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<p>SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (CNN) --The family of missing 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart offered condolences Saturday to the widow of former handyman Richard Ricci, and said they believed police would solve their daughter's case despite his death.</p> <p>"This change in Richard's health has been shocking to us, to put it mildly, but we have great faith that this is all in God's hands," Elizabeth's aunt, Cynthia Smart Owens, said. "We are very hopeful that the change in events will facilitate other people who do have information to come forward so we can find Elizabeth."</p>

Richard Ricci Dies in Hospital AP Richard Ricci Friday, August 30, 2002SALT LAKE CITY — Richard Albert Ricci, the top potential suspect in the kidnapping of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart, died at a hospital Friday. Ricci, 48, had been hospitalized for three days after suffering from a brain hemorrhage and collapsing in his jail cell, doctors said. Earlier Friday, doctors had said Ricci had an irreversible injury to the brain stem after the hemorrhage Tuesday night. The former handyman for the Smart family was not charged in the disappearance and denied involvement. He was in prison for a parole violation. Salt Lake...