their influential friends and church must be controlling/thwarting the 100-man SLCPD/FBI task force | We will ask Jengaio to analyze the phrazing. | |
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| Motive | Possible Suspect | Details |
| Kidnapping | All | - The SLCPD has said there has not been any credible ransom demands. This may be due to the massive search and media blitz within 5 hours of the abduction i.e. the perps may have realized that their chances of getting caught were very high and they decided to get rid of the evidence. |
| Ricci & cronies | - Ricci and his colleagues have recently been indicted for several Utah bank robberies, each producing only a modest amount of cash i.e. $1800 split 3 ways. It is likely that they were looking for a bigger "score". | |
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| Burglary | Ricci | - Ricci has five previous convictions for theft, burglary, and assault (shooting a police officer). He has recently been indicted on three additional state charges including burglary of a Smart neigbor while they were sleeping (a M.O. similar to the Smart kidnapping) and theft of the Smart home. He has also been indicted on three federal charges including two bank robberies. - The Smarts, like most people, wouldn't keep large amounts of cash around. It seems likely that a simple burglary would not produce much in the way of cash or jewelery. - The SLCPD has said some things were taken but haven't identified those items. |
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| Burglary Gone Wrong | Ricci | - The Smart perpetrator may have been surprised by Elizabeth Smart and decided to remove the only witness. |
| Unknown | Same as above | |
| Sexual Predator | Ricci | - Fox News reported Ricci had attempted an "inappropriate relationship" with one of his old girlfriends 16 yr old daughters. |
| Unknown | N/A | |
| Revenge | Ricci | - Ed Smart wouldn't rehire Ricci even though Ricci claimed he had no involvement in the theft of the Smart house. |
| Unknown | N/A | |
| Runaway | Elizabeth Smart | Unknown possible motive |
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do we know for a fact that she did interview MK?
Maybe the P.D. gagged her. Who knows. It sounded like she was not able to answer questions about some things she observed with MK...in the interview. In my mind (not fact), I took it to mean she had been working with the police...but I don't know that, just my thinking at the time I heard her say it.
I am going to go in now and try to get it on paper.
And we're supposed to believe that the family would give up the chance to get a sketch from one of the country's 'best' artists because of Klaas' association with Fox? What did that have to do with anything? Get the sketch out, find the perp and deal with Fox/Klaas later.
You answered your own question. The Smart family has relied totally on the SLCPD/FBI and if the police didn't want it published and feared Boylan/Klaas would leak it, not having Boylan do it was acceptable to the Smarts. For whatever reason, the police do not want a sketch published - that seems even more obvious now that Boylan has done a sketch and it hasn't been released - probably because they don't want it to be used later as a "get out of jail free" card.
This thread has been pretty civil all day, but if you keep throwing out cheap shots at the Smart family, it probably won't stay that way. It is one thing to question their handling of the case, largely at the direction of the SLCPD/FBI. It is yet another to assume they are implicated and continually smear them.
It is becoming increasingly obvious that Ricci is involved in this up to his hairline and likely had one or more accomplices. The police apparently have known from the earliest days who the accomplice was and are trying to prove it. They probably view releasing a sketch of an accomplice as Elizabeth Smart's death warrant.
We have "established" no such thing. Ricci was in fact a trusted member of the community, working in the Smart's and neighbor homes unsupervised - UNTIL the theft. At which point he was no longer trusted.
I'd like to see newspaper/news service stories on it. Thanks.
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