[mountaineer]

Beards aren't permanent fixtures -- they grow and can be shaved off.

Really? Wow, what a newsflash, indeed. This photo was taken of Mitchell just days before Elizabeth disappeared. Perhaps he shaved off the beard and bought a Polo shirt and golf cap just for the occasion of her impending kidnapping.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Yes, it's conceivable that someone planning to carry out a kidnapping would take steps to disguise himself.

[Devil_Anse]

Wait a minute. Are you saying that there is some proof that Mary C. said absolutely that the abductor was clean-shaven?

That's not what I remember. They were incredibly cryptic about whatever Mary C. had actually said. One day some poster speculated about a beard. I and many others said, "Hmmm!"

I started wondering if Ricci could have had a beard then, or worn a fake one. But then, I am one who thought Ricci was the guy.

[Iwo Jima]

That picture which you posted is very important. Can you tell me how you know that it was taken days before Eliz. disappeared? If you are correct, then it raises even more questions (as if we didn't have enough already) about the latest sketch and Ed Smart's statements about what MK has said/remembered.

This is about as different from the description that MK is said to have given as one can get. How could anyone have seen this person in their bedroom and not describe him as having long hair, beard, scruffy, dressed weird in robes, etc.? And if MK had ever seen Emmanuel looking like this EVEN ONCE, how could she not have said "It was Emmanuel." How many people like this had she ever seen?

Curiouser and curiouser.

[trussell]

The composit sketch was done by the parents based on what he looked like when he worked on the house. After MK said she believed it was him who took ES.