Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 24

06/29/02 - Saturday | Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 24

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Please keep adding 6/29/02 Elizabeth Smart dated updates to this thread...
Remember to keep checking back to this thread today for today's developing news on the Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping.

Some people may consider today to actually be day 25, but I count 1 day for each
24 hours that have passed since Elizabeth was kidnapped. Elizabeth was taken from her home
at about 1:30am on the morning of June 5th, 2002.

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Links

Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 23
Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 22
Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 21
Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 20
Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 19
Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 18
Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 17
Salt Lake City Police Department Website
FBI Kidnappings/Critical Missing Persons - Elizabeth Smart
FBI - Salt Lake City Branch
Elizabeth Smart Website
Smart Residence Real Estate Listing
Brigette's Scanned Copy of House Layout from Newsweek Magazine
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Short Timeline

May 30th, 2002 -Thursday
~ Ricci returns to pick up his Jeep at the auto repair shop before the shop has a chance to fully fix it
He tells the repairman that it needed for an emergency.

June 4th, 2002 - Tuesday
~ Ricci is at work from about 9am to 5:30pm
~ Ricci claims he spends the evening with friends

June 5th, 2002 - Wednesday
~ 1:05am - 2 cars are spotted on the SLC Shriner's Hospital Parking Lot by a hospital security guard
~ 1:30am (approx) - Elizabeth is kidnapped from her home
~ 1:30am - Ricci claims to be in bed asleep with his with wife.
~ Ricci is scheduled to be off work all day today.
~ 8:30am - Ricci and his neighbor talk about the kidnapping of Elizabeth, Ricci seems to know too much information about it.
~ Sometime during this day Ricci is visited by police in regards to Elizabeth's kidnapping as reported by Angela Ricci (Richard A. Ricci's Wife which is an ex-convict herself)
~ Ricci is seen by his neighbor digging a hole by his (Ricci's) trailer early in the morning. (heard the neighbor say this on TV)

June 6th, 2002 - Thursday
~ Ricci is scheduled to work from 9am to 5:30pm today, but instead works from 10:30am to 7:00pm
~ Police talk to Ricci this day about the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping. (The media is reporting this, so it could be wrong)

June 8th, 2002 - Saturday
~ Ricci returns the Jeep to the repair shop to get it fix. The Jeep is muddy and the repair shop owner sees Ricci
remove seat covers from the back of the jeep and place them into a plastic garbage bag that already contains
other stuff in it. Also the repair shop owner said a muddy post hole digger tool was in the back of the Jeep, Ricci removes
this also from the Jeep. Ricci has a man waiting across the street to give him a ride. Ricci takes the plastic bag
and contents along with the post hole digger with him. Also there is 500 to 1000 extra miles on the Jeep since
Ricci picked it up on May 30th, 2002.

June 14th, 2002 - Friday
~ Ricci is taken into custody for a parole violation, this being the 2001 robbery of the Smart Home in which he admitted to.



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STATEMENT FROM MR. RICCI THAT WAS READ BY LARRY KING ON HIS SHOW FRIDAY NIGHT.

"First, I want to say I have no knowledge of Elizabeth Smart's abduction, disappearance or whereabouts. I want to say to the Smart family from my family, Angela, my stepson and myself, that we pray for her safe return. I too lost a nine-year-old son in an accident in 1985 and I know what Ed and Lois are going through. I've cooperated fully with the FBI, the police and AP&P. I have taken polygraph tests, have been through 26 hours of questioning, given blood, DNA, surrendered my vehicle. The police and FBI have searched my hope and shed and have even dug up my garden and they found nothing. I think the reason I'm involved is because of my past. I would not nor could not hurt a child in any way. The night of Elizabeth's disappearance, I was home with my wife, Angela. I awoke around six to 6:30 a.m. to hear on the news that Elizabeth Smart, Ed's daughter, had been kidnapped. I was in shock."

ALSO FROM THE LARRY KING SHOW...

KING: CNN is reporting that investigators are checking whether the Riccis are legally wed. I know you represent both of them. If, per chance, they are not, does that mean she doesn't have the spousal recusal from testifying?
SMITH: Well, that's the first that I've heard of that, but that may be an issue if they are not legally wed. They advised me that they were legally wed on Valentine's Day.

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(Ping) - Day 24

[TheDon]

Okay, he's innocent.

[PoisedWoman]

Okay, he's innocent.

LOL. Who's next on the suspect list?

[cherry]

that lawyer does not inspire confidence...

now this is the second interview I have watched of him where he would not answer questions because "its under investigation" or some such baloney....

now I ask you, why would he the defense attorney of two people being investigated, why would he be gagged?...HIs clients are not charged yet...is it because of the grand jury testimony?

[Pistacio]

ooopppss now day 23 has 502 posts. Sorry, I was lagging.

[IamHD]

I distinctly remember Angela saying on FOX, that she and Richard woke up together at 6:00, and as they were having their morning coffee, they watched the news...sometime between 6:00 and 7:00. I wondered the same thing when she stated that. Was it already on the news that early?

[cherry]

so if angela was telling the truth that ricci was at least there when she went to bed and then there when she awoke....that window of opportunity was indeed small...

considering that it would take him one hour to travel to the smarts and back, do whatever and where ever he took her,,then he had to work very fast...

otoh,,,if he merely went in to the smart's and took lizzie...handed her off then and there....well, then it seems a little more doable

[Pistacio]

Am I getting this wrong? Can somebody enlighten me?

Posted on 6/5/02 12:27 PM Pacific by let freedom sing

This is the earliest link to it being here at freepers. Entitled
"Utah girl kidnapped from room at gunpoint".

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If I recall, someone said that it was on the radios and TV very early on. So it is possible that he heard it very early. We need some Utah people to verify this for us...

[cherry]

well we don't know what time the local news ran with the story.. and if it was a Rachel alert than it made the news early on.....

The sister told police that the soft-spoken man got into the house by forcing open a window and had a small black handgunn...

did you catch this....

so the original story was that MK said that the perp came in the window....how strange

[cherry]

so here's another questions....did Ed check all the doors when he found Lizzie was gone?

were all the doors still locked?....iow's ..did the perp have a key?

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The call to 911 was at 4:01am, and Ed Smart said it seemed to take forever for them to get there... I don't think the police or the chief has disclosed how long it took them to get there after the call came in. If it was me and waiting anymore than 5 minutes for the cops to show up would be too long of a wait if my kid was taken from my home at gunpoint.

[Bella]

Check out this page--This page includes first-hand accounts of the search by volunteers who prefers to be identified only as Moab and Tricia.

http://f.about.com/z/js/spr02.htm

[IamHD]

That would be a newspaper link. What time would the 'local' Utah television news be on? I know that my local news doesn't come on that early. I believe the Rachel Alert didn't even get on the ground until after 9:00 am. Maybe Utah Girl would remember.

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your link is no good